Feedback about the Benchmark

Hello, I wanted to make a thread for people to post their feedback about the Dawntrail Benchmark

Keep it to constructive criticism only and make sure to keep it civil, the dev team have worked incredibly hard on what they have shown us but I feel like there should be somewhere that people can voice changes / improvements they would like to see !

Firstly I would like to start off by saying that I would like to see the ability to turn off the Fur highlights on female Hrothgar but still be able to keep the Hair highlights this minor change would give people that wanted it tones of more options for character creation.

(having white hair highlights is a big part of my characters personality but I personally dont feel like they would have a white fur pattern/any at all.)

anyway post what you would like to see added or changed bellow but remember keep it civil and constructive!!:)

I would say do a second attempt at doing lips for almost every race. a lot were flattened, losing gloss & depth. some got the flat line treatment while some got butchered like the Au'ra face 2 one.

that's what come to my mind, beside bun nose looking a bit off

My main character is a male miqote (Seeker of the Sun) that utilizes Face 2 with both facial features. Something I noticed during the benchmark that I dislike is that certain angles in which the light hits the beard creates the illusion of a blue/gray tint on the beard close to the face. So far that is the only real issue I have with the changes to my WoL.

Photos can be found via link below as I'm new to the forum and still unsure how to post pictures in a reasonable size format lol

https://imgur.com/a/zpAowU2

Someone above had already mentioned Au Ra face two above. But to elaborate, my primary issue was the significant design change to the mouth; I was previously a Mouth Four user, but in the benchmark, I changed it to Mouth 1 to better suit my current character. I feel as though the mouth being shrunk and, in general, looking completely different is my primary issue with face two au ra; I think in the future, something that looks more faithful to the original mouths would be ideal as I feel the change while small is still too significant of a detraction.

Thanks for making this thread btw I think having a single thread condensed with people's issues will help the devs and community in the long run.

My one minor feedback, as a big hellsguard fan, is that the iconic hellsguard nose is a lot paler and subtle in the benchmark instead of being nearly black like it is right now. As it's my favorite trait of hellsguard I'd love if it was black/darker as it was before, or that we could maybe have a toggle/slider for them.

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A toggle slider for the hellsguard noses would be great! Side note, your hellsguard looks *really* good in the benchmark. Definitely came out on top!

I personally really liked the little lip gap that this face had before the graphics update. I make an effort to angle a lot of my plates to show it off and I like how it makes my character look in cutscenes. I really hope that it could be brought back!

As an aside, I feel that midtone skin ranges (not fair but not dark) feel a bit too light. I'm no longer able to find a skin tone that matches what I originally had in mind for my character on seeker of the sun miqo'te.

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...e07fbff286.jpg

I'm unsure if bug or intended but can we return the sharp angular canines to the female Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te that are present in 6.0


thanks

https://imgur.com/a/GUE0O2Q

Let me focus my feedback on the changes that happened to my character.

https://i.imgur.com/bPh6RDi.png
https://i.imgur.com/nn40a74.png

The makeup around the eyes has been darkened and thickened unnecessarily, creating an unnaturally dark mascara look that makes the eyes look hooded and sleepy.

The lip shape has been completely changed, making the lower lip look disproportionately large compared to the upper one, while at the same time it is further back on the face, creating a harsher overbite effect.

The lip texture has also been flattened; previously, the lip texture on this face had a kind of pleasing semi-realistic look to it, but now it looks flat and waxy. The colour of the lipstick has also been darkened and muddied.

https://i.imgur.com/xAlizBJ.png

In in-game lighting, this plus the new lighting system has rendered my character somewhat nightmarish looking, with dead eyes, overly dark makeup, and no visual definition between her neck and her chin.

Um, please give my cute lip texture back. And please bring back the light to my eyes.

I can only agree with you. It would be amazing to have fur without markings while still getting the option for multi colored hair!

While we are at it, it would also be nice if the original Hrothgar hairstyles had the option to be multi colored as well. It only worked for me with Meteor's hairstyle from the trailer...

I'd gerally appreciate more variety when it comes to Hrothgar fur colors. It's pretty much the same as hair color for other races, yet it lacks the many different color options. In my case I could really use a lilac color, as I want to create a Hrothgar version of my Miqo'te WOL.