Lords of the Fallen 2 reveals female armor and it's giving 'mobile game ad from 2009'

CI Games has dropped some female armor designs for Lords of the Fallen 2, and folks, we need to talk. According to Push Square, the designs look like they were ripped straight out of a generic mobile game banner ad - the kind that auto-plays at 3AM while you're watching YouTube.

The creative mantra behind the whole thing? "You wanted fierce. You wanted beautiful. You wanted provocative." Apparently this was inspired by community feedback, which raises some very important questions about which community, exactly, they were listening to.

A legendary skill issue in character design

Look, the fantasy armor genre has been speedrunning the "bikini plate mail" trope since the days of Diablo II sorceresses, and somehow in 2025 we've got studios still treating it like a fresh new mechanic. The designs, as reported by Push Square, look like they belong in a different era entirely - and not the cool retro kind.

It's genuinely baffling that in a post-Elden Ring, post-Baldur's Gate 3 world - where female characters get actual armor that, wild concept, protects the body - a studio looks at the landscape and decides the move is to go full "fantasy Instagram influencer." This isn't a hard boss to beat, CI Games. Other devs have cleared this dungeon.

The community spoke, and CI Games heard... something

The most tragicomic part of this whole situation is that the studio is framing these designs as a direct response to player demand. Whether that's a genuine misread of the room or a calculated provocation (pun very much intended), the reaction online has been about as warm as a Soulslike starting zone.

Lords of the Fallen 2 was already carrying some baggage after its predecessor had a rocky launch. Rolling out armor reveals that generate this kind of eye-rolling is not exactly a great way to build hype ahead of release. At this point, the PR department might need a boss rush of their own.

We'll keep watching this one. Maybe the final game surprises us - but right now, CI Games is sitting at zero health with no estus flasks left on this particular design choice.