Graphical Update - Remove makeup from faces

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The lips do seem to have a forced matte lipstick on even with lip colour sent to none.
As for the eyes, (at least in the case of fem moon miqo face 4), it’s not that eyeshadow was added, it’s that the eyelashes have been outright replaced with very overdone and poor substitutes.



You can see the lashes are extremely thick, cover more of the eye, and no care was taken to preserve the original look, despite their stated goal of doing so. The new lashes look like false glue ons, with too uniform a shape. Compared to the originals, the changes to eyes lips and brows seem like a graphical downgrade to me. It looks like makeup because it’s so unnatural.

I almost wonder if this is the result of crunch rush to get this done in time? Some races look much closer to their original appearance, and others seem to vary from looking odd to looking full on goofy. I’ve also seen a lot of images showing errors and problems, like with the edges around au’ra body scales. I really think if it’s not ready, they should delay pushing updates to character models and textures until they can spend more time on it. The rest of the games graphical updates look beautiful. The character updates don’t look up to the same standard. Our character is front and center at all points of the game. This is something that needs to be nailed. Everyone I know who played WoW still talks about the WoW character update with frustration, years later.