New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[SturmChurro]

Somehow he is seemingly always surprised about backlash for anything.

[ArtyTheHrothgar]

I'm waiting for the end of the patchnote reading to get the full translation from reddit

[Theodric]

Somehow he is seemingly always surprised about backlash for anything.

Yeah, it's getting rather odd. It makes me question what feedback they're getting telling them to go ahead with such changes in the first place...though then I remember what sort of things some of those in charge of collecting our feedback spend their time saying on Twitter and it all begins to make sense.

[Jason_Ashford]

That's great news!

Hopefully they can look in to a way to somehow keep the ears visible next.

they've already done like, 2/3rds of the work for that. they just have to attach the ears to the hairstyles like they did with Miqote

[Yencat]

they've already done like, 2/3rds of the work for that. they just have to attach the ears to the hairstyles like they did with Miqote

Apparently it's possible, but it'll be an even slower process? I wonder how much slower they're talking, considering how long this took.

[LaylaTsarra]

Apparently it's possible, but it'll be an even slower process? I wonder how much slower they're talking, considering how long this took.

I think most of the work revolved around changing the models so they could do things without fantasia. At the least they seem to have acknowledged the ear issue and we address that at some point.

[Jason_Ashford]

Apparently it's possible, but it'll be an even slower process? I wonder how much slower they're talking, considering how long this took.

they are probably talking about reattaching the ears to the head model while still having access to new hairstyles, and while that isn't.... bad per se, it is more work than strictly necessary.

That being said, i will not gripe about getting hairstyles if they are done right, and without losing my ears to get it.

[Yencat]

I think most of the work revolved around changing the models so they could do things without fantasia. At the least they seem to have acknowledged the ear issue and we address that at some point.

Probably, I think this is the first time they've ever gone back and added a section that wasn't there originally to character creation?

Still feels kind of important for players to know if they'd get 1 or 2 hairstyles but with ears every patch vs. 6 with no ears, or months with nothing and then 1 or 2 hairstyles with ears.

But that's for Hrothgar players to decide what they'd prefer I guess.

[SturmChurro]

Yeah, it's getting rather odd. It makes me question what feedback they're getting telling them to go ahead with such changes in the first place...though then I remember what sort of things some of those in charge of collecting our feedback spend their time saying on Twitter and it all begins to make sense.

Yeah, but even beyond that, like these styles look pretty much objectively bad. I'm not sure how he could have thought people would be happy about them.

[Akimori]

From the translation from reddit while Yoshi-P was reading the patch note :

Ok, we don't have a date, but they will adress this issue

This makes me happy again, but then that begs the question: if it were possible, why didn't they just start there in the first place? :T

Did they honestly believe that removing a racial feature from a race to receive bad hairstyles was really going to tie people over? They've been promising updates for 3 years and they didn't bother to even begin down this route? Instead they just opted to chop off our ears and (try to) call it a day? I would have much preferred this update to hrothgars being delayed a little longer if it meant getting a PROPER implementation of being able to use other hairstyles...not this dribble we were given...

Majorly disappointed. Granted, we know that the dev time was used to help bring our male bun boys into existence because yoshi has spoken about how much man power is required to bring in an entirely new "race", but I mean....blegh. It seems it would be at the ..... cost of F. Hrothgar taking a while (?). The wording is a bit weird there with the "will be a lot slower and limited in numbers". But if that last bit is true about F. Hrothgar, literally no one would have wanted them implemented with no ears if they decided to keep M. Hrothgar that way. People want F. Hrothgar done right and the best way to make sure they're done right is to make sure M. Hrothgar are done right first so the team doesn't have to think too hard on how to fix both of them simultaneously :/. Also, to be quite fair, literally no one expects F. Hrothgar to be implemented at any point in 6.X. The community is fully expecting a 7.0 release of them. So, they have time to get this right...