How can I tell the race of a character?

[kingcarrot]

I am not really fluent in the different species/races that your characters can be..
Is there a way of telling the difference? Like in the character sheet (hotkey "c")....
Currently I was just joined by some guy/girl who has an elongated face and is not a human.

[Howls@TheMoon]

There is no way I know of to tell the race of a character in game, aside from appearance. Human with normal skin colors are greenlander, if they are blue/black humans they are Scorchlander, if they have horns -they're Shek, looks like a Bug? -Hivers and skeletons are the easy -robots.
There are other races but they are not recruitable in the base game.

[Erei]

Is he blue with bone armor and spike on the head ? Shek
Is he a robots ? Skeleton
Is a caucasian human ? Greenlander
Is a he a really black with red eye human ? Scorchlander
Is he a weird looking green stick dude ? Hiver

[kingcarrot]

Hmm very thin dude does not look like he has feet - also cannot wear shoes. I think he is grey in colour...

[kingcarrot]

I read about those hives... how can you tell if it is a worker or prince or whatever?

[Neccarus]

I believe the prince has 80 limb health where the worker has 75

[CrumbleCat]

Here's another way to tell. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1434857344

[wogamer34]

Check their stat modifiers, workers have farming/laboring, princes have science/stealing, and warriors have attack mods at +20%, they have different head shapes as well

[Blue Mouse]

Originally posted by wogamer34:

Check their stat modifiers, workers have farming/laboring, princes have science/stealing, and warriors have attack mods at +20%, they have different head shapes as well

This is the best way for scorch/greenlanders if you can't tell by appearance. For hives look at their "horn" on the top-back of their head, if it curves upwards it is prince, if it goes straight and slightly downward it is a worker.

[iokimg]

I sometimes have trouble telling dark skinned greenlanders from scorchlanders when hiring. Only really bothers me when I'm making a HN friendly team.

[oi__io]

Originally posted by iokimg:

I sometimes have trouble telling dark skinned greenlanders from scorchlanders when hiring. Only really bothers me when I'm making a HN friendly team.

I know what you mean. To add to the confusion, sometimes you get a bugged out light skinned Scorchlander and the eyes are the only way to tell them apart. The Scorchlander has eyes that glows in the dark. That's the only sure way of telling a Scorchlander from a Greenlander for me other than taking them to the plastic surgeon.

If they're wearing headgear or it's during daytime, good luck trying to tell them apart. LOL

[Winger]

Originally posted by kingcarrot:

I read about those hives... how can you tell if it is a worker or prince or whatever?

Hive Worker = Blocky, vertical head
Hive Prince = Round head
Hive Warrior = Blocky horizontal head (like a hammerhead shark)