originally posted in:Beards of Destiny
Here is part of an interview with Jonty Barnes of Bungie and TSA:
"TSA: So along those lines, what kinds of things have you learnt from the beta? Is there anything that you’re thinking you might try and patch in?
Jonty: Well there were hundreds of little changes that we actually made. The most notable one that we’ve actually talked about was the Interceptor in competitive multiplayer that was too powerful, but we also had the Hand Cannon that was not powerful enough. We had lots of optimisations to do about making sure the best people are matched together and making sure they’re given the best experience in terms of skill and geographic match making.
And then there were weird things, like people wanting beards!
TSA: I think anything to make up for the little arm bangle for the Warlocks. If Warlocks could have beards, though…
Jonty: [laughs] But I mean, for some people it was very important for them as human beings to be able to have a beard, because that’s part of their personality, I guess, in real life. So that has started a very heated internal dialogue at Bungie about we do beards, what is the prioritisation of that and how we can accomplish that. So that’s been a funny one!"
Sounds hopefull to me.
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Words getting round! ;-)
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Hopefully they change the customization to not have preset faces.
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I just don't know why it wasn't a given beards should be a possibility!
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I don't really know why they were so shocked by people wanting beards. They always talk about "mythic sci-fi". How are we supposed to be awesome futuristic knights without beards. Nearly everyone who wasn't an elf, hobbit or orc had facial hair in Lord of the Rings. It sort of fits the genre. Heck even most human Jedi's that are physically able sport beards.
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I want my neckbeard
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<(O.O)>
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Good cuz my female awoken titan NEEDS a beard
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THIS! Would make me roll a human instead of an Exo.
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I need a magnificent beard, one that pierces my titians helmet...it shall be laced in gold and will smite my foes with follicular force!!!
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Edited by Temeze321: 8/20/2014 10:06:25 PMBeards! [spoiler]Sorry. Fake pic. But I still want beards... :)[/spoiler]
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So dreads and cornrows are ok but beards arent, I call racist, in fact reverse racist. For shame
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Beards will rule!
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Edited by bob_obba: 8/20/2014 3:01:19 AMIt occurs to me that the beard will be hard to implement in the current character customisation menu, (no unique slot for it) and this late in development they won't/can't overhaul the whole system to appease the bearded elite. So that begs the question - what slot does it get added to? Well the options are obviously: Face Hair Markings Both Face and Hair are in my opinion non-starters because Bungie need to either attach a beard to a current face or hair model, or create duplicates with/without beard. Then it gets further complicated with various beard styles. So the logical choice is to put them in the Markings section. This will then likely mean we're going to see texture based beards, goatees and stubble instead of big bushy man-beards, since everything in the markings section is simply a texture. However, I'm only second guessing this based on what's currently in the customisation menu, Bungie could and hopefully will surprise us! Thoughts?
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I was just coming here to see if this was already posted. Those are beard pulsatingly positive words, and his next answer was good as well: [i]Jonty: ... how we can accomplish that. So that’s been a funny one! TSA: As long as people aren’t kept waiting until Destiny 2 for those to show up. Jonty: [b]Uh, I would hope not.[/b] [/i] *emphasis mine
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Sweet!
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If I could have beards, more then one location to explore per planet, and private matches I would be sooooo happy