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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8856853" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah they've got usually between 4-6 faces per race/gender (with some resuse between humans and half-elves maybe? Might have changed), like 30+ hairstyles, which I think are now no longer gender-specific and most races have access to all of them, a fairly pathetic array of make-up/tattoo options, and a bazillion hair/eye/skin colour options, some of which are genuinely cool and it is cool that you can switch between "canon" options and "all".And that's it.Height? No. Build or weight? No. Anything about face shape or facial features, like eye shape or nose shape or head width? Nope. Just absolutely no options except the 4 to 6 faces. Which given how much of the game is spent in conversations, often on close-ups of your PC's face, is kind of odd. Games where you barely see yourself often have more options.Normally the upside of this is that you get better-than-usual face/body animations, but that is er... definitely not the case. The facial animation is... not good. It definitely doesn't look mocap'd for the PC (but does for some NPCs), and is mostly rather exaggerated and looks sort of like you're flicking between a handful of mime-like expression emotes from an older MMO. It looks like they're still doing the mocap work for the combat and stuff, and maybe they're going to improve the animation at least? Probably not though. I wish they would, because the mime-expressions look so dumb that they're actually anti-immersive. Just don't show my character if you're going to stick a comical look of surprise or disgust on their face lol for god's sake.EDIT - Apparently there's a lot of speculation that Patch 9 will include more body-types, based on data-mining. Trouble is, this has happened with games before, where NPCs and others have a variety of body-types, but the PC remains locked to one (Cyberpunk 2077 is a great example) and even mods can't get around it in a meaningful way (2077 has plenty of mods or er... porn-up that body and slightly fix how you look in third person, but not say to make you one of the many big bulky people, not even like your buddy Jackie).EDIT EDIT - They've also apparently said they've been considering holding some races back until full release. Personally I take this as "We're going to wait until the game releases to drop the bomb that there will be no Dragonborn in the game, even as NPCs", but perhaps I am too cynical.</blockquote>

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