Guild Wars 2

…when wearing any helmet, ever? whether it’s bald from the front, or bald in the back, or completely bald (e.g. when wearing a top hat) human female becomes bald whenever wearing a helm or a hat of any sort.

I’d understand giving them a default haircut of some sort (as many mmo’s do) but making them completely bare seems like an odd choice.

Yeah, I would love a fix for this to.
It’s not just humans btw.

Maybe it should just convert into a tight bun when wearing a helmet.

Heraldusluminare.2946:

Maybe it should just convert into a tight bun when wearing a helmet.

exactly! that’s what most mmo’s do

see .. also a Norn problem xD

jokke.6239:

see .. also a Norn problem xD

oh GOD what is that :O

afaik, everyone looks bald with headgear.

Jae.5138:

jokke.6239:

see .. also a Norn problem xD

oh GOD what is that :O

Celebration hat, if that’s what u meant xD

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

afaik, everyone looks bald with headgear.

seems kinda bizarre to me that anet was a bit lazy in that regard, considering the late game revolves around aesthetics in this game

Jae.5138:

…when wearing any helmet, ever? whether it’s bald from the front, or bald in the back, or completely bald (e.g. when wearing a top hat) human female becomes bald whenever wearing a helm or a hat of any sort.

I’d understand giving them a default haircut of some sort (as many mmo’s do) but making them completely bare seems like an odd choice.

It happens with every character. The helmet replaces the hair on the character model, it doesnt go over it.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Jae.5138:

…when wearing any helmet, ever? whether it’s bald from the front, or bald in the back, or completely bald (e.g. when wearing a top hat) human female becomes bald whenever wearing a helm or a hat of any sort.

I’d understand giving them a default haircut of some sort (as many mmo’s do) but making them completely bare seems like an odd choice.

It happens with every character. The helmet replaces the hair on the character model, it doesnt go over it.

Indeed. Most helms even remove all facial hair even when the helm does not cover the face. :\

There is such a variety of hair and beard styles that if they didn’t remove them when wearing a helmet there would be even worse clipping issues than there are now. It’s not the ideal solution but they were probably working under deadline and rather than deal with each individual issue every time they design a new helm, they avoid the problem by removing the hair altogether.

Sure, a lot of people don’t like it, but they wouldn’t like the clipping problems either, so you are going to be disappointed either way. Don’t expect this to change any time soon, they make more money from releasing new armor skins than from fixing the old ones.

tolunart.2095:

There is such a variety of hair and beard styles that if they didn’t remove them when wearing a helmet there would be even worse clipping issues than there are now. It’s not the ideal solution but they were probably working under deadline and rather than deal with each individual issue every time they design a new helm, they avoid the problem by removing the hair altogether.

Sure, a lot of people don’t like it, but they wouldn’t like the clipping problems either, so you are going to be disappointed either way. Don’t expect this to change any time soon, they make more money from releasing new armor skins than from fixing the old ones.

Still .. Rather than beeing bald as female, some random hair style that wouldn’t clip, is still better than beeing bald 8D

Even with the variety, they should have made a basic style that it reverts to when you are showing the helm. Losing the hair completely is just silly.

tolunart.2095:

There is such a variety of hair and beard styles that if they didn’t remove them when wearing a helmet there would be even worse clipping issues than there are now. It’s not the ideal solution but they were probably working under deadline and rather than deal with each individual issue every time they design a new helm, they avoid the problem by removing the hair altogether.

Sure, a lot of people don’t like it, but they wouldn’t like the clipping problems either, so you are going to be disappointed either way. Don’t expect this to change any time soon, they make more money from releasing new armor skins than from fixing the old ones.

Well, at least the hairstyles that don’t clip get an option to use it. Right now, NO ONE is using the hats since everyone becomes bald.

Welgaia.7523:

Well, at least the hairstyles that don’t clip get an option to use it. Right now, NO ONE is using the hats since everyone becomes bald.

I have hats on a lot of my toons, male or female. I can understand why they would do this, even if I don’t like the reasons. But ultimately it’s faster, easier and more profitable to do what they do than any other choice.

Funny thing, before the first GW2 Halloween event, my toon still had hair drawn on the scalp texture while wearing the top hat. After the event, somebody swapped those textures with completely bald. Same with my asura.

Reported as bug, just wasted time. I wonder if it was the same with armors that day, anyways, see the screenshots.

Well, I just don’t wear my top hat any more.