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

[Fayt1203]

If we click "Settings" on the launcher for the benchmark, we can set them to match our in-game settings. This is extremely important for lighting and overall graphical quality and resolution, and that way we may receive a much better comparison between our current visuals and the new ones.

Some of the screenshots in this thread show different gamma settings, resolution quality, and shadow settings that have nothing to do with the model changes or texture updates themselves. Aligning these settings with our in-game settings to which we are accustomed does not mean that we will like the changes, necessarily, but will give much better points for comparison and contrast.

EDIT: One other thing to check! If there is another application for visuals (like Nvidia's various enhancement apps), they might be turned on for FFXIV but not for the benchmark program, and that will give totally different results. Also, certain settings in the benchmark launcher may not work correctly if drivers are not fully updated (or new settings are simply not doable on older video cards).

Also though i don't know if there is any difference but when i did use match our in-game settings it did put it in High (laptop) instead of High (desktop) for some reason and i am playing on desktop, But in the end i just put it in Maximum. then there is how or what people are using to take the screenshots and what the settings are behind that can sometime set for low quality to save space. For my self i just used steam for the screenshots

[Midian0]

EW
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DT

[Miight]

She actually turned out pretty well, and didn't change too much, so I'm pretty satisfied (the eyes aren't quite exactly the same but it's fine).
I'm not sure if I have the exact same settings, but the gamma should be the same.
There are, however, some issues that I will elaborate on below the first batch of screenshots.








As said above, this came with its own set of problems :

- The face marks are now less visible on lighter skin colors (it looks like they added some kind of transparency to it)
- The fangs are gone (see this thread for more info)
- The makeup is way less visible than before (especially when the eyes are opened as you can see with the screenshots above)

Here is a comparison when the eyes are closed :



As you can see, it looks like they reduced the eyeshadow's size (Face Paint 3) and changed the color in general.

I sincerely hope they will address these issues, as they shouldn't be too hard to fix.
I also hope the best for those that were the most affected by the graphical update.

[GodModule]

Man this face is extremely cute with the DT update. An objective improvement imo.

[GH0ST]

And yes I ran the benchmark (multiple times in fact) so I don't wanna hear the "oh try it on bench surely it will look better there and will feel like your character."

And just cuz people thinks it looks better to them you aren't playing their character you are not them as some people in the forum has stated.

Then, please, be so kind and don't depreciate people feelings. Because that's exactly what you're doing now. And I want to be honest, I don't care how good my character looks to you. This is my character. She was made by me and for me. If to me she now looks like a plastic doll with a mutilated lower part of her face, that’s because it is so. I'm not making this up, I'm not imagining it, I see it with my own eyes.

I don't really think anyone particularly cares whether you think their character looks great or not, it just does not look like their character anymore.
I don't care how you feel about my character, i did not make my character for you. You won't be playing as my character.

It doesn't for me. This literally looks and feels like a face 2 clone which no I don't want to have the same face as fish face (which me and my friends call it) other wise I would have picked it when I first swapped when they were introduced in the game in HW.

-Eye shape has been altered, losing the sharp edge of eye shape which I loved and the eyes appear to be staring soullessly as opposed to the pleasant resting stare that I felt with the original. There is also more prominent eye bags which I don't like as well.

- Eyes are more further apart as well as larger giving her a bug eye look compared to the sharpness I liked from before. (I tried another eye option but, she looks sleepy and not narrowed like before which is a no).

-Lips literally look like she is forever doing duck lips. And lost the sharpness of her lips overall and the lower lip looks like she has lip filler. I have tried the other ones they are just as bad. I rather liked the less glossy lip texture as well. Upper lip also lost the very sharp curve like viera did which is also not cool.

-Jaw/Cheeks looks like she got stung by a bee which I also had my friends look at the two pictures of her as well and this thing. She also lost the sharpness of the face which I am extremely sad about as well and that's what made me like face 1 so much is cuz it's similar to face 4 for the sharp face and how it's not round like 2 or 3. Her chin also lost the sharpness I liked as well and seems to be elongated as well which I am not happy about as well.

I don't want to swap to a race I don't like which is a majority of them.

[Oizen]

New Auras are pretty cute and Face 1 looks great so Ima use that. Thank you Square enix for this much needed graphics quality update that will breathe new life into the game, i love how the new eyes look and how full of life they look as well as how easy it is to get good looking lips, and how faithful it looks to my original character.

[TaoTech]

Same settings as in game... Left is current, right is benchmark char creation. His whole face looks flat and dark, lips have no shine at all, eyes look dead and far too dark, eye makeup is all messed up and weird looking. And the worst offense, you can't see his eyelashes at all. I can't say I am happy about any of that at all. On the other hand my moon kitty looks great. But this is unacceptable.

[GodModule]

Aside from the pupil size, they look exaclty the same imo. I think you're being overcritical, because I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

[Rinara]

EW




Benchmark

[GH0ST]

Aside from the pupil size, they look exaclty the same imo. I think you're being overcritical, because I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

Then, please, be so kind and don't depreciate people feelings. Because that's exactly what you're doing now. And I want to be honest, I don't care how good my character looks to you. This is my character. She was made by me and for me. If to me she now looks like a plastic doll with a mutilated lower part of her face, that’s because it is so. I'm not making this up, I'm not imagining it, I see it with my own eyes.

I don't really think anyone particularly cares whether you think their character looks great or not, it just does not look like their character anymore.
I don't care how you feel about my character, i did not make my character for you. You won't be playing as my character.

To reiterate these quotes from what you should have read, there are people in the forum are reacting negatively to the benchmark updates rather than positive. So while yes you feel like nothing has changed which you are entitled to your opinion, you aren't playing our characters and know their identity/personality.

Overall, there is change and while yes the benchmark is not set in stone there are problems both JP and NA have brought up. If this is what they have to show then I as well as others whom express how we feel in this forum aren't happy with the changes or something seems off.