Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Khryseis_Astra]

Another patch fearing or being hopeful about changes until we log in and we bring the magnifying glasses out due to no list explaining them.

This. I’ve since Fantasiaed my alts to different races, but I kept my old Hyurs as retainers so I can see if the changes are significant enough to warrant changing back.

The big thing for me at this point is the eye, nose and mouth shapes… not the color, not the texture, not the shadows, but the actual shapes! If those aren’t fixed there’s really no point to it.

[Atreus]

They have a list in the preliminary patch notes of the gear that’s been updated for 7.3. So far it’s mostly weapons and AF gear. Dual dyes were added to mostly 70 AF/Eureka weapons and PvP gear sets.

I've seen the notes and I know they aren't coming to 7.3, but I still hope it's high on their list of things to convert going forward.

[Argantaelle]

I just DON'T trust them at this point. They purposely refuse to outline what they're supposedly fixing in this patch, because they'd just get called out for not fixing anything of substance that people actually wanted fixed.

I agree with you. They won't do any major changes (sadly, it includes mouth shapes and face sculpts, which are the worst offenders). Maybe SE will change eyelash direction or slightly correct the eye shape of one gender/race combination, and that's all we can expect. I'll continue to stockpile Fantasia and turn away every time my character smiles in cutscenes. (Yes, I have the misfortune of playing a male character, and yes, his smile is horrible. As always.)

[Daralii]

I agree with you. They won't do any major changes (sadly, it includes mouth shapes and face sculpts, which are the worst offenders). Maybe SE will change eyelash direction or slightly correct the eye shape of one gender/race combination, and that's all we can expect. I'll continue to stockpile Fantasia and turn away every time my character smiles in cutscenes. (Yes, I have the misfortune of playing a male character, and yes, his smile is horrible. As always.)

Ironic that the expansion that gave us Smile also made smiles look so horrible.

[Cherrizini]

I’m expecting to be disappointed again, honestly.

[MoonNoire]

I know they haven't fixed the eyelids.
I just know.

[RedLolly]

I was looking into Fantasia-inf my character back into a Dusk Elf and the face combo I used for years on my account (switched to Steam) is just... Gone. The nose, chin, and eye shape have all changed just enough to be unrecognizable to me.


Meanwhile Roegadyn women look like they were finally finished after spending a decade with sharp pixels in random lip and brow textures.

[faiarrow]

Meanwhile Roegadyn women look like they were finally finished after spending a decade with sharp pixels in random lip and brow textures.

I can tell you now that's not the opinion most of us femroe players have right now...

I totally enjoy all faces having a mouth shape that makes smiles look, unironically, like

Just like I totally enjoy all the normal maps being fubared. And the brows being wrong; gone are the clear normal maps made for the different muscle structure, now we're just pretty smooth dolls complete with dead eyes from black pupils that are 15% larger than they ever used to be. They stripped us of all features that made femroe look like they weren't just a "bigger hyur" (while they also have butchered hyur, too.)

And then we have XIV mobile which fix a lot of the major gripes I've had since 7.0's benchmark and it's a slap to the face.

So no, sorry, not agreeing they "finished femroe." Smoothing out faces to the point of unrecognizability does not make a fix.

[Rabblerabble]

I've said it in another thread, but I want to see more Male Midlander Facial hair options. Mustache, beard, 5 o'clock shadow. The works.

I like a lot of the Highlander options, and I don't know what makes making good options for us middie folk so hard, but I'd like to see it happen. /fingerscrossed

[RedLolly]

So no, sorry, not agreeing they "finished femroe." Smoothing out faces to the point of unrecognizability does not make a fix.

You don't need to apologize if you preferred the older style when I prefer the current. It just really drove me insane to see that uniquely crunchy upper lip on the face option I liked with every variant, and it stuck there after several upgrades to my hardware.