I'm fine with basic character creation options since we are first person. In a third person game, I want a lot of freedom in how my character looks because I see the character all the time. With first person, I only see my character if I'm driving, so I don't really care about it. It does provide some variety when seeing other characters but considering you are usually only seeing a handful of players unless you're using the larger servers, that isn't even an issue. I'm certainly not against having options but I don't think it needs anywhere near the level of Bethesda. The best character creation options I've seen in a game aren't even from Bethesda but were for the MMO game called Aion. I have no idea if the game still offers the same customization options it did when it first came out, but I'd assume so. They went beyond anything Bethesda has done. But that's for a game with a lot of people where you need enough variety to keep things from looking stale. And you were in third person so saw yourself.
They should add a hotkey to switch between first and third person and let us drive in first or fight in third person too.
What they have now actually is what i call Bethesda style: A base body and sliders to adjust bone scalings. It is somewhat bugged currently, but it is the right concept for this type of game and in principle allows for loads of customization with minimal 3D artist exhaustion. They might just need to fix the rig and add more bones to it. They could also redetail the mesh a bit - but it actually is acceptable as it is as long as they don't add a closeup portrait mode for quast dialogs...
The best character creator i encountered so far was in the MMORPG Chimeraland. They've gone real nuts with their body selection wheel. It wouldn't make sense for them to copy that as limiting the player race to more or less deformed humans is fine for this sort of game.
Yeah, that eye balls are creepy as @%$# - they are barely okay for my dirty-green-skinned and lank survivor.[...] and third person with eyeballs showing.
Well, everyone has different ideas of what is good in a given game. For me, I barely even touch what we have because it is a first person game. Some will go crazy with what we have regardless. As I mentioned, I'm fine with a lot of options even with it being mostly first person. I just don't think it is all that necessary. Considering the models they are showing, I am not expecting as much choice when they change to those but we will see.
If they added third person for walking around and fighting, then I would be more interested in character customization. I think that would be a good option. Right now, we just have third person and third person with eyeballs showing.
Yeah, the invisibility dye of some mods should make it into vanilla, so we can get the stats of armor while still showing some skin and the latest savage country fashion.
