Character face bug (?) after 1.6 update

Vorchack · August 2016

Since downloading the update my characters' facial appearances have changed significantly. My pretty dunmer is now so ugly that I've had to turn off the "hide helmet" toggle. Has anyone else experienced this with any of their characters? It's affecting both the characters I actually use (I can't comment on my mule, he wasn't pretty to begin with).

(I sincerely hope this is just a bug and not anything more sinister, given that this update provided the option to change appearance for 1,000 crowns a time ... )

meba · August 2016

Interesting. You don't happen to have any screen captures of her countenance, before the patch?

dasMomolein · August 2016

YES! All of my female characters have had significant changes to their faces! My once neutral looking Nord has an incredibly sharp down-turned mouth to the point that it's a cartoonish frown. All of my characters' eyebrows are lower and their mouths are more downturned.

EDIT: I was able to find the cause of this. When using a crafting station, the character's face will become serious. However, when leaving the stations, their faces are not put back to normal.

Vorchack · August 2016

dasMomolein wrote: »

YES! All of my female characters have had significant changes to their faces! My once neutral looking Nord has an incredibly sharp down-turned mouth to the point that it's a cartoonish frown. All of my characters' eyebrows are lower and their mouths are more downturned.

EDIT: I was able to find the cause of this. When using a crafting station, the character's face will become serious. However, when leaving the stations, their faces are not put back to normal.

Yes, this is exactly what I'm seeing! Except for me the problem persists after leaving the craftng station, at least until I log out and back in. I guess it's just a bug with the crafting animation in that case. Thanks for the reply!

Vorchack · August 2016

meba wrote: »

Interesting. You don't happen to have any screen captures of her countenance, before the patch?

Annoyingly I don't have any pre-update caps of my main in which you can actually see her face, but I managed to find one of my alt. The resolution's not the best but the original clearly shows the upward mouth curve selected at character creation, and the recent ones ... well. O_o

Before update:
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After update:
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Schizoid-man · August 2016

Happening to me too. As a quick fix, turning a personality on, then off, corrects it though. Don't want to have to keep doing that though.

Xerosus · August 2016

It happens whenever you activate a crafting table, among other things. The easiest fix is going into the crown store, you character's expression resets instantly.

RAGUNAnoOne · August 2016

Xerosus wrote: »

It happens whenever you activate a crafting table, among other things. The easiest fix is going into the crown store, you character's expression resets instantly.

That sounds...Like something they may have done intentionally just because the only cure is the crown store.

Vorchack · August 2016

Just to add a further note on this, I noticed last night that my characters' faces retain the facial expressions associated with emotes, as well; whichever emote is used, the character's face will stay stuck in the expression that goes with it until something else (like using another emote or accessing a crafting table) forces it to change. Weird.

Edit: Can confirm that accessing the Crown Store resets the face