The Graphics update was unnecessary

[Stechun]

It’s confusing that anyone seems to think the differences of character features are intentional or something, they had to remake the models and textures for over 60 unique character faces, it seems reasonable that there’d be inconsistencies since they obviously can’t give special attention to every single face.

And it sounds like they want people to give feedback now so issues and major inconsistencies can be fixed for expansion launch, saying this entire endeavor with overhauling the games graphics wasn’t worth doing just because there’s a small demographic of people who both downloaded the benchmark, and actually logged into the forums to complain about how their “perfect” reshaded female Au ra looks worse in the benchmark feels sensationalistic.

[Rudje]

It’s confusing that anyone seems to think the differences of character features are intentional or something, they had to remake the models and textures for over 60 unique character faces, it seems reasonable that there’d be inconsistencies since they obviously can’t give special attention to every single face.

And it sounds like they want people to give feedback now so issues and major inconsistencies can be fixed for expansion launch, saying this entire endeavor with overhauling the games graphics wasn’t worth doing just because there’s a small demographic of people who both downloaded the benchmark, and actually logged into the forums to complain about how their “perfect” reshaded female Au ra looks worse in the benchmark feels sensationalistic.

I play fully vanilla, and so do a lot of people pointing out changes. Making rude assumptions about why people are unhappy with a visibly rushed benchmark only two months before release is petty and completely unnecessary.

[Tethan]

It’s confusing that anyone seems to think the differences of character features are intentional or something, they had to remake the models and textures for over 60 unique character faces, it seems reasonable that there’d be inconsistencies since they obviously can’t give special attention to every single face.

And it sounds like they want people to give feedback now so issues and major inconsistencies can be fixed for expansion launch, saying this entire endeavor with overhauling the games graphics wasn’t worth doing just because there’s a small demographic of people who both downloaded the benchmark, and actually logged into the forums to complain about how their “perfect” reshaded female Au ra looks worse in the benchmark feels sensationalistic.

I won't comment on it being intentional or not, but when doing re-topology on a 3D models it is entirely possible to preserve its shape down to even small details. Even in the event that features need to be remodeled from scratch, in any 3D software you can overlap with the old model to use for reference and recreate anything with basically millimeter precision.

Paying attention to every single face is their job. If they didn't have enough time to do it properly, they should have delayed the implementation of the update.

[cutestfox]

It’s confusing that anyone seems to think the differences of character features are intentional or something, they had to remake the models and textures for over 60 unique character faces, it seems reasonable that there’d be inconsistencies since they obviously can’t give special attention to every single face.

And it sounds like they want people to give feedback now so issues and major inconsistencies can be fixed for expansion launch, saying this entire endeavor with overhauling the games graphics wasn’t worth doing just because there’s a small demographic of people who both downloaded the benchmark, and actually logged into the forums to complain about how their “perfect” reshaded female Au ra looks worse in the benchmark feels sensationalistic.

Sorry, I like the vanilla look too
And modbeasting my characters face is not okay just because square enix randomly decided to do it