The alpha male and female worgen customizations brought back as options.
Alpha male/female worgen customizations as options, but more male customizations.
Alpha male/female worgen customizations as options, but more female customization.
More current female facial customization (not the same face (not pattern))
More current male customization (fur colors, faces, hair, etc.)
Idc, as long as the females don't derp around anymore.
I think these complaints are rather valid; what with dangling a carrot in front of people who were stoked to play worgen and then pulling them away and giving them some kind of misshapen human!chihuahua.
Also, pandaren join your "WiP-never-to-be-finished club" because of their one-face syndrome. I guess Blizzard hates races with fur.
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They join the "WIP-never-to-be-finished" club not just because of the sameface, but because of the crippling and blatant bugs. :\ Just about every animation has at least a half dozen buggy frames. Sometimes multiple sets. In one animation. That's just not right.
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I actually brought up this issue in a few threads. Not to spit at you, but luckily for me - it only seems to be a trend for races with fur, but yeah.. it sucks. It sucks big time. How much they could fix and make others happy with minimum effort and they don't do it.. it's almost depressing.
Thanks for the awesome sig, Lady Amuno.
Since this thread is so long have we figured out why female worgen can't have hairstyles or colors yet?
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That was a change the went with them going from the Alpha to the Beta model. The Beta was built with a mane in mind, so naturally they couldn't have both.
As to the actual why though, we wouldn't know, though a lot of people on here at least were complaining their hair looked too wig-like and "anime." Newsflash people, all WoW hair looks like it was ripped from an anime, those are their polygons showing! WoW doesn't exactly do realism, so the only other option really is cartoony, and that leads to chunky models and chunky hair. Obviously some styles will be more anime-esque than others, but pretty much every hairstyle out there is flat planes and sharp angles.
I'm not sure if color was tied to fur back when the Alpha model could choose hair. Actually, was the Alpha model ever actually playable so that people could've played with those options at creation and the Barber Shop? Now that I think back I think she was only playable after they made the switch to Beta, and with the mane hair it made more sense for the colors to be tied, though people would still like for the option to change them, same as with Tauren. It just makes going to the Barber Shop more fun, you know?
I had two or three animations working, but I ran into a minor issue that my computer at the time was incapable of handling what I was trying to do with it. (Like, it was taking upwards of 5 minutes just to render the animation for walking.) I need to find those files sometime...
Old Dell Inspiron 1525, Single core 2.0 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM. -_-
Goblin females were done extremely well, so they can do it if they put their mind on it.
QFMFT.
I have NO idea why Blizz doesn't look at the goblin females as a good model of what a new female should look like. Different faces, ugly faces, ugly noses, pretty noses, you can make a goblin female look really old and 'ugly', or you can make them look young and fabulous. (Granted, I wish the males had another face that didn't look like a 50 year old smoker..) But no, when it comes to a furred race, you all get the same :3 face. Or in terms of worgen females, the same fucked up chihuahua face.
God damn I hate Blizzard sometimes.
For fucks sake, even the CHARR, A RACE OF BEASTIAL, FEROCIOUS, CAT PEOPLE, have more facial diversity than the Pandaren AND Worgen females.
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Holy crap, the third is a female face? How...progressive, actually. Blizz sure doesn't seem comfortable making manly or ferocious females, so to see someone else do it is a surprising change of pace. And one has heterochromia? That's a lot of options.
However...
Those faces look almost like entirely separate, albeit very similar, models. Unless their customization is a lot deeper than WoW's, and you can actually change facial features in a way similar to the Goblins with their separate noses and chins? 'Cuz if that's all texture work, damn, that's impressive.
Of course, Blizz did prove with the Goblins they're more than capable of "modular" customization, which I think is the deepest we'll ever see from them before Titan.
Also, do all those faces come as complete packages, so "Face" is the only option and not "Eyes" or "Nose?" I'm sure heterochromia will be a really popular option since so many "low-level" RPers seem to favor it, so I can imagine the disappointment they'd face if it's restricted to the battle-scarred one. Of course, it's probably not actually heterochromia but a blind eye from battle, but still.
For the most part, they're similar (but different models), but it proves that you CAN, if you TRY (Blizz proved they can, Goblin females please.), you CAN get a beast race with a different looking face, while still being part of the -same- race. For the most part, GW2 'basic' customization is a lot like WoW's, but you can go in and 'fine tune' some things if someone so desires. You don't have too, but it's there.
I'm not sure if it's a complete package, or if it's just a base face to work with if you wanted to 'tweak' it with the advanced customization options, but even without the tweaking I can tell which face is which, even if you cover up the eyes. (With Female Pandaren, sometimes with worgen, I cannot tell which face is which if you cover up their eyes.)
Editing in the advanced customization options:
Face details
Eyes
Eye angle
Eye squint
Iris size
Eye size
Brow placement
Brow angle
Brow thickness
Eye color
Muzzle and nose
Nose width at bridge
Nose tip width
Nose Height at bridge
Teeth size
Tilt of jaw
Tilt of Muzzle
Ears and horns
Ear length
Ear short
Ear thickness
Ear fat
Horn length
Horn short
Last edited by Guavasaur; 2012-08-23 at 04:52 AM.
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