Your opinion of the Character creator.

Ah okay, yeah I agree.  Thought you meant custom hairs on the Nexus mod site.    Temporary brain fart, I'm all caught up now.

Obviously if they improve that's cool but it's just fine the way it is.

Where do I start, the cc is definitely one of the worst cc's I've ever had to use. It feels like they made the cc so bad that you would want to play the defaults and this is the first time I actually considered it. The thing that annoys me the most about this cc business, is that they did the same thing with the trilogy in terms of the default. Default male shepard had good hd face textures and overall looked more realistic and was based off of a model. Custom presents looked more cartoony (even the female default compared to the male default) and the male complextions were all bad. Even the smoothest complextion still had dark circles, hyperpigmentation, lines etc and most of the noses and eyes looked really weird too. I did end up with a great looking shepard but again they always do this especially with the male presents.

I thought it would be different this time but nope, It's the same situation in andromeda but even worse. All the male presents have some sort of wrinkles, crows feet or dark circles or all 3 which doesn't make sense because ryder is suppose to be 22. Of couse not all 22 year olds have perfect skin but im 22 and people around my age don't typically show signs of aging yet. Not only that but alot of them also have weak jawlines, double chins, and turkey necks at least the female presents overall have better complextions. It's just really stupid and feels biased af because again, the male default looks the youngest, has the best complextion, has the lightest skintone, is based off of a model but yet all the custom presents look really average, old and some of them look straight up bad. I fail to believe they scanned faces of actual 22 year olds or ppl around that age. I don't mind unconventional, averge looking faces or unique facial features, but some variation would be nice. I also love a challenge, but I at least would like some better tools to work with.

For me cc is super important because im a completionist so I am easily gonna be spending most likely over 100+ hours doing missions, exploring, and having to look at my character in cutscenes since bioware games are full of them, so you can imagine how annoying it would be to have to stare at your character for that long and they dont look how you wanted. Despite that however, I did make a pretty good ryder but If only I could have made his skin smoother and his jawline sharper, I probably would have been totally satisfied but of course that's impossible atm. I primarily play on console although I do have a really good pc, I just prefer to play on a console and I don't really like using mods (the trilogy was the exception) but I think Im gonna have to when those mods start coming out because this cc is beyond terrible. and idk if a patch will be able to fix it.

I never played a single campaign as an unaltered Shepard. My first campaign in Andromeda is with a defeault Scott Ryder. Unfortunately, that says enough about what I think about the CC. It does need a lot of work.

It's a mess. It's worse than what trilogy had to offer.

They could have at least not scanned malformed mutants.

Let's protest for a better character creator in DLC or patch. They can do it judging from what we've seen and Bioware needs to it their fullest attention. We need to be able to customize Alec Ryder more to OUR liking. We need to be able to choose nose, eyes, better hair, divide hair and facial hair color, better tattoos like the alliance logo, etc.

As much as I would love that, I'm not going to hold my breath.  We'll see what they do, if the updates are great maybe I'll do another MEA run some day.  Honestly I'm not expecting much other than a few token updates. 

Just amazing how bad the CC is, might as well not even have had one and just gave us presets to select from.  Wouldn't have changed the fact all the faces look like they were ripped from TES:Oblivion and given hi-res textures, but at least they wouldn't have wasted development resources on it.

I think with a few tweaks it could be fine. The inclusion of all skin tones across all presets and maybe the adding of a few more at the pale end of the spectrum.

I like the face scans and think they give a much better starting point as far as being able to make realistic/alive looking characters. DAI was a very involved CC but in the end every single Quizzy I've seen looked like a doll and they rarely sat well next to the companions/advisers. With MEA there isn't that jarring difference between the characters who have been given unique extra work (companions) and the PC.

In almost all games I play with character creation, I use the default. The way I look at it is I am born, or my character is born, with the appearance I have. In MET I always used the default Shepard, male or female. So I can't even comment on how good/bad the MET creator was.

Now we come to MEA and the absolutely AWFUL UGLY default characters, I had NO choice, there was NO way I was going to look at those ugly faces all game long.

I found it to be an ok experience. They needed more hair choices, both head and face, and may be a larger range of skin color.

What really PO'edd me was you couldn't save the appearance locally once you were done. All you could do was export it. Then you had to go to the EA site, which was not easy to find, and set which characters you could 'import.' Who came up with that bright idea?????

Oh well it's not like I am going to play this game through more then twice anyway, unlike the many times I played MET.

I would like more customizing options, facial hair, tattoos, scars, stuff like that. I don't give two shits about making the perfect chin or eyelashes that are exactly 1.2365 mm long, waste of time and resources.

They can also clean up the faces a bit. Out of the two white faces for Male Ryder, one of them looks like they haven't cleaned their neck in years, nobody wants to play a character with neck acne.

Kudos for supplying an option for those of us who use the default character models.