New things from German interview with yoshida

[Quintessa]

TLDR
Short answer to all questions: No.
Reaper has 3 types of actions, scythe, avatar, joint scythe+avatar
Its sounding like a burst dps

Fixed, also:

Reaper: SMN+SAM+DRG = SSD.

Could someone explain to me their whole clipping argument?

Hrothgar: The hair is part of the head mesh. The head mesh is the problem. To fit helmet on the head means the hair will poke through. I think due to the hair sharing the mesh, they can't "zero" it out(hide it) like the hair for other races which are detached as that would mean the head gets hidden.
Viera: The ears are part of the head mesh. The ears is the problem. To fit helmet on head means tickering with the ears. To my fellow viera players, I know this doesn't explain why they haven't made new hair(even unique to the race).

I'm having to remember how skinning and rigging works and stuff as I type this. Also deformation is one of the harder things in 3D modeling.. it was for me at least. Some dresses/waist capes/capes have au ra and mi'qot tails clipping.. You'd think making a simple "hole" would be an easy fix, but they must account for the bones associated with the tails and it's swinging and swaying during certain animations. You have to deform the mesh to account for all that movement.. It will look perfect if the character is standing still not moving. Then the character starts running, and here we go....

Also, they wish to avoid retroactive fitting(I might be wrong here because it's clear they use base templates for all the gear in this game, judging by how much the same models gets recycled), i.e. having to go and edit all the ARR gear and stuff.

Finally, this is all just a best guess of mine, I don't work at SE so I can't possibly know what really is the issues they have.

[Yencat]

Hrothgar: The hair is part of the head mesh. The head mesh is the problem. To fit helmet on the head means the hair will poke through. I think due to the hair sharing the mesh, they can't "zero" it out(hide it) like the hair for other races which are detached as that would mean the head gets hidden.

I don't believe it is, people have looked at the models with a model viewer and the hair is actually separate from the head. Around launch there were also some glitches which sometimes caused the hair to disappear and the head was still there, just bald. The hair is toggled off but everything else is still there.

This happened with Viera as well, behold the shiny egg people.

Viera: The ears are part of the head mesh. The ears is the problem. To fit helmet on head means tickering with the ears. To my fellow viera players, I know this doesn't explain why they haven't made new hair(even unique to the race).

Viera ears also don't appear to be a part of the head and can be toggled on or off independently, like when you use the werewolf ears for example your actual ears get toggled off temporarily, but not your entire head.

The only thing both races are missing that other races have is a 'cropped' version of whatever hairstyle you're using that hides/removes the parts of the hair underneath the hat so it doesn't clip through, so without those models it actually causes quite a bit of clipping other races don't experience to that extent because they have alternate hair models. But it makes some sense at least they didn't make those since originally nothing would show in the head slot at all. Ears also clip obviously, how bad it looks depends on the particular headgear.

There's probably something else going on, but only they would know that.

[Fukuro]

ngl i kinda dig that look. should be an option imo.