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[Nestama]

Hmmm... here's a thought. The leak said there were two nee races.
While that seems outlandish, what if both of these voncepts get used and our two Viera tribes are a short cute Viera model and a tall and elegant one.

The leaker pointed people to their icon when asked what the new race(s) would be. Their icon was rabbit and lion.
Also, I'd be extremely disappointed if the 'second race' went toward Viera. One is enough; just go the FFXII or FFTA route :/

[TThibi]

Was being discussed in Eureka shout last night what the 2 races of Viera might look like. I'd think of it as the difference between Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit. One form a short swift, agile creature; females being slim, and fit, short with slight height advantage over males ranging between tallest Lalafel and Mid height miqo female, males being also slim, muscular and short just slightly shorter than their female counter. The other tall, graceful, much slower, and more physical, female being on par physically with your average supermodel or female Highlander, males being closer in stature to Roes in physical presence. One caste suited to rogueish professions, the other suited to heavier combat.

[Vespar]

No, you only hope that they're going to look like Fran.

To be quite honest, I can speak for myself, and dont need folks to put words in my mouth. I could care less if they look like Fran but Im being realistic here. Chances are we only got Viera at all and so quickly because SE already has the assets for them from XII. Its not much more of a stretch to use those assets to create or tweak models for XIV. Atleast that would be my assumption. As for Au'Ra, it was probably in the works from the beginning of 2.0 since before the game's relaunch they had done a survey asking what races folks would like to see and a dragon race (Au'Ra) was pretty popular among the poll. It just happened to be the one they went with first. Viera was actually at the top of the poll back then too and with the April fool's bangaa joke being such a cruel disappointment for many fans, I can see why they chose to get to work on it.
But in truth, NO ONE, not I or any other player will truly know what they look like until they either leak or are officially shown off. My opinion is nothing more than speculation as is yours, or anyone else's.

[Sigma-Astra]

To be quite honest, I can speak for myself, and dont need folks to put words in my mouth.

No one was putting words in your mouth. Stop getting ultra defensive over something you're hyping up to be based on your own desires when nothing is set in stone yet. Not all words are meant to hurt you and if you can't take criticism towards over what you're posting on a public forum, then maybe not say it at all? Or at least, don't immediately be spiteful towards others about it. I'm glad you can speak for yourself, so can I. If you don't like what I said, then you are free to ignore it as everyone else has done so far. Chill out.

I could care less if they look like Fran but Im being realistic here. Chances are we only got Viera at all and so quickly because SE already has the assets for them from XII. Its not much more of a stretch to use those assets to create or tweak models for XIV. Atleast that would be my assumption.

If you could care less that they look like Fran or not, then why are you telling people to save their griping in the first place? You can't have it both ways. Furthermore, pulling assets from a single player game which runs on an entirely different game engine and coding is a stretch actually. They can't just pull the in-game models from XII and simply copy paste them into XIV like an editing software while only making a few minor adjustments towards the mesh models. They are going to have to recreate the in-game Viera models from scratch while loosely basing them off of Fran's outward appearance at the very least. However, Fran's armor never really changed in appearance throughout XII so, they are going to have to model them to at least move and fit for each gear set appropriately with as much minimal clipping as possible (hahaha) to make it not so jarring. If you were being realistic about this, you'd probably realize that it's not as easy as you make it sound to be based on your own assumptions.

It's why I had said what I had said. We can only hope that they look like Fran for that reason stated above and also because SE has a multi-year long history of telling us all one thing and doing the opposite usually. It is what it is.

But in truth, NO ONE, not I or any other player will truly know what they look like until they either leak or are officially shown off. My opinion is nothing more than speculation as is yours, or anyone else's.

Great. Glad you realized that. Because if we're talking about speculation, then there's no reason why you have to be so hostile or tell others to stop griping about it either.

[Vespar]

No one was putting words in your mouth. Stop getting ultra defensive over something you're hyping up to be based on your own desires when nothing is set in stone yet.

You just put words in my mouth again, but whatever. If anything I'm fiesty and irritable today because I'm dealing with a very off the wall 8mo old. My apologies if that is bleeding through my posts right now. That said though while I look forward to Viera. My thoughts are my own, I'm not "hyped" because I have been burned by SE's announcements before but I am intrigued by it and I do look forward to it.

And I told one person to save their griping because we already have an idea of what to expect. I highly doubt viera will be changed too much from what peopel expect otherwise it would be a pointless endeavor for SE to make something that fans have been clamoring for only to change it into something it wasn't. Why else would fans beg for Viera only to get "not-quite Viera". Seems an odd thing to do.
Would they do that? Who knows it SE? Maybe... But i kind of doubt it. I think its safe to speculate that it will atleast resemble Viera from XII in most aspects.

[Sigma-Astra]

Why else would fans beg for Viera only to get "not-quite Viera". Seems an odd thing to do.
Would they do that? Who knows it SE? Maybe... But i kind of doubt it. I think its safe to speculate that it will atleast resemble Viera from XII in most aspects.

On any other time I would agree and believe you with this statement. But, then I look back at All Greed Loot for 24-man Raids, Au Ra, Eureka, and the bunny suit male glamour fiascos...and I just...I really just can't have faith in SE as a company sometimes.

The logical thing would be not to do it as you said, but....it's SE. It's like a 50/50 thing with them whether or not they'll listen to anyone but the JP player-base.

[Dragoon4life]

[Nestama]

Okay, so I've been thinking...

We know that in the Ivalice story, Viera are considered a 'sub-race.' What if that means 'clan?' What if the new race is called something completely different, but the two clans are called 'Viera' and 'Ronso.' I'd be 100% on board with that (unless Ronso are just tall buff Miqo'te, then I'll be disappointed again... severely more so than when Au Ra's concept art was shown).

[DracotheDragon]

Seeing how the nu mou are designed on the tactics artwork i got the strongest feeling the two clans we will get will be based on tactics and tactics A2:


A2:


and tactics:


compared to the ones from ff12 they have normal arm length and normal-ish feet

[Fredco191]

I do hope the male option for Viera height maxes out to that of a female midlander, while female Viera stay more akin to female Roegadyn. Given what they did with AuRa, i say the reverse would be welcome.

I’m still hoping that they do this.