To be fair. Their uniform had not much to do with their actions or political beliefs. Imo you can't control what others do you can only control how you react. So maybe take a step back and think "Is this really hindering me" if not. Live and let live.
There is little movie material for modern uniforms apart from them also looking terrible in my opinion.
Most people try to avoid using living people that aren't actors or models or people who are basically publishing their pictures. Most soldiers don't do that.
EDIT: Also Freelancer is a game of big stereotypes. That's what makes it so easy to get into and access. So people go for the full stereotype and take what they know of Germany's past.
(07-15-2017, 05:40 PM)Black Widow Wrote: Yes but why using pics that contain that uniform, even if we don't agree with the regime behind it it's still in a way advertising them.
Why not use modern German uniforms?
What you don't understand from: "historical"?
Discovery Freelancer AND Freelancer is based on History: from nazis to communism and even more. I can't believe you did not observe that. Carry on with the game and stop being triggered so easly.
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Do you -really- have to use pictures of Nazi generals for your characters out of millions of images on the internet? It's as bad as naming your character Luke.Skywalker and saying "Oh but surely there is a chance there are more Luke Skywalkers in the world!? There are billions of people in the universe!"
(07-15-2017, 05:40 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: The internet is big enough to not steal offending pictures. Goes for all people. The desperate need to use Nazi pictures is just as borderlining as the use of any other pictures that are just as debatable. German nazis aren't the only nazis, and not all germans are nazis. So just move away from pictures of extremism. It's bad taste and poor form.
Well, there's a thing. Rheinland is stereotypical and DA clearly made it look like fusion of Third Reich and Imperial Germany.
EVERY single house is based off stereotypes. Liberty is mixture of 1920s and 2000s USA, Kusari (vanillia) is pastiche of 17th C. Edo Japan (even deposed Emperor is called Hideyoshi - such a concidence), Bretonia is stereotypized as truly British Empire of Victorian Period, Outcasts are nothing less but Hispanic cartels and Italian mafia... Do I need to write more?
However, the issue is so big, and I say that as a Pole who doesn't care as long as people don't take Nazism seriously, we also should kick out the Communist symbolism out of the game as well. You can get fined for that in several countries in EU.
This little bird went to sleep forever. So long.
Thank you for everything.
But seriously, this thread more or less stopped being worth of discussion when you, Black Widow, decided to pull the war criminal card, essentially claiming that every single soldier within an army of a few millions, was first a nazi (your thread title) and second a war criminal.
As long as people dont use pictures with swastikas on them this is not really a problem. Otherwise you would have to remove a whole lot of other history based content.