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

[magitekwitch]

First time posting on the forum, not much that haven't been said yet but I just want to share my experience. I posted my issues on the JP forum too.

Imagine my jumpscare when I opened the character creator and my grandpa got yassified and deaged!!!!!!


Thankfully it seems it's just a weird light effect, he looks a lot better under natural light, but the drastic difference makes me worry about how he will actually look ingame in different environments...


Definitely a lot of things need to be fixed (bad quality body scales, waxy skin, lifeless eyes, everything that has been mentioned by other users), and I'm sure that they will in time, but these issues shouldn't have happened in the first place. A change this big in the core models isn't something that can be adjusted with a Fantasia.

What I'm now worried about too, it's how some NPCs will look with this update. I quickly recreated Fourchenault to compare, and he looks so smooth and soft!!??

I can't imagine a smoothed Estinien or Nero lol
I don't know. I want to be optimistic, and I know I'll get used to it as I play, but I can't help but feel disappointed and very worried.

[Rueby]

I can't imagine a smoothed Estinien or Nero lol
I don't know. I want to be optimistic, and I know I'll get used to it as I play, but I can't help but feel disappointed and very worried.

You know who I'm dreading this graphical update hitting? Zenos. He has that interesting adorable nose that I love so dearly. Please don't give my boy a nose job I love his stupid big nose and his blank lifeless deep blue eyes. It's funny how I'm worried more about him than my character ahahaha...Damn I wonder what they'd do to Emet Selch...or Varis. I can't imagine these people going soft and 'I've been moisturizing, my friend' or 'I've been moisturizing, hero'.

I'm laughing about it lmao

[Rudje]

You know who I'm dreading this graphical update hitting? Zenos. He has that interesting adorable nose that I love so dearly. Please don't give my boy a nose job I love his stupid big nose and his blank lifeless deep blue eyes. It's funny how I'm worried more about him than my character ahahaha...Damn I wonder what they'd do to Emet Selch...or Varis. I can't imagine these people going soft and 'I've been moisturizing, my friend' or 'I've been moisturizing, hero'.

I'm laughing about it lmao

Honestly my biggest fear with Zenos, especially now that the benchmark is out and a lot of features have been sandblasted, is that they'll shrink his big nose. It and his soft, round, "hasn't slept in a week" face do a lot to make him stand out in the sea of violent prettyboy swordsmen, but at least his other facial features were always in his concept art. If they made his hair less spaghetti I wouldn't be as worried because that always looked more like a technical limitation, but the core details of his face I feel are in very real danger of being lost and I don't think he's the only one. Other slightly scrungled characters will likely have core features removed if they don't pivot direction now.

[Rueby]

Honestly my biggest fear with Zenos, especially now that the benchmark is out and a lot of features have been sandblasted, is that they'll shrink his big nose. It and his soft, round, "hasn't slept in a week" face do a lot to make him stand out in the sea of violent prettyboy swordsmen, but at least his other facial features were always in his concept art. If they made his hair less spaghetti I wouldn't be as worried because that always looked more like a technical limitation, but the core details of his face I feel are in very real danger of being lost and I don't think he's the only one. Other slightly scrungled characters will likely have core features removed if they don't pivot direction now.

Just thinking about it makes me really sad honestly, he's my favorite character of all time and I think he's really beautiful. The only thing I thought of were the low texture (artifacting) around his eyes. His face wasn't angular by any means but it wasn't round and soft, he had a strange mix of sharp/soft features especially his side view on his jaw.



Memories of him is all I have left since EW...I'm worried he'd lost all the uniqueness that I fell in love with. I was really shocked to see how horrible he looked in the EW trailer. Hell his post SB (ShB) flashback thing had more gorgeous looking eyes and eyebrows than the entire EW trailer.

I really wish he'd turn out abit like how he looks in Dissidia...

[Iscah]

What I'm now worried about too, it's how some NPCs will look with this update.

I've wondered this too, because it's going to have a pretty serious impact on some NPCs if implemented like this.

With all the discussion over changes to female Au Ra, Sadu is particularly in the firing line, and probably Cirina as well.

I've only looked closely at my own characters so far, but another NPC that keeps floating to mind (because he uses the same face as my Miqo'te) is Zhai'a Nelhah from the BLM quests. His serious expression is a big part of setting that character up, but the changes have given that face more of a smile, and I think it's going to be pretty bad for him.