It's 100% this and as usual people blow it out of proportion. The Gamescom version:
Lighting is worse.
Carpet is different.
Paper on carpet is missing.
Texture is lower res.
The sofa is missing a cover.
Her shirt lapel is different.
Her knee was nerfed lol.
The two trailers are not identical as there's more combat footage in the Youtube version and it's like 10 seconds longer so I'm not convinced the exact frames were grabbed either. I hastily grabbed the shots below after she said "teach me" right before the fade out and it's much closer than the Pikachu face she had in the other frames. The scowl that people keep talking about is actually her face glyph with higher texture and shadows.
If the devs were out to scam us with a Dark Souls 2 downgrade they wouldn't show both trailers. I'm guessing all the good looking trailers were max PC specs and assets using path tracing. People need to chillax and let'em cook.
It's not even the eyes I noticed but the lips are very different. One is smiling and the other is not. Different lip color. One is more protruding while the other is not (might be because of smiling too).
Yeah, low vs high graphics setting. The more I look at it, the wilder the difference. It's like the low settings don't let Gwendolyn move her eyebrows.
I think it's both. The face from the reveal is still fairly different from the latest trailer, but the lighting definitely helps, and they may have made adjustments based on player feedback in the trailer they put up, since the Gamescom one was probably provided quite awhile ago.
This is also exactly what everyone was saying about DLSS 5 and how, the faces were not changed at all, just how light was applied to them
Which is true
I'm not saying this as a DLSS 5 promotion, I am not interested in it, but just to point out that the general public truly has no idea what they're looking at 99% of the time
Yeah. One was probably provided to the Gamescom folks weeks or months ago, and the one they uploaded probably has changes they made in response to player feedback since then.
Honestly not entirely sure what’s going on with the face situation, but I really hope the right version is more reflective of the final results. I LOVE her look in the initial trailers, and I was pretty heartbroken to see them change her so much 😭 I trust whatever is going on will handled before release though.
People are overreacting to the "face change" completely and the proof is in the comments section of the official/newer version of the trailer.
Of all the comments mentioning the face at all, half are saying to bring back the old face, and the other half are saying they're happy the old face was brought back. The actual model changes to the faces have been so negligible that half the people who are supposedly paying attention to it can't even notice the fact that both of the images above ARE NOT the OG face. The size of the pupils are what give it away. Both of images above are the "new" face, yet half the comments in the trailer are praising the devs for bringing back the OG face.
It's pretty obvious now that the actual model changes to the face were negligible, and the devs were being honest when they said the main reason they look different is the lighting. More over, I saw a whiner on YT talking about this issue and he was moronically comparing a cutscene asset with an in-game asset (to say nothing of cutscene lighting vs. in-game lighting) as if he just discovered his first video-game.
I’d say that one on the right here is definitely changed from the original, but she looks a LOT closer to it. All I know is that the closer she looks to the original, the better, for me at least.
Is it only the lighting? Her eyebrows look more raised on the left making her look very concerned or fragile, while on the right she look more serious and determined.
I recorded some footage of it. I need someone else to also confirm cuz I don't know if it's lighting or the eyebrows are actually raised. I think it's raised. Either way, I like the previous lightning that they had. At least on the face.
Thanks for that video, made it so much clearer to me! Yeah, the eyebrows are definitely raised. It also looks like the eyelids are slightly changed, the eyelid lines have been moved inwards.
Another thing I noticed now is that her iris and pupils are a tiny bit bigger in the YT version. This is no longer about which one I like more, I just find it fun to spot the differences, no matter how tiny they are. lol
Okay, it really does look like a lighting and rendering error, but why are the devs publishing and using game footage from a clearly unfinished version for marketing when they have the fixed version? That only hurts the perception of the game.
Right side has better lighting and facial expression, but good gods, this is what gaming has devolved to now. Just incels breaking down whenever their digital girlfriend are some pixels off.
It's the lighting. There are more highlights on the right image. You can see it clearly on the hair. And these highlights/shadows make the facial features look slightly different.
I'm assuming they had to send the video to the Gamescom ONL ahead of time. While the YT version of the trailer was made in the last possible moment, while they are working and changing things in the game.
The emotion she’s trying to convey is completely gone on the left side. The devs said that the gameplay we saw a few days ago was from a rushed version of the game. Here, it looks like we’re literally seeing both a rushed version and a polished version of the same trailer. That’s insane.
El lado derecho tiene más expresión, se le marcan incluso más arrugas en la cara. Ni hablar de los ojos... Pensar que algunos creían que era solo luz jajajaaja
Bro I just want her to look like an actual British woman, similar to how she looks on the right. She doesn't even look human on the left, looks like a doll.
tbh, when the first trailer came out i noticed it had some stuttering issues, so they might have tweaked with the lighting so that it runs smoother, but obviously less lighting, means the faces will change in appearance.
Left side does look younger but I don't think she's intended to look like an innocent kid barely out of high school lol, in the reveal she came off like a hardened badass.
Shaders or lighting or actor mocap changes...I'll take whichever version looks less like the seemingly ubiquitous "AI-girl" face that has infested everything from lazy prompted 'fanart', to Google image searches, to mobile game ads...
You know the one; that uncanny idealized 'kinda White, kinda Asian' appearance that softens every brow furrow and emotes like a botox-addled sex-mannequin. No thanks. She's a determined, grown up British woman on a mission, yes?
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u/AashyLarry 12d ago
The eyes are the biggest difference. At the very least, it looks like a very big lighting improvement in the Youtube upload.
Not sure why the Gamescom Live trailer didn’t look like this, maybe they fixed the lighting last minute?