Modder at Nexusmods unlocked whiter/paler skin tones for CC presets

Have the devs ever revealed a tentative plan for when they'll try to wrap up beta testing and release the final game?    

/shrug  Fixing things months down the road is better than nothing I suppose.  Doesn't change the fact that they intentionally left these things out to begin with and really having those fixes in June or July doesn't do me much good in March/April when I am actually making characters and playing the game.  Its all a moot point now I suppose. :contempt:

I really want to blame him. Take a look at any video about Bioware and Manveer Heir in the same sentence. 

I think it's more of a corporate thing really. Ever since Disney used Frozen as LGBT propaganda they have incentivized all other timid businesses to start featuring minorities as a quota and EA has been an advocate too. Just look at Battlefield 1 or Battlefront 2's trailers or covers. PoC are the new "generic white straight male" protagonists in the market. Also, Manveer was a senior designer. It's way above his paygrade to decide what facial scans the outsourcing or animation team used. It didn't stop him from chiming in or forcing his agenda down people's throats inside the company though but I have a feeling he actually kept it professional whilist working.

Although it is a little conspicuous with the tweets he made thanking Aaryn Flynn and Yanick Roy for letting him talk publically about his stance on diversity. Besides, Flynn is a boyscout feminist.


His white people hate strike me more as a sort of provocateur thing even if he might mean it too, but you gotta be careful who you endorse when they froth at the mouth like that. I like diversity in what people say just as much as I like it in color of skin so I didn't actually mind that he talked about injustice for PoC or bitched about white people, it was more that like a 3rd wave feminist he's one of those pseudo-intellectuals who fixates solely on that one thing he wants to promote and then finds data that supports his agenda and spewing subjective nonsense like "XYZ is because of White Supremacy blabla". Just like Anita Sarkeesian who fed off of controversy like a shill and only ever highlighted narrow sections of cherrypicked video games to check a box in her "how games insult women" rulebook. She all did it for money. Manveer first and foremost makes games because he can and he's studied it (and he's not incompetent) but his reason for making games in the industry seems to have become a game for promoting PoC and once that is the norm he'll probably start shaming white people in his games too.

Poe's Law?

The only agenda that hurt MEA was 'let's make another cash cow ME game where we can milk a bunch of fans and set up for a new series of ME games.' Throwing $40 million at it didn't even help. It's like they don't even realize what made MET great which is great characters, a great starting story, generally good to great writing, and a very immersive universe. Sadly, they tried to copy ME1 hoping to recreate that greatness and it's very clear that they still don't know how to recapture it. What is ironic is that all the pieces are set - this story has even more potential I think than ME1 brought to the table. We have so many pieces about it that are a gold mine that if the writers just put their heart into it, MEA would have been stellar. DLC can I hope make up for some of it, but we still have the crew which at this point feels like a poor man's normandy crew. I just can't believe how they had so much going for them with the different elements of the story and came up with this. But part of it is the crew. I am really astounded by how little I care about any of them. Maybe it is because it is MEA1. I liked my crew in ME1 but I guess I didn't love them as much as in ME3. However, I didn't want Kaiden to die. I didn't want Wrex to die. I really wanted to save Kirrahe once I realized I could. I wanted to kill Ash which for me is probably on par with how I feel about Liam and to a lesser degree PB so they got that right it seems. I had favorites of the crew and of all of them the only one I could do without was Ash. The rest, I found either interesting, amusing, adorable or just outright likable in general. Here, I guess I would pick Vetra, Cora, Jaal and Drack as having the most potential with Drack and Jaal coming closest to it being fully realized.

Yeah that's kind of what I mean.  In a way it's not really right to compare it to ME1 as much as I do but even without that comparison, lackluster is lackluster. But there is potential they can mine and I really hope they do. As you say though, they didn't have this issue with DAI. There were a few companions I wasn't nuts about in DAI but they all had distinct and clear personalities. And most of them grew on me. The writing of them was far superior to these. 

I think Ellen Ryder is from Brazil, and she stays the same regardless of your Ryder. Its Alec who changes.

They are aware of it, as far as i know. Its been mentioned here, tweeted to them and there are several youtube videos where its shown. Hopefully its bad coding and it can be fixed.

Oh God don't remind me of the ME3 face import.

I don't think it's directly a texture problem, I suspect it could be due to two things.

The way the lighting works in the game. Or how they've linked together parents and siblings so they are similar - great idea in theory, probably a nightmare to accomplish, given that some of them don't work well - Head 9 if I recall.

I believe the import problem was that there were no face codes in ME1. ME2 characters worked. But ME1 characters were missing the information entirely. The only way to import ME1 characters before they fixed it was to generate the face code on PC manually. This also worked for console savefiles with a bit of work. I pulled it off.

The other far greater issue was related to how Bioware deleted certain CC options entirely (nose and mouth sliders, for example) because they didn't work with the new facial animations. Combined with different graphics, some people's Shepards looked nothing like they did before. I saw the most hideous results posted by REALLY upset people on the old BSN. My Shepard looked different too but I was lucky I liked the new look fine enough even though she no longer had purple eyes. Don't ask me how a COLOR had to be removed for their "great" new facial animations. The dead ME3 eyes were godawful in general. Fixed them in DAI, now they are back in MEA.

I really wish Bioware would hire competent people for CC and animations. This keeps getting worse rather than better. I don't understand what's going on over there.