(12-22-2014, 06:51 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Chances are, it'll offload some work that your graphics card could be doing from your CPU. ...little optimizations for a few more FPS and some fancy effects. SE keeps saying they won't give us the hi-res textures they said they have :<

(12-22-2014, 06:58 PM)Steel Wolf Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 06:51 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Chances are, it'll offload some work that your graphics card could be doing from your CPU. ...little optimizations for a few more FPS and some fancy effects. SE keeps saying they won't give us the hi-res textures they said they have :<

Awe, no hi-res textures?  :<

(12-22-2014, 06:58 PM)Steel Wolf Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 06:51 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Chances are, it'll offload some work that your graphics card could be doing from your CPU. ...little optimizations for a few more FPS and some fancy effects. SE keeps saying they won't give us the hi-res textures they said they have :<

Awe, no hi-res textures?  :<

(12-22-2014, 07:07 PM)Aya Wrote: Then I remembered the Amani, but I'm going to keep this as I wrote it originally ^^]

(12-22-2014, 07:07 PM)Aya Wrote: I just wish they'd make the females as bestial as the males, but I know its not something that's going to happen.  They like these aesthetics, and its not hard to understand why.  I don't really think technical limitations come into play, both WoW and TERA have dealt with non-humanoid shapes (with differing levels of grace), and FF could have found a way if that is what they had wanted to do.  But they want to make the Miqo'te version of dragon-people, and that's their prerogative

I'll roll my eyes at it still, because, of course they would make an unbelievably dainty feminine model, and a hyper masculine model, of course!

They have done a nice job of making some highly muscled feminine characters in the game, at least, so I have to give them their due for that!  Something other games (*cough* TERA *cough*) utterly fail at providing. [Then I remembered the Amani, but I'm going to keep this as I wrote it originally ^^]

(12-22-2014, 07:20 PM)Iex Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 07:07 PM)Aya Wrote: I just wish they'd make the females as bestial as the males, but I know its not something that's going to happen.  They like these aesthetics, and its not hard to understand why.  I don't really think technical limitations come into play, both WoW and TERA have dealt with non-humanoid shapes (with differing levels of grace), and FF could have found a way if that is what they had wanted to do.  But they want to make the Miqo'te version of dragon-people, and that's their prerogative

I'll roll my eyes at it still, because, of course they would make an unbelievably dainty feminine model, and a hyper masculine model, of course!

They have done a nice job of making some highly muscled feminine characters in the game, at least, so I have to give them their due for that!  Something other games (*cough* TERA *cough*) utterly fail at providing. [Then I remembered the Amani, but I'm going to keep this as I wrote it originally ^^]

Perhaps we are all looking at this wrong...

It was mentioned by a first time poster who I will look up and Rep here in as second that they look almost demonic.

I am inclined to agree. To me neither of the genders look bestial in comparison to Charr and Aman. HOWEVER, they do look demonic... and if you note the horn direction on the succubus from Haukke manor... it matches the female horns of Au Ra. Perhaps we are off on the origin... They also share the frighteningly haunting look.

(I am aware they Succubus in the dungeon has ears and the horns don't replace them, but they have an eerie similarity.)

(12-22-2014, 08:44 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: Given the major theme of the expansion is "Dragons" it is entirely unlikely they are anything but Dragonkin, or at least have an appearance inspired by Dragons. That being said, I don't honestly think that the Males look anymore "fierce" than the Females do. The biggest differences are of course the much larger horns and the fact that the Males have that sort of bearded-dragon thing going on in place of having facial hair. Considering it is supposed to replace the aesthetics of having a beard, I can understand why they didn't give it to the females as well. It would be like adding the mutton chops/goatee option that the Miqo'te Males have to the Miqo'te Females. Other than this I suppose the only thing that makes the Males more fierce looking than Females is that the Males seem to have a permanent look of being pissed off.

(12-22-2014, 05:52 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: [...]Not to mention the majority of players don't seem to really object to the style. We're a minority after all, us roleplayers. [...]

Quote:I was pretty disappointed in the new race, even though it's pretty much what i expected, humans shaded/sized up with a token difference that in other games could be a cosmetic accessory. I was hoping something more akin to a Ronso, Banga, etc. I understand maintaining a certain shape is necessary to not give the art/modeling team complete anyeurisms with every new set of gear, but give me something a more out there.

Quote:not a particularly huge fan of the new race, or rather, the ridiculous gender dimorphism they got going on there... I mean really now.. but hey... still better than the cats *shrug*

Quote:The Au Ra look surprisingly humanoid. The description on Gamer Escape mentions a long tail, but it's only visible in the concept art and on one of the females in the Au Ra quartet screenshot. I expected more bestial from that dragonoid description, what with being the first new player race since FFXI launched.

Quote:To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed in the Au Ra. The guys look beastly, but the girls just look like cute little Hyur. It's hard to even see their horns and tails. I guess Roegadyn women being the least popular race/gender combo means any new races will have traditional gender disparities like this. Kinda sad.

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Quote:Au Ra race is disappointing for me. Not a fan of everyone looking basically like a human, with certain themes attached to them.

Totally this. I really wanted an Ivalice Alliance kind of new race. I would squeal out loud if an FFXII style Moogle became playable.

Quote:What a boring-looking race. Why bother sticking other races in your MMO if they're just going to be human+random animal parts?

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Quote:I am admittedly disappointed. I was hoping they'd go full reptilian, rather than just human with some extra bits glued on.

Agreed. But I'm hardly surprised. We had one human race and four more also-human-but-slightly-different races. It's just annoying that this one is even less different that the ones we already had.

Same, I was wishing for something truly beastly.

Quote:Also very disappointed, but in the end... I guess it's what I should have expected. 11 and 14... neither has ever had races that were not essentially human + 5% of something else. Hell most are just human but with a different build or pointy ears.
I think what annoys me more is how Viera clearly won the player poll for what was desired as a race, aaaaand SE said fuck off and just did something else. But hell even Viera are just human + 5% bunny.
But meh, it's just very obvious that if you want very differing races that are not sort of anime-safe, FF14 is not the MMO for you. This race certainly does nothing to draw me back into the game, personally, but I hope plenty of people do enjoy it and are excited.

Quote:Okay, I am officially underwhelmed. I was hoping for Chemist as a new healer.. and the new race looks dumb /sigh Guess I'll have no issue staying a Lalafell Scholar

Quote:This is so weird, they don't even look like they're the same race. The girls are extremely shorter, and well... basically nothing matches between female and male.

Quote:The men look way better/cooler than the females. They need to make them both equally badass.

Quote:New race just looks like roegadyn an elezen put together... So stupid. Oh with dumb horns added. <sigh> I knew I shouldn't have got my hopes up.

Quote:The female version is a disappointment... They don't fit together with the males , in fact they don't even look like they are he same race. You could have left out or remove the females and said that they only have males who mate with other species.