Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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I wonder how many injuries were suffered doing retakes of that gif.
PLEASE Devs, make the faces reach similarly to humes and elves beauty?!!
I also really don't want to be way way way taller than everyone else, I hope I can scale down to be on par with the tallest humes and elves. I think the model should show far more muscles, like a woman body builder (THAT ISN'T ON STEROIDS), and perhaps have other phenotypes to tell them apart from humes and elves, like their own weird ears or horns or fangs or stranger colors or whatever... but the over-all ability to make a "good looking" avatar still needs to be there... Please??
When FFXIV was in Alpha their "hulk" humes were abominations and nobody played the female versions for long *(only some crazy real women did, it was the least played race/gender). They were just too ugly, but they fixed it up at release, and I was able to create probably one of the first "pretty" avatars of that type. I often got complements from users on my server, surprised I was able to work with the character creation that way.
So I am hopeful you'll be able to get what you want. Your character will be distinctly Ren'kai, but you should be able to have one with softer, feminine features.
The best argument I can comment on to support what you want @Missfit comes from Star Trek. Klingons are naturally very ugly. Worf was an ugly ass dude but after a while you would notice how handsome he was compared to other obviously hideous klingon. There have been a lot of "beautiful" Klingon women over the course of the show and if Intrepid did something like this, I would be happy with that.
My character will be the tallest and ugliest MF to walk the lands. I want people to recognize me on the battlefield.
A classic example is WoW orcs and trolls. Wildstar had it too with the Granok. Tera went all out and made the male Popori and the female Elin as their female counterparts. Ridiculous dimorphism. By all means, let's have good looking female faces, just please don't make them good looking human female faces (or bodies) if the race isn't human.
Guild Wars 2 did it right with the Charr, a cat-like race. You could see what we associate as feminine traits in their faces, but without the dimorphism. The body was thoroughly Charr all he way.
I hope the female Dünir look strong and beefy too. They can tone it down a bit compared to the males, absolutely, but they shouldn't just keep the Alpha 1 models for the women.