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

[Joltik]

Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te fangs are WAY too short. The males got shortened, and some of the females might as well not have fangs anymore. It was our defining feature! Seekers got the cat eyes, Keepers got sharp fangs! They've really downplayed our biggest defining feature.

[Alexa_Ivy]

While I think some of the complaints are a bit dramatic, I do agree that the lip shape changes are unfortunate.



They've become much flatter and lost their depth.

The :3 shape needs restoring to bring this in-line with the original designs. It's a subtle but meaningful change.

Otherwise, I'm happy with my character. I think Viera got the worst of this update - they seem rather odd looking across the board.

[Genz]

(updated with same gamma on both)

"Black" skin got lighter again, even if slightly, and it's like all hair color have been washed out.

(already lost the black skin back in 1.0, now we can't even have black hair)

[4clubbedace]

(updated with same gamma on both)

"Black" skin got lighter again, even if slightly, and it's like all hair color have been washed out.

(already lost the black skin back in 1.0, now we can't even have black hair)

they didnt maake it lighter m you can see on the arm on both that its just catchign light more, same with the hair, its not "flat" lightning anymore and youre just not used to it.

[hiedra]

I use the male midlander face #4 because I love the prominent cheekbones. I feel it gives my hyur some chatacter as not a lot of faces in the game have that sunken cheek look to them. The graphical update took this feature away as it made the face overall rounder and softer. I was able to get some of the cheekbone definition back by making the skin several shades darker, but even then it's missing a lot of the definition.

I don't hate the new look but this looks nothing like the character I've been using for years.

edit: will they be giving free fantasias with this update? because the only way to make my character look decent is to change a lot of features and whatnot


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[justausername]

I use the male midlander face #4 because I love the prominent cheekbones. I feel it gives my hyur some chatacter as not a lot of faces in the game have that sunken cheek look to them. The graphical update took this feature away as it made the face overall rounder and softer. I was able to get some of the cheekbone definition back by making the skin several shades darker, but even then it's missing a lot of the definition.

I don't hate the new look but this looks nothing like the character I've been using for years.

edit: will they be giving free fantasias with this update? because the only way to make my character look decent is to change a lot of features and whatnot


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yes they said they will be giving a free fantasia to everyone.

[NanaWiloh]

Sorry to close too release for changes now.

[Rueby]

I'm not sure anyone asked for realism, honestly I thought the graphics 'upgrade' was going to be texture upscales but I see their idea of an upgrade is to make everything rounder/smoother and adding their idea of 'beautification' without much thought to how the original model felt. I feel the new lighting/skin makes the characters look really uncanny, the game's style was never realistic- it's actually something I struggled with coming from GW2.

I've never in my life in an MMO grown attached to my character or felt genuine love/care for it- to me a character was just something to dress up. I grew to love my character in this game due to the wonderful story, I cannot fault people feeling sad over how their characters don't look like what they have grown to see and love over the years.

I don't believe this graphical update is ready for release...

[GreenLeafy]

I'm not sure anyone asked for realism, honestly I thought the graphics 'upgrade' was going to be texture upscales but I see their idea of an upgrade is to make everything rounder/smoother and adding their idea of 'beautification' without much thought to how the original model felt. I feel the new lighting/skin makes the characters look really uncanny, the game's style was never realistic- it's actually something I struggled with coming from GW2.

I've never in my life in an MMO grown attached to my character or felt genuine love/care for it- to me a character was just something to dress up. I grew to love my character in this game due to the wonderful story, I cannot fault people feeling sad over how their characters don't look like what they have grown to see and love over the years.

I don't believe this graphical update is ready for release...

Couldn't have worded it better myself. Seeing someone so different on the benchmark after 8 years was incredibly jarring and upsetting.

[keybladesrus]

I'm mostly happy with how my character turned out, but they took my fangs! One of the defining traits of Moon cats and the whole reason to pick them over Sun cats. This is so not cool.