Left hand or right hand?

Anikir

What do you think of having the option in character creation to be able to choose the dominant hand? It always seemed like a very interesting possibility to me, but I had never seen it. Merely on a visual level.

Saedu

I think the risk for this may be all the extra work needed to duplicate/reverse animations. That time could be spent on other features/content.

I'm not sure how much work this would take though and I don't know how important this would be for the left handed population (perhaps it is a sensitive topic given how many things in life generally cater to right handed). Personally as a right handed person I probably wouldn't care if my character was right or left handed.

George_Black

Maybe in 2035. Now it seems like waste of effort

Vhaeyne

Unless the animations are easily inverted. It is not something I want to hear that the DEVs are wasting resources on, but if it could be achieved quickly I would not mind seeing it.

Personally, I think anyone who is left handed needs to be tied to a wooden spike and burned alive. I guess that is not a big deal because they will just respawn anyways and still be a left handed abomination...

szelesbt

Would be nice, but really not necessary. Yes sometimes i get a little bit annoyed but nothing special. If i dual wield my favorite weapon goes to the left. Interestingly i only ever cared about this in mmorpg, playing the witcher i didn't even think about it.

Dygz

I wish all game devs would start working on designing these kinds of inclusive options - the sooner the better.
I had to wait 15 years to be able to create a character who looked like me in WoW.

daveywavey

If they can add stuff like a "boobie slider", then they can add a left/right-handed option.

Vhaeyne

Dygz wrote: »

I wish all game devs would start working on designing these kinds of inclusive options - the sooner the better.
I had to wait 15 years to be able to create a character who looked like me in WoW.

Same. It is not an unreasonable ask to reskin the textures at least 10 times and make a human skin tone selection where everyone can get a "close enough" version of their skin color on a race with human flesh tones. It is just laziness to not do this. I can understand if the race only has green or blue skin tones, but once a race has any human flesh tones in my mind it should have all of the human skin tones.

Ferni

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Unless the animations are easily inverted. It is not something I want to hear that the DEVs are wasting resources on, but if it could be achieved quickly I would not mind seeing it.

Personally, I think anyone who is left handed needs to be tied to a wooden spike and burned alive. I guess that is not a big deal because they will just respawn anyways and still be a left handed abomination...

As a left handed person I feel personally attacked, all the people know you have to bury us alive to try to kill us. Just kidding.

I agree with that (not with the wooden burning spike part). It would be good to see left handed animations but if that is hard to make for the devs I would prefer them to focus on more important stuff and maybe add this feature in the future. If they just have to mirror/invert the animations it would be good to see a left hand option in the game.