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

[Laute]

Hey! Wanted to bring up another thread to add to the index of issues. Hellsguard Roegadyn also have some smudge issues on the nose. Can you add this to the Arbitrary/Unwanted Changes list?

Roegadyn Thread

[Somnolence]

they fucking just added more polys and just made everything rounder without sculpting shit

Breasts are still low polly

As for textures, they were all upscaled with AI. So it will take a lot of time for humans to go trough everything that does not look right and manually fix.

It will be very awkward if modders will fix the issues faster

[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.

[Alahria]

I don't even know anymore. This looks nothing like my character to me.

[justausername]

Male viera here, and other then the fact I can't truly use the hair I want to in the benchmark (I mean I can, with the copy paste method, but its not updated). I quite like how my character looks, and how most looked when I played around with the creator.

What people have to keep in mind is that this is NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT.

If you notice clipping, or pieces of texture missing, POINT IT OUT. Remember when bun boys slouched like 50% more in the benchmark and they fixed it based on feedback? They still slouch of course but not nearly as bad as they did in the benchmark.

Right now they are going through their QA process, and this is frankly part of it. They aren't collecting your screenshots from the benchmark just because they want to reward people. They are collecting information to make sure their estimations on minimum and recommended requirements are accurate, or if they have to change them. The media tour will also be part of this, they will take feedback from the people that are a part of it. They obviously can't make MASSIVE changes at this point, but small things can be tweaked, if not in time for 7.0 itself, then for a hotfix or later patch.

But also... not everyone is going to be happy. Not everyone WAS happy with how it was before. I'm sure most of us will adjust soon enough.

[Iscah]

But also... not everyone is going to be happy. Not everyone WAS happy with how it was before. I'm sure most of us will adjust soon enough.

It still makes more sense to keep the models the "same but better" over changing them to maybe succeed in appealing to people who didn't like the old version, at the cost of definitely upsetting the people who were happy with it.

[Sarnai]

Honestly idk if anyone pointed it our, but scales on au ra look so... butchered. It's as if the were saved in JPEG and then cut out using magic wand. There are some weird artifacts and pixels here and there too..



And some hairstyles have.. the effect of badly grown up roots lol

[Rudje]

It still makes more sense to keep the models the "same but better" over changing them to maybe succeed in appealing to people who didn't like the old version, at the cost of definitely upsetting the people who were happy with it.

Yeah, if they wanted to have different faces... make them new options? Don't alter what was already there? I'd rather everyone get an extra face that has whatever the devs are trying to chase here rather than the old faces having features get totally reworked for no clear reason. It's not like the lacking eye shine which is just a consequence of the new lighting, several faces have features that are outright different shapes.

[NanaWiloh]

Male viera here, and other then the fact I can't truly use the hair I want to in the benchmark (I mean I can, with the copy paste method, but its not updated). I quite like how my character looks, and how most looked when I played around with the creator.

What people have to keep in mind is that this is NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT.

If you notice clipping, or pieces of texture missing, POINT IT OUT. Remember when bun boys slouched like 50% more in the benchmark and they fixed it based on feedback? They still slouch of course but not nearly as bad as they did in the benchmark.

Right now they are going through their QA process, and this is frankly part of it. They aren't collecting your screenshots from the benchmark just because they want to reward people. They are collecting information to make sure their estimations on minimum and recommended requirements are accurate, or if they have to change them. The media tour will also be part of this, they will take feedback from the people that are a part of it. They obviously can't make MASSIVE changes at this point, but small things can be tweaked, if not in time for 7.0 itself, then for a hotfix or later patch.

But also... not everyone is going to be happy. Not everyone WAS happy with how it was before. I'm sure most of us will adjust soon enough.

Very on point, changes wont happen now. They will happen later down the road..

[Rueby]

I want to add the way some characters have a shine along their nose makes their skin look/seem oily/greasy/waxy which lends to that uncanny look..? I'm really puzzled, something doesn't look right to me if I compare people's pre/post benchmark pictures. Some lips feel like they got a lip job done; bulging outwards and plump???

Also giving characters defined Philtrum when there were none makes it look really strange. Adding matte where there was gloss...Adding gloss where there was none...