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Telmorial Sep 19, 2018 @ 2:03pm
No male elf portraits?
Maybe I'm missing something but I tried to create an Elf Practitioner, I can choose a male voice but all the portraits are female! Errr, help? lol
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starkmaddness Sep 19, 2018 @ 2:11pm 
You are not missing anything. All non-human races only have one gender option. For elves, it is only female. For others, only male.
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Telmorial Sep 19, 2018 @ 7:35pm 
It can't be an actual design decision because they allow us to choose a male voice for elves. It must be bug. Any comments from devs?
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Corwin Sep 19, 2018 @ 7:49pm 
That's pathetic!!
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Dezmodian Sep 19, 2018 @ 8:08pm 
Are the answers to the OP's question serious? They did not make a variety of portraits? This coupled with the, lets call it "less than acceptable" release, makes me VERY disappointed. This game could have been EPIC and relaunched the brand.
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Darkness Muta Sep 19, 2018 @ 9:01pm 
Originally posted by Dezmodian:
Are the answers to the OP's question serious? They did not make a variety of portraits? This coupled with the, lets call it "less than acceptable" release, makes me VERY disappointed. This game could have been EPIC and relaunched the brand.

We just have to hope that the complaints get them to fix a lot of these glaring issues or just wait for the Director's Cut that they will release next year that should have all these upgrades.
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Telmorial Sep 19, 2018 @ 10:31pm 
I'm amazed this wasn't spotted in beta. If that's not a broken game design (allow male voice but only female portraits) then I don't know what it.

If I start playing this game with a female portrait, then they add the missing male portraits later, I guess I'd have to restart the game (because you choose the portrait on character creation)?

Maybe a clever modder can add (aka fix!) some portraits? ;-)
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ZiN Sep 20, 2018 @ 12:07am 
Originally posted by Telmorial:
I'm amazed this wasn't spotted in beta. If that's not a broken game design (allow male voice but only female portraits) then I don't know what it.

It's not that it wasn't spotted, I have specifically reported this several times during beta. It's just that the developers didn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about beta feedback. As I'm playing, I notice more and more bugs I've reported are still in the game.
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Telmorial Sep 20, 2018 @ 1:01am 
Originally posted by ZiN:
Originally posted by Telmorial:
I'm amazed this wasn't spotted in beta. If that's not a broken game design (allow male voice but only female portraits) then I don't know what it.

It's not that it wasn't spotted, I have specifically reported this several times during beta. It's just that the developers didn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about beta feedback. As I'm playing, I notice more and more bugs I've reported are still in the game.

Sad to hear that. Maybe I'll hold off playing the game for a bit, maybe they'll patch it.
Overall though, apart from the bugs, are you enjoying the game?
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Darx Sep 20, 2018 @ 11:23am 
they didnt say anything about adding new ones so yeah thats probably it.

human mages look like full plate warriors. some classes have no matching portrait at all.
non-humans are basically gender locked.
everyone looks ugly.

i mean i dont understand how they could do such a poor job with a game that is heavy on creating your own character/party.
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Big Chimpin Sep 20, 2018 @ 11:44am 
Originally posted by Darx:
i mean i dont understand how they could do such a poor job with a game that is heavy on creating your own character/party.

Yeah there's basically two things you need to get right for a dungeon crawler; character customization and the dungeons/puzzles. How you could fail on the first one is beyond me since that's literally the easiest part.
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Telmorial Sep 21, 2018 @ 2:31am 
Originally posted by Big Chimpin:
Originally posted by Darx:
i mean i dont understand how they could do such a poor job with a game that is heavy on creating your own character/party.

Yeah there's basically two things you need to get right for a dungeon crawler; character customization and the dungeons/puzzles. How you could fail on the first one is beyond me since that's literally the easiest part.

I agree. I'm no graphic artist but aren't 2d portraits relatively easy compared to the 3d modelling, UI etc?
I'm still not playing the game, just have a weird problem playing a male elf who looks like a female.
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ZiN Sep 21, 2018 @ 3:39am 
Originally posted by Telmorial:
I agree. I'm no graphic artist but aren't 2d portraits relatively easy compared to the 3d modelling, UI etc?

Don't think so. They can purchase cheap 3D assets from the asset-store and mess around with them (in InXile's case, actually making them uglier than ugly), but talented 2D artists aren't that easy to come by.

The cool animated portraits were one of the most memorable things about Bard's Tale for me, so needless to say, I'm very disappointed about the current state of things.
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Falcorian Sep 21, 2018 @ 7:51am 
Hehe... I actually assumed this was a concious decision... i.e. make all Trow look like that but give them male or female voices... and make all elves look somewhat feminine... But I wasn't sure...
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starkmaddness Sep 21, 2018 @ 8:37am 
The sad thing is, the Remastered Bards Tale (of the 30 year old game) has portraits for every class (far more than in this game as well) in both genders. Better looking portraits, too. That project was just a kickstarter bonus. So what happened to this game?
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Telmorial Sep 21, 2018 @ 11:38pm 
Does anyone know if there is a way to mod this? EG. Use one of the human male portraits for my male elf? I can pretend my 'elf' is just hiding his ears :P
Last edited by Telmorial; Sep 21, 2018 @ 11:56pm
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