Equipment Icons

[FireScorpion14]

I'm sure we can all agree that this isn't a 100% historical ww2 game, its more like a sandbox ww2 sim with many alternate history options. some of us get really immersed in the game but one thing I've always had a problem with was the 2d art and the equipment names for countries. yah I know they can be easily moddable and I'm gonna post one of my fav mods for this, its called "Lamp's Eqpt Icons". this one dude has made a lot of icons even for some minors but obviously he doesn't have the funding or the time that paradox has. Its just really immersion breaking when your Mexican Infantry divisions are using "Artillery 3s" or Medium Tank 2s. its a shame because the first extra content we got was for Poland, we had unique tank and plane icons, some even made up. yah obviously I know Mexico didn't make any famous tank, nor did the Dutch or Portugal. but paradox has shown that they can be creative in this department. I hope they do a QOL update and add the 2d icons for all of the equipment's we have at some point. I don't consider the couple of last dlc minors icons as actual icons that have taken effort.

the argument for, "oh this nation didn't have this or that, doesn't hold up because this game isn't 100% historical, there's a bunch of "lets made domestic, this or that" focuses in some of the minor trees. what do you guys think? its my first post so don't be harsh

oh and i highly reccomend checking out Lamp's Eqpt Icons mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=947459516

 

[coffeelingfine]

Yeah I really don't mind there being fantasy designs where there's no real life equivalent. Anything is better than some generic sprite.

This goes for both 2D and 3D art for me

 

[xtfoster]

In my opinion I would rather generic art (2D and 3D) when there isn't an actual piece of equipment to actually show. I would rather they spend their limited art resources creating art for the historic items depicted in game before they just make stuff up out of the air.

Maybe once every piece of equipment that is actually in the game has art, but not before.

 

[HugsAndSnuggles]

I, honestly, don't know what they were thinking with black silhouette icons. There might not have been any historical counterpart, but this just screams "unfinished", and is visible from the first few moments into the game.

 

[kimidf]

I'm sure we can all agree that this isn't a 100% historical ww2 game, its more like a sandbox ww2 sim with many alternate history options. some of us get really immersed in the game but one thing I've always had a problem with was the 2d art and the equipment names for countries. yah I know they can be easily moddable and I'm gonna post one of my fav mods for this, its called "Lamp's Eqpt Icons". this one dude has made a lot of icons even for some minors but obviously he doesn't have the funding or the time that paradox has. Its just really immersion breaking when your Mexican Infantry divisions are using "Artillery 3s" or Medium Tank 2s. its a shame because the first extra content we got was for Poland, we had unique tank and plane icons, some even made up. yah obviously I know Mexico didn't make any famous tank, nor did the Dutch or Portugal. but paradox has shown that they can be creative in this department. I hope they do a QOL update and add the 2d icons for all of the equipment's we have at some point. I don't consider the couple of last dlc minors icons as actual icons that have taken effort.

the argument for, "oh this nation didn't have this or that, doesn't hold up because this game isn't 100% historical, there's a bunch of "lets made domestic, this or that" focuses in some of the minor trees. what do you guys think? its my first post so don't be harsh

oh and i highly reccomend checking out Lamp's Eqpt Icons mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=947459516

also some countries could use art or models based on their main historical exporters How could it happen with the nationalist China with German or North American weapons or the Soviet weaponry for the Communist China as recently I have written in a suggestion for the game and I think we will see some of that we will see in the bulgarian armored models with the German influence in these

 

[FireScorpion14]

also some countries could use art or models based on their main historical exporters How could it happen with the nationalist China with German or North American weapons or the Soviet weaponry for the Communist China as recently I have written in a suggestion for the game and I think we will see some of that we will see in the bulgarian armored models with the German influence in these

ohh now I remember what I forgot to mention, yah I agree with this as well.

 

[him_15]

Lamp's equipment is one of the best graphic mod here, I would be surprised if there's still someone who doesn't use it.

 

[Mr_Dimento]

I just want to see jet icons already