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Post by JewlieGhoulie on Feb 19, 2017 16:25:31 GMT
Hm... I'd like to make a fRyder that looks like Solar from Mamamoo or Jhene Aiko. If I did use a face model, definitely one of those two.
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Post by sereture on Feb 19, 2017 16:27:44 GMT
Unfortunately this close to launch when they are working on the weekends into the night hours, I don't see them taking off any holidays unless it was something major like Christmas. Lots of people in the USA don't work tomorrow and the banks and post service are closed, but I'm working. (I work in healthcare so working holidays is no biggie to me!) Crunch in game dev time usually means long hours, no vacation. Crunch is a sign of management doing a terrible job from what I'm aware. I don't know if Bioware has that problem. Obviously I wouldn't expect vacations near the end of the development cycle, but if people have ridiculous hours all the time near the end something did not go right with the management. They always seem to do crunch in the time before release. but it seems more of an "everyone on the team LOVES the game and wants to make it as perfect as possible" than a "OMG we are far behind schedule, everyone needs to do overtime!", from what I noticed in the time before DAI, and from their current tweets. Still, probably not a healthy way of doing things...
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Post by kissed by fire on Feb 19, 2017 16:31:21 GMT
For my face model... I dunno, was thinking about Olivia Wilde or Kathryn Winnick, only as a freckled redhead. I don't generally do face models, though? I kinda just try something pretty.
Honestly, both my Shep and my canon Inq were both premade codes/sliders I found online and tweaked. Likely, that is what will happen with my Sara after I've played through with my first clumsy attempt at a cute face.
I suck at making faces from scratch.
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Post by ames4u on Feb 19, 2017 16:33:12 GMT
I prefer to just wing it. Going through selections, fiddling with various controls and hairstyles until I hit upon an appearance of feature I like and continue working it. Although I already have something in mind, I am trying to avoid making my Shepard again. She wound up looking like she was from the east with her green eyes being the only exception.
I hope they have more varying hairstyles that aren't just variations of oh! I shaved ons side of my hair! Now for the other side! It'd be nice to have a plait as it would be closer to my ideal image of her that I posted way earlier in the thread.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 16:36:56 GMT
I reckon the game is going to go Gold soon, possibly the end of next week, beginning of the one after, like around the 28th, early beginnings of March? Any later would be cause for concern, at least the first grumblings of which will be felt on the forums. I expect they will be working Monday, despite the holiday. They have been working really, really hard, and my heart and appreciation goes out to them all for their unwavering hard work and enthusiasm plus the positive (for the most part, looking at you "Soon") engagement with fans has been wonderful. Hopefully the game is completed soon so they can relax for a bit, and just focus on the less strenuous promotion stuff
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 19, 2017 16:43:29 GMT
Okay since we had a big chat about it here, this update just in! oo GALAXY oo @galaxyshimmersPlease tell me that color customization for our armor is returning. Please tell me that. Please. lol Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon It is indeed. And now you can customize the colors on your casual outfits as well. #space #stylinandprofilin Well, at least one customization thing I wanted is actually happening.
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Post by JewlieGhoulie on Feb 19, 2017 16:45:23 GMT
Okay since we had a big chat about it here, this update just in! oo GALAXY oo @galaxyshimmersPlease tell me that color customization for our armor is returning. Please tell me that. Please. lol Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon It is indeed. And now you can customize the colors on your casual outfits as well. #space #stylinandprofilin Well, at least one customization thing I wanted is actually happening. I like that they added the customization for the casual outfits a lot actually. It's a very nice touch! What if one of my Ryder's look horrible in the white blue color scheme?! D; haha
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Post by Jaal Ama Darav (Kierro) on Feb 19, 2017 16:46:55 GMT
Crim I've yet to find a face model and I'm so picky when it comes to finding one because they have to be so specific but I will find one!! Now. Big question. Do you think we'll be able to see Jaal's bare hands without gloves cause I don't think we saw alien hands in the trilogy, except the asari. Drell's too: Could go either way with Angara. If they are more claw-like probably not, but if they are more human-like it's more likely. Elcor and Vorcha
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 19, 2017 16:46:56 GMT
Well, at least one customization thing I wanted is actually happening. I like that they added the customization for the casual outfits a lot actually. It's a very nice touch! What if one of my Ryder's look horrible in the white blue color scheme?! D; haha Yeah. Too bad all my Ryders are still going to look terrible though.
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Post by Phoenix2M on Feb 19, 2017 16:47:58 GMT
ohhh, and do you have any particular korean pop stars in mind? Yep. Hoping to be able to make Sungoh in 24k's U R SO CUTE video. But I would settle for Jaehyo from Block B or Baekho from NU'EST You certainly have good taste
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Post by ames4u on Feb 19, 2017 16:48:04 GMT
I'm confused about how that will work, though. They said the armor's colour would be based on the colour of the chest piece (iirc) and we know that we can equip helmets and stuff from different sets. So do we get to customize the chest? I wish we knew more ugh They might release a crafting/modding focused "gameplay series" (yes I'll put that in quotes every time I say it because they are barely gameplay videos and I am salty ) so maybe we'll get to see more of armor customization in that video Might have changed it. They keep changing things to please us. That was a huge problem with DAI's armour as parts of it would stay the same and completely ruin the aesthetic that people were aiming for. I know I lost my mind one too many times because of it.
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Post by JewlieGhoulie on Feb 19, 2017 16:48:16 GMT
I like that they added the customization for the casual outfits a lot actually. It's a very nice touch! What if one of my Ryder's look horrible in the white blue color scheme?! D; haha Yeah. Too bad all my Ryders are still going to look terrible though. Is there a reason for that? Are you bad with CC? Just curious!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 19, 2017 16:51:03 GMT
Yeah. Too bad all my Ryders are still going to look terrible though. Is there a reason for that? Are you bad with CC? Just curious! The body type. I am not a fan of how their bodies look, so even with the ability to customize the color scheme of the outfits that will still be a thing. It's like painting a car that doesn't have the body type you want a different color. The color may make it look a bit better, but it still is not the type you wanted.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 16:53:34 GMT
Yeah I am a bit disheartened that I can't change Scott's body type, as he seems really stocky from what we've seen, and without actually seeing what he looks like properly head to toe in game.
I am really interested to see what the other preset faces are like, for both twins, as they are also all facescanned on models as well.
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Post by zeowik on Feb 19, 2017 16:54:17 GMT
Crunch is a sign of management doing a terrible job from what I'm aware. I don't know if Bioware has that problem. Obviously I wouldn't expect vacations near the end of the development cycle, but if people have ridiculous hours all the time near the end something did not go right with the management. They always seem to do crunch in the time before release. but it seems more of an "everyone on the team LOVES the game and wants to make it as perfect as possible" than a "OMG we are far behind schedule, everyone needs to do overtime!", from what I noticed in the time before DAI, and from their current tweets. Still, probably not a healthy way of doing things... Yeah context is important that's true. I've seen both game developers and movie directors say things would never be finished if they could work on them forever because there is almost always something they want to improve. This game is coming out in 4 weeks and early acces/EA Access demo starts even earlier. If they don't release it on a weekly basis they shouldn't even bother because people will record better and longer vids themselves starting in 3 weeks I don't necessarily agree there. Fan videos will not have the insight into development that the actual creators have, similar to how commentary about a movie will not have the insight of a director's commentary track for a movie. That said I don't know if they want to release much Jaal information, especially if the reasons for his joining are spoilers.
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Post by JewlieGhoulie on Feb 19, 2017 16:55:31 GMT
Is there a reason for that? Are you bad with CC? Just curious! The body type. I am not a fan of how their bodies look, so even with the ability to customize the color scheme of the outfits that will still be a thing. It's like painting a car that doesn't have the body type you want a different color. The color may make it look a bit better, but it still is not the type you wanted. I understand.... honestly, I'd hope they added just a scale slider? Like probably not something very in depth where you change about every body feature but just something for perhaps muscular or weight? I'm not sure how hard it would be to make but I hoped
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Post by palinopsia on Feb 19, 2017 17:00:28 GMT
Yeah I am a bit disheartened that I can't change Scott's body type, as he seems really stocky from what we've seen, and without actually seeing what he looks like properly head to toe in game. I am really interested to see what the other preset faces are like, for both twins, as they are also all facescanned on models as well.Well there was that 4k tech demo from months ago. We kinda saw what he looks like head to toe in that video, although they've probably changed stuff about his design. Did they say that? If that's true then wow that's great
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Post by sereture on Feb 19, 2017 17:01:27 GMT
They always seem to do crunch in the time before release. but it seems more of an "everyone on the team LOVES the game and wants to make it as perfect as possible" than a "OMG we are far behind schedule, everyone needs to do overtime!", from what I noticed in the time before DAI, and from their current tweets. Still, probably not a healthy way of doing things... Yeah context is important that's true. I've seen both game developers and movie directors say things would never be finished if they could work on them forever because there is almost always something they want to improve. It's the curse of the creative mind, I'm afraid. There always is things that could be improved, so you just have to stop at some point, no matter how much it hurts. I know I'm like that with all my hobbies.
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Post by theratpack55 on Feb 19, 2017 17:04:27 GMT
I fear that I will fall into the trap of giving Sara my own idealized face, like I often do in games with a cc... Although, for the first time in my gaming experience I'm actually considering playing as the default Sara (possibly because I kind of do already look like her... if we can customize the default face I could probably turn her into my likeness with just a few nose, chin and eyebrow tweaks). For Scott, I will just make a face that appeals to me, I don't have the patience or a desire to recreate celebrities and such. But that will be for when I play as him, in my Sara playthrough I'll probably leave him as he is, I'm kind of fond of his default look. Heh, I remember back in my DA2 days, I played the game many times but somehow always picked one of the first few Hawke presets to customize, and then one day I made a different Hawke and suddenly... WTF?! Who are those strangers escaping with me from Lothering?! I don't know you people!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 19, 2017 17:04:30 GMT
The body type. I am not a fan of how their bodies look, so even with the ability to customize the color scheme of the outfits that will still be a thing. It's like painting a car that doesn't have the body type you want a different color. The color may make it look a bit better, but it still is not the type you wanted. I understand.... honestly, I'd hope they added just a scale slider? Like probably not something very in depth where you change about every body feature but just something for perhaps muscular or weight? I'm not sure how hard it would be to make but I hoped Yeah, I was hoping for the very least to have like three options: Lithe(what I wanted), Regular, and Muscular. Anything more than that would have been a bonus. I hope this doesn't mean all humans and Asari NPCs share the same body model. I know the major characters have their own like in DAI(why couldn't you make those as options) but the minor ones were all the same. I guess I can only hope for something like a plugsuit kind of armor to be in the game that gives that illusion, like the Cerberus Phantom armor we get in the Citadel DLC. However I hope those are customizable and not preset like the full armors in the Shepard Trilogy.
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Post by sereture on Feb 19, 2017 17:05:34 GMT
Is there a reason for that? Are you bad with CC? Just curious! The body type. I am not a fan of how their bodies look, so even with the ability to customize the color scheme of the outfits that will still be a thing. It's like painting a car that doesn't have the body type you want a different color. The color may make it look a bit better, but it still is not the type you wanted. I have been wondering Hanako, what is it about Bioware games that you like? Because I always see you commenting on how you dislike a feature, or how you are sure something will be bad. So, what makes you still want to play the game, despite all that? What does Bioware games give you that you can't find elsewhere?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 17:07:44 GMT
I also have a preference *cough*obsession*cough* for creating beautiful men, and I'm reeeally hoping we will get longer hair this time. I was so jealous of that bastard Kai Leng! This! How was that fair? He got that beautiful hair and I got THIS! I actually took that screenshot to demonstrate to old forum how pissed I was of some of the quality of work with ME3, and I was even more pissed when most people seem to think that's not a biggie. Hell yes it is a biggie if I buy a game and they can't bother even do the hair right, I mean, look how it is done, the buzzcut is showing from neck and sides because the hair model is too SMALL. Sorry, I'm passionate about this. Give my man a long hair so I don't have to see this, ever again. And long hair is hot. I have a fetish for long-haired men. Just sayin'.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 19, 2017 17:14:38 GMT
The body type. I am not a fan of how their bodies look, so even with the ability to customize the color scheme of the outfits that will still be a thing. It's like painting a car that doesn't have the body type you want a different color. The color may make it look a bit better, but it still is not the type you wanted. I have been wondering Hanako, what is it about Bioware games that you like? Because I always see you commenting on how you dislike a feature, or how you are sure something will be bad. So, what makes you still want to play the game, despite all that? What does Bioware games give you that you can't find elsewhere? Well, in the case of Mass Effect: Andromeda, lack of other options. I like roleplaying games but this is the only space one out right now, at least available to me. Their last game Dragon Age: Inquisition I absolutely loved and had a ton of things I liked, so the goodwill from that may be fueling this too even though it is obvious that MEA is pretty much the exact opposite to DAI more and more. I have no doubts that this will be a good game, I just have doubts it will be a good Bioware game.
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Post by sereture on Feb 19, 2017 17:17:50 GMT
I also have a preference *cough*obsession*cough* for creating beautiful men, and I'm reeeally hoping we will get longer hair this time. I was so jealous of that bastard Kai Leng! This! How was that fair? He got that beautiful hair and I got THIS! I actually took that screenshot to demonstrate to old forum how pissed I was of some of the quality of work with ME3, and I was even more pissed when most people seem to think that's not a biggie. Hell yes it is a biggie if I buy a game and they can't bother even do the hair right, I mean, look how it is done, the buzzcut is showing from neck and sides because the hair model is too SMALL. Sorry, I'm passionate about this. Give my man a long hair so I don't have to see this, ever again. And long hair is hot. I have a fetish for long-haired men. Just sayin'. That looks like the same hair I was using. Is there some kind of rule in the future that men can only have really short hair? Because it's not bloody realistic! I'm a goth, a metalhead and a roleplayer. 3/4 or more of my guy friends have really long hair! It was downright immersion-breaking to me, even if we were military, there was lots of civilians. Some of them should have hair below their ears! And yes, 97% of men looks better with long hair, to me.
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Post by theratpack55 on Feb 19, 2017 17:24:37 GMT
I'm personally not a fan of long hair on men unless they're the big buff Viking type. Then again, I do like the big buff Viking type, so maybe I'm a fan after all... Either way, I do hope we get more and better hair options cause DAI was just... sad. There was literally one hairstyle I found decent, so if I wanted my next PC to look different I had to give him a buzzcut. Please no more of that BW.
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