Please make the in-game Au Ra (Males) more muscular, reflective of the Artwork

[Terin]

If they don't adjust the gear you would see chunks of meat clipping with the armor, it takes a lot of work, but it can be achieved if the modeling team has enough manpower available for it.

It's certainly possible, I would just be kind of shocked if they're having to manually model every article of clothing to suit every single character-model.I think it would be more likely that they simply set the dimensions of the character-model itself, and just sort of fine-tune it from there. Still a fair bit of work, but I don't think it would be excessive, should they choose to alter the base model. Like I said, it just depends what their internal tools look like, or if they even deem the Au Ra in need of changing. As said, there are clearly people on both sides of the fence.

[Hammerfist]

I agree with OP, I wish that they had a body structure a bit more muscular, with a wider chest and broader shoulders (maybe more similar to the Ronso of FFX), like this:



For now, they are really just Elezens with tail and horns.

[Terin]

Exactly! A small change to the model could make a pretty profound difference in feeling "different", without compromising the overall "identity" they're supposed to have. I'm not asking for a complete overhaul or anything; just changing their proportions ever-so-slightly.

[Clover_Blake]

We will have to agree that we all have different tastes when it comes to how muscular we like our FFXIV males to be *amused*.

I think what triggered a large discussion was the (perceived) implications that Au Ras *need* to be changed. They could have been different to satisfy different people, but then the players who currently love them would be disappointed. In the end, it's simply a matter of personal tastes, and there's no right or wrong.

Also, since this is a Japanese game, you can expect that most of the character designs will fit the Japanese tastes, which is exactly why I'm playing this game and not any Western one. In that sense, it's not surprising that the Au Ra race is very much of my liking, and I can guarantee that I'm absolutely fascinated by it. I do find the Au Ra different and very inspiring, and I've been so obsessed with them from the very moment I saw them. As a roleplayer, I'm dying to RP an Au Ra, while I've never cared about elezen.

[Renik]

I agree with OP, I wish that they had a body structure a bit more muscular, with a wider chest and broader shoulders (maybe more similar to the Ronso of FFX), like this:

For now, they are really just Elezens with tail and horns.

That's gross, but it's just my opinion.



Fixed, everyone's happy now.

[NoahArks]

Why would anyone give mi'qote muscle sliders? See this cat on steroids, that could've been a mi'qote!

[Sinroth]

One of the things that turned me off about the male Elezen was their idle stance and animation style. I believe the male Au Ra should be noticeably bulkier, more muscular than Elezen. Face-wise Roegadyns have the best options imo for intimidating looks. Ultimately, my favorite Race would have the Highlander everything with Roegadyn face options like the ones below. Extra's like Horns, Tale, Scales etc are fine too. However since its Elezen, Thats ok. So long as the ANIMATIONS are NOT identical for the male Au Ra. Something turns me off about the Elezen style stance and it doesn't appear intimidating at all if it were attached to the male Au Ra. As of right now the Highlander has thee most intimidating stance in the game. Found ways around the ugly no eyebrow thing I hate so much with Highlander, so not too bad. Roegadyn's have the most potential for intimidating looks though.

[Terin]

We will have to agree that we all have different tastes when it comes to how muscular we like our FFXIV males to be *amused*.

I think what triggered a large discussion was the (perceived) implications that Au Ras *need* to be changed. They could have been different to satisfy different people, but then the players who currently love them would be disappointed. In the end, it's simply a matter of personal tastes, and there's no right or wrong.

Also, since this is a Japanese game, you can expect that most of the character designs will fit the Japanese tastes, which is exactly why I'm playing this game and not any Western one. In that sense, it's not surprising that the Au Ra race is very much of my liking, and I can guarantee that I'm absolutely fascinated by it. I do find the Au Ra different and very inspiring, and I've been so obsessed with them from the very moment I saw them. As a roleplayer, I'm dying to RP an Au Ra, while I've never cared about elezen.

I can respect that. My point has always been, though, that as much as I love this game, I've always found the playable races hard to cope with. I've always acknowledged that I'm a bit of a stereotype when it comes to my taste in characters, but as good as the game looks, few characters look genuinely "tough" in FFXIV, to me. The Roegadyn are big, but have always struck me as being more "loveable" than "dangerous". Highlanders are probably the closest to something I would be happy with, except their animations seem very effeminate (because of being shared with Midlanders).

As such, I landed on Miqo'te, simply for having better animations. For that reason, I'll probably wind up switching over to the Au Ra either way, simply because for a truly imposing character, to me, the bar is fairly low. The artwork looks absolutely phenomenal, but I just thought the in-game render still looked "skinny". Which, true, is very common for Japanese games, I just sort of wonder, is there really anybody who likes the Au Ra, and *doesn't* like the other three humanoid Males?

[ErzaScarlet77]

au ra is setting up to be a dissapointment imo
nothing they have screams "dragon people" to me
the horn and the tail could easily be attributed to another animal and the skin looks more like a disease than a cool trait

what we really need is a proper beast race like the charr in GW2
now thats how you do a human/beast race hybrid

[EveHawke]

Will say that I did win a bet with this race, when Yugiri first appeared I had bet that the race was dragon type while friends had bet rat. Though I must say that I hate that even the female starting gear looks nicer than the miqote's female starting gear. Seriously just because they are cat girls doesn't mean they need to wear such skimpy outfits.