Viera Race "Confirmed" for 5.0! Are you gonna change races?

[Atlas-04]

Well if we don't get a different Viera clan, make the males the small ones. Reverse Au Ra.

[MsQi]

I might change one of my Hyurs.

[MsQi]

Well if we don't get a different Viera clan, make the males the small ones. Reverse Au Ra.

I like the idea of reversal there. I'm quite certain there will be clan choices but like most races there probably won't be any difference in body structure between the two clans. Aren't Hyur the only race with differences in body shape/size between clans?

[Nestama]

Yeah, only Hyurs are different between clans. I imagine SE won't make new races have 'Midlander/Highlander' clans because they know people will demand a third clan for existing races to be visually different or something. Can easily see there being posts demanding the third Au Ra clan to be the concept art.

[Iscah]

Yeah, only Hyurs are different between clans. I imagine SE won't make new races have 'Midlander/Highlander' clans because they know people will demand a third clan for existing races to be visually different or something. Can easily see there being posts demanding the third Au Ra clan to be the concept art.

On the other hand, if they know they're drawing close to the end of how many races they can add*, they might want to squeeze in two new character types rather than one? Especially since it's a race with two pre-established (and concept-arted) clan designs.

* My guess is that unless they restructure the character creator and data, and unless they planned ahead for having a large number of races, the actual limit of how many races they can have is eight - the largest number conveyed by the same amount of data needed for the original choice out of five - and if the rumour of getting two new races is true, that will be full!

Alternately, I wonder if the "two new races" could be a slight error because they're making two new types of character models, but they're going to be put in as clans of a single race?

I also don't think we will be getting a third sub-race ever, or at least (again) unless they restructure the character data - the current choice of clan A or B is a single 0/1 in the data, but three choices requires two digits and would change the length of the code.

[Nestama]

On the other hand, if they know they're drawing close to the end of how many races they can add*, they might want to squeeze in two new character types rather than one? Especially since it's a race with two pre-established (and concept-arted) clan designs.

* My guess is that unless they restructure the character creator and data, and unless they planned ahead for having a large number of races, the actual limit of how many races they can have is eight - the largest number conveyed by the same amount of data needed for the original choice out of five - and if the rumour of getting two new races is true, that will be full!

Assuming you're referring to the Feol Viera, I still doubt they'd do that (if the children Viera; no thank you). Aside from faces appearing more 'hume-like' than Viera (since their father race is pretty much Hume with wings), they're not really all that different from pure-blooded Viera. Sure, their ears are also shorter, but I'm sure there'll be an ear length slider in the character creator for them.

We'll see. There's still two more Fan Fests to look forward to (I still wish new races in FFXIV would be something that has already existed and then becomes playable and not something that doesn't exist until the end of a patch cycle and then becomes playable).

[Atlas-04]

Assuming you're referring to the Feol Viera, I still doubt they'd do that (if the children Viera; no thank you).

Good thing you wouldn't be forced to play one.

[Fredco191]

Well if we don't get a different Viera clan, make the males the small ones. Reverse Au Ra.

I’d play that.

[xbahax92]

Anyone spotted male Viera yet?
At work, cant play yet.

[Clover_Blake]

I personally wouldn't like it if male vieras were always shorter than females. I'd find it fine if they were the same average size, and thus some might be shorter or taller depending on each character's height bar.
Just my two cents in case SE reads, for the sake of showing that there are different opinions on the matter.