After Raze confirmed that we can customize companion appearances after act 1 I decided to go into the character creator, and try to see how I would like to improve each companion. It was here that I saw that the character creator was way more limited in terms of options than I realized. While I know its been said a few times on the forums that there will be quite a few more options at launch, I thought I'd give a list of what I personally would like to see out of the character creator at launch.
More Faces Options:
When I went in to try and give Ifan a face that I felt fit his more chill, laid back personality, I came to realization that I only liked face 6 on male humans...which I was already using for my main character. Male human has only 8 faces, human female has 11, Lizard male and female have 5, male elf has 5, female elf has 7, male dwarf has 5, and female dwarf has 6.
My hope is that the bare minimum for each gender of each race will be12 faces. With the hide helmet feature, which I am incredibly thankful for, faces and hair become much more important to look how the player wants, so they need more options, so there are less similar looking characters. I also REALLY want the new additions to the male face roster to look younger and more visually appealing, because there are already plenty of older looking wizened like faces on the roster, but prettier faces, ESPECIALLY for male characters, are lacking.
More Hair Options:
I love having characters with long straight hair, and was really disappointed by the limited hair options for pretty much every race. Hoping that there will be close to 15-20 hair styles for every gender of each race. I wouldn't even mind reusing hair styles for the opposite gender, or different races just to make it happen. Female human style 2 would look amazing on literally every race and gender, except lizards...for obvious reasons. I'm begging you, please make female human style 2, female human style 4, elf female style 6, and female dwarf style 4 usable by everyone sans lizards. If you can't give us all of these at the very least make human female hair style 2 available to everyone. Its way too good to just be usable for only them alone.
More Tags for Created Characters:
Please up the amount of tags a created character can have up to 3 instead of 2. Considering that the origin characters have extra story and options, this would really help to give our own custom characters more personality. I would love to be a mystic outlaw jester, or noble mystic scholar, or mystic outlaw scholar, or a mystic barbarian solider. It would really help give our characters more things to work with when role playing, so I hope you consider doing this.
More Underwear Options:
Something that always annoyed me about underwear in DOS1 was that you choices were boxers, more boxers, and then just another pair of pants and you couldn't change the color of any of them. It would be nice to be able to choose boxers, briefs, or boxerbriefs instead of just boxerbriefs (or leaf thong if you are an elf), and the ability to change the color. It would kinda neat considering that quite a few armor types show off underwear, and that when you are taken to jail all your armor is removed, and I'm sure there are a few more moments in later acts where your clothes will be stolen as part of the story, similar to an optional encounter in DOS1.
Hope that most of these things make it in to the final game at launch.
P.S hoping that there will be skin options for the undead, so that they aren't all skeletal like. Really liked how Ophelia looked stitched together in Divinity: Dragon Commander
https://adriankoltun014.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1920x1200_undead.jpg . I was planning on playing human male on release, but if the undead character has something like that I'll definitely consider playing them first.