Its time to fix Elezen

[kamikrazy]

Square, you're adding two new races with new animations and beautiful updated models. Elezen animations have been an unfinished mess for going on half a decade...its time to fix them. You've already got your animation guys dressed in those silly black tights with the little mocap balls all over them, you should really just get this done and out of the way. The biggest reason that Elezen are the least played race in the game is because of how stiff and robotic their running animation is. Its time to fix it...and if you still aren't going to fix it, can you just please swap it out with one of the other races? I don't care if we get modified miqo'te or au ra animation that's slowed down to match our size, the current one is just really really bad and needs to go, its way past due.

If anyone can find the letter or interview where Square talked about fixing the Elezen animations, please post it. I'm in the process of digging it up, but it was quite a while ago and its been challenging to locate it.

Also it'd be great if people could like and show support for this thread...I think its time to just get this done already.

Thank you.

[Sylveret_Lanquairt]

I don't know... I personally think that the running animation of my male Ele is better than my male Au Ra alt. But I agree with female Elezen.

[MsQi]

Agreed! We certainly don't want them breeding!

jk, Do you have an example? I don't see any problems with mine.

[Vahlnir]

My issue isn't with their looks or their animations. The biggest problem with Elezen (more specifically males) in general is that there's very few armor sets that they genuinely look good in. Au Ra is kind of the same deal, also pertaining to males. Female Au Ra? I'd rather not get started on that rant, but I can't contain one thing: their original concept art looked amazing. Why you do this SE? WHY?...and with that, I will get back on topic. Elezen are tall and lanky, and that doesn't really fit the aesthetic of most of the gear being implemented. Male Au Ra are too bulky for some of the gear being put out. The only happy mediums, at least for me, are either Midlanders or female Highlanders. I love Elezen and Au Ra to death, but if I'm constantly changing my glamour hoping that something sticks then something is wrong. I don't really know what changes could be made though that wouldn't change them drastically.

[kamikrazy]

Agreed! We certainly don't want them breeding!

jk, Do you have an example? I don't see any problems with mine.

Its a pretty well accepted notion in this game's community that the elezen running animations are pretty bad, even Square said they wanted to redo them at some point. I'm just pointing out that the time should be now, while they've got these other races they're adding. They should really fix what's broken before adding new races, it seems pretty unfair to elezen players who've been waiting years to not run like an automaton. You are probably just used to them the way they are, but take a few close looks at the other girls running animations and then compare them to female elezen...they look like they are constipated, or like their run wasn't made by a human and was instead some kind of generic animation in blender or something like that. Its very low quality compared to its counterparts.

[Sylveret_Lanquairt]

If they start doing this, they could also fix the running animation of female Midlanders. It looks so silly (like IQ of 60)...

[kamikrazy]

If they start doing this, they could also fix the running animation of female Midlanders. It looks so silly (like IQ of 60)...

I also agree on this, the uguu kawaii run of female midlanders is really bad too, which is exceedingly disappointing because this is the same series with cool female characters like Lightning, who in FFXIV would translate to a midlander...yet you can't make a cool tomboy like Lightning because a character like her would never flail her arms about like a teenage school girl running on her toes. It looks ridiculous and it sucks you can't look like a cool soldier midlander girl because of it.

[Enla]

It's not even the animations that bother me as I got used to them in the years I had a Dhamel. However if we're going to be cleaning them up a touch, I'd also like to recommend that they actually given Elezen women four proper face options to choose from as well. Quite literally speaking for those who aren't aware Elezen women have essentially two base faces to pick from - with two extras that basically just have makeup slapped on that . They try to hide it when you're picking between them by making one of the presets have a slightly different nose and lips from it's make-up wearing counterpart; but playing around with their face options shows they're the same template and have the same options.

[Sylveret_Lanquairt]

But I think highlander girls can look pretty cool.

[Spiriel_Basanda]

I much prefer my fem elezen's current running animation to a female midlander's. Like, I cannot make myself play a female Midlander because that sprinting animation drives me insane. It might be okay if we don't get something like that wild arm flailing thing.