Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Kaziek]

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It certainly can't hurt for more players to give feedback, especially since F Midlander Face 1 players seem to be on the same page with issues (all of your points and more have been expressed by myself and others earlier in this thread). But at this point I don't really expect much. 7.1 changed next to nothing, and I get the feeling that we will see less and less about this as time goes on. Best to temper expectations and be pleasantly surprised if they happen to actually come through with some nice fixes.

[noumen0nn]

F Midlander face 1, in my humble opinion, was by far the biggest loser of the graphics update. Not a single feature was transferred over properly, and we lost our face impression completely. It's so bad that it's the reverse of a lot of other faces--rather than looking closely to see the differences, the differences become clearer the less closely you look. I'm serious, squint and look at some of the examples posted above, and it will look even more like a completely different person.

(This isn't to say other faces didn't also get destroyed in the update, I just wanted to point out how uniquely "wrong" this face is in terms of overall impression)

[Tahli]

Yess make that thread if you want i will support it^-^
And also the icon picture still having the old brows baffles me, and they looked so much better before. Some changes made in this update was so wierd. Sadness :c

Alright, it's been made.

There was one line in the official response to player feedback about that said, "Most feedback received on eyelashes and eyebrows falls into the previous category, but we've found that many players are satisfied with the current resolution and shapes. Therefore, we will take caution when proceeding with adjustments." I really wonder if Miqo Face 2 was lumped into that, and do most people really prefer the hard-line eyebrows over any of the earlier versions? Hoping to find out.

[glitteringcosmos]

I'm so mad about how they keep saying "everyone is happy with the eyebrows" lmao literally who??? They're so bad, and every single support ticket submitted keeps getting pushed into "working as intended." I really, REALLY wish there was a toggle to just disable all character-related graphical updates, because they've dropped the ball across the board with their promise to "remain as faithful to the original look as possible." The jump from 1.0 to 2.0 was more faithful than this.

[glitteringcosmos]

Yeah, at the very beginning of this whole process we were promised this (models are the same, only shaders/textures have been improved):

https://youtu.be/18-F5uAyRgw?t=424

Imagine if they had stuck to this plan. (Or rather, don't. You'll just get sad.)


(Yes, I've posted this before but I'll bring it up again and again out of pure pettiness to remind SE how they messed up.)

THIS SO MUCH. I was AT the NA fanfest when they announced this, and this is what I was so hyped for. Not whatever the hell mess we got.

[Shyllen]

I come here as a source of positivity, I'm really happy with the graphics update and I love some the changes a lot (especially the changes to face 2 female au ra), I love that my mouth no longer looks like I'm trying to keep water from spilling out and the changes to the eyes that make them no longer look like reflective stickers.

I think increasing the amount of polygons on faces will inevitably move certain features slightly and the devs did an overall good job at keeping each face easily recognizable while improving some things, as someone with multiple alts I really like the changes to all my characters ! Cheers !

[lunartears]

I'm so mad about how they keep saying "everyone is happy with the eyebrows" lmao literally who??? They're so bad, and every single support ticket submitted keeps getting pushed into "working as intended." I really, REALLY wish there was a toggle to just disable all character-related graphical updates, because they've dropped the ball across the board with their promise to "remain as faithful to the original look as possible." The jump from 1.0 to 2.0 was more faithful than this.

My character's eyebrows look like glue in 7.0... No hair strands.



I have little energy after all these months, but it remains as such an upsetting situation and a frustrating update. I would also take the old graphics back if it were possible, I never had any issues with the old look of the characters or the game.
My heart aches for all of the examples in this thread, I really want to get a resemblance of 6.5 back.

[noumen0nn]

Honestly. I'm back to wishing for a full-on legacy graphics option. I literally wouldn't even care if it meant my character can't make the facial expressions attached to any new emotes, or couldn't wear headgear modeled after 6.58, or anything. I hate what they did to my character's face, and to be quite honest, I think all the new models are uglier in general. I know I keep saying it, but this whole thing was just a colossal waste of time and resources.

[Vbarbarian]

The graphics update has overall been a boon for the game. I don't want the game to look like PS3 graphics forever and most of your updated models actually look far better. As a highlander Hyur, I've never looked better myself. Facial definition such as muscles has been added where weird lumps used to be, my scars are no longer pixelated. Graphics updates in other MMO's have made characters look entirely different, such as Runescape or WoW. I promise you, the 3 layers of filters you apply over your models are entirely the filters working, not the classic graphics where you can count the polygons.

[Windfire]

In the small chance that your post is honest and not bait, YOUR character looks better to YOU, NONE of mine look better some to the point that I "deleted" quite a few of them (via fanastia). And guess what? When RS and WoW changed their models? I STOPPED PLAYING THEM! If a game advertises "play an avatar of your creation (within the game limits)" and then years later goes "nope gotta play an avatar of OUR choosing" they can stick it where the sun don't shine.

If by filters, you mean mods (which are against ToS btw) I and many others don't use them,, what we see is what the devs intended.