Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Oh, her limbal rings are the wrong color now, interesting.



I was keeping an eye (haha.) on Sadu and Allie (who looked nothing like themselves in 7.0 because of the dimmed limbal ring, thankfully that has been somewhat fixed in 7.1), and I noticed that in 7.1 Cirina looks even less like she did before because her dark blue limbal rings glow greyish-blue at night/in the shadow, but I wasn't paying attention to Yugiri, that's a pretty drastic change.

[noumen0nn]

There was a post on the ffxiv subreddit earlier today about Miqo'te eyelashes, and the comments are full of people talking about their dislike of the various changes to whatever race they play. This thread has lost a little momentum lately, mostly because not enough was actually changed with 7.1 to warrant additional rounds of feedback (though I still plan on making one, because midlander F face 1 is still a disaster). But I don't want the devs to get the impression that the dislike of the update is dying down or going anywhere. Many, many more players are unhappy with the changes than just the ones who have posted here. I really hope you are still taking all of our feedback into account and are ready to deliver some ACTUAL adjustments come 7.2, instead of another half-effort.

[Valence]

Miqo'te eyebrow thread link

[FuturePastNow]

There was a post on the ffxiv subreddit earlier today about Miqo'te eyelashes, and the comments are full of people talking about their dislike of the various changes to whatever race they play. This thread has lost a little momentum lately, mostly because not enough was actually changed with 7.1 to warrant additional rounds of feedback (though I still plan on making one, because midlander F face 1 is still a disaster). But I don't want the devs to get the impression that the dislike of the update is dying down or going anywhere. Many, many more players are unhappy with the changes than just the ones who have posted here. I really hope you are still taking all of our feedback into account and are ready to deliver some ACTUAL adjustments come 7.2, instead of another half-effort.

This, although I switched to Hrothgar and am "happy" with that, I'd still like the developers to understand that I strongly dislike what they did to my old (Roegadyn) face.

[Winyumi]

Yup. I'm still unhappy and looking forward to the fixes. I hope the dev team is still listening. Not much else to add from my end until the next update.

[Hatsuoki]

I'm still here and unhappy with the lack of fixes. No matter how I look at the characters, I can't get used to the uncanny valley expressions and plastic shine of the skin. The only reason why I haven't been posting is because someone on the JP forums has been posting extensively about the male midlander face 6 changes and I'm really grateful they're so clear and detailed. I've been criticized behind my back on social media for talking about the changes so I occasionally look at those posts on the JP forums for reassurance that I'm not crazy or seeing things.

In the meantime, I feel very disconnected from the game and skipping through MSQ and the recent patches was the only way I was going to get through them. Even then, I've probably done about 30% of what the newer patches contain.

[Darko]

While I'm on the subject of old versus new, another thing that's completely broken are Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus' eyes. As before, first is old, second is new. Emet's glow is completely gone and Hythlodaeus' eyes also seem to lack it for the most part and aren't even the right color:









That needs to be fixed. Maybe they're leaving it until they update their models but uh. Going off of my WoL and Ardbert and everyone else I'd really rather they never update them and just fix their eyes. There's also the absolutely insane lighting difference in the scene now. Which isn't the cause of the eye issues, Emet just doesn't glow at all. I'm not sure if Hyth isn't at all or the color is just set completely wrong.

The lighting was so perfect to highlight his eyes. This beautiful, captivating scene is now ruined.

DT's MSQ has zero replay value to me - it was horrific enough getting through it the first time - and now I can't even replay past MSQ because of the graphics update.

Lighting needs to be fixed, across the board, Thancred's face needs to be fixed, the Ancients need the glow in their eyes back, the eyes of mere mortals at least need to look alive, and faces need to be de-puffed and reworked to look like they used to. I also preferred the previous skin colour Emet and Hyth had, this looks too saturated.

It boggles my mind that this graphics update and DT's storyline were deemed suitable for release. Starting to wonder why I'm still holding onto hope here.

[Rueby]

Man Hythlo and Emet look like cheap plastic lit up barbie dolls. I adored their eyes and how stunning/captivating Hythlo's eyes were...
I was playing the MSQ with my friend awhile back and honestly...meh..alot of NPCs look really weird in this lighting....

[Darko]

The dazed and bored eyes strike again. A character with an intense passion behind their eyes? Can't have that, add more shadows, flatten the mouth, make them look like they feel nothing.

I see this face was also hit by the Great Lip Flattening. Had a unique lip shape? Not anymore! Now everyone can have the same generic lips and mouth!

Ugh.

Same for male midlander face 1. My WoL now has a dazed stare. Maybe he's thinking of the sharper, more charming face he used to have.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

the Ancients need the glow in their eyes back

That has been supposedly fixed in 7.1 (at least I noticed that they look somewhat brighter on the NPCs in the Pandaemonium extra quest they added) and the post you quoted is from 7.0, so I would be curious to see what this cutscene looks like now and how it holds up compared to 6.X.