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[potatsdevourer]

I do believe they have achieved this as much as is possible without just giving up and re-using the low-poly models. The model has more polygons. The original thinness of the nose was a result of lack of polygons. That's been corrected. It isn't a big difference--yes, it's noticeable to those of us who have been using this face for years, but it's an improvement over a model that didn't have enough polygons to work with. The original honestly always looked too thin too me, so I am glad SE has fixed what always looked something like an unfortunate sacrifice to the low-polygon requirements. So...yeah, as one of the few players of male Highlanders, I am going to register my satisfaction with this!

Actually this confuses me. SE wants to upgrade character face model with more polygons, yes, then why they remove the curvature on the nose bridge?

The newer one just look less curved, and if one look closely it still has very slight curvature, and it can be argued that there is more polygon to that.
I surely will live fine with the change but it just bugs me. The new model changes the silhouette (for the lack of the better word) of the face, and it can also be seen on the cheek: the 6.58 version has continuous line from cheek bone, while the newer one has it much shorter with added laughing line.
And we can only speculate how is their target look like to keep change minimal, but to me, changing face silhouette is not the point. It is also why my complain compass the harsh eyebrow ridge as well, since it really muddles the original face silhouette.

Also personally this nose form is one of the quirk that catch my eyes first time and made me choose highlander despite their lack of eyebrows. So to see the curvature removed is just sucks.