Avatara system was removed?

[Westime]

Hello everybody, I Just came back after a while of not playing this game and i remember playing the single player campaign with my own character, was that system removed?
PS: I already looked for the avatara character in cindy's gas station and I didn't find it anywhere :(

[Lyncher]

It was removed last year because it broke the game for many people causing freezes and heavy stuttering which didn't exist in it prior to the update that added it. It made the game pretty much unplayable for anyone effected by it for like 2 years on the steam version. Rather than trying to fix it for everyone last year SE decided to take the lazy approach and just removed it so that's why its no longer accessible.

[CatPerson]

There's a thread somewhere in the forum (search for it) about how to bring back the avatar-look change aspect back if you want, although I think it might affect other things in the game. Or maybe not. I dont' remember or care because I hardly used the feature (except for an occasional giggle) and don't miss it. But some do, and that thread is for them. :)

Otherwise you're stuck to using workshop or Nexus mods to make Noctis look different.

It was never a very good feature, rather half-baked - couldn't even change the voice from male to female, for example, and Noct's model height and animations would always apply, sometimes causing visual weirdness. Plus the moderate to awful performance issues for many people.