Reader poll: Which MMO offered the best character customization in 2020? Black Desert took our award for Best MMO Character Creation in 2020. While it has some flaws like genderlocking which should not exist in multiplayer games – no character customization in any game is perfect and at least in BDO you can create a character that is visually attractive and not just a mess of heavily desaturated colors with low-res textures (hello Bethesda and Blizzard!). …I would argue WoW has the most improved CC for this year. BDO’s only really good in terms of what you can do while working with a high quality character model, but if we’re going by Asian MMOs then I’m pretty sure Blade and Soul beats BDO by a good amount, especially since you don’t have to deal with gender locking. Yes, but i’m talking on a scope of the entire character creation. 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Good idea imo. :). GW2 doesn’t allow you to customize body type besides some presets, ESO does but it’s lacking on the hairstyle department and also it’s limited. BodySlide (and installed sliders for RaceMenu) Player Size Adjuster (for similar height. Also, it is new (to our region) and that gets bonus points on end-of-year lists imo. Why ZOS? "Arturia has done the original Jupiter-8 justice. And the MassivelyOP staff pick for the Best MMO Character Customization of 2020 is…. Still it’s got a long way to go before it’s even remotely in CoH territory though. Between all the little specific edits and sliders you can make some wild characters. Tyler Edwards: I still don’t think anything quite tops Aion, though City of Heroes is a pretty solid choice as well. Alternate Start- Live Another Life. The site’s award goes to the staff selection, but we’ll include both it and the community’s top nomination in our debrief in January. That’s just my personal opinion, and different people will obviously have different concept of attractiveness. We have no idea! MJ Guthrie: Yipes! I'd love some appearance tokens as daily rewards, but I can use race ones for that, so yes. People voted for ESO? Global Chat: Does permadeath mode in MMOs have merit? Unless F2P players are woefully limited. When raining you will see the effect of shiny wet surfaces similar to ESO. And there are games that allow you to freely customize your skills and build, even changing on the go. "Yes" because I know other players would like that but "No" because I wouldn't have any use to it since I've played Nord in every ES game and will keep doing so (even if they are nerfing them to the ground!!) I’ve been a longtime player of BDO and also a pretty active player with multiple characters on Homecoming, definitely agreed with BDO winning just because of how many character presets I’ve come up with and shared in the character gallery just for others to play with them. BDO I think sure, but nearly every character seems to end up looking essentially like an asian girl. Here’s a category you’d think was made for me, right? Still have the 3 free tokens tokens from that changes to racials update. Will this award be around next year? CoH continues to provide evidence that sometimes the good old days were indeed better than today. Yep! Brianna Royce: City of Heroes, Black Desert, Guild Wars 2. In the meantime, I can get behind Black Desert. The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best crafting (not gathering/trading) experience? 9. Today is my first day back to ESO in a few days. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, I wouldn't mind an appearance token or two. Alcasthq.com focuses on Builds & Guides for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). After all, making toons is one of the few things pretty much every MMO and every MMO player truly has in common. As much as I love Black Desert character creator, it has too many weird arbitrary restrictions (like gender locks) for me to say it’s the best. No, I'd prefer they remove something that should be a basic feature of the game from the bloody cash shop and put it in the actual game. Would be nice, but I only play khajiit regardless of what happens. /mrlexport - Opens a GUI for exporting known/unknown recipes to text. SEARCH OR TRACK BY IMPROVEMENT LEVEL: New in version 1.52 is the ability to show all recipes of an improvement level … Too bad the game itself doesn’t hold a candle to the customization. I know there’s always game X or game Y that gets forgotten here and there, but in this case PSO2 is very much competing for the top spot in this category. Been sick. Browse our listings to find jobs in Germany for expats, including jobs for English speakers or those in your native language. Who is Jacob Anthony Chansley? They did last time they did something similar, tho i cannot remember wich patch it was. Appearance alone or name perhaps but race isn't really a big deal to me. /mrl reposition - Resets GUI position if moved off screen. So don’t forget to cast your own vote in the just-for-fun reader poll at the very end! I wouldn't mind an appearance token or two. Nothing’s really going to beat City of Heroes in terms of what you can actually put together. Put anything in that offers “freshness” and will make people desire to play. A brand-new award? It all depends on what you define as customization. With ESO being a MMO and being console compatible I feel like character models lost almost all distinguishing racial features or proportions. With ESO being a MMO and being console compatible I feel like character models lost almost all distinguishing racial features or proportions. UPDATE: ENB v0.372 introduces Detailed Shadows which greatly improves the visual appearance especially of character faces for a very minor performance hit. Really not sure how you pick a game with race/gender-locked classes as having the “best character customization.”. Enabled by default. Thanks for the second shout out. We don’t have a hard vote, but we do include written commentary from every writer who submitted it on time so that you can see where some of us differed, what our secondary picks were, and why we personally nominated what we did (or didn’t). My vote for GW2 is largely because of the Sylvari, my favorite fantasy race ever. It would be cool to swap who my crafter is. My new Homecoming dark/energy blaster named “Major Award”. Or you can directly go to builds that are optimized for things like pve solo content, pve group content or pvp content. This, of course, is helped out with some new options added by the folks handling the Homecoming rogue servers, but the fact remains that, as far as complete customization goes, from looks to powers, City of Heroes is still the undefeated champion. I don’t really think anything tops City of Heroes for character customization, not even the other superhero titles, so it’ll be lovely when it’s official again (ahem) so we can give it awards. Nothing’s really going to beat City of Heroes in terms of what you can actually put together. UPDATE: I LOVE the customizations options. CO pretty much allows you to create whatever the hell you’re feeling. MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with… what’s this? Because there are games with a generous character creation, including styles, colors, even sliders for every possible feature. I was pleasantly surprised to see the addon had update 4.0 with the suggestions I requested. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. But I am giving the tip top slot to Secret World Legends for nailing two out of three of these categories. I can’t believe how long I spend creating my best character just to see a helmeted shrunken toons backside for the vast majority of the game. Justin Olivetti: City of Heroes, Guild Wars 2, Champions Online. Not only has the company captured the original instrument's essence and character, but have upped the ante by adding new and creative touches that expand the reach of its sound. Personally, I'd prefer a name change token. Hi Projectile. Tons of new sliders available through Racemenu to edit things to your liking; Compatible with body replacers such as CBBE and UNP; Get the mod here./se version. It would be nice to have on the rotation once in awhile. And different games top the lists in each of these. I play characters, not builds, which means I'm not changing races. I have a. I know that some people would be concerned about "abuse" but I'm still debating how to best use the race change tokens I last received. Content on Alcasthq.com. This year we’re debuting a new formal award for Best MMO Character Customization. Because Siege is a fairly competitive shooter, Aim Assist is automatically disabled for all players while in an online match. Sure the game has gender locked classes but to be fair they’ve been adding more female variants of the same classes with enough differences to feel like they’re more then just a variant. Is it just character creation? Now Argonians and Khajiit have tails and otherwise all races are have essentially identical silhouettes. On January 9, Angeli was arrested and... brought up on U.S. federal charges of "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds". Poll options include all MMOs nominated plus a few others we thought should be included. Our team gathers together to nominate and discuss candidates and hopefully settle on a consensus winner.