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[Chakerathe]

Generals!

Trial of Allegiance is now Live, and with it comes the fury of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay!

With it comes bug fixes, balance changes and even more content in the free "Bolivar" update


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[podcat]

Just opened a game as Brazil and I can confirm, Minervino is just like the previous picture you guys sent! But most importantly, Minas Gerais DOES have neglected state trait.View attachment 1090421

Is this like a mouseover highlight effect perhaps? Once you get him into power does it still look wrong?
For reference this is what they look like to me:

As for if its 100% accurate or not... very tricky to say with no reference picture of enough quality but we went with a fairly high contrast look a bit to match the ones we had access to

 

[podcat]

Im no artist, but this feels like a closer in terms of skin tone. 20 minutes of photoshop and here we are:

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Not to derail this thread, but do you actually have some source to back this up? We used an average of some current mixed race famous people and at this point it kinda becomes an argument of opinions without sources that wont lead anywhere good.

 

[CraniumMuppet]

Maybe an unnecessary question, but why are the DLC files called JUNO, and not TOA?


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That's what the team was nicknamed before the dlc had the toa name

 

[podcat]

Other than the fact that I'm literally born in the same demographics, country and culture as him? Of course not. Color photography wasn't a thing at this time, so its impossible to come up with "a source to back this up".

Edit: I noticed that my message must have sounded a bit coarse, which was not intended. Nonetheless, I appreciate that discussions around this topic can be a bit difficult to navigate around. As a suggestion for future similar cases, reach out to communities or the minorities that the character represents and get some feedback about this. Above accuracy, this is a representation matter after all.

yeah dont worry about it We've run it by some local brazilians as well since we had issues. its a tough one and looking at even pictures of the same guys can get you tons of different results depending on what lighting you are trying to match and its annoying its not possible to guarantee accuracy on stuff to me personally

 

[podcat]

While we're at it, just curious if you guys took into account the fact that B&W pictures in Brazil at this time are known to have been manipulated to make black personalities to appear more white. I think this is relevant, since if you're kind of trying to match similar tones to other known people where this wasn't a problem, you're likely to get it wrong as your B&W source has been altered in the first place.

I guess we kind found out closer to release . Portrait research this time has definitly been the hardest we have done (or maybe because we have more portraits than normal too)