I LOATHE the IPG. I hate it with a white, hot, incendiary fury.

@provence1866 I spent two hours at launch picky my pirate so I was mostly happy. But all my friends just picked the best on in the first rotation of avatars and now they regret it. My sister did the same as me and was really happy with hers until the pirate smiled - no teeth, just gums and one of her eyes is blind which she couldn't tell when selecting because the avatars are too small/far back.

I agree, even though I have a good looking pirate I had to spend hours trolling through hundreds of rejects. A simple character creation would have been a lot better and more personal.

@provence1866

She's built for a life at sea lol

Acceptance is the first step.

Burn your toon if you have even the slightest doubt about him/her.

Know exactly what attributes you want, then start rolling the IPG and choose some candidates. If none appear after ten or twenty minutes, logout.
More time spent rolling mundane characters does not guarantee anything but fatigue, your waiting on one of the exceptional looking characters to appear.
Sometimes they can come up in the first five minutes.

Due to the bad lighting and limited views, your selected toon may still not pass muster when actually seen stripped to the skivvies in-game. A re-roll is to be expected.

You found the perfect face on a wrong body, close but no cigar.

Rinse and repeat until you find a character you can love. My Insider pirate looks like Beyonce.
Does the Chubb Dance like her as well.

Totally worth the effort because you dont get to play God, you get to play a pirate.

Save the white hot fury for pvp.

She's gonna give Abby from Last of Us 2 a run of her money.

Jokes aside, like the others have said keep rolling till you get the one you want.
It took me a while to get the pirate I wanted, I wanted mine similar to the Goddess one I had on the Insider and eventually got someone similar who is my current main pirate.

I originally used a Male model but used the potion to change it to a Female model as I mainly prefer the females most of the time, plus the cosmetics look way better on them.

And yet, she has the body of a professional male wrestler who needs to go on a serious diet and manage his horrific steroid addiction. So she is unusable.

You do know women can gain muscle too right?

I don't see a problem with her, probably very realistic for a hard working female pirate lifting cannonballs all day (as shown in the screenshot).

Women, and indeed men, can have all sorts of body types and I'm glad they're mostly represented in the variety on show in SoT. It's also good to have these mixes for non-binary folk and trans people to have inclusion.

Do I think the IPG could be improved? Of course, and I've suggested solutions in the past, such as when you favourite a pirate or pirates to be able to roll more based on their appearances.

But to get so heated over something like this, well, it speaks more about the player than the game.

I've had the same thing occur countless times lol. It can be frustrating, but when you see an awesome pirate, it feels like it was worth the time spent...

Here's a tip: the speed of the IPG is tied to your fps, so I recommended disabling v-sync and running it windowed (alt+enter) to increase your fps. I get 270-300 fps doing it this way, saves a massive amount of time.

If you're on xbox... I'm sorry.

Couldn't you just keep rolling and stop asking for SoT to like every other game?

The staff behind Sea of Thieves must really take roleplaying seriously. They should implement the character creation system that Oblivion has

Keeping trying, my female pirate is pretty and so is my crew mates. We both did not give up until we were happy with our pirate.

The IPG is trash. You are 100% correct Provence. I've spent far too much time trying to find a character I want to use. They are never perfect for what I'm looking for.

I felt really meh about the IPG when I first started. I thought it was bizarre that even after choosing my pirate, that I couldn't appropriately tweak her looks to my liking.

I think eventually I'll probably buy one of the potions and start the re-rolling process again, just to see other options. I'm happy that the potion is affordable for this purpose.

My character, currently, looks okay, but she has black lips and that does bug me somewhat. If she had normal-colored lips I think I'd be perfectly fine with her, missing teeth and all.

@galactic-geek said in I LOATHE the IPG. I hate it with a white, hot, incendiary fury.:

@darbii-rue Black lips? Pic please! 😋

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Captain Black Lips at your service. But for real, it just looks weird, and since the makeup options in this game are incredibly limited... I'm just not a fan of that particular "asset."

I get why they use this system but it really wouldn't hurt to give the option to filter pirates or even reroll or change body type and face for example.