Since we already can change our general appearance at the new surgeon, is it too much to ask for these other things that we can’t change?
The voice particularly is important to me. I really dislike my character’s voice and re-starting from zero just to change the voice set is really no bueno for me. Is there a technical reason this isn’t a part of the surgeon’s offerings?
I agree. We shouldn’t be stuck with height or name, especially since duplicate names are allowed anyways. What, the surgeon who can magically change your eye color and skin color can’t change your height, a surgical procedure that we literally have in 2022?
They acknowledged it and said it’s on their radar. They said the remaining cosmetic features being changeable are a low priority to them right now because it’s more technically complicated to set those things than just your face, hair, tats etc…
Basically what they’re saying is changing your voice, height and gender would force a level reload. They set that stuff before your character even loads into the hub, and they’re probably trying to figure out if they can change that dynamically on the fly. But it’s not an out of the box solution and therefore takes lower priority to…the rest of the game.
That’s good. I’m glad it wasn’t a deliberate choice based on in-universe reasons…
There is no sex in the 40k universe. The Emperor doesn’t care what’s between your legs, He cares what’s in your hands.
+1.
I just discovered that height actually plays a role in combat, and I happened to create a tall psyker that cannot safely crouch behind cover - whereas a minimum height psyker can. A small detail that makes a world of a difference. I like to think that this should bump the importance of this issue up a few rungs.
So being anything but the absolute shortest is just a detriment?
I don’t know this for a fact, but I suspect changing player height wouldn’t be hard at all to implement. I also suspect that it could probably be done in a day or so if a dev really worked on it–maybe even less. But these are just suspicions after all–I don’t know.
I very much doubt it’s that complicated–speaking from my experience as a programmer. If it is hard to do, then they messed up badly somewhere in the program’s design. Really important to make attributes mutable.
Since the hight of your character affects the gameplay and your experience with the game, we should be able to change it.
They didn’t mention it will affect your point of view during the character creation. In my opinion it has a big impact, especially on ranged weapons. Constantly aiming up or down because your character is too big or small is an unnecessary inconvenience that needs to be fixed.
im here because i play a female psyker at minimum height and its extremely difficult to get headshots in melee because im shorter than even basic humanoid enemies. i had no idea this would be an issue in character creation and now im level 20 and dont want to restart the grind just because of that issue.