Benchmark/Graphics Update - Show your WoL's before and after

[Ryu_Makkuro]

I've been with my female Au Ra since just after HW release. I fantasia'd straight into her the moment I got the free fantasia from reaching HW. That was 8 years ago and I never looked back, loved her to bits, didn't change a thing minus hairstyle through aesthetician.

Unfortunately, she lost that... special thing. No longer as confident, no more of that soul piercing gaze, just a soulless doll like generic thing now. Seems that with 7.0, I will be forced to switch.

Current:

Benchmark:


RIP Female Raen Au Ra face 1.

[Boblawblah]

I've been with my female Au Ra since just after HW release. I fantasia'd straight into her the moment I got the free fantasia from reaching HW. That was 8 years ago and I never looked back, loved her to bits, didn't change a thing minus hairstyle through aesthetician.

Unfortunately, she lost that... special thing. No longer as confident, no more of that soul piercing gaze, just a soulless doll like generic thing now. Seems that with 7.0, I will be forced to switch.

Current:

Benchmark:


RIP Female Raen Au Ra face 1.

I'm sorry you're not happy with her, I think the new one looks beautiful, but you're right, it seems she lost a bit of the intensity in her gaze, and it was replaced with a more elegant, stoic look, which depending on what you like can work, but yea, it is subtly different.

[Ryu_Makkuro]

I'm sorry you're not happy with her, I think the new one looks beautiful, but you're right, it seems she lost a bit of the intensity in her gaze, and it was replaced with a more elegant, stoic look, which depending on what you like can work, but yea, it is subtly different.

If they wanted to provide a more elegant and stoic look, they should've done so through adding a new face option, not replacing existing one. The whole point here is to preserve what players liked about their original choices, not replacing them with things they never were interested in.

At this point my course of action is to change to the only option that even made me remotely fathom the thought of changing from this Au Ra... Viera with Lightning hair. Very different from trying to adjust your existing character around the update changes.

[SeraMekta]

I like how clean the hair looks now, the color of the eye too especially for veenas
but I can't get over the lips/nose.
don't really know how to feel about this

[Oichi]

Personally I am very pleased with the way my character looks in the benchmark, with the lighting and textures changes. Only the lips look to me a bit smudged, lacking definition, but maybe I can correct that with a drop of gloss... we'll see. That said, I think it looks very natural and much improved.





I am only posting an image of my character "after" because I don't like the character creation settings, I always found them very misleading. And now even more so, because they don't look upgraded like the benchmark and that might be the main culprit of making many people unhappy. Or so I hope :S