Hoggers' looking pretty great now. They really need to bring all the other Gnoll models up to match them. The face/head/posture/mane need to be the standard for Gnolls.
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Good gravy, those models are so cartoonish and ridiculous looking, especially the faces. Doubly so the eyes. Going with a brown tone just emphasizes how hideous (and not in the right way) it is all the more. Adding more polygons doesn't mean you have to make the art itself look so... just... whatever that is, as they've been doing for the last handful of expansions.
Although I know it probably won't, I really hope Microsoft is able to save the game rather than letting the lunatic developers and art directors continue to butcher their own game with every passing year.
Just so people know the 1st model is still gonna be in the game, it's very likely that is the young version of him before he matures, If you notice he looks more puppy like in the first one.
2 weeks would not be enough time for an artist to do a model for an irrelevant meme npc and get it approved and added into the game when they've got the entire rest of the expansion to still work on. It was almost certainly not a response to feedback.
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The 1st model has nothing to do with Hogger specifically, it's used by many random gnoll npcs in both the old zones and the new ones. There's no random young Hogger flashbacks or story component to it, it's just a visual update of regular gnolls which he used as a placeholder.
Or….it’s just a randomized new gnoll model as a placeholder
But now we have his hots/hearthstone (?) model to be added soon.
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I don’t know….when you get someone making a bit of a racist comment over a alpha model….might be a bit of a overreaction
OK, seriously, what am I missing here?
It's the exact same model, just with a recolor, some added spots, and some ridiculous looking ringmail armor painted on rather than leather armor. How is it any less "plush doll from Toys 'R' Us" than the other model? What on earth are you people seeing that I'm not?
Wooo, Hogger is back in the game!
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The snarl and teeth size is very noticeably different. Which was really one of the primary complaints with the new model. The fur looks like it was re-textured to look a little more mangy. Looks like they also shorten the snout some. Its definitely not just a recolor.
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