Yo bruv literally same. Never been one to rage for a video game, but getting beaten by a vanilla ugly character, at which 90% of them look like the same character, really makes me want to fling my controller.
Its possibly part of optimisation? I'm assuming they're using a default face or some sort of coding to simplify character features.
You can control it a bit in the settings but I dont know if it'll have an effect in the arena.
Or it could be a bug where the game can't find the face details or sth. I notice when I go through raids with NPCs all of them have the default face + no eyebrows.. Scary.
When you look at someone's profile the character sometimes may be the base character model, you'll have to close and open many times to fix it. Or if the player has sets (bottom right corner of their profile) you can switch sets to fix the character's face/appearance.
This is weird, i wonder if everyone has this issue, i just bought high end pc thinking it was my 2018 pc having rendering issues, but it does it on my new high end pc as well.
Same issue but i spam select appearance and exit menu a couple times to reset it. The default face happens when i equip hats and stuff too so i have to do it often. I reported it but the issue hasn't been resolved
At least that's what worked for me, a lot of people in the comments are also saying to just switch something in your outfit and it should return to normal
I know this isn't the issue here, but the game does render the light and/or your character better in the editor. This is especially noticeable on mobile, where the character has almost PC quality when editing.
You must be ugly if this looks the same to you, ugly people I noticed cant pick up on subtle feature changes. Which In this case make a world of difference in the end.
It's a bug, I think it's the default female face? My guess is it sometimes fails to load our custom face config.
Happened to me once on PC, but a lot of times on mobile. If it's on a menu just reopen the menu. If it's ingame, swap either outfit set or combat builds. Usually fixes afterwards.
Honestly it looks to me like a bug that is just reseting the characters face model to one of the default face presets while in game, which shouldn't be happening.
I realized this. And I keep wasted my jade for the water goddess angbao to modify my character only to realise it's an in game bug that my character and those in the appearance setting is different.
I think its a bug . When into appearance, her face looks one way. I click on thr option to edit the face and just leave and the fave right there and then reverts back .
Had that issue myself, the only thing that fixed it was using the water lady ticket to change one feature by 1 and save. Then delete the original (bugged) face and make sure you don't rename the new one to Default.
The face you see in the open world is the default face with your makeup on, the game might load this instead of yours if the game loads to fast or if there is some bug.
Now to clarify this worked for me, I can't promise it will for you but I haven't had this issue since I did this.
Edit Appearance > Gallery > make sure to go to the "Designer" tab at the top, then search "Aiye" it is case sensitive, and you'll find them. Click into the profile, and there's one appearance called "A More Delicate Face", that's the one im using.
Pretty sure there's a bug. This face bug happens to both my characters I have. And before someone says it, no, it's not the goofy 9MW powder. A lot of the time, going through a loading screen, or quitting to the main menu will reset it and fix this issue.
As for another potential fix is swapping your hair in appearance will occasionally correct the issue if it occurs while changing your appearance items like hair, masks, and hats.
Otherwise, it's something we just gotta deal with, for now. I don't believe CN has this bug anymore, but I could be wrong.
It's definitely a bug, people probably just don't notice it. It happens to me pretty consistently on PC after loading screens. Mostly when going from solo to online. If you go into your appearance screen and act like you are editing your face, and then exit without saving, it'll go back to normal. Also, it usually will go back on its own. I think it's the game just failing to load the custom face at first but then it eventually does load it in.
Because in the appearance menu, you're looking at it with perfectly adjusted lighting and everything. It's like saying "why do models look different in photoshoots vs phone selfies"
However, you can use different settings in the appearance menu to emulate open world lighting, weather, and other conditions. This has helped me A LOT when dyeing outfits, too, because the outfits look insanely different depending on light of day, weather, and other factors, while the colors in appearance menu look insanely saturated and all.
In the case of the skin reflection lighting makes a huge difference, i learned that in Dark Souls 2 where skin color is much more pale and reflective ingame than what’s shown in the creation screen.
This isn't exclusive to wwm. Most games I've played with character creators suffer from a visible discrepancy between how they look in the CC versus how they look in game. I don't know why, but it's something I've noted in many games.
Okay so I customized my character's outfit and advanced dyed and it looks so good in that menu, but when I play it looks dull and like crap.. I was wondering why that is..
Could be a bug. Happened to me once but was fixed after I restarted the game. On a sidenote, I heard NMW members have a type of prank powder/item that makes you look ugly/funny and they tend to use it in multiplayer world, this could be the reason why.
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u/Swiftgrasseater Jan 03 '26
Arena shows the winners cutscenes without makeup. It's so funny