Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Kacho_Nacho]

I want to thank everyone for the detailed feedback they've been providing. With me, I could tell Square Enix was in the ballpark but couldn't articulate what was "off."

It's my hope we will see a new update to the character models by the end of August. Players deserve nothing less than excellent work from the developers.

[Cherrizini]

When did they say they would make an announcement regarding the graphic updates? I remember seeing an official message from a GM here, but cannot find it.

[Turnintino]

When did they say they would make an announcement regarding the graphic updates? I remember seeing an official message from a GM here, but cannot find it.

It was quoted on the previous page. The rep said to expect an announcement in "late August", so the time is nigh.

[Cheapshot]

It would be nice if they pushed all character updates to the benchmark instead of the live game first so they can get more feedback if things aren’t there yet. The people who care will go look and they wouldn’t need to worry about fantasias every time.

[GreenLeafy]

If they do that with the next update, the unfortunate thing is that we can't check all the wonky emotes so I don't trust the small amount that we can see in the benchmark alone.

Yeah I had my gripes with the jank from the graphical update to just the face models , but my goodness the emote jank going through MSQ and such was even worse of a surprise...

[Aimetrot]

We would like to thank everyone for their feedback regarding the graphical update.
The Development team has been carefully reviewing this thread and many others, including bug reports and concerns raised outside of the official forums.

We are currently working on an update based on the feedback provided, as well as preparing to share details about our planned course of action.
As these are undergoing thorough final inspections, we expect to make an announcement in late August.

Thank you all for your patience as we continue fine-tuning the graphical update.

The Development team is currently still carefully reviewing all feedback and considering a planned course of action. However, we will require another week or so for translations before we make an official announcement.
We apologize that this is taking longer than expected, and we thank you all once again for your patience.

[Kaziek]

The Development team is currently still carefully reviewing all feedback and considering a planned course of action. However, we will require another week or so for translations before we make an official announcement.
We apologize that this is taking longer than expected, and we thank you all once again for your patience.

Please take all the time that you need. I think most people would much rather have this be a lengthy process that makes as many people happy as possible than something hastily put out.

[Hatsuoki]

The Development team is currently still carefully reviewing all feedback and considering a planned course of action. However, we will require another week or so for translations before we make an official announcement.
We apologize that this is taking longer than expected, and we thank you all once again for your patience.

Thank you for the update. I'm still grateful to know some kind of communication and possible action is on its way.

[MsQi]

The Development team is currently still carefully reviewing all feedback and considering a planned course of action. However, we will require another week or so for translations before we make an official announcement.
We apologize that this is taking longer than expected, and we thank you all once again for your patience.

I am 99% pleased with what we got with Miqo'te Face 4 in the Dawntrail release. The pupil shape on Sunseekers is a little too "cut out" looking compared to the original, and the nose lacks definition. I am exceedingly glad you added back the lip gap, a defining feature of that face. However, it seems some do not like it.

Au Ra face 2 was a drastic change to me and it affects an important lore character: Cirina. The new face is not a bad face, but it's not her.

That is the thing, very few of the changes for any of the characters can be said to be objectively bad, but I think it is very bad to force them upon people. Many are still noticeably different, and change drastically how people feel about their own and other characters. I think rather than going back and forth trying to please people the main focus at this point should be to add additional features to character creation/customization: More face options, more mouth shapes, more eye shapes.

I also think main characters like Thancred and Cirina should be closer to their original appearance as possible.

[Fiel_Tana]

The Development team is currently still carefully reviewing all feedback and considering a planned course of action. However, we will require another week or so for translations before we make an official announcement.
We apologize that this is taking longer than expected, and we thank you all once again for your patience.

Thank you for the update!

Will the dev team also be looking at the other problems caused by the graphics update? Both by the bloom being unable to be disabled, blurriness (etc.) and the combat graphics (boss + arena that can't be turned off/down) now causing major headaches and eye strain that is way worse since the update? Some of us can't play at all now without physical pain.

This thread covers a lot of these issues:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ate-Eye-Strain