Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Awha]

Maybe this is their lesser rate.. viera technically did get new hairs.. The ones for male viera..

If we also get a couple hairs during EW, they TECHNICALLY weren't lying. Only took a few years..

Aye a hair style ever four years hell even one hair style ever ten years would still fall in line with a lesser rate. :P

[Penthea]

Maybe this is their lesser rate.. viera technically did get new hairs.. The ones for male viera..

I'm not bitter enough to think SE are going to be like "here's your new viera hair female viera players but you have to fantasia to male to access it!". I would far sooner believe they would add nothing at all.

I know hrothgar hair is locked to faces and you do need to fantasia to change it but it's still not the same as telling players they need to literally change the gender of their character to have access to new hair and trying to market that as some cool feature.

[PurinSato]

I'm really sad that they are keeping the Viera's and Hrothgar update silent. They didn't even touch the subject during the whole fan fest. Please say something, a no is better than being silent I guess. It's sad that that I farmed toons of hairs in the game and I can't use them as a Viera. I'm not even asking for hats, which would be nice, but at least give us the modern aesthetics since every other race has access to it. I wanna go back to be a bunny girl but the lack of customization is keeping me from playing as my favorite race. Don't get me wrong I love my elezen, but it's not the same thing. C'mon Yoshi P. don't let us down T_T

[LuciaMirain]

I think we all know that's how it's going to be. SE already stated viera would be receiving hairs at a lesser rate due to them being race specific, iirc (don't have the quote). Maybe, just maybe we will get one or two unisex styles during EW..

Yeah I remember that quote too, even though I remember them saying they would add the legacy hairstyles as well (but I think we can forget those). I can imagine them just adding viera hairs with each expansion instead of patchwise. So instead of getting one here and there, they will just give us a 4 at the same time. They can't really create content to farm a hairsyle only available for vieras so I can't really see them doing it any other way. Unless they actually start putting in the hours to make hairstyles for all.

[BunniEclair]

I will say this: I am both elated for male viera, even though I won’t play them, and disappointed we didn’t hear a peep about the state of viera/hroth hair the whole stream.

That said, I do not think this team is as scummy to be like “well TECHNICALLY we SAID a slower rate hehe....so anything we do isn’t lying ”. While I do think it’s ridiculous and frankly bad taste they are just ignoring it while giving out a ton of hairs to everyone else, I am going to try to give them the benefit of the doubt that there’s a reason for it. We still have the 14 hour stream. We also still have the huge live letter and media tour before the launch. This whole fanfest, while cool, seemed kinda poorly organized (to be expected- it was an experiment). They didn’t allot nearly enough time to events. The Q&A got cut off after like 5 questions. The VA panel went way over schedule. 2 hours for a keynote that was supposed to encompass 2 fanfests worth of content reveal- they didn’t even touch on huge swaths of upcoming content. It’s possible that they simply didn’t have the time.

I try to keep in mind that the way they announced all that hard work that their team did on headgear in a really lowkey way- I believe a forum post? So it’s possible we can expect something similar.

I’ll keep the faith until EW. The addition of male viera and the promise of female hrothgar, while I always expected them to show up eventually, shows that they are listening and care about these races. But if by any chance this feedback gets back to the dev team: a little word on the matter sooner than later would go a long way!

[SturmChurro]

yeah I tried going au ra now, determined to stay as one but....no I just missed my viera. I just MISSED her, the way she moves and smiles and her stature. She is Viera. My alt was turned into my lovely Raen though so.....all good.

Just switched back to my veena as well. I need to catch up in story (haven't even unlocked the latest dungeon), and prep for the main story leading into EW come the 25th. I was hoping with good news during fanfest I would want to stay Viera, now I'll just be thinking of the hairstyle I paid 8 million gil for that I could use on Miqo'te, and that new one (someone mentioned) that I won't be able to use, with no alternatives for viera. Thing is I'll want to be viera for EW launch too (For story) so it'd be even more of a waste of money if I switched back and forth again..

Miqo'te just isn't my thing for story cutscenes, I can't take her seriously. Viera is my favorite.

I’ll keep the faith until EW. The addition of male viera and the promise of female hrothgar, while I always expected them to show up eventually, shows that they are listening and care about these races. But if by any chance this feedback gets back to the dev team: a little word on the matter sooner than later would go a long way!

Yeah, apparently, viera/hrothgar updates weren't important enough for the fanfest.. What some optimists say is that with male viera, viera as a race is 'complete', so now we should start receiving updates. I still think it's quite a bit late, they could have at least said something. Not to mention all the jumping around the question of male viera for the past couple years, and how they just couldn't add them.. I guess they really did want that to be there hit 'surprise' announcement.

[_Koneko_]

i think its far more likely you will get something rushed and will be just as broken as their counter parts and stuck with the same amount of hair and having to fantasia to change it

[BunniEclair]

Yeah, apparently, viera/hrothgar updates weren't important enough for the fanfest.. What some optimists say is that with male viera, viera as a race is 'complete', so now we should start receiving updates. I still think it's quite a bit late, they could have at least said something. Not to mention all the jumping around the question of male viera for the past couple years, and how they just couldn't add them.. I guess they really did want that to be there hit 'surprise' announcement.

Yeah. It’s possible that they wanted the focus completely on that, and later in the other events they’ll focus on racial updates. Hrothgar aesthetician and expanded hair library would be ideal. Again I’ll point out that male viera are noticeable less floofy than female viera...it could be possible they are working on a way to make viera compatible with the current hair system, and possibly hats.

[LisSquid]

With Male Viera coming out of left field, literally anything is possible at this point.

[Penthea]

I'm a min height viera, my boyfriend plays a max height male miqo. My character is barely taller than his. So unless male viera are the same height as male miqos or shorter, then it's going to be possible for male viera to be taller than some female viera.

I must not see many max height male miqote. Most the ones I run into are pretty small.

Just in case anyone is curious about what I said I found a screenshot of my boyfriend and I facing each other in game and as you can see the height difference is pretty small between a max height male miqo and a min height female viera. Perhaps from this we can say that male viera are going to be able to be at least as tall as male miqos? Whether that means it would be min, mid or max slider height we don't know. Have to wait and see.