It's not an issue and it's not going to change.

In the CO-OP campaign characters are based on the location the mission takes place and they have specific lines and reasons why they're there.

It wouldn't make sense for Angel Flores to be in Tokyo commenting on how he did some maintenance work back in '09 in the sewers, now would it ?

Because each character has dialogue relevant to the episodes they appear in.

This is honestly a non-issue. I don't get how it's even something worth complaining about.

Originally posted by Zoopy:

I don't get how it's even something worth complaining about.

Imagine you have a favorite character with unlocked skins and gear parts, but you can't choose them because no luck all the time.

That's life. It happens in many games. I have some really cool Moira skins in Overwatch and I love playing the character, but if I get into a game and someone selects her before I can, then I deal with it.

Besides, I highly doubt it's as bad as you make out. I've had great luck playing the characters I want so far. Just lock them in the moment you start searching for a game and you'll probably get that character. I've played probably about 50 matches and last night was the first time I spawned in as a different character to the one I choose when searching for a game.

the issue is more like, 150 difficulties thus splitting the game per Campagn, Episodes, Difficulties meaning there's no one playing the game you wanna play. Lobby is empty and searching for years.

Originally posted by Mallas:

It's not an issue and it's not going to change.

In the CO-OP campaign characters are based on the location the mission takes place and they have specific lines and reasons why they're there.

It wouldn't make sense for Angel Flores to be in Tokyo commenting on how he did some maintenance work back in '09 in the sewers, now would it ?

Yes it would its a video game, also just have story voice lines disabled for the specific locations. Nobody plays this for story, Like I said multiplayer already does not give a crap about world logic, so why cant we just use any hero we want, I really want this to be an option.

I mean I don't care much about dialogue so I can imagine picking a character than isn't from that episode and have them be silent when it comes to story dialogue. And have the actual character from that mission on the radio talking instead.

It's beyond me why this isn't an unlockable after you finish the game, sure, gate keep them until we finish it but have it locked post that is just stupid. And some of you defending this crap by saying story/dialogue is important you have to be kidding, because the dialogue is cringe phrase talk that doesn't even fir the surrounding half of the time, characters screaming during stealth and so on.

Originally posted by Boboscus:

It's beyond me why this isn't an unlockable after you finish the game, sure, gate keep them until we finish it but have it locked post that is just stupid. And some of you defending this crap by saying story/dialogue is important you have to be kidding, because the dialogue is cringe phrase talk that doesn't even fir the surrounding half of the time, characters screaming during stealth and so on.

Exactly my point. I guess Time will tell if they actually make it a feature, but right now for me its a big problem.

As video game problems go, this is pretty first world...

Originally posted by Zoopy:

Because each character has dialogue relevant to the episodes they appear in.

This is honestly a non-issue. I don't get how it's even something worth complaining about.

Exactly... Anyone wanna bet that if you could pick any character the thread would be "OMG, it's so stupid Angel talks about doing sewer work back in 09 in Rome, it ruined my immersion! 0/10!"

just turn on world war z enable display of non story charactersif you want to pick other characters from other places/campaign it's on the setti9ngs first thing you see first.

Originally posted by Denys:

Why cant we just select any character we want? Its a game not a movie, what the hell? So in multiplayer you can have 3 exact same heroes running around, in horde mode one of each, and in story only 4 per level, WHY? This feels so retarded, the character models are so well done why cant we just play the way we want, why aren't they using the strong aspect of the game?
Do any of you guys know if this issue came up before and if the devs are planning to actually do something about it?

this game would be fire if it let you create your own character from scratch.