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Every Enemy Race has a Lore Reason for Changing Looks/Armor from D1-2
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So, each enemy race, despite the countless number of people saying they are reskins (when only a few are actually true) each changed from D1 to D2. And each actually have a lore reason for doing so.
Let's start with the easy ones.
Taken have had no physical change, so this is a reskin. It makes sense because the Taken haven't changed since D1. The main difference between D1 and D2 Taken is that D2 Taken have improved eye graphics and are much darker, with the white only coming in at the feet instead of starting at the lower leg.
Cabal. Simple, new Legion, new tech, new armor.
Hive. New brood, new look, new Wizards that still -blam!- you even though they're across the map and new Knights that still -blam!- you over with Boomers. Shriekers also have a physical crit-spot while it was just an orb of Void energy in D1. It looks much more like an eye now.
Fallen. New House, new gear and markings. So... why less armor? Perhaps they needed the cloth or maybe they wanted to distinguish themselves. Maybe they wanted to remind themselves of their older selves... or perhaps we simply took too much of their gear. Maybe the Splicers did a number on their supplies.
Vex. This one is tricky. Besides their chestplates, shoulder pads, and thighs, their really isn't much of a difference. Also, with the reintroduction of the Precursors and Descendants, they have been made to fit the new modern Vex models. So... this one is more speculative as the outside-lore reason may simply be just to distinguish D1 models from D2 models. So... maybe they simply upgraded. Maybe they found their older models obsolete. Perhaps the older ones couldn't put up with us as much as the newer ones can. Maybe they found the Cabal to be an enemy worthy of a chassis upgrade.
However, none of this explains why the Vex look worse overtime. Now that we know that CoO's storyline is based off a Vex-supreme future caused by their newfound ability to see and possibly simulate Light, why do the Descendants still look... rusted... worn... Granted they look a lot smoother than they did in D1, at least from the footage I saw, but why downgrade? Why not stay Pristine White and Gold?
Leave your thoughts below.
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7 RepliesThe Descendants were old and rusty even in D1, you’re thinking of the Precursors which will still have the sleek white and gold look in D2. Bungie doesn’t seemed to have changed the look of these two groups much like they did with the more present-time Vex models The Fallen have less armor because (if u pay attention to enemy titles, a few dialogue snippets, and a couple scannables) they Fallen are actually extremely weak and low on resources now. They all banded together but are scraping the bottom of the barrel and devoting all resources to recovering old supplies or stealing new supplies. They don’t have enough armor to go around so they’re a lot like how the Exiles were in D1 (threadbare cloth, little armor, struggling for a foothold, undernourished, barely surviving) I believe that one Vex from Venus (the gold one in the tree where Xûr appeared on Nessus) actually had the old D1 look, so maybe it’s supposed to be like only these Vex from Nessus and Io have the new models? There really isn’t an explanation I know, so it’s probably just Bungie reskinning. But I guess if u want to just come up with an answer we can say the Vex either adapted their models or some from a different time popped up (the Vex can probably switch out older forces for newer forces in a short amount of time due to their ease with time travel)
