Spent an hour or so putting together a Ryder I liked, and I was reasonably happy with the result. After hearing about how difficult it was to make a good-looking white character I decided to try to branch out for once, and I'm actually happy I did:
(Sorry for phone camera pic, I haven't figured out how best to take screenshots in Origin.)
I think I'm reasonably satisfied with her, but man the complaints about animations were no joke -- my biggest problem is that she's always staring at the fucking ground. She has such awful neck posture, which makes her look depressed all the time, and makes the already rough lighting on her face look even worse.
On top of that, this is far more minor but it really frustrates me that I can't use the analog stick to rotate my characters in the menus. I feel like that's a really standard feature that these games should just have at this point. It was really egregious in character creation, when I couldn't really make the character look at the camera in useful ways, but I'm sure that's been complained about to death.
Those two problems aside, I'm having a good time with the game. Started on Hardcore but frustratedly turned it down to Normal after dying in a somewhat long stretch on the prologue planet because I couldn't save before the battle, which tilted me a lot. I'll probably do an Insanity run after beating the game when I feel much more comfortable with the controls, but Normal actually feels like a pretty reasonable difficulty.
