Wow, some of them look REALLY good now. Others definitely look unrealistic. I've definitely noticed the characters are starting to look much better. Sora really rocking blonde and brunette out here.
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I believe most of the faces aren't handcrafted but automatically generated. So what they are doing is optimising character generation, which doesn't always result in direct improvements but makes sense in the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if faces change several times until release, and no, that's not a waste of time (just in case some random dude from the internet believes he is better at making video games).
anon2k
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WTF did they do to Garios? If it ain't broken, why bother fixing it? Previous look of characters was perfect as far as I can tell. And why add some random black dudes to southern kingdom? If you want diversity then expand the map and make a faction based on african kigdoms. Same thing with random Vikings stuff in sturgia... just add a viking faction, instead of appealing to vikingboos by giving kiev rus random Viking helmets. It looks out of place.
Some of faces look ridiculous, like Tharos,Debana,Sanion,Vipon... and some aren't bad looking but don't make sense, like Eutropius and Patyr who suddenly changed skin colour to black, they are from clan Pethros, the ruling family of the Southern Empire, I would not have a problem with it if they have their own clan but I don't see how they can be related to the ruling family. Also for Ira I feel like the new look is not bad but the old one fits her description and character traits much better.
TheDarkerStar
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Don't change Vipon, we need characters like Gregor Clegane.
Nizar and Deshavi were black and in Warband, with Deshavi definitely being native Calradian.
CKyHC
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They were commoners, not nobles, and are you even sure that Deshavi was black? She was dark skinned to be sure, but not every dark skinned person is African. Her name sounded more Indian to me which makes me think that she's a Romani-like (unfortunately better known as Gypsies) kind of character. She also was born around Tihr a region which would have experience large population changes (as Tihr (Tirby?) isn't even a town in banner-lord) between the two games.
Also the two characters in question for bannerlord, aren't part of some minor imperial clan. They are part of Arenicos's clan (The one that ruled the entire empire before it all went to hell). I really hope that this was an unintended change that occurred when they adjusted the character creation system.
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I'm judging by her face, not her name. It is clearly African. Anyway, no one ever brings it up in-game. People in Calradia just don't seem to care that much.
Stabitha VMF
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Really not feeling the new Khuzait faces. Abagai's lost all her character and Mesui's looking good for a 40 something warlord living out on the steppe. Thinking about it Abagai looks more like Mesui than Mesui does, and none of them seem particularly Mongolian any more.
Randlocher
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This... I don't understand why no one else sees this either.
they should change the quests to "Restore de Presidency" or "Destroy the Presidency", also, Nozhon should be voiced by Tropico's tutorial guy, perfect!
I also like the direction they're taking with this. A little bit of exaggeration also makes it easier to remember faces when you have hundreds of characters in the world.
Lesbosisles
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Bloody hell, is that how Abagai looks in your version? She looks like a man with a clumsy military make-up! Well, I'm on the beta branch 1.3.0 now, and this is how she looks like in my versionof the game.
Faces only update when you start a new campaign. Looks like yours is from 1.3.0 base, before any of the hotfix changes.Bloody hell, is that how Abagai looks in your version? She looks like a man with a clumsy military make-up! Well, I'm on the beta branch 1.3.0 now, and this is how she looks like in my versionof the game.
Rozhivol looks utterly bizarre to me. How often in real life do you come across people looking like him, Sanion, Ulbos or Manteos. Their proportions just don't make sense and then coupled with their huge burly bodies make them look really strange.
Some of them do look good and realistic, and they did look a little too bland before... but now some of them have gone full-on cartoon style. Like they were modelled after 'Spitting Image' characters.
The Khuzait men and women got hit the hardest though. They look rather questionable now in their depiction... like they were based on propaganda posters from World War 2. I'm not all up-in-arms about this with the previous statement... but it's just honestly what I first thought of when I saw the new Khuzait styles.
The elongated faces, huge noses and over-exaggerated chins really don't seem fitting for a lot of the new designs.
Some of them do look good and realistic, and they did look a little too bland before... but now some of them have gone full-on cartoon style. Like they were modelled after 'Spitting Image' characters.
The Khuzait men and women got hit the hardest though. They look rather questionable now in their depiction... like they were based on propaganda posters from World War 2. I'm not all up-in-arms about this with the previous statement... but it's just honestly what I first thought of when I saw the new Khuzait styles.
The elongated faces, huge noses and over-exaggerated chins really don't seem fitting for a lot of the new designs.
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Lesbosisles
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Nooo, bring me this lovely face back! The new designs are bad