I’m probably overreacting but that’s just who I am. I’d like to believe that the benchmark is wonky or is otherwise not an accurate representation of what things will look like in DT. That said… hooo boyyyy…
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Chapters:
0:00 – 0:32 Coping
0:33 – 7:27 Au Ra (Exhibit A)
7:28 – 10:27 Miqote (Exhibit B)
10:28 – 11:24 Viera (Exhibit C)
11:25 – 16:15 Twitter Examples
16:16 – 21:55 Why I’m being so dramatic
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new hyur hairstyle is just a chef's kiss :*
atleast we all get a free fantasia to adjust some things. Also i could imagine that it isnt final yet. I know its a hot topic, but i am a friend of body mods in moderation atleast. So i will give it more life by other means if necessary. ^^
I think this is a clear case of "Someone who usually wears glasses suddenly stops wearing them and to the rest of the people think the person doesn't look quite right".
People will get used to it after a while. If you are used to seeing the same character for many years, or even for 1 year. It can look off when they change something about them. But you will get used to it back.
You could just add the pictures of the new models to your phone or computer desktop and having a lot of exposure to them might change your feelings about them.
To be fair, a free fantasia is going to everyone just in case there are stuff players, like us, who will nit pick small details. For myself I saw certain things I may change for my male viera who had a fatherly look and now looks more like a young man imitating an older male viera.
the freaks complaining are just gonna mod it all anyway
I mean, all I can say is that FF Characters look like Madam Tussauds Wax Dolls now and I will not be able to unsee that
I hope that people are posting their complaints about the benchmark on the FFXIV forums. They DO read them when it comes to these kinds of things.
I guess you now have an evil twin sister.
for me it looks like the idle expression is now… idle 🤷♂️ the old mouth looks like a model stuck in a photo shoot, especially the slightly open mouth lol
Havent they specifically said that they actually tried to maintain the "dead look female AuRA"? I think they did
my male roe always had a stoic stare, now in 7.0 graphics he looks like a dead eyed date rapist e.e
The game will benefit greatly from the graphical upgrade in a lot of areas, the SSS brings a lot of softness to the skin shading, the new eye shader has way more depth than the previous one, higher res textures, materials that respond way more correctly to lighting. Not to mention the overall increase in resolution of textures in the environment, the better lighting, more precise shadow maps, the new fog system, a most needed modern anti aliasing solution, DLSS, all of it combined to increase image quality and depth to the whole game. But i'm not that obsessed with the facial features of my virtual character, so i might be wrong right?
I dont know why your aura looks like that… mine looks amazing. Did you check your graphics settings?
Overall, I'm fine with my three characters. My main, a female Viera, is fine. There are a few small things that bother me, but nothing deal breaking. And she does look better in the actual benchmark versus character creator. So, will still stick with her as a main. However, my female Elezen and Female Midlander both have had huge glow ups. Very happy with both of them! I feel very lucky that my characters are mostly unaffected or are better. But, I'll for sure pour one out for those poor de-fanged Miqo's and butchered bunbois.
Maybe its just me but I am sorry Au Ra Females have always looked lifeless.
They clearly look similar and alot of these complaints are people projecting their subjective opinion of their characters appearance onto the actual character themselves. I swear the overwhelming majority of these complaint comparison screenshots I see they look like the same character.
Kinda like – "Oh she looked sweet and cute"
No no, she looked like she does now.
expert level yapping
the thing that i noticed is do not use limsa background for lighting my character looked like a body snatcher took her over. Some colors have been made clearer or darker and lips have been made bigger. For face 3 after some little changes my character looked the way she was supposed to look i had to go one shade up for the limbal rings to translate correctly and i had to darken my skin color a bit for her to look they way she actually looks. The problem is for me atleast some colors were changed to be clearer or darker so you habe to fuck around a bit to fix em.
Also not to be mean and all but isnt fem aura face 1 appeal to look dead inside? thats what most people tell me atleast
Why is the mouth in the down-trail so fuzzy? Looks like they put a 300% soft filter on the lips area and yea, the eyes are rather soft too..
I also noticed the Au Ra not having their distinct eye glow (forgot the name)
I can relate, but with my male hellsguard. The black nose mark is practically blending in with the skin, in comparison to vanilla being very present. For the people who say they didn’t like it or it’s supposed to be an ash mark, be quiet.
If it’s supposed to be an ash mark then it should have been a customizable feature and not as distinct as it was. Also if you dont like it then play a sea wolf. Makes me mad.
Also I think the skin looks dehydrated on male hellsguard as well and looked more aged than vanilla.
Also the facial hair for a lot of the male characters seemed to have thinned out too.
i honestly love the new au ra look…the eyes are gorg ;-;
To be honest, I will not worry about it. The developers are testing out the graphics on your PC to get on kinks out before the big day of launching Dawntrial. Just think of yourself of being a test subject. As being a PS5 player. I am going to bring out the popcorn and enjoy the show.
My friend had to remake her catgirl in the benchmark because she wasn't happy with the version that loaded. She was able to make it into something she liked with some adjustments though, but she was pretty mad for a while because it didn't look right.
I will say for me it's funny because I had the opposite problem you did. I thought my viera looked much worse, and even after changing the options I wasn't happy with it. My miqo was about the same (I use dark hair though, so the eyebrows were fine.) And I thought my au ra looked much better. Not sure if it's just because of the different faces or options or whatever (I use a different base face from you,) but I'm almost definitely going to flip to au ra for Dawntrail just because of how much more impressed I was with it in the benchmark vs how it looks in the base game.
Hopefully everyone who is unhappy with the way their characters look in the benchmark either see improvements from the devs between now and the expansion, or at the very least can find new options that they're happy with going forward.
We are just used to almost 10 years of the same low quality customization, its normal that we dont like these changes at first, but given proper time we'll just get used to them.
Obv i think SE will take the feedback into consideration like they mostly do.
You are definitely overreacting, because you should see your character in the ACTUAL benchmark, not just the CC of the benchmark.
I'm struggling to like it, because my au'ra's face looks completely different to meeee. cries. trying to stay positive lol.
They should just…add more options. The fact its 2024 and they still have the same options as launch is ridiculous. They should go add more lip options, the smaller irises that you wanted etc.
Don't be so dramatic, in the trailer my character actually looked much better than in game, she was gorgeous. It has been said that the creator didn't have the new textures so it was to be expected… Also people should not forget benchmark is not even a beta, things can still change! We can all be happy we even have a benchmark to begin with as ff14 is the only game I know that does this… Be patient and see what it will look like in game, the devs didn't even have to release this in the first place
It looks fine to me. Idk if y’all were expecting ff16 level graphics but I knew that wasn’t happening. It looks better 100% compared to the old one graphics