S3b5 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I don't know if this has been explained somewhere so I wanted to ask. Is there a reason why you can't use non-Prime weapon skins on Prime weapons, like you can with Prime/non-Prime skins on Warframes? Is it an oversight that has just gone unaddressed for years or is there a legitimate reason I don't know about? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaZeku Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Not just "regular" weapons either, I would so love to be able to use Mesa's OG fingerguns on her Prime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnstarPrime Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 11 hours ago, S3b5 said: Is there a reason why you can't use non-Prime weapon skins on Prime weapons, like you can with Prime/non-Prime skins on Warframes? I'm a bit confused about what you're talking about, because I use a Bo Skin on my Bo Prime and it makes the weapon look like a non-Prime Bo. My best guess is that you might be trying to use a weapon skin with a weapon type that it isn't compatible with? Can you add more details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiltskillet Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 13 minutes ago, UnstarPrime said: I'm a bit confused about what you're talking about, because I use a Bo Skin on my Bo Prime and it makes the weapon look like a non-Prime Bo. You're using a custom Bo skin, correct? Something like Bo Nocturne? OP is talking about base weapon skins. e.g., I can't equip the base Knell skin on Knell Prime, even though I own both. I can equip a multitude of custom skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Big Roy 324 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 17 minutes ago, UnstarPrime said: I'm a bit confused about what you're talking about, because I use a Bo Skin on my Bo Prime and it makes the weapon look like a non-Prime Bo. My best guess is that you might be trying to use a weapon skin with a weapon type that it isn't compatible with? Can you add more details? Prime frames allow you to use the base skin if you own both. Weapons do not. You can use skins that share the base model. But not the literal base skin. Example being if I have the burston prime. I can use the festive skin on it. But not the base skin for the burston itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnstarPrime Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 24 minutes ago, Tiltskillet said: You're using a custom Bo skin, correct? Something like Bo Nocturne? OP is talking about base weapon skins. e.g., I can't equip the base Knell skin on Knell Prime, even though I own both. I can equip a multitude of custom skins. Ahhhh, that makes sense. Yeah, it is unfortunate that we can't use the original skin on Prime weapons. The whole reason I bought my Bo skin wasn't because I thought the skin was great, but rather because I wanted my Bo Prime to have the same model as the Bo because I greatly prefer it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Probably a combination of low demand and spaghetti code. Did you know DE once screwed up and stored the stats for a Zaw in the 3D model? Meaning if you applied a skin to a Zaw, it was now dealing zero damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3b5 Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 14 minutes ago, TARINunit9 said: Probably a combination of low demand and spaghetti code. Did you know DE once screwed up and stored the stats for a Zaw in the 3D model? Meaning if you applied a skin to a Zaw, it was now dealing zero damage Man that sucks. I wanna use a Burston but already have Burston prime (and sold my old Burston) since non-Prime just looks better but I don't wanna pay for a skin lol. Hopefully someday they add it, it would be a nice QoL thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)robotwars7 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 3 hours ago, TARINunit9 said: Probably a combination of low demand and spaghetti code. Did you know DE once screwed up and stored the stats for a Zaw in the 3D model? Meaning if you applied a skin to a Zaw, it was now dealing zero damage classic DE. I remember they also once said it wouldn't be possible to put skins on Zaws in the first place, but they found a way around it, thank goodness. I'm not sure about it being "low" demand, I've seen this a few times on here and personally I'd love to use base Karyst and Pangolin Sword on their Prime counterparts. I think the demand is there, but there would be other reasons like the spaghetti code as you say, or simply the prospect of making this change for several hundred weapons, increasing for every time a weapon gets primed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 51 minutes ago, (PSN)robotwars7 said: classic DE. I remember they also once said it wouldn't be possible to put skins on Zaws in the first place, but they found a way around it, thank goodness. Those were the same problem: they disabled Zaw skins for about a year specifically because they were causing Zaws to deal zero damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimisha_Prime Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 For the most part, it's about showing off individuality vs what can actually be seen. When you're in a hub, everyone can your beautifully designed frame. But your weapons are holstered. Hell you can't even see my Venka Prime because the blades tuck away. Weapons tend to have very general 'one size fits all' skins, with the more popular ones having a very limited selection of custom skins. And it goes back to them just not being visual most times. The other problem is that you can make 55 skins for warframes. Even three skins each is only 165 skins. But we have more than 500 weapons. Three skins each would be 1500. There's simply no time to make that many, nor is there a point in it when they're not visible. While it could be done, it'd be so much work it easily enters the "why bother?" category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancars Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I would like to use the boar skin on the boar prime cause boar has a better reload then the prime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellmeninetails Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Because regular warframe skins on prime warframe as a glitch and they kept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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