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Orc (Renkai) Feedback

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  • SathragoSathrago Member, Alpha Two
    maouw wrote: »
    I really don't understand the hate for tulnar?...

    A Tulnar sympathizer, AFTER HIM!
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    I wonder how many injuries were suffered doing retakes of that gif.
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  • MissfitMissfit Member, Alpha Two
    I really really really want to play a female "Orc" but am terrified of the ugliness. I WANT the powerful stats but I don't want to play a disgusting body builder brute of a woman with a psychopath killer face. My hopes are that the "scales" for size and beauty of the Renkai and Kaivek will allow for me to create a powerful looking but still beautiful woman.

    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.
    FFXI 75 cap 2003-2010. Diabolos Server. Amaeru/Amaera. 9 jobs to 75: WHM BLM RDM THF WAR DRK DRG BRD. SAM60 SMN60 PLD60. NIN37 MNK 37. Gilgamesh: Truther DNC75. Wish I got to play BLU!
  • AtamaAtama Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Missfit wrote: »
    I really really really want to play a female "Orc" but am terrified of the ugliness. I WANT the powerful stats but I don't want to play a disgusting body builder brute of a woman with a psychopath killer face. My hopes are that the "scales" for size and beauty of the Renkai and Kaivek will allow for me to create a powerful looking but still beautiful woman.

    PLEASE Devs, make the faces reach similarly to humes and elves beauty?!!
    Steven has said that the character creator can best be compared to Black Desert Online, which has some of the most detailed customization you'll see in any MMORPG.

    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.
     
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  • KhronusKhronus Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I do agree that players should have the option to customize their characters but I feel like the visuals of each race should come down to what Intrepid wants to deliver and that alone. So far, everything they have done has been phenomenal. I trust they will make the right choices that fit the lore and not just make every character have the option to be human-like.

    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.
  • NerrorNerror Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited January 2022
    I hope we can get a wide variety of looks with the char creator, so Missfit can get their wish. As long as Intrepid don't come up with this bullshit we see in some MMORPGS:

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    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.
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    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.
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