VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Adamantini]

The angle is flattening to the picture, tho... I can't see a lot but it seems that the ear is clipping through the hat's brim, not even a hole would be able to fix that.

I mean, I'm saying this because this is my favorite hat in the game (pls SE unlimit the glamour system so I can use it as a healer too!) and I'm really bothered by clipping to the point that my own hairstyle is this short one to avoid any whatsoever.

In the end of the day, if the clipping isn't atrocious it's better than not having it available. After all not having it available is already the status quo.

well, as it wasn't a screenshot specifically to show the hat, I can't say much about it. I tried looking for something more visible, but I didn't find anyone posting screenshots with this particular hat. I will owe you a better picture

[Raikai]

Googling Viera and hats made me find this nice artwork:



Kind of a point that most, if not all, pointy wizard hats could work even with ears hidden.

[Adamantini]

Googling Viera and hats made me find this nice artwork:


Kind of a point that most, if not all, pointy wizard hats could work even with ears hidden.

I remember someone posting this image in the early days when we knew about the limitations of vieras. Indeed some hats could just hide the ears, because they are so big that we could imagine that the ears are inside them.

[SturmChurro]

The angle is flattening to the picture, tho... I can't see a lot but it seems that the ear is clipping through the hat's brim, not even a hole would be able to fix that.

I mean, I'm saying this because this is my favorite hat in the game (pls SE unlimit the glamour system so I can use it as a healer too!) and I'm really bothered by clipping to the point that my own hairstyle is this short one to avoid any whatsoever.

In the end of the day, if the clipping isn't atrocious it's better than not having it available. After all not having it available is already the status quo.

Position and shape of the ears are probably some of the biggest factors to have as an excuse for not making headgear available. Male au ra in particular has some horrific clipping, but since it's on the side of the head, it can be not as bad as viera's could be. I don't really remember what the various male viera ears look like, but, like in that image, female viera have ears that go farther back on the head which would cause the clipping into the hat's brim, but they also have ears that would shoot straight up. I'm sure SE made viera ears varied and customizable due to never planning to do headgear, or hats specifically. With that hat and others they could always miniaturize it too.

I have suggested custom viera variants in the past, but I'm not sure how the community would react to that at this point. I mean, it's a pipe dream that SE would actually do viera specific variants of hats in the first place though.

[grinkdaboy]

did they say if they're adding more hair in 6.2 or no

[ameliaw]

did they say if they're adding more hair in 6.2 or no

I saw nothing about it but some people said that the new 6.2 hairs won't work in viera/hroth based on some datamining.
big yikes if true

[Raikai]

I remember someone posting this image in the early days when we knew about the limitations of vieras. Indeed some hats could just hide the ears, because they are so big that we could imagine that the ears are inside them.

I just got that hat ingame... and looking it closely I realized that in fact it could work as of today because it completely deletes the hair of the model.

[SturmChurro]

I saw nothing about it but some people said that the new 6.2 hairs won't work in viera/hroth based on some datamining.
big yikes if true

If that was true, then what I feared on a prior page might be true. I will wait until an update comes out with new hair, but this would be awful if it's the case. Also, because it would mean they'd be having to make those shared hairs available later anyway (maybe even thinking that is from an optimistic point of view).

[XiRon]

I saw nothing about it but some people said that the new 6.2 hairs won't work in viera/hroth based on some datamining.
big yikes if true

I wont trust anything about anything til patch notes drop and even then I'll still be cutscene skipping thru msq to get to IS faster to check the new Aesthetics myself since they finally deigned to add an "addenum: not usable by viera or hrothgar even though this hair dropped in shb" note to ma items.

[SturmChurro]

I wont trust anything about anything til patch notes drop and even then I'll still be cutscene skipping thru msq to get to IS faster to check the new Aesthetics myself since they finally deigned to add an "addenum: not usable by viera or hrothgar even though this hair dropped in shb" note to ma items.

It's probably a bigger question if new hairs will be available for hrothgar at first. Maybe, and since they are going back and adding ears, you'd think those hairs would have ears too. I wonder if they would couple viera and hrothgar together again, and just start delaying releases, if it comes to that. We will have to wait and see.

Did they ever say anything about making it possible to more easily add hrothgar ears now, or did they just show a picture of that hair with ears?