Updated benchmark

[Minali]

I believe they only enhanced polygons for the face, hands and feet. Anything else should stay blocky as before and I don't think they will do the body since it is unnecessary.

Au Ra have special characteristic scales all over their bodies. Hrothgars have fur patterns of all kinds, and have an absurd lack of other options of customization with other means besides. That aside, plenty of gear and glam invites to showing off e.g. your chest, has been the case since ARR. And there are plenty of cutscenes where the body - covered or not - is very much visible. Updating the body is far from "unnecessary".

[Kacho_Nacho]

I believe they only enhanced polygons for the face, hands and feet. Anything else should stay blocky as before and I don't think they will do the body since it is unnecessary.

*emphasis mine*

Except during Moonfire. Got to show off my sexy lalafell pectorals sometime.

/flex

[Kacho_Nacho]

Aura have special characteristic scales all over their bodies. Hrothgars have fur patterns of all kinds, and have an absurd lack of other options of customization with other means besides. That aside, plenty of gear and glam invites to showing off e.g. your chest, has been the case since ARR. And there are plenty of cutscenes where the body - covered or not - is very much visible. Updating the body is far from "unnecessary".

Good point, Minali! I believe moodud was thinking along the lines of Hyur, Miqo'te, etc... but, even then, you're right. Characters have plenty of opportunity to show off their bodies.

Come to think of it, there's a whole glam set specifically for this purpose. The Emperor's New Gear..

I'll guess I better take some screenshots for CBU3 then. Thank you both!

[potatsdevourer]

I use the same face and it looks like the same nose. Here is my feedback to Square Enix regarding this specific face: Thank you for fixing the issue in the last benchmark where it looked like my brow ridge was too soft and not angled correctly. Otherwise: please for the love of Rhalgr, do not listen to this player regarding the nose. DO NOT CHANGE THE NOSE. The nose is PERFECT AS IT NOW STANDS. Touch not the nose! It is different and that is a good thing. Please leave the cheeks alone. They are fantastic as they now stand. Please please please please please just stop fiddling with it, I love it as is and even prefer it.

With all due respect, you are putting too much faith in SE that they will give any semblance of attention to male highlanders. The most likely scenario from this benchmark is that it will be left as-is, since highlander players are not much anyway.

I will however keep pushing for as little change as possible, pharaphrased. If that's what SE meant, then they should stick with their gun and aim to not making big difference to the newer form.

In wild scenario that they have limitless resource, it would be good that they make option for different creative directions instead of making players have limited option like this.

[Kimeraandrel]

Benchmark crashes if I try to load my character.
*shrug*

I've seen some people get confused about how to start the benchmark. You have to press the "start" button on the benchmark launcher. Pressing "confirm" on the character creator (where you're seeing your character) simply closes the character creator window.

[Minali]

For the lulz I opened the game on one screen and the benchmark on the other and made a direct comparison of old face 3 me and new face 3 me. I also rotated them away from the sun so this whole lower jaw and mouth situation is not influencing judging the shape.

She looks really similar to people who don't play the game as her I'm sure, and this is nothing I'd quit the game over or anything. However, I noticed something had changed with her eyes, making her look like she was trying very hard to get this Mountain Dew mount. I'll live, but I know I'm going to miss all the gpose moments where she's just relaxing somewhere, gazing into the distance, with this contempt resting face, happy and alert but calm. I can't even point to what the difference is, maybe it's the lack of dark eye lashes, one pixel being moved elsewhere, or the size being bigger and the eyes being further apart from each other, or at least giving the impression they would be further apart. Maybe all of that. So I checked how far I could get by recreating her with a different face, putting that free Fantasia, adjusting it just like we were asked to. That face 2 version was the closest I could get to, but it's still a rather different, idk, vibe? Face 1 would mean losing basically all of my fancy tiger stripes, and Face 4 looks to me more like a shy or anxious person, and this just doesn't suit her at all. It's a pity these stripes are glued to the face. I really wish they'd be optional features, so every face can have all types of stripes.



Not sure what I'm going to do when Dawntrail drops. Might not Fantasia right away in case there are going to be any tweaks in the first few patches or so, but whatever I choose, I'll need time to get used to that. I know that much.

(Then again, maybe the lighting decides for me, depending on if they fix that mouth situation or not, because these "dimples" are just absurd. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...51#post6470751 )

[GhalEjinn]

The face 3 of XAELA ONLY, have resolution scale problem. Not the raen face. And not others xaela face.

[Arua]

Still no complain on my end, I guess it's kind of a lucky combination, it still feel like the same as current game just in HD.
Current > Benchmark 1.0 > Benchmark 1.1 > Benchmark 1.1 no blue light

It's face 3, jaw 4, eye shape 6, eyebrows 2, nose 3 and mouth 3

[Soxforrow]

benchmark just made me ugly

Before:


after:


WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST LASHES SQUARE?? why remove the corner lashes?? they did it on viera too. They're cute and flattering. WHY???
And also the face somehow looks paler and chubbier, and the lips, UGH THE LIPS. Lol. Im sad. I'll have to change to smaller lips if they dont fix that.

You still look cute, and beyond that, rest assured that several people have the same complaints as you and hopefully it will be fixed before or shortly after Dawntrail release

[Heavenchild]

I am still very satisfied with how my char is going to look like after the update.
I can't wait! : D

At the moment my face has sooooo many.... let's say... bad-light-moments and very poor textures. :')