Gender locked race?

[Kupocoubo]

It means the leak was real, we will get Vieras and a Lion race. The leak never talked about those races being gender locked.

I AM SHOOKETH

[Roda]

It means the leak was real, we will get Vieras and a Lion race. The leak never talked about those races being gender locked.

I AM SHOOKETH

Calm your kitties!
Non-released beta text!
It could be ANYWHERE in the process of polished.
It's not confirmed until we get the word of god! X_X

[CoolDad]

I'm concerned they might add two new races (viera and a more "masculine" race) and genderlock them both to female and male respectively. It would save them on modelling but man I really want to play a male viera. :/

[Nestama]

So we know that Tokyo Fanfest is late March. We also know that part 2 of the 4.5 MSQ is in late March (right?). Assuming the Hrothgar are the eighth race, do you think they'll make an appearance in part 2 of the MSQ? Possibly at the very end of it?

While we had seen what Au Ra looked like long before 2.55, Yugiri didn't reveal her face until the very end of the 2.55 story.

[Seraph522]

Just as a heads-up: from the top comment on the Reddit thread, datamining confirms that the text exists, but it's only in the French localization files (not English, German, or Japanese) and has been there for some time. It may have been added at a much earlier point, and development could have shifted radically in the meantime. Take it all with a healthy dose of salt (however you want to interpret that).

[Shippuu]

I would love for both to have both genders, and I really hope the labeling is an indication of that. But that would mean two full races male and female and that's a ton of work. I'd love if SE did this, but also knowing them it might not be likely. It also still doesn't add up with the weird way Yoshida has been dodging the issue of male viera either. There's less of a reason to not show them if there's going to be 2 full blown male+female races.

We will see. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing these Hrothgar however.

[Riusvell]

Gender locking a race is outdated practice. The fact that there's rumors and that SE is considering it shows how out of touch the team is.
Or must I point towards the Bunny suit fiasco?
I know I will not keep my mouth shut about wanting them, been waiting since Tactics Advance.

[Gwenorai]

Welp, if this is true and what was found is correct and the code that puts in the specific pronouns is to be trusted and isn't full of redundancies.

Blufever was correct? He never did mention genderlocks, was this what he was seeing?

[Shippuu]

Welp, if this is true and what was found is correct and the code that puts in the specific pronouns is to be trusted and isn't full of redundancies.

Blufever was correct? He never did mention genderlocks, was this what he was seeing?

Yeah, Bluefever never mentioned gender locking (although a discord "leaker" says they were).
The genderlocking comes down to what is more likely:

1: SE Genderlocks Viera and Hrothgar, one gender for each
or
2: SE makes two full blown races with all the development time and resources that takes.

The optimist in me hopes for option 2, but the realist in me says it's option 1 when looking at other surrounding evidence (again, his old comment, and peculiarity regarding talking about male viera + in game lore). I would love to be wrong though.

[Serenno]

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Yeah, as much as I'd hate for it to be the case, option 1 seems to be more likely considering what Yoshi's said about how hard developing races is and whatnot. However, it could be that since we didn't get a new race for Stormblood, maybe they've been working on them since then in an effort to release 2 fullblown races for ShB. But I feel like that's a reach, sadly.