[Graphical Update Feedback] Eyes and Limbal Rings on Au ra

[Triple-Torch]

Hello,
I have been subbed/playing nonstop for about 10 years ongoing. I love the limbal rings having that glowing effect.
If players do not want glowing eyes they have the option already to turn them off.
Please do not remove this feature about this race.
Thank you for all your hard work SE.

[KusuriyaV]

I actually don't mind the softer look of the limbal rings, but what would be awesome is if those softer rings still held a glow to them. I can't tell with the example picture since the character is outside with warm color eyes. The updated version is a awesome change so I am not against this. I play a male Au'ra that has black eyes and pure white limbal rings which helps the contrast since my whole eyeball is black. I'm fine with this change if the glow is still there.

Judging from other examples, there is just zero glow in the current versions of the limbal rings, like at all. It became more of a gradient and it gets lost unless you zoom it now.

[KusuriyaV]

I find it amusing people keep arguing about the whole "uniqueness" aspect of the eyes when the reality is 90% of the playerbase is Au Ra anyway.

They probably should just cancel the graphical update on Au Ra since players are already satisfied with them anyway (well besides the lack of customizations) and just focus on the other races that need it.

Disagree. I like the rest of the changes for the eyes. I just dislike the fact the limbal rings no longer glow and wish for them to glow again or have the option to be allowed to glow!

[Atelier-Bagur]

Almost Concerning how some players/users takes in some threads contradict the overall in others.

Regardless of that.

We mean uniqueness in the sense that it has been a feature of the race since inception.

For example, there are many who don't like the fact that Viera don't have tails.(myself included) but we wouldn't force them to add as such to the game cause it's clearly omitted for reasons.(though being honest, highly likely to never existed for technical reasons from their origin FF)
[If they ever did, one would ask for a toggle, cause we know others face the nostalgia and know the race as tail-less]

The effects and features that exist overtime become part of their ingrained features. No handwaving of bugs or Low Poly features removes that.

Players just want HQ versions of what has been.

and in this cause just like Viera are kinda unique for not having a tail. Au Ra have one of their known Features in their Limbal Rings.

A toggle is all that is asked. Unique to the Race.(saying that a certain percentage of a race has it, when they are a race that is know to have said feature is just STATING THE OBVIOUS, to push asides points/logic that cannot be denied)

I just wish we had more sliders.

[Doopliss]

I'm also not a fan of this change, so +1 to this thread.

I'm not even trying to be a stickler about it, I genuinely think most of the graphical changes are good. I love the male Elezen change shown in the initial post in fact. The spirit of the characters are still there, just slightly smoothed out and more stylistically aligned to newer races/faces like the Viera's. At least in my view.

HOWEVER, even without the glow effect, straight up diminishing the high contrast like this makes the colors fundamentally different, which is the biggest issue IMO. I have a male Au Ra character with orange eyes that I agonized choosing the right shade of gold limbal rings for; with this update that color would probably appear as...what? Orange? Brown? And it's very possible that whatever shade I had before would simply no longer exist on the color scale with every shade losing its luster in this update.

And...well...I guess how much bigger the female Au Ra's pupils became slightly bothers me too, but I can live with that change... I feel like it might look strange with some dark limbal ring colors, though.

[RhaesDaenys]

logged in just to say please keep the change, i like how it looks blended

just show more options because I'm sure there are brighter options... we've only seen ONE.

[Doopliss]

logged in just to say please keep the change, i like how it looks blended

just show more options because I'm sure there are brighter options... we've only seen ONE.

It's not only the limbal rings of the female Au Ra who has one of the brightest yellow options that turns into a much softer, warmer color. The male Au Ra who was used to show off the new metallic reflection on the PLD gear--who literally has bright white limbal rings in the "before" image--gets his color diminished so much that his limbal rings blend completely into his dark grey sclera. I ain't feelin' too hopeful.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

I find it amusing people keep arguing about the whole "uniqueness" aspect of the eyes when the reality is 90% of the playerbase is Au Ra anyway.

Source

Uh huh.

[Larirawiel]

Elfs are rare.



Cheers

[TheDustyOne]

I'll also chime in my support to keep the limbal rings bright, even though I don't typically play Au Ra. An option to change the glow would also be appreciated, but by default they should glow as that's how they act currently, and the graphics update should do its best to keep to the original designs as much as possible. I feel like if people don't like the glow, the option to turn them off is already here, so nothing would change for those that dislike it.