Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

All of this is true. You can change the size/position of some elements but not much.

So, I've been watching videos of players who have EA early access. The CC for Andromeda looks terrible. 

It is my understanding that if you do not want to play the default Ryder, you must choose between one of 9-ish preset heads. Once you choose a head, you cannot choose a different nose type, eyebrow type, or eye type.

Meaning, if your preset's nose has a bump on the bridge then that's what you get. You get a nose with a bump. You can change the width, height, and depth of the entire nose, but that's it. Right? And the same goes for the eyes, correct?

And if, say, your preset has bushy eyebrows - that's what you get. Bushy eyebrows. You can't switch them out for thinner brows, right?

And it is my understanding that you cannot bring up a menu of different preset noses, eyes, or brows and select from there, switching one type out for another. Right?

Anyway, this is a big disappointment if all of the above is true. I'm not purchasing ME:A day 1. I think I'll wait to get a used copy. I keep seeing a lot of complaints about bugs too. Ian Frazier's twitter is blowing up with tweets from him promising to "add things to the bug list" so that stuff can be "patched post-ship." That's terrible. Not his fault. But just terrible that EA is pushing them to release a broken game at full price. 

I really think a lot of people should put the brakes on and see what's what with reviews and whatnot before buying. Wait a few months so that all the patches are out and the game is fixed. EA will keep doing this stuff if people keep paying them. 

Exactly my problem as well. I want to make Asian guy so I have to choose between preset 1 and preset 4. Preset 1 has "lazy eye" and facial shape I don't care about that much, preset 4 has rough skin texture and bushy eyebrowns. There isn't lot of room to modify the faces.

In the DA:I character creator you could change the type of eyes, nose, ears, mouth, eye-brows, skin complexion, as well as change the color of the eye-brows. In the ME:A character creator you can do none of those things, also you can't lighten the skin tone beyond tan so its impossible to make a light skin character ( Irish, Nordic, etc.)

lotta people complaining they feel that they can't make conventionally pretty/handsome characters in the CC - and I feel you, that's lame, I wish that the CC let you. the crux and root of the issue though is that you can't do like, anything at all... in CC. I like my characters to veer away from conventionally attractive (just different strokes for different folks is all), and while I know a game CC will never be able to recreate exactly the image you have of your character in your head (or drew, whatever), my problem is that I can't create anything even remotely close to it. "it" specifically aside, I can't create anything properly personalized or that I can look at and think "that's mine". I was able to do so with my Inquisitor, without mods. the CC is super limited and just plain out lacking in basic features on a fundamental level. how is it that I can't even do something so basic and simple as give my character a distinctive long nose? the only thing I can create is one of Ryder's 10537 twins, and that blows.

the fact that I can't get SisRyder to look like this using the CC is a fucking OUTRAGE [banging pots and pans]

So you can't change feature shapes and once again it seems like black women won't be able to have black hairstyles since the hair is gender gated for some reason. I guess mixed characters are off the table unless you can change feature shapes and they just didn't show it. This is very disappointing