I do like some changes, like models and textures, material handling, fingers and toes! But others really do need more work for the final release. Here's my findings:
  • Pale skin tones look even paler now and like others have stated the lighting has made a lot of the facial features, lips, hair look more flat.
  • Shadows are more muted and don't create as strong contrasts for hair and other features, which leads to less readable shapes. Leading to the "flat" look.
  • Most eyes have had the edge between pupil and iris blended, which results in a more "flat" and soulless eyes. The colour of the pupil is also more grey than black. Which reduces the contrast between the iris and the pupil and makes the eye less readable.
  • Pupils no longer have the dot highlight.
  • Darker skin tones especially look waxy in certain lighting conditions. The added skin gloss is just too much currently. (Visible in others examples, not mine)
  • Some racial features like Miqote clan marks, moon cat fangs have been muted and filed down.
  • Some features have outright been changed. Some races have larger or smaller pupils in eyes for example. In my example pictures my character should have identical features, but the eyebrows are clearly different angled and length, not reaching the superciliary arch of the brow bone.