Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Yencat]

I don't know what kind of honesty you expect at this point, really.

Agree with most of your post, but you don't think these are contradictory statements?

Q: Are there plans to add more hairstyles for Viera and Hrothgar?

A: Of course we'll continue to add new hairstyles, so please look forward to future patches.

We’d previously announced we’d be unable to add more hairstyles for Viera and Hrothgar.

[Strongfat900]

I am very happy about bunnymen, but this expansion is just so weird to me. They have reskins of multiple gear for instance, viera only got 6 hairstyles and honestly most of them do not look good (there is a strange bump on the legacy one, the 2B band is ...ooof) and they added a bunch of companion mechanics during the story to "show you around areas" and whatnot that couldve just been avoided but instead now take up alot of ones time. I spent hours playing yesterday before finally reaching a dungeon. Some of their choices are just strange to me and this with the hairs for viera is one of them.

In my opinion, I would say that they're simply testing hairstyles from in-game, unlockables and mogstation for both genders in their servers. I mean, while there's issue of the battleready hairstyle for female Viera(should have simply remove the hairband), the rest are pretty normal to me. I'm glad that they added the hairstyle in your avatar though. Hopefully, we'll get more hairstyles in future patches. Strange bump?

[LuciaMirain]

I haven't got into dungeons to see what is new or recycled there, but it's entirely normal for them to be recycling gear, particularly the crafted sets. Some of the colour scheme choices seem odd though, plus revisiting recent dyeable sets over older ones yet to be made dyeable.

It is, but there is basically nothing new so far. That is what is strange to me. Some reskins are nice to have, sure. But there are recolours of already recoloured gear. And when I look at npcs they have amazing garbs which to me says they have no issues coming up with new gear, they just dont seem to have the time to implement it for the players. Same as the hairs, it is a bit botched.

[Halivel]

Agree with most of your post, but you don't think these are contradictory statements?

They do, and I'm not sure why he said that one honestly, given that he also said on several occasions that they will work on that, starting as early as right after 5.0 release when people bombarded them with the question. As much as I want, I can't read his mind on this one. For the most part he was consistent with answers on the matter, so I assume it's safe to stick to what he usually said. /shrug

[LuciaMirain]

In my opinion, I would say that they're simply testing hairstyles from in-game, unlockables and mogstation for both genders in their servers. I mean, while there's issue of the battleready hairstyle for female Viera(should have simply remove the hairband), the rest are pretty normal to me. I'm glad that they added the hairstyle in your avatar though. Hopefully, we'll get more hairstyles in future patches. Strange bump?

The one I am using atm has a bump in the back from certain angles. I dont know how to describe it, but it is like the skull is lifted there. The lightning and the karen one look fine, while the ponytail is horrible. The 9s is fine but I never liked it to begin with and the 2B is just.....I dont understand why they would do it like that, it feels very unfinished.

[Yencat]

They do, and I'm not sure why he said that one honestly, given that he also said on several occasions that they will work on that, starting as early as right after 5.0 release when people bombarded them with the question. As much as I want, I can't read his mind on this one. For the most part he was consistent with answers on the matter, so I assume it's safe to stick to what he usually said. /shrug

Oh I'm not expecting you to mind read or answer for him of course, but things like this cause a lot of frustration.

Given that it took this long I think it's safe to say they were actually unable to add more until the rework, we just didn't know that because no one told us lol

[Halivel]

Oh I'm not expecting you to mind read or answer for him of course, but things like this cause a lot of frustration.

Given that it took this long I think it's safe to say they were actually unable to add more until the rework, we just didn't know that because no one told us lol

Most likely so. Here's the hope that now with the lift of said restriction they'll be able to add next haircuts faster (or at least add new unlockable ones at the same time they add them for everyone else).

[Yencat]

Here's the hope that now with the lift of said restriction they'll be able to add next haircuts faster (or at least add new unlockable ones at the same time they add them for everyone else).

Cheers to that

[Strongfat900]

The one I am using atm has a bump in the back from certain angles. I dont know how to describe it, but it is like the skull is lifted there. The lightning and the karen one look fine, while the ponytail is horrible. The 9s is fine but I never liked it to begin with and the 2B is just.....I dont understand why they would do it like that, it feels very unfinished.

I like the pony tail though, rofl. Hmm, well, it makes her looking like how women used to look back in the 60's. I guess is simply because Viera heads obviously have different head meshs to say the Elezen for example. Like, when I mod hairstyles for the Khajiit in Skyrim using Humanoid hairstyles, you had to adjust the hairstyles using Outfit studio program to fit on the Khajiit heads. The Humanoid races in Skyrim all use the same head mesh btw with different face gen data. obviously that's not the case in FFXIV which each race have their own unique head mesh. By "bump" if you mean the bump at the top-back of the hair then it's always been there. I think that the rabbit ears makes it more obvious to see than in say the Elezen like here.

[KaTnIs]

It just feels rushed, like some of the other hairs just look kind of... bad.. as well. That hairband is just particularly egregious. I guess they wanted the PR, or didn't want female viera to feel left out that male viera got some hairs? Granted, I'm not sure if the hairs for males look any good either..

"rushed" Is the right word for it. The "new" hairstyles looks not good on both...