Blizzard Working to Make Video Game Clothing and Armor More Realistic

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Debates around whether narrative, gameplay, or graphics are most important to a game's success will likely continue so long as gaming continues to be a major hobby. However, something that many gamers can likely agree on is that making their character look right comes as a priority. Players of titles like Cyberpunk 2077, Skyrim, and Elden Ring can spend hours in the character creator making their perfect protagonist. Now, it seems that Blizzard is looking to improve how characters will appear in video games.

It is not through making faces more realistic or giving extra physics to hair that Blizzard hopes to improve the appearance of characters in video games. Rather, a recent patent from the developer and publisher is specifically looking at armor and clothing in video games. These two items are important in character customization, as sometimes players will take lower statistics in their gear to make their protagonist look good, causing some titles like Horizon Forbidden West to introduce a transmog system.

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Blizzard's patent will make all armor look better on a character, hopefully meaning that one set of gear doesn't look immediately better than another to a player. The system Blizzard is patenting will modify three-dimensional objects in games for one character model depending on how they fit a previous model. This means essentially that a piece of armor or clothing will be modified to best fit the character that's wearing it, rather than have one look for a female character model and another for the male version.

This looks to be quite the ambitious patent, and if it works in the way that Blizzard intends, it could result in one gamer having a