Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
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.
[Feedback Request] Hairstyles in Character Creator
Hello glorious community,
As we go through your feedback on the Alpha Two Character Creator that was seen during the March 2022 Development Update livestream, we’ve noticed many players discussing the desire for different types of hair and hairstyles to be available in the main Character Creator feedback thread.
Getting hair right for different types of characters is something that matters to us, and we want you to let us know in this thread what hair features you’d like to have in the Character Creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1q7Djv-Lw&t=2243s"]https://youtube.com/watch?v=J_1q7Djv-Lw&t=2243s
REMINDER: The goal of our Character Creator isn’t to just help you customize your character. You’ll also be able to customize NPCs, like those you hire that exist on your Freehold.
To help guide this conversation, here are a few thought starters:
Please don’t feel limited by the thought starters above. Feel free to share anything you’d like about hair customization in our Character Creator.
We’ll be compiling a report for the design team on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, so please try to get your feedback into this thread by then!
Everyone here at Intrepid Studios looks forward to reading all the feedback you have to share regarding hair customization options in the Character Creator!
As we go through your feedback on the Alpha Two Character Creator that was seen during the March 2022 Development Update livestream, we’ve noticed many players discussing the desire for different types of hair and hairstyles to be available in the main Character Creator feedback thread.
Getting hair right for different types of characters is something that matters to us, and we want you to let us know in this thread what hair features you’d like to have in the Character Creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1q7Djv-Lw&t=2243s"]https://youtube.com/watch?v=J_1q7Djv-Lw&t=2243sREMINDER: The goal of our Character Creator isn’t to just help you customize your character. You’ll also be able to customize NPCs, like those you hire that exist on your Freehold.
To help guide this conversation, here are a few thought starters:
- What areas of hair customization are important to you?
- What do you feel is missing from the hairstyles we’ve shared so far?
- Which types of hairstyles do other games do well, and what makes hair in those games good?
Please don’t feel limited by the thought starters above. Feel free to share anything you’d like about hair customization in our Character Creator.
We’ll be compiling a report for the design team on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, so please try to get your feedback into this thread by then!
Everyone here at Intrepid Studios looks forward to reading all the feedback you have to share regarding hair customization options in the Character Creator!
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So if we could have smth like a "5 o'clock shadow at the base of the beard (on the cheeks) going into a bushier beard with ending in some stylistic form at the end" - that would be amazing. And if we can control each stage of that setup - it'd be pure perfection imo.
I dunno if that's doable code-wise, but I'd love that.
I'd love to see dreads for beards. I've got wire cuffs around my beard dreads.
Egyptian and Polynesian hairstyles would also be nice.
Elizabethan hairstyles could be fascinating.
Choices to have/remove fringes would be cool.
A good range of updos, short, medium and long hairstyles~
I liked the colour palette in the current character creator~ looks natural - great base colours ^^ ~ would appreciate some crazy colours for those that like to dye ^^
If a style has a hair accessory it would also be great to have options for what accessory to have. Sometimes I love a style but don't like the accessories .-.
In the case of char creator I think that variety is super important, no matter how good costumization scales can be.
Also please offer these long hairstyles for every race - some games will ruin a race by offering terrible hairstyles, or a limited selection. Let people make a character they're happy with - don't force too many restrictions simply because a race is supposed to have a particular look.
Edit: Also something I mentioned in the other thread - I'd really love an in game barbershop. I change my hairstyle and color in game a lot so I'd love if I didn't have to pay frequent real life money for that!
Hair accessories is also important, there should be a differens variety of accessories with different aesthetics and some that is racial. Hair accessories should also be easily changed after the character is made.
Personally I like Vikings (the series) inspired hairstyles for both male and female. With a tweak it could fit for all races.
And don't forget about the beards. There should be a lot of variations of beards to choose from, short, medium, long, super long a la Miraculix, groomed, wild like a crow nest, braided, dreaded, and lots different kinds of accesories to chose from.
Since there were regions on the body that could be adjusted, have regions on the head and face where you can color and lengthen/shorten the hair separately from other regions
Also super intricate hairstyles with lots of braids/ twists/etc. interwoven through the hair. Would also be nice if there are like charms/metal/jewels we can add into the hairstyles and change the color of!
Also of course a wide range of Afro-textured hairstyles. Twists, braids, afro puffs, cool braided updos and styles, etc.! There are so many missed opportunities for beautiful black hairstyles in fantasy games!
Also, please don't limit haircolors to 'natural-only' ones. If people want to be a Kaelar/Vaelune with bright turquoise or bubble-gum pink hair, for example, let them.
Most games seem to think that long hair on a male toon needs to be perfectly straight. Some games have featured the length, but not in inherent waves and curls.
Beyond this, my only other request/suggestion would be Nairobi's hair, from the Matrix. TMO had it, of course, but I've rarely seen it in games, since.
Haha! You've just described my nightmare, in detail - but yours truly would have to agree that a couple of varieties of comb-overs should be offered.
I think I will just join the wagon of making sure the beards/moustaches suit the face/skin, and the blend and textures chosen will definitely help with this.
I also saw that the highlights in the last dev stream spilled onto the eyebrows. I am not sure if this was intended but some control over how the highlights affects other hair-sections of the face would be great.
My hair is like that when it's long. Never seen it in a game. Sadness.
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I think it would be too much to ask but it would be amazing that in the CC the hair/beard editing could be manipulated as if it were a barber shop, that way I think it would be more accurate, more dynamic and fun.
I imagine a barber of the chosen race cutting (editing) the hair/beard.
I hope that humans', dwarves' and Empyrean elves' hair color options will include only natural hair colors (not like bright pink, blue, green etc.) and let the more magical or beast looking races (Py'Rai, Ren'Kai, Vek and maybe Tulnar) have an option to use a little bit unnatural hair colors.
I have some beard and hairstyle ideas for these following races.
Dünir: An option to have very long and thick beards that could reach to belly.
Py'Rai: An option to have hairstyles that can be dressed with ornaments that are made of flowers, leaves, conifer cones, mosses, lichens, mushrooms, animal bones/skulls, feathers, butterfly wings etc.
Empyrean: In this situation where Empyrean elves' modeln isn't yet revealed I suggest that their racial feature is their hair. They would only have long or medium lenght hairstyles and when wearing armors their hair could be visible in someway.
I found this image of a Wood Nymph. Not sure whether I'd call the effect a Mage Effect, a Summoner Effect or a Cleric Effect.
I would say Mage Effect but that could work as Cleric Effect too.
https://allthingshair.com/en-us/hairstyles-haircuts/vintage-hairstyles/medieval-hairstyles/
https://hairbydiane.com/08/40/medieval-hairstyles-men/
Some Viking hairstyles:
https://menshairstylestoday.com/viking-hairstyles/