Wanted to add my two cents to this thread... overall I'm positive about how my character looks with the update, but... she only looks fine until she smiles :( This was something I had noticed in the benchmark as well and was hoping would get fixed before 7.0...

I don't have a ton of non-reshade pics of her from endwalker so I have to use an old screencap from back when I was playing on console but I hope this is enough to illustrate the difference


Before /biggrin was my favorite animation to do with her, and I loved taking screencaps with her cute smiles. Now... She just doesn't look the same. It looks like she's squinting more, and the way the game treats lighter eyes makes her look vacant. /simper and /beam look okay, but /smile gets into similar uncanny valley territory for me.

I'll see what I can do with the free fantasia (maybe making her eyes a darker color?) but when I tried changing her eye color in the benchmark it just made her look like a different person with a straight face. And I don't know how much a change in eye color would do to help the fact that her face just seems to be animated differently.

I'm not sure what to do. I don't really want to fundamentally change the character I've become so attached to over the years, but knowing I may never see her cute smile again is putting a damper on my excitement for Dawntrail. I want to see her enjoying her vacation; right now when she smiles it looks like she's not all there :( (and she's definitely had some weird looks in cutscenes because of her eyes, too)