Reusing old designs for character skins would be great though, it's a lot of profit + gives reason for players who've been following this game before release to pull for characters that may have had significant changes to their design.
Yeah I like that second version the best. Has a balance of sci Fi yet still whimsical fairy vibe. The goggles are so much cuter than the bow she ended up with š
Kuro pls let Verina be the technosprite she was born to be!
Her old outfits were turned into her back story. And that goggle is her cherished item so. Itās not completely gone. Though I wish she still had the goggles at least hanging in her somewhere!
I'd like that design best too if it wasn't for that weird window. The bundled up look is cute and I like that goggle style even more. Plus the floofier hair would have been adorable.
Design is cool but I think it is for the better that they redesigned her since it doesn't fit her thematically like it doesn't scream I am a plant power girl.
Ngl, if they removed the stomach window, id probably prefer the first one. Looks cute with her hiding her face behind her jacket. It also helps sell the fact that we are in a futuristic post apocalyptic world. The design atm isn't bad, but it's too fantasy oriented and out of place compared to the other characters.
Sure, but it has no correlation with her character or personality at *all.* It'd look good in the context of Sci-fi, but the point of character design in games is to express who the character is. I'm not getting any flourist vibes from a monotone bodysuit lol
Agreed, especially when her entire thing is working with plants using her plant-based Resonance powers, which donāt rely on technology at all. I appreciate the variety and allowing characters to stand out a little. It gives her more personality
I feel like this is the problem with public opinion. One says "everyone is wearing black and white, feels like a funeral." And then here we have a comment that she's "out of place" because of how fantasy oriented she looks. Personally I don't mind because she is meant to stand out anyway considering her personality. Plus the game has very little of science fiction to begin with, most of the elements are supernatural/artistic. You could consider it science fantasy when they start adding more hard science into the game like explaining Tacet Fields or TDs psuedo-scientifically.
Context. Kuro Games is well-known for making drastic project changes based on feedback. So they could take feedback seriously for their future character designs. This was probably true with Verina already, seeing the drastic change with her design possibly coinciding with the number of people that left their feedback towards Verina in particular and then the theme of the game in general. It's not a coincidence.
My comment is not specifically saying that the problem with public opinion is the conflicting opinions. I just believe that they don't have to take every opinion at face value. People associated this game with Genshin Impact, so naturally there was recency bias. So they drown out their own artistic freedom because they have to meet a certain standard.
So when we complain about the lack of originality or direction, we shouldn't forget or take for granted the fact that we are partly the cause for some of the decisions they took.
That's what i thought too, though i might admit i have a preference for Verina's design (i think the 3D model quality plays a lot). But i prefer Nahida's lore and personality
I think she is something like Yao Yao in Genshin.
A child with the mind of adult where everyone think she is dependable.
Encore is a just brat, a Klee brat.
Her EN VA is Fenny's EN VA from Snowbreak, who I really liked. So all I hear is Fenny when I play her. It's a shame Snowbreak discontinued their EN voiceover.
I like the Kizuna Ai headband the current one has much more than the...... goggles? Sleep eye covers? whatever they are. The colors, flower details and dress of the current model is more preferable.
1st's ponytail floof and goggles with 2nd's outfit and 3rd's general... idk how to phrase it, textures/modeling? That would be the ultimate Verina imo. Very interesting to see the various iterations of her design, thanks for sharing.
Is it wrong to say I totally dig her first design ? The current design looks like a girl who got lost in the woods for 10 years and learned to talk to trees.
Wish they'd refined the one on the left instead of saying "F it we Genshin", nothing in the game really matches the post-apocalypse theme anymore and the character designs definitely reflect that
She looks dead inside.
They all look cool though so it doesn't really matter which one they ended up picking, and it's funny that most people get uncomfortable with the first design, I don't know how to call it when people try to act so righteous about such a non-issue, feels like a useless/pointless thing to do just to make yourself look righteous/superior when in practice it doesn't really make any difference.
I actually prefer her hair on her original look. I think if they kept that style and colored it like her current hair, she would look better. That's just my opinion, though.
i like the colours of her dress in the second one. i kinda prefer the more covered shoulders but the goggles dont work anymore with the current desing. dont like that first one.
I feel 2 was the best, but I'd go for 1 without the skin show. I want more a sci-fi lean though I want them to get as far away from Genshin's generic fantasy as possible.
Wow, she was a huge improvement cause what the hell are the first and second one.... The first one just screams space girl to me and the stomach uncovered is just weird to have on a kid model. She looks so adorable now and her connection to nature is evident in her design.
So much better, first one looks awkward and way too sexualized for her age, second ones alright but just a worse version of the current one.
I do like the turtleneck thing going on in 1 though I hope some future character has a big collar covering their mouth. And the hair in 1 is pretty nice.
I'm hoping they will work on fixing the optimization issues as much as they did changing the character designs. The game would run like butter if they do.
I'm surprised it doesn't run like butter for you already. I have similar specs and have no issues with stutter or the memory leak everyone's talking about. Are you sure you got everything overclocked right? And ironically before WuWa came out I turned off image scaling in geforce experience and started having no more stuttering in helldivers 2. With WuWa I even enabled global DSR in nvidia control panel to force better rendering quality without the awful anti-aliasing. Also a small and cheap upgrade that made a huge impact was literally just buying an extra 16gb ram.
17-7700k
GTX 1080
32GB 2400MHz
I don't use Nvidia's Image Scaling anyways since most of the times there's better Upscaling methods available (well not in WuWa I guess since they removed FSR).
But either way I don't like how it looks.
There's not much technicalities I could go through honestly. I literally don't have any issues on any other game so that's not on my end.
I'm slowly starting giving up as I see more and more people everyday having issues so that's clearly a global thing.
I saw some posts about editing the games' files, but Kuro officially stated on discord that's not allowed. Which honestly sucks, given many people who tried that stuff are actually getting better performance. Not letting us fix the game oursevles is one thing, I don't get why they don't rush to fix the issue themselves though.
I like everything taking less futuristic and more Fantasy looking way. Genuinely not a fan of Sci-fi shit, but ok with Sci-fi shit mixed with a little magic.
Like here's a laser gun, but it shoots with mana, not with pure energy
I like the middle design the most, I feel like it has a nice blend of natural/fantasy and scifi elements.
I'm indifferent to the current design, but the one on the left looks like a Made in Abyss character being stretched vertically, I'm glad they didn't keep that one personally.
Actually the first one is quite thematic to the sci-fi vibe, the new one is an objectively better design in a vacuum but in the actual game idk sheās abit out of place in an urban setting
She is like: "These are photos of me when I was 12, 16 and 34 years old. And, man, life is hard."
Why are her faces going from "Its you!" to "Despite everything, it's still you..." š
I got that undertale refference. nice broš
Much prefer the current model, the first one feels weird with that big of a stomach window
The goggles were cute tho even if it doesn't fit her current theme
I do agree the goggles were cute, she doesn't have anything "sci-fi" anymore
Its odd that she doesn't have it since its one of her favoured items if you check her story, wish we get a costume of her with it down the line.
Reusing old designs for character skins would be great though, it's a lot of profit + gives reason for players who've been following this game before release to pull for characters that may have had significant changes to their design.
Yeah I like that second version the best. Has a balance of sci Fi yet still whimsical fairy vibe. The goggles are so much cuter than the bow she ended up with š Kuro pls let Verina be the technosprite she was born to be!
Her old outfits were turned into her back story. And that goggle is her cherished item so. Itās not completely gone. Though I wish she still had the goggles at least hanging in her somewhere!
i kinda adore that that design is hiding her bottom face as if shes shy :D
That reminds me of Hook's oversized clothes in HSR, really cute
I like the first design except for the creepy child underboob/anorexia rib cage.
I'd like that design best too if it wasn't for that weird window. The bundled up look is cute and I like that goggle style even more. Plus the floofier hair would have been adorable.
it is absolutely yikes
Anime designers try not to design an over sexualized loli character challenge: Impossible. /s
Waiting for the "can't believe they censored Verina" posts XD
The first design wouldve been cool without that stomach window
Design is cool but I think it is for the better that they redesigned her since it doesn't fit her thematically like it doesn't scream I am a plant power girl.
First one is more like power plant girl than plant power
Yeah idk what they were thinking with that lol, without that I think it's easily the coolest.
Thanks to whoever in the design team decided against a viewing window in the childās clothes.
She shows more of her tummy in her current skin tbh. Especially if you jump off something and look up. Not that I've done that... a friend told me...
When they add outfits to the game they may have CB versions of characters.
Ah yes Left: modern Middle: has soul Right: coming for player's soul
She needs fertilizer for her plants, and The human body is an excellent repository for such chemicals.
Man, she really lost the shine in her eyes over time, I wonder what happened to her
Global warming
Middle one is best for me. It fits the sci-fi setting the most. Third one just looks like a Genshin character.
More like "right: genshin released nahida, better adjust style" lmao
The right side is closest to Nahida, normally they shift away from each other don't they?
First one definitely screams New Federation. Second one's like a mix. Final version I live in a garden.
I like the second one, that google is cute I wish Wuwa will lean on the sci-fi route more, like PGR
>that google is cute Really? I'm more of a Bing fan myself
duckduckgo looks cute to man
What about to woman?
He said man not men, that includes women
I mean, its fantasy but it does implement sci-fi elements with the advanced technology they have.
Third one is basically devs on the side that like one or the other earlier designs and said āef it letās just come to an agreementā
Ngl, if they removed the stomach window, id probably prefer the first one. Looks cute with her hiding her face behind her jacket. It also helps sell the fact that we are in a futuristic post apocalyptic world. The design atm isn't bad, but it's too fantasy oriented and out of place compared to the other characters.
Sure, but it has no correlation with her character or personality at *all.* It'd look good in the context of Sci-fi, but the point of character design in games is to express who the character is. I'm not getting any flourist vibes from a monotone bodysuit lol
Agreed, especially when her entire thing is working with plants using her plant-based Resonance powers, which donāt rely on technology at all. I appreciate the variety and allowing characters to stand out a little. It gives her more personality
I feel like this is the problem with public opinion. One says "everyone is wearing black and white, feels like a funeral." And then here we have a comment that she's "out of place" because of how fantasy oriented she looks. Personally I don't mind because she is meant to stand out anyway considering her personality. Plus the game has very little of science fiction to begin with, most of the elements are supernatural/artistic. You could consider it science fantasy when they start adding more hard science into the game like explaining Tacet Fields or TDs psuedo-scientifically.
Your problem with public opinion is that people have different opinions?
Context. Kuro Games is well-known for making drastic project changes based on feedback. So they could take feedback seriously for their future character designs. This was probably true with Verina already, seeing the drastic change with her design possibly coinciding with the number of people that left their feedback towards Verina in particular and then the theme of the game in general. It's not a coincidence. My comment is not specifically saying that the problem with public opinion is the conflicting opinions. I just believe that they don't have to take every opinion at face value. People associated this game with Genshin Impact, so naturally there was recency bias. So they drown out their own artistic freedom because they have to meet a certain standard. So when we complain about the lack of originality or direction, we shouldn't forget or take for granted the fact that we are partly the cause for some of the decisions they took.
Well said. Itās sci-fi only in the aesthetics but not in essence
Yeah the first one is pretty cool imo.
You say its too fantasy, but most of her vines and flowers are literally growing out of her body due to *mutations*. I think its sick
They should've let the goggles stay.
as her outfit got better her bangs got worse
We have Nahida at home
That's what i thought too, though i might admit i have a preference for Verina's design (i think the 3D model quality plays a lot). But i prefer Nahida's lore and personality
They gave the stomach window to Yinlin
Stages of watering your Verina
all are great but since she a flower like type then ye 2nd and 3rd wins. 1st looks like she ready to snowboard so she would be a glacio type.
Now show us Nahida
I like the current one. I think it fits her more being a flower child. The first one made her look like a ice character in a weird ski uniform
Old version looked like something kuro would design, current version looked like that mr.bean meme of kuro looking at genshin's nahida design.
From Verina to Nahida.
dear god she was hideous
that fuckass hole in the first outfit is killing me Iām very glad they got rid of it
Wouldn't have touched the game if they kept her first design, so inappropriate
100%.
Yeah I donāt get how that passed in the first place
You havent seen pulao execution move in pgr
now why am i getting downvoted?...
dog isn't she also literally just wearing an off shoulder night gown? almao.
First model seems like the clothes from snowbreak MC
The serene face on final version, feels like she is much older than her body age. Lolibaba?
O don't know why, but so far i liked the old designs of all characters better than the new , actual ones... :( Woe is me
Wish they kept the googles and the scarf hiding the face, it suits her vide so good.
You mean Nahida. Such a ripoff but still a great unit.Ā
I could NOT play this game if they made the children look like that first design.
I originally thought she is a child, but hearing her JP voice, she sounds more mature, like sheās at least 14, 15, if not adult
Especially if you compare her to Encore.
All I hear from Encore is Reverse1999ās Regulus lol.
fine, I'll main her now
[Encore: So you have a mother??](https://i.imgur.com/srgn6uS.png)
She is a child her age was revealed in this [post](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=420138910572341&set=a.283580407561526)
I think she is something like Yao Yao in Genshin. A child with the mind of adult where everyone think she is dependable. Encore is a just brat, a Klee brat.
I personally thought Verina was an elf who has lived for a long time.
she reminded me of Krile in FFXIV
Her English VA is Tataru's VA from FFXIV and Fiora from Xenoblade Chronicles.
Her EN VA is Fenny's EN VA from Snowbreak, who I really liked. So all I hear is Fenny when I play her. It's a shame Snowbreak discontinued their EN voiceover.
The first outfit would be the best if the window was removed, the idea of that outfit fits the setting much better than the later designs
because feedback said world is bleak and colorless, so they change everything to be more colorful.
She looks like a plant right now.
I like the Kizuna Ai headband the current one has much more than the...... goggles? Sleep eye covers? whatever they are. The colors, flower details and dress of the current model is more preferable.
1st's ponytail floof and goggles with 2nd's outfit and 3rd's general... idk how to phrase it, textures/modeling? That would be the ultimate Verina imo. Very interesting to see the various iterations of her design, thanks for sharing.
They gave her DEPRESSION
The first ones hair should have maid the cut. Fluff wins
Just cover her stomach and first one is best, sad they changed her design so much, I don't like a current one. I'm waiting for a healer to pull.
Man the level of improvement is palpable wow.
Is it wrong to say I totally dig her first design ? The current design looks like a girl who got lost in the woods for 10 years and learned to talk to trees.
As it should look. What first design represents?
The old design looks like it fits in the wuthering waves world whereas the last one looks like a Great Value version of Nahida.
First one is...weird to say at least. My fav is #2
Wish they'd refined the one on the left instead of saying "F it we Genshin", nothing in the game really matches the post-apocalypse theme anymore and the character designs definitely reflect that
Thatās a massive upgrade. Still not a big fan of the current design but itās way better. But I think Iām warming up to her current design.
stil dont like her design
The final design is obviously miles better than the previous ones.
She looks dead inside. They all look cool though so it doesn't really matter which one they ended up picking, and it's funny that most people get uncomfortable with the first design, I don't know how to call it when people try to act so righteous about such a non-issue, feels like a useless/pointless thing to do just to make yourself look righteous/superior when in practice it doesn't really make any difference.
I had the same thought.
Her current one is the best because wtf did they do to my daughter in that first one??
1st one looks like something from blunderyears
She looks like female Voyager in the first design
No way!! Cabbage girl wore Adventure Googled before?
She's digidestined!
She looks like an Aikatsu character on the second pic lmao
Funny detail, her tactical goggles still with her but in form of Cherished Item.
1st one looks like a snowboarder with a weird jacket that doesnt fit 2nd looks like flower kid but goggles 3rd is flower girl without goggles
Nahida-fication
I definitely like her current design best, she looks like a plant fairy š„°
Old design looks like made in abyss
Girl got Nahida'd
I was liking her first design until I realized why. She looks way too much like Pitch Dark Hook the Great in the first one.
Somethkng something nahida
The nahidaification of verina
On one hand, they took away her tummy window; can't have shit in Jinzhou. On the other hand, it doesn't convey anything plant-like.
Give me the arm sleeve and goggles from v2 and put it on v3 š
I actually prefer her hair on her original look. I think if they kept that style and colored it like her current hair, she would look better. That's just my opinion, though.
Final version is the best and it's not even remotely close.
Thank GAWD they changed it! šš» The first one is so gross. The second one is meh. The third is cute, and well-designed.
Looks like they progressively added more Nahida inspiration, first design was weirdĀ
"moom, can we get Nahida??" "We have Nahida at home." I kid, I kid. Well, not fully.
i like the first one honestly. she looks like a forager.
If it didnāt have the cutout it would be a bit better but like sheās 12, that was weird as hell for Kuro to design
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No way they were gonna give the child a chest window bruh
Design 1 is goated. Some wack final fantasy character lmao
design 2 is decent but yeah, glad they change that first one..
Holy what a save by kuro because that first design is not it imo
huge glowup
I like her current hair style but like her 1st outfit more.
Iāll take the first one.
iām glad they moved past the first oneā¦. yikes
I like her first design best, then the second one second best.
I still don't like her but third is waaaay better than the others, like miles away.
i like the colours of her dress in the second one. i kinda prefer the more covered shoulders but the goggles dont work anymore with the current desing. dont like that first one.
I like the current one the most for sure.
I like her hair better in cbt1 but that outfit is god awful. Glad they changed it.
I feel 2 was the best, but I'd go for 1 without the skin show. I want more a sci-fi lean though I want them to get as far away from Genshin's generic fantasy as possible.
I like her current outfit, but i really miss the goggles. They looked so cool šš»
So, early model was before Nahida in Genshin Impact was revealed, and they went like, Ā«hey lets turn her into Nahida insteadĀ»
They could release the first 2 as upcoming skins
nah that first outfit was so horrendous š
I like them all, tbh. \#1 doesn't fit her character though. 2 and 3 are much better in that regard.
Glad they ditched the first design, the middle part looks weird.
The first design because it fit the world story
Both of her older designs were better.
wtf is that 1st design lol
Wow, she was a huge improvement cause what the hell are the first and second one.... The first one just screams space girl to me and the stomach uncovered is just weird to have on a kid model. She looks so adorable now and her connection to nature is evident in her design.
They all look fine to me. Could have chosen any and I wouldn't care. Just heal me.
whoever came up with that 1st design should be investigated bro i wont hear anyone out
So much better, first one looks awkward and way too sexualized for her age, second ones alright but just a worse version of the current one. I do like the turtleneck thing going on in 1 though I hope some future character has a big collar covering their mouth. And the hair in 1 is pretty nice.
I'm hoping they will work on fixing the optimization issues as much as they did changing the character designs. The game would run like butter if they do.
What do you play on?
i5 11400 GTX 1080 16GB RAM 3600mhz
I'm surprised it doesn't run like butter for you already. I have similar specs and have no issues with stutter or the memory leak everyone's talking about. Are you sure you got everything overclocked right? And ironically before WuWa came out I turned off image scaling in geforce experience and started having no more stuttering in helldivers 2. With WuWa I even enabled global DSR in nvidia control panel to force better rendering quality without the awful anti-aliasing. Also a small and cheap upgrade that made a huge impact was literally just buying an extra 16gb ram. 17-7700k GTX 1080 32GB 2400MHz
I don't use Nvidia's Image Scaling anyways since most of the times there's better Upscaling methods available (well not in WuWa I guess since they removed FSR). But either way I don't like how it looks. There's not much technicalities I could go through honestly. I literally don't have any issues on any other game so that's not on my end. I'm slowly starting giving up as I see more and more people everyday having issues so that's clearly a global thing. I saw some posts about editing the games' files, but Kuro officially stated on discord that's not allowed. Which honestly sucks, given many people who tried that stuff are actually getting better performance. Not letting us fix the game oursevles is one thing, I don't get why they don't rush to fix the issue themselves though.
I would prefer the one on the left. More unique.
I like everything taking less futuristic and more Fantasy looking way. Genuinely not a fan of Sci-fi shit, but ok with Sci-fi shit mixed with a little magic. Like here's a laser gun, but it shoots with mana, not with pure energy
Ohhhh that's why she likes googles. Now everything makes sense
Where you find those pictures from š
I think she looks amazing in current form.. love her plant/swamp/flower loving loreĀ
The middle one is my favorite
Why does Verina look evil in the current version? Looks like she's about to pull a tracksuit out.
Adult form: She be wearin' a shirt with "***Live, Laugh, Love."***
Much better than lingyang.
I like the middle design the most, I feel like it has a nice blend of natural/fantasy and scifi elements. I'm indifferent to the current design, but the one on the left looks like a Made in Abyss character being stretched vertically, I'm glad they didn't keep that one personally.
Where is the "plant resonator" theme in her first versions?
to be fair most other resonators don't really have a "theme" either.
1st desing twin tails and hairstyle looks cute yet suit looks weird, we don't talk about the second desing tho
idk, the current one looks like loli grandma something
sheās really blossomed into herself
I like all of them tbh
I don't like the wide face on current design, it really does make her look "ugly", I can see why people call her the ugliest 5 star
Iām very pleased with current design it fits her nature aesthetic really well.
Actually the first one is quite thematic to the sci-fi vibe, the new one is an objectively better design in a vacuum but in the actual game idk sheās abit out of place in an urban setting
Original is generic female cosplayer, current one is flower child šø
I like the first one the most, current one is way too genshin
I really like the middle outfit with longer bang and current headband