Today's the earliest expected date for the Benchmark re-release

[TaleraRistain]

It would not have been "too much" to recreate the faces we already have with higher polygon count.

Then people would complain that a graphical update to improve things hadn't improved anything. The devs can't really win here. Someone is going to be upset about something whichever way they go. They acknowledged that there may be differences and that's why they're giving a free fantasia in case there are tweaks that need to be made.

[Rekh]

Then people would complain that a graphical update to improve things hadn't improved anything. The devs can't really win here. Someone is going to be upset about something whichever way they go. They acknowledged that there may be differences and that's why they're giving a free fantasia in case there are tweaks that need to be made.

I agree with you both; they should still take feedback but artists are not perfect, they're following an art direction with improved engine specifications. Can't expect characters made in Elden Ring to look exactly the same as those in Dark Souls III as the specificatioins has changed, for example.

Again, Square enix needs to really look into adding sliders. I would expect no sliders in character creation if we were in 2012 or something, not now.

[TaleraRistain]

I agree with you both; they should still take feedback but artists are not perfect, they're following an art direction with improved engine specifications. Can't expect characters made in Elden Ring to look exactly the same as those in Dark Souls III as the specificatioins has changed, for example.

Not even really about artists being perfect or not. I think some people have made their own assumptions about what "graphical update" means and when that's not what happened they're getting upset. I'm not an art person so I didn't go in with any set expectations. But I have gone through updates in other games so I was ready for the idea that I may have to tweak things and had hoped they were going to provide a free fantasia for that. They did so which I greatly appreciate so now I'm ready to make any necessary tweaks. I've had some games where it was just changed and there was nothing we could do about it.