Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

Agreed. They should have just let us mess with Scott and Sara...Alec changing his face shape is not worth this awful limitation.

Yeah, especially if he ends up...

I think they did it because they made 10 different alec ryders, but i'm disappointed

Who the hell cares about Alec Ryder... 

They do, I know... I'm disappointed too...

And considering we ultimately end up as pathfinder, how many scenes will Alec actually be in? I'd be quite miffed if I missed out on the ability to craft a unique character to my own specifications (one I'm playing for 30+ hours) in order to better match a character I have minimal interaction with. That's a real misalignment of priorities.

I'm extremely disappointed and a little angry, since I was praying that by selecting 'custom' we could mix and match the nose/eye/eyebrow shapes. The ability to do that has been a feature in every Mass Effect game for literally 10 years now, what the hell makes the devs think it's a good idea to take that away now? They've basically cut the limbs off of the DAI CC and tried to pass it off as modern or new or 'robust'.

All this CC lets you do to facial features is change the size, depth, and positioning. That's it. So everyone who was planning for months on being able to make their Ryder look like themselves or an actor (as we've always been able to do to some capacity in past Bioware games, including the most recent DAI) now has no way of doing that. Which means all of those 149 replies to the Who Is Your Ryder's Face Model thread are null and void.

Honestly if we could do what we've always been able to in past CCs and change the shape of the facial features I'd be perfectly happy. As it is all of the other issues I have with the CC are glaring in the face of this:

The strange eye-shadow designs, unappealing and overcluttered tattoos, scars that either look like tattoos or week old injuries instead of proper scars that you can't even position on the face, lipstick that looks like plastic and forces you to lose the entire lip texture when at full opacity, the fact that turning up the 'lip shine' somehow instead turns up lipstick color intensity instead of shine, the male beard options looking like paint instead of hair.

And I honestly won't believe them saying they had to do that in order to fit both your twin and your father in the game, because they fit 4 entirely different races into the DAI CC just fine. They made your sibling and mother look like you in DA2 just fine. So it's the understatement of the century when I saw I'm eager to see what excuse Bioware has for this because I highly doubt this is something they can patch.

Most likely, I will want to keep the helmet on my custom FemRyder at all times. If that were possible, it would at least make for some fairly hilarious romance scenes.

Oh, I care about Alec Ryder, but I sure don't care about his FACE. Give me a real character creator and a default dad any day, over such a limited range of options. Some people don't look like they're related to their family members anyway. 

The worst part is, the eye and nose options on the different presets basically look the same anyway. Particularly the noses.

I wish they'd adapted the DAI CC, just, so much. This is a sad day.

I know it was resolved. But we do have to end up related to Alec, so it might have been harder to do that. I'll have fun with it next week and see what I can manage. I love a challenge!

now i gotta think over again on how i want my ryder to look
preset head 3 with a slight nose change
or preset 6 with a slight lip enlargement

ohhh the choices...