Why are all female survivors ugly?

[Mexicola9302]

Are the devolopers too lazy to create different faces, or why they all look almost exactly the same?

The males on the other hand, look like regular dudes, not ugly, no supermodels and there more faces available it seems.

I don't wanna sound like an anti feminist jerk or something, but seriously all the female survivors i saw ingame are ugly af. They don't even look like regular normal females, NO they all got the same ugly face.

I don't want them to look like supermodels, but like regular ppl, not all ppl on the world have the exact same face.

Its like all they did was change the skin color for them, so they look like whites, latinas, black etc. the only different faces are asians, but they also look like trash.

[WarBucks]

All the faces in the game are scans of people the developers know.

Google "state of decay 2 faces" theres articles about how it was done from like 2018

[churley1965]

I agree, most of them look like a caricature, like what is drawn at amusement parks or festivals, I have found a few that looked ok, but for the most part I think all the character (both male and female) look terrible and most of the time the portraits don't look like the character once your in the game. Hopefully SOD3 will have a more experienced and talented group of designers/devs.

Personally I think, once you complete the tutorial, you should be able to customize the initial 3 characters. Even minor customization, such as hair style and color, skin color and some basic facial changes (eyes, nose, mouth) and be able to assign the 5th skill from a list and not spend 30 mins trying to find a portrait that you like that has the skills you want.

[churley1965]

Originally posted by WarBucks:

All the faces in the game are scans of people the developers know.

Google "state of decay 2 faces" theres articles about how it was done from like 2018

So basically your saying the Devs were to lazy or not creative enough to come up with their own designs. Honestly if my image was used in a game and it looked that bad I would be angry.

[Gustuv Wynd]

Originally posted by churley1965:

Originally posted by WarBucks:

All the faces in the game are scans of people the developers know.

Google "state of decay 2 faces" theres articles about how it was done from like 2018

So basically your saying the Devs were to lazy or not creative enough to come up with their own designs. Honestly if my image was used in a game and it looked that bad I would be angry.

They were going for...normal. They are also not doing their hair and makeup or even taking showers. Survival is ugly.

[WarBucks]

The studio was like 50 people total during development. Up until like 3 months before release they were an independant studio.

[Mexicola9302]

Ninja outfit helps, but it doesn't help if you wanna tell them apart. With these ugly faces i would rather turn them into gimps, without any face at all, but there is no option for that.

Damn i must sound like a horrible person, but look at the faces ingame, it's like the most ugly faces in a game i ever seen.

The Division 1 also sucked about that, not sure about Division 2, i never played that.

[Protectron]

With a bit of imagination you can tell which ones of the models are actually pretty in real life.

[Spookysam27]

I actually don't have a problem with character faces, it's the lack of different voices that bugs me, there's always 2-3 in my community with the same voice. Sometimes i won't recruit someone because their voice-type is already making up over 1/3 of my entire community.

[Serious]

I partially agree that the human in this game in general don't look pretty at all. But for me it's no negative point. It's a post-apocylpse zombie survival game.
The ugly and dirty ones survive, the pretty and cool ones die because they try to steal the expensive jacket from a zombie.

(Additional it's pretty difficult to make realistic human faces with UE4)

[WarBucks]

All the faces jammed onto the same head size/shape probably doesnt help either.

[MilkSteak]

What do you expect, it's american developer - They try too hard to make characters look "realistic." Male or female, the closer you get to reality, the closer you get to the uncanny valley. That's why these characters are typically ugly.

[Prometheus]

Originally posted by WarBucks:

All the faces jammed onto the same head size/shape probably doesnt help either.

We have a winner. It distorts proportions. Although I cannot subscribe to ALL the female characters being ugly.

[Icevenom]

Way to insult real life ppl; all while openly pretending "you don't want supermodels".
Never fails to dissapoint this world and the creatures inside it.

[Mexicola9302]

Originally posted by Icevenom:

Way to insult real life ppl; all while openly pretending "you don't want supermodels".
Never fails to dissapoint this world and the creatures inside it.

Just look at the faces, they all look the same...

It's probably the same problem, like it is in GTA Online with female clothes, it makes the body shape adapt to a men shape. For example the Lost MC clothing, that was unlocked with the Tuners DLC. It's a distortion problem like somebody here described.

I blame both UE4 engine and the devs. The devs the chars are based on, don't look like the chars. Im 100% sure something went completly wrong creating all the survivors.

I only got one female char that doesn't look completly ugly, she is the doctor in my camp, she is a black woman with a ponytail. For some weird reason she looks okay, like a normal person looks like.

[-=EDF=- Kouta Seto]

Simple reason:

This game sadly isnt a asian one, thats why. You saw the downfall of Horizon Forbidden West didnt ya? The complaining about "her not being good looking". Now you know why i prefer asian games over western ones. If i play a game for as long as some, i want to look at something nice, and not something "realistic", aka ugly. Fitting as it might be, its a game it can go wherever it wants. And no i doubt any modder out there will change the models even thou thats totaly posible these day's as those games are by far not known/liked enogh to do so.