Posting here for the first time, so sorry for possible mistakes. I understand that benchmark is not a final version however there are a lot of issues that I believe worth pointing out in hope they will be improved by the time DT arrives. It's just a summary of what I noticed and what bothers me and other people online

1. Shadows are too weak. It's not as bad in benchmark, but a lot of faces look terribly flat at certain lightning and angles. Faces loose all textures when stand in shadows, which is I think is the problem of it all. I understand devs are going for the smoothness, but I think making shadows a bit more intense will be better. And it would be nice to have shadows from the hair to be seen on the face.In some parts lightning is very weird around lips. Here is (https://imgur.com/a/3KEMwag) a comparison between lightning on m miqo and f viera. The lightning on those lips and chin looks horrendous on miqo, and now he looks like he is smiling, while his old version had this serious look. It's very upsetting because it changes a lot of who character is

2. Faces. AuRa glow up is absolutely amazing, however everyone else got the short end of the stick. Especially male viera. Their facial features are not the same as in the current version, and it makes characters look different. Rava male face 1 looks way softer and more happy in its facial expression than before, which makes it lose its charm. A lot of faces look way too soft, and as someone who had characters with rough facial features it breaks them a lot

3. Scars. They look really odd on a stretched skin texture, the colours aren't good and its looks more HD than the skin. Especially when you place it above miqo's marks. I think the solution is to make the colours a bit more dark and saturated so it won't look like random bright brown line, especially on dark skinned characters

4. Lipstick. Haven't seen a single person who likes the new lips. They are too matte and without any shadows or highlights look so out of place. And they do not fade away into the skin, which makes lips stand out too much. Even without lipstick, the colours are too bright and pigmented. There is no texture in them as well

5. Shine and gloss. I think this one should be an intensity slider. It either look good on some characters, or incredibly bad

6. Miqo'te brows still look bad and barely noticeable, would be nice to make them more dense. And Viera brows also look worse now and less expressive

Overall, I think devs did an amazing job with the graphic update, but it's still a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to faces. Some faces look too different from old version, facial expressions don't look the same anymore and when model is in shadows everything looks very flat.Everything looks too smooth and matte, there is no contrast whatsoever. While they did keep overall looks, it was always about those small details and many of them now gone