Why did they change Cora's model from a pretty woman to such an ugly one in the final version of the

Sure, there would be an activist faction demanding everyone go back to the patriarchy or some such, but Cora's haircut can't possibly signal membership in that faction.

If you're gonna troll, you need to try harder. 

No, you never asked us our opinions about the change. You asked why she was made ugly. You've shown your hand, so too late to change your story now. 

*shrugs* Wasn't talking about your taste in companion looks; that's not interesting enough for me to talk about. But you were trying to extract meaning from Cora's looks in a way that was either trolling or stupid. I'm a charitable guy, and I figured interpreting it as trolling was nicer than interpreting it as stupid.

Speaking of which, your second paragraph is a good exercise in concern trolling. Well played. I suppose this is the part where we ask about those "interesting theories," right?

I'd bet that the OP's so-called pics are the product of such a mod... not something legitimately showing pre-release character models.

Well there weer rumours that there were a few design changes before the game released I do remember hearing that however I don't remember anyone saying why but my guess is the asme probably the hair physics system being one of them and the hair potentially clipping a lot or something. Not that it would bother me that much due to playing with a lot of hairstyle mods in these sorts of games anyway and the ycan clip quite a lot depending on the style but it may bother others which was why they changed it. As for her general face I don't know.

I'd be surprised if there weren't changes made... that's a common enough occurrence.  I just really doubt the image posted is legitimately of those changes and has not been enhanced or altered in any way.  The image itself just doesn't look quite right to me.  For one thing, unless they did a whole reorganization of the gameplay order, you never pick up PeeBee and Jaal before picking up Vetra.

Does it even matter?  It doesn't change my opinion about Cora's appearance in the game.  I find her reasonably pretty.  She has a lovely smile.  To me, her hair doesn't signify anything other than reminding me of my former co-worker.  You all can imagine whatever meaning you want into it.  Unless the devs state their specific reasons, it's all just fandom speculation... which tends to run rampant here, IMO.

I assure you that pic is legit, or at the very least it hasn't been tampered with by me. For god knows what reason the devs decided to to ugly-fy the characters, including the black guy and the asarian Peebee as well. Their faces were also made much uglier than the "placeholder art".

Why? Isn't the job of the devs to make good content?

EDIT: I read that the blackguy's placeholder model was based off Donald Glover so that may have to do with why the changed it for release-version, however still doesn't explain why a placeholder model is 10x better than the released black guy.

Also means it's possible the pre-release Cora model was based off an actress/celebrity/model as well, which would also explain the change... but again, WHY would the end-product be SO UGLY?

I've read from interview with Gaider and the char designer that they wanted the chars to look like "real people", but in the real world there are pretty people with good haircuts so... 

I mean, would you rather play a game with normal-to-good-looking people or with chars designed specifically to disgust u? Why even use placeholder models of attractive people in the first place then? 

Sigh, I guess we'll never know. I only hope Bio devs learned from this mistake and next ME game has proper looking women and men in it instead of chars designed to suit their personal interests or indictments on "beauty".

AND BEFORE U ANSWER REMEMBER WHAT I SAID: In the real world there ARE ALSO PRETTY PPL TOO, so being "real" does NOT equal being UGLY!!!!!

Wait wait.. where is this from? Seems familiar..

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I don't consider any of the characters you mention as they finally appeared in the game to be ugly, period.

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