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g1qcnfvfua66
Seasoned Scout
3 months ago

Request to Restore Pre-Update Face Appearance

 My character’s face has deteriorated to the point of looking like a different person. The attached images show the pre-update face on the top and the post-update face on the bottom. 

In Season 1, I was able to create a clean, pale-skinned face. After the update, even though I kept the same face, dark shading appeared around the eyes and nose. I thought a new feature had been applied, but there is no setting to remove it. Looking closely, even the eyelashes and nose shape have changed. The overall color, including the mouth, is far too dark and cannot be lightened. From a distance, the eyes and nose stand out unnaturally, and the face now looks sickly and unclean, like that of an addict. The body’s pale skin tone has also been reduced by one option.

Changing every graphics setting goes without saying, and none of it makes any difference. I cannot understand why the original appearance was not preserved, or why the facial visuals were degraded. It looks as if an amateur tampered with it. I demand the addition of a feature that restores the character’s appearance to the Season1 version. 

I had been looking forward to Season 2, but this ruined it instantly. I paid for the bus because I liked the face I had created before the update and it made me want to get other outfits and gestures. If my face looked as ugly as it does after the update, I would not have paid.

I want my money back. It feels like a betrayal. If this is not fixed, I will quit.  

6 Replies

  • BitsOfSkin's avatar
    BitsOfSkin
    Rising Traveler
    3 months ago

    All character's faces are now looking really weird, and no matter what I do, my character looks... well, brown, and not a natural shade of brown either, it's brown and grey, like my guy is about to go into cardiac arrest grey.
    Whoever QA tested this should be ashamed of themselves...

  • Exactly like a zombie.
    My character’s pale skin only makes it stand out more.
    The areas around the eyes are discolored like a sick person, the area around the nose looks degraded, as if someone drew brown lines on it, and even the cheeks have diagonal lines that look like bruises.
    On top of that, it’s not just the color—the eyelashes are almost gone, the distance between the mouth and nose is somehow shorter, and the face has become a grotesque, jutting mess.
    The person responsible for these changes clearly has no sense.

    Every time my character faces the camera, every time I look at the character settings screen, I get angry and lose all motivation.
    I want my money back.

  • Dlove4u2's avatar
    Dlove4u2
    Rising Traveler
    3 months ago

    I think they added age and skin markings settings. Honestly we need options to toggle the darkened eyelids and blush too.

  • badgirlmad's avatar
    badgirlmad
    Seasoned Vanguard
    3 months ago

    I was wondering why my character looked like she was dehydrated and running on 3 days of no sleep.

    It seems they've updated the skin textures, it definitely took me a while to get a shade that resembled myself and somewhat presentable face model. Hopefully it's something they can revert with the update, all the options are pretty fugly for the most part.

  • HaZeYaDig's avatar
    HaZeYaDig
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 months ago

    100% agree with this. The update completely changed my character’s face too, even though I didn’t touch any of the settings. The skin tone, shadows, and overall texture look way darker and older, and there’s no way to revert it back to how it looked in Season 1. This isn’t a small tweak, it literally changes the identity of the character people spent hours perfecting. Customization is supposed to be one of the strongest parts of the game, but right now it feels like our characters were replaced without our consent. EA needs to restore the pre-update face options, or give us a toggle to keep the old visuals, because a lot of us were happy with how our skaters looked before the patch. The community isn’t being dramatic, this update actually broke something that wasn’t broken. Please acknowledge this and give us our character faces back. Spent money on the game specially on clothes because I liked the looks of my character and I feel like I got scammed. Now I have an addict with nice clothes. Trully disappointing