It's time: Hrothgar posture setting

[MsQi]

As long as it’s optional I’m for it.

[Balmung_Griffin]

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Sprinting animation is such a major turn off to a lot of people interested on a beastly race.
If you look ath FFX Kihmari, you'll see that his running is propulsive like a big cat while in FFXIV Hrothgar are "hulking" around and it's just look bad.

Also, I get that they want to make the beastly race more beastly, but that should reflect on their emote and for the love of god, why oh why they didn't put a single ROAR in any emote? It's not like they even had to make new ones are there a lot of different roars already in game.
If you use Hrothgar pose command you see a big lion pretending to be a big lion and it's sad.

For reference here's Kihmari introduction in FFX:

https://youtu.be/xX0uAy0bHpI?si=IUqNK0R54z52gGpT

[ReynTime]

I think the "it makes them look more beastly" argument falls flat when the average Hrothgar NPC in the game usually comes with more civilized and refined behavior than a male Roe and specially Au'ra... The caveman posture really doesn't suit a race like that.

[CidHeiral]

The standing and walking posture look acceptable for a beast race IMO. It's the running hunch that was the deal breaker for me. Once you start running the shoulders roll forward and your dude hunches over to a damn near 90 degree angle. I can understand them not wanting to make male Hrothgar stand totally straight but if they dialed it back to the standing/walking level I'd be totally fine with that.

[ReynTime]

The way fans already fixed this looks way better. They're still "beastly" but they don't look like morons.

[DisasterGayofCrisis]

I think it's even weirder that, much like male viera and their gamer slouch, the hrothgals do not have the same posture. So it's kinda just making it way more obvious of a problem.

[VirusOnline]

Fem hroth were never going to get the slouch and I wasn't surprised when I was proved right.
The fact they didn't means SE knows it's an undesirable feature.
And that the fan fix even exists is just a big wtf at SE. They even had to fix the male viera posture early on.
SE stop this. Get some help.

[Leohra]

+1 A hunch only makes sense if the race had more beast-like anatomy like the Charr. But as Hrothgar functionally use a humanoid (Roegadyn) skeleton, all it does it make the males look like they have naturally poor posture.

Even the hrothgar in the Dawntrail trailer are all standing/walking upright, so why not bring that in game as well?

[Atelier-Bagur]

I support the idea. Anything for more customization options is good

[LynxDubh]

Oh, one other setting I wanna add: Can we get the male claws useable in other gear? Currently you can only see our claws out in the base gear, but I'd like to see them in some gloveless gear. So maybe a /clawsout toggle or something?