The problem isn't the fx update

[Fuyume]

I'm also face 4 fem Au Ra and have also been a face 4 fem Au Ra with no changes to my character since Heavensward. And I could almost level with you if it weren't for the dimples. If I wanted a cutesy character I would've made one, I do not want these dimples and there's no way to get rid of them, all the mouths have them. And changing faces is not an option because I've written stories, made art, had art made of my character. She is who she is and changing faces would mean changing the horns that I love and no other face is any more severe anyways, so I can't try another face, and she's never in eight years had dimples, but now she does and I either have to photoshop them out of every gpose from now on, or I have to come up with some reason why she suddenly has dimples. (Which again, I dislike, I made her specifically to have a more sharp and threatening face, and dimples do not add to this aesthetic.) I've seen her face from every angle and in every lighting possible, her current version in live does not have dimples so I don't understand Square's need to add them. And meanwhile, Face 2 fem Au Ra, which a friend of mine plays, is losing their dimples. That's not just light problems.

Example with as exact of a comparison as I could possible make:


Also the new dynamic catch light is far too dim if you're not staring directly at a light, which means in a lot of cutscenes it will be too dim. It needs to be brightened or enlarged. Or both.

[smashBG]

I spent a while alt tabbing between the live character creator and the benchmark to compare. The lighting in the benchmark does seem slightly different but it might have been just my imagination, or maybe clouds blocking the light in one while it was sunny in the other. Either way it has not been significantly updated, but it is something I strongly hope they do change in 7.0, even if the promised character creation overhaul is still a ways off. Otherwise a LOT of people are going to be chugging that free fantasia only to go into the game and say "wait, this isn't how I looked a minute ago!" and that's really not the kind of discourse you want at the launch of a new expansion.

[CinaedhVik]

Hot tip is to make a throwaway character on launch to test, so you don't burn your fantasia.

Whats this about a promised update to the CC?

[Fayt1203]

Hot tip is to make a throwaway character on launch to test, so you don't burn your fantasia.

Whats this about a promised update to the CC?

Would not that far about that someone promised updating the character creation, but if i remember correctly Yoshi p was asked in a recent interview about if they have any plans updating CC because of the graphics update , and as always his answer was that they will maybe look into that after they have done all the graphics update's