145962-what-is-the-deal-with-unusable-holo-wardrobe-items

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I've mentioned this before but never got an answer, why are some items that, when added to the holo-wardrobe, can't be used by some alts but can be used by others. 
Example:
 
Note the four unusable shirts there at the bottom. The armor types vary. Some are heavy, some are light, etc. Armor type should not matter. it doesn't matter on all the other shirts in my wardrobe. Note also that one shirt is actually the Exile starting shirt. How can any Exile not be able to use that? I've had to add multiple versions of this same graphic so that all my Exiles have access to it. I also have to point out that Show Unavailable is not checked. So, everything shown should be available. 
 
I have this problem on all my alts, with every type of clothing, from boots to hats. Like I said, I often have to add two different items with the same graphic in order to be able to use the item on various alts. This is a waste of holo-wardrobe space. 
 
Can some one please tell me what's going on here. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Is it a bug? What is the deal with this? 
			
				
	Edited November 1, 2015 by Atomicpanda	
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			Seems that some outfits are class locked.  An example is the starting gear: Esper/slinger, Medic/stalker, engineer/warrior.  Only one of those classes can use them in the holo-wardrobe.  	
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Yeah I wonder this aswell. The faction specific costumes make sense to be faction restricted. It wouldnt feel right for an exile to walk around with a clearly dominion outfit and vice versa. But these other ones that are shared cross faction I dont get the restriction or even within own faction.
But I wonder if it's a bug or actually intended. I hope it's a bug.	
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The items you have equipped as a new character (or from the first tier of protostar rucksack) are locked by armor type.  I don't know why.  I assume it's a bug.  I can confirm that you can wear the Exile shirt on a Domi character, as long as it's a light armor class.  I havn't tested if the "Arkship Memorabilia" items are restricted or not.
 
Fortunately, except for the cryosuits, unrestricted versions of all those skins are available for a few silver from low level gear vendors.
 
edit: Just tested, the "Arkship Memorabilia" items are indeed wearable cross faction.  Also, the Dominion cryosuit has a somewhat, uh, unique appearance on Aurin.
			
				
	Edited November 1, 2015 by PaxAmarria	
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			I went into my holowardrobe to see if I could find any 'unusable' items. But apparently I don't have any.  Can you maybe link each specific item maybe?  Is it an addon or something?So far the only bugs I've been able to recreate with the holowardrobe are the costumes displaying the wrong item in the character select screen(they still show correctly in-game),  and the one below, where the esper weapon shows as much larger while held.  Espers never actually wield their weapons, so I think that's just a weird one.   EDIT: Found a couple items blocked on my Drakken.  Seems she can't wear the Loyalist's Vest(light chest armor), or the Vest of Fealty(also light chest armor).  I think it has something to do with certain starting items due to some race/classes not ever having a reason to be able to wear light armor? For example:  Drakken don't have a light armor class, and aurin don't have a heavy armor class.  
			
				
	Edited November 1, 2015 by Elite Seraph	
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EDIT: Found a couple items blocked on my Drakken.  Seems she can't wear the Loyalist's Vest(light chest armor), or the Vest of Fealty(also light chest armor).  I think it has something to do with certain starting items due to some race/classes not ever having a reason to be able to wear light armor?  Drakken don't have a light armor class, for example. 
 
 
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I would pay so much for an Esper weapon that size in the actual game.	
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The items you have equipped as a new character (or from the first tier of protostar rucksack) are locked by armor type.  I don't know why.  I assume it's a bug.  I can confirm that you can wear the Exile shirt on a Domi character, as long as it's a light armor class.  I havn't tested if the "Arkship Memorabilia" items are restricted or not.
 
Fortunately, except for the cryosuits, unrestricted versions of all those skins are available for a few silver from low level gear vendors.
 
edit: Just tested, the "Arkship Memorabilia" items are indeed wearable cross faction.  Also, the Dominion cryosuit has a somewhat, uh, unique appearance on Aurin.
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			I'm hoping Carbine sees this thread tomorrow and has an answer. I thought it was amour restrictions but that apparently isn't the case. I wonder if maybe there were some changes to the wardrobe system at some point and these items were missed in the process?	
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Maybe someone didn't go though all the old items thoroughly when adding the holo-wardrobe? I'd really love to have this either fixed or explained. 
 
Side note, since we can't dye weapons and, obviously, weapons can't be used cross-class, could maybe weapons have their own section of the wardrobe with their own separate number of slots? The current system is detrimental to anyone wanting to play more than one class since each class they play means halo-wardrobe slots only one class can use. Some one like me who pla-- dabbles in all classes losses a lot of wardrobe space to weapons. Heck, I might even be OK with making the weapons section of the wardrobe per-character while the rest of the wardrobe is account-wide, even if that does lead to a few small problems. Though I would prefer weapons remain account-wide somehow. 	
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I want the Exile Cryosuit on my Granok Warrior but it's not happening sadly.
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I believe that there's an unlocked version of that item that you can buy for 1 gold from a vendor in Thayd. I forget his name, but he's up above the auction area and his title is "Shady Merchant". I know it shows up as a different red shirt on my Draken though.
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Here's what the Dominion Cryosuit looks like on Aurin.
 
Seriously, who do I have to kill to get this drop for my Domi characters? It's not fair.
 
 
 
ps. Yes, I do like big boots....	
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			Those boots are pretty crazy.	
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			Oh god... considering the picture, I really, really didnt read "big boots" the right way first two times...	
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