Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[CuteBucket]

I really worry at this point that there isn't a plan to further fix any faces at all. It feels like they're just waiting for the players to forget about the graphical update botching our character's faces. Or, as all the naysayers have been saying since last year, "you'll get used to it."

No?? Not when the mouths and smiles look this deformed and uncanny I sure won't. Like it's been over six months and I still think the faces look bad. I have zero desire to log in and just run around the world and play by myself anymore. I log in exclusively to play with friends on certain days and then log off and play something else when we're done, because my beloved characters look like they've been recast with a new (worse) actor out of nowhere. How much I loved my characters and the story was a huge reason happily logged in for at least a little bit almost every day, and then Dawntrail was like "oh, those two features about the game you love? Not our focus over here at CS3 anymore, so we got rid of those."

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Personally I don’t think they will bother anymore at this point. Less players are around to keep the complaint thread going. Idk about JP’s thread though.

Like anything else, they’ll just interpret this as “it’s working!” when the reality is either (1)people don’t care enough; (2)people are tired screaming at the tone deaf; or combination of those two.

[Dante131]

Personally I don’t think they will bother anymore at this point. Less players are around to keep the complaint thread going. Idk about JP’s thread though.

Like anything else, they’ll just interpret this as “it’s working!” when the reality is either (1)people don’t care enough; (2)people are tired screaming at the tone deaf; or combination of those two.

definetly option 2

[Loggos]

Or, as all the naysayers have been saying since last year, "you'll get used to it."
No?? Not when the mouths and smiles look this deformed and uncanny I sure won't. Like it's been over six months and I still think the faces look bad.

Same. My characters' faces still stand out like a sore thumb. I still see the changes immediately when I look at them and I still dislike them as much. It just feels like "some" avatar now I use to run around and not like "my" character anymore. Most of the time I put on a mask glam so I can pretend it's the old face. Really sad when not seeing the face is an improvement. : P

[Anarnee]

I'm a gposer, and the *ahem* tools we use only recently began working with older NPC faces.

So I tried logging in to gpose with my favorite grumpy Garlean and...

Jfc where are his pupils? What did they do? He literally looks dead/blind.





I'm tired, boss...

Ah, so that's where the Femroe face 2 eyes went. They gave us the dark pupils we never asked for, and gave light pupils to everyone else.

[IndraSyngiwyb]

Ah, so that's where the Femroe face 2 eyes went. They gave us the dark pupils we never asked for, and gave light pupils to everyone else.

I have to laugh so that I don't cry.

[lunartears]

I wish we could have the old graphics back

[mallleable]

Realizing Heavensward zones might be getting beautified in 7.2. Can't wait!

[LuciaMirain]

Id love for the lips on face four viera to be reversed to what they were. Now when they smile it looks like a banana. It is so awful. Only viera that came out ok was face 1.

[Jaltaer]

I still miss my face... genuinely all my motivation and love for gposing and taking screenshots of my character has gone completely out the window, every time I think "eh, maybe I'll get used to it" I end up stumbling on old pre-DT screenshots and realizing no, it actually is that bad. Smiles look weird and creepy and somehow overall faces manage to look *less* expressive despite the million new bones.



Really, at this point, even if the dev response is just "eff you, we butchered everyone's mouths and we're not changing it back" it'd be more than just straight up ignoring the fact that probably over half the complaints are about that one specific aspect of the new faces.