they did say that they are taking feedback for the benchmark on the forums though so changes can still be made

@PrincessofKeys

3 ай бұрын

Which is great people should go over there and say their piece then. The expansion isn't out yet and they are still working on it. This is why I'm not upset about anything.

Pre-Rehab Post-Rehab She went through some shit.

the CC is still using the old lighting engine so it clashes with the new textures

@idno4856

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. This confirms my suspicions.

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

I can't wait to see how the actual game looks because I was like "there's no way this is the full picture, there's no way this blurry ass skin texture is it." Because it looked so diff in the live letters xD

@Zoeila

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea i first noticed it because my viera's lips looked flat in the CC but when i got to the char select screen where you pick armor they looked glossy like light was reflecting off them.

@idno4856

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea yeah that's why I asked you whether the TSCMAA rendering method was available cause my understanding is that'll fix things a bit. But then again, Yoshi P shows the difference on trees and flowers, not characters, so it's only speculation on my part.

@FutayuriShironeko

3 ай бұрын

Once again. Mods to the rescue, feeling kinda bad for console players. I know this isn't full picture, but even with full-ish picture we saw in fanfest, I still find old textures better on most races/gender combos. They feel more alive. Modded characters look like we aren't even playing the same game, so players still have that.

Weird, I felt like the quality looked better without compression butchering it from KZreads side

The cats losing the fangs is the biggest L of the century.

@PrincessofKeys

3 ай бұрын

As people said just the angle and they reworked their teeth to add more polys to it I think...less jagged I suppose

@Hiromi_Raven

Ай бұрын

This has been fixed now to my knowledge, or it will be for the next benchmark.

For the life out of me I couldn’t find the option to turn up or turn down the character lighting like you can in Endwalker and I feel like people having the option to match their character lighting settings to benchmark would somewhat help

graphics in the eyes are way better. same everywhere else except you might be cooking in the hair and lip shine point. However youre right in that everything did kind of change slightly sculpturally. That's the main thing.

Another great video! I love listening to rants but your voice just makes it so much better!! 😁

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 honestly love the new au ra look...the eyes are gorg ;-;

When I saw the graphics update stuff, I always thought the brightness of the eyes going down was a bad thing. The colors aren't even as vibrant as I want on current graphics, and now you'll have to zoom in to even see someone's eye color at all.

So the biggest problem with bun boys is that all Viera now use the Rava assets, check the Veena eyes, and you'll see they now use the Rava thicker iris. So i think its a big reason why they look off.

@Brozinator97

3 ай бұрын

I was wondering why my Veena's eyes looked bigger! Between this and the lighting changes causing illuminated ears, I really hope they fix it before the main game comes out.

@liquidlar

3 ай бұрын

I swear the lips on my veena contrasts with the skin more than it used to... its really bugging me it almost looks like he is wearing lipstick

Catgirls losing their fangs is jarring.

@ishirutaekakura308

3 ай бұрын

well moonkeepers, but yeah. Sunseekers don't have them

@nyeonii

3 ай бұрын

I just used the benchmark and could definitely still see fangs.

@Aviii_

3 ай бұрын

Male mooncat here, and I can definitely still see fangs in the character creation and benchmark trailer,. Certain angles make it hard to see but it's enough to keep me happy. I'm not sure if they nerfed it and made them more subtle, or if the smoothness of the new models simply makes it look smaller. The older models are more primitive and jagged, so the fangs might be more pronounced as a side-effect. Still, I agree with the character creation looking horrible. Benchmark trailer made it look a bit better, and the expressions are a hundred percent an upgrade, very expressive, but I still prefer the old "matte" skin texture :(

@nyeonii

3 ай бұрын

@@Aviii_ yeah, possibly with the teeth being more detailed they don’t stand out as much. The character creator definitely needs work. Some character models have been updated really well, while other models look entirely different. My catboy looks fine, but my viera girl looks just terrible

@Serathera

3 ай бұрын

Talked about this with most of my fc and neither one really cares. Because they are all modding anyway like most they know in limsa. So i guess only people who cares are either on console or never touched mare. Thankfully im a sun cat and on console so i don't have a problem.

We lalafells got lucky I guess. I also wish there was more shine on the lips though.

@svenkaahedgerg3425

2 ай бұрын

The lalas were left the most recognizable, so yes you got lucky

Please communicate on the forums if you havnt already

I hope they actually get these things fix. I cant even run the benchmark because Im on ps5. So… I HAVE NO IDEA how my aura is gonna look like 😭 (scared)

Can you show your graphic setting on the benchmark? because my was totally different look from your video.

my FC mates made the observation that the characters look like a plastic barbie dolls

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

I see it :x

The lighting in Character customization in the Benchmark is like very weird. It constantly shifts, and its hard to gauge/adjust skintones/anything involving color when it's constantly changes like that. Look at : 10:20 to 10:26 When you choose 1 skintone, the one minute it will become very saturated and warm, the next minute it's pale and sickly.

@kmeanxneth

3 ай бұрын

the CC is always been like that. ( i don't mean it not bad, just not anything new)

I had the same reaction to seeing my Au Ra in the benchmark. Even the updated benchmark didn't get it right. There's no life in her eyes. Her personality is gone. She's just a doll and I miss my character. I'll probably have to switch to Miqote at this point. Which is such a shame, because I've been an Au Ra since HW. :(

Thank you. I mention the same issues and got called out.

If I had to wager a guess, the character creator is still using old lighting data and so it's going to look wonkier. The same thing happened for my Miqo, but the moment I got into the benchmark itself, all the issues weren't noticeable.

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

i felt like my au ra still looked wonky in the trailer :c miqo looked a bit better though, less psychotic LOL

Great video! I think it inspired the blog post Yoshi P wrote since they also referenced the "Lifeless eyes'"

Just asking cause I did this my self: did you check the graphic settings in the benchmark, that they are at least the same as you're using rn?

I feel your pain. My viera went from wide eyed cutie to benedryl addicted bun. 💀 it helped to change her eyes darker but yea… hate the eye shading they’ve added to the viera. They all look drugged as hell now.

also never thought about moisture till now and the new character models indeed look drained. Someone in the game asked me if I was excited after trying the benchmark and I was not as enthusiastic as he wanted me to be I couldn't pinpoint it then but now I see it when I load my character save side by side.

i'm not sure if this is true but i remember hearing someone saying the lighting is unchanged in the character creator and switches to the improved lighting once you initiate the benchmark test, and i hope they're right about that and i'm sure everyone's criticism will be listened to in some form. i'd be surprised if there's no minor facial changes in dawntrail or its patches

I’m so glad you pointed out the lips… there was no shine on it when i tested it lol. F3 Au Ra looked different in the benchmark too :/

To be fair I’m on ps5 and I’m terrified at how my aura is going to come out 😢

My lalafells skin is yellow 😭

Thank you so, so much for making this video. I thought I was going insane. I cried when I saw my WoL in the benchmark. And the gaslighters are out in force on the forums today, so I was feeling really alone, even with the countless other people voicing their concerns. Just hearing you talk about this made me feel so much better.

Who knew that after watching an FFXIV review video of any kind, the one quote I won't get out of my head anytime soon is "Where's the moisture". Yep, didn't see that one coming.

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

WHERE'S THE M O I S T U R E ?

@venti9925

3 ай бұрын

​@@Aithereain Balmung

@JamesRogers1983

3 ай бұрын

@@venti9925 *spits coffee out*

My biggest problem with my au ra was the lips too! Like all the texture and shape was taken out and now instead of a tinted gloss she’s wearing overdrawn matte lips 😭

There there. I guess as a Lalafell I didn't really notice. My complaint I suppose is they should have unlocked all hairstyles for this benchmark since I couldn't see what my Ramaza hair looks like.

@cadencesilvertale6310

3 ай бұрын

the nose looks wet at certain angles and they made the cheeks look more puffy cause it is better rounded now... from certain angles we look like small animals now not that everyone notices that ... also the ears have been altered slightly though extra detail to hair was more noticed by people i think...

@NotTheWheel

3 ай бұрын

@@cadencesilvertale6310 I mean there's slight changes and I think as a Lala I look pretty darn handsome and cute :3 just want to know what my character looks like with my actual hair style cuz there's not really a good equvilant.

@Ramielgodofdeath

3 ай бұрын

If you go into the my documents folder and copy your saved character appearance data from the main game over to the benchmark folder and renamed that.dat file, it will show up with the actual hairstyle, but you can’t customize the character It will be named something like character_01.DAT When you put it in the benchmark folder, you put bench at the end like other appearance.dat in that folder

@RicardoSantos-oz3uj

3 ай бұрын

Until the lalafel smiles. They look psychotic. Due to the teeth being much smaller than the skull.

where's the M O I S T U R E? haha coping crying what did they do to our characters

I do have this conflicted feeling with the new models and I just can't put my finger on what exactly

I hope gently that this is still an in progress thing, I do agree on the eyes (with certain lighting they look GORGEOUS but without lighting it's just empty), and with my own main WoL the hairline is actually floating slightly above the forehead which now has more wrinkles, but seeing some people having more drastic changes like this is worrying, I hope things work out at least!

I personally found my Dunesfolk Lalafell looking good for the most part. In comparison, the original model's hair looks greasy against the benchmark. I do agree that the eyebrows were a bit lighter than before, but my original eyebrows looked kind of scribbled on so getting actual eyebrows kind of outweighed that for me. Plus, the glassy look makes sense on the Dunesfolk, who have film over their eyes for protection from sandstorms, and they seemed more expressive than before in the CC imo.

You are correct, F the people downvoting, they are idiots

It's amusing you want the big shine on hair while others go "wow old hair looks like clay"

everything just looks like it's either made of plastic or rubbed in oil i said this to my friends when they first showed off the character changes in hopes it was just a work in progress but nah this looks gross lol i'm hoping it's like the EW one and they make some major changes before release saw some stuff online with neck issues and moon cat's not having any fangs lmao.

My F Midlander Face 5 shape looks different especially the eyes. It's gonna take while for me to get used to it. I hope they can still fix it. 😢

Think there's still a need for users to use Shader mods like ReShade after DT and the new graphics update get push out?

so thats why i thought my hair looked weird the shine is missing

just downloaded the benchmark today i cant unsee it now

@PickyyVickyy

3 ай бұрын

the eyes look better but the lips are a no from me

I have mixed feelings on my bun boy. I think he mostly looks fine but there's a couple, relatively small things that I hope they will fix before release (like nose and lips being too dark). And if they don't.. well I'll probably get used to it 🤷‍♀️

@Tokinosaure

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, same with my bun boy, he had a pretty small bunny nose with cool shading and now his nose just looks like he has dirt on it and is 3x bigger ! But I really like how it looked in profile, so I don't want to change his nose :') And idk what to do to make the lips look better, it's either too dark or nothing...

@maddragonqueen_

3 ай бұрын

@-toki1567 The lip shape is also pretty bad across the board, like for every race. They just totally flattened them out and changed the lines of them and I do not understand how that was even possible so I am telling myself that maybe they aren't finished with mouths yet 😂 I think if they fixed the mouths a lot of the other changes would be more acceptable

@Tokinosaure

3 ай бұрын

@@maddragonqueen_ yeah exactly, I hope that they will fix this, but I think if everyone points it out they will fix it

Honestly, I am so happy to see so many people complain about the new looks of their characters. I re-created my BF's character and thought he just looked a bit softer (Miqo male). To me it looked fine but he was like "this is not my character!!!!". Then I re-created mine and saw it for myself. My Miqo became a chubby hamster (cheek shape, mouth shape) and my Viera got a pig nose. The lips of my Lala are way too thin now and her nose consists of only two dots that supposedly are the holes to breathe through. All in all, except for my Au Ra every character I worked on to make them look as cute as possible was ruined. At first I thought I was just being over-dramatic, but seeing how unhappy everyone else also is gives me some peace of mind, cause that means something REALLY is not working out quite right and it‘s not just my imagination.

@PrincessofKeys

3 ай бұрын

As people said could be because old engine clashing with new textures and stuff just have ti wait until the actual release. And they are apparently taking feedback from people so there is that.

@ORANGEkanariya

3 ай бұрын

@@PrincessofKeys And we just got the confirmation that they‘ll update the Benchmark software, so here‘s hoping it really changes stuff. 🙏

Personally I prefer the new graphics options, however I completely agree that the customisation options are extremely limiting :( *cries in male Au Ra with those horns*

Havent they specifically said that they actually tried to maintain the "dead look female AuRA"? I think they did

@Shilobotomized

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's why half of us play Au'ra lmao, no thoughts head empty

@explosiver

3 ай бұрын

I love the resting bitch face on my character

@christafart4202

Ай бұрын

Yup they sure did

Thank you for making this. I’m in the same boat, though my only real issue after some adjusting is my male rava’s ears being so out of place with the untouched textures. If feel bad for my veena friends and I’m on the deep compium train with you that these are just issues on the build used for the benchmark and not the final intention of the devs 🫠

Im gonna assume this is a demo until release i really hope this isn't the final product

At first I thought you were doing a comedic vid.... Then I realised that, oh no, this is real. Tbh I found your miquo was better than the Viera. I found the latter's face was chubbier and the lips were squeezed horizontally. I think your "doll" description was a perfect way of describing things. I know you can't change this in character creation, but was there an option to use the new rendering method or is it FXAA by default? Maybe this is cope, but I'm hoping the new TSCMAA method will fix this. Also YoshiP said things weren't finalised. ...but now I'm scared to try the benchmark. I love my character... To the point that I haven't even used the free fantasia on her....

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

It's a little bit of both. I'm dramatic and that's fun for me and I'm sure it's fun for other people too. I'm serious, but I'm also not losing sleep over it c: I do genuinely feel taken aback at how my char looks with the graphics update. I think I'll get used to it, but I cant pretend that I wont feel any sense of loss once things change for good. I can only hope benchmark is the true issue. I'll see how things ACTUALLY look in Dawntrail, and if it bugs me well... I guess I'll be using that fantasia.

@idno4856

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea Yeah it was a fun video; I should have started with that in my last comment, sorry! I'm not panicking about how it'll be in the actual release either, but the results were quite surprising. I guess now we know why SE used Lalas and female Hrothgars in their previews haha

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

@@idno4856 i dont think its gonna look as bad as the bench mark, i think theres something up with the lighting/rendering cuz it looked so much better in live letters xD. So i really cant know for sure how ill feel until DT is fully out. But it is sad to see how some of the features got tweaked and sometimes, kinda lost their charm. Everyone is getting straight boring lips now i guess =P

@idno4856

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea Hahaha, yeah, and soulless eyes. But like you said in your vid... our characters have been through some stuff haha. But yeah, one other commenter said it's the old lighting engine, which makes sense. Also it's probably the old rendering method. Plus they aren't done and have tons of time to fix things as well. Out of all game devs, I'm willing to give these guys a chance and the benefit of the doubt

Yeah the color in my aura's lips is just nonexistent, they look sickly compared to before, among other things

I could not help being amused by your reactions to how you Au'ra looks in the benchmark 😂 I will agree with you about the lips, but I actually like the new eyes better. To each their own I guess 😅

The only thing i know is that the character models have always looked bad in the character creation menu. They dont look the same in game even as of now

Also in the Viera ears “at least the ears 3” still looks the same, you can see the rectangular edges in her ears

In my 5 years of playing this I've learn to never expect too much out of FFXIV so I'm not even mad anymore lol

I was perfectly happy with the way my char looked when I imported it into the benchmark, like stepping into old shoes somebody had repaired and polished to a shine. BUT having said that, I can see your complaints about your Au Ra are valid. The mouth IS different. Objectively. The shading and lighting I believe as others have mentioned is just the old lighting system in char creator so that will probably get "fixed" in Danwtrail. I also remember Yoshi-P mentioning somewhere that they had trouble with one specific eye style for the Au Ra (I think it was the 2nd Fan fest on Dawntrail?), said style being the dead/soulless eyes, which I understand to be the exact eyestyle your char uses. Mouth slightly different, eyes not matching up and thats 40% of your characters defining features in-engine being... "wrong". The mouth I would imagine has a good chance to be fixed if the devs see a post with both side by side, but if my admitedly questionable memory is correct, those eyes are the best they got. How you would go about getting the devs attention on this however is another story entirely... One more thing that came to mind as I was watching ahead, the "blur filter" might actualy be an ingame graphics setting like motion blur (I know, should not affect anything here) or an overzelous Anti-aliasing or something like that. Might be worth adjusting any settings related to any type of blur or anti aliasing and see how that looks?

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

Looked into the settings before but didnt see anything special, I can check again for something like anti aliasing. I dont expect it to look that blurred in the actual release of DT cuz there's just no way based on all the footage weve seen from live letters. For me, I think I'll be okay with the eyes if they can add a better reflection. I WOULD prefer a smaller pupil, but they main issue is just kinda the lifelessness of them xD I think in terms of the actual details of the iris and the vibrancy of the color they look good.

@neriansnowpetal

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea m!VeenaViera face 3 player here... a lot of people have issues with this face in particular but one thing here is they actually scaled up the iris size and made the pupils of the Veena smaller to be the same as the Rava, and a lot of people including myself are rightly upset about it. Also the mole/beauty mark facial feature that I consider to be a core personality feature, a trait that I've grown to love on him, has been replaced by a small line on his cheek, it has been wholly unaffected for rava on the otherhand, so I can only hope and pray that this is some sort of texture bug. Other than those two things, I'm actually happy with how my boi turned out, but that said, those two things are actually MAJOR things imo... so... idk, I'm conflicted.

new hyur hairstyle is just a chef's kiss :*

Meteor himself looks jarring in the benchmark

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

I THOUGHT SO TOO xD I think I'm too used to seeing him in the super HD trailers. I was like my mans looks made of playdough what is happening xD

My character looks like they are in a movie, it turned out great for me. Seriously can’t wait.

@camillaturner1610

3 ай бұрын

My midlander looks fantastic. I am so excited.

@Aethereality

2 ай бұрын

@@camillaturner1610the hyurs are finally winning! I might play as one!

I can't even get past the download 😭

I like the new look, loved the huge density of animals as it ran across the screen

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

ngl those rock creatures looked cute af

@zehnni

3 ай бұрын

@@Aitherea yess and the lil sheepy looking things

With regards to the bun looking the best: you know a graphics update is fucked when the best looking part of it is changed the least from the original

I agree the new avi textures look flat and plastic like. Hopefully it is because of an incomplete something in the benchmark. Though I'd expect the benchmark lighting and shaders to be a finished component.

I fully agree with what you're saying. In part my Au Ra has a "glass eye" so the lack of shine (along with the limbal ring) works fantastic for that eye, but now my characters non glass eye looks even more dead than what I tried to make look like a false eye. We need to be able to add the gloss to the lips again, it seriously feel like you cannot have gloss anymore on the lips. I would've also liked it if they added a toggle for these features, and like some additional shine for the hair to make it look more in line with the old graphics. I feel like for a lot of characters it's a big downgrade in the personality of the features. The Hrothgar changes, for the most part, look great but for everyone else it looks so much worse imo. We just need a lot more customization which I doubt Square will ever agree to because FFXIV is built upon spaghetti code and duct tape is the only reason it's not falling apart so I doubt they'd ever try to update the Character Customization.

I'm struggling to like it, because my au'ra's face looks completely different to meeee. cries. trying to stay positive lol.

They just need to add a little more shine to some of the textures such as the lips, eyes, and maybe the hair. They're probably not done, but I recommend giving your thoughts or thumb ups* in the FFXIV general forums. They HAVE made changes based off those threads. There are a lot of threads right now talking about these same issues; so whatever you can get out there; it'll help the dev team make better changes. Still, I think they are not done with this whole thing. It'll probably take a lot longer than 7.0 itself, so let's just hope they'll focus on this so we can enjoy our characters in 7.0.

I had to change around my characters face a lot for the first benchmark, her eyes were like bugged out and her lip shape was wrong. I do really like the limbal rings now, but I do agree on the reduction of I guess brightness in their face.

I look the exact fucking same lmao. I don't even think they upscaled the dirt on my face.

They do look slightly different I noticed it myself but in my case I think the new graphics does look better and less flat (I play Viera) but I think you can prob use a mod when Dawntrail roles around to keep the look that you're more comfortable with.

My cope is that it's the lighting

I think if you have criticisms, you should always speak on them. I had some issues with my Highlander, as well. I ended up going into the character creator and tweaking some things, because he just didn't feel like the Highlander I loved. I did create a Highlander I like again, but I had to rework his features. It was a lesson in how even one minor change can completely throw off the look I originally went for. Having said that, I also created an Elezen that seriously looks like young Johnny Depp. It seriously has me thinking of rerolling.🤣Some are cursed, some are blessed, I guess.

@interlinkkd

3 ай бұрын

i’m glad the elezen were done justice with this graphic rework. they used to look really wrinkly and overall odd

@BaghNakh1

3 ай бұрын

I did the same thing, had to redo my characters from scratch and I achieved far better results than just loading their saved appearance. I tried doing that with my main and my alts and it's obvious that the graphics update, due to all the changes, means your character won't look the same if you use the exact same values for things that modify stuff like skin tone, eye/hair/makeup colour, etc. Because of the changes to textures, lightning, etc. the best approach is to re-create your character from scratch and you'll get something that more closely resembles your in-game character, probably not 100% but something that is pretty much very close if not the same but "HD".

@natebroadus8474

3 ай бұрын

@@BaghNakh1 that's why I'm glad they're throwing in a free Fantasia. I recreated my Highlander almost exactly the same, but some races got such a huge glow up it has me seriously considering a reroll. No joke, Elezen look amazing after the update, and I hear Au Ra also came out a winner in all this.

@JamesRogers1983

3 ай бұрын

@@BaghNakh1 Good point

Have you seen new female Highlander in the benchmark trailer? Oh my fucking god. I've been Viera for the longest time, but those female Highlanders, I AM DROOLING ... and I'm a girl!

For players with male characters or older looking characters I think it can even look more jarring when facial hair is involved. I’ve been playing as a white hair Hyur midlander male with face preset #7 which has a stubble by default and seems around 30 ish. The same face in the benchmark looks a lot more weathered and aged. With the white hair and stubble my WoL looks really aged 😭 Also, the stubbles are so muted now and looks so much different than they used to. And I agree that the shine of edges of the lips are gone and same with some contour effects and shadow. I’m huffing copium at the moment thinking that when the actual release comes it’ll look much better 😅

Elezen look really good with the graphics update, i was the same initially, i didn't like the new Mi qo or Au'ra so i loaded up a premade elezen i had and it's now my favourite. face 4, brow 1, eye 3, nose 4, jaw 3, mouth 4.

I kinda hope they do what they did in everquest2 when they updated the models. They kept the old models in and you could toggle between the new and old models on a race by race basis.

I agree with you 100% but also the way youre saying it is sending me 😂😂😂

I think this is gonna be one of those things where some find it amazing and some find it tragic but are able to adjust to a new race or adjust settings on their current one to get that look back in a sort of way, I am of the belief that the Dawntrail version looks better than what we currently got. I don't see the plastic or dead behind the eyes thing if anything I think they look that way now in EW and look much more alive in DT. Unsure if its to do with the eye makeup if not (not sure if that's an Au'Ra thing or not since I play Viera). Put it this way EW looks like before makeup was put on vs with it on with DT version.

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.

Something that also looked off was the brown hair looking brighter and less saturated. It was only the black hair option that looked the closest to the current dark brown

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

I noticed on some races/hairstyles if I tried to make the hair black it was dark brown and i was like wait, but what if I want ACTUAL black?? xD

My Highlander's neck is clipping through his own hair and I think I burst a blood vessel when I saw it

better be handing out some fantasias because everyone looks all wrong now

i think your new au ra looks amazing! But 100% different just need to get used to i hope XD also more sliders pls SE!!!

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

Maybe we can pray they'll give us sliders for 8.0 xD

quick qustion for you, it's about the lighting and the shadows, did you make sure that you run it on windows 11 and under System>Display>Graphics>Default graphis settings You have everything, you can skip Auto HDR, enabled? If you don't the shading is visable only on fullscreen Also about the fangs, from what i read, it is a bug

You should always complain if you have issues with it, that's how things get fixed. I may be of the mind that a lot of the complaints come down to a matter of taste (moon cats losing their fangs is a crime, though), but I'm also insulated to minor changes to my character cause I made the decision like three years ago that I was switching to Hrothgar when femHroth dropped, so I look absolutely nothing like I used to. XD

@ugxsan

3 ай бұрын

More to the point of the video, I agree a more robust character creator would be really great. Just more options is always good. The ability to change more things around would be great.

@Aitherea

3 ай бұрын

Ive def noticed some people very happy with their models whereas others report similar issues to me. I think it's absolutely a mixture of personal taste but also just the specific race/features you had chosen for your char. I think my bunnygirl looks basically the same just more HD. I even kinda like the lipstick better. It's difficult because obivously they cant please everyone. It just makes me wish that we had better customization, because with how limited the options are, now that the update forces her look to change, i feel like I cant customize it in a way i like because there just arent enough options available.

This is dawntrails calamity “we know because it was our story, our graphics, and the worst part, no one can even remember”

My last fantasia was a dark void lala not unlike Vivi from FFIX. I love it and hope it's my final form. We'll see if the void goes deeper with the new graphics update. I'm on console so I have to wait to truly see the difference. Here's to official release curing our worries.🤞

I'll just leave this sacrifice for Lord Algorythm here ^^

My biggest gripe with how my character looks in benchmark has nothing to do with lighting or moisture, but the size of her pupils 😭. I play Veena Viera and they have bigger pupils than Rava in the game now, in benchmark however they have the same size smaller pupil that Rava have. This one small change turned my cute bunny into very serious and sophisticated lady and as beautiful as she is, she is not herself anymore. I truly hope this is a bug or something that will get fixed because I feel incredibly sad with this change 😢

If you Read the page they do saw it is not final and Submit feedback

My hyur got some retexture on her chin and it looks like acne lmao

What if the new face slot allows for makeup? Just wishful thinking on my part.

The problem with the new skin is that they're using new rendering techniques that are more realistic in terms of how light works on real skin, but on a character that doesn't have realistic skin textures and other things that are required to make the end result actually look good. The tuning of the parameters also seem a bit off. The old shading is very simple but that's what makes it work. Basically, give us more options. And regardless of what they did, change is of course going to make a lot of people upset.

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I noticed that they tried to make the highlight in the eyes "dynamic." When your char moves, the lights in the eyes move. While it's a good idea in theory, it doesn't work in the context of this game -- at least not in the bench mark. Because, whenever there isnt much light available or you turn your back to the light, your eyes cease to have any reflection at all. And then they look ESPECIALLY soulless xD

That is worrying 🥲

It may be shot in the dark but I've noticed Dawntrail added upscaling options for FSR and DLSS. If you've have chosen a graphical presets from a benchmark, these upscalers will be toggled on automatically. Upscalers are getting a lot of frack due to making things blurry and edges to shimmer. Especially with FSR. Another suggestion is Auto HD option on windows. They are on by default. They are known to make things look washed out. I highly doubt these are the issues causing it but who knows. My condolences on your dissatisfaction. It would appear Miqote and Au'ra was affected most. But then again, that may be a coincidence by the larger population of those races.

What I like of this new look of character is that they look less... perfect, less doll in a way. But I get that the player should be able to choose if their characters should be looking like this or not. Also I have tried few things in the CC for testing it on my own, there is few limitations I have found : - Only the first pannel with the etheric thing was updated with the new lighting system, not the other, it was often doing weird thing (the floppy viera ears for the Veena in light color base and hair (light stick)) - The CC texturing are in low quality for some reason, but not in the benchmark when you launch the cinematic - Some lights are buggy and are not reflecting properly on certains colors or textures (often overlapping) - Some characters may appears dead because of the old lighting used in the CC instead of the new one ... And some smears, but it was normal given their were still working on it. I just hope people will like their characters, or that SE will add more options of custom. I guess I am lucky that my AuRa was not butched and have still the same essence that I have imagined for her, but, it was a lot of drastic change for their characters they cherished :(...

i'm surprised nothing was said about them low res scales. I dunno if it's a graphics setting but my character's scales now look like pixelated stickers on her skin lol

I do you find it funny that the characters look better in that trailer that they posted about the graphical changes that they're making compare to the benchmark that they released

I hope some assets are just misplaced for the benchmark because losing the fangs is fucked