Why tf doen't the traveler use they're skin in the dialoues after the aq

I've done the archon quest, happy to see traveler's new model, just for that to be ruined litteral seconds after..

So, i went to do my selenic chronicle, and what do i see, the old ugly model, when the chronicle itself clearly happened after the main quest, then i checked a random worldquest, still the old model. And now the big question, why they fuck did they even make those skins if they are present neither in cutsenes nor dialougues? What's the point, one who completed the whole of nodkrai simply never uses travelers in combat.

And it's not "it's your false hopes/expectations blah blah" situation, i'm sure every one of us thought it was to make traveler look on par with other chars in the story

In the end it's fine, simply nothing changed, but it's still so disapointing, i don't see a single reason not to use these models in the story

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WootyMcWoot2026-01-15 18:48

Neuvillette skin quest uses the new one

edit - Ok maybe not. I did it like 30 minutes ago and I swear Lumine was in the new one. Party was Navia, Furina, Columbina, Xilonen so it wasn’t like I was seeing my own char in the party. I had already done the AQ yesterday. I swear to god I saw it lol, now I need to go find a streamer that did it after the AQ to see if I’m spreading misinformation

West_Ad14012026-01-15 18:50

wait, does it actually?? let me check, maybe i am stirring chaos out of nothing

Jolly_Experience_3172026-01-15 18:53

From what I've seen it flips back and forth depending on the camera angle in the quest's cutscene. If the camera is fixed then it's the old outfit, if you can move the camera it's the new one.

allmistake22026-01-15 18:52

It didn't for me...

West_Ad14012026-01-15 18:54

no it doesn't..

WootyMcWoot2026-01-15 19:18

Finish the whole thing and let me know please, I swear I’m not crazy

Impured892026-01-15 18:54

It depends if it's a cutscene with characters moving body during conversations or just the two models talking like npc. Sad to rarely see it

West_Ad14012026-01-15 18:58

and it can be changed with 2 lines of code.. like what hoyo, just why, that is the first most disapointing thing of the whole patch

Impured892026-01-15 19:08

I assume the never tested cutscene with new outfit and the movements are pre rendered with original outfit only for both versions. Remember if it is than adding outfit option would add 2 versions they'll have to test which obviously they wouldn't put more work on themselves. Issue is will only AQ have new outfit seen or what

Forgot2Catfish2026-01-15 19:01

I only made it halfway through stage 2 but I believe Selenic Chronicles were all recorded with the old model, so it would make sense that you won't see the new skin there. As someone else mentioned, Melusine quest should use the new model and I expect all quests in 6.4 onwards will all use the new skin for cutscenes. I haven't full explored the new area in nod krai yet but I imagine there will be quests that use the new skin there too.

Shahadem2026-01-15 19:07

I believe that cutscenes characters are a completely different model. This is also why you will see a different weapon from the one you have equipped.

Hageshii012026-01-15 19:41

The pre-rendered cutscenes are a different model, yes. But that's obvious, they are pre-rendered after all. However, there are cutscenes that are rendered in real-time. An example of this is the cutscene that plays during the phase change for the Arlecchino world boss; that's rendered in real-time. It pulls the "live" model for the Traveler (and Paimon), so if you're playing on PC and have a skin mod enabled for them, you'll see the mod in that cutscene. There's also cutscenes that are just the Traveler talking that use the regular in-game camera, like in world quests.

Realistically, they simply coded these real-time cutscenes to pull the data for "Aether\_Base\_Skin" or "Lumine\_Base\_Skin" and that was fine for years because it's literally all that existed at the time. But now there's new skins; "Aether\_New\_Skin" and "Lumine\_New\_Skin". If they had coded the game to say "pull 'currently equipped Traveler skin'" then we probably wouldn't see this issue, but that's not how it was done.

Saiyeh2026-01-15 19:41

Keep in mind players engage in the patch different ways, not everyone does the archon quest first. Most likely if Hoyo does use the skin, it will be for future content, not content that came out at the same time to avoid players being spoiled/wondering why Traveler is showing up in a completely different outfit.

BobTheGodx2026-01-15 20:19

I don't think it would be that hard to have the model determinate on if the player did the AQ or not.

Saiyeh2026-01-15 21:38

They would have to record/animate two different versions of each cutscenes. Honestly I don't see them doing that for this patch. Now if they don't swap it next version we will have our answer.

WorstSkilledPlayer2026-01-15 21:03

Poor indie company/team that doesn't (or isn't allowed to) re-invest their money earnt into their respective games outside of what's "necessary" 😂>!/scnr!<.