Updated benchmark

[Minali]

After criticizing so much, I also like to point out I am really really happy with my other characters. I love both my Rava (f) and Veena (m) Viera, my Dunesfolk Lala (f) and my Sea Wolf Roe (f). I guess it's my personal kind of luck that of all the characters I have it's my main and most important one that looks so off at the mouth, in a way that cannot be fixed with a fantasia.

(And of course there are the Hrothgar issues, now existing for both genders, horray. Not really bothering being mad about it anymore, just very very disappointed. But at least both the Hrothgar and soon to be Hrothgal are only alts...)

[OgruMogru]

Previous comparison:


Today's update:


Thankyou very much devs for fixing the error with the hair highlighting! I'm thrilled, tbh!
I was worried that I had just got lucky from the first attempt and that my time was coming but my boy looks fantastic. He looks a little older and a little meaner and those are very big positives for me! I'm particularly happy about the softer realistic lighting in the second row AND MOST OF ALL the little curl of shadow the hair makes in the bottom right pic going to the corner of the mouth is a new charm point I didn't even know I needed ^^

[Mylandra]

first of all, thanks to the devs for their efforts. ♥

Here is my before/after and feedback

Middie face1
+ better skin texture, no more weird freckles
+ better gloss effect on lips
- unsightly nose shape, the nose is way too big
- lips looks smaller
- it looks like there are dark circles under her eyes and it makes her look tired


Miqote seeker of the sun face 3


Miqote keeper of the moon face 3


I have mixed feelings about Miqote because I really liked the first benchmark version.
-I feel like the colors have been washed out
-I'm a little disappointed that they changed the shape of the eyes 3 on face 3.
apart from that, they're still pretty imo and I'm quite happy with the changes

They look great on the boat cutscene tho

[Rekh]

As handsome as as ever
My only complaint is the unsaturated hair. I know it's because of the new lighting system but can the diffuse maps or other hair textures be made to be darker? Or at least let us select a darker shade of black; the darkest black is basically just grey now.

Roegadyn 10/10
Unsaturated hair colors 5/10




Lowering Gamma to 0 is great but the hair color is still not black; current endwalker hair colors are infinitely better.

[Wasselin]

I'm super happy with the changes they made to midlander face 5. My chracter looks like himself again.

From the new benchmark, with the excellent new lighting option in the crystal backdrop:

Here is the comparison if you are interested: https://i.imgur.com/F6jDUla.png

[Hatachia]

I was one of the (probably) few that was actually really happy with my character in the first benchmark, and I'm actually kinda disappointed now

this was my char in the 1st benchmark:

https://imgur.com/xw7uJA6

and this is her now in the 2nd benchmark:

https://imgur.com/De10Smo

look at her eyes, she had mad mascara (or whatever the makeup around the eyes is called, which got heavily reduced , and the lightning makes it look like she put makeup on 1 eye and forgot the other, her hair no longer casts shadow on her face (which looks really weird), shadows on the barrels behind her are reduced, people complained we had dead eyes, but now they look glazed over (and it looks like one of my eyes is lighter then the other, which, its not...)

[Rikizza]

Why'd female miqo'te eye 3's shape change? It just looks worse

Agreed i love that eyeshape and they destroyed it

[xbahax92]

Agreed i love that eyeshape and they destroyed it

They "destroyed" it on purpose, right. Boohoo the evil devs, how dare they. Can we not assume it was some minor mistake?

[Rudje]

They "destroyed" it on purpose, right. Boohoo the evil devs, how dare they. Can we not assume it was some minor mistake?

That's the exact problem people are having, though. You can destroy something deliberately, it's still destroyed and people are allowed to be upset that the extreme character creator limitations mean they no longer have the old options to switch to.

I don't necessarily agree in all cases that the word is used, but like... the lip changes are deliberate, for instance. I still think they're bad, because there was no attempt to keep the old shape intact, and due to how the chargen works people can't get the old shapes back if they hate the new ones.