If Orc,Chaos,etc.are implemented, Which Hive Fleet colors would players prefer?

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

Originally the Nids where Hive Fleet Behemoth, however players are also asking for, Eldar, Orcs and Chaos for some time who never fought it.  Also with the arrival of maps such as Tarsis Ultra and Ichar IV the conflict depicted in Exterminatus has gone beyond the First Tyrannic War.

To make the game reflect these locations Source can have sub-skins for the Tyranid in each map, the engine has had support for sub skins as early Half Life 2 with the Antlions. However it is up to the skinners(Chrome and at least one other person) as to which Hive Fleets will get in so I only made it possible to vote for your top three favorites.

[ChromeAngel]

The tyranids were not always Behemoth ...

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

Do you still have those skins or did you delete them?

[ChromeAngel]

As you can see the warrior model has changed quite a lot since those days, so they would not fit even if I had kept those skins.

The source files are all in layers, so changing the colours would not be too difficult, the main problem would be the blended colours.

There is a technical complication though, in order to try and prevent players cheating when  spotting cloaked lictors the game checks that the client and server are both using the same set of skins.  So unlike the marines it's not so easy for anyone to make and use their own variations in-game.

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

As you can see the warrior model has changed quite a lot since those days, so they would not fit even if I had kept those skins.

Yeah, he looks less detailed then the current one.

The source files are all in layers, so changing the colours would not be too difficult, the main problem would be the blended colours.

There is a technical complication though, in order to try and prevent players cheating when  spotting cloaked lictors the game checks that the client and server are both using the same set of skins.  So unlike the marines it's not so easy for anyone to make and use their own variations in-game.

Totally forgot about the Lictor. So any skin would have to be done server side and client side, hmm that could be something that can be added to the menu to an update in the far future so players won't have conflicting files.