OK, so reading through the latest April Community Update makes it seem like the devs are just flat out ignoring/disregarding any suggestions/ideas whenever it comes to customization expansion unless it's small things like adding colors, changing hand colors, or changing lens colors. Now look, I understand that cosmetics is not the most important issue with the game right now but since so many other people are already talking about bugs, gameplay mechanics, the upcoming Horde Mode, perk & weapon rebalances, difficulty adjustments etc. there's no point in me saying what everyone else is already talking about. However there have been a sizeable amount of people who have been asking for more customization expansion, things like, 

 - making Champion Skin pieces accessible to use across all classes 

 - coloring weapons, sniper cloaks and tactical togas 

 - allowing us to put chapter emblems on kneepads and capes, togas, Bulwark cloths and those little shields on the chest plates and pauldrons 

 - adding sniper cloaks to be available across classes (well...maybe not Assault and Heavy) 

 - adding more first born helmets, chest armor, greaves, gauntlets, wargear and power packs 

 - fully customizable Chaos Marines to use within both PVP and PVE 

 - giving us better cosmetics through community events not just tired/boring reskins like the MK10 chest plate with 3 skulls on it instead of the aquila

 - different variations of already existing helmets like the MK 6 and 8 

 - letting us put chapter emblems and other accessories on our helmets and other armor pieces like laurels, skulls, ammo pouches, grenade and shell bandoliers etc. 

 these are just some of the most asked about customization features that I've seen quite a bit of people bring up in the FOCUS Idea and Forums pages as well as the Discord server and it just seems like Saber and it's community managers are just ignoring most if not all of these requests, hell they won't even mention them or acknowledge them, I don't know why this is the case but it's like all of these are falling on deaf ears and they just keep doing more unnecessary difficulty adjustments or perk nerfs. Again I understand that customization is not the most important thing for the game but it is a big part of the Warhammer hobby and myself and others feel that this game should represent that more. The Astartes Overhaul mod has expanded customization like crazy, different variations of helmets, adding in ones that still aren't in the game, adding whole different armor sets like the MK3, Deathwatch and even Chaos Armor, a Chaplain, Tech Marine and even a playable chapter master. If a handful of modders can do this then I don't see why a triple A studio with hundreds of employees with access to all the dev kits/tools can't do the same. Please listen/acknowledge more of these requests Saber and actually try to implement them in game. 

P.S. No, the "oh well GW won't allow us to do it for lore reasons" excuse is not gonna work cuz if that was the case then there wouldn't be customization at all in this game, we would all just be stuck playing as Ultramarines. 

Some pictures to show what Space Marine customization can look like if the devs actually put time into it.

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Chaplain_willem wrote:

Brother I'm afraid they won't listen no matter what, the problem is that some of these changes isn't even hard to implement, half of the armor pieces people ask for already exist in the game, color changes for weapons or other things is probably the easiest ones, but even something as simple as changing the color of lenses took too long for some reason, so I really no longer know what is going on at saber, they either no longer care and they will drop horde mode and be done with it or simply being lazy, but hey at least we have the mods xD  

I've seen today vid on reddit showing some guy making operation with like 10 other battlebrothers. While I understand why it makes no sense on OP which are easly doable on highest difficulty with 2 other players, I fail to understand why the hell Horde mode can't be designed for more players. Gives us 2-3 more slots and just increase enemies spawn, it's horde mode after all..

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Naus_ wrote:

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Chaplain_willem wrote:

Brother I'm afraid they won't listen no matter what, the problem is that some of these changes isn't even hard to implement, half of the armor pieces people ask for already exist in the game, color changes for weapons or other things is probably the easiest ones, but even something as simple as changing the color of lenses took too long for some reason, so I really no longer know what is going on at saber, they either no longer care and they will drop horde mode and be done with it or simply being lazy, but hey at least we have the mods xD  

I've seen today vid on reddit showing some guy making operation with like 10 other battlebrothers. While I understand why it makes no sense on OP which are easly doable on highest difficulty with 2 other players, I fail to understand why the hell Horde mode can't be designed for more players. Gives us 2-3 more slots and just increase enemies spawn, it's horde mode after all..

I just hope they listen to this or to listen to the most of upvoted issues in general

All around quite sensible requests. I know it might not seem like much in the greater context of the game but customisation is something I really enjoy