Male Miqo'te Face 4 changes (Benchmark feedback)

[yviyviy]

Hello! I appreciate the devs hard work to fix a lot of characters nearing the release of endwalker, however I too have to echo what others experience in this thread.

• eyes 3 (in face 4) doesn't reflect light as well as the current game, instead it seems like its progressively getting worse the further we go with the benchmark. I could only see the light in his eyes if i tilt him slightly from the bottom view, because the soft reflection is hidden by the model's dark / heavy eyelashes
  
  While it might be an unfair comparison, I attached how lively other sunseeker miqo'tes look like and my wol just looks more expressionless / emotionless than usual (but he's... smiling??? now? why??? X'D)
  
• my second complaint is with the lips. It seems like a few others enjoys the change but when i built my wol in the character creation, this shape is not what i intended. therefore I question the decision of making a drastic change for a shape that is already fine to begin with.
  I couldn't imagine playing msq and seeing him smiling under serious circumstances!

sorry if this makes no much sense as english isn't my first language!
idk if the devs will take a look at the threads and still making adjustments but I certainly hope they will, I want all of us to enjoy dawntrail to its fullest!

[Zero89]

i tried Benchmark update today and thought well create your miqoten Moonkeeper with Face 4 again. unfortunately i realised that the eyes and lips look completely different... than the previous benchmark, where is my grumpy miqote ? i can understand your work and appreciate it very much i hope a solution will be found and a possibility to get my grumpy cat back. and yes i really had to write something about this topic, i hope something will happen in the next 14 days.

[Xurtan]

The changes completely ruin the energy and mood I had going for my character. Please revert them. He no longer has the identity he did originally. The new changes all have a sort of smiling, smug look. Where's the grump?!

[Leon-Valeren]

As far as I can tell, most of the JP feedback is concentrated in this main thread:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...AD%B0%E8%AB%96

There is A LOT in there, but I did find at least one EN player post about the face 4 miqo'te issues that resonate with many of us here:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6471489

I'd encourage you all to repost your concerns over there too, even if it's just images with some translated text.

Anything to get the word out on JP forums helps! I intend to repost there sometime soon as well.

thank you so incredibly much for this advice!

i read through all the comments here and appreciate a lot the shared concerns and references! i shared my thoughts in the japanese server now too and am glad to see other people have similar thoughts! it's encouraging!

[Sinsear]

I'm in the same boat as you brothers, I left the benchmark with a big disappointment losing my neutral and stoic Miqo'te face. So much I'll probably switch to face 1 if nothing is changed by launch day. Ironically, face 1 looks now the more stoic face for Miqo'te, despite looking fairly young

[soramola]

Im still so so sad xD. I hope they change it a bit or make the character graphic changes optional o|-<
Because daaaaamn the more i look at it the more it is a completely different face for some of us with the face 4 option. Face 4 was always so serious and cool looking.. and now its so much more feminin with constant bedroom eyes and a smirk..

[Lunaru_F]

I just tried the benchmark and I must say that the difference was so noticeable, I really do hope they fix this or at least alter it in a way that doesn't look so... Cheeky? I loved the serious tone of face 4, but now it just looks like some evil twin, or when possessed...

[lucatracy]

Bump. Over half a year later and we're still stuck with the post-lobotomy smile.

[lucatracy]

Bump. Over half a year later and we're still stuck with the post-lobotomy smile.

Probably still the only person that cares about this, but here's to hoping (yet again) this one of the adjustments being made this patch.