Updated benchmark

[LlymlaenGreene]

Honestly, I've had similar thoughts. I would be more than satisfied if the update just improved the textures and lighting, because frankly some things in the current game look really bad. The fuzzy armour, the cross-hatching on the hair strands, and certain environmental textures out in the game world especially. But I think my character's face looks objectively worse where she previously looked good, and barely better in areas that needed improvement (hair texture and disconnected lower lashes, for example). My character's eyes are similar to Llymlaen's and as her gif shows, even the texture on her iris looks worse because they've overcomplicated it and the catchlight isn't as striking.

I can't help but wonder if there's something going on behind the scenes hindering the devs' ability to do this well, because there are so many problems across all races that it begs the question if they're cutting corners and hoping we won't notice because it's being marketed as an upgrade and some things got better. The homogenization of certain assets in the old benchmark that made the clans unique would indicate this (viera pupils, keeper fangs).

At the end of the day, old graphical assets put together with care will look better than modern ones done poorly, at least in my opinion.

I completely agree with you. And judging by the reddit, users have accepted that *reddit users*. The Japanese are more persistent and almost through the message they ask to make a switcher between old and new faces. *what makes me happy, what if it's possible and they add this feature? :3

Unfortunately there is zero chance of that happening so you're going to have to provide feedback on how you would like the new models tweaked as best you can.



The textures were updated in that image.

Yeah, I'm just trying to be dreamy, hehe. You tell me that I say over and over again that my character is not the right one in the previous message, I agree with you and write it again. Yes, this is a very sensitive topic for me

I mean, in my opinion, it looks like what I wanted. The textures look very similar, I say not changed, the fact that the shape of the eyes is the same, the lips too, and in general the facial expression is like an UltraHD version of the same character

I use the same mouth type as your character and after comparing the changes with what we have at the moment, it looks like the shading under the lower lip that is present in the current game got incorporated/absorbed into that lip somehow as a part of it and made it bigger... It's so strange

It looks just like you say. It seems to me as if an automatic algorithm mistook this shadow for lips, and we got this result. And the developers just didn't check it. * this is a guess, but it really looks like an automation product, not like a manual job*. Because there is so much data to take into account and verify.