Thread: Benchmark 1.1 Feedback - Elezen

I accidentally made a whole new thread about this because I didn't realize an Elezen thread was already going. Whoops. But I noticed some hairstyles that are meant to sit flush against the head have some gaps on Elezen.










^ This one especially is mostly only evident when rotating the character.







Please pardon some of my layer sloppiness at the bottom. I was ironically trying to get through these as quickly as possible. I rotated the character multiple times in an attempt to show the gaps as clearly as possible.

The last (5th) hairstyle on the first row also doesn't appear to be sitting flush and that is evident when rotating, however it is so subtle it's difficult to capture so I omitted it.

Hoping they're able to fix this.

Originally Posted by Coerced

I prefer what was shown in the previous benchmark outside of the lighting. At least the changes to the shape of the eyes were obscured partially by the lashes.



Otherwise, none of the issues I have were altered in any positive way.

I'll drop this here as well, I suppose.

I'm female elezen player and i'm glad they have fixed the wired mouth movement and over pervious to light face, but there's still one thing i hope they can improve:
The sharpness on female elezen's face is gone, please bring it back. I think disappearance of sharpness makes female elezen lose their characteristics and looks less different from other races. She does look softer in new version but come on, I don't need this at all. I choose female elezen because they're cool instead of soft.

I am having difficulty with fixing my female elezen because they're more rounded now. The softness/roundness is affecting her nose and eye shapes. The nose feels wider and gives the sense of setting the eyes farther apart, despite being the slowest nose option on any face (currently face 1). The eye shape I have is rounding out and in the same place as the eyelash/makeup Facial Features is making it look even more round. I like the angled eyebrows and have them, but they've gotten even thinner than they already were! Which just exacerbates the smoothness of the face because there's More Face, haha.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how my character looks, but I do miss the definition on nose and lips for sure, plus the shape of the lips has changed slightly. It's a change that I can live with, but given the chance, I would go back to the pre-Dawntrail version in a heartbeat lol. I also wish lip gloss would be noticeable again. I can see it if I squint, but it seems very faint now.



Dug out an old gpose for comparison. Resized the screenshots a bit too much I'm afraid lol, but the change in the lips/shine is still quite noticeable I think:

Overall, I like my face 2 wildwood man, but this is haunting me:



The neck seam, alas, still persists. At most angles, it's still miles better than the current neck seam we deal with in Endwalker, and yet:



At other angles, it has indents where the neck width of the body doesn't match up with the neck width of the head.

My feedbacks:



Male Elezen - Generally am very happy with the update. However there are some issues I do not fancy.

• The original ear clasps texture is matte. For mine, it looks like bone-white material. In the ver 1.1 benchmark, the ear clasps are so small and metallic. The colours do not in any way present them as matte.

• The overlay of the hair made the brows look patchy. I'm not sure what is causing this issue and I hope it can be fixed.

• The lips look dry in ver 1.1, the reflection is gone. Not a big issue but it will be nice if the lips can look slightly dewy.

• The neck polygons look awful. Necks are big part of Elezens. It will be great if the polygons can be increased in that area.

Female Elezen - She is a Face 4. Originally, my female elezen has a sharp look. However in the v 1.1 benchmark, her sharp look is gone. She looks softer and younger.

• Her eyebrows in v 1.1 benchmark has been altered to a lower ark. I have tried looking at other brow types available but the edges are so drastically high in ark that there are no inbetweens. They make her look very fierce instead of sharp. The brows made a huge difference to her vibe. I hope the devs will look into it.

• Her lips in v 1.1 has been edited into a slight smile. The edge of the original lips are travelling downward. v1.1 lips are also slightly thinner than the original lips. The top part of the original lips looks like 2 Mount Fujis, but the v 1.1 lips looks like 2 hills. The bottom part of the original lips is more plump than v 1.1's. Again, this affects the vibe of the character.

These are my personal feedbacks and I hope the devs will consider working on them. Thankyou so much! I look forward to Dawntrail.

I'd highly suggest posting your feedback onto the main JP thread here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...D%B0%E8%AB%96/

I've posted mine, and also linked this thread and the last benchmark thread.