Star Citizen finally allows playable women among the ranks in character customisation overhaul

“It involved creating an entirely new ‘rig' for female characters to make them physiologically distinct from the male characters, something most games don’t try to attempt for player characters,” explained head of development Chris Roberts in a press release.

“Once we finalized the female character, we had to retrofit our entire universe: ships, animations, clothing, armor, and weapons to make sure they all worked with the female character rig as well as the male rig. The advantage of this approach is you always get realistic looking players, not immersion breaking ‘monsters' that sometimes can be created using more traditional techniques.”

While there are shared elements between the two, such as hair, the new character creation screen places flexibility in the hands of players to personalise their character. Players will be able to use the three ‘source heads’ to alter features across the brow, eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth, jaw and crown, with a “near-infinite pool” of customisation. Once a player is happy with one feature, they can lock it so that feature isn't changed while customising the remainder.