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Offline Mortimer Thorne

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Costume Origins
« on: August 17, 2014, 10:19:59 pm »
Good evening, all. First off, apologies if this is the wrong forum; seemed like the right one, but I'm not %100 certain. Anyway, I was looking through the shop at all the neat outfits (because in a game with radical airship battles that's obviously what's important) and I was intrigued by the Maddyson and Khovansky Special costumes. Not because they were something I want to rush right out and buy (although they do look very sharp), but because the names and the details on them seemed to indicate that they have some kind of lore-based origin, as opposed to the other costumes which, while excellent, are rather generic. The bird icons seem to be a bird of prey of some kind, which I believe from what little reading I've managed to get done is connected to the Fjord Baronies? In any case, to summarize my ramblings: Maddyson and Khovansky Special costumes, what's the origin for them, if it's based in game-universe lore?

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2014, 12:53:44 pm »
The Fjords use an crow/ravan as their insignia, so I believe you're on the right lines with your thoughts of it being for the Fjords! :)

Boiler Room (engineer costume) will link to either Angleans or Arashi, as for the rest I'm not sure.. I'll have to do some digging through the YouTube videos (I love Eric blabbering  8) )

Offline Schwalbe

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2014, 06:00:16 pm »
Well, it seems that I'm not the only one intrigued by the names of those outfits (especially that I actually own Khovansky's suit...)

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2014, 06:37:19 pm »
They were added to the game after it was featured on the channels of Russian You-tubers Khovansky and Maddyson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6hpGf9YoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffzfUkf0j8

Offline DJ Logicalia

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2014, 06:56:11 pm »
They were added to the game after it was featured on the channels of Russian You-tubers Khovansky and Maddyson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6hpGf9YoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffzfUkf0j8

Wait wait wait wait. What? Why? Were they designed specifically for these people? And... why do thy have costumes named after/designed for them in the first place?

Offline GeoRmr

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2014, 09:06:35 pm »
Yes they were designed for them, because they're famous and promoted the game.

Same reason the Stephano Keffiyeh hat was added to the game when PewDiePie did a promotion.

http://pewdiepie.wikia.com/wiki/Stephano

https://twitter.com/GunsOfIcarus/status/413872066929369088
« Last Edit: November 13, 2014, 09:12:58 pm by GeoRmr »

Offline Kamoba

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2014, 06:42:25 am »
Wish I was famous and had a costume named after me...XD

Offline Tanya Phenole

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2014, 08:44:42 am »
Wish I was famous and had a costume named after me...XD

You can design your own costumes, and if they will be good and accepted by community/devs , it may be named after you I think
« Last Edit: November 14, 2014, 08:50:14 am by Phenole »

Offline Kamoba

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2014, 09:09:26 am »
Wish I was famous and had a costume named after me...XD

You can design your own costumes, and if they will be good and accepted by community/devs , it may be named after you I think

Oh! I may have to get to the drawing board! Thanks Tanya :)

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Re: Costume Origins
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 12:41:18 pm »
It is fairly common for Indie game devs to make special items or even characters for famous personalities that promote their game. A game called AirMech will did the same when a famous Starcraft2 commentator did some videos about their game:


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This Pilot was created as a reward of HuskyStarcraft for 500 Referrals that reached Level 10. Husky is a well known Starcraft 2 caster on Youtube, with a considerable number of following loyal Husketeers.
http://airmech.wikia.com/wiki/Husky