Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Evergrey]

Valid. I do hope that his "I hope to have some good news soon" is soon and isn't another 2 or 3 years because it's totally possible. :")

Doesn't Japan have like one of the highest life expectancy in the world?
If so, they might not meassure "soon" like we do.

/joking

[Halivel]

Doesn't Japan have like one of the highest life expectancy in the world?
If so, they might not meassure "soon" like we do.

/joking

You know what, considering that Viera can easily live for 240+ years and even longer, you might be onto something here.

[Juzjuzz]

Miqo'te (female only), Roegadyns (male only) and Highlanders (male only) used to be genderlocked in 1.0, so in FF14 already. They were released as complete races in 2.0 due to community feedback.

Ironically enough, just like with Viera and Hrothgar, there was the very same gang of people "but muh lore", "we don't need eye candy", "they better spend resources on something more useful" and all the other arguments against "missing genders" release that were said during last two years about possible Male Viera and Female Hrothgars. History pretty much repeated itself. The only difference is that community is far bigger now, so this time the outcry was also far louder.

True but i still think genderlocking for lore is fine as long a the race is created to live like that. If it's just "the other gender is there but they are just rare/hidden/somewere else", ppl will ask for it. Ofc making too mutch genderlocked races is a bad idea and i think it's better if you guive them a look that will pleace a specific niche if you want them to be rare.

But the best option is to stop with the rarity/genderlocking of playable races in the lore. You can do that with beast races aniway. Otherwise you have to know how the players will react to it.

[SturmChurro]

Oh I don't play with male characters, so I would be fine without bunny boys.
But I do understand that the contrary happens, people who only play male and want to be a bunny so...

But if we go with the lore, cat boys wouldn't exist in the game either tho

I would have been perfectly fine without male viera. I would have liked to have been able to play my veena AND look forward to seasonal events, AND hairstyle rewards. They probably created like another eight hairstyles for male viera, female viera could have had one or two, I'd say. Female hroth will be lovely, because if they look like furry femroe, relatively only like two people will play them, and that's yet another race they have to maintain.

[LuciaMirain]

The best mods are the ones where they just port something that already exists ingame to another race, for instance I saw one for a short Au ra style that was ported to viera and it looked really great.

[TW-Luna]

"Were able to fix" is a pretty loud word tbh. Half of what they do requires turning off some graphical settings in game because it breaks models, another part clips so badly in animations that it's painful to look at even with clipping we already have as it is, and with some haircuts Viera ears are just flying above the hair.worse.

This is not entirely true. Custom hairs might clip badly and some aesthetician hair mods need to be adjusted slightly to reach the base of the floating ears properly. But the big viera hat mod simply goes into item metadatas and clicks the checkbox to turn the hat on for viera, simple as that and then 85% of in game headgear looks perfectly fine. There are then additional mods out there which add hat mode 3d models to viera hairstyles so that they don't clip when wearing a hat.

[Awha]

I would have been perfectly fine without male viera. I would have liked to have been able to play my veena AND look forward to seasonal events, AND hairstyle rewards. They probably created like another eight hairstyles for male viera, female viera could have had one or two, I'd say. Female hroth will be lovely, because if they look like furry femroe, relatively only like two people will play them, and that's yet another race they have to maintain.

I agree it seems weird to me to add more to the workload so to speak. Fix what you have then move on, just adding more is a quick way to burn out your staff, unless they are just going to port the male hairs over to female, and vise versa. Even then it still seems silly to me focus on one thing a at time if you cite work load as one of the issues as to why they are “limited” in the first place.

[Akimori]

I would have been perfectly fine without male viera. I would have liked to have been able to play my veena AND look forward to seasonal events, AND hairstyle rewards. They probably created like another eight hairstyles for male viera, female viera could have had one or two, I'd say. Female hroth will be lovely, because if they look like furry femroe, relatively only like two people will play them, and that's yet another race they have to maintain.

You should see this one twitter artist's renditions of Fem Hroth...they are BEAUTIFUL T_T

fan rendition of the *REAL*& Queen Gunnhildr


please make hrothgirls look like actual female animals and not that digusting trope of giving them the animal face, but human eyes and lips


ew ew ew ew ew

[PurinSato]

Good Morning Bunnies and Tigers just bump this up cuz we all deserve more customization in our Vieras and Hrothgars

[LuciaMirain]

I agree it seems weird to me to add more to the workload so to speak. Fix what you have then move on, just adding more is a quick way to burn out your staff, unless they are just going to port the male hairs over to female, and vise versa. Even then it still seems silly to me focus on one thing a at time if you cite work load as one of the issues as to why they are “limited” in the first place.

I actually dont think they will port over the male hairs to females....which is sad.