Please add better facial expressions.

[LivingxLegacy]

Love the game so far but the facial expressions look very unnatural. I've played nearly all Bethesda games and it feels like they could have greatly improved on this. The best example would be for when a character is happy/smiling with no eye squint. Understandably most of their games have struggled with this but can't help but think that it could have been executed better with their newest title.

[Fear2288]

Much better then the expressionless NPCs of their former games. Standing there with their dead-eyed stares.

The only one that makes me go “lol what?” is when an NPC says something and then goes into “pout” mode - looking like the over-exaggerated frowny face emoji.

[nzguzzi]

Just wait for the 4K character mods for hair, skin, face, eyes, etc. Screw Bathesda vanilla, they always suck donkey nutz
Mind you, still 100x better than Star Citizens character gen, Speeshul looking avatar faces

[Ephesians]

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Much better then the expressionless NPCs of their former games.

Wrong.

[LivingxLegacy]

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Much better then the expressionless NPCs of their former games. Standing there with their dead-eyed stares.

The only one that makes me go “lol what?” is when an NPC says something and then goes into “pout” mode - looking like the over-exaggerated frowny face emoji.

Yeah but it feels like these npcs still do the million mile stare lol. But I do see the aspects they have improved on though.

[Daedrius]

Originally posted by LivingxLegacy:

Love the game so far but the facial expressions look very unnatural. I've played nearly all Bethesda games and it feels like they could have greatly improved on this. The best example would be for when a character is happy/smiling with no eye squint. Understandably most of their games have struggled with this but can't help but think that it could have been executed better with their newest title.

They open their mouths too much when talking. It does look a bit off.

[Silverlight]

Originally posted by Ephesians:

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Much better then the expressionless NPCs of their former games.

Wrong.

Some of the main NPC almost look good , like Lynn or Sarah, but the side characters are almost their laziest and worst yet.

At least in their other games, wonky characters would have wonky traits or personality to match

[dethtrain]

Mass effect Andromeda used some kind of AI generated facial animation that was tied to linguistics. I don't think motion capture was used at all when the voice actors said their lines.

I have a feeling Bethesda used a similar system here to save time.
The facial expressions from smiling to frowning can be so abrupt it's hard not to laugh at. On top of them having necks like owls 🤦‍♂️