Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

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They look fit, or athletic, like females. Not strongmen, more like they do cardio. I think they are going to be shorter, but slightly, more like Hyur height I'd guess.

They may well be, I have no preference one way or the other. But the room background looks superimposed vs. him actually being there, so it's hard to judge how short or tall they will be exactly.

We'll have to wait and see, since they are uncoupled from hrothgar now. Even so, if viera as a race are still getting racial specific styles, even if they do unisex we are probably going to be waiting awhile for them. The hat thing will definitely never change.

I tend to agree, I would have rather had the current iterations more 'fixed' than piling on the problems. We will have to wait and see. I have seen some arguments that it was better to add them early, for less work fitting gear in the future. I always expected they would add them at some point, so that is a valid argument.

I'm withholding judgement until Fan Fest is actually over, but it'll be massively disappointing if they just hop-skip over it again. Everyone is getting excited for a potential engine upgrade in 7.0 when they might be able to do this stuff easier, but by then it's been 4+ years? For some hair?

[SturmChurro]

They may well be, I have no preference one way or the other. But the room background looks superimposed vs. him actually being there, so it's hard to judge how short or tall they will be exactly.



I'm withholding judgement until Fan Fest is actually over, but it'll be massively disappointing if they just hop-skip over it again. Everyone is getting excited for a potential engine upgrade in 7.0 when they might be able to do this stuff easier, but by then it's been 4+ years? For some hair?

We can only assume that the shown males were average (50?) height, but there is no real point of reference. Maybe if someone did something similar to that image someone shared earlier with a female/and male on the bed, and did it over and over again with characters of different heights until they had an even match. Even then we would have to wait until the benchmark, I suppose.

Same, I have my hopes up right now though, since people are saying they said they would have hair.. not that I know where they are getting their information. Yeah, I don't think an engine upgrade is really necessary for something like hair, considering they have been adding hairs constistently over the course of ShB, but it would supposedly make the implementation of new races easier, or future gear fitting, so maybe resources freed for hair... Though, now that they have added the equivalent of another full race this expansion, the resources that could have been used to create hairs prior and during EW are going to be used to fit gear... what a cycle.. 4+ years of waiting would really suck.

What if they do something like, make the male viera hairs usable my females, and vice versa.. "here's your new hairs"? I would cry.

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Maybe if someone did something similar to that image someone shared earlier with a female/and male on the bed, and did it over and over again with characters of different heights until they had an even match.

Yeah, but I don't think he's actually in that room with the bed though, it looks "green screened" behind him rather than the model actually being in the room. So yeah, definitely would need the benchmark before anyone freaks out over this lol

Same, I have my hopes up right now though, since people are saying they said they would have hair.. not that I know where they are getting their information. Yeah, I don't think an engine upgrade is really necessary for something like hair, considering they have been adding hairs constistently over the course of ShB, but it would supposedly make the implementation of new races easier, or future gear fitting, so maybe resources freed for hair... Though, now that they have added the equivalent of another full race this expansion, the resources that could have been used to create hairs prior and during EW are going to be used to fit gear... what a cycle.. 4+ years of waiting would really suck.

I haven't seen that anywhere myself, but I hope that information is right. I'm genuinely happy for people that wanted male Viera (and female Hrothgar, since that's also confirmed) but I just want some more damn hairstyles. Before November as well, please? Is that greedy and entitled?

What if they do something like, make the male viera hairs usable my females, and vice versa.. "here's your new hairs"? I would cry.

I kind of like this one, but otherwise I'm gonna have to say hard pass on just sharing all of them.