New things from German interview with yoshida

[Imora]

That's how wow elf ears, Draenei horns and stuff work and there's no end to complaints about the clipping.

Trust me, they add hats and people will complain about the clipping.

Me, I'm more irritated with the birth date thing at character creation having two 2/7 dates. 2/7 is both 7th and 8ths of that Umbral moon and it bothers me more than ear clipping

[Roda]

Why this:


can't follow the same logic as this?


which would defnitely work for how Viera's ears are situated.

I really miss the ARR attention to detail with the ear holes and ear socks.
There are so many hats I want to wear but can't because they make me look like a hyur with a tail.

Except it literally is. If you want to do that, Fantasia and New Game+ are there for you.

In a game where you can be literally any job on a single character, alts don't make a lot of sense.

Especially when there are so many critics out there who say that the story is "over long".

Except it literally isnt.
I don't want to throw money down a hole to change my character's looks. I like building characters with different backgrounds and having my main put on a skinsuit of a different character does not create that "new character"/altitis sensation for me, it just takes my main character out of commision for a while and creates a situation where my character's name isn't appropriate for the skinsuit. (plus I just cannot raid on anything other than my main's look. That would throw me off so hard.)
Like, I pay for the 8 characters per server sub for a reason.

[Canadane]

I really miss the ARR attention to detail with the ear holes and ear socks.
There are so many hats I want to wear but can't because they make me look like a hyur with a tail.

They are mostly 1.0 items and 1.0 gear design had a completely different philosophy.
I remember Yoshi-P specifically stating that one of their goals for ARR was to change the way gear was made, so it could be produced a lot quicker.
The result was less details, less form fitting, and the loss of Miqo'te butts. Not a very good trade imo

[Kuroka]

Also new game+ is not a new char, you dont start over, you dont level anew... sometimes a fresh start is nice...

Though i gotta admit i dont see why id need all my archivments on the other chars... rater im arfraid to do pvp on my twink bc i need the wins on my main xD

[Yencat]

Hrothgar: The hair is part of the head mesh. The head mesh is the problem. To fit helmet on the head means the hair will poke through. I think due to the hair sharing the mesh, they can't "zero" it out(hide it) like the hair for other races which are detached as that would mean the head gets hidden.

I don't believe it is, people have looked at the models with a model viewer and the hair is actually separate from the head. Around launch there were also some glitches which sometimes caused the hair to disappear and the head was still there, just bald. The hair is toggled off but everything else is still there.

This happened with Viera as well, behold the shiny egg people.

Viera: The ears are part of the head mesh. The ears is the problem. To fit helmet on head means tickering with the ears. To my fellow viera players, I know this doesn't explain why they haven't made new hair(even unique to the race).

Viera ears also don't appear to be a part of the head and can be toggled on or off independently, like when you use the werewolf ears for example your actual ears get toggled off temporarily, but not your entire head.

The only thing both races are missing that other races have is a 'cropped' version of whatever hairstyle you're using that hides/removes the parts of the hair underneath the hat so it doesn't clip through, so without those models it actually causes quite a bit of clipping other races don't experience to that extent because they have alternate hair models. But it makes some sense at least they didn't make those since originally nothing would show in the head slot at all. Ears also clip obviously, how bad it looks depends on the particular headgear.

There's probably something else going on, but only they would know that.

[SturmChurro]

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

Oh my God. I both LOVE and hate this answer.

[Minato777]

Ya this is pure greed on SE part. nothing more nothing less. there's no fucking reason why we can't share crap with alts. also before the fanboys come in defense of this crap with sPaGhetTiscOdE there are WAY OLDER AND WAY CRAPPIER games that let you share shit with alts. like fuck SWTOR lets you move crap between alts and that shit is owned by EA and run by like 5 people. when EA the poster boy for evil videogames companies is less stingy than you, you've really fucked up.

Also there are numerous mods where modders have made hats visible and and even added different haircuts with just 2nd party software so what's their excuse? like why even bother making them if dont want to put any effort on them?

like he could worded this crap WAYYY better cuz it just makes him look like a lazy greedy asshole.

[Euphares]

Ya this is pure greed on SE part. nothing more nothing less. there's no fucking reason why we can't share crap with alts. also before the fanboys come in defense of this crap with sPaGhetTiscOdE there are WAY OLDER AND WAY CRAPPIER games that let you share shit with alts. like fuck SWTOR lets you move crap between alts and that shit is owned by EA and run by like 5 people. when EA the poster boy for evil videogames companies is less stingy than you, you've really fucked up.

Also there are numerous mods where modders have made hats visible and and even added different haircuts with just 2nd party software so what's their excuse? like why even bother making them if dont want to put any effort on them?

like he could worded this crap WAYYY better cuz it just makes him look like a lazy greedy asshole.

I mean I doubt we will ever see community pushback against negligence like this unless its widespread and egregious. That's the problem when players are super buddy-buddy with the company they pay money to, there's no pressure to not half ass things.

People who don't play H/V will just shrug and move on. People who do play H/V will just mod and deal with it.


A shame though, we're losing out on so much because of this approach ;(.

[Fukuro]

ngl i kinda dig that look. should be an option imo.

[Iscah]

But the thing is, i could understand not adjusting older gear. It’s the new gear that makes no sense to me. Why can’t they make the new gear work for them? Or hairstyles? It’s just really baffling to me it’s been an entire expansion with seemingly no improvements on that front.

Whatever is going on, it suggests that it's not just "we don't want to revisit old gear". Something stops them from being able to share hairstyles with the other races. Otherwise it shouldn't be more modification work than they already have to do for Miqo'te, so why stop short?

HOWEVER, there are some items that there's absolutely no excuse, such as the Calfskin cap (and a number of other similar items, like bandanas)... Just a hole would work. If they looked upon those smaller items, like caps, hoods and bandanas, it would open a huge variety.

I feel like the angle of the ear bases means that hats would have to be quite big to line up with them? Which might look fine over hair, but it's hard to tell. They tend to have very bulky hairstyles as far as I can think.