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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Character Models
Andi
Member, Alpha Two
This is supposedly a female.
Where are her hips?
Where are her hips?
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The proportions and aesthetics from lineage 2 look 1000x better and that game is over 20 years old at this point.
The character creator won't even let you make a remotely attractive character.
If by some miracle you pull something likable off in the character creator. It doesn't look the same once you get in the game world. I have tested it with nearly every gfx setting. Shit is getting changed.
Yes, yes, this is all alpha 2 place holder...
Also yes, Intrepid needs to know that what is currently in place is actually amongst the absolute worst player character visuals in the industry.
Ashes should not be the worst in the industry at anything with the amount of passion in the project.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
The above btw is my Bard, and now she also has a belt, so it looks even worse!
I seriously hope they'll work on this. Faces, bodies (the chest slider resizes your ribcage, LOL) and animations all are in dire need of work.
Thankfully, art and server tech are most likely different teams, so there's hope.
Remember when games were good...
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
I don't want to jump into that conspiracy theory as tempting as it is.
I will say that the direction Baldur's Gate 3 choose in the current western games market can not be praised enough.
I would like for Ashes to be in a position where it visually can not be praised enough.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Is this what it looks like when hips lie? I need Shakira to clarify.
or sincerely hope so
I'm not sure they'll touch the models again. They might bring back the old char creator and make sure all the bugs are fixed (like your ingame appearance being different from what you made in the creator), but the designs are probably what they are.
It's still very early Alpha. They're just placeholder. Everything will be fine, just give it time. Go and have another watch of the Character Creator livestream, and it'll show you what's in store.
I want to believe!
That's hideous. Ew
Heresy! This is Lineage 2!
This is one of the biggest issues with the art team imo, they are so progressive they completed the circle back to concealing gender expression completely. May as well give everyone bourkas with different shades of black for "uniqueness".
Edit: And another thing I want to rant about these artists. They get payed a fuck ton of money, they are one of the main reasons games like this cost so much. Yet we cant even get things that we want in the game without begging. For the love of god dont ignore the vast majority of players that just want cool and attractive looking character models/armor sets.
But lets be real, they did not make veks easy on the eyes. In any regard.
The faces are just better. The games from like 2002.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Also who bloody cares.. I don't play mmos to look at 3d models of boobs and ass.. The character models look fine for the game as is..
I "bloody" care. I know I am not the only one.
It's not about looking at "boobs and ass". I could have used any race/gender from L2 and the point would have been the same.
The faces of verra right now might as well be the faces of Walmart.
They don't look fine as is. They look like they need a solid meal and rehab.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Because Ashes will probably run serious Danger then to become a kinda Barby-Dollshow in which 500 Topmodels fight 500 Topmodels in a City Siege. (lol)
Kidding. But i hope you know what i mean.
I think at some Point -> "hopefully" -> we will see the awesome Character Creation Options come to Life which are kinda promised from the Character Editor Footage. I think regarding more "curvy" Appearances and so on -> this will probably be enhanced visially by civil Clothes or so.
Armors are not supposed to make a Person look sexy. They are supposed to provide protection.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
✓ Guild is " Balderag's Garde " for now. (German)
fantasy worlds tend to have this thing called magical armor that can take on many forms and still protect you. we already know transmog will be in the game. Nothing is holding this back save weirdo conservative progressive artists.
hell yea
No, they really don't. Racial differences sure, because that's actually a significant change to the body types in some cases, but there's no reason to make drastic differences in armor between the male and female character models of the same race.