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I'm a man and a Valkyr player and never once wondered or even wished for a male Valkyr. Valkyries are meant to be female to begin with.

Warframes are designed around particular themes (A sword, a venomous plant, a shard of glass) or mythological figures (Nezha, Wukong). They do not need to have separate genders. You have your Tenno for that.

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They gave us a locker rm snd your complsining about time wasted...ill take the reskinning of the frames as far usage of time. They could easily hv a toggle switch at arsenal with male or female build, im sure its already underline written in programming anyway. They should hv a streamline wrk flow by now...if not thats on development team. This also makes design of new frames more refreshing.

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On 1/8/2018 at 7:12 AM, Jarriaga said:

I'm a man and a Valkyr player and never once wondered or even wished for a male Valkyr. Valkyries are meant to be female to begin with.

Warframes are designed around particular themes (A sword, a venomous plant, a shard of glass) or mythological figures (Nezha, Wukong). They do not need to have separate genders. You have your Tenno for that.

Thats why the feature could be a toggle in the aresnal just like weapon holster, simple. Its the option to do so that matters and if they make it purchasable or farmable then great. 

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4 minutes ago, xXHobbitXx said:

Horrible idea, 33 frames that would need counterparts, imagine how much wasted time devs would have to put in for nothing, no actual addition to gameplay, an old hashed out argument, that DE have said wont happen and majority of players dont want

This is a simple option...only draw back is pushing your desgin team to be more creative when we do get a new frame. In reality everybody playing a reiteration of ea frame ablility w another frame...radial blind or sand in your eyes. So how would this ve any different...at least at the end of the day DE will make new innovative frames and game play mech. Push the envelope...dont think another gm developer wouldnt copy tge model and add greater changes. You have to do it first so the cant beat you to the punch.

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On 1/6/2018 at 2:11 PM, (Xbox One)ZeepySea said:

What I would rather see or hear is a gender switch for the operator.  

Technically different operator primary faces are either male or female and slightly change the operators body... The only real differences are how broad their shoulders are and his slim the waist is. So I can understand why you wouldn't have noticed.

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1 hour ago, (PS4)MARXIANapparel said:

Thats why the feature could be a toggle in the aresnal just like weapon holster, simple. Its the option to do so that matters and if they make it purchasable or farmable then great. 

And you completely missed his point.

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1 hour ago, (PS4)MARXIANapparel said:

They gave us a locker rm snd your complsining about time wasted...ill take the reskinning of the frames as far usage of time. They could easily hv a toggle switch at arsenal with male or female build, im sure its already underline written in programming anyway. They should hv a streamline wrk flow by now...if not thats on development team. This also makes design of new frames more refreshing.

They are always busy, always. Why do you think the sacrifice still isn't out yet? It's because they are busy.

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5 hours ago, (PS4)MARXIANapparel said:

Thats why the feature could be a toggle in the aresnal just like weapon holster, simple. Its the option to do so that matters and if they make it purchasable or farmable then great. 

Giving you "the option" is at odds with each Warframe having a unique identify. Each Warframe is meant to be unique lore-wise because they represent a theme, and belonged to a specific Tenno. Excalibur is a sword. Gara is a shard of glass. They are not reflections of ourselves, they are abstract concepts. Your Operator is your own reflection, and that's why your Operator allows you to change your gender.

4 hours ago, 45neo said:

And you completely missed his point.

Definitely.

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7 hours ago, (PS4)MARXIANapparel said:

They gave us a locker rm snd your complsining about time wasted...ill take the reskinning of the frames as far usage of time. They could easily hv a toggle switch at arsenal with male or female build, im sure its already underline written in programming anyway. They should hv a streamline wrk flow by now...if not thats on development team. This also makes design of new frames more refreshing.

Pfff, whole words? Who needs them?

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7 hours ago, (PS4)MARXIANapparel said:

This is a simple option...only draw back is pushing your desgin team to be more creative when we do get a new frame. In reality everybody playing a reiteration of ea frame ablility w another frame...radial blind or sand in your eyes. So how would this ve any different...at least at the end of the day DE will make new innovative frames and game play mech. Push the envelope...dont think another gm developer wouldnt copy tge model and add greater changes. You have to do it first so the cant beat you to the punch.

Do you have any idea how much time and work go into commercial 3D modelling? 

Of course you don't, otherwise you would realize the amount of work is absolutely not worth what you yourself call a "simple option" and wouldn't have started this garbage fire of a thread in the first place. The amount of work that goes into new modelling, animations, meshing etc absolutely needs to have a bigger return than a "simple option." 

I think Tennogen could work, theoretically, but Tennogen isn't just ported into the client like copy-paste, DE still needs to do their own testing and touching up on those items (not to mention DE doesn't allow you to change anything on Warframe body model, so...yeah.) 

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Warframes are a sexless piece of equipment, whether you refer to them as he, she, it, they or anything else they won't mind.

Unless this is about wanting DE to make Excal with boobs or a flat-chested Saryn skin in which case I'd say no, that's just a waste of resources.

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Too much effort, for little return.

Since Warframes are pieces of hardware that only carry resemblance to humanoids with a gender i'm personally not too worried about their sex, only their stats and abilities. I'm sure DE's devs would rather spend their already busy schedule on new frames/tangable content then having to make a gender switch for each and every frame where'd they have to change every skin (not to mention redesign feminine skins like Saryn's Deluxe skin)  that comes along with it, reposition accessory mounting points to compensate for genderswapped bodies, new idle animations etc. From a buisiness standpoint it's unfeasible and too costly for switching resources and the time spent in making something that's not needed to "sell" the game.

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2 hours ago, Yung-Azrael said:

If gender is a social construct why do we need gender bending warframes?

Ironically, Warframe can already be seen as quite a powerful metaphor for gender identity. We, the living Tenno, are androgynous teens and can be customised to be male or female at will, whilst the frames we control remotely are variously masculine (e.g. Rhino), feminine (Trinity) or androgynous (Nezha). In a way, this is already quite an accurate and clever reflection of how we 'wear' our gender identities outwardly in the real world. Gender is performative.

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8 hours ago, 45neo said:

Also may o be the first to say. If DE makes gender swap skins people are gonna want deluxe gender swap skins. So more like over triple the work load for each new frame.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile...times infinity. Never, ever give in to SJW's. Nothing is ever enough for them.

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1 hour ago, mac10smg-ToaOfGreen said:

The faces.

Half of the faces uses a male body, half use a female.

You can tell by the width of the torso which is which.

Although this is the case I thin DE should have put in... More effort.

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