two new preset heads wth 1.08 patch

I don't have any illusion it is fixable for MEA. That would be way too much work.

The could add more presets, more skins, more hairs and try to fill in the gaps without a ton of effort though. That said, considering how little work they put into the "Big CC Update" I doubt they will add anything else at this point.

omg!!!

I'm just noticing this now, but what is up with Addison's hand?

Yup like I said.  Preset 10 is Addison. Just change the skin texture.

Hm, they basically unlocked most if not all the functionality of the cc. They used it for all NPC humans, so we at least got that. It's kind of funny, not ha ha funny that the new head is 'face is tired' capable. Feels like an indirect troll by them, but at least we can do what the modders tried to give us last month. Texture swaps. It opens things up somewhat.

Just a shame, really that they had to be strong-armed into giving the complete product's cc at the end. My hopes of a total overhaul were blown to bits seeing this pic as further proof that the current cc is so baked in that giving us a lot better one means likely re doing ever single human npc in the game. Not gonna happen, so it's better but not that great.

Played Origins recently and noticed there is more flexibility in its cc, weird they went with such a limited one, even for their own use. Why?

Maybe Bioware is just burned out on making games, who knows.

MEA's CC makes some decisions that I think are kind of annoying though. Like, tying eyebrows to complexion post-patch is kind of ridiculous. From the start, complexion should have been its own separate option and eyebrows on either the "sculpting" tab or more logically the hair options tab. Mouth, eye and eye shapes should also have been part of that. This small list of changes would have made it immensely easier to create a Ryder that looks like no one else's, and really, would have probably put it above the previous iterations of the CC's in the MET. As a character creator fiend, I find that this CC does not really encourage fiddling about with the options all that much, because it has too many odd constraints to really do so. To me, Inquisition's is way above, marred by questionable modeling and awful hair.

At least MEA's hair is better than previous ME games. I've been going through the CC's of all 3 games right now and the choices are kinda shit, in retrospect. One odd thing I totally forgot about is that the eyes in ME3 are somehow worse than ME1 and 2. They totally lack depth, which was probably why I didn't really notice as much when I first played MEA, because it suffered the same problem.

Why would they care what you believe? 

There is no objective way your possibly correct that MEA CC is the best in a video game. 

DA:I blows it out of the water and so does Fallout 4.

In ME:A you cannot...

1. Change eyebrows independently.
2. Change lips independently.
3. Change eye-shape independently.
4. Change nose type independently.
5. Change facial jowls.

...among other things.

Half of those things are tied to the damn complexion and/or head preset.

The most damning thing about this CC is the fact that you cannot change facial structure at all like you could in DA:I and it wasn't even on par with F4 either. For crying out loud...Bethesda's Oblivion had more control than this one has and if you cannot see that then your effectively ignoring key aspects that show you to the contrary.

If you really want to see the difference then all I have to do is show you these two videos from Fallout 4 where you can create characters that just aren't possible with ME:A no matter how hard you tried.



Yeah...and the following



Yeah. That's from Fallout 4. Not even showing videos for DA:I. 

You are objectively wrong. Its simply mechanically impossible to create such characters like that from ME:A CC.

This shouldn't even be a debate.

Yeah, I dig the new preset, and so does Sara.

This CC is a failure if these "diverse" presets are not appealing to someone. Too little control just doesn't let change the face enough, and let's not forget that certain very small changes in facial features can make animations too weird, there is all kinds of advice how to avoid it and which presets are less affected. It further reduces possible combinations.

A. Character codes. As for me, this is irrelevant, I never download someone else's characters because I prefer to make them from scratch to my own taste. It's a nice feature but not vital.
B. Lifelike characters that actually can look amazing and like real people. They can also look like ugly and bland real people. My perception is that a female part of the CC can produce much better results and good looks, but the male part is very bad, I haven't seen a single attractive male character yet, before or after the recent CC patch. I tried to make Scott again - this is hopeless, these presets plus questionable design decisions make ugly and bland guys. Plus, I have a feeling that game developers chose better-looking women and random average (at best) men. As for the bad design decisions, all male presets have a double chin/fat neck (on a very fit body) and practically non-existent short eyelashes (= pig eyes).
As for real people, just try to make yourself, your fiancée, your best friend, your favorite celebrity etc - what about diversity now? What are the chances that anyone looks like one of these presets?
C. And you can have a lot more diversity in the characters you can create. What kind of diversity? Choosing one of unchangeable presets based on 10 (11 with default characters) people? This is not diversity, this CC doesn't let make people of very many ethnicities. The number of combinations of facial structures and complexions is very limited.

Personally, the vanilla DAI CC was the best for me because of customization options (hair is lacking there, but the CC itself is good). And the FO4 CC is great because of the modding possibilities in the first place.

The trilogy doesn't have good CCs either. Interestingly, I had the same problem with creating men there: ugly and bland, including the default male Shep (no such problems with other games). But as DAI has shown, Bioware can make a good CC. They could improve that one by expanding some settings, adding hair, complexions etc and use it for MEA.
As for the MEA and its diversity, there are simply a few presets that make good results, and they are used by majority of players. Still, this is very far from a good CC that can make characters that please many people (or allow to mod it to achieve the same effect).
As for Asians in the trilogy, there were good ones that didn't look like Chinese Asians but bore a close resemblance to some Asian ethnicities in Russia. My friend could make her look-a-like copy (this is impossible with Asian = Chinese). Actually, that CC was better in the sense that the character face was constructed, they didn't choose one person to represent "Asians".