Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

I don't really know why this is so important to me... But since i love ccs and i love custom characters maybe that's it.

1. A lot of people are saying that they can easily tell which head is being used. And sure. That's true. But there is still a lot of differences between the preset heads. So a face 1 might look like a face one but a face 1 and a face 7 would look very different.

2. It is now clear to me that reason for the face scans was to diversify the cc. Bioware has been criticized for not having a cc which has been kind to people of different ethnicities. And yet the cc clearly now has a wide selection on such things. Whereas i have seen at least two oriental Ryders so far (none in the ot) and one black Ryder (one in the ot, and the Ryder in question wasn't very effective) And this is why the sliders for some of the skin tones is more locked then in others and why it was vital that these choices were reflected by Alec.

3. In a post witcher 3 world it's probably lucky we got a cc at all.

Well the game crashed CC is awful.. but I managed to make my Ana have some semblance to who I wanted her to look like. There's no getting around the fact it will be extremely obvious which preset you picked though. Might mess around with some other presets.

Pictures in spoiler.

I have a feeling that, that hair option is gonna to be use quite a lot across FemRyder all over.

She looks pretty. Is there dedicated button to take screenshots or do we need other program like fraps etc?

Yep I'm probably using that one. That or the messy one. xD

Definitely going vibrant with my Ryder, who I think I'm going to call Rebekah. One of the non-natural hair colours - lilac is top running, but pink or blue are being considered; coloured contacts - once again purple is the top favourite, and definitely neon makeup and tattoos.

I always felt compelled to tone down Shepard, because she's military. But with a futuristic pathfinder, I don't have to go normie at all!

In this case especially it's a non-starter to bring up the Witcher franchise. The Witcher has never had a character creator, and has never been about making your own character to put into the story. Bioware has had one for the past 10+ years and has literally spent that entire time building itself around that idea. So much so i'd dare to say they are best known for 2 main features of their RPGs: romances and character customization.

And if anything I'd say the Witcher 3 proves character customization in RPGs is more important now then ever before, because for the very first time you could change Geralt's hair and beard styles. Before that players couldn't touch Geralt's appearance.

I wouldn't expect a Day 1 patch for additions to the CC.

Neither would I expect a patch showing up within the first month regarding it, unless they have the majority of individuals involved with character design and artists still on the team
(as it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that some studios hire for only the project duration and let team members go once the game is good to go), and have them hammering away at whatever it is they're adding at this very moment.

This really feels like the devs saw how many people didn't use their default Shepard...and decided to make the CC so bad people would

(I'm obviously not being serious)

Well, CC is...limited. I didn't play around with the options for BroRyder since by the time I got to him, I'd already spent an hour tweaking SisRyder and I was sick of staring at that stupid color wheel. Pictures and impressions in spoilers.

The CC is very limited: I planned to make a Ryder similar to my avatar, but scrapped that after a few seconds in the CC. As is it's just about finding something passable for me. I tried making a caucasian using one of the black presets, but the skintone doesn't get light enough, so its still a bit on the dark side:




Im thinking of starting an asian female Ryder, as I do like how that one preset can turn out.

I honestly don't get the reason behind that eyeshadow being in.