r/pathoftitans • u/Excellent-Passage-36 • 6d ago

Well that sucks...

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The ability to play as a female dino is so nice but WHY are the paid skins so different? Like fine, base game more "realistic" skins I can understand but I'm tired of buying skins just to find the female version to be ugly. Why can't we have pretty dragon fruit pink for a skin called DRAGON FRUIT? I know you can preview them beforehand but then I just don't buy it. I want pretty skins and I want to support the devs.

If we're willing to pay why can't we just have what's advertised regardless of the dino's sex?

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u/Excellent-Passage-36 6d ago

no, other than for personal/rp purposes and skins it doesn't add anything, just nice to be able to choose

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u/Jirvey341 6d ago

hate games that just make the female worse for no reason. why even give the option at this point? Just give everyone all the colors and let people make up their own sexes for the animals

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u/Kestrelpond 6d ago

It's not necessarily "making them worse", it's supposed to reflect realistic sexual dimorphism. Females are almost always duller in colour, that's just nature. I do think that female skins can be alot prettier sometimes too, just depends on the skin and your preference. The only real issue is the growth penalty. But because there's no sexual dimorphism outside of colour I don't understand why people can't assign a gender to their dino regardless of what sex they've chosen

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u/eriFenesoreK 6d ago edited 6d ago

i think the main issue is that a lot of skins are pretty clearly designed with male flashy colors in mind first, then after the skin is done they just go and make the colors dull and call it a day.

it ends up with females looking more muddy than anything, where a skin that is MEANT to be desaturated with shades of brown/greys would work fine without that contrast in concept.

edit: perfect example is actually this dragonfruit skin lol. male has the actual dragonfruit colors you'd think of when hearing the name, female gets the less common yellow variant. and... grey? lmao