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Dawntrail Benchmark Vs My WoLs

First of all, for those of you that missed it, the benchmark is available for download:

The rest of this post is gonna be under a cut as I'll be posting 6.0 vs 7.0 pics of my characters, and my thoughts comparing them.

First up is Luki, and her eyes pop like crazy! They feel like the most details thing about her and that's... well, they're nice to look at, but they don't feel like they fit the rest of her. I think it's less the eyes themselves as much as the skin texture... it's weird and... flat? I can't decide if she looks caked in foundation or like she's made of rubber.

I've notied that the quality of most viera ears' textures don't match the hairs at all. It's really jarring.

The freckles are even harder to see too. And I much prefer the shape of her eyes in 6.0.

Next up is Lokin, who's ears suffer the same problem as Luki's, but overall I'm really happy with his look. He's even more handsome than before!

His eyes also look like they belong to him (unlike Luki's).

Now let's move on to my old main, Kikilu. Somehow, she's looks even more adorable! I really can't complain about anything specifically regarding her.

Alright, on to Kitani, who also looks great! I prefer the shade of 6.0 hair, but hopefully that's something I can tweak. It seems a lot of the hair colours have changed a little.

The only other things are that their fangs are nowhere near as prominent as they were before, and the clan markings seems to have faded too.

I've also just noticed that her eyebrow colour doesn't match her hair. Hmm. Let's hope they fix that, or give us options to pick eyebrow colour seperately.

On to Chisaki, who really does look different. Um, I'm loving her eyes and eyebrows, but there's something really off about her lip shape. I don't hate her look at all though.

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Overall, everyone's faces have varying degrees of an artifical look to them now, and all the colours seem duller to me (note that all the above screenshots were taken as SquareEnix intends you to see them - without external shaders).

I'm probably one of the few that, while I hugely welcome graphical updates, thinks they should have kept the character features looking as much the same as possible. And that seems to have happened with some, but not with others. Midlanders, both male and female, seem to have really gone through some unsolicited cosmetic surgery, while the majority of the others escaped with a few unavoidable tweaks.

I really hope everyone offers their feedback, positive or negative, to the devs (in a decent manner). And I hope that, by the graphical update's implementation, we all feel happy with our characters. They're so important to us and our enjoyment of the game.

(Yes, I've tried with different levels (including 0) of gamma correction.)

#dawntrail benchmark #final fantasy xiv

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In your darkest hour, in the blackest night…

I'm not immune to ffxiv greatest au. everybody say thank you @kicktwine

#gpose #ffxiv gpose #alisaie leveilleur #ffxiv

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heavensward really has all types of elves good boy, feral, and bishonen

#haurchefant greystone #estinien wyrmblood #aymeric de borel #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv

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Announcing the FFXIV 9th 14-hour broadcast schedule and guest details! Taking place FRIDAY, APRIL 12th!

Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXX

A Stroll with Yoshi-P

THE PRIMALS 10th Anniversary

Dev Team Round-table

Plus additional exciting segments!

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anyway before i stop my encyclopedia posts i need you to know the moonbunnies are transing their genders for fun

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv

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I wanted to draw this for PRE-fan fest hype but I guess I have enough hype after it’s still pretty relevant.

This has basically been the whole fandom since seeing hroth moms and pictomancer💕💞❤️

Please don’t repost without credit ❤️

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv fanfest #ffxiv fanart #graha tia

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FEMALE HROTHGAR ARE REAL!!!! pLEASE I CANT

#hrothgar #ffxiv #ffxiv fanfest #dawntrail #female hrothgar

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My boyyyyy! He looks so happy!

#ffxiv #alphinaud leveilleur #final fantasy xiv #dawntrail #ffxiv dawntrail

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DAWNTRAIL - FANFEST KEYNOTE

from the official artwork for 7.0 and female hrothgar!

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FEMALE HROTHGAR REAL

#hrtothgar #final fantasy #final fantasy xiv #dawntrail #ffxiv

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So I made a bingo card for Tokyo Fanfest this weekend! If you’d like to make your own, just go to this Bingo Card Generator HERE, and you can make one for free! You definitely don’t have to use the layout I did, but I wanted to make it Hali aesthetic so you get a pink bingo card from me!

These are all of my predictions for what will be revealed in the Keynote Address tomorrow evening. Some I’m pretty confident about, and some are just a lot of wishful thinking for me. If you want me to elaborate on any of these, feel free to ask! Happy FanFest everyone!!

#ffxiv fanfest #fanfest 2024 #tokyo fanfest bingo card #ffxiv

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anyway, now that the cloud servers are gone rip - here is a (VERY LONG) selection of interesting names and sights i encountered during my one week in the deranged mpreg limsa chat cloud server:

my personal favorites tho:

#ffxiv

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Hiya folks. Todays the ffxiv hair contest winers were announced and of of the styles I made won.

The one who will be implimented in game will be Natural curls.

These were made with my friends in mind (because I love them and they deserve more actual natural curls) while taking into consideration the lack of curly hair, the textures I know they would be able to make and how it would look like on non poc wols

The winning hair

This was the first and more simple one I made. I started out with the base shape then painted it over with a natural curl hair brush.

I wanted to make a texture I felt i’ve seen the devs make in Highlander/Midlander hair but no where else.

I simplified it for the quickly drawn examples … I have a feeling the end product might be closer to those instead of the more curly version. Here is to hoping no.

The ones I made but did not win, so wont get in game

The curly swoop

This one was actually requested by one of my friends.

She wanted me to try a hair still she wanted to have in real life. Due to the reasons stated on top, i had to loosen up the curls of the swoop to make it work with what i knew was a texture they could pull off and also work with non poc characters.

Old school ponytail

This one was inspired by nostalgia from when I was in grade school.

I remembered those hail tie balls so well and associated them with fond memories.

Sadly I didn’t think i could do my original idea of the thick cute braids i associated these with in a way that the game would make it not look racist/work with non poc characters so I focused on just the curls. It ended up reminding me of Terra from FF6 but more curly.

In the end. I’m glad Natural curls won. I really hope they get the texture right and curly.

I still feel awkward cause i’m white woman who submitted these. But I did them with love and support for my friends and to yell at SE to add more poc hair (wich i saw a shorter dreads hair and also a really elegant brais with poofy curls won so i guess my plan worked?)

I just hope this will make them make more hair with poc in mind so the players can eat well.

#ff14 #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv community

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square enix: hey lets make a glam with over-ear headphones that sounds swag and cool

square enix: wait fuck some races have weird ear placements how do we deal with that

square enix:

square enix: perfect

#im crying with laughter #ffxiv

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Shaaloani duty support npcs

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