Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[moodud]

I got my hands on the mobile version too, and made compilation of female Midlander lips. Click to show the pics.

Quote (posted on jp forum). Feel free to use the pics.
Will add other races later.

Edit

Added female Highlander.

Mobile version female Highlander lips.

[Rawazh]

Quote (posted on jp forum). Feel free to use the pics.
Will add other races later.

Can i ask you to do a simple screenshot of the female middie face 2 please? The lips looks really good and way closer to their original version!
I tried to create a wechat account but it doesn't work at all, to test it by myself, and i just wanted to see if their face are faithfull to the pre 7.0 version
Thank you very much in advance ! ♥

[eldadyfa]

Adding my voice as well.

I submitted reports about my characters back in September 2024: 1, 2
and I’d like to point out that they still look like completely different people.

Patch 6.58 and 7.25 screenshot comparisons:

It’s been a year now, and I still don’t have the heart to continue any story content when I can’t see my characters the way they always used to look.
I'd still occasionally log in for old raids, but even then, there’s no such thing as “getting used to the new face and growing fond of it instead” for me, lol.
When I look back at the old screenshots, I can’t lie, I’m much more fond of how their faces looked before the graphics update.

Since 2020 for my Au Ra and 2022 for my Viera, I’ve never felt the need to pick a different option for their facial features at all. I was always very happy with how they looked — everything was already perfect to me.

I understand that the graphics update is needed to catch up with today’s standard, and that’s actually fine with me — if only they had retained the shapes of the characters’ facial features, so they could "preserve the overall look that you know and love", as they once said.

[moodud]

Can i ask you to do a simple screenshot of the female middie face 2 please? The lips looks really good and way closer to their original version!
I tried to create a wechat account but it doesn't work at all, to test it by myself, and i just wanted to see if their face are faithfull to the pre 7.0 version
Thank you very much in advance ! ♥

Of course. But since I don’t actually know what particular parts you are looking for I’d just post them all.
Type 1 is jaw type 1, eye type 1, nose type 1, and so on. Type 5 is eyes and brows? I don’t remember sorry.
No facial feature.

[Rawazh]

Of course. But since I don’t actually know what particular parts you are looking for I’d just post them all.
Type 1 is jaw type 1, eye type 1, nose type 1, and so on. Type 5 is eyes and brows? I don’t remember sorry.
No facial feature.

It's more than i hoped for, thank you so so much !!
i just really wanted to see the overall feel of the face, which was quite angular compared to the other faces, they also had more putty lips and looked older in general, and i feel like with DT they lost all that made them a bit special !
As you can see with the comparison :
(I couldn't do a proper DT screenshot because i canceled my sub so i have no access to the game, i took old screenshots from the msq, but i barely took some since, i'm still having a hard time to recognize my character, i lost the will to gpose and take screenshots in general)



A montage with my character feature and color skin:



(Also since DT came out i never asked for the face to be fixed since it's not popular and SE clearly do not care lol)

[Argantaelle]

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I apologise for answering the unrelated message, but as I don't know Japanese, I have to tag you somehow in the English thread.

I want to congratulate you on finally getting a high-res beard for your character. Updating a single texture only took SE a year and a month (sad laugh).

[moodud]

I apologise for answering the unrelated message, but as I don't know Japanese, I have to tag you somehow in the English thread.

I want to congratulate you on finally getting a high-res beard for your character. Updating a single texture only took SE a year and a month (sad laugh).

Thanks. I made quite a big stir over there in the jp forum, they probably realized they can't ignore me any longer. I was so ready to bring more hell if they did.

(Here is the high res beard that took over a year to finish)

Unfortunately they took all the time and resources and maybe be costs to fix the beard textures (other faces got fixed too), making them unable to fix other stuffs. Poor indie devs.

[Argantaelle]

(...) (other faces got fixed too), making them unable to fix other stuffs. Poor indie devs.

I saw a picture in your post, and this picture is the quintessence of the DT character update:


Not only did the sideburn texture become worse in DT (as if the poor guy lost about half of his hair), but even the upgraded 7.3 version is missing the details the EW one had. I mean, the strands of hair that extended outside the jawline, creating the illusion that it was real hair, not just some paint. Now all hair is just glued to the jawline.