Dark hair on High Elves

SadnessInSolace · June 2018

Okay, so here I am playing the main story of Summerset(no spoilers!) And a certain some NPC has jet black hair on a High Elf. (Court of Bedlam)
When I played this game, my character on Skyrim was an Altmer with dark hair and I so dearly wanted tore-create that character but all I could make was a grey-mettalic haired thing.
And yet here I see this NPC.
Please give us that dark hair ZoS, that looks amazing.

lardvader · June 2018

I agree, would be nice to get hair salons so we can change the colour. And also every colour for every race available.

Ajaxandriel · June 2018

SadnessInSolace wrote: »

a certain some NPC has jet black hair

One can say... this is not fair

Avalon · June 2018

They've been taunting us with black hair on high elves since before the game launched on PC...

Dystopia2020 · June 2018

No reason why they don't offer this cosmetic change, I am sure it would make ZOS money too.
I would love a dark haired option. A hair dye cosmetic pack would be awesome.

ADarklore · June 2018

Also had the problem with hair styles... originally you couldn't use the 'Short Imperial' hair style on Bosmer, even though male Bosmer NPCs had that hair style! Finally when they gave us the hair style pack I was able to give my male Bosmer that style.

OP I agree, we should be able to have ALL hair color options for every race, except for Argonians and Khajiit as they each have separate colorations.

redshirt_49 · June 2018

Yeah I ran into this problem just the other day, I wanted to make a new dark-haired high elf char but the darkest was a kind of muddy brown. So I made a Dark Elf instead, since Wood Elf dudes are so tiny even with the height slider pushed to the max.

SydneyGrey · June 2018

They keep teasing us with black-haired High Elf NPCs.

It's so not fair.

Rawkan · June 2018

no

Minstrel9806 · April 15

ZOS, can we get an answer to this? Don't know if i missed it, but why isn't the Black/Dark hair option available on Altmer?
There must be a reason on why it has not been included in the first place, and why hasn't been included later on.

tomofhyrule · April 15

As has been pointed out before, there are other 'non-collectable' cosmetics that players don't have access to, it's not just dark hair for Altmer.

We can see that there are also Altmer with deep blue eyes (Erwurlde the guild trader in Mournhold), which are designed correctly as Altmer-style eyes and just not available for players. NPCs of other races also have access to unavailable hairstyles (the shade of ginger Trynhild uses is not available for playable Nords). There are also a few skintones that NPCs have that we cant - the one that makes me really salty is the number of green Orcs we see (Mighty Mordra, Captain Graalug, or Brulak to name a few), and yet my playable character can only be grey or brown. He's supposed to be green!

I have a feeling that it's mostly that the PC interface uses the 10x2 color grid, so they cut some colors to keep the grid tidy. But I think Console UI has a slider instead. I'd give up my clean grid for a slider so I could make my Orc green like he's supposed to be..

katanagirl1 · April 16

tomofhyrule wrote: »

As has been pointed out before, there are other 'non-collectable' cosmetics that players don't have access to, it's not just dark hair for Altmer.

We can see that there are also Altmer with deep blue eyes (Erwurlde the guild trader in Mournhold), which are designed correctly as Altmer-style eyes and just not available for players. NPCs of other races also have access to unavailable hairstyles (the shade of ginger Trynhild uses is not available for playable Nords). There are also a few skintones that NPCs have that we cant - the one that makes me really salty is the number of green Orcs we see (Mighty Mordra, Captain Graalug, or Brulak to name a few), and yet my playable character can only be grey or brown. He's supposed to be green!

I have a feeling that it's mostly that the PC interface uses the 10x2 color grid, so they cut some colors to keep the grid tidy. But I think Console UI has a slider instead. I'd give up my clean grid for a slider so I could make my Orc green like he's supposed to be..

If I remember correctly it looks like a slider but has only 10 or 12 different skin colors.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 16

They can’t rightfully claim it’s not lore-accurate because other Elder Scrolls games had black haired Altmer.

tomofhyrule · April 16

katanagirl1 wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

As has been pointed out before, there are other 'non-collectable' cosmetics that players don't have access to, it's not just dark hair for Altmer.

We can see that there are also Altmer with deep blue eyes (Erwurlde the guild trader in Mournhold), which are designed correctly as Altmer-style eyes and just not available for players. NPCs of other races also have access to unavailable hairstyles (the shade of ginger Trynhild uses is not available for playable Nords). There are also a few skintones that NPCs have that we cant - the one that makes me really salty is the number of green Orcs we see (Mighty Mordra, Captain Graalug, or Brulak to name a few), and yet my playable character can only be grey or brown. He's supposed to be green!

I have a feeling that it's mostly that the PC interface uses the 10x2 color grid, so they cut some colors to keep the grid tidy. But I think Console UI has a slider instead. I'd give up my clean grid for a slider so I could make my Orc green like he's supposed to be..

If I remember correctly it looks like a slider but has only 10 or 12 different skin colors.

Yeah, it's the same 20 colors for each we have on PC. My point was that a slider makes it so that if they wanted to add more, they could without redesigning the UI. If they went to give us a 21st color (or 25th, or 37th) on PC UI, we'd need a different element.

Not that I think that's likely. I'll just have to sit and imagine my Orc's biceps greener than they are

barney2525 · April 16

dark hair on high elves?

I had no idea getting high made your hair darker.

learn something new every day.

Ruj · April 16

This was my first letdown when I bought the game many years ago.

Then I was let down by how hard it is to make a handsome male Altmer.

Other popular MMOs have had character upgrades/ revamps, but ESO is stuck looking like the oldest game when it comes to character creation.

I love so many things about ESO. I'd rank character creation as the worst among all the MMOs I play.

You can make something hideous so fast (looking at you, Bastian), but trying to make a decent looking male of any race is rough. Not impossible, but it takes patience, skills, and maybe a few rounds of cash shop purchases to re-do the character because they never look the same in game as they do in the character creator.

Black Desert Online spoiled me. All character creation re-dos are unlimited as part of the subscription.
ESO is a better game overall, but it really could use some graphical upgrades and more hair color options. Improved hair textures as well. I'm not incentivized to buy a hair style if hair textures look bad in ESO.

Sakiri · April 16

Idk, my male Nord is pretty hot.

barney2525 · April 16

I think mine looks pretty good

essi2 · April 16

A complete rehaul of the character appearance/cosmetic customization system is due, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

There is 10+ years of dust and spaghetti covering everything and untangling it would probably be a big job, not to mention it would likely impact monetization and things already purchased.