Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

I spent a full three days in the male CC ha ha. The preset I started with for my male Inquisitor looked nothing like in that picture I posted. I thought the female CC was good too.
I just can't understand why they didn't go with the Inquisition CC. It's the same engine, and it would have saved them time, and all this scrutiny. I remember one of the devs said the Andromeda CC would be similar to Inquisition. Well, that was a lie, lol.

I remember a tweet, from Aaryn I think it was, saying that it will be similar to Inquisition, and that they weren't trying to reinvent the wheel. I'll have to go look for it.

Edit: Here you go:

I think I've finally decided to hold-off on buying this game. I'm a huge fan of the OT and have been trying to remain optimistic throughout the promotional campaign, but this barebones character creator is the last straw for me, personally. I'll wait until either modders fix it or BioWare does (not holding my breath for that last one, despite what they've been saying on Twitter).

There is just so much that's missing from this CC. I personally think that cycling through eye/nose/mouth presets is a pretty lazy system from a design point of view. I'd much rather see a CC like Inquisition's, where you can mold faces more freely. Or a system with extensive and detailed sliders — eye angle, eyelid opening/closing for squinty or wide eyes, brow angle, eyebrow arch, the ability to change the size/height/width of the nose bridge, nose tip and nostrils separately, separate sliders for the top and bottom lip, mouth corner height, jaw height, general sliders for facial structure, etc. So I really can't fathom how this character creator doesn't even have basic eye/nose/mouth presets to cycle through, at the very least. It's like they picked the worst of both worlds and combined them: the most barebones collection of sliders imaginable and not even basic eye/nose/mouth presets to make up for it. It's stunning and bewildering.

All this talk of "face scans" being the reason for the limitations is infuriating. If the result of using face scans is the complete neutering and butchering of CC options, then don't use face scans. Why make that sacrifice? It's no secret that the ability to customise characters in meaningful ways is a huge part of the appeal for BioWare fans. Why would they think it wise to completely hobble that ability just in order to use face scans, which no one asked for in the first place? Do they seriously not understand their fanbase at all? And the face scans don't even look very good by today's standards. This isn't some Naughty Dog-level of facial realism and fidelity that we're seeing here. I don't see any benefits, only downsides.

Additionally, the fact that skin colour is tied to individual presets is ridiculous. Why can't I choose female preset 8 and make her a pale caucasian? What is the benefit of that limitation to anyone? And on top of everything I mentioned above: no eyebrow shape options, no eyebrow colour options, no complexion/freckles options, etc. How could BioWare think this CC is at all acceptable for a AAA game in 2017? This has essentially killed any excitement I had for this game. I really hope some clever modders out there can perform some miracles.

No problem. Yeah, lies like that really don't help when most people already have so little confidence in them. And it didn't help that they waited until the final week to reveal the CC. If they would have revealed it much sooner, all this could have been avoided and the Day 1 patch could have included an improved CC. I'm curious to see if they'll actually add anything to it after all this criticism, but I remain skeptical.

I'm afraid you are right - there is not way to fix that lousy excuse for CC. And they look so surprised pointed to obvious as if they truly did not know that 3 shades of pink for hair and clown make up do not make your character unique! I lost counts already of BW lying with smiles about bugs they try to sell for features.

A game need a good director as much as movie does. The one who can see the whole picture, not one who understands only visuals, or only misic or something like that. Looks like it's director's crisis in the studio.

Look at my profile picture from this video 



It seems like its from Scott's default face with the same eyes, exact face texture and stubble, so its means that we can customise it. The tools are here, its just like they are hidden from us.

Look the faces of Gil and Suvi they are also made with the tool like every other humans characters in the nexus, the developpers just have to unlock theirs tools so we can our own character.

They really should have let us edit the original Sara/Scott. I understand there are certain animation limitations but they've had a long time to figure it out now. I feel like they don't really understand how important CC is to some of us?

Oh I didn't even notice this. Blegh. I dislike when skin tones are locked based on preset. Reminds me a bit of Division's CC. I don't think the facial scans and Alec matching our looks is worth the tradeoff of extra limitation.

Its the same lips textures and face, its seems like they just made the nose and the mouth bigger. He is not a playable character just a NPC.

CC is so bad that I'm not paying attention to hairstyles (which were my biggest concern before).

It really seems so. I'm baffled why they always seem so surprised when people complain about pretty obvious stuff like CC being very limited. Maybe they are so close the game that they have lost ability to judge it objectively?