[U]nstylish: Lack of Effort in Viera & Hrothgar Hairstyle Releases

[juicybug]

I'd like to be direct and post Viera hairstyles I'd like to see in game.
Some of these will be very long hairstyles- but the inspiration remains ( I have zero issue with clipping )
I want unique Viera hairstyles- I love the beastial aspect of them
I love the Ear Diadem you see with some Viera depictions- I would want these to remain intact & optional with future Viera hairstyles
Some of these will be large pictures.

I want Viera to obtain the Mog Station hairstyles & if possible, the other reward/ event hairstyles but nothing else pre-existing. I hope Viera will have actual unique racial hairstyles in the future.

those would all be so beautiful.
but players are funny about any long or clipping hairs which is why we have a majority of short, basic looking hairs with slight variations. not to mention the uninspired contest hairs from 5 years ago caused players to lose faith in artists creativity.
but something like these for Viera would be awesome. Better than the 2b and the ugly ponytail they added that gives them a huge forehead.

[Iscah]

They made a whole new head model without ears. When they could have just left the ears there, or added ears to the new model.

They intentionally chose not to do so even though it would have been less work, or in the new head model case, trivial to add.

That suggests to me that they couldn't just leave the ears there, for whatever reason. Otherwise why deliberately go to the effort of making it look worse rather than better?

[grinkdaboy]

i imagine the ear changes were to make it easier to make all of the existing hrothgar hairstyles fit/work better on all of the different shaped heads

[SherlottaEryut]

I'd like to be direct and post Viera hairstyles I'd like to see in game.
Some of these will be very long hairstyles- but the inspiration remains ( I have zero issue with clipping )
I want unique Viera hairstyles- I love the beastial aspect of them
I love the Ear Diadem you see with some Viera depictions- I would want these to remain intact & optional with future Viera hairstyles
Some of these will be large pictures.

I want Viera to obtain the Mog Station hairstyles & if possible, the other reward/ event hairstyles but nothing else pre-existing. I hope Viera will have actual unique racial hairstyles in the future.

+1 ^^
I love these! Especially the NPC with the 'twin tails' hair

[whitemoonflower]

I am not sure but the last Live Letter was on 1 April ... maybe it was just a joke. Lets wait and see ...

Given this response, it's looking less and less like a joke unfortunately.

[whitemoonflower]

That suggests to me that they couldn't just leave the ears there, for whatever reason. Otherwise why deliberately go to the effort of making it look worse rather than better?

i imagine the ear changes were to make it easier to make all of the existing hrothgar hairstyles fit/work better on all of the different shaped heads

Yoshi-P addressed their reasoning, and a Discord member translated it. Hrothgar were never intended to have hairstyles beyond their own race-specific ones.

[whitemoonflower]

A happy update: the scaling issue with No.2 Type B Goggles when paired with Battle-ready Bobs on female Viera appears to have been resolved. I tried them on a few minutes ago and was pleasantly surprised by the lack of clipping. Let's hope this eventually extends to the other blindfold pieces (YoRHa Type-53 Headband of Striking for example). In the meantime, thank you, dev team.

[LaylaTsarra]

Yoshi-P addressed their reasoning, and a Discord member translated it. Hrothgar were never intended to have hairstyles beyond their own race-specific ones.

I think they need to stay away from the human styles and provide them more race specific options.

[LaylaTsarra]

These would have made such nice hempen sets. Still bummed we didn't get a unique one.

[whitemoonflower]

I think they need to stay away from the human styles and provide them more race specific options.

Hrothgar having more of their own unique hairstyle options would certainly be better than six with missing ears every few years.