Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[zeylos]

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.

In that case, which I actually didn't know about, I think that it's likely they will happen from 5.3-6.0. Thanks for the info!

[zeylos]

Guys, by the way, what type of running animation/idle stances do u think male vieras will have

[ScorpioShirica]

hmm...something akin to the miqo'te would make a lot of sense to me, as far as animations go.

[Duskane]

for there sprint i expect like Olympic tier sprinting animation wise

[zeylos]

hmm...something akin to the miqo'te would make a lot of sense to me, as far as animations go.

Same. I'd like something thats like the female's animations but with a more assasin look to them, considering males are assasins in lore

[Lauront]

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.

I wouldn’t consider Highlanders or Au Ra ‘overbuff’, simple as. You could say it of Hrothgar or Roes, but they’re much larger and, as Theodric said, no one’s really asking for that.

[Gwenorai]

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.

I will never understand why the assumption of wanting muscular body type = 'Must want something that is so wide in muscle development they can't fit through a door.' with some people.



Hrothgar, Au'ra=Mesomorph
Roe, Highlander = Endomorph
What I want for mViera = Ectomorph - what most folks have been wanting in the 'muscle camp'. Not Endo, Ectomorph or Mesomorph/ or a combination of the two. Elezen and Omega M are Ectomorph. Elezen, however, lacks muscle development. Having an Elezen with toned muscles is pretty much it.

[zeylos]

I will never understand why the assumption of wanting muscular body type = 'Must want something that is so wide in muscle development they can't fit through a door.' with some people.



Hrothgar=Mesomorph
Roe = Endomorph
What I want for mViera = Ectomorph - what most folks have been wanting in the 'muscle camp'. Not Meso, not Endo. Ectomorph

I always imagined male viera as an mesomorph* for sure

[Gwenorai]

I wouldn't complain with Mesomorph, but Ectomorph is something I wouldn't mind if the arm muscles were defined. But I swear when you mention muscle folks just jump to the assumption that you want an Endomorph, beefcake. Anyway, Ectomorph is the body-type for most fantasy male assassins/striders.

[Allegor]

I will never understand why the assumption of wanting muscular body type = 'Must want something that is so wide in muscle development they can't fit through a door.' with some people.

Because men can only be either smooth like a baby or steroids incarnate - there's no inbetween, obviously /s