How to change the facial features of the character?

[[HUN]ColemanV]

So I started playing in the demo, and upon getting into the full game, the character and progression got continued, which I really appreciated.

But given that in the demo I didn't really got into the whole character creation immersion, because the purpose of the demo was testing gameplay, now I'm stuck with the quickly thrown together, partially randomized character.

I would like to change the character's visuals beyond the clothing.

BTW in terms of body and face shape variety, I find it odd that we could make a dude with a full beard, but even the largest body size looks like a teenager with a fake beard glued on next to the male NPCs.

I figured maybe the character's general age bracket could be implied, but all the conversations via texting happening only after the character creation, so people can't adapt to the possibly intended narrative after the fact.

Is there some way to alter the looks of the characters?

[Cutlass Jack]

Only hair as far as I'm aware. And you can do that at Melody's Hair Salon in town.

Yeah I wish all the options were available there. I'd like to edit my skin tone without restarting the game.

[JOtt]

There currently is no way to change the character's appearance beyond hair after creation.

[[HUN]ColemanV]

Originally posted by JOtt:

There currently is no way to change the character's appearance beyond hair after creation.

If I create a new character, and new save, is there a way to "redirect" the progression to the new save?

I mean it is kind of a bummer to get like a year into the game progression only to then find out that the demo's random looks are permanent.

[TamanduaGirl]

While the character is saved from the demo or any past games you CAN still change it when starting a NEW game. The character creation should have still been at the start of the game when you began a new save once you bought the game. Just because it still looked like what you chose in the demo didn't mean you couldn't change it.

Since you just restarted, I'd say restart one more time and make the character how you want instead of skipping through that part. There are different tabs for the different facial features and such.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Originally posted by JOtt:

There currently is no way to change the character's appearance beyond hair after creation.

If I create a new character, and new save, is there a way to "redirect" the progression to the new save?

I mean it is kind of a bummer to get like a year into the game progression only to then find out that the demo's random looks are permanent.

Demo was not permanent. Demo is 10 days and when you made a new game you could have still changed it when starting the new game. They just save it for convenience but it wasn't unchangeable till after you started the new game.

[[HUN]ColemanV]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

If I create a new character, and new save, is there a way to "redirect" the progression to the new save?

I mean it is kind of a bummer to get like a year into the game progression only to then find out that the demo's random looks are permanent.

Demo was not permanent. Demo is 10 days and when you made a new game you could have still changed it when starting the new game. They just save it for convenience but it wasn't unchangeable till after you started the new game.

Like I said in the original post, I created a quick character in the demo, then bought the game, and the character and the progression was in the full game already.

In terms of not needing to redo the whole progression again, it is a really cool feature, however in the demo a player cannot know ahead of time that this'll be the case.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Like I said in the original post, I created a quick character in the demo, then bought the game, and the character and the progression was in the full game already.

In terms of not needing to redo the whole progression again, it is a really cool feature, however in the demo a player cannot know ahead of time that this'll be the case.

The demo progression didn't save for me and it said it wouldn't, only the character's appearance, but it could still be edited before launching the new game. Maybe they changed it post launch?

Maybe they could add a makeup counter to the saloon for changing facial features. But I'm guessing it'll be lower on the priority list than the bug fixes and optimization.

[[HUN]ColemanV]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Like I said in the original post, I created a quick character in the demo, then bought the game, and the character and the progression was in the full game already.

In terms of not needing to redo the whole progression again, it is a really cool feature, however in the demo a player cannot know ahead of time that this'll be the case.

The demo progression didn't save for me and it said it wouldn't, only the character's appearance, but it could still be edited before launching the new game. Maybe they changed it post launch?

Maybe they could add a makeup counter to the saloon for changing facial features. But I'm guessing it'll be lower on the priority list than the bug fixes and optimization.

Of course, I've only made the post because as more people start to join the game as youtubers start to pick up on the release, more people will run into the same issue.

Which means either the demo has to be equipped with a warning, or something like your idea for changing looks in the full release should be implemented.

I'd guess you've seen already a bunch of the reviews bombing the game for nonsense reasons, like the gate doesn't have a sound" or the out of town NPCs don't have a deatiled face, and compared to this those are non-issues, but sadly also count toward the review score.

So if there is a way around this, now it'd be easier to implement than a month from now.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Of course, I've only made the post because as more people start to join the game as youtubers start to pick up on the release, more people will run into the same issue.

Which means either the demo has to be equipped with a warning, or something like your idea for changing looks in the full release should be implemented.

I'd guess you've seen already a bunch of the reviews bombing the game for nonsense reasons, like the gate doesn't have a sound" or the out of town NPCs don't have a deatiled face, and compared to this those are non-issues, but sadly also count toward the review score.

So if there is a way around this, now it'd be easier to implement than a month from now.

True. It would have had a better reception as an early release title but I'm convinced that was a publisher decision and not so much the devs themselves. Similar happened with another title under the same publisher where it got pushed to 1.0 before everything was completed and polished and it caused the reviews to sink.

[Vashimu]

Originally posted by JOtt:

There currently is no way to change the character's appearance beyond hair after creation.

Will there be sometime? I rly dont like how men looks in the game. My char looks like a girl with a fullbeard...but i dont want to start new. I know it makes not much sense but it would be very convenient.

[Honor]

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Originally posted by JOtt:

There currently is no way to change the character's appearance beyond hair after creation.

If I create a new character, and new save, is there a way to "redirect" the progression to the new save?

I mean it is kind of a bummer to get like a year into the game progression only to then find out that the demo's random looks are permanent.

How did you get in to a years progression in the demo when the demo progression is only 10 days?

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Shiloh:

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

If I create a new character, and new save, is there a way to "redirect" the progression to the new save?

I mean it is kind of a bummer to get like a year into the game progression only to then find out that the demo's random looks are permanent.

How did you get in to a years progression in the demo when the demo progression is only 10 days?

They didn't say that. They said they played a year only to find out they were stuck with the look back when they played the demo. You can see they own the game.

I suppose I was 'lucky' in that my demo save didn't carry over to the live version. But even still there's some stuff I wish I could tweak without starting over (again). Melody's shop should really let you tweak most things.

Sure just hair is 'realistic' but they lost realism when they had me house chickens before myself. Or gave me a sentient alien robot. Seems a relatively easy fix that wouldn't harm anything.

[[HUN]ColemanV]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Originally posted by Shiloh:

How did you get in to a years progression in the demo when the demo progression is only 10 days?

They didn't say that. They said they played a year only to find out they were stuck with the look back when they played the demo. You can see they own the game.

I suppose I was 'lucky' in that my demo save didn't carry over to the live version. But even still there's some stuff I wish I could tweak without starting over (again). Melody's shop should really let you tweak most things.

Sure just hair is 'realistic' but they lost realism when they had me house chickens before myself. Or gave me a sentient alien robot. Seems a relatively easy fix that wouldn't harm anything.

That is exactly right.
The game is light hearted and by default allows things like purple eyes to begin with, so I don't see why tweaking the character to your liking would need to be a hurdle.

What if someone is putting the game on the back burner for a couple months, returns to play because of the gameplay, but they're now bugged by the looks they picked earlier?

It would be an incentive to keep playing if tweaking would be avilable in some way,.

If there is something people hate in a game that has progression, is the resetting of the progression. (Losing progression was the very reason why I didn't touch Starfield again when lost like 125 hours of story progression due to Bethesda releasing a game where save files can go corrupted. There is no way to replay the game again with every encounter playing out the exact same way to get back to where I was in the story)

I would be fine with it if the game would set a price for let's say "cosmetic surgery" where you have to pay like a vehicle's price and lose a season for recovery.

I would rather go with a built in option for getting my character the way I want it instead of waiting for a mod to allow that feature.