Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
Honestly, after sifting through many pictures of people showcasing what went wrong in the past 2 days, I'm getting too familiar vibe of those times when I had to discern between genuine work of art or AI generated ones. It's like, whoever's doing the quality check or making these design choices does not understand the point of feeling or characterization. I sure hope this is just my brain brewing up some pointless conspiracy & not what actually happened behind the scenes...
It's okay, I understand the AI feeling completely. If you've seen some of my comments on other threads, I've been dancing around saying similar conclusions outright. It feels like it should be too silly to say but also like such a real, unfortunate possibility these days. It makes it feel like the update is being done to please higher ups, rather than out of genuine love for the art. I dearly hope that we're both wrong in this case.


Quote Originally Posted by Embran View Post
The character creator isn’t the final product. They have a disclaimer saying this stuff is still a work in progress. The build from the benchmark itself could be months old.

It hasn’t passed any checks yet because the game is still in development. It’s important to point these issues out, but I don’t think it’s fair to drag the devs for these issues when the product isn’t final. It's entirely possible they fixed this very issue weeks ago internally.
I agree with this as well, and I thank you for reminding people of this and bringing up this possibility. It's difficult for a lot, including myself, to view the situation in a more hopeful lens without things like this in the discussion. Although I don't think they were attempting to drag the developers.

It's clear from the way custom NPC faces are designed, as well as how carefully newer races have been designed to match the existing art style, that the art team cares greatly about this game. It's just that we have no precedent for an update like this, and having this level of mismatching quality given to us makes it hard not to worry these updates (so far) were done through different means.

Okay, off to work for me. I gotta make myself stop lookin' at the forums for real now.