Characters looking different :/

My ele, could be the lighting as well tho but i do notice differences ingame as well

Dark Eye shadows or eye lining under eyes now, face is smaller and face also looks skinnier

urrg if I have to...

This one is from the character creation screen. She seems to have a bit of a five o'clock shadow. But it doesn't show up so much ingame. Can't say as I've noticed more make-up as I chose the uber-slutty ele face anyway. So she had it caked on already.



This is ingame. She has a fairly prominent black line at either side of her mouth that makes her look like she's smirking. Don't really mind so much. Earlier in the day she looked like she had black fangs..
She seems to have developed my habit of blinking when being photographed as well...



Not earth shattering...

But my lovely necro seems to have developed an orange rash on her... assets. I get the impression they're meant to be veins.



Sorry, thought i had a better shot of 'those'. I had to brighten it up slightly. Kaineng Center is really dark. She seems to have a bit of bleached moustache as well. Poor girl.

On the whole though, over four toons I'd say they're pretty much ok. Better in some ways.

Nicelly made GIF.

Thanks

I prefer the older version of how my ele looked, the face looked healthier, cuter and friendlier. After the update my ele still is hot but she has a sinister appearance to her now.

i say the lighting but nothing's changed physically.

i've noticed the face isn't as long with my new ele

what i'm trying to do now is look for older screenshots before the patch and get my "new ele" into the same lightning/area and snap photo exact same way

Her face is less frosty i think.
And the lips are more smily now.

I personally prefered the before one.

ok its not the best pic but its all i could come up with so far:

pic to the left is the old one, the one to the right is the new one, this was concerning the bigger hair buns in the update, its really nice to see that gaile is posting in here and it gives me confidence that they will restore our chars to their old looks, but yeah this is really bugging me because its not the monk i've played for the past 10 months and im really attached to this char :\

No, it's changed, I'm sure of it. My mesmer has it too, and it's VERY noticable on him. Disturbingly so. It looks like some kind of burn scar or f@#%ed up beard. As for his face, I don't know. I haven't taken off his mask since pre-searing, except one time when getting a new one, and that was only for a few seconds. Oh, it's an imposing mask... the badass Jack of Blades type (kudos to you if you know who that is).

What upsets... no, PISSES ME OFF, is the fact Anet did all these changes to faces and hair, and I STILL have my bald spot (see here: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...4#post1939894). I was just about to email support when this update came up. I was hoping that with ALL THOSE CHANGES, the problem would be fixed. But... nothing.

Rather than beat the holy living crap out of my monitor with my keyboard, I seethed for an hour or so, no longer in the mood to play GW due to dissapointment and frustration that this 9-month old issue hadn't finally been fixed. It CAN'T be that hard of a fix!

Now, with all this ruckus going on, I figure now is the best time to be heard, as I'm sure Ms. Gray is working on all these complaints and such.

*takes a DEEEEP breath*

Gaile, could you please, PLEASE help me!? Please, when the faces and such are fixed, in that same update, could you try and get this stupid, STUPID glitch fixed? It would mean A LOT to me! I'm totally serious when I say that I would be eternally grateful to you and everyone else involved. I'm sure many others would be overjoyed as well, because this seems to be a problem regardless of graphics settings and hardware, and I can't be the only one. PLEASE, Gaile, I'm PLEADING with you to do this for me and all the other Warriors who must have this problem!

*phew!*

I believe this is an issue with at least one other warrior hairstyle, in this case for a female warrior, the one with the leather headband and the short hair parted in the center. This one is much less pronounced and only apparent when zoomed out, but still, I know from posting about this issue before that at the very least, one player is upset by it.

I've never heard about this for any other profession, so I imagine it must be cased by either the placement of warriors' hair (too far forward?) or by the shape of their heads. But that's just a guess.

As for my Warrior himself, his face is... well... it looks more real, there are some slight wrinkles and creases, he does not have the complexion of a 10 year-old like most GW faces seem to have. I like that. I don't want characters who look like models. At the same time... he looks like either he hasn't slept in a day or three, or he's wearing eye makeup... I'm not terribly pleased with that part, it's unattractive either way, although if I got a drunkard title it would be slightly more fitting, I suppose.

Anyway, I hope everyone's facial/hair issues are fixed, including ones that weren't affected by the update

Ok the is my hot ele before:



and heres the after one:




very upsetting indeed on my#1 char i spent over a year on, "delete"

yea kno how u feel aeris was my fav char from the beginning and she just isnt the same now ;_; cries

are you on crack? she looks way better, she was so pale+crappy makeup before.

honestly most of the proph ele faces really sucked ass before, they were all pale and ugly nothin was defined.
obviously theres little bugs with the changes with eles and all others, but still eles got way better changes over all.

I second this.

Ive had a warrior with this same hair and nothing has been changed regarding to the bald dot on his head, and he has existed since I first bought guild wars Prophecies, that was 15 months ago.

This only happens when the character is running, each step it gives, the bald spot rises to torment us.

Here:





Anet, fix this....

NOW!!!

monkey face >_<

YEAH!!!

I'm so lucky that my characters didn't get warped by the Anet plastic surgeon

Just to remind: The artists are monitoring reports in this thread and they will no doubt do what they can about various issues outside of the one involving the changes to faces, but there are no promises that they can correct each and every side issue in the same timeframe. I know they'll take a look at other things, too, as time allows.

It is all an illusion.I played with few of mine but never gave them a really look over will do tonight.

This has been like this since prophecies came out.
A bald dot pops over, instead of improving current faces that are glitch free, why not work on the ones that actually need fixing? Priority is the right name for this situation.





Anyway, I would apreciate it very much if this was fixed, which im sure will, and I do apreciate the fact that the artists are monitoring reports on this thread.

Keep up the good work.
And if this takes time to be fixed we can wait, after all ive been waiting for 15 months(when i made this character).

Regards
-Lynxius

just to lighten the mood.... Please A-Net pimp my character face!

I notice that my warrior helm looked weird now with the recent update.

Coming soon to the GW store: You now have the option to alter your characters' hair, face and skin tone for just $9.99! It's all about options and adding requested features.

/end sarcasm

Lol, alter our characters faces without our authorizations in order to force us to pay $9.99 to change them.

Good plan for making money...and losing players ^_^
(if this was actually true that is, which i doubt, if it were like that A-net wouldnt even be monitoring these threads)

*Prays to god this never happens*

Yes 20" rims on my mesmer's face plox~

well thanks gaile, its nice to see that anet are not like ''ok we made changes u can deal with it or leave'', kind of the attitude some people have, but its not how u should look at it imo, but yeah anyways thanks heaps.

Well I meant it as a silly comment (my dry humor); but yea... if I wanted to pay to change my looks, I could go play Maple Story. lol

Speaking of changing looks and all; did any one seem to notice the female rangers lost a cup size or so?.. or is it just my change in screen resolution? - the new bump mapping was killing my frame rates so I had to lower it.

Anyone that was a "tiny kind" when Xena was on, makes me feel very, very old...

Anyway, I have a shot of my own to add. Everyone's been asking if there are any male faces that have new problems.... Well, yes. Here's one:



He has worse than usual shadowing problems around his eyes in most lighting situations, and I'm not exactly sure what's up with the left (in the picture) eyelid. Looks like it might be a mapping error.

Also, from the side, do you see the white of the eyeball RIGHT in front of his iris? Well, that's not the white of his eyeball. That's the white of the waterfall behind him. You can look STRAIGHT THROUGH his nose! Poor guy.

The best place to test your character's face is right outside Sardelac sanitarium.

walk out and go right.

Theres an area that has fire/lightning/etc.

It has a very hard lighting where you can stand and rotate your character and see how the lighting hits their face.

Silv3r, Queen Christie, Solange, we all have the same Female Elementalist face.

If A-Net are reading this they can see the same 4-5 faces coming up again and again so, really, it looks like this issue is confined to just some specific ones. Surely they will notice we all posted on the same face and will do something about it. *Fingers crossed*.

Solange - nice morphing image, by the way.

I don't mind grind though... <-- long time EQ player and I liked that game... got old after years though.

good thing this is a game then. lol - course I like the female assassin body model. More athletic looking... if only she stood like a female and not a stick man. oh well.

Just looked at all my character faces. I can't tell any changes on any of them. I'm not a screen shot junky so I don't have any comparisons, but some of the bodies do look somewhat different. Armor clipping where it didn't use too, smaller body parts, the arms on the ranger and monk seem to almost detach when doing the dance emote. Other things I've not noticed before - maybe I'm just now paying attention?

I just checked my Chars. and they all seem fine to me and my Ele Looks like Christies and nothing wrong it.No we don't need to have it unless it is an option.Parents beware.

The only way out is to allow players to change their characters faces, or in other words = have plastic surgery for free ^^

Bah, they will correct the real deformities. But some people are seeing things that arnt there. This ain't barbie dress up , its guild wars so who really cares?

well, i understand the "need" to change some geometry, but all i can think off is that my ele now looks like a anorexia patient.

the image on the left is "before the upgrade"

and no, we dont need them to be even more naked.... i still dont really understsand now exactly the 15k female druids bikini supply 70AL....

I am curious though, since Gaile has posted here twice, perhaps she will grace us with an answer to this:

Has the dev team been working on the ability to alter hair and faces via the players choice or something? Reason for question: Faces chaged multiple times; hair style changes... are they working on it and this is the reason for such strange changes.

hopefully............... my Rangers new face doesnt match the old hai!

They want to give them Facial movements to talk and such it is in the thread.

Please shut my warrior's mouth. Please.

That doesn't tell about new looks though. Animations I got (understand); but no mention on the ability to change the looks of the characters. Something more so important now as we read through this and see some are not happy with the new look the character has. Also, keeping in mind some of these are not PvP characters so deleting them and instant re-rolling them with new looks is not an ideal option. Going from 3 million exp with all skills and two protector titles is not something I wish to delete just to enjoy the look I want to keep or return to*.

*a point being made; I personally didn't tell a difference on my characters.

Update - Friday September 15

* Updated graphics for existing character faces.

Well Done A-net, lets hope they're back to normal(ish)

In today's update it said, "Updated graphics for existing character faces." I wonder if that means that faces were made worse or that they were fixed. None of my characters faces have changed at all so I wouldn't know.

a net it says in the update that u updated character faces, but please mine still looks like this

Before (hot):

After (yikes):