Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[mallleable]

I noticed the game looks a little more stylistically similar to live by turning down gamma correction from 50 (the default) to 25 which leads me to believe there is a global under the hood setting that CBU3 can adjust to makes things a little better almost everyone.

[cakesphere]

The lips are definitely my most disliked aspect of the new models; There's no definition to them anymore and just look fuzzy and low-res. Same with my elezen's nose, which used to be wonderfully defined with the old lighting shadows but now almost disappears into his face. The lack of depth to shadows definitely hurts the look, even more so than the perpetual greasy shine to everything.

This is where I'm at. My elezen in game has wonderfully defined cheekbones and brow ridge and in benchmark he just...doesn't. He looks very round. If I wanted a round, smooth face I would have played a catgirl.

[NanaWiloh]

This simply doesn't feel like a complete product. You can't even use a short hairstyle on midlander without your neck breaking lol. It needs to be addressed. Hopefully a statement comes out at least saying they hear the fixes that need to be made.

The answer to your question. "After the release of the benchmark, we will continue to make improvements to the game's visual fidelity in the lead up to the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail."

[4clubbedace]

They don't have to delay even. Just make the change to characters optional, like they did with WoW. Then those who like the new changes can see their new characters, and others can keep their old design. It's not hard.

they are absolutely not going to do that

[lunartears]

Honestly idk if anyone pointed it our, but scales on au ra look so... butchered. It's as if the were saved in JPEG and then cut out using magic wand. There are some weird artifacts and pixels here and there too..

Noticed some scale loss on F Au Ra, I haven't looked at the entire body yet but I'm sure there's some other instances.

[4clubbedace]

(updated with same gamma on both)

"Black" skin got lighter again, even if slightly, and it's like all hair color have been washed out.

(already lost the black skin back in 1.0, now we can't even have black hair)

they didnt maake it lighter m you can see on the arm on both that its just catchign light more, same with the hair, its not "flat" lightning anymore and youre just not used to it.

[Ancalagon_Blacktalon]

they are absolutely not going to do that

yeah, it'd be really hard. consider that the head apparently has a ton more bones now, which will inevitably affect how headgear works with it. Are they going to be making double the headgear (one new, one old) so that it renders properly on the old models? If our character has new facial expressions, they'd have to go do them for the old facial meshes/rigging as well, basically doubling their work in any given cutscene that has us do more than "" or ":|" or ":[". And that's not even going into whether the bodies got any changes - I had just heard about how they basically completely redid everything involving faces online earlier.

[cakesphere]

Out of curiosity I opened up my old Endwalker benchmark to get a proper side by side there vs the Dawntrail benchmark and like I've said in other posts I'm really unimpressed with the elezen "improvements". Filing off all their fun sharp features is not what I signed up for




Please, my son, he's very sick. Someone took his brow ridge and cheekbones and mussed up his mouth. His skin seems to have a very jaundiced undertone as well - not sure if this is something that can be fixed by fiddling with skintone but just another thing that dismayed me.

[4clubbedace]

yeah, it'd be really hard. consider that the head apparently has a ton more bones now, which will inevitably affect how headgear works with it. Are they going to be making double the headgear (one new, one old) so that it renders properly on the old models? If our character has new facial expressions, they'd have to go do them for the old facial meshes/rigging as well, basically doubling their work in any given cutscene that has us do more than "" or ":|" or ":[". And that's not even going into whether the bodies got any changes - I had just heard about how they basically completely redid everything involving faces online earlier.

there are things they do absolutely need to fix, particularly actualy missing textures on au ra (im assumign they used an AI upscaler like how DLSS does and they didnt have a second pass) or some hairs highlights being changed (this shouldnt be too hard)

but there are some people posting before and after pics here that i cannot tell the difference of

[Evo1171]

I don't think there's a world where this is even remotely close, every single feature on the face is different, and it also looks like she was deaged about 15 years.

It's not even that it looks neccessarily bad but that's not my character.