Character Portrait Request

[Jing: King of Bandits]

This is mainly a request to the devs, I think the game has great potential and I've enjoyed what I've played so far, but there is one small thing that has bugged me in the Early Access and a bunch of RPG's do it, and it's to have a fixed portrait of the player character that doesn't reflect how they look in game.

While the default portraits look good, they kind of break the immersion for me as a player seeing a different face on the screen representing my character. My request ultimately would be that they do something similar to what Dragon Age: Inquisition did and have a symbol/crest represent the main character, as I think this is less immersion breaking.

While the devs have a thousand things more important than this currently to do, I'm hoping by the final release that they consider this option in the final build.

[Calenwyr]

I did not mind how wasteland did it in which your portrait was basically just a screenshot of your character customisation choices, as really its just a flat image to save with the game and hopefully represents what you want your PC to look like

[juliejayne]

Agreed. Devs, please take a snapshot of our character and paste it into the portait slot.

[upuaut2]

yes i agree there needs to be more variety of portraits , for instance if you wanna make a blond character , you wont be able to make a character that matches with portrait at all, since there are too few

they also need to reflect the hairstyles that are available

[Key Lar]

Yes. Absolutely agree. Imo custom portraits like in rogue trader or pathfinder would be ideal.

[Yacinor]

I agreen i play this kind of game for immersion, and this totally breaks it

[mbpopolano24]

+1, this should not be hard and I have seen everybody (including me) complaining about the portraits.

[dfoqq8899]

+1, do not underestimate the issue. It is right at the beginning and can spoil first impression.

[Nihrahk]

They wouldn't really need to add an icon either tbh. It would be enough to just take a portrait of the 3D model and then you just pick a background and done. DA: Origins did this, though it had a bit more like angles and expressions as well.

This way, you wouldn't lose immersion, but it would have to be done to companions as well so that it's consistent.

[MarkFranz]

It's utterly hillarius how easy it's seems to broke immersion of some people. Immersion break over portrait is something comparable to having leg broken from single bird feather falling on it.

On other hand i would pretty much like option of adding custom portrait alike how it's done in games like Rogue Trader and Pathfinder WOTR.

[dfoqq8899]

Originally posted by MarkFranz:

It's utterly hillarius how easy it's seems to broke immersion of some people. Immersion break over portrait is something comparable to having leg broken from single bird feather falling on it.

On other hand i would pretty much like option of adding custom portrait alike how it's done in games like Rogue Trader and Pathfinder WOTR.

And your immersion is so strong that even if you are pointed at a turd and said that it is a rose you would compliment the scent? My guy there are fraking 4 portraits for i do not know how many combinations of PC looks. That is terrible oversight. They would have been better off having some hooded something instead of 4 actual portraits.

[Mugiwara]

Originally posted by dfoqq8899:

Originally posted by MarkFranz:

It's utterly hillarius how easy it's seems to broke immersion of some people. Immersion break over portrait is something comparable to having leg broken from single bird feather falling on it.

On other hand i would pretty much like option of adding custom portrait alike how it's done in games like Rogue Trader and Pathfinder WOTR.

And your immersion is so strong that even if you are pointed at a turd and said that it is a rose you would compliment the scent? My guy there are fraking 4 portraits for i do not know how many combinations of PC looks. That is terrible oversight. They would have been better off having some hooded something instead of 4 actual portraits.

Terrible oversight? It's early access and only just been released. Relax, let the developers work.

[Mermidion]

i too would prefer custom picture folders like in Pathfinder WotR.
so i could made put in a portrait that is fitting for my Voodoo-punk mage xD

[vvendetadlc]

It would be nice if we can upload our own portraits. But for early access 4 portraits is ok.

[Tommi69]

I like the portraits in these types of games, they allow for lots of fun variety. And I like customization. But I HATE how they never match. Really bad in Wasteland 3, for example.

What I would like to have are matched portraits to customization presets, that you can choose together.

[dfoqq8899]

Originally posted by vvendetadlc:

It would be nice if we can upload our own portraits. But for early access 4 portraits is ok.

Sory but it is not OK. I remember colony ship had same issue. They added custom portraits, dont remember year or half after lunch? So EA is a right time, in fact it should have been implemented already because it is BASICS.