You’ll need to be more specific.
More races is actually an interesting request. The reason being is the races in the game are presets. If you pick a Darfari and change their skin tone, default face, and other features you can make them look like a Vanir Nordenheimer. Not just look ‘like’ but be identical to the Nordenheimer entry itself. I don’t think we’re going to see new races as its impact is minimal. You can make your character look like nearly every human race in from any setting you want, not just Howard’s setting
For body sliders, I don’t see this being a thing. We have mods that do it, and they’re great. Don’t get me wrong, I use them nearly exclusively when I play outside of testing (sometimes I even plop them in if they’re not broken on the newer builds).
But they have issues. When you go outside the default vanilla limits or modify something the vanilla sliders don’t modify, there is clipping in hair and clothing, physics on both can get a little wonky too. And this isn’t a simple fix Funcom could fix by simply being the ones who do it. It has to do with how the meshes interact with the skeletons. They’ve only set it up by default to work with their already established limits.
Fixing this would mean interacting with all of the meshes created since 2017. Is it impossible? Nothing is impossible. Is it viable? Does the effort result in payout?
What I can say is Funcom does know we want these options. They want them too. The question is whether or not someone comes up with a breakthrough method of making it work that cuts down on the workload. Its possible. I’ve seen this happen in other things that were ‘hard’ in this game and others. Sometimes all it takes is a new guy with another perspective to see something others didn’t. Or just an idea randomly. We’ll see it if they do.
They aren’t sitting around a table going, “well… we’re not sure the players really want this.” They know we do, and they want it as much if not more than we do. It will happen if they figure a way to do so without needing to redo the several hundred meshes in a untimely manner.
Hairstyles, faces, beards, scars, and so forth. Oh yeah we can see these somewhat easily. I’m surprised we haven’t seen very much since Siptah. Not even in the Bazaar.
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