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vangald
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What level of detail is going to make you folks happy when it comes to your characters? I hope we have the ability to really tweak facial structure. I hate when everyone just uses the same standard face. I usually go in and try and make a face look unique and avoid the defaults like the plague. Even better if they allow how muscle and fat are distributed across the PC's body. That can give rise to all sorts of different shapes for characters.
What say you all?
What say you all?
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Well usually I'd agree with you about tweaking the facial structure of your character, however, I have noticed that in almost every MMO/RPG type game most people's heads are covered with a helmet or hood or something. I know its interesting to have a unique character but i believe that it is wasted unless you get to see what you've created every time.
A good way to implement this would be in the character level up screen, where there is a portrait of your character without any head items on. Also if people could click on other characters and see them without the helmet/cowl they are wearing through some sort of character bio screen, then it would make sense to have that level of customization.
So I guess what I'm trying to say in my usual long winded way is, yes and no. Yes if we can view these custom choices in our everyday game play. No if we can't.
Wow I hope that made sense LMAO
I don't expect anything of the sort in Neverwinter though.
CO and STO are F2P download either/both and play with the character creators.
Cryptic also made CoH/CoV and I can not see them do less for NeverWinter.
I'm sorry does this mean that the character creation is good or bad?
Played CoH back in the day and dabbled with CO but I could never get CO to run very well on my systems for whatever reason. Haven't tried STO yet. Was going to but now I am on mac and I need to get parallels first since I can't use bootcamp with my current version of windows and I have had problems with other virtualization software.
It is hard to remember what all one can customize, but if we are picking up and wearing helmets and chest plates etc. I would imagine that the customization options for the players body are going to be more limited so they are not making a ton of every piece of armor so they fit right. I could be wrong here.
CO didn't have equipment you could visually equip. It was more like power ups you could equip in your stats but not see on player. Or at least that is what I recall.
I dont care as long as my handle bar mustache shows!
I think this is both a fantastic idea and a horrible idea. Here's why!
Being able to individualize your character in a game with clothing and armour dyes where there will be thousands, and with only one server likely tens-of-thousands, is a great way to both feel special, and also make it easier for friends to pick you out of a crowd.
On the other hand, watching as people run past you wearing pink, orange, purple, aqua, or any other colour that doesn't fit the D&D armour theme (I'm using that loosely by the way), would greatly disappoint me.
In NWN you typically saw people using muted colours, and the pallet Bioware offered was great for this reason. So if that's how it were to happen, great. But in UO you could dye things too, and there were some really, umm, strange arrangements.
Why would some bright colors not fit a D&D game, especially Forgotten Realms? Where does the idea come from that dyes must be muted and subdued?
I think colors don't matter too much a rainbow of colors are quite reasonable when magic comes into play
As for gear customization, the toggling of showing things like cloaks, helms, gloves, boots and shoulders are very important to me also. The appearance of gear is also a big factor for me in MMORPGs, ever since the beginning with UO's Dye Tubs and Hair Dyes. I am also really liking WoW's transmogrification system - but hate the expensive nature of the transmog storage and how it has skewed the in game auction house prices on low-level gear that "looks cool." However, I have been perfectly pleased with LotRO's outfit tab system, indeed. I'd actually prefer this latter system for gear customization in Neverwinter.
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That's fair. Perhaps I should never have said muted or subdued. But for me, and I'm just speaking for myself here, I'll lose interest pretty fast if everyone is running about in hot pink garb from head to toe. Can't you see it? The Pink guild? Where all pink, all the time, is there motto? Yikes! I for one hope dyes are controlled to a fitting pallet.
Again, just my 2cents.
I agree too.
Also I don't think that people in D&D have enough skill points in science to use bright color dyes (as most dyes which are bright are man-made, otherwise they don't hold to the fabric). So I would think that colors should be dull (except for the exception of halo or shine).
I was talking about dyes applied to normal cotton clothes or leather armor.
Silk is different matter altogether. It shimmers because of refraction from fabric itself and not because of color. The colors done to it are ordinary but the cloth itself shimmers so the color, even when dull, appears bright.
Apart from that in old world setting, silk is delicate, not easy to wash and thus not ideal for adventuring. A few days of adventure would make silk dirty torn and dull.
Even if you were to color a cloth with bright dye in old days, it would wash off and become faded/dull very soon after exposure to sunlight or washing.
I think there is room for bright colors, but I too would find an all pink troupe quite jarring. If they had a dreamhouse and a mascot named Ken it would drive me to war with them. b:chuckle
That made me laugh! It's settled. We start kill the pink PvP guilds! Hehe, just kidding!
So began the order of the Turquoise' existence to kill the pink power ranger guild
And overtime, red(war lovers) can go at war with greens(ecology lovers) and over time we can have world's first Rainbow Wars!
lol, its a bad joke but couldn't resist typing it after reading this.
Same here: The United Killer Color Guards of Benetton
Options that need to be avaiable is to Turn off various equipment parts visually.
LOTRO does this and it is a good idea for other games to follow suit.
In LOTRO, Gloves, Boots, Helms, and Cloaks are all on toggles to turn on or off the visuals.
Also, in STO, you can right click your armor and disable its view, so I am hoping ( and betting ) that here in Neverwinter we'll have a similar set up.
I agree with the OP that we do need many face slider options, and body slider options, to create unique characters.
I believe we will see this, as in STO it is available.