i want my old face back

[CuteBucket]

My other character is female au ra face 3. I absolutely ADORED this face's lips. She was adorable! And now, with the way bigger pupils and the lip changes, she looks sad and lifeless.

Yes this is a benchmark screenshot again, but she looks the same in game now and so I didn't feel the need to make a bunch more of these.
The lips is the part I'm most upset about. Why? Just why? Why would they flatten out her inner lip shape and make her lips smaller? This is absolutely unacceptable to me.


And to all the people who seem obsessed with telling us it's just the new lighting engine, no, it's not the lighting. I brought both the old and new face 3 model into Blender. Endwalker sculpt is the darker one on the left, Dawntrail sculpt is the one on the right. You can see just how different and "flat" looking the new sculpt is. It's not the Dawntrail lighting.


If they don't want us to use mods, then maybe they shouldn't make me turn to them to fix my character's eyes and lips and make her playable to me again. I can fix this with enough work, but console players deserve their WoL to look correct. I shouldn't have to mod her face to make her look like the character I know and love. I never felt a need to before now.

[Einnecy]

Yes this is a benchmark screenshot again, but she looks the same in game now and so I didn't feel the need to make a bunch more of these.
The lips is the part I'm most upset about. Why? Just why? Why would they flatten out her inner lip shape and make her lips smaller? This is absolutely unacceptable to me.

And to all the people who seem obsessed with telling us it's just the new lighting engine, no, it's not the lighting. I brought both the old and new face 3 model into Blender. Endwalker sculpt is the darker one on the left, Dawntrail sculpt is the one on the right. You can see just how different and "flat" looking the new sculpt is. It's not the Dawntrail lighting.

Thanks for confirming just how botched the lips are. The EW model at least has some texture, unlike the abomination we have now. I heavily dislike the shine all of the models have, it looks as if they're wearing lipstick even when they shouldn't be. I've heard people on social media say that the old lips look "unmoisturized" and that the new lips are a "big step up" to which I want to add that not everyone wants to have a glitz and glamour influencer WoL. I wish the shine was turned into a toggle at the very least. :')