Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback No face sliders, but we get genital customization? What BS is that?

This interview reveals that the reason face sliders weren't added to BG3 was because, in games with sliders, players would generally create similar-looking faces to one another.

https://80.lv/articles/larian-explained-why-there-are-no-face-sliders-in-baldur-s-gate-3/

Excuse me, but...so the fuck what? Who cares? Does it affect Larian's bottom line if players like making generically attractive faces or something? That's why we're stuck to choosing between only ~8 heads?

The fact that genitals apparently get the same level of customization as faces do is particularly hilarious. Apparently your junk deserves no less attention than your face does, despite your face being visible at all times.

This is a silly reason to not have face sliders. I really hope it was just a bad excuse to cut down on development time, because the reason they gave is just absurd.

The game uses scanned faces, you dont get that level of quality with sliders...

The real crime is that there are only two proper Dwarf beards!

I don't buy that. One, because you can implement sliders onto scanned faces, and two, because Tav doesn't speak and therefore has limited facial animations to account for when implementing sliders.

100% AGREE

and the one with the braids, you can barely see. Piss poor job on dwarves period imo, Please Larian look at the artwork in the 3.0 PHB for suggestions.

Fwiw, even a quick look into EA shows a ton of facial animation. The characters are probably the most expressive I've seen. So idunno about 'limited facial animations'.

Yeah I said "limited" not "none". Tav doesn't have to move his mouth to talk so therefore there's significantly fewer facial positions to consider when compared to NPCs and origin characters.

It’s perhaps important to note that we don’t get true genital sliders either. We just have options to pick from the same as faces.

Quality, lol. Elves in fantasy are usually regarded as being beautiful. All the faces for male elves in EA have pinheads, and have weird facial proportions. All but 1. I'll take sliders over these heads any day.

Those are actual people's faces my dude.

N7 is right. The facial presets allow for a level of graphical and animation level fidelity you struggle to achieve with sliders. It’s why Larian does presets and not sliders, except with textures and colours.

I’m kind of hoping they continue to add cosmetic things like faces, hairstyles, body types, and armors to the game post-launch, either for free or as DLC (I know Larian doesn’t typically do DLC but maybe things will be different with BG3 given how massive it is). Would be great if there was a way to change your character’s appearance in the game to make use of them.

I want extremely tiny genitals to go with my male pattern baldness. It just really completes the look.

If I do decide to romance someone I just want to make sure they are thoroughly disappointed.

I would say poor job on ALL races but humans. They all look like humans in disguised. Elves don't look like elves, gnomes don't look like gnomes, dwarfs just look awful like in DOS...Body proportions are all weird (being like humans) and un-D&D. But hey, face animations are amazing.

They designed the races AROUND humans instead of starting from scratch for each races. Thats how I view it anyways.
And is it me or does everyone just look overly feminin? Also genital customization but no boob slider? Am I missing something? Some kind of inside joke on guys at Larian?

My hope in modders, hate to see in game identical twins of my Tav.

I have been using an incredible mod for faces all these years and I'm not playing on release without it xD

Yeah the template thing is a bummer, I mentioned in a another thread if you are either black or asian you just get one face to pick up. Shit ain't cool.

Yup.

Genitals like faces are also given as several pre-made choices

Won't you be able to create characters you like or smth? With the current character creation options.