First of all, I'd like to make it clear that this post is not about the appearance changes in "heavy armour" upgrade nor about the arrow upgrades of any unit in the game so far; these look visually perfect in the game, as they are beautiful but still easily noticeble.
Here I wanna talk about the "forged blades" upgrade; its a common complain from players that even though they are supposed to be noticed in all units of a battalion, the upgraded weapons look like "lightsabers" - this is, of course, a thing since Vanilla, but it bothers many players purely for aesthetics reasons, including myself.
As Edain appreciate these little details, I've been thinking about a way of changing this matter recently... And I saw a thing that gave me an idea when I was playing Imladris: the elven units from this faction get a
discrete and beautiful whitish grey glowing effect when they research their "forged blades" upgrade analog the
second time!
So, here is my PROPOSAL:
- Give all good units the
whitish grey glowing effect when they research "forged blades" (the brightness could be more intense to make it more perceptible);
- Give all evil units a
blackened grey glowing effect when they research "forged blades" (this would make a perfect opposition to the good units weapons and would also look awesome visually)
- Give Imladris units's
second "forged blades" upgrade the
blue glowing effect (to keep this reference from the Vanilla and also to stand out even more - when you see that your opponents Imladris' troops get the "blue lightsaber", it meens you are probably screwed
)
Note: the red glowing effect could be a thing as well to differenciate when Uruks with "forged blades" receive the weapon upgrade from the "Isengard Steelworks" in an analog way of the Imladris' second weapon upgrade, but I don't see how to give a different look to a second armor and bolts upgrade from this outpost in an analog way - perphaps giving a white hand icon on the chest and helmet for the armor upgrade and differentiating the bolts from a darker colour to the actual colour could be a great thingIN FAVOUR1. GildorInglorionAGAINST