[SUGGESTION] ability to use gender specific armours for the opposite gender

[PrincessMeow.3258]

So I've got a mesmer character (Called Twink R Belle, if you catch my drift...) who I've had to make female purely for the purpose of putting him in a female armour :( This is very sad. Twink R Belle is a kween!

Please could it be changed so that both female and male characters are able to have hairstyles and armours from both?

 

Anyone else have this problem?

[Blocki.4931]

Looking forward to my bare chest female characters

 

I'm pretty sure this is something that can't really be changed. The armor is specifically designed around the male/female character models

[Ardid.7203]

This would be great, but as Blocki said, it is probably impossible to do, at least with humans. With Asura they should be able to do it much more easily.

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

This is almost certainly one of those things that sounds easy to do, but is probably not because the original developers probably hard-coded gender into the skin system. It won't be a simple toggle to turn on|off at will.

 

I don't have any opinion about whether it's beneficial for the game or not. Incidentally, see the GW1 wiki; [there's at least one accidental example](https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Terrik_zu_Heltzer).

[PrincessMeow.3258]

@Illconceived, that is something I hadn't really thought about... to me it seemed like it should be a simple adjustment, but then I don't know anything about coding.

 

I'm not concerned on the naked character chest front - I'm all for free the nipple. One rule for all genders! and I don't know about the impossibility based on physique - there are some outfits that wouldn't be affected anyway, but the build of a character can easily fit different genders - you can make a character that is slim or muscular, short or tall, large breasted or small. If armours can fit around this, I assume it wouldn't make much difference per gender.

 

Thanks for the responses!

[cyradil.7309]

Yes! I want that my necro finally can show his legs ?

[Amaranthe.3578]

There are still issues with armor sets clipping on Charr/Asura since launch day and they are not fixing it....I dont think theres even the slightest chance they will put a lot of effort so people can cross-dress.

 

[Jarl Petter Hinrik.1409]

Funny video about a female who wants a male chest armor because she is sick to be stuck with the sexy female one:

[Westenev.5289]

I remember having great fun abusing this in the “fable” series, wearing terrible drag to see what kind of adverse comments I could get from the local townsfolk as I walked around as a ripped bearded lady(?). I imagine it would be no less fun here, I guess?

[Sasatsuma.3147]

Only thing I can think of now, is a very bulky male norn wearing a tight mini skirt, with that thigh decoration thingy...