Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[Roda]

I’m 99% pleased with how my character looks (though I can’t try my hairstyle on the benchmark but oh well). My only personal complain is that the skin looks like wax. I don’t know how to put it but it looks just… off.

Psst, you can copy over your character's appearance save DAT file from "\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn" to "\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn (Benchmark)" and rename it to "FFXIV_CHARA_BENCH##" (fill in the ## with a 2 digit number) and be able to generate your live character's customization options for the benchmark simulation. (hair might be buggy tho)

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[Rueby]

I just honestly want my nose back. This is an entirely different nose shape. I like that bump give it back to me and in the process please give moon face 1 their fairly straight nose. There's no other option that looks like this on this face and it kinda sucks. Why did they add a bump to a nose that BARELY had it and while mine, I obviously have it, I got a whole new nose. I really loved that cute nose bump

Slider

I am personally moon 1 face, and they did the exact opposite on the nose straightness. It was near straight and now there's a bump, come fetch it?

[SweetestLily]

Just leaving a personal request here since they are responding to feedback. I understand they are redoing the benchmark to reflect the correct lighting, but lighting is not the cause for ALL of the problems people have seen. I would like to see Auras smaller pupils brought back, I will attach an image, both are 7.0 auras. In the top image I used paint to edit the eyes to bring back the smaller pupil and put the light back into the eye, the bottom image is what we have in the benchmark now. I VASTLY prefer the top image. The character looks so much more full of life. Forgot to mention I also attempted to give the lips a bit more shape but im not an image editing pro.

[savagetas]

I'd like to add that they for some reason changed the shape of the eyes on male miqo'te face 4 and rounded them and made them smaller. They also need to do something about the black line that takes up half the eyeball. My main concern though is that the eyebrows have zero definition and completely blend into my skin from most lighting, even in the actual benchmark. The lack of a darker texture underneath the eyebrow makes the eyebrow thinner with darker hair colour, and non-existant with lighter hair colours. They even made the eyebrows less straight as they seem to curve into the nose at the inner part. I'm not sure why they felt the need to change such small features. Other than that, I'm happy with the update.

[1313]

i am also concerned because i like my character a lot i spent like an hour making her and i find her to be really cute but i got the benchmark and copied my appearance but it looks entirely different now and a lot younger too. she looks like a teenage girl now instead of a girl in her 20s and everything seems so dull
one good thing tho was i like the way the iris looks now its pretty when zoomed in

[LittleArrow]

I just wanted to add, it was pointed out in a thread that I can't seem to find (please point it to me if you know and have the time!), that there was a change between the Veena live and update. They have adjusted the pupils to be the same size as the Rava Viera.

Please change the Veena pupil back to being larger than the Rava.

I know it may seem like a very small change, but it completely changes the feel of many Veena characters. The larger pupil denotes a softer / cuter look than the Rava which has the smaller pupil and a more savage / bosslady feel. The eyes of a character is a huge determining factor in how they feel to the player, and this drastically changed the feel of mine. Please, change it back to a larger pupil.

[Dragondancer]

Benchmark feedback

Please let my catboy be the same as he is!! Male moonkeeper miqo'te, mouth and eyes WRONG in Benchmark

Here he is now, perfect the way I want to keep him




Here are the images from the Benchmark




In the Benchmark his MOUTH IS BADLY PORTIONED and EYES DEAD WITHOUT THEIR SPARKLE OR CATCHLIGHT and LIDS TOO HEAVY and SCAR TOO PROMINENT, COLOR LOOKS BAD ON GREY SKIN and he's MISSING his long KEEPER FANGS

Please, please, I spend half my time in game staring at how cute he is and I don't want him to be completely ruined!!! This is supposed to update the graphics on the game, not turn my beautiful, gorgeous, adorable pointy-fanged, cute-lipped, sparkly-eyed moonkeeper into something I can barely stand to look at. Please help. ;-;

[Larirawiel]

In the Benchmark his MOUTH IS BADLY PORTIONED and EYES DEAD WITHOUT THEIR SPARKLE OR CATCHLIGHT and LIDS TOO HEAVY and SCAR TOO PROMINENT, COLOR LOOKS BAD ON GREY SKIN and he's MISSING his long KEEPER FANGS

Please, please, I spend half my time in game staring at how cute he is and I don't want him to be completely ruined!!! This is supposed to update the graphics on the game, not turn my beautiful, gorgeous, adorable pointy-fanged, cute-lipped, sparkly-eyed moonkeeper into something I can barely stand to look at. Please help. ;-;

They already wrote, that they will address all of those points.



Cheers