You should be able to wear them in LD, but only over the armor peice they resemble. That way you can make your stuff all color-matchy. I guess there would have to be a way to distinguish between things that have a retextured model of a related item but with different statistics. Still not a big deal, the gunslinger hats look pretty similar >.>
I'm sure there could be a way to toggle it off.
How would you tell the difference between Vog and Dusker?
By assigning each promo costume to only one armor. You'd have to remember a bunch of armor relationships, though....
I'm as puzzled as Oatmonster is (hi Oat :D). Currently there are about 164 different helmets and pieces of armor in total. If each one was assigned a proto costume, then you'd have to remember another 164 different pieces of armor which would result in a killing number of 328 pieces of armor to remember!
And no, the gun slinger hats don't look to similar at all, in my opinion at least :P
Between UVs and trinkets, I don't even see the point in disabling costumes in the first place.
Really... -_-
It's so a bomber doesn't go around scoring over 20k with a toothpick and GF.
Also, -1
"How would you tell the difference between Vog and Dusker?"
That was the one problem that came up. There are non-costume gears that look the same though, gunslinger hats. Unless they changed it.
"It's so a bomber doesn't go around scoring over 20k with a toothpick and GF."
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They already tell us wich weapon had our killer. They could tidy that window a bit and show it's whole set. Or enable quick some inspect feature. So costumes wont matter.
A more complex (probably bad) way to do it is a client option to locally allow showing of costumes.
"And no, the gun slinger hats don't look to similar at all, in my opinion at least :P"
Actually, they're almost all identical. Gunslinger, Sunset, Justifier, and Deadshot are all white with a badge, Nameless and Shadowsun are both black without a badge. Only two textures.
I'm all for making it possible to see costumes, but it has to be as an option. I like your idea, but it should still be possible to turn off. So you would have three options - no costumes, costumes that match their actual armor only, and full costumes.