Personally, I do think the *graphics* look better. Things look more crisp and clear. However, the changes they made to the facial features just arenât it for me. So to me, even though the graphics make the chars look more clear, the facial features just donât look as pretty. Also, watching this video back I swear the Au ra got the short end of the stick â like for some reason my catgirl looks way more high res in the benchmark than the au ra does? Am I crazy?
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It's not at all unreasonable to have preferences. My girlfriend mains an Au'ra, and her exact words were, "matte finish Au'ra girls won this round."She did say the gloss is more apparent in the trailer, and I agree. After seeing this video, I rolled a bungirl, a Hyur Midlander and a Miqo to see how their lips look, and they definitely won the gloss sweepstakes this time, it seems.
I will say, her Au'ra looks gorgeous, and frankly, all the ones I've seen do, as well. If you decide to tweak your Au'ra in the creator, I wish you luck. Hopefully, there is some configuration that will fit your tastes. Believe me, I understand (I had to retweak my Highlander to get him to a place I was happy with using the new settings and within the new lighting setup).
Iâm gonna miss my cat girl đąđ
I agree with the AuRa lips and Miqo'te lips shape, but not about the miqo'te eyes… to me that white color looks creepy before and after haha
Yeah my Hyur looks completely different. I hate it! I can't really explain… I just look like a wax doll or something.
And yes, the Miqo does look a lot more HD. Or does the Au'ra just look.. muddy? I dont know how to describe it.
Thanks for putting into words what I couldn't quite put my finger on as a guy. My character just didn't look right, but I'm not as good at parsing out exactly what makes that the case. Might be time for male bun or lala for me with the free fantasia we get!
It's just really strange how this is supposed to be an upgrade, and then they go on to just straight up remove the dimension to the skin, lips and face? No colour gradient to the lips anymore. No shine to anything. Skewed face models and eye shapes. Parts of the old graphics just look better quality, it's really bizarre.
She still looks far prettier than I ever will. So she has me there.
Just continue to voice your concerns. on afficial forums ect.
Looks like the dev is having tough time to make these graphical updates. They still need your feedback, so just keep doing it (without harsh words). Many people are seemingly pleased by the update this time, which means the dev does listen, but they are not perfect as you know.
I play male viera and I'm really happy with him now, they fixed 90% of the problems I had with him in the original benchmark, but its such a bummer they didnât do that for everyone.
Honestly scared to look at my wol in the benchmark I canât imagine playing a character that doesnât look like her exactly
Oh No! I really feel bad for you! This sounds a lot like how I felt when PSO2 overhauled their graphics and models for the New Genesis update and it totally nuked my character! I was so unhappy that I quit playing the game for quite a while. Sega kept working on the game and I eventually got a look that I liked. But I still don't play it nearly as much as I used to. I hope that FFXIV will continue to make updates so we all can be happy with our characters again!
Yeah you're right, was feeling the same with my au ra, i mean was seeing the "upgrades" in the graphics and the lightning but still felt my character off.
My catgirl more or less took the changes well so might go with it on Downtrail. Feel you tho, haven't played the game too long at least not in comparison, about a year at this point, but was enough too feel really attached to my character, and it sucks that we can't do anything to keep it other than mods i guess.
This girl is determined on making the game around her preferences. The world doesn't revolve around you.
my veira somehow looks worse in 1.1 than 1.0, not sure if its just the lighting or if they changed the eyes/face
I feel left behind as well. White scales just make my Fem'ra look washed out. We'll see when I get the update since I can't play the Benchmark due to being a PS5 player. But I'm really afraid this might be the semi-death of the game for me. I may still play it because it's a good mindless game to grind out. But even with some of my favorite classes and their combat changes I'm a bit disappointed in as they're taking away bits of the fun from my classes that I worked so hard to learn. I really wish you could go back to previous versions of the game and play as them, just not in the newest expansion. But I guess that's just the risk you take with an online MMO RPG. Not like I've put in a lot of effort in the game as I used too. Ikinda lost interest after the new year. It's not gonna feel the same to me. I may adjust, but I'm not having high expectations.
As someone whose main character is a Miqo'te, I COMPLETELY agree with you. I had the same reaction that you did. I play a dark-skinned catgirl with purple eyes and black hair. The skin looks greyish now, the eyes are so dark and lifeless you can hardly see the color (looks like I have the beginning of cataracts), the lips have no gloss and looks like I had a run in with a collagen needle, and the hair…OMG….the hair is now grey! I have it on the blackest setting and now it looks grey. It changes my whole look and there is no way to tweak it with fantasia to make it right as it is already on the blackest setting. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the background and lighting improvements, I just wish they would have left our characters alone. I have become extremely attached to my character for the last seven years, and now I feel that in less than a month I will have to say goodbye to her as I know her. I am really disappointed. đ
I find similar problem with my Viera. Its kinda close to what it was before(or currently is), but it's looks like imitation of my character and not an update.
Yeah agreed, the pupils being bigger for no reason, the different shape and gloss of the lips and the different shape of the noise really upsets me as well.
I have something a bit similar, while I'm happy with how my bnuy looks, for some reason everyones screenshots in twitter look way better? am running at max settings so i dont know why my character looks weird, i guess am just used to before
obviously its not gonna look the same, i personally love the matte doll like look to her now, so its just a preference thing! i used to play only f3 aura before but i dont really like it after the graphical changes and thats fine đ€·ââtheres so many options to choose from its really not a big deal
Your Catgirl is giving Overly Attached Girlfriend vibes
you are crazy yea XD
It over looks better and they cannot please everyone thats impossible
Just fanta tiny differences in colors to something you like? Isn't that the point of the fanta?
hmmïŒthe new face is ok for me
KEEP GIVING FEEDBACK!
My bunboy was so bad in the first benchmark that I decided to skip dawntrail. But this version fixed him fully and I'm so happy.
I really hope you and others who still aren't happy to get what changes you want
Ngl you can have a preference I understand that, we all do, but to expect them to get it 100% the same as before is unfair. We all wanted these updates to happen, itâs good for the long term health of the game. Having a characters face look slightly different is not enough to take away from that fact. Even my character who Iâve had for 10 years looks a bit different, but I know itâs worth it and I can also change him a bit if I want with the free fantasia. Itâs all getting a bit silly now.
I think both your characters look great.
I have been in that sulky grief that I see you in now.
It's sad, but sometimes playing an MMO means accepting changes you don't like.
I wish you luck with your future characters.
The Miqo lips are still ruined ;-;
For Treicantha, my own main who is also a Xaela, turned out amazing. EXCEPT for the lip color. HOWEVER, I actually have noticed a fix for my end, as well as a massive discrepancy between the benchmarks on this fix. The lighting plays a huge factor on the gloss now, but this is ON TOP of the actual color. YES, the color AFFECTS GLOSS in my experience. The discrepancy is by how much. In the first Benchmark, it was by a notch brighter, but I was not happy with the lacking gloss. Now, I cannot get what I want on that row, and had to go a full 2 notches brighter and one more saturated to even get the color with the gloss I currently have.
I agree, they did nothing to change the female Au Ra faces and they still look terrible compared to what we have now
I don't understand why so many changes like the size of pupils or the shape of the mouth, I understand they wanted better textures and lighting but they definitely changed faces… also added eyelashes, changed shape and color of eyebrows, all those things affect the perception of a face.
The old version looks worse
I had an epiphany that could it possibly be the character lighting setting being on zero in the build of the benchmark, idk about anyone else but I found when you turn that setting up in game setting options characters look better overall maybe that could fix things?