Okay. Reading through this thread is a trip and a half because I literally don't know what half of you are talking about...
Black hair is grey? I was literally asking myself why my character (with black hair) had so much darker hair in the bench mark then live game. His hair is PITCH BLACK, so dark I can't even see the detail of it.
Perhaps you should all check the settings you are using the benchmark. Check your gamma. It's probably way off from your game settings. A lot of you would probably be a lot happier if you imported your settings directly from the live game, gamma and all, in regards to the already existing settings.
I also commented about how much more life was in my character's eyes now, and how much more expression he had in the race specific emotes in the creator. Male viera look bored and dead in the live game, but in the benchmark they actually look like they FEEL something.

It's not perfect and yes there are issues with some textures they need to fix. But some of you do really need to take a step back and double check your settings.

90% of the 'my character looks like a different person' I'm seeing, they literally look like the exact same picture, or lighting position is causing all the issues they are pointing out. I get it, you're emotional about your characters, but take a step back, take a deep breath and reallllly look at it and think about it. Some of you, yeah okay... there are rare cases where WTF happened? but most of them are really not that different.