New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Hysterior]

I want to speak to your manager.

[LaylaTsarra]

I want to speak to your manager.

Wut you taking bout he cool! :P

[reivaxe]

Really? You got all that from "we've narrowed it down to two designs" ?

You really must be a fortune teller.

Says otherwise.

The whole thing was translated live, so IDK why you're using a short version from a website.

"So right now we had the art team draw a variety of styles for a possible female Hrothgar design. We’ve picked 2 of them and we’re currently thinking about how those would look and what adjustments we would have to involve in putting those into character creation so obviously it’s going to be some time before we can actually implement them as a race but we are working and we are making progress. "

So in short, I read that as they have gone through the concept art stage and have decided on 2 prob faces (50% of the expected faces) and are right now figuring out the visuals and the CC for those 2. Literally, ALL of this is part of the production process, from concept art to animation and textures. I'd think the hardest thing to figure out design wise would be the face, as the body isn't gonna be anything crazy and there are so many styles to do a cat woman face in. Simply moving forward with 2 is a huge step.

[Yencat]

The whole thing was translated live, so IDK why you're using a short version from a website.

"So right now we had the art team draw a variety of styles for a possible female Hrothgar design. We’ve picked 2 of them and we’re currently thinking about how those would look and what adjustments we would have to involve in putting those into character creation so obviously it’s going to be some time before we can actually implement them as a race but we are working and we are making progress. "

So in short, I read that as they have gone through the concept art stage and have decided on 2 prob faces (50% of the expected faces) and are right now figuring out the visuals and the CC for those 2. Literally, ALL of this is part of the production process, from concept art to animation and textures.

Saying they picked two designs and are thinking about how those would look and how they would put them in character creation doesn't sound like they have models made and are testing them, but if that's how it reads to you that's fine.

Since it's not what the thread is about we'll just have to agree to disagree.

[Imora]

I'm expecting eq kerra/vah shir and Elder Scrolls khajiit style females btw. Humanoid, upright, fully furred anthrokitties.

I'll give them a shot.

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

As a former hrothgar player this is a slap to the face with a table kind of pain and sadness.

[Midareyukki]

I've already posted my opinion in regards to the matter, but all I can say is I wish content creators for FFXIV would speak up about the situation more. It's time SE stop stalling and actually do real work for these races, starting with Hrothgar. Halt production entirely for Female Hrothgar, ignore the people who'll start crying "sexist and homophobic" and god knows what else, I'm sure they can wait for an extra 2+ years to see what F-Hrothgar look like in 2b boots.

This is what we've been asking. Halt production for female Hrothgar until you've had working content. Because we don't want future players to continue being so limited. I'd like to think male Viera players would have appreciated a bit more polish before being implemented as well.

[aveyond-dreams]

As a male Viera player I'm pretty happy with what we got despite having wanted a few other unlockable hairstyles. It beats having not having the option to play as one at all, I am ok with having received them in the state we got given that we are seeing regular (albeit minor) updates to Viera hairs each patch, it seems. That being said, what in the world is going on with Hrothgar? The situation is just strange at this point.

[Jason_Ashford]

As a male Viera player I'm pretty happy with what we got despite having wanted a few other unlockable hairstyles. It beats having not having the option to play as one at all, I am ok with having received them in the state we got given that we are seeing regular (albeit minor) updates to Viera hairs each patch, it seems. That being said, what in the world is going on with Hrothgar? The situation is just strange at this point.

the situation is the result of a mixture of shoddy workmanship and an unwillingness to fix their mistakes.

they made Hrothgar by taking the framework of the Male Roegadyn and manipulated it until they had the Hrothgar. This is the underlying cause of most of the limitations faced by the race because they have to force any changes to the framework to adhere to the new shape, and some things, like hairstyles, just don't want to fit because they were made for a human body, and the decidedly inhuman appearance of the Hrothgar causes a lot of problems. Most of the human hairstyles simply aren't going to work well with the framework of the Hrothgar and they should have spent their time adding maybe 1-2 unique Hrothgar hairstyles and working on detaching what 8 hairstyles we currently have from the faces and giving us free access to those via the Aesthetician .

There are a handful of hairstyles like the Windcaller, or Pulse hairstyles that fit, but the majority are rather awkward and don't sit very well on the head.

[Akimori]

The whole thing was translated live, so IDK why you're using a short version from a website.

We’ve picked 2 of them and we’re currently thinking about how those would look and what adjustments we would have to involve in putting those into character creation so obviously it’s going to be some time before we can actually implement them as a race but we are working and we are making progress. "

The wording here is a little baffling you have 2 possible designs, but you're trying to figure out how they would look? It sounds more contradictory than anything