Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[lunartears]

From 7.1 Patch Notes (Preliminary):

2.x 5.x 6.x
The following adjustments have been made to certain NPCs:

Model quality, texture resolution, and material qualities of faces have been improved.

Well, I hope they have learned a bit from the feedback and that this doesn't mean that unique NPCs are going to look significantly different

I can't see a single change to the lips on Au Ra in those low res images (I know that's a given but I'm desperate), not sure about the eyes.
Not long until 7.1 to find out what they've changed about our faces, I can imagine there's either going to be mass disappointment or quite a lot of conversation, maybe both.
On the other hand, there's a lot of nice system features coming like the mount tilt disable. Though, I'm disappointed about nothing regarding the portrait/"try on" lighting, I hope they're considering looking into it.

[Iscah]

Well, I hope they have learned a bit from the feedback and that this doesn't mean that unique NPCs are going to look significantly different

Sadly it'll probably be bringing more NPCs up to the altered face shapes, and no guarantee they'll get even the player-model fixes. Ones like G'raha where one version of his face survived as the old model but his other versions were altered.

[Astronis]

Well, I hope they have learned a bit from the feedback and that this doesn't mean that unique NPCs are going to look significantly different

I haven't heard anyone complaining about Alisaie and Alphinaud despite the fact that they have new models, nor much about Urianger. So hopefully people won't have too much to complain about with the next wave of NPCs getting updated. I've been replaying ARR on one of my alts, and it's kind of shocking to me how bad the old textures look in the new lighting.