i want my old face back

[Hyperia]

I tried to take some new gposes after the patch… really doesn’t look like they changed much at all for my face. Just feel like I went from Highlander Barbie to her older cousin… the brows are wrong, the bridge of the nose doesn’t curve, the tip of the original was upturned while the new one isn’t, the eyeballs aren’t in the same place making the eyes in general look weirdly hooded, the jawline is a totally different shape, and my pouty lips had their Cupid’s bow curves practically reduced to points. Whether or not someone else thinks she “looks better” this way isn’t the point. She’s just not my character anymore. Her “overall look and feel” is gone.

I have to agree that the changes, slight as they are, are off putting. It’s part of the reason why I don’t login much anymore besides content issues.

My character looks similar but the facial expressions are all slightly off. The new riggings don’t match the original.

[Rueby]

I was going through some old pre-DT pics, and decided to retake an old one with roughly the same lighting and shaders....

This doesn't feel like the same character at all, and it doesn't feel like my character. I still get genuinely sad looking at my older screenshots, because the character I created and fell in love with over the past 3 years is just... gone. It's still wild to me that they had the audacity to assure us that our characters wouldn't be dramatically changed, that it would basically only be a texture/shading upgrade, and then they did... this.

I miss our mouth dimples?/corners and subtle smile so much Femra face 2 has been my favorite for a very long time...I remember when I made my aura I genuinely couldn't find a face I liked at all but I fell in love with the face's unique? Mouth shape, there was nothing like it in any game I played before...

I guess that's also what drew me to F Miqo Face 4...

[PaulusHamsteru]

The change is very... what happened to his expression? He went from a slightly concerned naïve young adventurer to his evil twin that wants to scoff at you, but seems too scared to. That's a pretty big change.

The corners of the mouth have a slight lift, giving off a slight sneer, his eyes appear more "open" for lack of a better word like he wants to stare into your soul, and those eyebrows are thinner and less defined.



Or not, apparently...

That's exactly how I feel about the changes. I just hope they can somehow fix his face so I can go back to midlander.

[Khryseis_Astra]

That's exactly how I feel about the changes. I just hope they can somehow fix his face so I can go back to midlander.

Not that Lalas didn’t have any issues either, but at least the changes aren’t so drastic with them as with other races. My Lala still looks mostly like herself. While I’d love my Lala’s lips to be the same size and shape as they were before, they seem to have corrected most of the other problems reported from the 1st benchmark, and I can live with that. But the Hyurs really need some TLC to get their looks right.

[Darko]

Same, I want my WoL's old face back too, something I never thought I'd say. I was so happy the game was finally getting a graphics update until I realized my midlander's face didn't look better, because it wasn't his face anymore. I feel disconnected from my own character of 13 years.

[glitteringcosmos]

+1 to this thread. I'm...getting used to his face now, but I really do think that the changes to the eyebrows are atrocious, and with m miqo face 4 eye 3, if you aren't getting specific angles, the eyelids block the light resulting in a dead-eyed stare. In these images it's not as apparent because I purposely had him looking toward the light, but it's very noticeable in any cutscene where he's in the default stance. It's really upsetting. I want my son back



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