Erm other than some visual changes to the head (in that X4 concept art) there's been no drastic/major changes to the Boron that I'm aware of? The X1-X3 Boron's were always a water species. It's stated in various places in the games, the manuals, and the X novels. There's even a scene in the X2 main story where you visit a boron world and go under the sea to meet with them.Skeeter wrote:Why use the new concept art for x4 boron's when old xbtf to x3 boron's which are humanoid species. When they talk on monitors they don't seem to need water and talk ok. What's to say they don't have legs just with webbed toes?
So it's really up to egosoft, can't they use old boron's? Why fixate on the concept ones.
Your belief that there's no water around them when you speak to you on comms rather contradicts all of the above. Especially as the coms is a small low rez animation.. so how can you really tell? This guy could easily be in water haha.
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I think the only lore/design change that needs to be made to solve the 'water race' problem is the one I mentioned in my previous post. Put all Borons in humanoid encounter suits with a window showing the Boron floating inside and switch their ships and stations to air based with separate 'Boron only' water sections you can't enter for decoration. This takes care of the race specific issues and Egosoft can instead concentrate on bringing back new versions of all their cool shiny scaley green ship & station designs.