Featuring Pella Peach! đ
This comparison represents the Dawntrail graphical update AS IT IS IN 7.0, but do keep in mind that many assets featured here, gear especially, will see dedicated improvements over the 7.X patch series!
Music used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGIZ9gTjTGA
UNCUT versions of the recording streams where I captured all of this footage and more at full 4K quality will be available hopefully soon and linked below when ready!
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– cutstom
– This comparison represents the Dawntrail graphical update AS IT IS IN 7.0, but do keep in mind that many assets featured here, gear especially, will see dedicated improvements over the 7.X patch series!
– Music used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGIZ9gTjTGA
– UNCUT versions of the recording streams where I captured all of this footage (and much more) at full 4K quality will be available hopefully soon and linked in the description when ready!
3:00 the old one kinda looks better cuz it's a small fire light. idk why they lit up the charas so much in the new ver.
Mother…
I don't even care about the comparison it was just a really good music video haha!
pella world 2 (featuring tizzup)
No but for real though the new ground and face textures and lighting are so so much better. I was just finishing 6.5 when Dawntrail hit, seeing Nahbdeen ( 6:30 ) with an actually finished face blew me away
Au'ras won
ur WoL got me acting up đ
There were some scenes where the improvement was subtle to my eyes…And then there were a few massive improvements that blew everything out of the water, like the Isometric view of Alisae where the 6.55 version looks like she's standing on low res LOD textures because the real texture hadn't loaded in yet in comparison.
I think there's only one or two scenes that aren't quite an improvement, namely the ones that took advantage of the old lighting system to make something stylized like the "Who, what are you" scene, but even then it's not that they're bad, they just aren't as extreme as I'd like them to be.
3:43 Wol got even scarier, as if they are from a horror game lmao.
What a way to show off the graphics update and make me remember the journey of playing this game â€
almost looks like medium low setting vs ultra high LOL
5:04 I think I like the light in this scene better before, but my god all the changes are so good!
I might still be Haurchefant's widow, but at least now I'm a widow in HD !!
Came for the graphics comparison, stayed for the edit. That was a fun watch!
Finally, Nadbheen looks normal for once
6:31 is a crazy difference
nice video, my only nitpick is the music choice. is way too..epic? LMAO it made it funnier
Amazing work with this video!
5:20 Is very noticeable
what hairstyle is that a 3.52?
I wonder why the first part isnt your journal
All of a sudden 7.0 middies just look alive
TISUP!!!
Elezen won… handsdown.
Fem Hyur got a huge upgrade.
I love the update a lot. I just hope they go back and fix the ancients eyes not glowing as much post update. Itâs really noticeable in the Hyth scene
Wow, I think you just convinced me to go female midlander. Your character looks great.
4:54 good lord, I never noticed how terrible ground textures really were before DT
The 1:38 face, clothes and lighting differences really put things in perspective, jeez. It also looks far less washed out than it used to be, pretty much impossible to play without gshade/reshade to bring some color into the game. It was even worse when I would switch between WoW and FFXIV, WoW might be the most contrastful/colorful games ever while FFXIV's base was just… flat.
Still, as great as the changes are, my biggest gripe with FFXIV was never the graphics, it was the animation engine, 1.0 ran like absolute ass but the cutscenes were fucking incredible (you can look them up on youtube, like the Gaius scene), while 2.0 and up the cutscenes sadly feel very static and VN-like, which of course hasn't changed with Dawntrail, and unless they do another soft-reset/rewrite of their graphics engine, it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future either.
Oh that switch between the Eden and dancer cutscenes was inspired, and reminds me that god do i need to finish the eden raids. All the raids for that matter. There are… so many
I'll kind of miss the baked in silhouette comic-book style lighting. The real time lighting can be too strong at times, the old could provide a unique look.
Real winner here is Nabhdeen. LMAO. But I'm really so glad with this graphics update! Created a FemElezen alt to play through from the beginning.
Not only does this showcase the comparison of the old and new graphics really well, it also took me on a whole path down memory lane and the editing is superb.
Thank you for this gem.
In 6.55 the characters had teeth, now they are all wearing a mouthguard.
what im confused about is how the colors in your game are so bright and vibrant looking…without reshade, most of the colors in my game look bland and dull, but here they look super nice x-x
meh with 20 fps drop
2:11 tizzup moment
with 7.0's added eyeshine and eye details, OG Pella is giving real 'my reaction to that information'
About the only thing really apparent in the early game zones so far is the updated lighting (Which is good). here's some improved textures placement in spots too. But as the OP stated, it's a work in progress and they plan to get all zones fully updated to their new base graphics spec over time.
In Ul'Dah's cutscenes, it looks good as the lightning feels realistic, but in other cutscenes in that scene, it has some work.
Overall it's a very good and much appreciated graphics update, but there are sure some places that where the lighting is bad and stuff looks like it does in the initial dawntrail benchmark, particularly cutscenes, wonder if they'll bother to fix em
Update is such a mixed bag. HD textures is nice, and lighting looks good in some areas, but a ton of faces look boringified and way too smoothed out and a lot of scenes have lost their intentionally dramatic and artistic lighting. Also I can see instances where upscaled textures werenât quality checked. Look at that texture banding on snow now. Who signed off on that?
I just ADORE how well they managed to preserve the feel of the game, while making it look so much prettier, especially the lighting and ground textures were such a massive upgrade it's actually insane. Also stuff like metal and hair. Still very clear that certain old models haven't quite been update yet, but I can't wait to see to see when they are! I definitely going to be doing a proper full replay of the story eventually just to see all this firsthand.
this sounds kind of petty but the dated graphics always felt too jarring for me to get fully immersed, so it's freeing to see that there's finally an engine that can support all the amazing visual design, audio design, and music.
The difference is both small and large. Characters seem more alive, present and in the moment. In some brief moments it looked like the old character was vacantly staring ahead, whereas the newer graphics just capture the moment more vibrantly.
2:11 had me cackling oh my GOD
Not as much of an improvement as those screenshots from years ago led us to believe, but still better than nothing.