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Mass Effect Andromeda Graphical Downgrade
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Fahzgoolin
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Ragnar Blackmane
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Oh god, the nefarious return of the Oblivion character creator.Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
To be fair, the bottom right one is pretty much my reaction right now.
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Looks good to me but maybe I'm just a shill.
Fahzgoolin
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meh...
lol yeah and I hate how they were showing off the new vehicle and the tires were consistently clipping through the model. Just hideous lol
LukasTaves
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Seems like the eyes and the skin deformation got toned down, giving chars this creepy look.
That looks like Faith's half-Latino sister haha.
At least they can do Asian looks okay, I'm all set.
cripterion
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Looks good to me but maybe I'm just a shill.
Yeah this is alright but I've seen the same face already with white hair in the gamespot preview.
Alec Ryder face looks ok, I mean look at the disparity. You can see he looks like a stern man, and the stare doesn't look as derpy as the others. Really confusing why the other faces couldn't be at that same standard.
astroturfing
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my god what horrendous human-ish faces
why can't i just play as a krogan?
why can't i just play as a krogan?
Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
They've all been hitting the botox. Bioware pls.
We in 7th gen still. Seriously, this looks like it was made for Xbox 360. I'm really sad, ME was the main Sci fi franchise in the times of no Star Wars.Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
Sad!
Basketball
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Ammogeddon
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The shiny ruddy skin on Ryder snr reminds me of the King in Taboo.
FunkyDealer
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I made a quick change to CarbonFire's version just to see what it would look like with less red in the eyes.
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CarbonFire's superimposition
Drugs-B-Gone
Skin texture is much nicer in the final version, but those dead eyes man....
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CarbonFire's superimposition
Drugs-B-Gone
Skin texture is much nicer in the final version, but those dead eyes man....
Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
How can they still make the worst hair ever after god knows how many tries. Holy shit that looks bad.
Iriscomeback
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Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
Yikes...
Hopefully these all look better under different lighting conditions.
Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
Yikes. You could import other players faces somehow right? Because these are terrible, almost as terrible as when i try and customize a face myself.
I keep hoping for Bioware to get good... hell, even decent... at hair.
A whole decade later and it seems they still can't do what some companies were doing on PS2 13 years ago.
I don't think its the lighting so much as the make up and hair. But I do think they're probably "fixable" with a bit of work
There's an import feature available, yeah.
Noisepurge
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Eh, Zelda is butt ugly but got 10/10 everywhere. Not worried 
Trickster
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I made a quick change to CarbonFire's version just to see what it would look like with less red in the eyes.
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Drugs-B-Gone
Skin texture is much nicer in the final version, but those dead eyes man....
Man, the difference is just staggering....
Looks good to me but maybe I'm just a shill.
This one looks great. I hope I can make a face as good as this if I play the game.
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
This is also female Ryder. It's a good thing we can customize her.
That looks fairly decent. I imagine all the models above will look much better when they're in-game.
Fahzgoolin
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This is also female Ryder. It's a good thing we can customize her.
Yeah, the problem I have seen reported is that if you mess with the customization a lot, then the lip syncing gets even worse. More air smooching than normal. This one looks darn good though!
This is also female Ryder. It's a good thing we can customize her.
I wonder if I can customize her to look more like her actual face model.
I might try it, actually.
UnluckyKate
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Some of MGSV's variety for comparison, since someone brought up current gen models. Even without being as photorealistic as some games they're still excellent.
Will be interesting to see how flexible the ME:A character creator is.
Jesus any of these look 100% better than the ME:A pre sets
Inferno313
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How many times do we have to go through these threads before you guys just understand this is how game dev works in 2017???
MosquitoSmasher
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Damn they really messed it up. It's not exactly like they were amazing with it in the first place but you just see they really messed up with the eyes for some reason. Who at Bioware sees that and says ''Yeah, let's go with this. This looks pretty damn good''? Jeez. I'm of course referring to the gifs from recent footage now.
It seems that the game has received a noticeable graphical downgrade ever since the first reveal, most notably the eye shaders were drastically reduced among with other post process effects. Considering even the pc 4k version from their videos don't come close to the reveal trailer quality I'm not holding my breath the ps4 pro 1080p mode would introduce these effects back, although i wish they could patch it in the future.
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The first image was fixed with photoshop (no aliasing, specially around eyes) it was created for marketing.
i see non downgrade.
Spiritwalker
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The more I see of this game the less I want it. Gonna wait for reviews.. and discounts.
Trickster
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The eyes from the reveal, superimposed on the latest face does a gigantic difference in making the face look more realistic.
edit - the "drugs-b-gone" version at least does
This is also female Ryder. It's a good thing we can customize her.
this looks alright
Screencaps of the female presets if anyone is interested:
ewwwwwwwww
these look so great compared to the presets, meowsers
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After seeing the atrocities of the character creation, that people would still want to play with anything other than default male or female Ryders... Ugh.
I get that you'd want to customize your avatar, but damn as bad as the default are, they still look way better than any customized character I've seen so far. In 2017, on an engine like the Frostbite 3 and on such a big, high profile AAA game, it's pretty sad. They really dropped the ball on those characters.
Anwyay, won't change the fact I'll be there day one cause game looks awesome anyway.
I get that you'd want to customize your avatar, but damn as bad as the default are, they still look way better than any customized character I've seen so far. In 2017, on an engine like the Frostbite 3 and on such a big, high profile AAA game, it's pretty sad. They really dropped the ball on those characters.
Anwyay, won't change the fact I'll be there day one cause game looks awesome anyway.
i do wish the colourisation of the skin was more in line with the first image though. it's just more interesting to look at, as opposed to the retail version where it's all very monotone blue man group looking.
texture quality is actually improved though. but lighting looks so much flatter.
Trickster
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If the pc can't, then the scorpio can't
Why would you think that? there are multiple engines out there (including Frostbite!) which can in principle render eyes at that fidelity in realtime.
Hell, Epic has eye shading at that fidelity (or better) in their 60 FPS MOBA.
UnluckyKate
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Looks good to me but maybe I'm just a shill.
This really looks good.
We'll need a tutorial tread on how to make decent looking fem shep... That won't fix animation but maybe we can fix goofus faces