Character Creator

Yeah, And although it's a pretty robust CC, the fact that all characters look kinda stumpy and dwarfish puts me off a little. "But...but Quinn, you can increase your character's height..." -  yes we can, Jackie. But people with the exact same height don't have the same proportions - things like leg length (lower body) and torso lenght/size (upper body), neck even, also come into play, and we just don't have those sliders in this CC. For a character creator that even offers a bulge slider, it seems like an oversight. Dragon's Dogma 2's CC's got those.

But I mean, last game we didn't have any body sliders whatsoever. Small victories, right?

The taller the character, the less stumpy (the height slider increases leg lenght). But that's the point, those things should be independent. If my character is ex: just as tall as Neve, still she could be leaner and long-limbed or have a longer torso with shorter legs, in comparison to Neve. It's just a different, sorta weird body model they're going with since MEA.

Another feature that's missing is a cm/meters or feet value on the height slider, true to in-game height. Say, you don't want your character to be taller than Lucanis. Or you want to be as tall as Taash - we have no idea what those percentages mean in-game, we sorta go in blind. I'm sure players will find out eventually, what percentages correspond/relate to companions and other people in-game, so it's less of a problem (but would have been nice to have such a feature).

Other than that, the CC looks phenomenal.

Just wanted to point out that there's always different things to explore than just ever more impossible hair. And I just get tired of either going full on hulkster, or non-overweight couch potato. There's a difference between having a less-than-huge frame and that:


I really do think the CC is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong. And again, the important stuff for the majority of players is apparently well covered and I'm content with that.

Secondly, as nitpicky as my critique is, I think that having a free flowing body slider like this is going to make for a HUGE improvement in terms of visual diversity for NPCs and therefore simply immersion for the entire game. BW notoriously recycled the same three outfits with the same three idle animations with the same three body types for decades now, and while it's probably the kinda thing you only notice once it actually changes, for a BW game this should make for a substantial difference.

Body customization was on my wishlist for so long and honestly I didn't expect it so I was super happy to get it. Now the degree of customization isn't quite as extensive as I imagined after some of the early articles but still solid. My only real wish would be body hair (maybe someday lol).

I think the nature of the body sculpting will also depend on what engine they go with. Right now, we still don't have confirmation on whether its in Frostbite or Unreal. Unreal probably makes it far easier to allow for variation in the body morphs. I wouldn't be surprised if BioWare had to import the body morphing features from Fifa to shorten development time on this specific aspect. It would also explain the hair system. Mechanically, it makes sense, and its what your engine SHOULD be allowing for. The ease to which you can modify these aspects, that's a whole other question.

I love it. Now BW can be like, we came, we saw, we conquered, now EA honey, let us do what we do best with an engine that’s more responsive n’ stuff. I will miss this hair tech, though. Best I’ve ever seen…

So anytime people use "ugly" Rooks to prove that the CC is bad I want to show them this.

Haha.

No idea if anyone used to watch 'Video Games Awesome' (channel name FarFromSubtle) but they created the best ugly Bioware Characters, playthroughs were fun too!

It started with 'Space Duck' (femshep) in the Mass Effect trilogy, and when DAI was on its way, they (well he with her watching) played through DAO and DA2 before DAI's release. For Origins there was Chinderella (2 handed warrior dwarf noble), Egg Hawke (mage) in DA2, and Lucifeather (Qunari Mage) in Inquisition.

Feast your eyes on 'em! 

NOUN! VERB! WOKE!