Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[BlackPanda]

I support Male Viera! https://www.instagram.com/p/By3-NjWH...on_share_sheet

[DevilsDontFly]

I think they should be added at the earliest convenience for the devs. As long as they are not forced to overwork or crunch themselves to release it.

Yoshi mentioned a couple of times that with 32 bits systems no longer being supported a huge amount time dedicated to debuggin' is going to be lifted from the dev's shoulders, so I'm assuming once the first couple of big patches go live the team will have a little bit more room to breathe and perhaps work on side tasks. If they really are planning on adding the missing genders we might see them earlier than we think, but I would give it at the very least 8 months to a year.

[Theodric]

Some interesting official art:



Note how Urianger, an Elezen, is drawn in such a way as to be quite well-built. Hopefully that is the sort of Elezen physique that Yoshi-P allows for when it comes to Viera men!

After all, we already have confirmation that they will not be designed to look like Alphinaud.

[Gwenorai]

Yeah, I noticed that as well. In all of the Shadow Bringers art Urianger has been illustrated to have thicc arms strong arms and a broad back. Must be from all that book lifting...

e_e On another random note; Warrior of Darkness looks like he's pondering why everyone has light hair but him.

[Amnmaat]

Some interesting official art:



Note how Urianger, an Elezen, is drawn in such a way as to be quite well-built. Hopefully that is the sort of Elezen physique that Yoshi-P allows for when it comes to Viera men!

After all, we already have confirmation that they will not be designed to look like Alphinaud.

Kinda resembles the official concept art but it's still not "wild" or enough muscles. I really want Square Enix to understand that male Viera should not be Elezen v2 and should instead be envisioned like how they envisioned them in 2015
Their lifestyle and lore should be well represented in their design and look

[Theodric]

As long as they resemble adult men, I'm content. Most people seem to be in agreement that they should be tall, handsome and decently well-built.

[Halivel]

The only thing is that different people understand "well-built" differently. For some it is Miqo's athletism (who are supposed to be hunters so actually their building is suitable), for some it is Auri fierce (which is suitable as well because they are steppe warriors) and for some it is just mountain of meat as Highlanders on 100 muscles slider (which is probably suitable as well, but jungles people are merely like this and here we also fall to the lore). ツ

For understanding, hunting from shadows doesn't mean you need to be buffed. You need to have completely other features such as flexibility and speed and sharp hearing and vision for example and it will lead to strong legs at least in case with speed, but not necessarily to big abs. More than this, due to the food restrictions your body probably would be quite fragile at first glance, but very solid in fact. Look at asian martial arters - they are, mostly, look rather... small near to guys who spend a lot of time in gym. But in fact I would argue who will win in real battle. Muscles are not everything so I don't get why people are so obsessed with idea to have more overbuffed options when we get one just in a few days. /rises eyerbow/ Though, these are their preferences, can't judge.

Anyway, SE seem to have some idea about their concept, so it's up to them. I would be okay with anything what they will create, because it's their child, not ours, and they know better how to do them.

[Alleo]

Note how Urianger, an Elezen, is drawn in such a way as to be quite well-built. Hopefully that is the sort of Elezen physique that Yoshi-P allows for when it comes to Viera men!

After all, we already have confirmation that they will not be designed to look like Alphinaud.

Well Alisaie and Alphinaud also look way more compact so I wonder if that is just simply the art style.

[Theodric]

Very few - if any - people within this thread are asking for Hrothgar and Roegadyn style bulk for Viera men. I'm not sure why that keeps being brought up.

[zeylos]

My Money is on 7.x or 8.x

I doubt it. The problem is gear refitting, and it's much harder to do it at 7.0. 8.0 is imo out of the question, and they're just not gonna wait 6 years for that. Imo, it will be either at 6.0 or earlier, but if by 6.0 they aren't here there's a big chance they're not coming