Stormblood - New Race? Yes? No?

[Ametrine]

Elin are from TERA. The Blade and Soul version is Lyn.

On topic: I still think Hummingway should become playable. But I won't cry if we get Viera. Or nothing.

Copyright infringement much?
But, I haven't been into MMOs until recently, so I apologize for misnaming them.

Anyway, Hummingway may have been the idea behind that cute and short variant in the Viera design documents. People have suggested it acting as a sort of Midlander/Highlander tribal thing, but I doubt the dev team would be able to build two races from the ground up like that.

Hummingway as they are in FFIV seem more like a future beast tribe.

[LineageRazor]

More customization: Naturally, we all want this. Getting a new race doesn't necessarily mean we won't get this.

Non-human races: Probably won't happen. Setting aside the whole "JP doesn't want uncute races!" argument, there's a couple other good reasons:
1. Radical changes to armor design. We lost our butts because the devs needed to be able to create uniform armors; how likely is it that they're going to want to introduce a race with digitigrade legs, or whatever?
2. A MAJOR part of the game's plot deals with the conflict between human and beastman races. What sense will it make if one of the "human" races looks less human than, say, Amal'ja?

Viera: I'd prefer to see something new, rather than recycle a previous Final Fantasy race (admittedly difficult, as FF has created a lot of different races over the years, so it may be tough to come up with new ideas). If Viera are added, I'd prefer they NOT be Hyurs with animal ears - but, for example, Lalafell with animal ears might be an interesting variation on the Viera concept. At least then we'd have more than one race of short folk. Dwarves would be another decent idea, if we're going to dip into the grab bag of Final Fantasy races.

[Kling-Klang]

:P

I would love it if the race would look like this! <3 They look perfect and adorable.
But if we dont get any new race, I would be more than happy with more customization for our current races (add all the options the ps3 hold back!).

[Balipu]

Copyright infringement much?
But, I haven't been into MMOs until recently, so I apologize for misnaming them.

Anyway, Hummingway may have been the idea behind that cute and short variant in the Viera design documents. People have suggested it acting as a sort of Midlander/Highlander tribal thing, but I doubt the dev team would be able to build two races from the ground up like that.

Hummingway as they are in FFIV seem more like a future beast tribe.

It could be a beast tribe but I figured a lala sized fully furred rabbit person would be inhuman enough for those bored with humans with bonus parts, but humanoid and cute enough to work for japanese players.

[Dragon_Sanders]

None of the races on the pictures seems attractive to me. If they can, pls do not think too much about longer ears. They've done enough with ears. Why not trying feathers and wings? Some bird-like races may be the thing we lack.

[Felis]

Hummingway as they are in FFIV seem more like a future beast tribe.

I also think that it is a future Beastmen for 4.0
After all, the devs have already created a minion of them

[Dragon_Sanders]

look at the chinese wing outfit thread, people get furious about wings, its like you read comments on youtube xD
So much hate in so little space, almost like the ingredients of a lalafel

I do not mean simply adding a pair of wings on a body, that's quite a crude way. Designing is not just patching. Wings are enough for an outfit but far from enough for a race. (May I ask what do you mean why they hate? I saw too many opinions in that thread)
Following the way how they design Au Ra, we can see how bird-man works. As an Au Ra has scales, horns and tail to show racial feature, a bird-like race can have feathers surrounding the hair, neck, arms, legs; degraded wings or single wing (unable to fly, or it breaks the balance); and tails (imagine how many kinds of bird tails there will be!).
Well...I'm just attracted by the possible features of bird-like race we can customize---feather style, feather color, tail style... isn't it amazing a little bit?

[Ametrine]

Well...I'm just attracted by the possible features of bird-like race we can customize---feather style, feather color, tail style... isn't it amazing a little bit?

Birds over bunnies (or canines or felines, really).... But we have 2 completely seperate birdy beast tribes.

But I would totally make a Red-backed Shrike girl and main Ninja or Dragoon
+1

[Dragon_Sanders]

Birds over bunnies (or canines or felines, really).... But we have 2 completely seperate birdy beast tribes.

But I would totally make a Red-backed Shrike girl and main Ninja or Dragoon
+1

Apearances of those tribes are too far from human beings lol

[Nestama]

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Better option. No new race as it's just going to be a carbon copy of an already existing race, but with different bits. Also, Viera have rabbit feet and unusual hands, which means SE will replace them with regular human hands and feet (so they wouldn't even be Vieram but a human with rabbit ears).