Au Ra Raen Fem Face 2 Feedback & More

[LilyEmber]

More rare face 3 here. I think aura is one of the less worse hit in general, but my character is unrecognizable.

- Hair looks worse, no shine and stringy
- Scales are now grey'ish hue instead of warmer color
- Eyeshape is changed, she looks more stern than friendly
- Mouth, as everyone else butchered
- The nose is close enough that I can write it of to light issues
- My round face, which is cute on orginal now looks chubby
- Skin color much lighter (which I guess can be changed so no biggy)

Is the new version pretty? Sure. Is she my character? Nope not at all.
I feel like the biggest thing for me, is most faces lost all of their uniqueness and personality.

Her lips look very different. Like there was a natural smirk there. Her brows look a lot more intense. All female au ra appear to have been given wider faces. And yeah, I think that's something a lot of people aren't seeing with those who are critiquing the changes. We're not saying they're terrible. But they are different enough that it's jarring. A lot of people are wondering if, ie. the shapes and sizes of things were absolutely necessary. Female Au Ra faces are indeed wider now, so some are wondering... was that necessary?

[hynaku]

Just hoping before 7.0 comes out that they have all the problems fixed. In benchmark character creation my Au Ra looks terrible in it. Seems like the graphic updated was a downgrade instead.

[Turethir]

Looks like Au Ra Face 2 didn't really get any changes in the 2nd Benchmark.



I made a GIF between the live game and Benchmark 2. There are slight changes to eye and nose shape as well, but the mouth feels like the biggest difference. I think I will learn to live with it over time, but she does feel like an uncanny version of my WoL right now.



Hoping that maybe they can continue making adjustments after the game is live to sort out the problems with lips.

[RylaiShendelzare]

I guess YoshiP just doesnt like the fish.

[Asteri]

Face 2 also returning to raise concerns that I had in the first iteration of the Benchmark:

• Lips are still affected, the shape is different and more compact, with the dimples not as prominent and the lip shine still mostly non-existent. This actually looks much better in movement but is still a concern for the idle poses. It feels like my character has a permanent "duck face" and no amount of Fantasia can help since it was already the thin/wide option out of the four available ones.
• Eyebrows have a hard dark gray line for white hair colors, they used to be softer looking.
• Scales look too flat against the skin, as if they're just a sheet covering the skin rather than scales growing over the skin. They're still very ivory and "dirty" looking because of the color choices, I miss my off-white cream scales. :< I wish they had simply given us scale color options instead of outright changing the colors.
• Minor, but the top eyelashes only point downwards now, where they used to having a small flick upwards on the outer end.

I will say the catchlights now look a LOT better and help fight the dead-eye look of the first Benchmark, I'm really happy with how my character looks in the actual benchmark when it comes to the eyes specifically! The lighting helps a ton to make my character look much better than in the first benchmark too but my worries remain that the shapes have been altered and no amount of lighting was gonna help. :')

Slider version: https://imgsli.com/MjY5Mzcw



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[AstiSpumante]

Figured I'd check back in since I posted in here previously. I still am a bit meh on the changes to the face sculpt but the new benchmark at least hit Playable Enough that I do plan on continuing to sub and buy the expac (with benchmark 1 I had not planned to get the new expac). My little lizard actually looks alive, which I'm thankful for. I do still dislike how flat the scales look and how the mouth is smaller and would love for those to be updated but at that point it's somewhat nitpicking.

Although now there's either a new bug or an interesting bit of new lore we're getting about Raen horns because why are they pink along the edges?? It's in all the lighting options and I would assume it's a bug but also maybe the horns are supposed to be some sort of cartilage with bloodflow. It's all lady Raen and one male too so I'll be making a bug post since it isn't just face 2 lol.

[Merunari]

Although now there's either a new bug or an interesting bit of new lore we're getting about Raen horns because why are they pink along the edges?? It's in all the lighting options and I would assume it's a bug but also maybe the horns are supposed to be some sort of cartilage with bloodflow. It's all lady Raen and one male too so I'll be making a bug post since it isn't just face 2 lol.

It actually seems like Raen got the same treatment as Elezen ears did! Personally, I love it. It gives the horns a proper hollow feeling, which is I really like, since they are hollow!

[AstiSpumante]

I wouldn't mind if they had some nature of translucency effect my problem is that it's such a bright peachy pink that it looks like its got red LEDs or a ton of bloodflow in there. Like that color makes sense for normal ears but the color feels too bright on the very bone colored horns.

[MediocreIndigo]

The benchmark update didn't change the shape of the mouth back to what it was originally. That's disappointing.

[Doopliss]

I'm going to lazily +1 this again by slapping on an image I made for my long-winded JP thread reply.

Unfortunately, this shit still hurtin'.
(I at the very least just want her old mouth shape back...)