Mech Customization
This is completely separate from your pilot and has two sides to it, the build side and the cosmetic side.
The Build
Pick your chassis class first. Light, Medium, or Heavy. That sets your base speed, armor, and size. From there you pick your primary weapon arm, secondary weapon arm, your core ability, a defensive ability, a movement ability, and a passive. This is your actual gameplay loadout and every choice changes how your mech plays on the field.
The Cosmetics
On top of the build you have full visual customization. Chassis skin, cockpit design, arm plating style, shoulder pieces, leg plating, underbelly detail, and decals. Color channels work the same way as pilot customization so you can paint every part however you want. Animated decals and cockpit lighting effects would be a great extra layer on top of that.
Why This Makes Life Easier for 1047
Building mechs in a modular way means the team creates individual parts rather than entire mech models every time they want to add something new. A new arm plating style or a fresh cockpit design can ship way faster than a brand new mech. On the gameplay side having set chassis classes with swappable abilities also makes balancing much more manageable because they can tweak one piece without having to redesign everything around it. It also gives the game a longer content runway since pieces can be combined in ways that feel fresh without needing constant big updates.