Benchmark Update Feedback - Male Miqo'te + Strange Hair Issue

[Toffle]

First of all: Thank you so much for taking our feedback onboard! The updated changes are wonderful for so many things, and it's truly appreciated the care you put into listening to our concerns.

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Here are the few issues that I've encountered for myself:

Male Miqo'te Face 4 Eyes


The eyes for Face 4, (mainly when used with Eyeshape 3, which is quite a popular combo) don't have their eye shine, or spec, set correctly.
Maybe it's to do with the shadow, or maybe it's positioning, but only on this face does it happen. I have to angle my camera very low down in order to see the sparkle in my WoL's eyes, which I used to easily see. It makes them continue to look flat.

This is mentioned in another thread here [x].


Male Miqo'te Face 4 Jaw:



Their jaw has become very narrow, and pointy. I'm not sure if it's a trick of the light, because I've tried it in various lighting, and it still looks the same. But it feels like their face has lost some charm with how sharp the angle has suddenly become.


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Hair Style Issue:



Since the update, this hair style has been having some strange bugs where you can see a 'fold/crease' line down the front section.
You can also see odd floating squares/overlays that look like they might be transparency issues with the planes the hair might be on? It looks like they're reflecting light in odd ways revealing squares, and causing overlay/multiply effects on those areas.

I'm not entirely sure what the cause for that is, but this hair style is used on several races, so it might not be on the Miqo'te only, and just an issue with that hair style itself.


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Once again Thank you for taking our feedback onboard, and for all your hard work taking care of the world and the characters we've come to love.

[glitteringcosmos]

1+4: Eyebrows
The eyebrows have been thinned, making them lose their roundness and making them very sharp and angular. This gives the impression that the character is constantly smirking. I had this issue when making my character back in 2019; this option was the softest eyebrow I could get and now even this one was made extra sharp.
2. Mouth
The shape of the mouth has changed. I can see where they were going with the more cat-like mouth, and while I don't hate my character smiling, it doesn't suit every character, and many have lost the seriousness that was the original appeal. Plus, with some jaw options, they look like they're sucking on a lemon.
3. Eye Color
The vividness of the eye color is reduced, as others have pointed out, making the eyes lose that cat-like shine. This can be mitigated somewhat by knocking the color down one shade lighter.
5. Overall Expression
Again, the changes above combine to give an overall different vibe, and the default face is no longer a neutral expression, but rather more like emote: smirk or emote: simper. It's rather sultry and sexy, which is not at all the vibe I want for my character. The droopiness of the eyelids contributes a lot to this issue.

For me, I found some settings I could tweak to make it a little more like the original character. But no amount of changes would fix the droopiness of the eye (indeed, setting 3, the one I use, is the only setting with cat-like eyes that point upward, so I can't change that), nor make the eyebrows any rounder or softer the way they used to be (the eyebrow toggle in facial features makes it even worse, somehow) or the mouth having a constant smile (which again, isn't so much a problem for me personally by itself but combined with the other issues makes it a problem).

All this said, I encourage everyone to use google translate to post on the JP benchmark feedback megapost here. My concerns gained way more traction in JP than in EN forums, even when I posted my issues about the 1.0 benchmark. I don't know how much difference it'll make this late in the game, but I'm holding out hope that the devs see it and listen.