I know that the staff team here for Feral Heart tries its best to give others credit for things they do and use, and that's phenomenal. But I do think more should be done, other than the maps, y'know?
Personally, I'd love to see the marking and item packs included in the installer. Of course, asking permission from creators of said packs, and ensuring they know it will remain in the installer. A lot of new people don't know where to find these packs, or even have the RIGHT packs, so they see some people wrongly. Not to mention, this could be greatly beneficial to people who have had to uninstall/reinstall their game and have lost all those files. Makes it so much easier to get everything back and not have to worry as much as opposed to losing everything.
What I've been thinking of was the Legendary items and markings, since they include pretty much all other packs prior to being released, and the canine tail for felines mod. I understand that the labels in-game sometimes cannot be changed, and that's understandable, what with the lack of a sourcecode. BUT to include it and replace files would benefit.
For example, the feline and canine animations were replaced so that the buttswing was no longer in use, and in turn replaced with the moonwalk. Considering that was done, could we not have the model in place for the feline tail? There is the Lynx tail and Tailless, which are both literally the same thing for the feline. Both stubs. The canine tail for felines mod makes it so that the Tailless is a fluffier looking tail, for long-furred feline characters.
To include the mod, items, and markings for future updates, of course problems have to be considered, and the creators of said things that could be included must understand (for as long as they AGREE to the use of their creations)
- The packs will remain in the game itself, no longer a need to get them from other sources
- Future updates of said packs could not be included in the game, so you would have to search for the updated folders (don't we do that anyway?)
- Larger installer file
I know this can be done, considering something as huge as MAPS were changed entirely. This inclusion would make things easier on everybody, especially with the canine tail for felines--I know some people use it, and a lot want to, but tend to not because it appears as a stub.
I dunno, just a thought--figured it would be easier on a lot of players.
