Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

Seriously why is it so hard for BIoware to create good looking hairstyles!? They are definitely not an improvement over me3, the males especially.

I wonder if there's an option to customize your character without them affecting the appearances of the rest of the family. I would really prefer to keep Alex and Scott looking the way they are. Wishful thinking, probably.

I mean, if they had anything to say they don't have to make their statement on twitter just because that's where people are asking them about it. Even so, people make threads with multiple tweets if they have something longer to say all the time. Otherwise, they could easily come here by their own volition to address complaints if they wanted to. 

Welp, it's good to know that I can be EmoSnowflakeScott with poorly done eyeliner, shitty "artsy" neck tattoos, and blue hair. Because that's really what I wanted out of Mass Effect: Andromeda.

This game is looking more and more like something I might grab out of the bargain bin in November 2018.

^The opposite of this, if anything.  

Nonsense. No game would ever have customization options if things were so dire. The problems were minimal in DAI even with four different races to consider, and the options were infinitely better. Here, you have strictly human faces--no huge differences in neck and head size and proportions. It should be much, much easier to accommodate player choice, not harder. Same engine, after all.

A. is fine by me and good for you, I'm honestly glad for you, but B. doesn't cut it. Yes, you can change the coloring and some details. But the options which really make characters look different from one another are missing. I'm not comparing this to other developers' games, I'm comparing this supposed RPG to its peers, the closest of which is DAI, and to the MET. Both let me choose nose, eye, mouth, and eyebrow shapes independently. I expect that and maybe some more, certainly not less. There's nothing unreasonable about expecting some semblance of the status quo. 

If the patches at least allow feature choice beyond mere preset choice, I will be relatively satisfied.  But as is, I am not at all happy.

I like that the presets are decent-looking for the purpose of either being used by people who don't like to edit, or as a good base for customization. I like that the hairs are better than DAI. I like the color options I've seen so far. However, that is not enough to compensate for this huge step back. Not only no tip or bridge editing, no nose choice? And that's not the only feature that can't be changed except for size. It's not okay, period. For those of us who expected at least the status quo, it's a sharp blow directly to the enthusiasm.

I really dislike this character creator.

When I was in college one of my professors was also a HUGE Mass Effect fan.  This was around the time ME 3 came out.  Anyways I had spent 'hours' on my Fem Shep, agonizing over her every feature and trying to make sure she was right.  Especially since ME 3 messed up the import from ME 2...but anyways, showed her to him, and he said "looks pretty much like the default Shepard".  

Lesson?  The MET created the illusion of choice, actually this is really what most RPGs do in all of their mechanics but most Shepards I have seen, regardless of how much fiddling you can do to their noses, do pretty much look like the same creations too. 

I hear you! I'm seriously considering playing as a female again, despite my desire to play the opposite sex this time, because the options looked a lot better with the female selection.

See I feel like that was the same problem with the DAI creator. Alot of the time people's inquisitors looked very similar with different colouring. There may have been slight variations but the faces looked close enough to each other. This creator at least seems to have different presets so you can actually make a character that looks asian or looks black which I think was really needed.

I hope people don't take my posts as insulting the workers at Bioware either.

I respect them and find their willingness to communicate with fans great.


I AM disappointed in this though, from what I'm seeing.
I may or may not change my tune once the game releases next week.
I expected MORE and I feel like I had that right given what DA:I did...a 2014 game.
That said I have seen some cute Ryder creations, more options would be nice though to say the very LEAST.

Bravo! I'm sure when BW will see it they will make better games in the future, they might even give us the same customisation options like in The Witcher 3 
This is what I call support!