Suggestion: More body type variety for male Midlanders

Yeah we need more body types for all races really. We should be able to play cute cushion kitties like Dulia Chai. Big bodies for BIG MAN BLASTOISE!
https://media.tenor.com/QUeSK3yCmEUA...-blastoise.gif

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Originally Posted by Heavenchild

For clarity, here is a visual comparison.
The current male Midlander body appears bulky even in minimal gear, while the same character only achieves a more elegant silhouette when constrained by very specific glamours.
A 2nd slimmer body type option would allow elegant glamours to look natural, not forced.

https://i.imgur.com/XDI5Ryg.jpeg

And yes, I know that a body type similar to Omega-M wouldn’t look truly “natural” in reality.
But FFXIV is a fantasy game, and we all want our characters to look good in different glamours and overall, don’t we? :3

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I don't see what you're seeing, it looks to me like the Omega-M bodysuit on your Midlander IS the current Midlander body with a bit of flair around the neck and shoulders. It's just a skin-tight catsuit. Obviously, putting something that is not skin-tight on a body will...not look skin-tight.

So...it's just that there's something about the Omega-M suit that tricks your eye into thinking the model is thinner. It's not. It's the same model.

And I agree with others, Midlander males are already pretty damned thin for men. Any thinner (and a bit ganglier) they'd look like barely pubescent teenagers. I've always assumed this is because, as a rule, Japanese men are smaller and thinner than European and African men so I'm just not used to it (Highlander men look more like what a normal, adult man should look like to me).

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Originally Posted by Astronis

Highlander men look more like what a normal, adult man should look like to me

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As an adult man... I wish! Personally, I'd say they're not "normal" or average, but fairly idealized. If that's what you and your friends look like, and that is "normal" to you - congrats

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Originally Posted by GomJabbar

As an adult man... I wish! Personally, I'd say they're not "normal" or average, but fairly idealized. If that's what you and your friends look like, and that is "normal" to you - congrats

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Haha, well, yeah, definitely idealized (all of the FFXIV races are, and I am glad of it!!), but most men I know are pretty tall and muscular, square-jawed and heavy-browed in an everyday blue-collar/military sort of way, so yeah, between the two, Highlanders are closer to what I'm used to seeing in my day-to-day life.

I mean we'll all trapped in like what seems to be idealized 20-30 y.o. eternally youthful bodies for our WoL too, like all Midlander bodies are shared between them except for Lalas, Hroths, and Roes. Also, I always felt like Highlanders are v buff for an avg person, so not sure where the idea they are like avg-sized since more people are way more normal than looking like bodybuilders unless they're a fitness influencer too.

Typically, I'm OK ignoring this since video games are not real life, but the only time I think is surreal is asking to make the races all thinner, like any thinner they'd be transparent in my mind.