Fem hroth rigging problems?

[Iscah]

So... I tried on that Bridesmaid dress and...

To be fair, it has always looked awful on Roegadyn as well, and I don't find it that flattering on the medium-sized races either. I feel like the neckline was designed for Lalafell proportions rather than human so it ends up unflatteringly oversized.

[Pip_Chick]

To be fair, it has always looked awful on Roegadyn as well, and I don't find it that flattering on the medium-sized races either. I feel like the neckline was designed for Lalafell proportions rather than human so it ends up unflatteringly oversized.

I see! I was just trying it on, never was a fan of it (I prefer the spring dress). I just thought it was funny how it repels itself at the arms.

[Minali]

This is a forum for feedback. I'm giving feedback. I have been playing a Hrothguy for years, and two Vieras, I am aware the chances are rather slim 7.1. will suddenly give us 30 hairstyles and make all hats wearable. However, how gear looks on them certainly looks like a bug (as do their shoulder positions in general sometimes tbh) and my bug report was not moved to "Working as Intended" either. So I'd rather post it here as another example instead of doing nothing. You're free to find it super pointless of course, but the very reason why we have Hrothgals and possibly why they don't look like catgirls with a different slider for body height is people posting in the forums and on social media asking for them and making suggestions, so...

[LLSmoothJ]

Honestly they should have never released this race if this was the best they could've done. Or at least pushed it back until they're able to get everything in order. The fact that they STILL haven't fixed the hat issue with the other races is just ridiculous.

[Shuuchi]

Honestly they should have never released this race if this was the best they could've done. Or at least pushed it back until they're able to get everything in order. The fact that they STILL haven't fixed the hat issue with the other races is just ridiculous.

Hroth shares assets with Roe, that much is obvious. Been calling them Roe with fur glued on since day one.
It's also the least played race by a long shot. That's probably one of the reasons why Fem Hroths are late by a whole expansion.
Unfortunately, devoting the FF14 team's ever-dwindling resources to fix a problem that only effects a dozen or so people in a world of multiple millions doesn't make sense from a budgeting standpoint.
Low effort for low demand, if you will.

Though, I do agree the hat problem is stupid given the proliferation of Vieras.

[Absurdity]

Hroth shares assets with Roe, that much is obvious. Been calling them Roe with fur glued on since day one.
It's also the least played race by a long shot. That's probably one of the reasons why Fem Hroths are late by a whole expansion.
Unfortunately, devoting the FF14 team's ever-dwindling resources to fix a problem that only effects a dozen or so people in a world of multiple millions doesn't make sense from a budgeting standpoint.
Low effort for low demand, if you will.

Though, I do agree the hat problem is stupid given the proliferation of Vieras.

Kind of, male hrothgar share body models with male roegadyn which is quite obvious.
Female hrothgar on the other hand share body models with every other race's female characters besides Lalafell.

This is also what leads to the weird scaling on armor for femhroth, almost every piece of armor is made for female midlander and then scaled through the unique racial skeleton, with femhroth they just clearly hit the limit of skeleton scaling to the point where it starts looking goofy.

[Einnecy]

Hroth shares assets with Roe, that much is obvious. Been calling them Roe with fur glued on since day one.
It's also the least played race by a long shot. That's probably one of the reasons why Fem Hroths are late by a whole expansion.
Unfortunately, devoting the FF14 team's ever-dwindling resources to fix a problem that only effects a dozen or so people in a world of multiple millions doesn't make sense from a budgeting standpoint.
Low effort for low demand, if you will.

So, to dial it back for a moment, why release them in the first place then? Is it not disingenuous to release a half-assed race and then refuse to bring them to a polished state akin to the other playable races because "they're the least played race"? The statistics for hrothgar and viera are despite their issues. If they were complete their numbers would be much higher.

- signed, person who would play a viera if they had hat support + all hairstyle options.

[Minali]

Looking forward to 7.1, if they might start drip feeding Hrothgals new hairstyles as well, as they started doing with Hrothguys and Viera a while ago, and then call it "see, we're working on it"...

That said, I could imagine they wanted to put them out earlier, even if buggy and terribly incomplete, because then working on them might be higher on the priority list than it would be as a feature "we might implement at some point some day in the future". (And because you can add it to advertisement for your expansion.) Who knows...

[Allegor]

Honestly, regardless of the race's popularity, Hrothgals are the expansion's "new toy" so to half ass them doesn't speak well of SE. You either do it properly or not at all. Frikin WoW does a better quality control over their races, when some of them consist of 1% of the total playerbase.

[DynnDiablos]

I won't change back because I finally feel that I am "who I am supposed to be" race wise and looks wise if that makes sense. However, I do hope for new hairstyles and for them to fix this rigging issue. Thankfully, almost all of my glams aren't impacted by this because I don't wear a lot of sleeve heavy garb.

I think SE also sets themselves up for this type of issue. They half-ass a new race, give them limited everything and then folks switch back to what they were previously. Then we get stuck with "well, it's not a very played race, why put the effort in?" Which isn't fair. Many would have stayed hrothgal if they had the same features and access as the other races.