Updated benchmark

[howltia]

I definitely think the 2nd benchmark had some great improvements, and I do really appreciate all the work the devs have put in, but I just wanted to share my thoughts on the new one as a miqo'te face 4 enjoyer





Its improved in some ways, but is it just me that thinks they've dramatically reduced the differences for the miqo'te faces? she looked shiny and strange in the 1st benchmark but in the 2nd one she looks very similar to face 3? tbh they all seem more identical in shapes now, and her nose and lips are still so flat they've definitely reduced the larger flat nose i have here, which is a huge shame, but they did definitely improve the lip shape from the 1st benchmark, i'm just going to miss her open mouth im just sad about all the character changes to be honest, i spend a great deal of time looking at her face etc so its gonna be a difficult transition lol.

I know people think its silly to complain but when you have 2000 + hours with a character you love and then your favourite features of theirs are going to be removed or changed completely..it can be hard!

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is it just me that thinks they've dramatically reduced the differences for the miqo'te faces?

It's not just you. They've really homogenized a lot of the features across the board. Sometimes that happens when you increase polycount and don't do manual fine adjustment to the mesh with the original shapes as a guide afterwards. I don't know if that's what happened here, but at any rate, everything is much flatter and smoother and smaller and less defined. Unique characteristics have been lost. I really think they need to spend more time restoring the original features. Load in the original meshes as a transparent guide and try to match the profiles and lines better. Things like that missing lip gap have to return. They can't get this wrong. People still resent what happened with WoW.

Why do I care, because there are litterally people threatening to quit over minute details. I care because I hopped in a post expecting to see all sorts of nice shots of characters from the updated benchmark and instead greeted with overwhelmingly 65 pages of nitpicking over MINOR MINUTE details that you have to HYPER ZOOM the camera in to even notice.

It's what's important to a lot of us. Not everyone derives enjoyment from games in the same way or from the same things. Respectfully, you'll have to come to terms with that.