Hairstyle Concerns for The New Races

[Rosa_Frandlia]

After playing around in the Benchmark more, I've realized that the biggest thing that is annoying me about Viera hairstyles is that so many of them have those hideous white daisies in them.

There's no reason, IMO, to force these on so many of the styles. They are ugly, and don't even go with the starter gear, let alone most of the gear in the game.

One thing to remember, those are only the starting hairstyles. Comparing it to what we have available at end game isn't quite a fair comparison with so many unlocked through quests, pvp, and the gold saucer. I'm guessing you will find one you will like in those even if you don't find one in the starting hairstyles. The starting hairstyles are more the ones from where you came from (Golmore Jungle) and not those in Eorzea.

[NorthernLadMSP]

One thing to remember, those are only the starting hairstyles. Comparing it to what we have available at end game isn't quite a fair comparison with so many unlocked through quests, pvp, and the gold saucer. I'm guessing you will find one you will like in those even if you don't find one in the starting hairstyles. The starting hairstyles are more the ones from where you came from (Golmore Jungle) and not those in Eorzea.

Oh, I definitely have a few from the Benchmark that I love, so that's not an issue. It's just that there's a couple others that I love too, but the daisies kinda ruin it for me.

It reminds me of the original contest winner hair. I absolutely loved the style, but the purple flower killed it for me.

[Tharne]

One thing to remember, those are only the starting hairstyles. Comparing it to what we have available at end game isn't quite a fair comparison with so many unlocked through quests, pvp, and the gold saucer. I'm guessing you will find one you will like in those even if you don't find one in the starting hairstyles. The starting hairstyles are more the ones from where you came from (Golmore Jungle) and not those in Eorzea.

If they have other hairstyles. (at launch)

[reivaxe]

If they have other hairstyles. (at launch)

Yeah, that raised an eyebrow from me cause that's pretty much what this thread is about lol.

We don't know what's gonna happen on release. As of right now the new races are limited to these options. I'm sure there's more to this to be seen (Hoping something shows up for E3 or the final live letter) but I'm prepared to deal with having to rock a high top Mohawk with a topknot if that's all the choices I have.

[gumas]

iam still waiting for tekken 7 Eliza hairstyle (i dont know what it called), i love that style but it didnt exist in this game T_T

[AnnaRosa]

Honestly it is only fair we get one like this:

[reivaxe]

This is always such a strange debate to me.

Like, fur patterns are AWESOME! If you want to cover them up then you will and if you want to show off your chest/ shoulder/ arms/ back then you can use gear that does that ... just like how I can grind for a lucky hair drop and wear my hair like that or wear the Eureka Helm over my head because it brings the whole gear set together. You also can't cover your tail no matter what you do so your pattern will always show no matter what.

But they are not a replacement for hair in my book. IMO they are a more than good substitute for highlights though. So I really do expect for "Fur Patterns" to also have hair styles put in that tab. Hair is important, you put time and money into unlocking them and they can often times be the key to a displaying a certain kind of character to the world as they way your character wears their hair says something about the way they carry themselves.
The way they make the Hrothgar hair look (mostly big swatches of relatively simple yet dynamic hair. Their "Manes") really makes me feel like it wouldn't be hard at all to make "Hrothgar versions" of the unlockable hair. The fact of the matter is that having more hair choices really frees people up to expressing their character in unique ways and there's no way to substitute that with just texture changes.

So yeah, Fur patterns are awesome but that doesn't mean they don't need hair options.
And I'm more than sure there's more to this than what we have in the Benchmark for both Viera and Hrothgar.

[LaylaTsarra]

New interview clarifies some of the hairstyle issues.

E3 Famitsu interview with Yoshida (summary)

"Since Hrothgar have hairstyles tied to their character creation options rather than being separately selectable, you will not be able to apply unlockable hairstyles, but they might implement more face types after 5.0. As for Viera, there's some legacy haristyles they'll able to eventually implement, but not all of them. Some of unlockable hairstyles should be supported, others may not be."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...shida_summary/

[Duskane]

If they are willing to apply more face types sure? That is pretty big ,
I don't expect those to be as frequent as other hair styles added
Bit of a fantasia sucker too

[Terin]

Well as best I can remember, the Au Ra also couldn't access "standard" hairstyles at launch, they were patched-in at a later point. So I wouldn't really worry too much about the Viera, I'm sure they just want to be sure they look *perfect* before officially adding them, instead of risking them looking rushed.

Hrothgar are highly concerning, though. They're built differently enough, I can see where adding hairstyles could be problematic. But they're also clearly *VERY* limited in options; too much so to be usable long-term, I think.