Updated benchmark

[Lacroix]

My characters are unrecognizable. First is current, second is from the new benchmark. I am still absolutely horrified with the decisions they made. The eyes and the scaling are all wrong. My Elezens ears are a completely different shape. And something is just uncannily OFF about them. They don't look right at all. All the softness and the subtle features that I loved about them is just gone. The only characters that look remotely okay are my female midlander and elezen. All my male characters look wrecked, especially the Viera.

[plasmacutter]

My characters are unrecognizable. First is current, second is from the new benchmark. I am still absolutely horrified with the decisions they made. The eyes and the scaling are all wrong. My Elezens ears are a completely different shape. And something is just uncannily OFF about them. They don't look right at all. All the softness and the subtle features that I loved about them is just gone. The only characters that look remotely okay are my female midlander and elezen. All my male characters look wrecked, especially the Viera.

You have my sympathies.
This is why they're giving everyone fantasia and patching it to last a full hour during which you can continually recustomize.
Similar troubles with my current lalafell design have prompted me to explore alternatives in the benchmark character creator, and I currently have 2 alternates I'm playing with right now, trying to decide on which one.

[Evergrey]

You have my sympathies.
This is why they're giving everyone fantasia and patching it to last a full hour during which you can continually recustomize.
Similar troubles with my current lalafell design have prompted me to explore alternatives in the benchmark character creator, and I currently have 2 alternates I'm playing with right now, trying to decide on which one.

Also good to mention that the 1h timer is for ingame time spent.
Which is great. considering that there's probably gonna be hours long queues, as with any expansion release.

Since I mostly play with a covered face anyways I'm probably gonna save that Fantasia until the queues has settled down a bit.
I haven't heard anything about a "deadline" for said fantasia (unless I've missed it somehow) so that should be good, I guess.

[CidHeiral]

My characters are unrecognizable. First is current, second is from the new benchmark. I am still absolutely horrified with the decisions they made. The eyes and the scaling are all wrong. My Elezens ears are a completely different shape. And something is just uncannily OFF about them. They don't look right at all. All the softness and the subtle features that I loved about them is just gone. The only characters that look remotely okay are my female midlander and elezen. All my male characters look wrecked, especially the Viera.

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see one of these posts.

[PaulusHamsteru]

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see one of these posts.

Why's that?

[Len_]

Why's that?

Prosopagnosia probably.

[Astronis]

Prosopagnosia probably.

More likely it's that they are completely recognizable as the same character and virtually everyone, after the patch, will look at the poster's character and think, "Yes, this is you," rather than, "You are a complete stranger, I don't recognize you at all."

The new character models and the old character models are somewhat like identical twins. People who know a set of twins very well can tell them apart, but no one else can.

[CidHeiral]

Why's that?

There are subtle differences between the old and new examples in that post but to say one is "unrecognizable" as the other is absolutely ridiculous.

Not to mention that style of feedback is useless to the devs. "It feels off" or "it doesn't look right" isn't actionable feedback. "My eyes used to curve downward and now they curve upward, here's a zoomed in picture of what I'm talking about" is actionable feedback. You need to break down exactly what you feel is wrong if you want a realistic chance of it being addressed.

Prosopagnosia probably.

Using a disability as an insult over slightly different video game pixels. Yikes.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Not to mention that style of feedback is useless to the devs. "It feels off" or "it doesn't look right" isn't actionable feedback. "My eyes used to curve downward and now they curve upward, here's a zoomed in picture of what I'm talking about" is actionable feedback. You need to break down exactly what you feel is wrong if you want a realistic chance of it being addressed.

To add to that, cropping screenshots to focus on specific parts would also help a lot with comparing things.
If you just put two screenshots of whole faces as they are there's a high chance that people who are not intimately familiar with your character will not be as sensible to the differences as you are, and so to them it virtually "looks the same".
But if you focus their attention on say the eyes, the mouth, etc, by properly framing them, it's already more likely that they'll see the differences, because they're not distracted by everything else.
(and by "people" and "they" I mean both the people posting here and whatever official entity who might or might not be reading these threads)

[Boblawblah]

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see one of these posts.

I can see what you're saying, but I think it's dismissive to say that to people, implying that THEY'RE the crazy ones for thinking their character looks different.

For someone who's look at the same character for years, every pixel out of place, every slight personality difference perceived is a big deal for them. You don't get to say that they're wrong.