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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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An amazing like the one i showed would be amazing, this type of hairstyle presents an atmosphere of nobility, like something a duchess would use! this type of dignified hairstyles would be amazing with all the political stuff that would happen in game!
And here is some other hairstyles i would like to see in the game ^^
You see, I like 'aging' my hair over time when the beauty parlor is easily accessible. Sometimes I like having pixie cuts, and sometimes I like overgrowing them. Sometimes shorter dreads, sometimes longer bobs and pony tails at varying lengths and angles. The more styles we have that can look both long and short, curly and straight, the better. It's one of BDO's main limitations I think Ashes could blow out of the water with the tech they showed last time.
Over all there are some good long hair options in posts above me but I'd really like more than just a pixie cut or bob that looks good. side cuts, layered cuts, a bob that doesnt look like it was cut with a bucket, things like that. I'd love male and females to have access to all options as well. It's 2022. Some guys like long hair and some girls like short cuts. Heck can you give me a good skin mowhawk that can vary in short and long curly and straight?
Also I will once again express how greatly I want different color gradients to do natural highlights and multicolor dye jobs on all hair colors. Split dyes, layered tip dyes, highlights, fades and the like are all appreciated color gradient options.
Also I would really really love many different beard shape options as well, sliders for making it wider or thinner at different points like high on the cheek line, the jaw line, the chin line and then the bottom of the beard to make different shapes. All within reason of course.
Give them bounds perhaps so they fit within armour or spill out in specific gaps, you could possibly make them bend against armour too but that seems cpu intensive with so many players with different beard/hair lengths. Clipping in general isnt ideal.
Also scars in your eyebrows from being cut there, have a toggle to make it split the eyebrow hair or not.
Very keen to see the result, the first public iteration of the character creator is amazing!! We just want more options haha ^_^
Cheers!
We're extremely early on this so I understand the current lack of variety in hairstyles, but it's still a negative; so here are hairstyles I think would make a good addition against that.
0. Faded-Afro bun
1.Waves/360 waves(this would be difficult to create I think, but im sure you can do it)
2. A regular short fade
3.Viking breads
4.African/Box braids
5.Cornrows
6.Dreadlocks
7.Quiff
8. Pony tails
9.Mohawk
10.fringe
11. Afro shape up
12. Twist out
13. Afro-puffs
Also having the addition of hair accessories like "braid beads" would be really cool.
Formerly T-Elf
Formerly T-Elf
Too often you find MMO's with way too little.
Aside from choosing the style/length, if we're able to have a slider to adjust 'curliness', that would add a LOT of customization to preset styles.
Aside from styles and shapes though, I think it would be cool to have different ways for hair color to come through as well, such as a "half-and-half" sort of thing like the Chimeric Cats you see on the internet (something to look at for the Tulnar at least, I'm sure). I think a lot of people would like to place streaks of color in different places as well, whether those be natural or dyed colors. I'm curious if some races could have horizontal streaks, or lines, or bars, or what-have-you, kind of like "DEATH THE KID" from the Soul Eater anime. Humanoids generally do not come with natural striping unless they're a humanoid tiger (or that one long arm hair I found and then lost mysteriously...), so it would have to be a dyed option, which means it would be a cultural thing, and I know you want to keep the various races culturally distinct, this would be another way you could do that.... Theoretically at least.
(Oh and during the reveal of the female Py'rai there was a comment that made it sound like the Tulnar had to have horns, but I say "Tulnar do not equal Tieflings either" and would rather have neural spines like an iguana. Edit: Or maybe the Scutes or Spikes seen on other types of reptiles as well.) Just a thought that I really wanted to share.)
Also, hairstyles with bangs please lol.
By the way, something really important that I want to echo not just regarding hair, but EVERYTHING in the game, is the following:
Please, please, PLEASE, do not restrain any race and the sexes and/or genders of each one to be only one way. Like, don't restrain males to be strictly masculine, or women to be strictly feminine. I think part of having an amazing character creation tool is the uniqueness someone can create a character with. Ashes Of Creation will be a game with a lot of diversity, right?(I hope there are lots of it in different aspects of the game, not just in the character creation tool), well, don't forget real life people and obviously AOC's community are diverse too!, and this is coming from someone who creates only female and feminine characters in all games by the way, just so y'all know.
So, I really hope that you guys take this into account and great consideration, because someone might want to create a male character with some makeup on, very long hair and/or some feminine features, or create a female character with a harsh or "masculine" complexion, or just straight up create an androgynous character, any of those would be fu**ing cool too, to create a character that is not "usual" and at the own desires and image of each person, just like in real life. It's entirely up to ANYONE who wants to create a character like that. That's the purpose of an amazing character creation tool!
Now, again, I do hope that the character creator is not the only thing that is THAT diverse, but the whole game too in a lot of different aspects of it.
Much love xoxo
Also these would be amazing too:
My hope is the ability to see gradiant in the hair. Whether its dark roots with lighter ends, interesting ombres, or highlight/lowlights. I think these are little additions when done well can really help people feel ownership to their character along with a great selection of hairstyles. I would have to second a lot of people in the request for long hairstyles. I know they generally are hard to avoid clipping issues with but it's never fun being stuck in an mmo with just short to medium lengths with just one longstyle that everyone wears because they want that fantasy length. Also rich selection of textures. Kinky, curly, wavey, and straight and a variety of styles for each.
Having options for asymmetrical hairstyles I think is key, it would be cool to have asymmetrical beard options, but I have a feeling those would be more likely to look awkward in comparison. Long hair (L E N G T H Y) is what I've seen suggested and I agree. Ornate decorations would be cool, perhaps combined into sectional options. From what I've seen I am incredibly confident in the Character Creator, but I think it would be neat to have methods for creators to make their own styles and send them in ala the Steam Workshop, perhaps having occasional events to show off and promote the hairstyles, maybe votes for bringing them aboard the official creator, of course not so far as to overcomplicate things on Intrepid's end.
I was thinking about posting images of La'an and Ortegas from Strange New Worlds as examples - they have shorter hair but similar buzzed sides.
Are there multiple art styles going to be found throughout AoC? Such as a Toon world behind a painting, or a comic book artwork type area and other art styles that are dramatically different. The UI could match weirdly while our characters are in those zones..
Are there art styles that are dramatically different located throughout the game? How about possible items that effect the world's art style for only the wearer of the item?
Also I think it’s always nice to have new and different hair/beard styles that can be unlocked in game that aren’t available right off the bat in the creator. I would make these more extravagant or even comic styes because you don’t want to limit the creator at all. Thanks as always for listening to our feedback!
Option wise just tons of options would be really nice. From bantu knots, different kinds of breads and locs, and even like braids done up in really interesting fashions. That's really what I crave.
Though finally I think one thing that'd be cool would be if there was a way we could customize what kind of design might be shaved into an undercut or a fade. That'd be a really awesome thing to have so even if two players both have undercut hair options the design (if any) in the buzzed portion could be different.
Perhaps we could get a specific "scar" option that changes the texture to that of "skin" that could be patterned over undercuts to get the same effect without being limited by presets?
Edit: Just had a thought, such a 'scar' could also be used for facial hair and eyebrows for those cool parted brow styles and sculpted short beards.
And please keep hairstyles somewhat realistic, no real life looking fades with sharp edges like i saw someone posting above.
Start with some options for customizing the hairline:
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Then choose the base canvas of the hairstyle:
Buzz
Shaggy
Pulled back
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Finally, add pre-designed hair chunks (I called them tufts?). Would be cool if we could drag-drop these onto the heads too
Buns
Stray Hairs
Curtains
Please give us options to stretch/bend these pieces (as well as move/scale/rotate)
If you give each piece an anchor that must be attached to the scalp, we should be able to shape the rest of the piece to get what we want (ignoring hair extensions)
If we have a variety of these attachables then we'll be able to make things like:
(referenced from here)
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The buzz canvas could work really well with the game's scar system
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This might be an overwhelming system to break down, but I think you can divide most hairstyles into these partitions:
Top:
Side:
Sideburns:
Back:
It will probably get fiddly, so please give us options to tweak these too!
Finally I need to acknowledge that there are some amazing hairstyles that just won't fit into this system like these ones:
Heck yes. This looks good.