On October 15 2014 07:45 amMaine wrote:
On the other hand tho they fucked up the SF model for no reason at all (besides money for the arcana, 20€rofl..)

The old model was too undefined for my liking, but I enjoyed the cross between a Mari Lwyd and Longarm Shanks.

FuzioNda1337

Sweden159 Posts

October 15 2014 05:29 GMT

#46

http://halycon450.deviantart.com/art/Darkterror-the-Faceless-Void-312438136 this picture shows more how he should be,
More evilish, less handsome man.

and his voice need to be more develish, sort of like TB as an example, but more cheeky voice, a bit like gollum personality, crazy,nice,evil nerdy voice.

Checkm8

Japan627 Posts

October 15 2014 05:59 GMT

#47

On October 15 2014 09:57 evanthebouncy! wrote:

here's my 2 cents
LOL

Tentacle rape incoming...

Edit: on topic, just remodel him like slenderman and we're good to go...

Kuroeeah

11696 Posts

October 16 2014 00:08 GMT

#48

Take notes Valve, take notes

icystorage

Jollibee19343 Posts

October 16 2014 03:23 GMT

#49

but that would make him just...void

Sassback

United States718 Posts

October 16 2014 06:06 GMT

#50

Man, the more I look at this thread the sadder i get. I personally think Void looks pretty cool as it is (and judging by all the troll posts in here, most of you can't think of any useful reworks). And whatever he gets turned into is probably going to be worse than his current model.

ArcticRaven

France1406 Posts

October 16 2014 12:05 GMT

#51

The thing is, his current incarnation is awfully plain. He's a purple anthropomorphic alien with a cheesy as hell hammerhead face, a mace and a loincloth. There isn't much of interest in this very generic concept, and more importantly it doesn't reflect at all the time theme.

The fact that his body is uniformly plastic purple without texturing or details is another flaw in his model.

Even though a full rework may not jave been necessary or at least as necessary as other heroes, he at least needed to be tweaked.

Checkm8

Japan627 Posts

October 16 2014 12:07 GMT

#52

Seriously though, why do people want to remodel him? He looks fine as he is. But if people are full bent on reworking him just make him something like a protoss unit, just more zergy. I dunno, all i can think of are dark templars when you talk about the "void"...

SoylentGamer

United States250 Posts

October 16 2014 19:35 GMT

#53

Again like has been mentioned earlier, change his persona, his voice lines suggest narcissism and being self centered with his power. His voice lines should suggest mysterious terror and darkness, like Abbadon, I love Abbadon's lines, it reflects his lore and persona well. Void on the other hand almost sounds like Invoker, it's fitting on Invoker, but not Void (I also find that Invoker pub players often have Invoker's personality X3)

Howie_Dewitt

United States1416 Posts

October 19 2014 00:38 GMT

#54

He acts like fucking Lord Farquaad from Shrek, but traveling thru time. Make him spooky and give him some more appendages. Maybe chain of green spikes down his back, surrounded by black fading to purple, and change his arm that holds the weapon to a hulking rope of tentacles which is darker than the rest of him. For the face, or lack thereof... I will draw something and put it in this thread later.

Archeon

3253 Posts

October 19 2014 17:23 GMT

#55

Make him a mass of something (tentacles/clouds), that extends to attack and draws back to backtrack, stop thinking of a human shape. I think faceless indicates mainly that he's inhuman, so i'd go with a fluid/semi fluid mass of something like black clouds like spectre or water like morphling.

I'd play around with the morphling model and the "river of time" idea, like making it flow backwards whenever it backtracks. Take the mouth and eyes away, make it flow slower to give it a more biological feeling, dual color it maybe (like making the main thing black/dark purple and create one or two golden/white/whatever small streams similar to enigma). Morphling already has a jump animation so they can take that one and alter it to something more slow flowing like pl's.
I like chronosphere the way it is so i'd keep it.

@Sassback it's pretty apparent why this situation has come up. His lore gives next to nothing in terms of what he looks like and what his character is, his theme, time is as inconcrete as possible in terms of visuals and as a result valve's model is rather boring. It's not because void's model is fine, it's because it's hard to come up with a good model for a being that which is only described by "faceless void who uses time and comes from a different plane".

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

October 20 2014 07:26 GMT

#56

I personally find most of these suggestions worse than the actual model :O kinda wishing viper won now

Half the Sky

Germany9029 Posts

October 20 2014 13:43 GMT

#57

I am also confused as to how Void won over Slardar. I thought Zeus was okay, Viper needs to look a little scarier than he is, but his model isn't horrible.

That said, I think when you're naming a hero "faceless void" seeing that model, it's not faceless and it's not a "void". I'm not advocating some abstract model similar to Io, but I think the head should be darker, and scarier, the body should be some (shaped) body of energy, not necessarily resembling a human body.

Also agreed with the comments on his voice (though I don't think it's up for change) - he sounds almost as narcisstic as Zeus and Invoker, and he doesn't have to be.

pNRG

United States333 Posts

October 20 2014 14:55 GMT

#58

On October 16 2014 21:05 ArcticRaven wrote:
The thing is, his current incarnation is awfully plain. He's a purple anthropomorphic alien with a cheesy as hell hammerhead face, a mace and a loincloth. There isn't much of interest in this very generic concept, and more importantly it doesn't reflect at all the time theme.

The fact that his body is uniformly plastic purple without texturing or details is another flaw in his model.

Even though a full rework may not jave been necessary or at least as necessary as other heroes, he at least needed to be tweaked.

This right here.

Also as others have mentioned:

No more goat feet.
No more hammerhead shark face.
Make him "scarier".
Include the "time" theme.

ref4

2933 Posts

October 20 2014 16:33 GMT

#59

they should remove the mouth, since the mouth is part of a face and is inconsistent with the name "faceless" void.

FHDH

United States7023 Posts

October 20 2014 17:38 GMT

#60

He needed a new voice far more than a new model. He has one of the most vicious looks in the game and yet his voice pack, while fine in a vacuum, looks like it should be coming from some Silencer-looking motherfucker or something. Not some vicious humanoid time-beast, which is what his current model suggests, especially the mouth - from which I simply cannot see his vocals coming. They don't make sense.

I doubt Valve is going to get workable suggestions so hopefully they just iterate on the current dynamic which is how I feel they did SF. New SF looks essentially like old SF - arcana aside - but way more awesome.

I think they can achieve that with Void. And then change his fucking voice.