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I hope the game has decent hairstyle options for everybody but more specifically I'm hoping for some decent black male hairstyles.

I know the game isn't out, just wanna put this out their before I forget and hopefully before they're done making new hairstyles for the game.

My hope for AoC is that they have good options for black male hair, not asking for a ton but 4-8 (excluding bald lol) solid hair styles is enough imo. Here are some examples of good hair styles from these games 1

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There are probably other people who don't find great hairstyle options in games so I doubt this is just an issue with black male hairstyles but I don't really know about other ethnicities/cultures hairstyles like that. Feel free to give your own hairstyle suggestions you rarely see or want to see.

Mini Rant:

I spend a fair bit of time in the character creator in every game I play. After playing BG3, Starfield and Cyberpunk (again) I've realized that the options for black male hairstyles in these games are terrible at worst, and are lacking a selection of solid options at best.

BG3 had like 2/3 options and they were all kinda ass. Starfield was a bit better having 6/8 with 2 of em being really good and 2 being solid. Cyberpunk is kinda an in-between with 5/7 and 3 of em being solid imo.

I think the worst offender of a modern game though was Elden Ring with 3 terrible options being, bald, less bald, sh*tty short afro.

What sucks is that I've seen games with amazing options like Hogwarts Legacy, Animal Crossing, 2k and GTA even the Saints Row reboot had some good ones. What sucks even more is that besides Hogwarts Legacy and GTA5's story, I didn't really enjoy any of these games so I couldn't even use these hairstyles.

In terms of MMOs, all BDO's are really solid although they don't have a huge variety. New World technically had 4/5 but they were all pretty bad but tbf the hair in NW isn't that amazing to begin with.

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We definitely want to give players as much freedom as we can for character creation, while still maintaining the look and feel of Ashes of Creation. Hairstyles is just one part of that.

If you didn't see the Alpha Two Character Creator Development Update, we shared a little bit about this in that stream. Here's a timestamp to one of those conversations.