BioWare Acknowledges Mass Effect 3 Face Import Bug

[Yarpie]

Supposedly there's a workaround on the 360.

http://social.bioware.com/forums/forum/1/topic/323/index/9247811/3#9249327

Haven't tried this myself yet (to hell with whoever decided Europeans should get their games two days later...), but it seems to be working pretty well. Worth a shot I reckon if you can be bothered.

 

[McMullen]

I wonder if the Trenches scenario is true here, where the test team found the bugs but management and the developers write them off as "won't fix" or "as intended".

It's sure a good thing that they didn't spend all this time since Content Complete working on day-one DLC while these bugs just sat there unpatched for the launch. Oh wait...

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Wow, this sounds like a major gaff. I am actually really dissapointed in Bioware. Considering the entire point of the games is to be able to play them all together with your own personalised Shepard this is a real kick in the teeth.

You expect a few bugs in the gameplay, certain missions or through some strange combination of armour and weapons that no one tried... but not in such a vital (for me anyway) and EARLY part of the game. Why was this not picked up during testing?

I hope it's fixed by Friday when it's released here in the UK because having a Shepard that's not my own is really going to ruin the experience for me.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Glad they have actually finally acknowleged this, it took them long enough.

...Didn't the game come out at midnight?

This problem was actually recognised by people before launch who got the game early and by people who tested codes of their characters in the ME3 demo, but Bioware said nothing.

 

[Yal]

In the meantime, Priestly pointed to a fan-made tool that might do PC users some good at masseffecttools.99k.org [http://masseffecttools.99k.org/index.php].

I ended up on that page last night when I hit this, and it didn't work all that great (Oh God, Shep, what happened to your eyebrows?!).

Instead I spent way too long with an ME2 save editor, digging out the face data and converting it into slider values to enter into ME3. I didn't get it quite right, she's too pale and apparently ME1 eye colors are no longer available, but I'm hoping I'll get to used to it.

 

[iLazy]

Ahh that explains it. All well, my F!Shep was that different from the custom Shep. Took me five minutes to get her looking like she was supposed to.

 

[Amaror]

Glad they have actually finally acknowleged this, it took them long enough. Hopefully this issue will be fixed soon, ideally at least by Friday when it comes out here in the UK.

They have acknowleged it long before, the escapist just didn't mentioned it.
I saw the News in an local gaming website on monday.
The Problem is that ME 2 just copied the face, without copying the facecode, thus avoiding problems, because the ME 2 character creator is different than the ME 1 character creator.
But these characters have no facecode themselves now.
And since ME 3 works with the facecode to make the characters look more realistic than ME 2 characters, Me 3 has no facecode to work with.
There is a pretty easy workaround discussed in the Mass effect forum.
social.bioware.com/forums/forum/1/topic/323/index/9247811/3#9249327
The you have the facecode.
Just copy it in Me 3 and then you just have to adjust some easy things like the hair type and color, or the eye color.
I tried it with the demo and it worked just fine.
(On PC but i heard it works with Xbox 360 too)

 

[soren7550]

I'm going to go ahead and guess that part of this is due to the fact that the character creator is very different from ME1 & 2. Observe:

Here's my Shepard in ME1:

Spoiler: Roslyn, ME1

Here she is in ME2:

Spoiler: Roslyn, ME2

... and here she is in ME3:

Spoiler: Roslyn, ME3

As you can already tell, she's not the same woman she was in 1 and 2. This is because BioWare did not bring back her hairstyle, hair color, nor eye color (the picture is making her eyes look lighter than they are in-game) in Mass Effect 3.
There's only one shade of brown hair (had to make room for purple I suppose), two shades of blue (red must take up a lot of game space), and her hair style simply no longer exists (because the public was clamoring for five bun styles that all pretty much look the same I guess, so they had to clear out some of the old styles).

So naturally, the game wouldn't be able to import my dear Roslyn simply because parts of her no longer exist.

 

[Rainboq]

I discovered this 15 seconds into playing the game the first time.

How, with any stretch of the imagination, could this get through testing? I even used the default male Shepard appearance each time.

Its called a WNF, it happens all the time, it generally means that the Dev team doesn't have the time to do it before launch.

OT: Well, I guess I'll wait a little longer then.

 

[CaptOfSerenity]

So, they can't get that right?

 

[Revolutionary]

I seriously hope I don't encounter this problem (ME3 doesn't come out until tomorrow here in Australia).

 

[scorptatious]

Eh. My first Shepard always looked kind of ugly to me. This just gave me the opportunity to update his look.

 

[Brad Shepard]

This pissed me off beyond belief, I threw in my ME2 disk, did the sliders and everything to get the code right, copied the code, and then put the code in. Thank god my data transferred.

 

[Eleima]

How on Earth did BioWare not catch that in testing?? I have five characters which I brought with me from ME1 & ME2. Three of them are custom FemSheps, one of them is the default MaleShep and one is a custom MaleShep. If I can't have my characters the way I created them, I'm going to be one sad little panda. Hopefully, they'll come up with a fix before I get my copy (curse whoever decided Europeans would get their game three days after Americans, indeed!).

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I think this actually kinda happened to me, but it sort of made my guy look better. I didn't really mind it all that much.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well, I guess it wasn't just me then. Thankfully ME 3's face editor allows you to make human beings much easier than the first one, as opposed to strange creatures wearing human faces.

I don't know how you miss this though. Did they not test with imported characters at all? Because this is the FIRST thing they should have noticed.

 

[Eruanno]

Considering I decided to replay Mass Effect 2 and try out a different appearance than my first time around and ended up recreating the exact same face with different hair, I think I can manage to recreate my character again. Mostly because I only seem able to make that one character, even when trying something different D:

 

[Rickenbacker]

Wow, and I thought this was just a bug in my promo copy!

But I don't really mind. I reconstructed my slightly retarded Shep, made him a little grizzlier and more tired-looking, and I'm really happy with the result.

 

[Rickenbacker]

Wow, and I thought this was just a bug in my promo copy!

But I don't really mind. I reconstructed my slightly retarded Shep, made him a little grizzlier and more tired-looking, and I'm really happy with the result.

 

[Rickenbacker]

How on Earth did BioWare not catch that in testing?

They obviously did, but it was probably a bug added by some last minute addition, so they figured they'd fix it in a day one patch. Then it turned out to be a trickier problem than that, so now they pretend they didn't know.