For me, Avatars customization is the best thing in Forces. And that's not a good thing. Gameplay should be more fun and engaging than the customization thing.
Compared to PSO2 character customisation, Avatar customisation was awfully limited.
This is my Sonic fan character,
Mystic Monkey https://www.deviantart.com/mysticm/art/Mystic-Monkey-134465421I've had him since Dreamcast. His name alone is my usual username throughout the internet.
This is my attempt at making Mystic Monkey on Sonic Forces:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1194564097He looks like a bargin-bin cosplayer.
Someone manage to extract the Avatar assets from Sonic Forces and for Source Filmmaker and Garry's mod, made a compiler. The compiler doesn't limit you to which parts you can use for your model, so you can mix-and-match bodyparts. Because of that, this is what Mystic Monkey looks like of SFM:
https://www.deviantart.com/mysticm/art/SFM-Mystic-Monkey-880906201Granted, I had to make custom changes here and there, such as retexturing shoes, but this is the most accurate to a model I ever had to Mystic Monkey.
So what bothers me is, the parts are there to make more interesting Avatars in Sonic Forces, but you can't. (What also pisses me off the most was that
dragons and monkeys were considered for playable races, but were cut.)
If I knew how to make mods for Sonic Forces or external apps for it, I would allow users to have mix-and-match Avatars.
