Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[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

[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.

[Rueby]

The Au Ra in the 2025 Heavensturn promo art have the same dilated pupils we have now in-game... should I take this as a sign that this is considered spec?

Huh? Pics?

[Kahnha]

Give me my glowing horns back.

[Rin_Sato]

Still no fix to Miqo'te Face 2 eyebrows...

[Turethir]

Crossposted to the Thancred's New Face thread, but a few of us Thancred fans have put together a comprehensive site demonstrating the issues with his updated face, and have collated several image and slider comparisons to show the differences in details.

Please check out the link below and feel free to share with your friends! If there is any way to get the word out it would be much appreciated.

Save Thancred website

[Anarnee]

Logged back in today to take my alts through the Starlight event, and I just feel so dejected. Over the years I've taken thousands of pictures, I loved meeting up with friends at the holidays to take pictures of our characters and I loved looking back at those memories.

How does a game that put so much into a photo mode, mess up this badly? You had the forethought to think that people might like their characters enough to want to take pictures of them, but then not enough for thought to preserve those characters, even though we were promised they would.

The only reason I go into Gpose since DT is to get pictures of how off things look. I WANT to take pictures and enjoy the seasonal events, I want to get excited about things, but then I look at my characters and immediately get taken out of the moment because of how uncanny they look. What's the point of pictures when my characters, and my friends characters don't look like themselves?

I wanted to be excited for the savage raids and for chaotic, but between the DT graphics update messing up not just characters, but lighting to the point of making people sick, I realized, what was the point?

I want the mounts and glamours from the content, but I can't enjoy the glams and cosmetics because I don't have my characters anymore, so even if the content is fun and engaging again, finally, why would I want to even try it, since I don't know if I'll ever be able to enjoy my characters again. FFXIV can be a fun game without the glam and glitz but what made it a special experience for me was taking the more engaging game aspects and melding them together with the fluff of getting to make a character and feel like I'm going on a journey with them.

[Iscah]

How does a game that put so much into a photo mode, mess up this badly? You had the forethought to think that people might like their characters enough to want to take pictures of them, but then not enough for thought to preserve those characters, even though we were promised they would.

It hurts that they added improvements to the glamour system like double-dyeing and facewear right as they altered all the characters so I never got to make use of them.

Plus they've now made that weird decision to change how the gpose camera moves without including a toggle back to the old controls, so even if I do try to take a picture, I'm left utterly frustrated and probably haven't managed to get the shot I was after.

[Edith_Greystone]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...igger-than-6.0
I submitted a bug report about Aura male's limbal ring and iris. I wish to contribute further information on limbal ring ,but the thread was moved to "Accepted Bugs". I can't post more in that thread.

Here, I'm glad to see the Aura's limbal ring glowing again and the color was adjusted. But if you choose light colors, the limbal ring will become thicker. If you picked dark color it didn't have this problem.

[FateweaverAlpha]

Still here, still unhappy with both my main Au Ra Raen female face 2, and my Elezen Duskwight male face 2.
So little changed in 7.1 for either. I don't even know if I should hope for 7.2 at this point.

Duskwight's skin is somehow now more shiny than it was before. He can stand directly in the rain and I don't see a difference from when he's not in the rain now. :/
The Raen still looks like a blank faced zombie with duck lips and drugged out pupils.

I find myself barely able to play. I don't even want to step my Duskwight into my favorite expac Heavensward cause I know it'll be ruined for me with his emotes all hecked up and looking like he does...

If I didn't have a house to upkeep I wouldn't even log in anymore...