Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

hah!  that's passion!!

anyways, I just watched more of that vid.

it looks like he didn't use a custom Ryder. On the menu, he selected the option with Sarah Ryder in it instead of create your own character. Then the game loads up, and that "different" Sara Ryder model is there.

so, the question is.......where did that come from? And older version of default Sara? How did that get in his game but not in others?
 
When he was in the CC earlier in the vid, that default Sara looked more like the current default Sara.

it doesn't make much sense......lol.

Yeah, I've thought about that too. The normal default Sara is in the video too, yet it looks like he just uses the quick start function to start the game when he ends up with this attractive one. The whole thing is baffling. It definitely deserves an explanation from the devs.



No, it's way too convincing for that. It's a face with full expressions and animations throughout the whole prologue section of the game.

yeah.  it needs to be explained.  I'm now curious if other early players got that too.

The vid is in French, so maybe it's an international thing?  Players in certain regions might have gotten access to an older or different build somehow?

regardless, it does need an explanation.  And if that Ryder was indeed made from an existing preset, I want to know which one and I want sliders damnit!!  lol

edit:  and I translated the Youtube comments into English.  In the translated English, people were asking him how he got that Sara head.  And he said it's CUSTOM!!  He just cut the creation part out as he did it earlier??

that seems suspicious, cuz that custom face does not look like any of the current presets.

and the comments are kind of hard to follow due to the imperfect translated English.

definitely weird.

If it is a custom build that we are able to do with the current CC, then maybe there is some hope for it (at least for what I would like to play). But I cannot see which preset option it would be.  He must be a master at making something good outta poop!  LOL!!! 

AArrgg..I wish he would have let us see daddy Ryder...then we would know which preset he used!

EDITED - but looking at the comparison in the above post (thanks xMissWoox!), I agree that it is suspicious.  Look at the skin tones.  They look the same.  And from what I experienced i the trial, there was not a single skin tone as light as the default Sara.  They looked greyer or pinker, but never as pale.  But it could be lighting? 

The moles will help us figure it out!!!  Anyone got the preset pics handy??

I still think it's the same as this face from the Multiplayer:
i.imgur.com/WbrSbCZ.png

The eyebrows are the same, and the skin tone/texture appears to be as well.

So I'm still betting that it was a separate preset that they decided to remove from the SP game and add to the MP game in the last minute for...reasons.

Edit: and you definitely can't make it in the current CC by playing around with sliders. None of the presets have that skin texture or eyebrows.

There are moles on preset 1 atleast, i made a Sara on that preset today. Maybe its that one tweaked. If it is custom it will get uploaded to archives by someone and we can download it.

Ok so... after trying to make a character twice and staying up waaaaay too late last night... I've come to the conclusion that, while creating a character is one of my absolute favorite things to do, bioware needs to stop. Just stop. They are quite bad at character creation. You've had 3 mass effects and 3 dragon ages to come up with a decent CC and you still give weird helmet looking hairstyles and "presets" that are very difficult to make into something decent unless you're a sculpting god. Please, just pay Bethesda for their FO4 CC and use it, straight up copy it. 

I actually came up with something I liked, sorta, but then... Bioware's CC genius struck again and the character looked nothing like what I had in the CC in the actual game.

And let's not get me started on the fact that by using these presets, I couldn't use the facial shape I wanted with the skin tone I wanted so I was forced to just default to default sara.

OH and once again... cutscene not skippable on top of not being able to customize your character's face in game.

At this point, just go the way of CDPR and pick a character and have no customization. Le sigh.

Haha, yup, time for more detective work. Any French speakers lurking in this thread?

Only Sara and SP Preset 9 have moles on that place on the right cheek.

Well he does press quick start default Sara or whatever that option is. Damn how did he get it to work. There are questions about it in the comments, and they did answer, but the google translate is horribad!

I get that Sara doesn't look good (or even better, she has worse animations then customs ones), but she doesn't look like that in the final game. And in any case, animations going wrong aren't a good way to compare how close she looks to her model. Using the final game's face as the custom on the right, where the animations work mostly fine, is a better way to compare them.