So I know I'm a bit late and doing this a while after 7.1 comes out, but it's hard to muster the will at this point but ANYWAYS
Here's my previous thread where I gave all my feedback previously: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ope-still-F-ed.
When Squeenix said they'd taken a lot of feedback and would apply it, I was very mildly hopeful that they'd address at least a few of the flaws with the appearance of male miqo face 1 as compared to the original, but as of now, those issues have not yet been addressed, so here I am again to once again shout into the void that is the forums in the faint hope that the developers will listen.
I won't go into too much detail because most of the feedback is already right there, but in short, the new male miqo'te model fails to match the old appearance due to a number of key factors that have sucked a lot of the charm out of them and made my characters not look like themselves, and I know other people have felt negatively about it as well.
Firstly, the eyes. For Keepers at least they still look too lifeless, and the upper eyelid/eyelashes still look too thin, which alters the overall shape of the eyes and thus the character's expression. Frankly, fixing that is as easy as upping the contrast of the irises and pupils and making the black part of the eyelid a little larget and the eyes will be fine.
I'll amend my feedback about the mouth somewhat. I thought it was just a texture issue, but at this point I'm pretty confident that the model itself needs tweaks. Aside from just not looking the same, the new mouth doesn't quite make sense either. On the old model, the part of the mouth where the upper lip met the lower, there was a distinctive kind of a W shape. With this being gone, it greatly alters the overall feel of the mouth, and it also means that the mouth's shape no longer matches the appearance of the upper lip properly. The shape is kind of faintly there, but the it needs to be a lot more pronounced so it's actually noticeable.
The other major issue with the mouth is the lower lip. It's way too wide at the sides and should have a steeper taper. Fixing this would make them no longer have that hideously giant frog mouth we've been stuck with. It doesn't show as much if you don't use lipstick, but if you do, the shape of the lower lip becomes glaringly obvious. The old model also had an indication of a little upward indentation at the bottom of the lower lip which is now absent, and contributed slightly to the overall look of the mouth. I'm very confident that this is an actual issue with the model and textures themselves and not a matter of how the game processes information, like the developers have been saying.
Squeenix, please fix it, I'm tired of covering my character's face all the time and I don't want to live in a world where illegitimate methods is the only way to restore some modicum of normalcy in the wake of a graphical update no one asked for.
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Here's my previous thread where I gave all my feedback previously: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ope-still-F-ed.
When Squeenix said they'd taken a lot of feedback and would apply it, I was very mildly hopeful that they'd address at least a few of the flaws with the appearance of male miqo face 1 as compared to the original, but as of now, those issues have not yet been addressed, so here I am again to once again shout into the void that is the forums in the faint hope that the developers will listen.
I won't go into too much detail because most of the feedback is already right there, but in short, the new male miqo'te model fails to match the old appearance due to a number of key factors that have sucked a lot of the charm out of them and made my characters not look like themselves, and I know other people have felt negatively about it as well.
Firstly, the eyes. For Keepers at least they still look too lifeless, and the upper eyelid/eyelashes still look too thin, which alters the overall shape of the eyes and thus the character's expression. Frankly, fixing that is as easy as upping the contrast of the irises and pupils and making the black part of the eyelid a little larget and the eyes will be fine.
I'll amend my feedback about the mouth somewhat. I thought it was just a texture issue, but at this point I'm pretty confident that the model itself needs tweaks. Aside from just not looking the same, the new mouth doesn't quite make sense either. On the old model, the part of the mouth where the upper lip met the lower, there was a distinctive kind of a W shape. With this being gone, it greatly alters the overall feel of the mouth, and it also means that the mouth's shape no longer matches the appearance of the upper lip properly. The shape is kind of faintly there, but the it needs to be a lot more pronounced so it's actually noticeable.
The other major issue with the mouth is the lower lip. It's way too wide at the sides and should have a steeper taper. Fixing this would make them no longer have that hideously giant frog mouth we've been stuck with. It doesn't show as much if you don't use lipstick, but if you do, the shape of the lower lip becomes glaringly obvious. The old model also had an indication of a little upward indentation at the bottom of the lower lip which is now absent, and contributed slightly to the overall look of the mouth. I'm very confident that this is an actual issue with the model and textures themselves and not a matter of how the game processes information, like the developers have been saying.
Squeenix, please fix it, I'm tired of covering my character's face all the time and I don't want to live in a world where illegitimate methods is the only way to restore some modicum of normalcy in the wake of a graphical update no one asked for.
Continue reading...