Quote Originally Posted by reivaxe View Post
Having 2 foot long ears with clippy tuffs of fur clip out of the top of your head is far more noticeable than some rigid horns poking out the side. As someone who has played that race and is VERY triggered by needless clipping (Short hair for life) I can say that though I'm not a fan of some of the clipping with the horns it is in no way all that distracting. The horns are actually designed in a way so that most of the time you can reason it away because they cover the clipping point (so you can easily think "there's a spot where the character slotted on the helm" for example)

Just like I don't have the same reaction to tails clipping through 99% of tops as I do when I look at this.

And again, Viera ears ARE IN their "hat" slot. Even if the devs wanted to be lazy and "just make the ears clip through the hats" and embrace the visual pain that would be "bent ears" clipping through something like this they would STILL have to make 4 . different . versions of every hat in the game just to make each look like a lazy clippy poop because the hat would have to replace the ears on Viera with a "Hat + whatever ear they picked" model.
(And ontop of that, they would have to design "hat hair models" for all of Viera hairs ... which doesn't seem like a big deal at first but it's even more work down the line seeing as they will only get unique hairs in the future)

That's more work than any race in this game gets lol

Like I said, new game and I'm sure it'll be far easier to make up a new system for handling Viera ears. But that aint what we got, we got a game that was built fast on the back of a broken nightmare. Game's been showing it's age and there are a number of common play CC options we will simply never get because the game was built the way it was. It really is a minor miracle that they got the 2 races in the way they did ... because it's clear that the most logical step in making them would have been to make Highlander Neko instead of Hrothgar and a tall, tailless neko with stilly longer "bunny like" ears instead of Viera.
Clearly the game can handle it. This excuse that the ears are in the hat slot was an attempt to place Viera in the same predicament that hrothgar are in; essentially a lie.