Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[TheVegetable]

Looks like they didn't do much if anything to male miqo face 1. Which is a travesty because the mouth is still utterly fucked. I want the god damn frog mouth gone already

[Daralii]

I am failing to see any of the issues the community raised about character adjustments having actually been addressed at all.

"Maybe we'll fix your character next patch!" is CS3's new carrot on a stick.

[Lunaru_F]

Damn, I was hoping when they said they’d update characters, especially the corners of mouths that appeared to be lifted or lowered, they didn’t touch Miqo Male face 4 at all…

Guess this is me forever now

[Loggos]

I'm not seeing any changes on my char either.

[Luluna]

I doubt they have done much judging by the replies in this thread...

I will log on later and see if they have addressed some of my issues but I will not get my hopes up

[HawkeScream]

"Maybe we'll fix your character next patch!" is CS3's new carrot on a stick.

Fool me once as they say. Carrot looking kinda dry and unappealing at this point though.

Does anyone know if it's better if we keep it up in this thread or if it would be better to start a new megathread for 7.2?

[DynnDiablos]

I think folks need to expect just the slightest of tweaks moving forward. They seem more focused on lighting, gear updates and environmental updates. Anything character-related will most likely be highly selective and minor. They can't do this forever and keep giving out fantasia every patch indefinitely. Folks expecting every minor nuance to be addressed at this point (and I know for many something minor seems major cuz it is personal and your character) are setting up for disappointment.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

"Maybe we'll fix your character next patch!" is CS3's new carrot on a stick.

Except the infamous Lodestone post only covered the plans for 7.1 and 7.2. And given how more and more reluctant they are to express themselves on this subject (not a single extra comment in the patch notes reading session stream yesterday), there's very little reason to believe they'll spend any more time or resources on this issue, unless they resort to silently change things from now on. Still I think there's no reason to have any expectations at all for 7.3 and beyond, except if after 6 months of silence we get another official announcement about the graphical update (extremely unlikely).

So I guess it's up to the players to decide what to do from now on: accept the current state of things despite a year's worth of feedback, start breaking ToS, or stop p(l)aying entirely.
Feels great :^)

[HawkeScream]

I think folks need to expect just the slightest of tweaks moving forward. They seem more focused on lighting, gear updates and environmental updates. Anything character-related will most likely be highly selective and minor. They can't do this forever and keep giving out fantasia every patch indefinitely. Folks expecting every minor nuance to be addressed at this point (and I know for many something minor seems major cuz it is personal and your character) are setting up for disappointment.

Absolutely not. They said they were addressing issues RAISED BY US. People were unhappy enough that we got a whole announcement about it. They said to expect adjustments in 7.1, and those were minor but people could see a little difference in some characters. Some would be pushed back to 7.2, which I think everyone was understanding about, it takes time to go over things and fix, people raised a lot of issues, no problem. Or well, still a problem, but willing to wait it out. People seeing nothing touched AT ALL this time around is absolutely unacceptable and I'm not going to lower my expectations and roll over about it.

[lunartears]

I retract my previous statement about my character's face getting changed in 7.1, when I was comparing today's update I noticed that her face was emoting from the Attention emote. I mistakenly believed the face had been made sterner in 7.1, this is not the case in fact the very opposite is the case, nothing has changed since 7.0 and the same goes for today.

I don't have a comparison photo to share today as I overlayed the face onto 7.0 and none of the features whatsoever are different. Again, this is what I continue to grieve and what I have to look at instead.



I was surprised to see the Au Ra scales aren't suffering from those horrid edges anymore, that's something good at least - but I think they still look worse than the old scales. The shape is really messy.



I'm really disappointed, I've written a lot of feedback about female Face 1 (as far back as Benchmark 1 in April last year) but I'm disappointed for all Au Ra players, regardless of face type. I especially feel bad for those using female Face 2, with your lip shape changing so drastically. Also, I still don't get why the pupil size has been enlarged on us, it's really gross looking - please just revert it back.

I do not know what the best course of action is at this point as a player, it feels that the development team was just trying to save grace by saying they were acknowledging the player feedback to the update rather than actually rectifying the problem. I don't doubt that some people have gotten something good from these updates, but considering how little has changed in these patches I feel like it has to be a small minority of players actually benefiting from it. The best outcome for this problem is adding legacy face shapes to the character creator, but with how Viera / Hrothgar hats have been left on the backburner and how the development team likely doesn't see the loss of character identity as a major problem - it can be considered an out of reach dream.