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Has any work been done on beards yet?

TL;DRYes, beards are done, such as a goatee on one character, and characters and clothing are being upgraded or rebuilt for better quality and modularity.

Gaige HallmanSenior Character Tech Artist

Yes. I can't remember the exact character's name, but White has a pretty sick beard. Especially on tier zero, you can see those hairs just bristling around.

Omar AweidahCharacter Artist

We got a nice goatee on Oldman. Oldman's got a sick goatee.

Gaige HallmanSenior Character Tech Artist

There's a lot of good beards. We've done a lot of work on Oldman's goatee.

Omar AweidahCharacter Artist

It's got some iterations. But what looks good two years ago doesn't look good now, so we've got to make it look better.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Content Manager

When the time comes that people see the updated Bishop Senate speech, and all the changes and improvements that have been made just to Bishop. We've made so much improvement on the character tech since that, because that first Bishop speech was released a month and a half after the data was originally solved. It was really early on in the process.

Omar AweidahCharacter Artist

I think just like what's happening with the ships, they're all getting redone, that's happening with the characters. And I think probably within the next couple months, we would have redone every single character. We have a couple legacy characters that are still in. Those are going to get redone.

John RiggsSenior Character Rigger

I wouldn't exactly say redone either, though. They're all being upgraded. They're all being brought to the next level type thing.

Gaige HallmanSenior Character Tech Artist

The clothing, though. Clothing we just straight up redid.

Omar AweidahCharacter Artist

What I mean is, if we have the legacy armor, the concept will remain the same, but we have to actually rebuild the whole thing from scratch sometimes.

Gaige HallmanSenior Character Tech Artist

But it pays off, especially with these modular systems. You look at the old clothing and it's like, that's just not going to work. So we do it to make it more versatile and work across the board for players.