Graphics Update - Miqo'te Seeker: Eye Highlight needed and War Paint too pale

War paint using skin tone 1 hardly appears; needs to be adjusted darker. The single white highlight in the eyes being gone makes the model appear lifeless/doll-like and I believe it is needed even with the new dynamic lighting. Examples of issues and possible fixes:


https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...086&height=676

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...277&height=676


Edit:
I wanted to update this post with a theory I have heard going around about subsurface scattering being boosted in the benchmark for some reason. This essentially makes the skin glow more than it should and could be the explanation for the war paint looking more pale/faded.

Adding my voice here too! The face markings/war paint are too light in the Dawntrail benchmark compared to how they currently look in-game. Please refer to the images below. It's especially obvious in the final shot from the benchmark cinematic. The markings are almost invisible :(

6.58:
https://i.imgur.com/AROxoHu.jpeg

Dawntrail Benchmark
https://i.imgur.com/2OqYfCj.png
https://i.imgur.com/ZpA1ZbS.jpeg

Thank you for reading and I hope our feedback will be considered!

Throwing my hat into this trashpile yet again!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6279d5e593f16& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...50ae780da3934&
(Shaders used in first photo don't fundamentally change the fact that the Clan Marks in the Benchmark are way, way more transparent)

It really does feel like there's an effort going on to, for lack of better words, gentrify and genericize every race from what I've seen across these forums in these past 2 days. I've been playing this game for 3 years since the Expanded Free Trial update in 5.3, and I have not Fanta'd or Fundamentally Changed My Character Once. I love my Keeper because she is a Keeper, not because she's Slightly-Not-Hyur. I love the Fangs, I love the Clan Marks, and I love the idiotic eyes that stare into space. No one who plays a Keeper wants Smaller Fangs, otherwise they'd play a Seeker!

https://i.imgur.com/HO89HY6.png
https://i.imgur.com/nIv5Qmn.png
I’m not sure if you specifically wanted this to be about female seekers but I wanted to add my voice on the front of male seekers that our clan markings are all much faded (though not as bad as female seekers) but what seems to be so strange is our clan markings are really low quality and seriously pixelated, it feels so unnatural to have facial marking pixelated, it looks worse than face paint

It says Seeker in the title, but those are Moonies.


I think my markings were largely unaffected by the update.

https://i.imgur.com/NHDaf8O.jpg

should be keeper instead of seeker, I mistyped

Adding my support to this. It's just like in your comparison screenshots for face 3 moon keepers, the clan marks are way too light/faded in the benchmark. I really hope they reverse course on this.

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

SEVEN HELLS

The most popular race + one of the popular hair. I refuse to believe this is the level of inhouse designers and Q&A. Did they just test on midlander and then did not check on other races?


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

Throwing in my support as well. I'll get screenshots when I can actually log in (good for a bump ^_^) and do a better compare across both current and 7.0, but looking at the Benchmark, it looks like Keeper Female Face 1 and 2 marks are pretty good and visible, but 3 and 4 are really faded in comparison.

Images are being funky for me at the moment but here's my Miqo with Face 1 and 3 (dark marks), then 2 and 4 (white marks) in that order: https://imgur.com/a/V7ZLoPV

It sometimes feels like not all faces (or ears or features) got the same attention to detail for the benchmark, but here's hoping they can fix that by release.

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Originally Posted by MAJRIS

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

SEVEN HELLS

The most popular race + one of the popular hair. I refuse to believe this is the level of inhouse designers and Q&A. Did they just test on midlander and then did not check on other races?


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

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Yep, that is a non excusable oops.

Did some more looking and it's really evident that it's the Face 3 markings that really need a touch up. Here's Face 3 (top) vs Face 1 (bottom):

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

The markings for Face 1 are pretty clear no matter the skin tone (though paler skin tones seem to wash out the markings more on all faces), but they're noticeably fainter on Face 3 regardless of skin tone.

One of the Seeker faces also has some of the same problem (I think it's Face 4 but my pictures could have been out of order, sorry)

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

I registered an account here just to say something. Where's my babygirl's stripes! I am generally happy with how she looks and I do think it's to do with the characters feeling like... lit from the inside, if that makes sense?

https://images2.imgbox.com/23/64/X2sDhpbi_o.png
current version

https://images2.imgbox.com/2c/f6/534cDhgd_o.jpg
benchmark

I should probably go and take a picture with the same hair in the benchmark, at first I thought it was due to her skintone which made me sad given the effort to make the lighting better for WoLs with darker skin, but at least I can see from this thread that's not the case!

Adding my voice here too. The markings really need a touch up because they're barely visible compared to the current graphics.

This example is straight from the benchmark scene on the boat:

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

Also another comparison, left is Endwalker, right is Benchmark:

https://i.imgur.com/JCktOj6.png

Adding my support to this! I was very disappointed to see the clan marks lightened on face 3 Keeper of the Moon Female Miqo'te. Since I love this stripes so much, and it's an important part of my character. I hope this gets fixed in the full release!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by MAJRIS

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

SEVEN HELLS

The most popular race + one of the popular hair. I refuse to believe this is the level of inhouse designers and Q&A. Did they just test on midlander and then did not check on other races?


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

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I've reported the bug with this hairstyle on F Miqos and it's been accepted, expect it to be fixed in the the new benchmark!

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-in-F-Miqo-te