No matter how hard you try, the characters in this game always end up looking ugly, and the hairstyles are garbage too. that’s why cosmetics like hoods and goggles that hide the face and hair are so popular. In that case, having fixed characters with personality like in VT2 would have been better.
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Curious does she still play?
I think this issue maybe related to some player retention, people being naturally vain / self -interested. While it may also weed some out and leave more hardcore fans… I’d still like to see FS games be successful on a broader scale… more income being faster updates? maybe.
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I still can’t pin it is that a Zealot or Psyker? Think the weapon skin is a Crusher but the head pieces screams Psyker @.@
I feel like the poll could be subdivided into:
Faces:
- Females: Almost all are incredibly unattractive and ugly, but maybe two of the female faces which at least look normal. There are certainly no stunners on the Mourningstar. But hey I suppose that explains the complete absence of voicelines that even imply romance. Everyone loses their appetite when they actually look at each other.
- Males: Mostly unattractive but it’s less bad than for the females.
Hairstyles:
- Both Male and Female: Most hairstyles are bordering on actually repulsive (character looks like either an actively decaying corpse, or suffering from acute radiation sickness), with a few “canonical”-looking ones that are fine. I think maybe one of the haircuts could be considered actually attractive. There’s a painful lack of variety because everyone takes the one or two half-way decent ones.
- Ogryns: Ogryn is for smash and ratiuns, not pretty. Except purple sparks, they pretty.
Beards:
- Most ogryn beards are awesome, most vet/zealot beards are average to crappy. There’s a decent stache.
Body cosmetics:
- Painful lack of distinguishing male from female body types. Everything is unisex, nothing is form fitting, next to nothing enhances or exaggerates masculine or feminine features. I think there should also be some sort of slider option to control feminine vs masculine traits, and overall bodyweight within certain limits (like there is for height). And this should affect the cosmetics too of course.
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Impossible! But good luck.
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I thought about it too but when people tend to rate others attractiveness its over the whole shahbang and not subdivided… unless the conversation continues… =)
Basically the poll can be divided into the three genders of Darktide: Male, Female, and Ogryn.
Male? While moderately fugly, you can sometimes use the meth-heads to make sense (unhinged fanatics, half-starved conscripts) and there’s a couple that look ‘normal’. Hairstyles are typically either ‘shoulder length with tieback’ or shaved to some degree. Or the meme hair for psykers and zealots.
Female? Only 1 or 2 ‘normal’ faces and the rest are just kinda…there. People expect ‘rugged, battered features’ on men, have a double standard for women, so the non-normal ones look ‘worse’ to most players. Personally I think the hairstyles and body type play a larger role overall in making them look ‘bad’.
Ogryn? 10/10, no notes. Big fella is supposed to look like that.
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The better question is: why would I care?
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What is Tech neck?
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The faces I don’t mind. Heck, I added horribly disfiguring scars to all my peeps quite on purpose.
But I would like some more hairstyles that look better than “cut in a prison bathroom with a dull piece of glass” kind of look.
It’s a real shame they aren’t purchaseable or anything. Would let us burn some more dockets if Krall would open a little sub-shop selling hairstyles. Or even face-styles given what he does.
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I wish they would add some more glamorous looking faces, just so that the people who want them can have them. I like the current faces we have, both male and female. They’re more characterful and that makes them more interesting to me (purely my opinion).
Long hair though? Your choices are long hair with random bit chopped out whilst hanging in multiple chunks of strands going in different directions as though the person has never seen a hairbrush, comb, or any brush at all before, or to have enormous volume of hair held in place by some magic hair ring, or a severe bob cut now available with half the back of the head removed! Shave yours now! Where are the most basic forms of long hair? Loose and long, and tied back in a tail? Or even the most basic variation of that, the plait/braid? Hell, I’d love a nod to House Escher with mohawks and other punky hair styles, but that’s a bit far for this rant.
I think in this regard they were so busy trying to make long hair ‘40k-style’ that they did not even cover the very basic of basic ways humans wear their hair long. I’ve gone 20 years with not chopping random chunks out of my own - and I assure you it is rather lucscious - long hair, nor have I put it into a plait or braid by my cheeks or running over my scalp and then buzzed around it.
But, hey, that’s just me …
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If she does then she hasn’t told me 
though she’s legitimately busy so it’s hard to say
This is a Zealot!
Tech neck is overly forward heads / necks commonly cause by using technology ie monitors, tvs, cell phones… possibly reading.
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I’d love to have normal woman looking hands and not crocodile paws our ladies have ingame.
proves our point, their proportion looks feminine, i’ve met more masculine women at my workplace than these female soldiers
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No and i am fine with that, finally characters i can associate myself with.
Also nutrition is horrible in wh 40k, i wouldn’t be suprised if nurgle heretics has a better food than imperial soldiers. Also nutrition is horrible in wh 40k, i wouldn’t be suprised if nurgle heretics has a better food than imperial soldiers.
“And in fashion news this week, ’ baggy rectangle’ is now considered the peak of feminine style. All eyes are on the hot new summer trends that we’ll surely be seeing this season.”