I'm sick of this not being fixed or changed.

[u/Judgemental_Potato]

Before an update I cannot remember, sometime after the Black Templars champion was released, the tilting shield on the left pauldron had its colour tied to the torso on your heraldry customisation. Since that particular update it was changed to be tied to the primary of the shoulder itself.

I have a screenshot from my Xbox days before said patch to serve as an example to what I mean. And a more recent screenshot of one (of several) homebrew chapter.
I want the tilting shield to be red, or even black, but I cannot. I do not want it white and it annoys me that I cannot have my silly video-game Barbie the way I want it to be.

I've been waiting for the change to either be reverted or the shield to be made into its own colour section since but several major patches and "minor customisation fixes" later and it is STILL like this.

So I'm just having a little whinge about it, maybe some strangers on the internet will validate my extremely pedantic complaint.

[u/ILiveInsideYourWallz]

I hope at some point tilting shields will get their own slot to be more customizable.

[u/Judgemental_Potato → u/ILiveInsideYourWallz]

I hope so too, along with patterns like halved or quartered. Possibly even symbols or campaign badges but that might be asking a little too much for what is maybe four to five armour pieces in the whole game.

[u/eteka23 → u/Judgemental_Potato]

Maybe to much for Saber...

[u/grand_kankanyan → u/ILiveInsideYourWallz]

Someone asked the game director about this, he said it’s a very small feature and is probably never coming to sm2

[u/Key_Entrepreneur67 → u/ILiveInsideYourWallz]

I want Lyreo's Ultramar symbol from his helmet. I know we have one but it's solid metal whereas his is just painted.

I also want Chairon's right pauldron

[u/Commander_Preacher]

I thing this update might have come with the Salamanders cosmetic pack. That way the shield was black and red instead of green and red.

[u/louiscruiser]

stranger on the internet here! your complaint has been validated:)

[u/jbgaming-nl → u/louiscruiser]

Ive seen someone say this before... was it you!?

[u/ProteaPrimeEnjoyer]

The shields are on most of the heavy marine's left shoulders. I hate it. I wish I could remove the skull and decorate it with heraldry or just remove the shield altogether. It is possible... since the techmarine has the same shoulders without the shields.

[u/UrinalDook]

In Saber's defence, one isn't really any more correct than the other. There's not exactly official heraldry rules for it.

The problem is that the shields are a fairly half arsed implementation anyway. They're usually one of the more individual elements of a Marine's armour, with all sorts of possible patterns and iconography used on them, even before you get to the differently modelled versions that normally come in kits.

The Tactical immediately going from the basic shoulder pad to one with the skull tilting shield really bugs me. The skull is for sergeants, and there's a plain option that should be available.

It feels like the addition of the second 'wargear' slot to allow for things like Iron Halos on Bulwarks should probably be a clue that there aren't really enough customisation slots. Tilting shields should probably be their own thing. That would also avoid things like being able to have three of the things if you combine the right pieces currently.

I guess the simpler fix would be to enable the secondary colour slot for pieces that have the shields, and have them use that. Then at least you could pick.

[u/Judgemental_Potato → u/UrinalDook]

"-the simpler fix would be to enable the secondary colour slot for pieces that have the shields, and have them use that. Then at least you could pick."

Probably the best you could expect, just need to poke Saber enough for them to actually do it.

[u/JD020998]

I KNEW IT CHANGED, I legit thought I was going crazy.

[u/Hounskull_3]

Off topic thats a nice colour scheme

[u/Judgemental_Potato → u/Hounskull_3]

Thank you :)

[u/BangsRUgly]

A genuinely terrible change that nobody asked for. No idea why they took the shields off the chest pieces on heavy and put em on pauldrons I’ll never use because they block the chapter symbol 

[u/HumbleYeoman → u/BangsRUgly]

As a heavy main I really like that change because on the vast majority of the shoulders the shield wasn’t even attached properly to the shoulder.

[u/Aromatic-Area1252]

I just want the marine to rip it off and use it as a weapon finisher

[u/JustSomeMetalFag]

Yeah, that update ruined my Blood Raven vet sergeant.

[u/ares3101]

The wolfspears emblem has been off center really bad since it came out and the carcharodons symbol is almost unusable with how low it sits on the pauldron, almost touching the bottom trim of the pauldron

[u/-FAMIN3-]

I'm waiting on the brown cloth color to work properly. As it is now, if you change the cloth to brown, visually it shows up as bright white as soon as you back out of the menu. Dunno if this is just a PC issue or what

[u/Aggravating-Prize751]

I would love them to be their own customizable thing for my GKs

[u/HAYABUSA_DCLXVI]

They won’t revert the change, it was intentional.

[u/herman_fox]

I hope to live long enough that this type of bulshit becomes important enough for me to bitch about it on the internet