World of Warcraft now has new character models. Theyâre a visual improvement, but for some theyâve come at a cost, with many complaining that their dark-skinned characters are now looking much lighter.
Posts like thishave been popping up on the gameâs forums complaining about the issue, as people installed the patch and found drastic changes had been made to their beloved human and worgen characters.
New characters could still be given darker skin tones, as you can see below. The problem is that the patch is turning existing dark-skinned characters into white ones (as you can see up top).
Accusations of digital âwhite-washingâ were quickly levelled at Blizzard, but the company says itâs an error thatâs currently being patched out.
A Blizzard rep tells Kotaku:
We introduced new character models with todayâs patch and ran into a bug where some of our new HD textures are appearing too light when the lighting hits them at certain angles. Weâre working on an update for that and will get it implemented as quickly as possible.
We also have a similar issue with Worgen skin options, but itâs based on a different bug. Worgen customization options are linked between each form (Human and Worgen), and we found an error in how we numbered the texture files used to set which skin tones are linked between them. This means that some Worgen players out there are seeing a pretty stark mismatch, which is due to the game simply pointing at the wrong texture file. Weâre in the process of working on a patch to address this issue as well, and we expect that to go out as soon as tomorrow.
