They look like the same faces but much higher fidelity, and with the ability to actually show expression.
I mean, they actually close their dang mouths now!
Also, the females look more like wolves than the males do.
the problem with worgen are how they walk, not their faces. i hope the new animations they dont lumber around anymore like sully from monster’s inc. i HATE their walking animations… maybe their shoulders are just too proud? they walk soo derpy and goofy… also they should have tails ):
The new running animations look pretty sick.
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Cutsy dogs are my favorite dogs.
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The overwhelming outcry for new worgen/goblin models for the past several years, for one.
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Where’s this? i wanna see!
You can see the new models on the ptr version of wowhead’s dressing room. When you get there, under the animation selection go to “mountselfrun”.
https ://ptr.wowhead.com/dressing-room
Take out the first space.
run animation wasnt changed sadly ): just checked on the ptr dressingroom… unless you’re talking about the racial on all 4 legs mount run animation… i was referring to his actual running animation… soo derpy
Have we actually seen the new models yet? Because the two pictures that have been going around for months now are likely concept art and not full-on renders.
You can go to the PTR WoWhead dressing room. The new models have been in ever since Thursday I think.
Oh okay. /10char
EDIT: Oh wow this looks really nice. Dat ear twitch <3
The running animation has too changed and looks far less derpy! Look at the side by side in this video.
You can also see the new glowing eyes for the females here!
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I think you’ll find sir FAR more people welcome the new models.
I think you’ll find the reason the game is doing badly had nothing to do with all the new models in WoD.
They wouldn’t remove the old models as a toggle if they didn’t have statistics showing what I say above.
The new models - in every case - are what was always intended but they lacked the technology generally available to gamers at the time. The eyes on the male were excessively beady, which looks out of players in WoW’s art style, and would prevent the new model from being fully expressive. The brow was almost triangular and looked almost broken. The teeth are just comedy.
Subjectivity only goes so far. How can you possibly say the faces with the yellow glowing eyes and black pupil doesn’t look equally menacing? Wolves look menacing, and these new models actually look more like a wolf rather than some kind of weird furry man-dragon.
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I really like that they kept the weird gangly proportions, but just made everything so much more natural about it. They actually look like people that mastered a curse instead of weird flailing things that snarl all the time.
Also love that they added options for glowing or natural eyes to both. I know that’s been a sticking point, and good to see they settled on more options as the solution. It hits a pretty broad range of intimidating or not.
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Bite your tongue! Which should be easy, with the way our maw is stuck…
Insightful of you to say so, considering yours is an opinion like everyone else’s here.
The worgen models you have now are almost 10 years old. The graphics have improved since then. It’s overdue.
I was going to say something snarky like, “some people just don’t like change.” But there should be an option to keep the old faces for people who want them. More customization in wow is never a bad thing.
Well it’s like the tauren update.
Looks more cheery, happy, facial expressions etc.
But you lost the wise / serious look old taurens had.
I miss old tauren face 
Weird idea but… Is blizzard making all the npc models / character faces more ‘beautiful / happy’ to appeal to the younger audience…? I miss when stuff looked more stern / serious (probably due to low poly but eh). But seriously, like losing succubus off hearthstone, covering Sylvanas’s chest (and conveniently forgetting a lot of other npcs)
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No, but they are in some cases making them a little more anthropomorphic. The reason for that is obvious, in that they need to do that to give them the freedom to show all the detailed expressions not previously possible in the old models.
The worgen and goblin need to follow suite to keep the modern aesthetic consistent. To not do so makes them stand out horribly, as they currently do. The worgen male especially with it’s rigidly animal face with no room for articulation.
It’s not that taurens look cheery-- rather it is now possible for them to look so, and also possible for them to show any clear emotions.
Ok both the female and male Worgens run animation is 100x better. Holy freaking moley. My body is ready for this update.
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The new models look very good and I don’t see an issue with them really and their height is pretty spot on, some people talked about straight-back but then they would be taller than Tauren probably
This is prob the only time i’ve been hyped for a Race update/addition - All I have to do is some minor things to unlock more of the Allied Races but i’m just not interested in them
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