Quote Originally Posted by Jaltaer View Post
I've commented on it before in this thread (multiple times at this point...) but I think the part that's most frustrating is they're completely ignoring what seems to be the majority of the complaints about the changes. Which is to say - the mouths. The last acknowledgement they made of the complaints about the updates they spent about 5 paragraphs explaining design decisions about eyelashes, and saying nothing about the fact that almost every character's mouth has been completely changed in shape, despite us being told that our character's wouldn't have any significant changes to the actual structure of their face.


The worst part? I don't even see what the point was of making those changes! Okay, mouths now have... something like 22 bones, but I'll be honest, I watched every cutscene in DT (for better or for worse), and if the purpose of these changes was to make emote more expressive... I sure as hell didn't see it, because every animation looked either the same, or downright worse. Smiles look creepy now, and a lot of the other mouth expressions just look like the character is straining or struggling to make said emote.
Oh but I guess maybe they can do more funny GMod style faces in Hildibrand now, I guess that was worth butchering everyone's faces for....
I can appreciate them wanting to add more face bones for better expressions, but the old expressions we had were more than serviceable, and the new faces had some uncanny expressions for a good long while. They're better now, but they're still not quite to how they were before the update.

They were better off adding cape bones or extra hair bones.