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Restrictions of the New Customization Options in Shadowlands

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Shadowlands comes with tons of new customization options, but some of them are locked behind specific skin tones, hairstyles, and more, which is an apparent downside of the feature.

Reddit user Nihux noticed that if you want to use Faces 16-30 on Human Females, you will be locked to a specific set of skin tones, and the games won't allow you to use those faces with other skin tones, and vice versa.

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Faces 1-15 are locked to the first set of skin tones.

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Faces 16-30 are locked to the second set of skin tones.

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Faces 31-45 are locked to the third set of skin tones.

The restriction also applies to the new hair colors that can only be used with the new hairstyles, as pointed out by  Reddit user Katur.

The restriction is in place for other customization options such as scars tied to specific eye color options. When you pick a different scar, your eye color will change automatically, and vice versa.

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Reddit user RlySkiz says it's due to age of the WoW engine that cannot handle texture recoloring while it is running, so every hairstyle + hair color or face has their own model/texture that loads. There isn't a blank model that gets colored based on what option you pick.

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29 minutes ago, Stan said:

Reddit user RlySkiz says it's due to age of the WoW engine that cannot handle texture recoloring while it is running

 

17 minutes ago, durdyenglish said:

Only so much you can bolt-on to a game engine more than 15 years old.

WoW2 when.

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18 hours ago, Brutalis said:

WoW2 when.

18 hours ago, Calysia said:

No thanks...

WoW2 is TBC, now Shadowlands is going to be WoW9... not like the game has been unchanged in the 15 years span. The only difference is that some engine changes are harder to do than others due to not just legacy code, but legacy assets (think of why you can't fly in Silvermoon) and other impact they may cause.

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