Trainers! Niantic has just announced that the new Avatar system is now live worldwide! Starting today, Trainers can go to Pokémon GO and customize their avatars with more detail than before, including some inclusive options like body weight, different colours for different facial features, and more.
- Express yourself like never before with a range of new avatar customization options in Pokémon GO!
- Personalize your avatar with adjustable body weights, eye colors, and skin tones, plus new facial expressions and hairstyles.
- Hairstyles can be filtered by short, medium, and long options, so you can find the perfect ’do for you.
- A new section allows you to customize your avatar’s body with choices for weight, muscle, shoulders, chest, and hips.
- Advanced color options are now available for your skin tone, hair, and eyes.
- To access these updates, visit the Appearance section of the Style Shop. Keep an eye out for additional updates!
Both male and female characters look outlandish, bloated, disproportionate and strange. And we are not talking about different body sizes here – humans come in all shape and forms, but Niantic’s current system doesn’t seem to capture almost any of the real ones. All of the faces that you can pick from seem stretched and sometimes even disfigured, with eyes spread too wide, unnatural chin/cheek proportions, and incredibly small noses. And this all comes with an incredibly strange decision: you cannot change your gender.
Yes, gender changing option is literally gone from the game, and you cannot set your gender in any way, even if you wanted to do so. This explains the strange way faces look – they lack either male or female features.
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