A maybe slight controversial opinion about the DE Footman

You know how in the Forsaken Kingdom campaign we got the "City Guard" unit , I wish that the normal footman would look closer to the one they wear(with slight gold trims) because it look much closer to the WC3 footman in cinematics. The OG Footman is super iconic but DE really messed up the helmet proportions for him imo.

What Reforged did right for me at the very least is that we almost got the cinematic footman in game.

(or you know if anyone from Hive Workshop would be able to do a lil head transplant shenanigans i wouldn't mind either)

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u/KirkataThePickaxe2 1d ago

They should fix the scarlet crusaders footman tabard to show their symbol.

u/WarjoyHeir 1d ago

They should really up the contrasts and add shading and blacks at color edges to really improve the textures in DE

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u/SoSDan88 11h ago

They need some actual weathering and detail to them. The original game had lots of hand painted texture, highlights, shading etc. DE makes everything look like its made of flat plastic.

Funnily the artists fan models before they were hired actually capture this better, at least for the footman.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Dxrw3n

u/Mathius117 1d ago

Footman needs scaling up. They are the only unit that looks super out of place in DE.

u/Kradgger 1d ago

The reforged assets are based on the cinematics

u/MrTerrorist007 1d ago

Middle footmen looks the best in my opinion

u/bigRyan540 1d ago

that one cinematic footman looked really stupid

u/Swannicus 1d ago

They could have had the cinematic footman in game in the original wc3 and chose not to, it was way too much visual noise/clutter. Hopefully they make good on the skins they implied with the original reforged though. SC2 has an awesome system for skins and it would be great to let people play with the footmen they want.

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u/squishybro 1d ago

I think what they meant is that the helmet looks “off.” I personally like the overall look of the unit except for the lower half because of how squated he is cuz in classic their leg/feet are much bigger thus balancing the silhouette but in DE he skips leg day

u/lupask 1d ago

what the hell is that weapon, Aiur zealot?!?

u/MaDeaD- 1d ago

there are guys who have benn playing for over 20 years ,you know ? a unit has to be recognizable at a glance , otherwise you might as well stick with the crap that was reforged ...the middle model is the best one .
Any "good" warcraft player will tell you that .

u/Interesting_Boss_201 20h ago

The problem I have with the Footman is that his eyes make him look like he's on amphetamines or something, whereas I remember the old one having the aura of a chill dude. lol

u/hewasaraverboy 1d ago

Reforged footmen are goated

DE footman looks like Warcraft rumble mobile slop

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u/RuneHearth 1d ago

No way you said that when reforged looks straight out of raid shadow legends

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u/eer_00 1d ago

DE is so trash