But I am giving the tip top slot to Secret World Legends for nailing two out of three of these categories. "Arturia has done the original Jupiter-8 justice. The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best crafting (not gathering/trading) experience? I have a really minor change I'd like to make, but I can't bring myself to spend 1000 crowns to fudge one slider a bit in such a way that nobody but me will even notice. Can really only justify BDO if the only thing you’re customizing is the appearance of your character’s face (and even then, customization is minimal since it’s all built off of tweaks to existing templates). Massively Overthinking: Do you need to be the hero in MMOs? Elder Scrolls Online appeals to a diverse customer base that view and play the game in different ways. Alternate Start- Live Another Life. MJ Guthrie: Yipes! 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. Red Dead Online hands out new solo missions via telegram, offers... VR MMO Zenith returns from radio silence with a sneak peek... Something else (tell us in the comments! I consider customization to also be outfits and equipment, so i’m going for Champions Online. WHY?? Still it’s got a long way to go before it’s even remotely in CoH territory though. And the MassivelyOP staff pick for the Best MMO Character Customization of 2020 is…. The Daily Grind: What’s your absolute favorite dungeon in an MMORPG? Nothing’s really going to beat City of Heroes in terms of what you can actually put together. 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. The Daily Grind: What MMORPG would’ve performed better had it launched in a different year? We have no idea! After all, making toons is one of the few things pretty much every MMO and every MMO player truly has in common. That doesn’t make it an obvious or easy choice. Was Phantasy Star Online 2 left out unintentionally? You can do those on CO. Where is VRChat option? And different games top the lists in each of these. Really not sure how you pick a game with race/gender-locked classes as having the “best character customization.”. You can’t for instance, put dresses or skirts on men, which is bothering me greatly because i was trying to make a Warrior Priest and a Plague Doctor. Besides, it's also nice to have a token even if you're not gonna use it so you can bring your character into a nice room to get a good look/take notes of what sliders you used. SWL does these both very well. BDO I think sure, but nearly every character seems to end up looking essentially like an asian girl. I play characters, not builds, which means I'm not changing races. The builds overview page will show you all the available builds for all the classes (Sorcerer, Dragonknight, Nightblade, Templar, Warden, Necromancer. Black Desert took our award for Best MMO Character Creation in 2020. My main pve character is an orc and after careful consideration I find eso orcs to be ugly beyond repair and I want to switch his race. A brand-new award? It would be cool to swap who my crafter is. Because there are games with a generous character creation, including styles, colors, even sliders for every possible feature. Content on Alcasthq.com. /mrl reposition - Resets GUI position if moved off screen. My new Homecoming dark/energy blaster named “Major Award”. An orc character starting the game as a member of The Companions. SEARCH OR TRACK BY IMPROVEMENT LEVEL: New in version 1.52 is the ability to show all recipes of an improvement level … 9. I want more appearance change tokens from daily rewards since its quite clear they would never give us in game barber like most other MMOs. Will this award be around next year? Our team gathers together to nominate and discuss candidates and hopefully settle on a consensus winner. I would not mind that! MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with… what’s this? 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. I'd love some appearance tokens as daily rewards, but I can use race ones for that, so yes. 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. Unless F2P players are woefully limited. 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. Today is my first day back to ESO in a few days. The Daily Grind: How do you feel about wings on MMO characters? What’s your pick? Global Chat: Does permadeath mode in MMOs have merit? UPDATE: ENB v0.372 introduces Detailed Shadows which greatly improves the visual appearance especially of character faces for a very minor performance hit. 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. Here’s a category you’d think was made for me, right? If I got them up to once a month it would change my behavior not at all and I would be grateful for the extra cushion. I don't even worship Daedra! When raining you will see the effect of shiny wet surfaces similar to ESO. Heck if you’re not good at making characters there’s an gallery of sorts that let’s you load up and use characters made by other players. This year we’re debuting a new formal award for Best MMO Character Customization. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. In the meantime, I can get behind Black Desert. As a fan since Morrowind, Elder Scrolls games kinda get more and more disappointing with character creation over the years as the unique race models are slowly all compromised to make it easier to fit armor and animations on all the characters. "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!!) Good idea imo. Alcasthq.com focuses on Builds & Guides for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Check my other mods: ESO Main Theme (Main Menu Music Replacement) Melissa - A Standalone Follower And there are games that allow you to freely customize your skills and build, even changing on the go. It would be nice to have on the rotation once in awhile. I wish more games would allow characters to dress freely without it affecting stats (all “gear” is accessories, not clothing) and let you buildup your personal skill build while allowing for freedom to readily swap. 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). Too bad the game itself doesn’t hold a candle to the customization. /mrl update - Safe database update (see: "Try first for errors" below). Chris Neal: City of Heroes, Black Desert. Now Argonians and Khajiit have tails and otherwise all races are have essentially identical silhouettes. /mrlexport - Opens a GUI for exporting known/unknown recipes to text. You must set 0.88-0.90 Height multiplier) My edited in BodySlide set of armor (In Optional) Weight of your character must be 0. Brianna Royce: City of Heroes, Black Desert, Guild Wars 2. Locate Controller Rotation right below the Stick Dead Zone sliders, roughly halfway down the list; If your current setting is on Updated, press LEFT on the d-pad to toggle to Classic; Disabling Aim Assist. I still maintain the BDO is only a good character customization if you subscribe to the maxim of “You can have any color you want as long it’s black.” I’ve found BDO’s character creator to be incredibly limiting. Personally, I'd prefer a name change token. Would be nice, but I only play khajiit regardless of what happens. Put anything in that offers “freshness” and will make people desire to play. 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. Still have the 3 free tokens tokens from that changes to racials update. Also, it is new (to our region) and that gets bonus points on end-of-year lists imo. Simply put it’s because of the depth you can put into making a character. Poll options include all MMOs nominated plus a few others we thought should be included. 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Justin Olivetti: City of Heroes, Guild Wars 2, Champions Online. I am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian. 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. With ESO being a MMO and being console compatible I feel like character models lost almost all distinguishing racial features or proportions. 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. Is it just character creation? CHAT COMMANDS: /mrl or /recipes - Opens the addon's user interface. They should hand out atleast 3 race changes everytime they make big racial changes like they do with the coming patch. 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So don’t forget to cast your own vote in the just-for-fun reader poll at the very end! [Lie] Of course! Nothing’s really going to beat City of Heroes in terms of what you can actually put together. 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. It all depends on what you define as customization. Yes, but i’m talking on a scope of the entire character creation. Some other Asian MMORPGs on this list would also be good choices because of how attractive you can make your character. People voted for ESO? CO pretty much allows you to create whatever the hell you’re feeling. Thanks for the second shout out. Reader poll: Which MMO offered the best character customization in 2020? In my head though I know my toon looks great. Between all the little specific edits and sliders you can make some wild characters. 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. You can use it as appearance change so absolutely yes! Hi Projectile. I’d love this. Any non-offensive freebies (like, "here, some goodies, now stop whining") is welcomed. Andy McAdams: Elder Scrolls Online or Guild Wars 2 are my two favorites. You can’t make this in Black Desert. Enabled by default. I wouldn't mind an appearance token or two. Remember that CoH also had F2P restrictions when it was live. ). Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, I wouldn't mind an appearance token or two. Tyler Edwards: I still don’t think anything quite tops Aion, though City of Heroes is a pretty solid choice as well. Appearance alone or name perhaps but race isn't really a big deal to me. 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. Kind of but not really. Yeah end reward shoudl be this now and again....or random stuff from the crown store every other month. Been sick. I will play around with the addon for a few days and get back to you on the transparency of text question. Browse our listings to find jobs in Germany for expats, including jobs for English speakers or those in your native language. :). 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. UPDATE: I LOVE the customizations options. 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. They did last time they did something similar, tho i cannot remember wich patch it was. 2B has 168cm with heels. BodySlide (and installed sliders for RaceMenu) Player Size Adjuster (for similar height. …I would argue WoW has the most improved CC for this year. With ESO being a MMO and being console compatible I feel like character models lost almost all distinguishing racial features or proportions. It’s not my cup of tea, but it’s detailed as heck. There are games that let you dress however you want regardless of gear with appearance slots and such. It’s kind of an “MMO”, I’ve seen more people in some areas in VRChat than in any large city in some games on this poll ;-). 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!). Who is Jacob Anthony Chansley? I do agree that BDO is a good choice, though. 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". Now Argonians and Khajiit have tails and otherwise all races are have essentially identical silhouettes. im hoping we got some free onces since they are altering racials again. Because Siege is a fairly competitive shooter, Aim Assist is automatically disabled for all players while in an online match. My vote for GW2 is largely because of the Sylvari, my favorite fantasy race ever. CoH continues to provide evidence that sometimes the good old days were indeed better than today. I was pleasantly surprised to see the addon had update 4.0 with the suggestions I requested. Why ZOS? Or you can directly go to builds that are optimized for things like pve solo content, pve group content or pvp content. It’s just a improved CoH. Yep! Let’s see how it goes over.