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OneStarfieldplayer managed to create an impressive Willem Dafoe lookalike in Bethesda’s galaxy-spanning RPG. Their inspired design adds to the ever-growing list ofuniqueStarfieldcharacters that the fandom came up withsince the game’s early September launch.
As has been the case with all of Bethesda’s 3D RPGs,Starfieldcomes with a fairly robust character creatorallowing players to author custom protagonists to the finest of details. Many fans who already opted to do just that decided to recreate their favorite characters from other franchises, or took inspiration from real-world figures.
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The latest example of the latter approach comes from Reddit user Crohnos_, who recently went through the effort of creating Willem Dafoe inStarfield. Their custom protagonist ended up being instantly recognizable as the famous actor, impressing enough fans to end up on the front page of the game’s largest subreddit. While the player did not reveal how much time they spent on this design effort, they did promise to share screenshots of their character’s appearance sliders so that anyone eager to create Dafoe inStarfieldis easily able to follow in their footsteps.
In the meantime, it’s not a huge leap to assume that designing an in-game version of Dafoe’s doppelganger was a difficult undertaking; whileStarfield’scharacter creator is immensely powerful, it’s not particularly easy to use relative to its counterparts in other contemporary titles, including Bethesda’s own games. The biggest obstacle in realizing a specific design based on an existing character or person is the need to fiddle with dozens of unintuitive sliders that the game labels as “shape blends,” with no further attempts at clarification.
Even seasoned players are hence required to go through a lot of trial and error whenever they want to nail another particular appearance, while newcomers can easily find this obtuse UI design dauntingly off-putting. Granted, that still hasn’t stopped the fandom from designing some astonishing recreations of real people and characters in the game, as underlined by the fact that this Dafoe lookalike was preceded byStarfieldversions of Tony Soprano, Don Ramon, Chris Hadfield, and plenty of other well-known faces.
As for the players who are struggling with using the game’s nondescript appearance sliders, there are already plenty of mods that add a wide variety of face presets to the game. Some fans have also requested a more comprehensive overhaul of the character creator from the modding community, but the current consensus among modders is that such an addition won’t be feasible untilStarfield’sofficial mod tools are out in early 2024.
Starfieldis available now on PC and Xbox Series X/S.
