Please stop hiding miqo'te ears (and other races') from certain head gear

[GrizzlyTank]

Yay bug report went through.



https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ending-Maiming

[Picothea]

Yay bug report went through.

Oh, it did? I noticed the odd disparity with the ears in-game, and I'm glad it was accepted so it might be fixed.

[GrizzlyTank]

Oh, it did? I noticed the odd disparity with the ears in-game, and I'm glad it was accepted so it might be fixed.

It was such a strange disparity as well since most races got to keep their ears on it.

I guess maybe they used fem-miqote as base for some of the soldiers and forgot to add the ears back in for the player gear?

[GreenLeafy]

There's a really goofy bug on the Pictomancer artifact gear where it will hide my ears but for whatever reason shows my earrings. Which is kinda funny because it also tells me just how much my ears can poke out of that hat if they allowed them to lol.

[Aco505]

I suppose the PCT head piece is big enough for the ears to be hidden in there but it's indeed funny. I suppose part of the reason why the ears don't show here is because they'd have to design the head piece so that part of the ears peek out.

When we do get them, they either show fully from a "hole" or they get an ear sock, which are of various sizes and shapes (sometimes illogical too).

[ZephyrMenodora]

So much gear in DT just ignores ears. I'm so frustrated and over this laziness.

[Skellydawizard]

So much gear in DT just ignores ears. I'm so frustrated and over this laziness.

To quote another gem "The devs cut so many corners Dawntrail is just a sphere"

I don't know if DT just wasn't done baking and needed more dev time or they ditched FF14 to work on something else half way through, were reminded DT was up soon so they came back and packaged what they had done and called it a day.

Usually its the Art team with severe back problems carrying entire expansions, but this time even they didn't seem to show up. Be it the paradoxical/Nonsensical dye channels on NEW armor, the arbitrary random restrictions like undyeable weapons, but dyeable armor?!

Hroth/Viera just not getting hats "because its to difficult" yet they are perfectly fine chopping off Miqo ears when they get in the way.

Sadly the answer is just chronic dev apathy. CBU3s team outside of heads very clearly don't like working on FF content (even 16 had some pretty blatant laziness)

[Kanehon]

They keep repeating they are "Working on [Viera/Hrothgar hats]" for years on end, and then turn around and pull this. They're not working on that, and now they've given up on Every other race too.

[Picothea]

I think there is a lot of doom and gloom in these posts that have become inaccurate. Lots of helmets and hoods *are* usable on hrothgar and viera, and the missing miqo'te ears on the new Vanguard helmets were just an error (to be fixed) that exclusively affected female miqo'te, not even males. I strongly doubt they have given up, not shown up, or other such ideas.
There's work that is missing, but if they say they're going to fix it in the future, I believe them.

[Skellydawizard]

I strongly doubt they have given up, not shown up, or other such ideas.
There's work that is missing, but if they say they're going to fix it in the future, I believe them.

Said Vanguard armor also has a bug report that it chops off tails. Except that one is "Intended" according to them moving the thread. Meanwhile missing Ears is actually a bug?

So Ears are fine in some cases? but not tails? Tails are chronic offenders of clipping like wild. But in this specific case just chop them off? It's impossibly difficult to keep up with the mental gymnastics. Is it malice? Hanlon's razor says usually no.

But boy does it feel like malicious laziness. The bare minimum was the absolute most they were willing to put into these things