Can you change character appearance

[Arrika]

Can the character be edited (in a mirror?) or is it the default male hands and clone appearance for the entire game with no visible difference between players?

IE the basic question of can my family of 4 play co-op while playing 3 female characters and one male?
Can we have different hair and clothes so we can recognise each other from a distance?

Families that play together don't just go with the flow when character creation keeps getting passed over.

[Subasu]

Women can't be soldiers, hence why you are a basic male clone. (R.I.P. Fisheye)

[The Guy in Your Closet]

Although you can't edit your appearance, there are separate player characters that as far as I know are randomly picked

[Talmia]

I would like to be able to chose my character too.

[Arrika]

Its getting to be seen as a defiant choice to not allow women to be a chosen character. The creators of the forest have had the feedback and if they chose not to add us into the new game, I choose to not have my gamer gang of 6 play. This is absurd at this point. / sad shrugs

[Phate]

No one cares about your gang. Modeling a female character would be a huge undertaking. It's not just remodelling some hands. wtf do you mean 'defiant choice' ? endnight doesn't hate women. Seriously wtf? This post is whats absurd. Sad shrug indeed. Please do drop this game we don't need customisable characters in everything.

[Hellsmoke]

Originally posted by Talmia:

I would like to be able to chose my character too.

You and me both, the developer doesn't seem to think it's important though. Major oversight if you ask me.

[Csillámpóni Faszláma]

You can put on different clothes, and you can see it from a distance.

[Talmia]

Originally posted by Arrika:

Its getting to be seen as a defiant choice to not allow women to be a chosen character. The creators of the forest have had the feedback and if they chose not to add us into the new game, I choose to not have my gamer gang of 6 play. This is absurd at this point. / sad shrugs

Arrika as a female gamer, I prefer to play as females. However not being able to choose my character isn't going to be the reason I don't play the game...

[Talmia]

Originally posted by Hellsmoke77:

Originally posted by Talmia:

I would like to be able to chose my character too.

You and me both, the developer doesn't seem to think it's important though. Major oversight if you ask me.

I just hope it doesn't p*** off other races/communities. White's playing as blacks, blacks playing as whites. (add in more combos) etc. Some people can't even play their main DnD characters on twitch, due to their character being a certain skin tone and people being sensitive. I can't wait for that stuff to chill.

[DiGiTaL CLeaNeR]

How about race, can you change that?

[Takk]

Maybe I just grew up differently, but as a woman who grew up in the 90's, I'm perfectly used to and okay with being "assigned" a player character. I don't need to play as a female character, nor do I need it to be my race or "look like me" in order to get immersed and have fun. Everyone is different, of course, but I don't think it should be a huge issue to play a different character in a video game. I can enjoy playing Geralt in The Witcher 3 or Henry in Kingdom Come even though I'm not male and I don't have white hair or scraggly beard, just as much as I can enjoy playing my customised female Arisen in Dragon's Dogma or my male elf Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The game just needs to be fun and engaging enough :)

[Spaceman Spiff]

Originally posted by DiGiTaL CLeaNeR:

How about race, can you change that?

You can change the character's appearance in the admin console. Use "cheatstick" to allow admin console access, then type "setplayerrace #", where "#" is 1, 2, 3, etc. until you get the race you want. I used "freecamera on" to see myself when I tested.

[Corscaria]

Assigned a male (or female) character character in a single player game? you get over it. But multiplayer games need to let the player choose their character. The reason for it in the first game, was budget, it's an indie game. But in SOTF there's no budgetary reason for it. It doesn't matter if you don't see your self during game play, other players do. Look at GTA 5, in single player mode, all the characters are male, no one complains. But in multiplayer mode, you can be whoever you want to be. Female player models have already been made, they are used for the natives, and even Virginia. Story wise there's no reason for it in either game. You could have played Timmy's mother in the first game. You could play as a female journalist instead of a male journalist in SOTF. It's really that easy, story wise. You can make the male characters the canon characters for sequels, no one would care. But there's no longer an excuse for a lack of character selection (including) at the minimum for a multiplayer game.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Talmia:

Originally posted by Arrika:

Its getting to be seen as a defiant choice to not allow women to be a chosen character. The creators of the forest have had the feedback and if they chose not to add us into the new game, I choose to not have my gamer gang of 6 play. This is absurd at this point. / sad shrugs

Arrika as a female gamer, I prefer to play as females. However not being able to choose my character isn't going to be the reason I don't play the game...

I have been gaming for decades and have played as characters of practically every type imaginable and it has never once been an issue if I can't play as a character that reflects who I am, who I feel I am, what I look like, or what I want to look like.

For me it's all about the gameplay and having fun, not what that pixel person (or thing, or creature, or alien, or whatever) I am controlling looks like or what pixel bits they have, or don't have, especially in games that only have limited options.

Of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with having preferences, and most of us do, but avoiding a game that might be really fun to play just because the characters don't look the way you want them to look or have the body type/shape/colour/etc. that you want them to have? That's absurd. It's like refusing to play Monopoly because you can't be the hat or refusing to play Yahtzee unless the dice are blue with red pips.

Originally posted by Corscaria:

Assigned a male (or female) character character in a single player game? you get over it. But multiplayer games need to let the player choose their character.

No, they don't need to let players choose their character if the game has multiplayer. It's not a necessity. It's a nice option to give players, but it's not required at all.

Originally posted by Corscaria:

But there's no longer an excuse for a lack of character selection (including) at the minimum for a multiplayer game

They don't need an excuse. If the developers choose not to add that option for any reason, or for no reason at all, then that's their decision to make.

Ever play Rust? It solves this issue by randomly assigning you a character. No one gets to choose anything about their character. My character looks absolutely nothing like me. If the game had a character selection option or character creation system I doubt I would have made that specific character. Being "forced" to play that specific character and having no choice in the matter does not affect me, or the gameplay, at all. it is a non-issue there just like it's a non-issue in this game. It's just a pixel person in a video game, it is not you or a representation of who or what you are.

[Corscaria]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

I have been gaming for decades and have played as characters of practically every type imaginable and it has never once been an issue if I can't play as a character that reflects who I am, who I feel I am, what I look like, or what I want to look like.

For me it's all about the gameplay and having fun, not what that pixel person (or thing, or creature, or alien, or whatever) I am controlling looks like or what pixel bits they have, or don't have, especially in games that only have limited options.

Of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with having preferences, and most of us do, but avoiding a game that might be really fun to play just because the characters don't look the way you want them to look or have the body type/shape/colour/etc. that you want them to have? That's absurd. It's like refusing to play Monopoly because you can't be the hat or refusing to play Yahtzee unless the dice are blue with red pips.

I've been gaming since the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 70s. What does how long you have been gaming have to do with anything child? You think you can establish your self as some sort of "authority" by mentioning that? Authoritarianism is the inability to think for yourself, you are literally asking an authority for your opinion. So don't try that trite with me.

Originally posted by Macdallan:

No, they don't need to let players choose their character if the game has multiplayer. It's not a necessity. It's a nice option to give players, but it's not required at all.

Yeah, it really is. It's called good game design. If you are unable to give players a customizable character in multiplayer you make the character as neutral as possible. You don't give the character a name, or a face. There's a reason many multiplayer games have the character wearing a helmet that covers the entire face, and bulky body armor that hides any details of the physique, it's so they don't have to worry about character customization. Most games that do that, eventually make an obvious female variant as an update later. But if your multiplayer game can't pull the bulky body armor and opaque helmet cheat, and has human characters, you offer at least a small selection of characters. You don't just ignore half the human population.

Originally posted by Macdallan:

They don't need an excuse. If the developers choose not to add that option for any reason, or for no reason at all, then that's their decision to make.

Their excuse can be seen in how most of the women are represented in the game. They are either, easily forgotten mentions on a scrap of paper or a photo, dead, cannibals, or mutants. It's gross misogyny. Silence can speak just as loudly as an actual statement.

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Ever play Rust? It solves this issue by randomly assigning you a character. No one gets to choose anything about their character. My character looks absolutely nothing like me. If the game had a character selection option or character creation system I doubt I would have made that specific character. Being "forced" to play that specific character and having no choice in the matter does not affect me, or the gameplay, at all. it is a non-issue there just like it's a non-issue in this game. It's just a pixel person in a video game, it is not you or a representation of who or what you are.

Nope, can't say I have, because every time I look at the youtube videos of Rust, all I see of a pure shooter with a very poor build system tacked on. PVP is for children. Adults value cooperation and creation. I'm sure it's very popular with kids. I've even seen a few excellent builds in screenshots, but the majority of the players build nothing but a ramshackle arrangement of walls, with no apparent rhyme or reason other than getting higher to snipe other players. That's not my play style. I'm an explorer and creator.

As for being forced to play a man on SOTF or Rust not affecting you? How unsurprising that a man wouldn't be bothered by not being able to play as a woman. Maybe if a multiplayer game had you playing only women, and not even scantily ones, then you might have a problem. In fact from what I've seen of the toxic masculinity that is so rampant right now, I'm almost certain it would. You'd quit the game rather than keep playing as a woman.

If you don't want character customization? Fine, but stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at people who do. Would adding character customization hurt you? No. Would it help those who want it? Yes. Does your attacking people who want it help anyone? No. Does it cause harm to attack people who aren't causing harm? Yes. So, pull that stick out of your ass, and stop being a little ♥♥♥♥♥ towards women.