Give back pre-DT models back NOW

[VictorSpoils]

Request [DENIED]

[Alesandra]

Noone ever asked to get their characters ruined like this, noone voted for this. In less than 48 hours from the definitive gem and most precious and unique looking game to a new graphics lifeless and boring experience where you can't recognize your char anymore, char that some people's been with 10+ years and now it's just a joke.

[Anarnee]

I gotta agree. In every way the new face 2 for Femroe has been a downgrade to me. It's less expressive, the features are wrong, the cheeks look puffy and for some emotes, the forehead and mouth twitch, it's like they made the features the wrong shape and now expressions don't work for them anymore.

It's like they didn't QA at all and that they put it out for us to do the QA for them and I'm quite frankly exhausted by it.

[ThorneDynasty]

There are definitely character creation options that didn't receive equal care (and plenty of examples of facial features being changed for no apparent reason). I mean, mine looks weirdly beady-eyed now in the thumbnail right there, like she does in the character select screen. I'm at least lucky it's better in most in-game areas and in motion. Changing the eyebrow option helped a little. But also it seemed a lot of the hairstyles I used to like now make the face look lifeless depending on how they shade it.

Also annoyingly, there are those in-game rooms that still have shit lighting for character models and it might actually look even worse now. I had kind of hoped they'd have done something to deal with the weird face geometry/normals that seem to happen with direct overhead lighting, or whatever it is exactly that still causes problems. It's not just my character either: When we first see the twins' models in the annex room, I had a pretty visceral "yikes" reaction. Thankfully they look nowhere as bad rest of the game, but it is pretty funny they chose that to be the extremely unflattering spot to reveal them.

I'm just afraid they won't fix the issues people are bringing up, because, well, clock is kind of ticking and constantly changing our characters' faces back and forth will get jarring fast.

[DamianFatale]

We never asked to destroy the game like this, so many years being so perfectly good and now is pure sad and irritating to play with these cartoonish, foolish, emotionless and lifeless models

Why?

Forums have completely devolved. We need more mods in here to get things back to being civilized.

[Cheapshot]

The thread may be childish, but I get where people like this are coming from. Not everyone has the ability to articulate their frustrations equally. I totally understand just feeling upset and not having the words but wanting that frustration and disappointment to be heard.

I’ll try and say what I think they’re feeling in my own words. I do feel that the character updates do not have a consistent level of quality and care across all races and faces. Some were faithful and well executed, while others have glaring issues. Some faces have just had the original art direction scrapped entirely, to apply “doll like” makeovers. That in particular has been a disappointment to me and many others. I also feel nearly across the board, faces look duller and less focused. “Bright” expressions are gone and I see a lot of characters who looked confident and bold before now look unfocused, like they’re staring off into space. From what was shown during media tours and live-letters as well as what was promised, I feel we received an end result that doesn’t live up to expectations. I would like to see more consistency and attention to detail for every face equally. If that wasn’t possible in the time they had, they should have taken more time. Something the industry has been proving over and over is that it’s better to take extra time than release things half finished. Updating the characters people have been attached to for years is incredibly delicate and sensitive work, and needed to be pulled off perfectly. It wasn’t. The divided fan reaction this expansion is unsurprising.

[Elissar]

Now that we look cool


you want to remove our beauty?

[Granyala]

Noone ever asked to get their characters ruined like this, noone voted for this. In less than 48 hours from the definitive gem and most precious and unique looking game to a new graphics lifeless and boring experience where you can't recognize your char anymore, char that some people's been with 10+ years and now it's just a joke.

I'll be honest here: as someone who has been through this in World of Warcraft (I was ridiculously attached to my Draenei).... this level of attachment to a temporary video game character is unhealthy.

The models most certainly did not change "beyond recognition". Yes, there are subtle changes (to my Keeper as well) but they are not night/day differences.

[Rolder50]

I like my character as is, thank you

[GartredZW]

Now I understand why they put so much effort into making every character look exactly the same, even giving us a free fantasia in-case something goes wrong.
I also understand why barely anything changes in this game now.