[Graphic Update Feedback] Female Roegadyn Eyes

We've only seen a little bit of the graphical updates with regards to femroe but watching the developer panel at FanFest last night made me worried about a tiny detail that I feel almost silly bringing it up, but if Au'ra players could complain about the lustre on their scales I should be able to bring this up:

https://i.ibb.co/HzNzRdL/gfxupdate.png

Female roegadyn eyes getting solid black pupils like hyuran eyes is going to drastically change a lot of the faces.

Currently, female roegadyn have coloured pupils which is a unique variation on the eyes compared to male roegadyn - on the face type they showed for the texture preview on SCH it's not as dramatic as, say, face 3 or 4's completely colour-blocked pupils, but it was stark enough that I knew it was going to heavily change the look overall. I especially worry about if my main character of almost a decade will end up with black pupils now given they currently are completely coloured:

https://i.ibb.co/t2JLV2M/femroeupdate3.png

I don't want to lose something that I've always loved about my character to a high fidelity update. Please, please consider reviewing the way female roegadyn eyes are going to be rendered in the update.

Actually I do prefer them with the new eyes, the black pupil adds charisma. The other were too soft looking imo.

I'm conflicted tbh. On one hand, it does look cute with the black pupils ngl, but on the other hand, having bright vibrant eyes is one of the very few things that make Roegadyn its own race and not just "Hulk sized human"

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Originally Posted by Allegor

I'm conflicted tbh. On one hand, it does look cute with the black pupils ngl, but on the other hand, having bright vibrant eyes is one of the very few things that make Roegadyn its own race and not just "Hulk sized human"

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I'm sorry but dont we all have glassy eyes on every race due to how poor the quality rendering is? I dont think this is specifically roegadyn nor au ra related

The Hellsguard eyes having this particular visual seems to be one of their unique race and sub-race traits, and it would be a shame if this trait was lost.

The other races' eyes shown in the graphics update / technical artist dev panel during the Fanfest stream has had all of the others presented with minor tweaks, such as the Miqo'te pupil being smoothed from the diamond look to a more realistic cat-like pupil. While this in regard to the Hellsguard, is a complete and outright change from how they were previously.

How is this preserving the current style if a notable trait for one of the races and/or specific subrace of the Hellsguard, is ultimately removed suddenly? That's not preserving it at all.

I think that it would be fine to have the Seawolves have the solid pupil and the Hellsguard can retain their unique glossy, coloured pupil.

It's not a unique Hellsguard or Femroe trait, it's a trait that every Roe and many other races share that has been a development oversight that many players now have come to love!

So now that they finally correct it, players have so fallen in love with the mistake that they want to retain it and even believe it's a unique trait to their race/gender/clan.

Not a Roe player, hard agree.

I played female Roegadyn for a long time, and it honestly never even occurred to me that the cloudy eyes were anything other than a technical oversight.

Roe alt + roe buddies, but regardless full support because it's really a gorgeous detail that they're just destroying. Feels like they just really hate stuff that gives these races like...yknow, unique character.

...FemRoe player since the beginning but since I've always had the darkest eyes possible it never registered that there was a graphical glitch there. It doesn't show up on the lore blurb or on Male Hellsguard -and there's more than enough gender difference on Roes- that it's a graphical design element that I won't miss in the slightest because of that and my WoL's black eyes -I'd like a defined pupil if forced to pick, but I understand if some are upset.