Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Oh, her limbal rings are the wrong color now, interesting.



I was keeping an eye (haha.) on Sadu and Allie (who looked nothing like themselves in 7.0 because of the dimmed limbal ring, thankfully that has been somewhat fixed in 7.1), and I noticed that in 7.1 Cirina looks even less like she did before because her dark blue limbal rings glow greyish-blue at night/in the shadow, but I wasn't paying attention to Yugiri, that's a pretty drastic change.

[noumen0nn]

There was a post on the ffxiv subreddit earlier today about Miqo'te eyelashes, and the comments are full of people talking about their dislike of the various changes to whatever race they play. This thread has lost a little momentum lately, mostly because not enough was actually changed with 7.1 to warrant additional rounds of feedback (though I still plan on making one, because midlander F face 1 is still a disaster). But I don't want the devs to get the impression that the dislike of the update is dying down or going anywhere. Many, many more players are unhappy with the changes than just the ones who have posted here. I really hope you are still taking all of our feedback into account and are ready to deliver some ACTUAL adjustments come 7.2, instead of another half-effort.

[Valence]

Miqo'te eyebrow thread link

[FuturePastNow]

There was a post on the ffxiv subreddit earlier today about Miqo'te eyelashes, and the comments are full of people talking about their dislike of the various changes to whatever race they play. This thread has lost a little momentum lately, mostly because not enough was actually changed with 7.1 to warrant additional rounds of feedback (though I still plan on making one, because midlander F face 1 is still a disaster). But I don't want the devs to get the impression that the dislike of the update is dying down or going anywhere. Many, many more players are unhappy with the changes than just the ones who have posted here. I really hope you are still taking all of our feedback into account and are ready to deliver some ACTUAL adjustments come 7.2, instead of another half-effort.

This, although I switched to Hrothgar and am "happy" with that, I'd still like the developers to understand that I strongly dislike what they did to my old (Roegadyn) face.

[FuturePastNow]

I'd still like the developers to understand that I strongly dislike what they did to my old (Roegadyn) face.

Since I said this, I suppose I should provide screenshots and some feedback. I took very few pictures of my Roe after DT before I fantasiad so I don't have an exact 1:1 comparison, but here's a before (left) and after (right):



This is also enlarged 200%.

1) The eyes. Removing the baked in eye glow was the worst change they made. The color of the new eyes is barely visible. I don't think I need to say any more.

2) Nose. I'll admit that I was never a huge fan of the Roe nose- Gosetsu has a basically human nose and I'd have used that if it had been an option. But the old nose had some character- there was a slight up angle on bottom, a point on the tip, and thought it's hard to see, the bridge of the nose is slightly tapered, narrower at the top than the bottom. The new noses make no attempt at replicating these features, it smooths the tip, is flat on the bottom, rounds the edges and has a fixed width. There's also an ugly crease where the nose meets the cheek. That may have been present on the old face geo but it wasn't visible.

3) The skin. It's hard to describe but the new face looked wet. Like she was sweaty at all times. It's most visible on the lips but the entire face was like that.

4) Hair. The "fake" baked in lighting and shadows on the old hair gave it volume and the dark colors looked dark. All of that is lost with the new lighting.

I've given up hats to not have to see my old character's new face.

[Winyumi]

Yup. I'm still unhappy and looking forward to the fixes. I hope the dev team is still listening. Not much else to add from my end until the next update.

[Hatsuoki]

I'm still here and unhappy with the lack of fixes. No matter how I look at the characters, I can't get used to the uncanny valley expressions and plastic shine of the skin. The only reason why I haven't been posting is because someone on the JP forums has been posting extensively about the male midlander face 6 changes and I'm really grateful they're so clear and detailed. I've been criticized behind my back on social media for talking about the changes so I occasionally look at those posts on the JP forums for reassurance that I'm not crazy or seeing things.

In the meantime, I feel very disconnected from the game and skipping through MSQ and the recent patches was the only way I was going to get through them. Even then, I've probably done about 30% of what the newer patches contain.

[Rueby]

Man Hythlo and Emet look like cheap plastic lit up barbie dolls. I adored their eyes and how stunning/captivating Hythlo's eyes were...
I was playing the MSQ with my friend awhile back and honestly...meh..alot of NPCs look really weird in this lighting....

[eohippus]

In the spirit of keeping this thread alive, I wanted to repost some of my complaints dating back to the benchmark. I've been really demoralized out of grabbing additional screenshots and am going to unsub sometime in the near future. While 7.1 made some aspects of my character more familiar again, I remain extremely sad with how different his mouth shape looks and how much more washed out his skin became. I really hope the mouth shape in 7.2 will be restored to the shape he had before. He really doesnt look the same at all ingame now. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6471918