@Dean Hall, you didn't touch much on character customization!

[extremenuggets 14]

I had completely forgotten about Rocket's stream today, I managed to catch it at about 8:27 A.M.(Central Time U.S) when Rocket had finished his presentation with upcoming features and modes for the admins to choose from, he asked if anyone had any questions, what I realized was that only one person out of the eight or nine people only one person asked about character customization. Rocket responded by saying that putting your own face on your character was a bit iffy, because of the inappropriate things that people would do, he said that he was thinking of beards and other things that you could do but he never confirmed anything about more in-depth character customization. I wanted some feedback on this or at least a word or two because it's been a very interesting subject to me since I got the game back on December 28th.

 

I wanted Rocket to shed some light on the subject of character customization, examples would be; hair color(Head), hair styles(Wavy, straight, pony tails for girls, short hair, etc), facial features, ear size, ear type, chin type, nose type, eye type, eye color, type of eye-brows, choosing the height of your character, the weight of your character. At the moment I'm feeling a sense of indifference in the game because I look at everyone's characters and they are not unique at all, the only thing that basically changes is your skin color and your face, bodies are pretty much the same, etc.. It's basically the same five people with the same characters running around nude in Elektro. 

 

If some developer or maybe Rocket himself could shed a little bit of faith into this subject that would be really great! :)

 

Thanks!@

Edited March 28, 2014 by extremenuggets

[Publik 404]

Who has a link?

[makomachine 263]

http://www.twitch.tv/egx/c/3967056

[w00kie 42]

Link is here:

 

[Publik 404]

Wow, way to keep your team up to date. Looks like it's still a one-man show.

[nettles 396]

I think it would be a really cool idea for your character's hair and facial hair to grow over the length of your lifespan.  So women with really long hair and men with beards would be the grizzled survivors that ditched civilization and pitched a tent in the woods for a couple weeks.  Also, maybe we could have hair ties, razors, and shaving kits as lootable items.

[flygamer1 176]

I think it would be a really cool idea for your character's hair and facial hair to grow over the length of your lifespan.  So women with really long hair and men with beards would be the grizzled survivors that ditched civilization and pitched a tent in the woods for a couple weeks.  Also, maybe we could have hair ties, razors, and shaving kits as lootable items.

Already been discussed and it won't be added

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

Beards. 

 

That is all the customization we need.

 

Epic beard man winz da gam....

[extremenuggets 14]

Link is here:

 

 

Thanks for the info, I'll be sure to check it out

[OrLoK 16186]

Hello there

 

This is where i disagree with Dean.

 

He worries that many folk will abuse the face system and we will end up with millions of willies pasted on characters.

 

I never saw anything like it in all my OFP Arma days. I think he worries too much OR has shone such a light on it that its now inevitable.

 

I can see his reasoning from a technical point of view though.

 

Willies are gonna happen, but not all players are dicks.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[Sistinas1973 50]

real image import? hair that grows over time? WTF get real. Where is there a single mmo EVER created that has such optimization? Not a single one. No need to reach for the moon here. I would like to see a simple gender differentiation option. Different hair styles, colors, and facial hair for men. Maybe let us slide scale things like eye shape, jaw, lips, ect. But I'd be perfectly happy with say, 10-15 different pre determined options to choose from. Someone asking in the live stream about character import was a complete waste of Deans time. 

[extremenuggets 14]

Hello there

 

This is where i disagree with Dean.

 

He worries that many folk will abuse the face system and we will end up with millions of willies pasted on characters.

 

I never saw anything like it in all my OFP Arma days. I think he worries too much OR has shone such a light on it that its now inevitable.

 

I can see his reasoning from a technical point of view though.

 

Willies are gonna happen, but not all players are dicks.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

 

 

 

Hi LoK, I'm curious as to know if is there currently information on the matter of character customization that you know of, being a subject that really interests me

 

 

Edited March 28, 2014 by extremenuggets

[makomachine 263]

If its just your facial likeness - a sliding scale with some hair and facial differences is enough.  You get into importing your own pic, I'm certain that can have a pretty dynamic impact on performance.  Lesser priority for me personally.  That said, I agree that being concerned about 'inappropriate' pictures is probably the least of the problem.  Who wants to run around looking at their willie for hours on end? 

[extremenuggets 14]

If its just your facial likeness - a sliding scale with some hair and facial differences is enough.  You get into importing your own pic, I'm certain that can have a pretty dynamic impact on performance.  Lesser priority for me personally.  That said, I agree that being concerned about 'inappropriate' pictures is probably the least of the problem.  Who wants to run around looking at their willie for hours on end? 

 

I agree with that as well, my original post was comparing something like the Xbox Live avatar system, being able to do height, weight, eye color, etc

[makomachine 263]

I agree with that as well, my original post was comparing something like the Xbox Live avatar system, being able to do height, weight, eye color, etc

That's exactly what I was thinking as reference as well. 

[Weedz 1105]

Hello there

 

This is where i disagree with Dean.

 

He worries that many folk will abuse the face system and we will end up with millions of willies pasted on characters.

 

I never saw anything like it in all my OFP Arma days. I think he worries too much OR has shone such a light on it that its now inevitable.

 

I can see his reasoning from a technical point of view though.

 

Willies are gonna happen, but not all players are dicks.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

Yeah I used to play a game that had the craziest character customization of anything ever you could make any symbol and put it on clothes or a tattoo. There was about 4 people who thought it would be funny to do something like have dicks on their faces running around. You were even allowed to in the game; people cried about it and the GMs said "Cool story? There's like 4 of them just ignore them". Everyone else made some crazy cool awesome looking chars. This game was also mostly like 12-16 year olds and still almost nobody did stupid crap.

 

Ex. of my chars to show you could literally do almost anything in this game

Bugz bunny

Zombie

Heman

Batman/batgirl

Edited March 28, 2014 by Weedz

[Geckofrog7 1168]

Certainly a Fallout/Elder Scrolls type customization system could be put in place at least?

Edited March 28, 2014 by Geckofrog7

[OrLoK 16186]

Hi LoK, I'm curious as to know if is there currently information on the matter of character customization that you know of, being a subject that really interests me

Hello there

 

Anything I know or don't know that's not public knowledge I wouldn't be able to tell you.

 

So, basically I don't know :)

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[extremenuggets 14]

Here is more or less an example of what I'm talking about on the matter of character customization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0pqopr1fU

 

Fast forward to 3:24 for character features

[Weedz 1105]

Anything I know or don't know that's not public knowledge I wouldn't be able to tell you.

Quick someone find Lok in game and kidnap him and beat the info out of him!

[Electi 149]

A lot of flame and words, till we can't change anything- nothing gonna happen, because someone "catches a star"

But i saw a lot of stupid things ppl are suggesting, and it's a stick with 2 endings....

[Duenan 226]

I hate listening  to him because it gets you hyped up for something that i'm not sure will actually ever be implemented

[Duenan 226]

The more I listen to him the more I think he's got a bridge to sell

[extremenuggets 14]

I hate listening  to him because it gets you hyped up for something that i'm not sure will actually ever be implemented

 

Well, you never know the game is barely in it's 10th patch in Alpha. Expect anything ;)

[Weedz 1105]

Well, you never know the game is barely in it's 10th patch in Alpha. Expect anything ;)

You should expect nothing from a game still in development. Makes the process much more enjoyable. They don't even know if it's physically possible to do some of the things they want to yet.