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[Jaroth Corbett]

How personal are we going to be able to make our characters? Will it be along the lines of Mass Effect 2?

Edited by Jaroth Winson, 08 December 2011 - 12:03 PM.

[Stormwolf]

Jaroth Winson, on 08 December 2011 - 12:00 PM, said:

How personal are we going to be able to make our characters? Will it be along the lines of Mass Effect 2?

I hope so, I would even like to see stuff like piercings and tattoos added to the mix.

[fakey]

I'm more interested in being able to give my mech a super awesome paint job. I mean my enemies aren't going to be looking at my mug when I fill them full of AC20 rounds.

[Holmes]

Sorry fakey, I'm with the first two posts. Especially if our avatar is based on our pilot, I'd like to make me.

[Hunter McGee]

YES!!! Full generation and Avatars would be beyond Awesome!

[Sir Aaron]

And please female characters as well. There are many known female Mech pilots in the game/books what ever. It would be cool too if you can walk around the base from the mission room to the hangar and such. Dont need much more then the base anyway but would add a lot to the feeling.

[frostfly]

Don't count on it. I'd wager our "mechwarriors" will be names and nothing else. Our mech will be what people see.

[Sir Aaron]

One can always hope

[Tweaks]

In the Hunchback cockpit artwork that has been posted in the Media section, you can see a small screen with the face of someone (masked behind a helmet), so that leaves the door opened to interpret that there might be visible avatars after all (at least the face).

[Holmes]

frostfly, on 08 December 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

Don't count on it. I'd wager our "mechwarriors" will be names and nothing else. Our mech will be what people see.

Explain the forum avatars then?

[AcesHigh]

forum avatars are a standard feature of most BBS. This one seems to be using a tight-edit of VB(VB generic markers not displayed, renamed buttons, HTML skin).

I'm betting they are not enabled right now to save disk space, and once the game goes gold they'll give out certain avatars with level&house (rank) and have us pay $ to upload customs.

[Halfinax]

I suspect, based on the fact that our forum names are our Mechwarrior names, that our forum avatars will be our game avatars. They just aren't sure what to allow just yet. I'm suspecting they, PGI, are mulling over letting us upload our own avatars or creating a series of standardized avatars.

[Dlardrageth]

To be perfectly honest, I'd rather have some background trait/biography option instead of a gazillion ways to influence the facial features only. Wouldn't necessarily have to influence actual gameplay, although e.g. different sound packs influenced by the background could be fun, I reckon.

Also of interest could be if we can just personalize the facial features, or get options for the whole body (within limits, no extra set of arms&hands obviously, duh). After all, one would expect the typical Kurita Warrior to look a tad different from the typical Steiner one.

[Tierloc]

If my dream turns into reality, there would be some soft of avater personalization for when you're not in a match.

[Holmes]

Halfinax, on 09 December 2011 - 01:47 AM, said:

I suspect, based on the fact that our forum names are our Mechwarrior names, that our forum avatars will be our game avatars. They just aren't sure what to allow just yet. I'm suspecting they, PGI, are mulling over letting us upload our own avatars or creating a series of standardized avatars.

Exactly my point.

[Helmer]

Would be a nice feature, very low on my list of things I'd like to see, but it would still be cool to see.

[Evgeny Bear]

I love the Charackter Creator of EVE online. with some more Clothes it is something really cool and free, to create individual charackters

[Aescwulf]

Depends to be honest, I'm not bothered about Character Creation I'd just use a picture of me

[Brenden]

Well, in the event that we are more then just names might I suggest something?
A helmet, some body armor etc.?
After all, my character is always clad in body armor and most of the time uses a voice modulator when it speaks.

[Dragorath]

I would like to create an avatar in a lot of ways, this increases the bond to this game, but even more interesting is the paint job of your mech. It could cost even a little bit to change the painting, but not too much. That way you can change the colour depending on the planet/area where you are or point yourself out like Natasha Kerensky, if you like :-)