Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Retropolitans]

What the hell did they do with the femhroth face textures

Logged in just now to check out the changes and as soon as my character passed a light source they turned into one of those hyper-detailed spongebob shock frames

Legit terrifying

[Sylvanae]

The lips are the biggest change I'm noticing for face 1 fem midlanders. Really not a fan of them right now.

[Anarnee]

Anyone peeked at Thancred or Femroe face 2? My files are still copying on PS4 and I'm so anxious.

Looks like they have tweaked the male elezen eyebrows!

Looking forward to seeing my Elezen boys with the changes. TY for showing these off so clearly!

[Argantaelle]

Anyone peeked at Thancred or Femroe face 2?

There is no more vanilla Thancred; he is dead. They replaced the ARR model with the new one.

This is Thancred now.

[faiarrow]

Anyone peeked at Thancred or Femroe face 2? My files are still copying on PS4 and I'm so anxious.

(Here I am rejoining this thread after being JP only for feedback for a while...)


Eyes aren't fixed (pupils at least, the overshadow is fixed), nose smudge is a bit darker........ AND OUR SCULPT SHAPE IS FIXED. No wonky random philtrum when we never used to have one.

Normal maps aren't 100% but Sko for SURE is actually *Sko* again. 90% of the way there.

[Heavenchild]

Aura face 2 mouth still looks bad. Still the wrong shape and lower lip is still bending unnaturally upwards, instead of being just a round shape like it used to be and like it is with most other mouth's.
That really bothered me because in cutszenes the characters are very often shown from an angle where we see that weird bending all the time. Gladly I am back to my Miqo boy and don't need to see it anymore. :x

[Anarnee]

(Here I am rejoining this thread after being JP only for feedback for a while...)


Eyes aren't fixed (pupils at least, the overshadow is fixed), nose smudge is a bit darker........ AND OUR SCULPT SHAPE IS FIXED. No wonky random philtrum when we never used to have one.

Normal maps aren't 100% but Sko for SURE is actually *Sko* again. 90% of the way there.

Thank you so much for coming back to share the comparisons, the Philtrum bothered me SO MUCH.

I do like the darker nose, but it def could be darkened further.

Face looks much less puffy. I'll need to go get some comparison shots.

Also feel like the foreheads/brow are not as shiny? Looked like Highlander males brows before, but with eyebrows slapped on.

Disappointed they didn't fix the eyes cause that still bugs me a ton, it looks uncanny when the eyes are lidded especially, and it feels like the eyes are squint-y much more often than they use to be in emotes?

I've only looked at my main so far, but yeah she looks so much more like herself already.


Edit: This is not related to Femroe, it looks like they might have fixed some other lighting stuff too. For my main, the hair it no long mismatched when I'm under a blue sky.

[ShiroLialeth]

Has anyone noticed any changes with Male Miqo’te Face 1? It does look the same, but I can’t shake off the feeling that something did change. Are the facial animations/ emotes any different? (It was mostly /ponder that seemed different to have different lips, though I don’t use it as much to actually notice a change)

[riani]

Let's see what happened to face #1, eyes #3 highlanders...


Oh? Oh! Is that...? ...oh no, was just a smudge on my screen, sorry.
Impression fixed, just a little bit? Meh? Okay.

At least you've fixed the misaligned face paint, right? That was in the 'planned to address' pile since July. Right?
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...hlander-face-1
No? Alright...


Joke aside there are teeny tiny changes, that could be welcomed by all, but too little. There are no big changes to get back the old impression. Was expected though.
Well, goodbye bitchlander... at least I don't have to buy fantasia for changing races.

Oh, and just to be clear. This is what a texture work could have done with 2 hours of back and forth comparisons:

[Keiizah]

Has anyone noticed any changes with Male Miqo’te Face 1? It does look the same, but I can’t shake off the feeling that something did change. Are the facial animations/ emotes any different? (It was mostly /ponder that seemed different to have different lips, though I don’t use it as much to actually notice a change)

I don't have screenshots to compare but they did made all male miqo'te lips smaller. Face 1 was pretty much the same before and after 7.0 the only difference was the sudden lip filler they gave to everyone which is now gone. And my guess they tweaked face textures a little? They probably saw the complaints about wax skin