Characters looking different :/

^thanks Gaile

can we get anime style looking characters? please!

I hope none of my 6 characters has been changed drastically. As i recalled, last time it only affected the rangers? This time, it seem that mostly female characters are affected by this update. Anyone has male characters with messed up pixels?

My female ele with 15k luxon armor seems to be missing her earrings after the update. Anyone know why/how to fix it?

I dont see any change..

before:


after:


i have no complains here cos i really cant see the difference in my ele's face

can you guys spot any difference ? ( yeh i know the before pics are a bit small )

I know it's minor buuuut...

Before


After


Ignore the skin colour, that's just the lighting. I'm more concerned about my character's mouth going from a sneer of half-contempt to a dumb toothy grin :s (yes, both statements are a bit of an exaggeration)

As for Skullcrasher's post, I have to disagree.. when I built my character, I wanted her to look how I wanted her to look, y'know? I'm pretty sure we all know it's just a game and "just a bunch of pixels", however I can't help but get attached to the character I've been using for 14 months.

Personally I think the new look looks better than the old one. Unless I stare long enough. In which case, I start noticing the baggy lines under the eyes. the toothy grin is kinda cute, but yet again, if I stare long enough, I have the urge to hand her a stick or a twig to nibble on

....ANet has nerfed all of my character's armor. I had 3 characters with non-starter armor (15k druid, scar pattern, and Kurzick) and they've all been replaced with starter armor....

.......

AFTER:


I don't have a "before" pic, but her upper lip area is now a mess. In other lighting, she's also got a gray streak runing down the right side of her face. In yet another lighting situation, she's got gray triangles at the corners of her eyes & mouth.

lol, it only looks like that when the character select screen first loads

The face of my elem changed a bit, for the better

I also noticed in character creation that some tyrian necromancer female had their mouth open. Gives them a strange look...

Thank you Gaile for answer - and I hope my mesmer's face will be "corrected". Thank you again for caring

Kook, I think your mesmer has the same face model as mine. Look at my previous screenshot from this thread:



Now I made deeper investigation:



First two images are taken at Shing Jea Monastery and it looks "very similar" to your picture. Areas below eyes and beside lips are totally messed up . On third image my mesmer was in my Guild Hall - all seems ok here. Last image is from my inventory screen - there is something weird with eyes/above them - some additional "dark pixels"

It seems that all these flaws are caused by inproper lightning of face model.. too deep shadows in some areas of face. And it's not visible everywhere - just in some cities/areas/outposts of the game...

Thanks Gaile for bringing this to QA team attention I feel much more comfortable now... Playing a character with rotting teeth is not what I call fun =x

id like to know more about this glitch you are having.

My ele looked stupid before the update, and I'd hoped for a face changer at some point, but now she NEEDS one. I can't stand looking at her anymore.

Edited: pics removed due to being posted on other fourms without my permission.

If I turn her away from the lighting source, it's bearable. Unfortunately eles don't have masks, so it's not like I can put a bag over her head. Enhanced, toothy mouth gape is not attractive, and coupled with a moustache, it's downright horrifying. She's my second oldest character, and I'm not remaking her. If the moustache persists, I'll stop playing her very much at all. Someone please help her! *sobs*

I know you are right Gaile, sometimes the art needs a tweaking. But look at the post I've quoted. There is a big difference in the eyes, so much so that it changes the "character" of the character. Previous, they had the thinner more agressive eyes, now it has a more docile look.

This is more than a fresh coat of paint and art upgrade in this case. Many people spend a lot of time picking just the right look for their characters. There are other docile options on the face selection screen, and not made by choice.

Damn man, looks like someone punched her in the lips and turned her into a duck

aside from the point of this thread, you have a very unique looking monk

very nice


As far as that buck-toothed mesmer goes-> Makes me even more OK with the non-lip-syncing faces in the cutscenes.

And that one elementalist picture (about to spit water?) I think thats the same face I had on my ele... AND i have the whitest/palest skin tone....

If something crazy happens ill post some pics when i get home....

I see no one is posting their ritualists and assassins...

Maybe because we never see their faces anyways?

edit-> Hey Feminist Terrorist-> is your ele working on her drunk title? Im real sorry about that one... dang.


Hold on to hope ppl, dont go deleting any of you 500+hour characters yet-> Anet will fix what needs fixing... they ARE giving the game a pretty hardcore overhaul you know... just give it time

REALLY bad lip job. (referring to Feminine Terrorist)

And thanks Horseman of War. I'm one of the luckier folk that didn't get hit hard with the drastic plastic surgery.

I wonder how ugly my necro looks. He was my fav char.

And my monk.

Were males really affected much?