Viera Changes

[PolkaPolka]

It's kind of unfortunate that this has to be my first post on this forum, but I really feel like I have to make my voice heard on this matter any way that I can. This thread really highlights how dirty the viera, both male and female, were done by this update. I'd say most of other races got major glow-ups in general, even in cases where certain things ended up looking slightly different than before.

As a male rava face 3 player, the first thing that struck me was how much darker the lips were by default. They also look less defined. The chin is also weird and the nose looks off. And whatever happened to the eyebrows? I'm using option 4 in combination with the thicker eyebrow feature, specifically because I don't want them looking plucked when they're visible. Now it looks really thin somehow. Not to mention the lack of shading on his skin.



Before and after pictures, using the exact same options.

Part of me still wants to be optimistic and think this will all sort itself out by the time Dawntrail drops, but if they don't fix it I can see the overall viera population decrease significantly. As a massive fan of Matsuno's works and everything Ivalice, the announcement of male viera coming to Final Fantasy XIV made me extremely happy. I never thought I'd even consider changing back into something else. But here I am doing just that.

[LuciaMirain]

It's kind of unfortunate that this has to be my first post on this forum, but I really feel like I have to make my voice heard on this matter any way that I can. This thread really highlights how dirty the viera, both male and female, were done by this update. I'd say most of other races got major glow-ups in general, even in cases where certain things ended up looking slightly different than before.

As a male rava face 4 player, the first thing that struck me was how much darker the lips were by default. They also look less defined. The chin is also weird and the nose looks off. And whatever happened to the eyebrows? I'm using option 4 in combination with the thicker eyebrow feature, specifically because I don't want them looking plucked when they're visible. Now it looks really thin somehow. Not to mention the lack of shading on his skin.



Before and after pictures, using the exact same options.

Part of me still wants to be optimistic and think this will all sort itself out by the time Dawntrail drops, but if they don't fix it I can see the overall viera population decrease significantly. As a massive fan of Matsuno's works and everything Ivalice, the announcement of male viera coming to Final Fantasy XIV made me extremely happy. I never thought I'd even consider changing back into something else. But here I am doing just that.

I keep thinking "I will get used to it" but looking at my char in the benchmark I just think she looks like an ugly waxdoll and I absolutely hate how the new matte overdrawn lips look like when she smiles - it looks like a banana smile, Idk how to explain it. But basically every character I have seen smiling in the benchmark get a really weird bend on their mouth now. It looks very unnatural. I hope the benchmark "fixes" the issues.

[Larirawiel]

As a male rava face 4 player, the first thing that struck me was how much darker the lips were by default.

Jepp. Because in the current game the lip colors are buggy if you combine them with certain faces. My Elezen and my Miqo are affected by this bug. The bug puts a sort of grey veil on the lips and you do not get the color which you selected. It seems, that the DT benchmark fixes it.




Cheers