i want my old face back

[Nabril]

most races look great but every time i look at my saved portraits i cant help but feel its just a total downgrade
it just looks uncanny and weird to me
i get that its personal preference and some may like it but everything i loved about my character is gone
the eyes and lips look odd in nearly every animation
face 3 used to come with a baked in matte lipstick that is now just the same shiny color as any other
idk i guess im just ranting to no one knowing its not going to be changed/fixed
i am sad

Use a fantasia. There are documented cases of people restoring their faces with the magic of appearance altering potions.

Me personally, my face looks exactly the same. I look at my dude and he looks back at me. Nothing changed. He still has the same expression and life in his eyes that he always had.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

damn it sounds like it would be a really awful idea for a company to make major changes to those characters that people have been staring at for thousands of hours
crazy!

Why are you saying major changes? The change I described was extremely minor if you actually read my post. Why does no one in these forums READ bro

[XIPOTATOX]

I’d rather have my lodestone profile set to restricted at this point I can’t stand to look at it anymore, it’s a totally different character. I Can’t find the right eye colour to the previous version, my eyelids seem to be puffed out in sunlight as if I’m allergic to something. I do like how the limbal ring is more smooth now tho. I think I ended up picking the wrong eye colour now.

Overall I would say this is some form of mental abuse to people that had what they wanted figured out.

[cutestfox]

I’d rather have my lodestone profile set to restricted at this point I can’t stand to look at it anymore,

Likewise. I'm lucky that setting my profile here to an alt character who hasn't seem to have an updated profile yet spares me the cringe of seeing the new one

[Aurumis]

daily bump, I just want the devs to fix what we are asking.

[Khiiral]

I have posted it elsewhere, but my WoL is not himself anymore and has a deadly chin, scales floating off his face, and angry eyebrows. I am also disheartened by the number of people asking me, "Can't you just fix it with the free fantasia?" I cannot fix fundamental changes to my character model with none of the options I made him for being the same now. I would greatly appreciate it if the devs could correct these changes, especially after promising they would alter models as little as possible.

Raen Au Ra face 3, eyes 1, eyebrows 4.

[Einnecy]

I am also disheartened by the number of people asking me, "Can't you just fix it with the free fantasia?" I cannot fix fundamental changes to my character model with none of the options I made him for being the same now.

And some of these changes simply make no sense. I edited my character's pre-DT pupils onto the new model and she looks significantly* more like her pre-DT self. It's as if the purpose of the upgrade wasn't to preserve our characters but to give them a moe makeover.
I would further edit the mouth onto a photo to show that with just those two changes my female au ra would look like her pre-DT self with the DT makeover, but I am far too frustrated looking at her new face.

[GrizzlyTank]

I dislike those who say "it's just the lighting" so much... Please get glasses, cause it's very clearly not just the lighting. "Just use fantastia", TO WHAT? The option people fancied were removed so there isn't anything to fantasia too.

I also really wonder if the designers at some point completely mixed up their textures seeing the sheer amount of eyebrows that looks nothing alike their source material.

And some of these changes simply make no sense. I edited my character's pre-DT pupils onto the new model and she looks marginally more like her pre-DT self. It's as if the purpose of the upgrade wasn't to preserve our characters but to give them a moe makeover.
I would further edit the mouth onto a photo to show that with just those two changes my female au ra would look like her pre-DT self with the DT makeover, but I am far too frustrated looking at her new face.

They did a complete change in art direction when it came to the eyes and other facial features. From cartoony high-contrast to more realistic, with the pupil also being slightly larger, more pronounced eye sockets...

Like why... Why break the aesthetic when the focus was to improve the shaders and textures.

[Einnecy]

They did a complete change in art direction when it came to the eyes and other facial features. From cartoony high-contrast to more realistic, with the pupil also being slightly larger, more pronounced eye sockets...

...on anime proportions, might I add. A style combination which clashes and, in my honest opinion, looks bad. It's jarring. The characters look and feel more like wax dolls than they do inhabitants of a world.

I feel like I am looking at a bad MMD video whenever I log in.

[Aurumis]

Made a gif with Endwalker and Dawntrail benchmarks for comparison

Give me back my face, pls Devs...pls this is not what he looked like. Why did you do this?
Give me back at least his eyes, if anything, fix the eyes... but everything is different, this is not my WoL... the eyes, the eyebrows, the mouth, the chin... everything is wrong

people is blind if they are gonna tell me he is the same because obviously NOT, this face was changed completely

male miqo'te face 4 eyes 3 mouth 1 nose 1