Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[reivaxe]

A new race might not be entirely off the table.

When asked about whether viera and hrothgar would be the last new races to be introduced to the game, and if there were any plans to add more customization options to the established races, Yoshi P responded like this:

"if it is a customization option that significantly changes the shape of the races body, I think we would be better off to tackle the challenge of just introducing a new playable race all together instead."


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Also, they probably won't show female hrothgar/male viera NPCs unless they are prepared to make them playable. Viera and hrothgar NPCs were not given head items at the start of ShB because the dev team was aware people would then ask "why can't we wear head items then?" This was a concern Yoshi P expressed in one of the live letters - the same logic can apply to the other genders as well. If we do see a male viera or female hrothgar NPC, then it would be safe to assume they will be playable options later.

That is a mighty reach.

All he is saying is that it's possible that they make new customization options but if the scope of those options were too large they would be better off as something new all together (cause yeah, redoing all the gear to look like a new body type is what they do for new races and putting in the amount of work to make a Viera body that's tall and thin like an elezen but better proportioned would be better used for a new race than as a 10years late addition to them).
Aka, don't expect ass sliders or anything that would change much about the body or head shape of the race. It's easy to forget how outdated this CC is, it's not a problem for many older and newer Character Creatures to allow you to have wider hips or thighs or slimmer features. In this game though? you can't control any of that. And the "leaving a crack open for more new races" bit ... I think it's the classic "never wanna say no but it's not gonna happen" Japanese talk.

Like yeah, I can't think of them saying anything about it in the past 9 months off the top of my head (though I'm sure they touched on it in the Hrothgar panel but I can't be bothered to keep rewatching it just to talk about the same nothing) so much like with Viera hair and helms I'll give it the benefit of "latest news tops older" till I come across that again. But looking at Viera and Hrothgar as is ... makes it clear they prob don't have the ability to make more stuff than they do now unless something changes.

As for seeing the other genders, Datamines suggest we may.

[Amnmaat]

As for seeing the other genders, Datamines suggest we may.

Interesting, definitely looking forward to the fanfests now.

[Lihtleita]

As for seeing the other genders, Datamines suggest we may.

owo whats this?