Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Liamont]

How are people disappointed in a literal model improvement? They increased the polygon of the models so that your character does no longer look like he came from a 2007 game and you still whine... I swear to god attachment bias has made people blind.

Brother, are you blind or are you unable to see that he has completely different eyebrows now? If you read my post, you could see that I was disappointed with the eyebrows, specifically, not the rest of the face. A tapered eyebrow is very, very different from a thick at the end eyebrow, right now he looks aggressive rather than neutral. I specifically picked the eyebrows I did because I greatly dislike thick at the end eyebrows.

Is this too difficult to understand? If you are happy with your character, that's great. However, coming in here and not reading, then telling people that it's an "improvement" is rather uncalled for.

[SongOfTheWind]

Are the fem aura the only ones who have now lifeless, soulless eyes?...

Mviera too

[Iscah]

It's kind of hilarious that the graphical update has given my [Au Ra] character a second pair of eyebrows

Interesting thing with that, because I suspect it might be one of the things that was there but invisible before the update, or at least I was getting that impression when I was trying to make sense of the cast shadows on face 3.

The "old man" face 4 actually does have a double eyebrow with two swooping lines of eyebrow hairs if you have the "thicker eyebrows" option switched on, so I suspect that the other faces might have the same structure but with more conventional eyebrows only running along the first ridge and not the outer part.

That said, I feel like the original faces have a number of structural parts that we aren't really supposed to notice. If the artists intended for them to stand out with shadows on them, they would have manually added shadow there.

[Riavell]

From "I hate you all" to "Please let me leave".


The irises in general are much less defined and you can hardly see your pupil. Making the sun-cat option kind of redundant since you won't notice the cat eyes.

It looks like your character has a completely different personality :/

[KhujaRela]

I made a thread mainly regards to face expression changes
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...58#post6502558

I also see that in some au-ra and hyur faces pupils got bigger for no reason...eyebrows also changed in thickness and expressions. some lips are wider or thinner. I honestly don't understand, this has nothing to be with better graphic resolution...

[Eris249]

Long hair is as stiff as a board and does move any.

[AetherHale]

Why can I go to a country where the hrothgar have a high visibility and population but they can't wear all the hats that their vendors give out?

[Rikizza]

i just hate this fanbase lol. I feel like they destroyed all the good stuff about this graphic update. The first pictures of the graphic update that was released in january looked AMAZING, and i feel like the the release looks nothing like those pictures because of the stupid feedback that was given by this giant crybaby fanbase.

[Irishfae]

Sadly disappointed with nothing having changed from the feedback and I'm going to submit a bug for the lower eye lids because they are just wrong and catching the light wrong and distracting ways.

That said.
I would really love the EW options for the lines of the face and mouth 3 available as it originally was. In addition to smaller pupils so the iris color shows more.

[noumen0nn]

i just hate this fanbase lol. I feel like they destroyed all the good stuff about this graphic update. The first pictures of the graphic update that was released in january looked AMAZING, and i feel like the the release looks nothing like those pictures because of the stupid feedback that was given by this giant crybaby fanbase.

If you've been paying attention at all, the negative feedback didn't start with the previews in February. They primarily started with the first benchmark, which not only looked nothing like the previews, but was objectively poor quality and full of bugs. Don't blame us for giving genuine feedback, blame the devs for doing a poor job.