Fiora's New Hair

Twin Royal··45 votes·2,651 views
IronStylus's comment from discussion "Fiora model is being worked on, we are being listened to."

Recently Ironstylus commented on the new hair:

"That being said, we most likely will not be moving the hair part to where it was originally. Those are geometry changes that affect the UV's of the model and it can cause some compounding issues with the model itselve and rigging that was done to add a bit of bounce to her hair (from a technical standpoint it means re-exporting/deleting animations and that can gum up the process). There were also some deliberate design choices made there that can be elaborated on in later posts."

I think it's safe to say, based on the forums and reddit dicussions, that people really don't like Fiora's new hairstyle (not to mention the rest of her face etc.). But I think as a community, we also want the new Fiora to be released at her very best. That's where all this push-back is coming from. We want her iconic hairstyle Fiora players like myself have come to love. I understand that it might be more work, but I think everyone would prefer to wait an extra week or two to get the best Fiora possible instead of having it at a lower quality a bit sooner. I really hope you guys reconsider the new hair, because the community really wants to see Fiora as she should be. We want her youthful look and her iconic bangs. Some of the splashes recently have been disappointing the community (with the new "stylistic take" on splash arts), please don't make this just another disappointment. Your community wants what's best for Fiora, please listen to us.

(Disclaimer: Her hair isn't the only issue in my opinion, just one of the more important ones I wanted to discuss here.)

TLDR: Please Riot, reconsider fixing Fiora's Hairstyle back to her iconic bangs. Fiora

Update: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/07/724-pbe-update.html

Looks like Riot listened to us. I had my doubts, but Riot pulled through for us. Long live the Bangs! Fiora

15 Comments

OverpoweredSoap18 votes

I hate to be an ass but.

Aren't traditional skins the solution to this?

Couldn't they just slap the old model on a skin and call it quits?

But no, traditional skins, are no more, because they think they can "honor" the old style is different/better ways.

I really don't understand at this point.

Retillin9 votes

It means they don't make any money off traditional skins.... Oops, umm I think they mean nobody can produce the love for old look of champs so why try?

GreenLore2 votes

I think they should still do traditional skins in cases like this,simply because the traditional skin would look actually different enough to be worth a skin on its own.So after they gave it to everyone who owned Fiora before,they could still sell it like any other skin.

Twin Royal2 votes

That can be a solution, but then they'd have to do traditional skins for Royal Guard, Nightraven and Headmistress. Honestly, if they just stayed consistent with her theme, that everyone likes, it would be easier for them and better for us.

Migrañaboy2 votes

It would be a solution, but Riot stated that they wouldn't make it because of whatever convoluted reasons.

The true reason is that they were testing traditional skins as a way to drain IP.

At the time they released 3 traditional skins, they also released 2 extra limited time promotions: 2x1 rune pages and TPA skins (you needed to get champions if you don't want to pay extra RP for them), and of course you needed to grind if you didn't want to pay for traditional.

Seems it wasn't profitable enough.

It's because of things like these that they are loosing me as player and costumer (also why can't I pay in my local currency instead of dollars? I want to play on NA c'mon, blizzard and valve let me do that despite playing on NA servers), in fact they lost me as a costumer since a year ago I haven't bought any RP, but they don't care as they already obtained something from me.

AxlRose0917 votes

BRING BACK THE BANGS

Noin Lucrezia11 votes

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Recently Ironstylus commented on the new hair:

"That being said, we most likely will not be moving the hair part to where it was originally. [...] rigging that was done to add a bit of bounce to her hair

So, you mean the entire reason Fiora's entire appearance was changed, was so they could chucklefuck some TRESemmé shampoo physics to her hair?

How about, and I might be coming on a little strong here, we just don't do that, and fix her hair, and then everyone's fucking happy? I don't think anybody will care that Fiora's hair doesn't bounce during her walk animation if it means she actually looks like Fiora.

Cryonicity3 votes

Signed in just to upvote this

Rune Ocarina3 votes

BRING BACK THE BANGS!

Migrañaboy3 votes

"Too much work and lazy to change it guise."

I remember that Riot supposed mission as an enterprise is** to be very oriented to the community**, instead it's turning into Valve/Blizzard.

Gotta hate this new splash arts direction, I specially hated Tristanas newest one. I accept that it was better from the first iteration (which looked too much web comic) but still find it lacking and inconsistent to other splash arts.

I don't know what is happening with the art team's philosophy, it's like they got brainwashed and want now to make face features exaggerated (like the Fioras chin) in order to make more distinguishable champs, also cartoonish style. It doesn't matter how the skins art are being stylized, but the main art is the one that should be focused on the best quality, specially if its a rework where the community has already expectations of the champ's fantasy/aesthetics.

Just imagine Taric from being fabulous to a serious crystal warrior. We have expectations already.

Nightshade32262 votes

I have a better idea.

Take down the ENTIRE rework and redo it. Come back in a year when its fixed.

There is no reason this rework needs to be forced out so quickly.

Loken Stoneheart2 votes

"Guys, we'll explain what we're doing in a few months in a dev blog, and by then it'll be too late to change anything. Perfect excuse, right?! I mean... uh. Yeah, we'll get on explaining it"

Craft Zeppelin1 votes

AW GAWD RITO I LUV YEH SORRY FOR THE PREVIOUS BM BUT GIVE BACK OUR HAIR

Cryonicity1 votes

should this be on the PBE forums? YA probably but we dont got no PBE Account :(

Twin Royal1 votes

Update: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/07/724-pbe-update.html

Looks like Riot listened to us. I had my doubts, but Riot pulled through for us. Long live the Bangs! Fiora

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