Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Einnecy]

I've looked and looked up and down on the places I know of to look but no [REDACTED] has been made to restore that face. And the statement from the devs and Yoshi-P has not given me any hope that whatever "fixes" are coming will actually fix her face at all. I never needed nor wanted [REDACTED] character's faces before. I saw no need. I loved them just the way they were.

My biggest gripe with using [REDACTED] is that I would be putting my account at risk just for the sake of fixing bad aesthetic changes on the developers' part. I might have been willing to accept the risks if it meant improving my characters instead of reverting them to how they used to be. Before DT I had contemplated getting some custom texture work done so that my characters can look "lore accurate" (burn marks on my midlander, and lightly iridescent fish-like body scales and some light skin picking scabs for my au ra) but ultimately decided against it because it would be a lot of work to learn a new craft and I too was perfectly happy with my characters as they were.
It is not just my characters who I would have to fix also. Even the NPCs look jarring and uncanny to look at. I would have to alter the pupils, grossly white eyewhites, bleached teeth and raen scales, and apply it to every NPC in the game. A simple one-and-done. But I do not have the patience nor the skill to alter the head meshes of, at the very least, those who were hit by the graphical update the hardest (like Thancred) if not every face in the game. I hope they did not touch Nero. I don't know what I would do if I found that man stripped of his features.

I have never used [REDACTED]. It would be a lot of work. Why should any of us have to fix the developers' questionable stylistic decisions?

[CuteBucket]

Why should any of us have to fix the developers' questionable stylistic decisions?

We absolutely should not, but I [REDACTED] accessibility needs [REDACTED] should be in the game to begin with, but here we are, so unfortunately I'm somewhat used to this circus of having to find fixes on my own in those lawless lands because SE does not provide them in the game. It's just wild to me that I need [REDACTED] to have my characters look more like the original, vanilla game now. Absolute upside down crazy world.

And honestly, if SE is willing to hunt me down over that, well, guess I'd just take it as a sign to move on and find a new home elsewhere. They already took my story and gpose WoL from me and I'm bored with the game as it is. I stick around for weekly raids and to chill with my friends at this point, and the DC travel restrictions have even made just doing those two things more difficult. And I could weather it all if I just had my silly little blorbo to look at. But I don't, and my patience is wearing thin.

[Einnecy]

And I could weather it all if I just had my silly little blorbo to look at. But I don't, and my patience is wearing thin.

My friend, I sincerely wish for you to get your blorbo back one way or another. I hope my previous comment did not come across as critical or negative to anyone except SE. I have to wonder how many people have considered and also went down the rabbit hole because of the graphical update, or how many people have outright lost interest and quit or are on the fence about it as I am because too much has changed to be salvageable. I'm upset that we as players have to potentially take matters into our own hands because the game keeps failing its playerbase.
On the topic of accessibility, and to shoehorn in another issue in regards to the graphical update, I am heavily disheartened by the lack of acknowledgement on this thread about eye strain. I want to see the game do better than this.