Custom Skins in DayZ?

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

I was thinking, what if it was possible to make custom skins in DayZ? I was thinking of this because if you are playing in a clan, a special outfit would show that you are one force, and makes it much easier to identify enemies. I know that people will probably shoot this idea down because they would think that it would be over-powered because people would make skins resembling ghillie suits, etc. But I was thinking, what if the creators of DayZ put in a ton of base skins (15+) and make the colors on them completely customizable. I think that this could mainly work on DayZ standalone because you could link your account to your account on the DayZ website, then from there you can somehow link your account on the website to a clan page that they could add to the website. And from there you can download the skin that someone (say the clan leader) designed, and from there upload it to your player. I just think this would be neat and add a cool little twist to the game. I am completely open to ideas and constructive criticism. Please feel free to comment. :)

[Mayuyu 411]

Well at the moment you can change your face skin, which you can use to identify each other.

I think the full skin might be a bit too much and people could abuse it, so something simple like an armband or patch would be cool.

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

Yeah I was thinking of that too. Those are even better ideas. They could maybe even add different headgear too, so like a beret, or a rambo style bandana.

[Delta Smoke 01 765]

Everyone would be running around in black and green. EVERYONE.

[Hockeyguy 107]

You can already change your skin pretty easily, there are alot of Youtube videos on how to do it. :)

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

Yeah, that's one of the problems I was thinking about.

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

Everyone would be running around in black and green. EVERYONE.

That is why I was thinking of the hat or armband idea,

[m.w. vindicator 880]

Rocket mention in the Eurogamer Q & A session that clothing with not be cosmetic, but actually practical.

An examply directly from video:

Rocket:" I really want this jacket because it is pouring rain and I don't want to get sick and infect my buddies and then have them shoot me. But if I wear the jacket I will stand out like a sore thumb"

He wants this dilemma that players must decide about.

[liquidcactus 719]

One of the main ideas i want to see in this game is customizable skins defentley..

like you suuggest, I have though of the same idea.. how ever many+ skins then you can adjust the colours.. the other said above " but everyone will use black and gree" well they coulde customise it even further so that people could only use certain colours for certain skins.. byt anyway.. anyone who is against this broad idea in general stupid because i dont think it would be hard for it to go wrong.. i mean its clothing and the colour of clothing ?

[apache25 133]

why not let players choose a variety of clothes when they spawn

[Frozen (DayZ) 144]

why not let players choose a variety of clothes when they spawn

if people are allowed to pick pieces of clothes on spawn, EVERYONE would pick most profitable clothes, which again would lead to war of clones.

presets is the only option to go at this point.

[Josh225 129]

Would be nice to have some form of clan identification like the armbands and such that is suggested, also be cool to put clan insignia's on vehicles, so you know who's vehicle you're stealing lol.