Character customization appears to be one area that Ubisoft plans on improving in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. In a recent livestream with the Washington Post, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game director Ashraf Ismail talked about the different customization options players will have with the game’s protagonist, Eivor. Not only will players have the option of customizing Eivor’s tattoos and war paint, but they’ll also be able to customize their hair. That includes facial hair for those playing male Eivor.

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Ismail says that players will have quite a various amount of hairstyles to select from in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. That’s both in terms of hairstyles as well as coloring customization options. Eivor is set to be the Assassin’s Creed franchise’s most-customizable protagonist yet.

As for gear, a staple in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Ubisoft is making at least one big change. It sounds like gear will be split into more customizable items, so that players can swap out different pieces on different parts of their character. These gear pieces will still be tied to stat boosts, however, and can be upgraded. That means that customization may take a back seat to min/maxing, at least when it comes to gear.

The full extent of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s character customization remains to be seen. And regardless of the new features, it’s still likely to be limited compared to more RPG-focused titles. Yet every feature addition makes for a game that players can become more attached to and that’s worth acknowledging.

Perhaps even more important than Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s character customization will be the game’s new settlement feature. Players will be able to build up their people’s settlement, offering a new scale of world-building tying the player into Valhalla’s story and setting. A customized Eivor building up their customized home filled with a people found and recruited by Eivor sounds very exciting.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla releases holiday 2020 on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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Source: Washington Post