New female midlander running animation?

May I be bashed by this? yes. Is this perhaps a frequent request/question? yes.

FFXIV Devs and fellow FFXIV subs.. do we have any hope of a new or optional way to change the running animation for Midlanders? I want to play as regular human that doesn't princess run everywhere. it just feels.. off. When I'm wearing armor it doesn't look right, if i'm in a cut-scene and all the characters are running and then there's me or another midlander just prancing along it just doesn't look right either unless it's supposed to be a comedic setting.

EDIT 2020-02-21 - Thank you for replies! honestly i wasn't expecting any more than a few replies but i'm happy to see everyone's opinions regardless if i agree with them or not. I may try to bite it and try again sometime but we'll see what happens.. I tried to reply to most of your replies and i may try to get them all soon but i think i'm done for today, thanks again!

On that note, can I as a Femroe PLEASE do the princess run. I'm big, but I'm dainty ok.

It would be very nice if we could pick from the animations.

I don't even notice it anymore. Tail clipping and Au Ra stiff animation is far worse.

I will straight up quit the game if they change the run, I CHOSE midlander because of the animations.

How about a "Change Run" emote?

Honestly that was one of the main reasons I hated playing a midlander was the run, I love everything else. That run though.....it was killer I love their sprint animation and would prefer that to be the run.

Midlander female run is terrible yes. Mostly why I play Au ra. Of all the things that female Au ra could have that weren't dainty it was the run, of course.

So let me get this straight. You want the midlander run animation gone because YOU don’t like it? Um, how about no lol. Their animations are incredibly feminine and cute.

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Originally Posted by Roflewaffle48

I want to play as regular human that doesn't princess run everywhere.

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So we're just going to pretend that Highlanders aren't a thing? :confused:

There are races that may fit your liking, no need to change anything.

I didn't choose them because of the run.. but it does look adorable when I see them run past me. It'll drive me insane if I picked one though. Then again I'm an Au ra and mine run is super stiff like there's a pipe in my ass. So what do I know.

Please dev change the running combat animation of SCH and SMN for women.

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Originally Posted by Nandrolone

So let me get this straight. You want the midlander run animation gone because YOU don’t like it? Um, how about no lol. Their animations are incredibly feminine and cute.

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OP is hardly the only person who dislikes the midlander running animation.
That said, I don't think removing is the way to go. Simply having the option to swap to a non-princess walking animation would be better.

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Originally Posted by Rymm

So we're just going to pretend that Highlanders aren't a thing? :confused:

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Those are a more muscled up version, which doesn't appeal to as many people as midlanders do.

Oh don't even think about touching my dainty princess run!

Can't keep sprint up full time, so as tank in heavy armor you've gotta love it.

As healer, I can't keep up period and love being all "doot dee dooo" while everyone leaves me in the dust ;p

Dodging the bad during Slice is Right is way too adorable. Just need a emote where we stick our tongues out in a 'nah naahhh' fashion :p

This animation has pretty much become the signature of the Midlander female.

Can someone tell me why the FFXIV community hates on girl midlanders so much? I think they are a very feminine and cute race...I genuinely don’t get the hate for them, it’s not like anyone is forcing you to play as one :confused:

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

On that note, can I as a Femroe PLEASE do the princess run. I'm big, but I'm dainty ok.

It would be very nice if we could pick from the animations.

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Yea, hopefully we can CHOOSE different animations, because there is no way in hell my femroe is gonna run like some "dainty princess"

yes changed the one of the most detailed walk animations lol
if anything , i'd prefer a new walk animation for elezen , both genders
maybe improve some of the body parts too

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Originally Posted by Nandrolone

Can someone tell me why the FFXIV community hates on girl midlanders so much?

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What hate? There is no special hate directed towards female midlanders as such. Their running animation though, that is hated by a non-trivial percentage of players.

I love Hyurs but midlander is too plain with her poses and flat figure and yeah, I wouldn't mind if I could choose a different run. I like highlanders too with their playful use of emotes (4th voice, best voice ingame) but they are too buff for me, we need a mix!

I wish they would add new runs ones to everyone and we could choose which to use.

I wasn't a fan of the midlander run back when I played one, I sort of got around it by just running everywhere with my weapon unsheathed.

Obviously as a workaround it works a lot better for some jobs than others. PLD was fine, SMN still looked a bit silly.

I just want to be able to pick from and assemble our own mannerism classes, so to speak, slightly adjusting a number of animations on the fly when we see fit based on character or to leave static with their general personality. I already have my favorite running animation on this character, but I'd love to be able to use it on my alts as well.

That would be great. The animation is terrible. They could use a couple new faces too. They are a bit generic.

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Originally Posted by Nandrolone

Can someone tell me why the FFXIV community hates on girl midlanders so much? I think they are a very feminine and cute race...I genuinely don’t get the hate for them, it’s not like anyone is forcing you to play as one :confused:

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Sometimes I want to play a character who's beautiful but not dainty and cutesy. There are precious few appealing (to me) options for that in the game, unfortunately. :/

...which is part of why I'm playing a guy now, lmao.

But yeah I'd like an option to change run animations, and fem Midlander's not the only one that looks kinda awkward.

Become a highlander queen. It will fix all your hyurian problems, and then some!

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

On that note, can I as a Femroe PLEASE do the princess run. I'm big, but I'm dainty ok.

It would be very nice if we could pick from the animations.

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I've always thought that would be a really cool feature in an MMO - being able to pick the personality of your character, which would impact their dialogue options as well as their emotes.

Not saying I'd ever expect it to come to XIV, but it's just been a thought that creeps into mind now and then.

I definitely supporting being able to choose your character's personality and mannerisms. It's kind of strange that we get the choice when it comes to appearance but personality is just decided for us. They're both equally important aspects of character and identity.

I like the running animation on my female Midlander alt, so back off please!

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

That would be great. The animation is terrible. They could use a couple new faces too. They are a bit generic.

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That's rich coming from a Viera. What's ironic is they have more faces than any other race.

with the amount of bait threads floating around, I'm starting to be convinced by the one post I read that there's a group going around continuing Titanmen/Brofist's legacy

Speaking as someone that hates the dainty female midlander running animation....

I don't see this happening. While I do personally dislike it, that change may upset people that DO like the current animation so I'd feel selfish asking for it to be changed.

Adding in alternate animations for character models, I don't see why female midlanders should be singled out to get more options. Maybe if it were part of a larger set of optional animations but I really don't see the dev team putting the effort into that instead of new npc/enemy/player emote animations they could be doing instead.

I like it and besides get in line. Female Elezen have been waiting for fresh run/sprint animations since time immemorial.

Why not offer another run animation just like we /cpose? Another poster suggest change run, so why not /crun? It could be neat to have different run options available. I mean, they could monetize it too in the mogstation with different run glamours.

Like... they added umbrellas, how hard can adding run animations be?

I would like to wear hats first though. Please? I mean, finish the content you just released, yeah? Hrothgar and Vieras wearing hats would definitely help out with the clone syndrome of our races too! ...and I could finally see some of that really nice holiday equipment for more than a moment as a character runs by on my screen ,_,

I honestly forget if this was the original run animation since 1.0 for hyur female, I think it was? I highly dislike it too either way.

How about unlocking all the running animations for all races!?.


I love female Midlander's princess run, I love female Miqo'te cute run even more.


On the other hand I hate female Au Ra's running animation as much Viera's and female Elezen, if I don't play other races is because I can't stand their animations because they don't give me the emotions I'm looking for!.




Edit: Oh, almost forgot, I'd love to have the cutscene's running animation. Have you noticed it!?. It's different from the normal ones!.

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Originally Posted by dinnertime

That's rich coming from a Viera. What's ironic is they have more faces than any other race.

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I literally spend half my time on these forums complaining about how limited viera are.

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Originally Posted by Rymm

So we're just going to pretend that Highlanders aren't a thing? :confused:

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I mean, everyone else does.

It's why Ala Mhigo is so rich in salt.

(...I'll show myself out again.)

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

I literally spend half my time on these forums complaining about how limited viera are.

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I don't exactly spend a lot of time checking the forums or keep track of what certain people are posting to know that.

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Originally Posted by dinnertime

I don't exactly spend a lot of time checking the forums or keep track of what certain people are posting to know that.

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So you think a viera player can't also want more options for other races too then.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

So you think a viera player can't also want more options for other races too then.

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What? Lol
Don't put words into my mouth. I couldn't care less if you do or not. I want more options for character creation like you do. I'm just pointing out that female midlanders are not exactly "generic" when they have five to choose from, and have more options than Viera. Hell, it's female Elezen that need help the most. They have TWO.

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Originally Posted by dinnertime

What? Lol
Don't put words into my mouth. I couldn't care less if you do or not. I want more options for character creation like you do. I'm just pointing out that female midlanders are not exactly "generic" when they have five to choose from, and have more options than Viera. Hell, it's female Elezen that need help the most. They have TWO.

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Agreed. Elezen only getting two faces is the worst, nobody ever talks about them though. All the races could use a revamp really. Males still need their WoD stubble too.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Agreed. Elezen only getting two faces is the worst, nobody ever talks about them though. All the races could use a revamp really. Males still need their WoD stubble too.

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It's been 10 years since FFXIV existed, and we still have the same options for the original races. I'd be baffled if the dev team didn't add more options for the existing races (that's not hairstyles) in the next expansion, especially when people have been asking for years. They'll earn so much Fantasia money if they did that.