Can we have new customization options for existing races?

[Iscah]

That's already confirmed to being worked on. :P

As Rosentretter said, please give a specific source for this.

I find it hard to believe they would be developing such an effort-intensive new feature (which would require altering and checking every pants model in the game) over adding more elements to faces, especially when it has clearly restricted what they can do with the new character designs.

[HyoMinPark]

I’d love to see more additional customization for the existing races.

I’d love to see us be able to use more than one facepaint—like eyeshadow + blush, or eyeshadow + facial tattoo. I’d love to see separation of horns and faces for Au Ra, and the ability to toggle clan stripes on Miqo’te (e.g., allow for cheek stripes, but give an option to hide forehead stripes, or vise versa). I’d like to see the ability to have your eyebrows a different color from your hair color. More features like facial marks/scars on all the faces—some faces have no scar options, while others have 2~3.

I’d also like to see the textures upgraded—Viera have some really nice face textures, and I’d love to see the older races upscaled to that as well.

[SpiritMuse]

I don't know if we can realistically add more sliders/categories, but I would absolutely love more options in each. Especially the faces, there are only 4 faces for each race and that's not a lot considering how many players there are.

[CookiesNCreams]

As Rosentretter said, please give a specific source for this.

I find it hard to believe they would be developing such an effort-intensive new feature (which would require altering and checking every pants model in the game) over adding more elements to faces, especially when it has clearly restricted what they can do with the new character designs.

Fortunately, there is some truth to what he said. Though, he should be more specific, lol. In the 2017 Live Letter in Frankfurt, Yoshi was asked about adding a butt customization slider in the game. He replied “Do you guys really want a butt slider?” There were cheers to do so. So after those cheers, he said “The textures might end up spread out…Well, the NA and EU players seem to really care about the butt slider, at least, so I’ll talk to the graphics team and see what’s possible.”.

This doesn’t necessarily confirm anything. All it means is that Yoshida has talked to the graphics team about it, and there’s a 50/50 chance of it being implemented in the game. This was 2017. We are in 2019 now. I’m sure they’ve had plenty of time to work on that and give more details about the matter.

Maybe Yoshida will announce a buttocks/glute slider in the live letter at E3. All we know is that majority of the live letter will be about crafting and gathering.

That's already confirmed to being worked on. :P

Nothing was confirmed. All Yoshida said was that he would talk to the graphics team about what’s “possible.” Yoshida is a good man, so I’m sure he has been working on it. He may even address it in the next live letter.

[Cyhiwraith]

The real question is why are we wasting that Neir Automa guys time with making crappy 24 mans when he could be the one to remake our old character models and give all of our old races that great butt he can make.

[zeylos]

I wouldn't mind having more options at all really. Also, as for butt sliders, I wouldn't really hold my breath, since that would be probably similar work to a new model, and they'll most likely focus on the missing genders if they can do more models. Also, I think that they could just give us some more options (male hrotgar and female viera hairstyles, elezen shorter neck, female aura taller option, au ra horns not tied to faces) without using too many resources, so I have absolutely nothing against the idea

[Cyhiwraith]

Man, I notice a lot of people say the work of sliders is insanely hard. I've played tons of -free to play- games with sliders that let you go from 3ft to 9ft tall, 80lb to 400lb, and unless you go crazy with them, the clipping is hardly a thing or not that much of a bother. I'd rather have clipping than no slide---- oh wait, we already have tons of clipping. Nevermind. It's hard for me to think a company this huge can't do that as well.

[zeylos]

Man, I notice a lot of people say the work of sliders is insanely hard. I've played tons of -free to play- games with sliders that let you go from 3ft to 9ft tall, 80lb to 400lb, and unless you go crazy with them, the clipping is hardly a thing or not that much of a bother. I'd rather have clipping than no slide---- oh wait, we already have tons of clipping. Nevermind. It's hard for me to think a company this huge can't do that as well.

I think that they can't do that because of 2 reasons: The games with such customization, typically feature either no races or everything is genderlocked, plus they have 1% of the outfits we have here. Then, those companies spend a lot more money on character creation than on outfits, whic his not the case for this game

[Iscah]

Fortunately, there is some truth to what he said. Though, he should be more specific, lol. In the 2017 Live Letter in Frankfurt, Yoshi was asked about adding a butt customization slider in the game. He replied “Do you guys really want a butt slider?” There were cheers to do so. So after those cheers, he said “The textures might end up spread out…Well, the NA and EU players seem to really care about the butt slider, at least, so I’ll talk to the graphics team and see what’s possible.”.

This doesn’t necessarily confirm anything. All it means is that Yoshida has talked to the graphics team about it, and there’s a 50/50 chance of it being implemented in the game. This was 2017. We are in 2019 now. I’m sure they’ve had plenty of time to work on that and give more details about the matter.

Maybe Yoshida will announce a buttocks/glute slider in the live letter at E3. All we know is that majority of the live letter will be about crafting and gathering.



Nothing was confirmed. All Yoshida said was that he would talk to the graphics team about what’s “possible.” Yoshida is a good man, so I’m sure he has been working on it. He may even address it in the next live letter.

That doesn't sound anywhere close enough to "yes" to expect an answer soon, and certainly not to say "they're working on it". All you can say for sure is that they're aware of it.

It's been two years since Yoshida said he'd check whether it was even possible to do it. If they haven't announced anything or talked about it since, then it is quite possible they said no. (Or he never wanted to say yes in the first place, so he gave a very polite and non-commital no.)

Additionally, since then we've had the issue with Viera and Hrothgar, and the recent "letter from the producer" explaining that they have to balance the amount of character models with the amount of gear and testing that is required of them. So it seems even more unlikely that they would undertake this additional work.

Also, on this particular sentence...

This doesn’t necessarily confirm anything. All it means is that Yoshida has talked to the graphics team about it, and there’s a 50/50 chance of it being implemented in the game.

There are two possibilities: it will happen, or it will not happen - but that doesn't automatically mean those possibilities have equal chance of happening.

[CookiesNCreams]

@Iscah

Hm, interesting. What are you implying, though? You don’t think it’ll happen? It doesn’t bother me either way, I’m alright with the current customization, though it wouldn’t hurt to add variety.