and what explanation does lore have for purple or blue hair exactly? Or for the fact that mankind completely lost the technology to manufacture blonde hair dye?


way more likely explanation is that developers are bunch of bigots, all about uninclusiveness and underrepresentation based on external characteristics, and for some reason they harbor deep seated and completely irrational hatred towards blonde people. Shame on them, someone should really talk to them about inclusivity, 'current year' and all the good stuff :)

can't believe how the guys in this thread are calling the other guys sjws. very entertaining

What does being a SJW have to do with prejudice against blonde hair?

The most likely explanation is they couldn't make blonde hair look good. I wouldn't blame them considering I can't remember the last time I saw good looking blonde hair in a video game that wasn't using hand-drawn portraits.

I have a lance mate with blond hair. So only you cannot be blonde.

They are SJWs that have SJW agendas.
Much of that includes anti-white/European sentiment.
Its not that far fetched to assume some of that sentiment drips into their characters & stories.
Battletech is saturated with SJW ideology.
Perhaps that lack of blond haired, white characters is just a Freudian slip on the part of the developers.
But who knows.

There are 3 specific shades of Roots for doing Blond Hair types, whoever said it cannot be done is wrong.

Nonsense bs.Imagine an excuse like that used for black people not getting black hair, they`d be a riot and claims of racism.

Anyway, they`ve patched the game up somewhat and you can indeed get blonde haired characters now... I think part of the reason why you couldn`t get it was indeed sjw racism against whites and because the game isn`t very well coded for doing blond people.

You have to look for it, but it`s there. NOBODY be afraid to say if you see racism against white or black. Racism is racism no matter what colour.

Also correct.

Agreed. Too much of this shit in games today.

Honestly if I'd know how SJW'y they'd go with the game, I would never have backed or purchased. I don't know why but for some reason I thought Jordan Weisman was better than that.

I have no issue with representation. I do have an issue with going way too far and literally scrubbing all white people from the NPC's whilst trying to fit in as many other different races as possible.

When you've got a game made by a predominantly white team which will be played by a predominantly white market, to not have any white characters kind of looks like a deliberate design choice to me.

Well it (apparently) makes some sense lore-wise, since this part of the Galaxy is supposedly much more of a mish-mash of many cultures (most of which are not of European origin), compared to the inner sphere, most of which is predominantly European (with the obvious exception of Kurita). So if it makes sense lore-wise then I'm good with it.

They did go a bit crazy in this regard though - especially the engineer, she's practically screaming "Hey everybody! I'm an overweight, unattractive muslim female who wasn't oppressed and was allowed to study! Check out how inclusive and advanced society is now, despite not being able to reverse-engineer a lot of stuff due to large-scale warfare!"

On the other hand, the mech-engineer is still a relatively stereotypical asian engineer-type, so I guess there were limits to their SJWishness.

Judging by how badly optimised this game still is - the UI in general still feels like crap - and by how the ordering of the hair colours are presented (it's not really ordered logically), I'd be more inclined towards lack of coding skill rather than SJW. Although if they hired people based on "inclusivity" over skill, then that effectively means their SJW policies contributed in no small way to their crappy coders.

It's definitely a telling sign though that they didn't pick up on the obvious lack of a common hair colour (in real life as well as within the BATTLETECH Universe). Which ironically points to lack of diversity in their studio (or at least their testers), if there's not a single person there that tested this and didn't notice, when blonde hair is quite a common hair colour in most of the world - it's only uncommon in parts of the world where white people are a very small minority or none-existent.

Yep. Commonsense. I could understand if the game was set historically in Africa or China where everyone`s hair is black, but this is a futuristic game where there is no reason at all for no blonds. If there is a reason why they are no blonds then it must be defined with the caveat that the same could happen to brunettes (dark haired people) too.

It was never in when Battletech first started and has only been pushed in by racist sjws on an agenda in this crazy period of our time . They are also sexist against men as a whole, but that`s another issue I won`t get into here.

It`s racism. Simple as. It`s why those Devs put a bad taste in my mouth whenever I start the game,(which isn`t often) knowing I`m dealing with a game made by racists who think they are somehow better than everyone else cos it`s just whites they`re racist against. I say again, racism is racism, no matter what the hue of your skin.

Truth is, I wouldn`t have bought this game had I understood what kind of people some of these Devs (especially the Head dev) appear to be.

It probably goes much deeper than that.
I thoroughly expect to get banned, or have this post deleted or tampered with in some way or fashion.

The attached picture was posted on an image board of what the lead dev looks like, who is rumored to be a transvestite. Which is very similar to what Lady Arano looks like.
https:// 8ch.net /v/ res/14682714.html#14683553 (spaces added intentionally)

Anyone watch the "Game of Thrones" spoof, South Park created?
Looks like kenny wants to be a japanese princess, doesn't it?

Why pretend something is being hidden? Kiva is transsexual. I suppose they don't throw that in your face because frankly, it's irrelevent. From this, I strongly suspect we got the option to choose the pronoun 'they' for mechwarriors, a couple have trans or agenderism mentioned in their background text, and what I think is Kiva's personal hirable character is trangendered. But so what? High-tier kickstarter backers got to define mechwarriors, too. You don't have to call anyone 'they' or hire any characters you don't want to if it bothers you.

Kiva is also a skilled game designer responsible for bringing some depth (and some brutal combat) to the game, as you can see in posts on the official forums. I'm glad she was hired.

The blond hair thing was annoying, but the idea that the creators of Battletech were being racist against themselves is laughable. Like, 'Katherine Steiner-Davion is a pure-hearted virgin' laughable.