[MEGA THREAD] New Portraits

I just wanted to ask if there's any update about the possibility of letting players switch back to the old portraits if they have difficulty with the new portraits. 

i think the second rework is much much better and can stay that way.
bit out off topic but i wonder for a long time now why jyn erso's model is so **bleep** ugly.

It is possible that no one at CG saw the thread. But it’s equally possible they did see it and aren’t interested in what the thread is asking for.

It would be nice to hear a response to feedback.  Was the purpose of the original feed to actually get feedback and respond to it or just let the developers get a good laugh at how everyone (obviously a few boot lickers aside) thinks the change is awful?  I'm guessing they could have easily reverted it back until at least some of the feedback was addressed, so the fact that they didn't probably means they just don't care.  I guess bonuses are given based on just having a task done rather than being done and acceptable to the customers.  Must be a great place to work.  

I think stylistically the new artwork is fine. The problem is that it's not supposed to be just art. It's supposed to be functional in identifying different characters even when they appear in very small icons, condensed from their fuller expression. The shadowy style obscures differences between characters that were previously obvious, creating more confusion. 

Honestly, there should be more effort to create easily noticed distinctions when working on art like this. People are already going to identify toons incorrectly just because the pictures are new. To add heavy shadows or otherwise obscure details only makes the problem worse. And not only for older players who are used to a certain look, but also to new players who simply lack the encyclopedic memory of character details that someone playing the game for multiple years can call on to ID different toons. 

I don't bring this up now because I have any hope it will change in response to these comments. I only raise the issue in the hopes that the next time they decide to revamp all the artwork they consider functionality. 

The thing is that, yes, the new art is terribly suited for a mobile game (and is only slightly better on PC at full screen) but the real purpose is (probably) that some suit at CG decided they needed to pivot to AI or wanted to write off their Midjourney subscription as a business expense.

Yeah, the art might be fine somewhere else but not at all suitable for a mobile game. Whoever is in charge of the UI needs to be replaced because they are making the game LESS accessible. It should be easy to improve a lot of them just by giving them different backgrounds - why do they all have to be black? Could have red background for Snips, yellow for CAT, blue for Fulcrum, then black for GL Ahsoka. Or have some of them facing a different direction. 

Faction-dependent backgrounds would be cool. For toons that are different instances of the same character (the different Hans or Chewies, for example), having some color or symbol that tells people the faction would be enough to distinguish them even if you can't see whether or not Chewie is wearing goggles. 

That doesn't help the HothTwins, of course, but it would help quite a bit. 

For toons that are within the same faction, they simply need to be more distinctive -- STHan and RaidHan do fine, no one confuses them despite being the same character in the same faction. Similar differences should be present for other characters. 

I lost a GAC because of many similar looking icons. In a hurry I added Maul to Bane.

 I also wonder the reason behind such changes in which direction some chars look. Palp was looking to the right and now he is looking straight forward. While SEE was looking straight forward is now looking to the right side. Makes a lot of confusion. This is simply not cool! 

Yes! That would be great! Faction coloured backgrounds would really be helpful! Other twins could could face in different directions or have different poses.

Goes to show how bad the SWGOH UI designer is.