Why did you make character creation worse?

[Zero]

First off, I will say that the character models look much better. This is NOT a complaint about the graphics update!

That said, the character creator is terrible now. You removed the ability to ACTUALLY make a custom character in favor of...four custom faces. That's it. Four face types and hair. Why did you gut the character creator, exactly? I won't be able to get anything close to the character that I've been playing FOR YEARS because of this change. Now everyone is just going to be a bunch of clones.

Also, PLEASE don't give me a generic response about how you'd have to make art for all of the options, yadda yadda. Tons of other games have the customization feature that you guys ALREADY HAVE and ARE REMOVING and they work perfectly fine, so that's not an excuse.

[SmallArchangel]

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

Apparently if you hate the new characters, they'll just delete your post. I have never had post deleted in all my years on Steam. :♥♥♥♥:

Evidently not, they are all here...

[drunk auntie]

yeah i was expecting sliders and stuff, not just presets. sucks

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Zero:

Originally posted by DarkFaceGlow:

Spend 10 minutes creating a characters face that you will never see….

Found the solo player.

No one cares what your character looks like.

[Virgin Wizard]

Originally posted by Seftak:

Guys this isn't Second Life, nobody is gonna ♥♥♥♥ your avatar. You are here to slay zombies, not to date them.

unfathomably based

[MrPlowjoy]

Originally posted by Zero:

That said, the character creator is terrible now. You removed the ability to ACTUALLY make a custom character in favor of...four custom faces. That's it. Four face types and hair.

I'll tell you why.

Consoles.

Every single step backwards taken with the design of this game was for one single reason.

Consoles.

The game used to have layers of complexity requiring thought. All stripped away over time.

For consoles.

[RoguelikeMike]

The character creation system was a missed opportunity for TFP to add random zombies to the game too. They could have used that system to accomplish it. Hordes would look a lot better with some randomly genned zombies, rather than the same 5 models.

Obviously they'd have to tweak the randomness of it a bit so it still made realistic zombies, but oh well, never gonna happen now.

[ホワイトタイガ!!]

tbh, I prefer the character customization with the slider option on it.. the old one have a slider where you can adjust every basic slider thing like if you want your character being fat or skinny. I wonder if TFP gonna add those back.. it seem the char customization right now were rather limited in choice you can do. I mean, you don't have go for Ark Suvival kind of slider option but just basic slider like in old days should work.

[Juni]

I want my purple hair and my pigtails, i like being able to customize my chars but i can deal with the current system if i just had the two above options back

[Skald]

Originally posted by MrPlowjoy:

Originally posted by Zero:

That said, the character creator is terrible now. You removed the ability to ACTUALLY make a custom character in favor of...four custom faces. That's it. Four face types and hair.

I'll tell you why.

Consoles.

Every single step backwards taken with the design of this game was for one single reason.

Consoles.

The game used to have layers of complexity requiring thought. All stripped away over time.

For consoles.

Truth.
Their obsession with porting to consoles has had a huge (and in my opinion detrimental) effect on the end product.
It was a stupid idea then, and it's a stupid idea now...I can only imagine how much more they could have done if they had only abandoned this daft idea, rather than basing the entire final build on it.

[Zero]

I get that they need to do work for the consoles, too, but...if it means removing features, they need to have another team handle the port instead.

[No0BTu63r]

They'll probably add more options for custom characters later down the line. I'm guessing they wanted to get the actual game mechanics up to snuff first, but that's just me being optimistic.

[Seftak]

Originally posted by Zero:

I get that they need to do work for the consoles, too, but...if it means removing features, they need to have another team handle the port instead.

So you want them to make 2 games when they take that much time to make only one?

[amgam]

I miss my funny little green men, also the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ body modifying

[PeeCrumb]

Originally posted by MrPlowjoy:

Originally posted by Zero:

That said, the character creator is terrible now. You removed the ability to ACTUALLY make a custom character in favor of...four custom faces. That's it. Four face types and hair.

I'll tell you why.

Consoles.

Every single step backwards taken with the design of this game was for one single reason.

Consoles.

The game used to have layers of complexity requiring thought. All stripped away over time.

For consoles.

pretty sure it was the upcoming paid clothing dlc this time. ♥♥♥♥ needs to be easy to work and sliders is hard business

[Rhia]

theres always that hipster who hates anything new and wants the game spoiled for anyone else.

Minecraft had better characters than the original system. So of course someone wants to make the graphics worse again just to be countrary