What about as a monster type? Could pose an interesting challenge
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Ok so no 6 limbed characters (for now) but I´m really curious what the devs have in mind for the racial traits, especially for this “battlecat” race because it looks like something I´d want to play as.
Since the community tends to have different traits for each race that affect the gameplay I hope for some really awesome stuff.
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I really wouldnt call this a cat…
for me its more like a rock race, kinda like wildstars granok
For this race i would personally like to see strength related racials, like maybe faster mining, harder punching or an active to negate all dmg for a few seconds. something like that
So for me it´s a battlecat 
Wouldn’t just some +% traits be boring? I´d like to see some “out-of-the-box” things like like seeing ore blocks glowing through rock (in a small radius) or the ability to cloak yourself as a 1x1x2 rock column (inkstand death if you are “mined”? 
) for this rock-cat race.
BAHAHA. lets do it.
but yeah they said racials matter,but they also talked about how some race might mine faster, i think the different races should have different innate roles in society. how do you say it… like 1 race is a nomadic people who are known for trading and they get bonuses to moving over long distances of land and to trade, another race might naturally gifted in crafting and hence they are better, some race are stalkers so they get night vision + faster reflexes, that stuff. but indeed its gonna be interested to see what they come up with.
Short list of what i think i have heard them talk about (in brainstorm)
A race that mines faster
A race that glides in the air
A race that can climb up blocks
A race that can place 2 blocks for 1 blocks price
A race that have faster movement
A race that can breathe underwater (not sure if they ever mentioned this though)
but this is just old old things the dev have mentioned might be a possible racial. talking about racials are going to be very interesting, but i would personally prefer to wait until we see the races and how they play into the lore.
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I won’t lie. I hope for at least one cutesy race that is animalistic, with a tail and all. I can’t resist an opportunity to be adorable and a bad*** on the same character 
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I just thought of something, what about races that have mechanics as racial traits? an example would be grappling hook, it seems that that might be a big part of the game, what about having a race which can use its hand as grappling hook? like a tree race that shoots roots or vines and uses those as hooks, that would be be so badass xD
another idea could be, if there are mounts in the game then some race might be able to run on all four and run as fast as a mount without having one.
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The 1st gears the characters will use when they are released should seems like a tribal cloths, and with time evolve it to complex armor.