Was the character creator changed?

[Walrus Beard]

I have heard that the character creator was actually made less versatile because someone on the dev team didn't like the characters that players were making. Can someone provide a source for this? When I look for videos or articles on it, I come up empty.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

The "source" is literally a joke article making fun of a D&D meme. People are just idiots.

[リンドン]

I don't know about any of the slider changes, etc. but it's very limited in facial customization while having weird options like (micro)penis/vagina selector, vitigilo sliders (but only for humans), etc. that aren't normally present in games. So it's weird that they'd go all out adding stuff like that while neglecting fundamental character creation tools.

What they changed though after this seething blogpost were the defaults. So instead of the default human being a white male, it's now a black female iirc
(https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/10/16/baldurs-gate-3-devs-sorely-disappointed-that-most-popular-character-creation-option-is-a-white-human-male/)

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by リンドン:

I don't know about any of the slider changes, etc. but it's very limited in facial customization while having weird options like (micro)penis/vagina selector, vitigilo sliders (but only for humans), etc. that aren't normally present in games. So it's weird that they'd go all out adding stuff like that while neglecting fundamental character creation tools.

What they changed though after this seething blogpost were the defaults. So instead of the default human being a white male, it's now a black female iirc
(https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/10/16/baldurs-gate-3-devs-sorely-disappointed-that-most-popular-character-creation-option-is-a-white-human-male/)

Ah, well switching around some defaults is a far cry from limiting options.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by リンドン:

(https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/10/16/baldurs-gate-3-devs-sorely-disappointed-that-most-popular-character-creation-option-is-a-white-human-male/)

Actually read that article. It literally says it's a joke. It's a bloody meme that morons are taking as fact.

[heh]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

Originally posted by リンドン:

(https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/10/16/baldurs-gate-3-devs-sorely-disappointed-that-most-popular-character-creation-option-is-a-white-human-male/)

Actually read that article. It literally says it's a joke. It's a bloody meme that morons are taking as fact.

if someone says it's a joke but then they go out of their way to act 100% of the time as if it isn't a joke, then it isn't a joke. if your friend keeps telling you that he thinks you're an idiot and laughing at you and going "haha it's just a joke haha" and you can tell from the tone of his voice that he really means it, if you actually believe him you're either an abuse victim or he's right

[Walrus Beard]

So what I'm getting from these replies is that the character creator wasn't actually gimped.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by heh:

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

Actually read that article. It literally says it's a joke. It's a bloody meme that morons are taking as fact.

if someone says it's a joke but then they go out of their way to act 100% of the time as if it isn't a joke, then it isn't a joke. if your friend keeps telling you that he thinks you're an idiot and laughing at you and going "haha it's just a joke haha" and you can tell from the tone of his voice that he really means it, if you actually believe him you're either an abuse victim or he's right

There is literally a meme about brown haired male fighters in D&D, my man. You obviously can't recognize satire and just want to be an offended snowflake.

And your comparison is just gross.

[SniperBait]

Ah, well switching around some defaults is a far cry from limiting options. [/quote]

In a later version of early access we could craft our character's facial features however we liked. That profile, with those ears and that eye shape ect ect ect

Now we're restricted to a literal handful of pre generated faces and told take it or leave it. That's limiting options in my book

[Shozou]

No.

[ULTRA]

The only thing that changed was racial ability differences, because they wanted to make it unequivocably bad to be a human because they wanted to repel dude bros

[★REM★]

as EA player i can tell you it did not change. Always been scarce of options. Customization Compendium mod helps on that.

[hannibal_pjv]

Noup... There are more options now than in EA...

[Yoinkyz]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

The only thing that changed was racial ability differences, because they wanted to make it unequivocably bad to be a human because they wanted to repel dude bros

humans arnt that bad. dragonborne are worse

[Simbolic]

Well I had it when first thrown on here during EA, the answer is no. From what I noticed They added Earrings, different body types and alterations for the new nude bodies. Think they might have also added a couple more face presets and hairstyles as well. Though I didn't notice anything was taken out of the original CC. If there was anything taken out must have been extremely small and insignificant for me to even notice.

[Chance]

I played EA and live - yes, it was changed. It is less overwhelming now but there are less things under the surface that make races and such worth picking.