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

[PompoPompPump]

I've heard people say that it's only the character creator which make your character look ass, because of it's horrendous lighting. And while it does do that, it's not the core issue. They made fundemental changes to multiple options in the character creator. I only got lucky that my character didn't go completely to shit.

They also took the light out of our eyes. We're fucking vacant and hopeless, what's up with that?????????

[xbahax92]

Is it just me or is the neck area just badly done? Did they not update the whole skin texture? It's not seamless anymore. I dont think this is the final product... right? right?

[Vespar]

Im not saying this fixes everything, but if you have an Nvidia GPU, do yourself a favor and download Nvidia Geforce Experience. Once that's installed, Use Alt+Z while in the benchmark and add some game filters. I notice a massive improvement, by making just a few tweaks to Brightness/Contrast, Color & Sharpen. (Sharpen seems to remove the weird faded/haziness in the game by itself)





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[PompoPompPump]

Im not saying this fixes everything, but if you have an Nvidia GPU, do yourself a favor and download Nvidia Geforce Experience. Once that's installed, Use Alt+Z while in the benchmark and add some game filters. I notice a massive improvement, by making just a few tweaks to Brightness/Contrast, Color & Sharpen. (Sharpen seems to remove the weird faded/haziness in the game by itself)





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pretty cool actually, but it only fixes the lighting issue, not the model issue.

[Vespar]

pretty cool actually, but it only fixes the lighting issue, not the model issue.

Sadly, but its at least somewhat of an improvement. It made it all bit more bearable anyways.

[Araxes]

Im not saying this fixes everything, but if you have an Nvidia GPU, do yourself a favor and download Nvidia Geforce Experience. Once that's installed, Use Alt+Z while in the benchmark and add some game filters. I notice a massive improvement, by making just a few tweaks to Brightness/Contrast, Color & Sharpen. (Sharpen seems to remove the weird faded/haziness in the game by itself)





Results:

Using this feature myself on many, many games Good of you to point it out.

[BunnyReaper]

Vieras look the worst. They lost everything that made them pretty, their lips got ruined, the make up on the bun boys looks like they've been crying for 30 mins straight. Genuinely ruined

[EliaStormblade]

There are definitely some issues there that require fixing on a technical level and I hope they get it. But a lot of this is also just the result of having new shaders that aren't from 2010 and don't make your character look like flat, non-reactive crumpled paper. They're also not going to allow you to toggle it off, because these are changes to the very engine, hopping over to PBR materials and the like, which is much more than just a toggle.

[Iscah]

Almost all of my characters seem to have lost the facial expressions that gave them particular personalities. They look like different people now.

I don't want these changes. I'm happy with the characters as they look now.

[boldpaste2]

Here hoping they look at the feedback.

I personally like the change. some features of my character got fixed that was driving me nuts (like the teeth always being visible despite the mouth being closed). https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6437889

Some peoples characters are noticeably improved.

Others while not "bad" do appear visually different and I can see how people might not like it.