Asymmetrical Faces

[Alyce nChaynes]

I am just starting a new game, making a new character. I started to more in depth look at the faces and i am baffled. They're all Asymmetrical. Some to a point they're deformities even to a point of malformation. Now some can claim, it's realistic, i agree but the concept is lost, it's GAME where humanity has spread across the STARS.

What's going on these days? Are the studios really this worried? Is beauty considered a crime in 2023? While Asymmetrical faces can be as beautiful or better than summetrical, this game caters to the ugly and malformed. I would HATE to be considered this ugly, and i am offended when game developers force me to be because theres the group that may get hurt by the opposite.

It's a growing trend, we saw it in Mass Effect Andromeda as well, and there it was stated, they even hired specialists to create the ugliness and average, the genetic losers and leftovers. Not one single attractive face, save one, Scott. He wasn't a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

This game, has a preset of 40 genetic lottery losers. Way to go realism. Bethesda, i dont think the miners of Chile would agree with you that to be a "Dusty" you have to look like a trainwreck.

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

There's a solution to your asymetrical woes. ENHANCE.

Enhance wont fix that. It does not come with any optioons to chisel away a malformed right cheek bone or a completely deformed eye compared to the other, it's based on the face you work with. And the female ones are struck harder than the male ones, there you have a plethora of disfigured faces and malformity

[Mononc Pator]

While I'm not that much into games with korean top-model beauty pageant faces all over the place, it would be nice if they gave you the choice.

In any character creation menu, I would expect to get a generic blank slate and get a bunch of sliders, asymmetry included, so you could decide what kind of face and proportions you want.

Problem is, most likely, Bethesda scanned real people faces with their own deformities, and you end up with quite the uncanny valley. It's been the same minor issue with games like UFC 4, where the best you can do is make a character that somewhat looks like a real person with cartoonishly deformed features (thanks to your tampering with the sliders).

[wyodinosaur]

While there is probably no solution to this problem for the generic 'citizen' type NPCs, you can definitely change the appearance of your followers, crew members (and probably any of the named NPCs).

The process centres around the 'capp' console command. Some minor research will fill you in.

[LeBurns]

I don't know, maybe we can buy some Enhanced coupons and hand them out to the ugly NPC's walking around. I'm sure they wouldn't take that wrong.

I would say that at least 70-80% of the presets in Skyrim were trash and fillers that if used we had to heavily modify. So this isn't new, or some Woke addition to the game. It takes work, but I've been satisfied with the toons I've made, though I'll admit the one I want to make, the one I imagine in my head, never comes out in the PC. All I can do is get kinda close.

[Wayne]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.