Au Ra Female faces are unrecognisable

[Rolder50]

I'm happy with it

[Einnecy]

My male xeala went from a work of art to a disaster overnight he looks lifeless and sleep deprived. I hope they reverse this asap

Initially my boyfriend thought his male xaela was well adapted to the new graphics, but has come to dislike the changes. Particularly the eye shape, mouth, and flaky skin texture. It looks worse when he emotes (not accounting for the /eatpizza bug). We're all suffering together!

[Gralna]

Those are indeed female au ra faces, thread is false.

[sindriiisgaming]

Initially my boyfriend thought his male xaela was well adapted to the new graphics, but has come to dislike the changes. Particularly the eye shape, mouth, and flaky skin texture. It looks worse when he emotes (not accounting for the /eatpizza bug). We're all suffering together!

I saw some xealas doing msq and jesus. Se killed those beautiful boys

[Alice9]

They really messed up some faces, completely unrecognizable to the original. Mouth, eyes, and structure of the face (i.e., jaws, cheeks) are the biggest offenders- they are just totally different, I don't know how this made it to release. It is such a drastic change that doesn't reflect the myriad amounts of feedback on both EN and JP forums that specifically took issues with this exact problem from the very first benchmark.

[Doopliss]

I've been a broken record about fem Au Ra Face 2, but, man, I just feel like I can't give up on getting this adjusted. I really do think I can get used to the majority of my character changes, even if I prefer the old ones... This one is just too much, though...

The width of the lips and the prominent "dimples" feel like such an important feature of this face. They unfrogged my frog girl...

Every so often I think "oh she's not that bad," but then I go back and look again after a few minutes and feel bad. I've been trying to readjust her to get closer, but nothing's worked.

[Myrany]

I've been a broken record about fem Au Ra Face 2, but, man, I just feel like I can't give up on getting this adjusted. I really do think I can get used to the majority of my character changes, even if I prefer the old ones... This one is just too much, though...

The width of the lips and the prominent "dimples" feel like such an important feature of this face. They unfrogged my frog girl...

Every so often I think "oh she's not that bad," but then I go back and look again after a few minutes and feel bad. I've been trying to readjust her to get closer, but nothing's worked.

No offense intended but man she looks like a real porcelain doll now. Painted porcelain not skin.

[Doopliss]

No offense intended but man she looks like a real porcelain doll now. Painted porcelain not skin.

It's okay, dude. I've been trying to pretend in my head she doesn't look like that but I know she does. A friend of mine said she looks like she's turning into a sin eater and I couldn't disagree LMAO ;__;

I designed her to look like a little frog. And her personality is supposed to be very expressive. The life got sucked out of her for Dawntrail, I guess...

[CStrife912]

Like a complete different person.

I would say only the mouth needs tweaking but I’m sorry this is a case of where actual skin shaders and better lighting are working as intended and the old version was just that dated you got used to a ‘style’ that was just dated tech working. Changes were going to happen… even if it were a one to one model rip… with new shaders and lighting it would still ‘look’ different. I think she still looks great.

[Plasmaspy]

I would say only the mouth needs tweaking but I’m sorry this is a case of where actual skin shaders and better lighting are working as intended and the old version was just that dated you got used to a ‘style’ that was just dated tech working. Changes were going to happen… even if it were a one to one model rip… with new shaders and lighting it would still ‘look’ different. I think she still looks great.

The issue for my character is really only the eyes and the mostly the mouth, i made an edit where i cutout and edited the old mouth onto the picture of the new model


The pupils are bigger (the small size i chose years ago is now the size of the larger option, if i wanted larger i would have selected it before) + less reflection giving a deadgaze corpse look wherever the light source is coming from.
The mouth is a different shape and width it completely changes the expression, Liveliness and identity of the character.
Changing back the mouth at least would fix 95% of the new person issue.