Updating Existing Races

[Freyyy]

Oh okay, seems legit

[synesthetic]

Is it me or the whole graphic quality was way better in 1.0 ? I didn't play 1.0 but everytime I see pictures of it I find it way more beautiful than what the game looks like now.
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The lighting seems better, the shadows look better, the hair looks like actual hair, the textures seem to look better too. Looks like an upgraded version of what we have here. Wtf happened ?

Because it was better. It was also too much.



Outsourcing, lack of direction, and lack of experience with this game genre were what happened. Development back then was focused almost entirely on graphics--which is a big selling point in the FF series--but hardly anything on actually making a playable game.

Some players stuck with it, but for most, it was a disaster. And that put SE in a really bad position.

Yoshida took over and saw what was available was mostly unsalvageable. So he had development working overtime to practically remake the game from the ground up, while also pushing for improvements to make 1.0 playable until 2.0 could be released. And so it's "A Realm Reborn".

[Tanama]

I think that face is so popular from how non-invasive the horns and facial scales are.

I feel like all Miqo'te girls look the same. Actually messing with the creator show that face 1 and 3 have the same eyes...

And the female elezen really only have two faces. The other two are just slight variations of them.

[Vejjiegirl]

I know a lot of people wish that the horns were a separate choice from the Aura race...

As a Miqo'te, I really want more tail options. Right now, my tail is the two toned one. But what I really want is a tabby-cat stripey tail.

It would be nice to give Miqo'te more tail options however they have a lot already, IMO Au Ra should get more tail options first to balance the discrepancy.

And the female elezen really only have two faces. The other two are just slight variations of them.

This is true, The first two elezen face selections are the exact same face except one has darker makeup than the other, the two faces offer no changes to any of your face-part selections at all.



I've said this in the past but the races other than Miqo'te/Hyur Really do need some love, many of us are missing a lot of selections (Jaws Types, Eye shapes).

Female Character Creation Options:

Face:
Hyur Midlander =5
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 4

*(Hyur Midlander essentially have more jaw,eyeshapes,eyebrows, nose shapes, and mouth shapes due to have an extra face this is why they are not red below)*


Jaw:
Hyur Midlander = 4
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 3
Au Ra = 3

EyeShape:
Hyur Midlander = 5
Hyur Highlander = 6
Elezen = 6
Lalafell = 6
Miqo'te = 6
Roegadyn = 5
Au Ra = 5

Eyebrows:
Hyur Mildander = 5
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 5
Lalafell = 5
Miqo'te = 5
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 4

Nose:
Hyur Midlander = 5
Hyur Highlander = 6
Elezen = 6
Lalafell = 6
Miqo'te = 6
Roegadyn = 6
Au Ra = 5

Mouth:
Hyur Midlander = 4
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell =4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 4

EarShape/TailShape:
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 8
Au Ra = 4

*(Miqo'te, Au Ra, Lalalfell, Elezen Only)*

Tattoos/Limbal Ring/Ear Clasps:
Hyur Midlander(Tattoos change with face)= 2
Hyur Highlander(Tattoos change with face) = 2
Elezen = 2
Lalafell = 2
Miqo'te = 2
Au Ra = 2
Roegadyn(Tattoos change with face) = 2

Male Character Creation Options:

Face:
Hyur Midlander = 6
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 4


Jaw:
Hyur Midlander = 4
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 3
Au Ra = 4

EyeShape:
Hyur Midlander = 6
Hyur Highlander = 6
Elezen = 6
Lalafell = 6
Miqo'te = 6
Roegadyn = 5
Au Ra = 6

Eyebrows:
Hyur Mildander = 6
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 6
Lalafell = 6
Miqo'te = 5
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 6

Nose:
Hyur Midlander = 6
Hyur Highlander = 6
Elezen = 6
Lalafell = 6
Miqo'te = 6
Roegadyn = 6
Au Ra = 6

Mouth:
Hyur Midlander = 4
Hyur Highlander = 4
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 4
Roegadyn = 4
Au Ra = 4

EarShape/TailShape:
Elezen = 4
Lalafell = 4
Miqo'te = 8
Au Ra = 4

*(Miqo'te, Au Ra, Lalalfell, Elezen Only)*

Tattoos/Limbal Ring/Ear Clasps:
Hyur Midlander(Tattoos change with face)= 2
Hyur Highlander(Tattoos change with face) = 2
Elezen = 2
Lalafell = 2
Miqo'te = 2
Au Ra = 2
Roegadyn(Tattoos change with face) = 2

[Freyyy]

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This is a very interesting post. We can see that female Au Ra is the most lacking race in terms of customization options, followed by Roegadyn both male and female.

[Riardon]

All races need improvements. All of them. How is it ok in a million player game to select between like 4 faces for each race? How is that cool? Why they don't just put some more faces, eye shapes, tails for everyone? Let alone that some faces are almost the same so you don't even have 4 to select. SE can you please work on this? 3 years now the game is stuck on launch day's character customization. This is not cool at all. You can put more faces, eye shapes, nose etc like you out new hairstyles with every patch yet you ignore it.

[Vejjiegirl]

All races need improvements. All of them. How is it ok in a million player game to select between like 4 faces for each race? How is that cool? Why they don't just put some more faces, eye shapes, tails for everyone? Let alone that some faces are almost the same so you don't even have 4 to select. SE can you please work on this? 3 years now the game is stuck on launch day's character customization. This is not cool at all. You can put more faces, eye shapes, nose etc like you out new hairstyles with every patch yet you ignore it.

Highlanders really got screwed over in the face department. 6 faces for Midlander male vs the 4 faces for Highlander.

[Alacran]

I would like more sub races added to the existing options. would love to see half elf option for hyur, seriously only needs pointy ear option.

[Fevelle]

I would like more sub races added to the existing options. would love to see half elf option for hyur, seriously only needs pointy ear option.

I would be ok with this if they implemented more half-races along with the elezen-hyur option (like au'ra-lalafells and miqote-roegadyns), but if it's just a hyur-elezen options, I'd prefer a totally new race.

[Zohar_Lahar]

I recall some dev post stating there was a third clan possibly out there in the world, we just haven't come across them yet.
Don't remember if this was specifically in regards to the Au Ra or for all spoken races. I checked real quick but couldn't find the post I'm remembering.

But hey, there's a possibility new clans will be an option!


As for me, I just wanna see the 1.0 butts back.

Some of the recent Lore book previews, specifically a page on hyurs, suggest there could be other clans elsewhere in Hydaelyn besides Midlander & Highlander. They've never given any reason to believe there couldn't be more than two clans for each (playable) race.