i want my old face back

[Ayer2015]

Your character literally looks better post update....

[Stapler-san]

cool opinions
but the fact is the new faces are lower quality
all you have to do is look at it for a few seconds to see things like the chin clipping into itself with some expressions to know that
also real lips simply do not look like that i have no idea who thought it was ok

[Kes13a]

I think mine looks.. the same actually.

I have not noticed anything worrse at all.

I do know after the WoW character graphics update some years back, that it was much the same with the ruined characters, roll it back and utter garbage being released comments.

feedback or not, I highly doubt they will. not to say your opinions are invalid or anything, but they wont. if they feel they can fit them in, they may do some tweaking of the current models, but the old ones are gone. it is unlikely there will be a toggle for them for the people that want them. so, unfortunately, if you do not like the graphics, you may not have many options available to you.

[ElHeggunte]

Aside from a few environmental or specific lighting situations (which was already true pre-update), I personally like how my character turned out. It’s just a straight glowup from my perspective.

This is of course going to be a wildly subjective experience because most threads like this where someone is bemoaning how SE seemingly “butchered” their character, in the before/after images I can either hardly tell the difference or I personally think the updated character looks better. There are only a scant few examples so far where it does look like a significant change or downgrade.

[Reinha]

I think mine too looks worse off with the new graphics. There appears to be people willing to give their opinions about other people's characters in this thread so go ahead and do so if you please. Which version looks more beautiful, first picture or the second picture?

[Amh_Wilzuun]

Here’s the thing….


When you stare at one character for thousands of hours even the subtlest of differences will make it look “off” to you. I’d advise anyone who is upset to give their brain time to adjust unless it is actually a big oversight.

My miqo’s lip looks a little different post update and for a little bit it made her look wrong to me. However when I put the old lip and new lip side-by-side I saw that the size and shape was pretty much identical. The different was that the higher res textures made the shading/shadows different, which gave it a slightly different character to older worse shading. This was weird at first but my brain has adjusted after playing DT for a little bit and now I just think my character looks better and more detailed.

[Stapler-san]

Here’s the thing….


When you stare at one character for thousands of hours even the subtlest of differences will make it look “off” to you. I’d advise anyone who is upset to give their brain time to adjust unless it is actually a big oversight.

My miqo’s lip looks a little different post update and for a little bit it made her look wrong to me. However when I put the old lip and new lip side-by-side I saw that the size and shape was pretty much identical. The different was that the higher res textures made the shading/shadows different, which gave it a slightly different character to older worse shading. This was weird at first but my brain has adjusted after playing DT for a little bit and now I just think my character looks better and more detailed.

damn it sounds like it would be a really awful idea for a company to make major changes to those characters that people have been staring at for thousands of hours
crazy!

[Visthra]

damn it sounds like it would be a really awful idea for a company to make major changes to those characters that people have been staring at for thousands of hours
crazy!

I’m really tired of people gaslighting those of us who dislike their new face. Staring at the problem longer won’t fix the problem. Very often fantasia won’t fix the problem either. Many characters look objectively worse than they did in EW unless you change to an entirely different race or clan, and some people don’t want to do that. We shouldn’t have to do that.

My face 3 Elezen male Duskwight has the wrong texture on his face. He has the texture for the Wildwood clan. It’s not a matter of me getting used to it, it’s literally the wrong face. I’ve tried redesigning my character with fantasia, but nothing gets rid of the black eye bags. So until they fix it I’m not going to stop giving feedback.

[Burmecia]

hello, dev team and graphics people behind ffxiv!

i hope you will consider miqo'te male face 4 again.
the eyes look very dull after the graphics update, especially eyes 3.

[Cheapshot]

Here’s the thing….


When you stare at one character for thousands of hours even the subtlest of differences will make it look “off” to you. I’d advise anyone who is upset to give their brain time to adjust unless it is actually a big oversight.

My miqo’s lip looks a little different post update and for a little bit it made her look wrong to me. However when I put the old lip and new lip side-by-side I saw that the size and shape was pretty much identical. The different was that the higher res textures made the shading/shadows different, which gave it a slightly different character to older worse shading. This was weird at first but my brain has adjusted after playing DT for a little bit and now I just think my character looks better and more detailed.

I dunno, this looks like more than shading to me. Everything on my miqo’s face got flattened. Nose and lips lost any kind of shape they had. The eyes got drooped. The original mesh honestly looks more detailed in most places. Look at the forehead for example and tell me that’s an upgrade? The brows lost detail and are flat now but aren’t any higher resolution. The eyelashes changed significantly but aren’t higher resolution. The eye texture was changed but isn’t higher resolution and is showing up grey and cataract-y looking in game. You cant see it from the side but the new lip texture is atrocious in my books. It has a heavy, baked in and incorrectly shaped shadow on the lower lip. It’s also got permanently enabled pink lip gloss now despite my lip colour being set to none. The only things higher resolution on my characters face are the skin/eye socket textures and the hair, and those were machine upscaled.

I’m not someone who is demanding the old models back, I wanted a glow up too! I’m saying this aint it. This aint a glowup. Anyone who says it is are the ones being tricked by the new lighting, not me. The old model probably would have looked just as good with the higher resolution skin/eye socket and hair textures. I would love a more polished and higher detail upscale of my face but I just got a different face that’s mostly the same level of detail or worse, being lit by better lighting. Why should I call this better and be happy with this?

Edit: (Also sorry if it feels like people are jumping down your throat. You’re much more polite than most people I’ve encountered who disagree with people over facial changes. I don’t mean to come off as mad at you or anything. I just disagree with what you said and want to offer my observations. Thank you for being here, and thank you for discussing things civilly)