Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Alice_Chrystal]

Hey hey,

I start off with the positives.

I generally am extremely thrilled about the graphics update when it comes to the environment (If you don't see a difference, go into your graphics setting. Your previous settings got changed up a bit. Mine got lowered. Activate NVDIA DLSS manually, (mine got set to AMD even though I have an NVIDIA Graphics card) and set the overall settings to MAX).
I like the new lighting, textures, how objects are now rendered. Adding to that, I am also a huge fan of how clothes look now and in general how skin is displayed. I think the game looks amazing now!

With that out of the way, now to the *but*.



I am surprised Au Ra face 3 is rarely talked about. My character was supposed to be on the older side (late 30, start of her 40s) but now she just looks so extremely...young. The only difference between the two pictures are eyecolor and hairstyle.
The lower lip got smaller, the nose is just completely different, as well as er eyeshape. Her jawline was changed from a smoothely curved one to a harsher transition from jaw to chin.
Black hair is just not black anymore but rather...greyish? The intensity of her makeup got nerfed as well, with her black Lipstick not being as pronounced as before. Generally she seems to lack depth in color. I am rather disapointed in that regard and had to play with her makeup and eyecolor to give her face a bit more warmth and dimension.

I hope this gets updated, because generally I do really like the changes. Just not that my model changed that much and that colors got so dulled out.

[SturmChurro]

Had some more time to play and see things in motion, and I keep being thrown off by the noses… Like it was mentioned before, a sudden change of aesthetics towards a more realistic one, while using the same “base”, made a lot of noses look uncanny with the rest (especially jarring on some previously more stylized faces, like the one I use).

It’s better under some lighting conditions where the transition to the rest of the face is more smooth, but a lot of times it just feels plastered on.

Lighting does impact things, but… wish the stylization was kept and improved on within the style we know and love.

So true. It is so jarring sometimes to see how samey my nose cat looks to other miqo now as well in a lot of lighting.

[Plushy]

Hey hey,

I start off with the positives.

I generally am extremely thrilled about the graphics update when it comes to the environment (If you don't see a difference, go into your graphics setting. Your previous settings got changed up a bit. Mine got lowered. Activate NVDIA DLSS manually, (mine got set to AMD even though I have an NVIDIA Graphics card) and set the overall settings to MAX).
I like the new lighting, textures, how objects are now rendered. Adding to that, I am also a huge fan of how clothes look now and in general how skin is displayed. I think the game looks amazing now!

With that out of the way, now to the *but*.



I am surprised Au Ra face 3 is rarely talked about. My character was supposed to be on the older side (late 30, start of her 40s) but now she just looks so extremely...young. The only difference between the two pictures are eyecolor and hairstyle.
The lower lip got smaller, the nose is just completely different, as well as er eyeshape. Her jawline was changed from a smoothely curved one to a harsher transition from jaw to chin.
Black hair is just not black anymore but rather...greyish? The intensity of her makeup got nerfed as well, with her black Lipstick not being as pronounced as before. Generally she seems to lack depth in color. I am rather disapointed in that regard and had to play with her makeup and eyecolor to give her face a bit more warmth and dimension.

I hope this gets updated, because generally I do really like the changes. Just not that my model changed that much and that colors got so dulled out.

Off topic but your au ra is gorgeous! wow the update did dark skin justice.

[Alice_Chrystal]

Off topic but your au ra is gorgeous! wow the update did dark skin justice.

Thank you kindly! I do like the skin-texture in this update! I am really glad her skintone was kept as dark and approximately in the same shade as it was originally!

[antylamon]

So true. It is so jarring sometimes to see how samey my nose cat looks to other miqo now as well in a lot of lighting.

I feel ya... Face 4 Miqo was always one of my favourites!

We also used to have nostrils that weren't just punched in, and added a lot to the stylization (I really miss that stylistic choice)(and lips too ;__; ):

[moodud]

Hello. Male Midlander face 3 here. I love the new graphics update and looking forward to future updates.

However in my character case, the beard remain unchanged and still appear as low resolution. It has been like this since the first benchmark.

6.58 / benchmark 1.0 / benchmark 1.1 / 7.0 (ps4)


I don't have access to my pc and I can't try ps5 version yet but I doubt it will be different. The beard is still broken.

I made comments about this in the previous benchmark feedback threads and it hasn't been fix.

In live game the seams between hair and beard are softer than the benchmark but they are still quite jarring when look up close.



The same problem also affects the NPCs. Poor Alberic wishes an update too.



From distance it appears fine but as you can see from the benchmark pictures, in certain angles and lightings the beard can look very broken and act weirdly. I don't want to start MSQ with my broken beard. Please fix this and give us new beard already, I am quite jealous of other faces and races ;_;. Thank you.

[aili_]

I don't even know if feedback still works.
I've helped/supported many other elezen players posting their feedback, and I've written some too.
But there's still almost no change, we're just being ignored.
The character in game now is still totally different person with the past one, and it's even worse than the 2 benckmarks


If I force myself to get used to it, I might eventually get used to the new graphics. But when that day comes, the image of what I really loved and missed in my mind will slowly fade away. So, though I've already subscribed for 6 months in June, I can't continue playing the game now.

[Clover_Blake]

I know eyes, eyebrows, and several other shapes have gotten changes. Some are more subtle than others, but I don't mind them. So long as the character still looks good and the changes aren't too huge, I can accept them.

What I can't stand is the lips. All of them seem to have gotten new, unappealing shapes, and have lost their glossiness and gradient textures. They make characters look much worse to me. Their changes also are anything but subtle, and don't suggest that the intent was to "alter the character's appearances as little as possible".

I'm a bit frustrated because I no longer like how most characters look now, especially female hyurs, which were my main.

[Emil_shaw]

I use face 5 for male midlanders which is the same as the posterboy meteor's but without the stubble and to me a lot about my characters face changed. The main issue for me has been how it seems like that with distance the eyes get suuper small and the depth on the nose doesnt change. He seems to also look different in nearly every cutscene its like with every new angle his face morphs into something new. I think the issue is the eyes and the complexion on the nose making it have no depth unless you look closely while zoomed in. While zoomed out the nose bridge looks to be gone and the nose look like a continuation of the forhead. Also as a last thing the skintones seems a lot darker in general. I really liked my old midlander and I feel like a lot of what made him well him is now gone.

[teknopathicz]

lol



lmao, even