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Hi firends,

I would like to ask/suggest, if there will be only one (human) playable race? I think that would be shame. I bought pre-release and game is awesome, this would be next huge boost to the game.

I think you can offer lot of freedom and fun by providing another races for character with their special bonuses/abilities.

Good job.
Thanks
Lukas

Ha ha ha, that's totally not happening. Consider yourself lucky if you get multiple models for the humans.

The reason why is that Larian doesn't want the race choosing to be only a cosmetic factor, and so they'd have to add in a ton of dialogue changes to have NPC's react to you differently and such, and then you'd have to alter the way equipment looks on the characters models... it's just a super-crazy amount of work, and that takes a lot of time and money that Larian does not have.

yeah and the history is also human oriented, that would be weird to play undead or orc ^^

I would love to see it done if possible XD!!

just ask the modders then

Yeah but hopefully it won't be really hard if they decide to put in voice acting and whole bunch of other things in...

I hope if we do have voice acting please lets us have a feature where we can select the voices so we don't get sad faces when the modders have to find the way meet the voice acting for the game because it's really hard to do for some of them...

I would love some interracial action.

Without going into plot spoilers, some elements of the current beta suggest that the PCs potentially being nonhuman isn't entirely out of place on the thematic front.

The mechanics of it, on the other hand... sticking to a generic model (equipment doesn't change the character's appearance) might not be too much trouble, but remodeling everything for individual races is probably best left to really dedicated modders.

I'm just hoping any elven and dwarven NPCs we run into eventually get proper elf and dwarf models, instead of being bald humans.

I'm looking at you, Eglandaer.

Honestly, between his human look and his unusual manner of speech, the first time I ran into this fellow I thought I was dealing with an old, crazy human who was convinced he was an elf. Then I thought "Maybe this is just an alpha thing where the art isn't ready yet..".

Now we're nearing launch and he still looks like a bald human.

But maybe we get non-human companions? Or if not, we can make them with the editor..

It shouldn't be difficult to add nonhuman companions. The challenge is on the art side - it's a lot of extra modeling work if you want something that's capable of displaying equipped gear (and isn't just a human model with a different head or somesuch), but if you just want something like a dog companion and don't care about equipment display then it shouldn't be much trouble.

It could be kinda funny to have an orc companion wearing her ritual bikini even if we equip plate armor on her.