Updated benchmark

[SquidzureDragoon]

Overall, I am happy with the changes, but I will say that in the updated benchmark, they took away the only I liked: my bunboi's lil nose fuzz. Now he just has a hyur nose and he doesn't look like my bunboy. I tried other noses, as well, but none of them (for Rava, at least) have the little dark patch of fuzz no matter the lighting or angle, and that's kind of heartbreaking to me since it's similar to au ra limbal rings and moonkeeper fangs: a unique racial feature.

[SquidzureDragoon]

I have saved images from EW bench, DT bench and now 1.1 DT bench and it's a nice improvement.

Jealous that your bun still has the cute lil nose fuzz TT0TT my guy got shaved

[celestiyall]

for the mmmmmost part the complaints that were the top of my list were adjusted, but not all, but enough that i'm like "i can live with this version and am not as sad". the one remaining thing im upset about is that the facepaint is still wrong and no longer sits along the eyes properly, but it seems they still havent updated the facepaint textures so i'm holding out hope

[Amh_Wilzuun]

Definitely a huge improvement. I had thought most of the lighting issues were in the character creation screen but it looks like in-game scenes got major improvements as well

[Mylandra]

first of all, thanks to the devs for their efforts. ♥

Here is my before/after and feedback

Middie face1
+ better skin texture, no more weird freckles
+ better gloss effect on lips
- unsightly nose shape, the nose is way too big
- lips looks smaller
- it looks like there are dark circles under her eyes and it makes her look tired


Miqote seeker of the sun face 3


Miqote keeper of the moon face 3


I have mixed feelings about Miqote because I really liked the first benchmark version.
-I feel like the colors have been washed out
-I'm a little disappointed that they changed the shape of the eyes 3 on face 3.
apart from that, they're still pretty imo and I'm quite happy with the changes

They look great on the boat cutscene tho

[Acelyn]

characters look great, i wanna know about these graphics options like the myriad ambient occlusion options, is gtao the best?

why is the dlss/fsr setting so darn vague? is any AA actually on if the game never drops into low framerates?

wheres the technical nerds in this forum?

[Amh_Wilzuun]

Also very happy that the keeper fans were fixed

[Rugno]

Just a smidge frustrating that they never did anything about the botched lip fillers on face 2 vieras, especially after all the other changes they made. There's another option I can select that's 'kinda' close enough, but still changes the face.

[Rekh]

Just a smidge frustrating that they never did anything about the botched lip fillers on face 2 vieras, especially after all the other changes they made. There's another option I can select that's 'kinda' close enough, but still changes the face.

Unfortunately viera is low priority for Square enix; or that's the impression I always get. Let's hope they fix it. You're gonna have to spam the change you want in some of these threads.

[LittleArrow]

I'm not going to get into semantics, at the end of the day it is what it is. The newer version looks much better than the older version; however, my viera lost all of her harsh / sharp lines. She's so smoothed out she looks like a strange doll or like she's having an allergic bee reaction. No, I don't think this is - you just have to get used to it. Anatomically, the face isn't the same. They literally cut out any sharp line in the face. Everything is so smoothed out and rounded off it's not the same character. Is it worth pulling up diagrams and drawing lines anymore? Not to me.

All I have to say is, whoever redid these faces should really understand they fundamentally changed these characters and the feeling they once gave to their players. They're not the same.

I said it before, I'll say it again, lighting does not change the anatomical structure of the face. The lines are different. I'm happy for those that enjoy it. I commiserate with those that feel disappointed. Overall, really not looking forward to Dawntrail; no corsair, new taxed subscription, no game mechanic I'm looking forward to, races still totally unfinished, and a broken payment processor. Sorry for the negative post, just my initial response.