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Steven's Question on Hair Customisation
Asgerr
Member, Alpha Two
Steven just recently posted this on twitter.
What do you guys think?
PS: them character models tho!!!!
Though I like having lots of options, I think hair color presets would be greatly beneficial to racial identity ingame.
What do you guys think?
PS: them character models tho!!!!
Though I like having lots of options, I think hair color presets would be greatly beneficial to racial identity ingame.
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Edit: I would also hope for dynamic eye colours too, so we can match hair colours and eye colours. We've been told the character creation will rival BDOs and in BDO you can match eye colour and hair colour.
I am all for full customization. And I could live with presets based on race.
LMAO, I really thought I had an opinion till I started typing...... Ignore me
They have confirmed that you can indeed hide your helmet (and possibly any piece of armor)
Letting players have the freedom to create unique characters, to a point, I feel would be best.
As to the question regarding customazation, full customization gets my vote - the more options, the better.
I dont wanna run into clown characters. Breaks immersion and feels cheap. Example provided
The lore argument makes little sense to me. There have always been people willing to go against their own culture and adopt styles form other cultures. Even ancient cultures were not always so traditional that some people would not adopt styles from other cultures. If people see someone else with a style they like, they copy it. Any fantasy setting ignoring that part of human nature is just silly to me.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
That is my fear with full customization as well.
Also, seeing as we have 2 different sub-races for each race, it could be interesting to limit hair colours for each.
For instance we know that one group of humans is mostly desert dwellers. Them having mostly dark hair colours would fit the race's lore and flavor text, and help in differentiating them from the other sect of humans who perhaps might fall under lighter hair colors etc.
I however can see how such a thing could be limiting.
Edit: I think it's important to remember you can and will continuously customize your character, but your starting point, where you come from, your background, should be a bit more grounded and give weight to your racial heritage. I think aesthetics are a part of the decision making of what race you choose to play. If I can make my elf look like an orc, that level of freedom will render certain choices meaningless. Since there are racial quest lines I assume AoC wants you to feel the weight of the race you belong to, your initial appearance (with freedom to deviate from it in the future) sounds like a nice compromise.
Things like the optional language in chat which serves no purpose other than RP also help with that sense of identity.
Some of us like to customise our characters without making goofy faces and clown faces. I feel we shouldn't block the enjoyment of the masses over a limited few.
I think it makes sense to tell us what the natural hair colors and features are, so players can build on that to explain why their character looks like it bathes with poisonous toads once a day to keep up the sickly yellow tint to their skin. This is purely from an rp stand point, and I am basically asking for both the natural hair/skin tones and the unnatural ones. As for taking from other cultures maybe they could add some sort of reputation system that unlocks those once you help that race out enough? Or just allow it, whatever they want to do but I do agree that it should be possible.
For the coloring question, I like having a wide range of colors for both a base and highlight. But it's no big deal if it's a few presets to make things easier to develop.
And it will be expected in 5 years. It's common for kids and parents to dye their hair blue, pink, green, etc.
That being said. I don't think ALL colors should be available.
The devs should select a pallet of colors and make those available for every race.
Yeah, that is pretty bad... I guess y'all have never been to Seattle.
Jokes aside, I understand the fear. The main area where I think character creation can go too far is proportions. If you have ever played ARK or Atlas you know what I mean. Players will create abominations with insane proportions for the laughs and the reduced hitbox. This is something I don't want to see.
Assuming that players can only create characters with normal proportions. It is always possible for people to mix plants and minerals to make dyes and body paints. This is what I want to see.
Anything a human could reasonably have modified about themselves in the ancient world should be up for grabs. While that technically would include the joke of a character you posted above. I would rather play in a world where some can take customization too far. Than in a world where I can't take character customization far enough.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
As a fan of the 90's music scene from Seattle, it's still on my bucked list to go visit it some day.
I remember reading about AION, and how since the hitboxes actually matched the character's proportions, that you would see players that would come up only to your ankle, as it gave them a tremendous advantage in PvP and PvE
Hopefully those level of customization can't exploit something similar in Ashes
If you want a solid colored head of hair, dye all layers the same color, if you don't... mix it up.
Just no bright, bright colors... I hate games where someone's hair looks like it connected to a car battery to light it up.
Always some weirdos hanging around the original Starbucks... Still a fun city.
I don't remember that in Aion, but it was a plague in ark. Also the reason why the elin/popori were so popular in TERA... that and also... weiros
Once we know more about hitboxs, I will be very vocal on the subject.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
It never was not weird seeing an Elin Lancer trying to block a BAM.
Players can then "drag" the mouse pointer to any point in the color wheel and stop wherever they like. All that time, seeing the hair color change in the character generation window.
After an initial hair color is determined, players could then go to the next steps for hair highlights, additional layers, hair dyes, and other customized options.
In addition to the hide helmet setting, I'd like a "don helmet" setting.
So basically, in non combat situations you would have your helmet / hat in a bag or attached to your armor. When you enter combat, then you would then don your helmet or hat. That way it would be more natural to how people actually use helmets, and the great hairstyles would be prominent. If walking around town, you're not going to be wearing your helmet. You only wear your helmet when you fight right?
I also like the idea of racial hairstyles and colors.
In the initial character creation screen, I would prefer only the hair and skin hues that are natural to that race, which will differ by race.
However, once in game play, a player could discover how to make a red, green, purple, etc. dye from plants, perhaps as a byproduct of the cooking profession. You could dye your hair as an advertisement then sell your concoction at substantial profit to others. Mix various dyes to get startling shades!
Customizable hair color plz. I'd like to be this elf with shocking pink hair.
... Just kidding, I'd keep it green so I can blend in with the bushes and ambush that caravan.
Full customization on things like that; helps me to fit my jam theme 🍇
Root colour
Base colour
Highlight colour
please
edit: also because I know a few people who would be interested, the option to go ombre! with a slider that lets you control the blending region.