i want my old face back

[Mapleine]

Right now I'd settle for not having the single worst DLSS implementation in the history of the tech

[Plasmaspy]

And I want the forums to talk about something that actually matters to the game but here we are.

No one gets what they want

Ofc the player with a character that wears a full mask doesn't think facial appearance matters.

[Avina]

Same here. My motivation for gpose is completely gone now.

[Serenitey]

Same here. My motivation for gpose is completely gone now.

Aw you were such a cutie before. This one makes me angry. lol That new one is terrible.

[GrizzlyTank]

Same here. My motivation for gpose is completely gone now.

Interesting that the mouth in this case is the opposite of what happened with most other races and options. Like in this case the mouth has shrunk and the edges are more flat, which is how it was for most races prior to the update.

Otherwise the space under the nose and eyes is more pronounced, which plays into their mistake of going for a more realistic art-style than sticking to what we have had for over 10 years.

[noumen0nn]

I will probably need to stop playing FFXIV. My WoL looks so bad now that I have to look away from the screen when her face pops up in a cutscene.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Thank you for being kind about it, lol. I'm really really attached to her, so I think seeing it then was really overwhelming for me...it still is in a lot of ways. It's hard to show in pictures, but I hope you can believe me when I said the animations look bad and not just in the way people expect for Elezen...the expressions just looked really off in cutscenes. OP's post has a lot more examples of them. It's something that I hope can be fixed

Now imagine not being able to play the game at all anymore due to severe eye strain caused by the new graphics.

That is the situation some people (including me) are living now. 6+ years of bonding with WoL and the Scions, down the drain. I don't mean to sound overly emotional, but it really does feel like your friends being taken away from you.

[noumen0nn]

Do not let yourselves be gaslit. There is nothing "objectively good" about these changes. Art style and impression are always more important than things like texture resolution and polygon count. The impression of my WoLs face has been destroyed for no good reason; do not expect me to be happy because "the lighting is better" (it's not, btw)

[Hyskaris]

Like others have said, I've lost my motivation completely to Gpose or do really anything at all with how severe this change was. I wish my character had ended up only with a slight weird difference or similar, but this is imposter-levels and isn't the same character. I chose Face 4 and this specific config so they'd look older, and now they look 16 and proportionally very strange. I don't want to change races because of attachment and that I'm a roleplayer, so this has me pretty bummed out and unmotivated to actually play.

I've posted this elsewhere on the forum, too, and really need it to be known that this face is nowhere near the same shape, proportions, or really anything I loved at character creation.

[Starlord]

I respect people's opinions on the character update. But for me personally, I think they did a pretty good job. Environs even more so.

https://i.imgur.com/pb5pnoG.png

Can't wait to actually walking into the world of Eorzea ^^.