Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

I agree with you for the most part. But the simple fact is that, at least for female characters, caucasians seem to have gotten the sh*tty end of the stick this time around. I have still yet to see a single female caucasian character that I think is attractive (yes, I know it's subjective), and I've looked at a lot of attempts. This is basically what people have to use as a starting point if you want a pale-skinned character: 

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It's...not great, to say the least. Especially since the sliders are so limiting. They could have given us this instead, from the MP:

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But they didn't for some bizarre reason. All of the good looking characters I've seen made with this CC have been of other ethnicities. So yes, I can understand the frustration people are having when it comes to creating good looking caucasian females, and I feel the same way.

Watch how people who claimed racial representation in video games don't matter since all races are equal start crawling out of the woodwork now that their options have been constrained. :heh:

Think I found my Ryder. Looks like the bottom preset can make a decent caucasian:

This is the first I've ever had to pretty much rant about a cc, wow this is bad I'm so damn upset. I was dead set on my ryders being poc but the hairstyles are not at all what I wanted. I figured Id use the buzz cut then because I pretty much expected that but they even fucked up the buzz cut, It looks like he's balding. How TF do you fuck up a buzz cut? It really makes no sense to me how the cc could be this bad It just feels like pure laziness. It seems like they didn't wanna spend time on a detailed cc so they just decided to give us some scanned faces that we could sorta tweak and call it a day and not to mention most of the male presents look old. How is ryder suppose to be 22 with wrinkles? the male presents look like their 32 some of them look 42. Oh and don't get me started on Alec. So Alec could be black, but he has silky straight hair WTF? Is that suppose to be a perm or something like I don't get it. I mean bethesda was infamous for having terrible cc but they made up for it. Even if the graphics weren't great, they gave us a really great cc in fo4.

And ppl saying it doesnt matter it's just cc, it does matter. If you don't care about cc or don't use it fine, but don't tell ppl that want to use it they shouldn't complain and accept this mediocrity. All we're asking for is basic fucking features and that's apparently too much to ask. I've definitely seen some good looking ryders but, to me most of them look the same. I can tell which presents were used just by looking at the eyebrows, so what's the point of uploading characters anyway. Bioware is known for normally having cc in their games that's like the first thing you can do. This game is a 2017 triple a game and the cc is worse than games that came out in 2012. Honestly, to me and I stress to me, this is one of the worst cc's I've ever had to use. Older cc's are excusable, but for a 2017 game this is terrible. I don't just play these games because of cc, but it's one of the most enjoyable parts for me. I don't even know what Im gonna do with my characters now. I'll definitely make acceptable ryders but they will:

a. most likey look like someone else's ryder
b. still won't look even close to what I wanted them to look like.

First big disspointment of this game so far.

I'm playing the trial with default Sara. It is almost impossible to create a good looking character. And the ones I've seen all look the same anyway. It's really sad. Can't even make a hot ginger lol.

Loving the game a lot, but the cc really is a downer.

Great, so I guess the answer is you were "just making baseless generalisations", then.

If you like.

It was really more of a prediction. Because this happens every time an issue of representation comes up. First its laughable. Then it's "We're all equal so you should be fine with no black/gay/women heroes!" Then when they do get included it suddenly is  an issue and symptomatic of politics which "don't belong" in games.

I apologize if you felt personally affronted though.

I hope that they somehow work in that you have all skin options for all presets and can choose eye size and select different brows in the patch. I don't get why they didn't put in the eye size when there is one for mouth and nose :DD:

The lighting in that scene doesn't help. She's not that much darker than Cora:



Having said that I agree that there should be lighter tones (even much lighter). Just found that I could make a decent looking Ryder that could pass as north european using preset 8 and tought I'd let people know.

Your post made me laugh a little lol but yeah the character creation is awful I had to quit the trial last night after about 2-3 hours of restarting and I still couldn't make a ryder I liked. Can I make a good looking ryder? Yes but they don't look like what I want. For the first time I may just have to go with the defaults.  

I made a caucasian that looks really cute and feminie (at least in my eyes)



The picture is a little blurry and she was in the middle of talking so her mouths in action haha :dumb:

what preset did you use?