face help

[smanj440]

love the game, but some of the npc faces are really pasty looking. Do I have something set wrong in my graphics, or is that just the way it is for everyone? thanks

[Low Standards]

Originally posted by smanj440:

love the game, but some of the npc faces are really pasty looking. Do I have something set wrong in my graphics, or is that just the way it is for everyone? thanks

EVERYONE!

[HeyYou]

I think there are mods that address that.....

[Skumboni]

I hope you find a solution for your face problem. Let us know how it turns out.

[dprijadi]

i think this is a feature on EVERY single unmodded BGS games , their default face creation is so horrible that you will need to mod them sooner or later..

remember the oblivion horrible faces ?

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Originally posted by dprijadi:

i think this is a feature on EVERY single unmodded BGS games , their default face creation is so horrible that you will need to mod them sooner or later..

remember the oblivion horrible faces ?

It's sorta hilarious that none of the Bethesda-owned IPs have decent faces. Almost like it's their heritage to keep ugly or mis-shapen NPCs forever. And yet... the modding community inevitably fixes it without too much effort.

Kinda makes you wonder why.

OP: It isn't you, it's Bethesda.

[Gamefever]

How is it acceptable that a game in September 2023, has faces that have to be replaced by a mod which by the way is created by a gamer who sacrificed his or her time?

Just not acceptable even for Bethesda, faces were better in Fallout 4 than in Starfield.
They just passing the work off to mod authors to fix up everything.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Originally posted by Gamefever:

They just passing the work off to mod authors to fix up everything.

And here's the kicker: they know it.

[Ruin]

Yeah, default NPC faces are left pretty bland, most likely to reduce impact on performance...

A good mod to improve them that I've found is Better Crowd Citizens...

https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6218

[major tom]

faces in starfield are just one example how lackluster this game was developed and how they went steps back instead of improving appearance and features part of their more appealing existing games.

[RL 101]

The faces of the main and secondary characters are fine for Bethesda, much better than in FO4. It's the NPCs without dialogue or quests that walk around the street that have ugly faces.

[Nemerlight]

Yea faces in Starfield look terrible. Somehow even worse than Fallout 4

[Settings]

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

It's sorta hilarious that none of the Bethesda-owned IPs have decent faces. .

People in Oblivion very famously looked like melted plastic at the time it launched.

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https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6264

[ebolaconundrum]

Originally posted by smanj440:

love the game, but some of the npc faces are really pasty looking. Do I have something set wrong in my graphics, or is that just the way it is for everyone? thanks

BGS have always been bad at faces and awful at face animation, it's part of their game they badly need to up as they have now fallen way behind the curve on this.

[major tom]

Originally posted by Nemerlight:

Yea faces in Starfield look terrible. Somehow even worse than Fallout 4

i agree. skyrim and fo4 faces - including settlers/farmers - look better and npc reactions and responses are more believable.