I love my TSW character's look

[TrickyKitty]

I'm putting this out there for any devs to hopefully see.

In addition to reserving my character name and transferring some of the vanity items (my character has quite a full closet, so p-p-please transfer as many of the clothes as possible!), it would be absolutely wonderful if there is a way to transfer or otherwise closely match my character's look into the new system when linking the old and new accounts as well.

I have no idea if the rendering system is also getting an update, as only the combat system has been addressed in the news so far, but if not, being able to transfer my actual character appearance would make me a happy, giddy little player.

I really am one of those players that spends way too much time fretting over my character's look, so having that hurdle jumped ahead of time would be wonderful.

[Jaq]

I think the best you can do is head to the barber and plastic surgeon, write down what all of your current appearance settings are, and hope they're in roughly the same place in the new character creation screen. If they are, you're all set, but if the setup is different then a direct appearance transfer probably wasn't feasible anyway, so no sense holding your breath for it.

As I understand it, they're not removing any existing details, but adding new faces and hairstyles and "improving" the old ones, so whatever you have now should be in there somewhere.

In related good news, the Dressing Room UI is supposedly greatly improved, although I haven't heard the specific details. Maybe there won't be a need for the Fashionista mod in the new version of the game.

[sarcastic_godot]

...there's been phrases like "faces will be prettier". "greater customization, more options" etc. in the blurb. So I reckon the char looks will get an overhaul with the relaunch.

One recommendation: Make screenshots (you can always do that later on, after all TheSW will live on in kind of a parallel dimension for the foreseeable future), and make a hardcopy unless you've got a dual screen or two machines. That way you can at least look at your beloved alter ego's face while reshaping it's new virtual corporeality...

But just in case FC reads this...

...maybe a small-ish kind of goodbye / fin-de-siècle-event, where we can acquire a DNA sampling device for cloning ourselves in SWLegs, would be a nice way to go? With an after-event obit party on the KM police station's roof??? Like, last night or three pre-final-release? A "Waiting for Santa" or New Year's Eve" style thing? Where we can burn through all those fireworks we might still have in some alt's crate?

[TrickyKitty]

Yeah, I actually got a great close up of her during The Christmas Conspiracy cut scene when it was first introduced, and even posted it to Steam with a comment of how much I liked how she turned out. I'll definitely be Alt-Tabbing back and fourth to get her as close to original as possible and then seeing what new features they've added after that.

[Vomher]

I intend to recreate Vomher's appearance as precisely as possible. If I can't, I'll actually be kind of sad. It fits the character and I've grown pretty attached to it. Overhaul or not, I hope they still allow the same customization combinations on top of whatever new things they've added.

[Frank Wisdom]

Same here, I love Deius's appearance and have plenty of screenies to at least recreate him as best I can if need be. I won't shy away from the character creator in order to explore the new things they've added to it (I mean, in most every game I've ever played that has a character creator, I've spent hours just "getting it right" so...), but I'd like to believe that my character is the same person as he was in TSW, which means I'd like to stay as true as I can to most of his features (hair might be the one exception depending on what they add).

[Arngrim]

I just hope they will give us glorious beards, one major complaint i had with the current state.

[Jaq]

Ignore my initial reply to this thread. I just watched the dev livestream, and there's much less facial customization now. You can still pick hairstyles, skin tones and eye color, but mixing and matching noses, mouths, chins, eye shapes etc. has been removed. Instead you pick from a selection of preset faces that cannot be modified, and the selection didn't appear to be very big, although this is obviously still beta so more may be coming. The explanation for this change was that it would make it easier to normalize facial animations and items worn on faces. (It's possible that the dev was actually replying to a question about why the the customization didn't use slider adjustments, since lots of questions were being fired at once.)

In any case, don't bother writing down your current settings. Taking a screenshot is the better approach, but it will be dumb luck if one of the presets matches your face. In my opinion this is a step backwards for a system that was already behind the curve.