1.06 Hair update, possible future character creator feature

Surely I'm not the only one noticing a distinct move into the realm of plastic? At least for the male hairstyles; I don't play female characters, so I can't say anything about that. At first I thought my graphics settings had been changed somehow by the update, but they hadn't. So if I'm alone in this, I'm pretty baffled.

Edit: This is PC version. Forgot to mention.

My Sara's new hair:

I'm still waiting for the Eos update.

So Ryder, what do you want your first outpost to be? Military or scientific?
Screw that, wake up some hairdressers and beauticians. And throw in a plastic surgeon while you're at it.

Yes, exactly. I was so pleased to finally be able to create a black-haired character (actual black, not the dark-gray or dark-blue that DAI used to call black). It wasn't as if I wanted some rare, exotic color. But now it looks grayish again because of the shiny. Hoping they can tone it back down a bit, but you're right. A specular slider would be absolutely super.

We have no control over the lighting, unless you're talking about modding. And I have no intentions of modding something that wasn't originally broken.

Yes, I have that, but it worked perfectly fine before the update. Changing it didn't help, but I shouldn't have even had to try that. I get what you mean, though.

Before Patch




After Patch



I'm not sure it's an improvement.

That's odd, because I think the new hair shown in the picture is super awesome and a huge improvement.  To each their own, I guess.

No, you're not alone. I find the new hair way too shiny as well. I feel like I watch a shampoo ad. The old hair looked more realistic.

My thoughts exactly; my character has (had?) black hair as well, and I was excited about it after DA:I's "black".

Unfortunately, I'm on console and am without access to fancy graphics options  Not that we should need to fix something that wasn't broken to begin with. It also means I can't download a potential mod that alters the hair back to its original state and keep the rest of the patch.

Are you kidding me...? *Sigh* That is the exact hair and colour my character has... 

The pre-patch one I considered a huge improvement over DA:I. The texture quality is good. The post-patch one looks like she dunked herself in some grease, or put way too much product in her hair. It looks much less realistic; more plastic.

How could Bioware go from hearing complaints about shiny hair in DA:I making it look plastic, to fixing it in ME:A, to reverting to shiny plastic in a patch? What? Patches are supposed to fix things, not break them!



Indeed. This is why it would be great if we could adjust it ourselves, like lip gloss.