Thread: 7.0 Feedback - Keeper face markings

I'll preface this by saying that I'm super excited for Dawntrail, and for the most part, the graphics update looks great! However, when playing around with the benchmark I noticed a couple notable differences in how my miqo'te looked. I've tried to include direct comparisons to highlight the difference.

Firstly, the face 1 markings appeared to be noticeably lighter--I've always liked how they stand out against her skin, but it seemed to be lessened in the benchmark:


This would be less of an issue to me, but in some lighting, they appeared to be barely visible at all, which was a bit disappointing to see:


I also noticed similar of the markings on face 3, and on many characters they appeared to be almost invisible:


As an aside, the eyebrows on face 1 keepers also appeared to be much darker, with the colour change between different hair colours being much more subtle, which, while fine for dark hair characters, unfortunately stands out a lot on my poor light skin light hair Keeper:

She uses type 4, however the others all appeared to be similarly dark, and at first glance looked like they hadn't changed with her hair colour at all.

I take no joy in adding to the influx of threads of unhappy people, but I hadn't seen anyone mentioning this, so I wanted to point it out to make sure it didn't go unnoticed if there was any chance at an adjustment to the colours. Has anyone else noticed similar of their characters?

To unfortunately add to your concern (which has been brought up a couple of times by both male Miqo'te and fem Miqo'te players, so you're not alone at least!) I notice your Face 1 Keeper has the shape of her markings warped in an unnatural upwards curve, in a way not dissimilar to some Auri face scales after the update. Which is a, uh, very cool addition to the pile. And makes me feel definitely Not Worried about how these updated textures are being handled.

I hate face marking. Until certain tool is fixed after 7.0, My alt will be a bunny girl for a while

I quite like them looking more subtle as I always felt they where too dark but that is just what I like. I think the main issue atm for Moon is their fangs but everything else has made them look lovely.

I definitely had a feeling of "something is off here", and I wrote it off as changes to the mouth shape or lighting.
Benchmark 7.0:


Benchmark 2.0:

Since 7.0 appearance data won't load into 2.0 or 3.0 (crashes) this is more representative of the DX9 to DX11 changes.