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I love this game and its story, and I really like how much effort and compassion they put into it to make it even better! Thank you Yoshi-P & Team for making all this happen!
Since I'm a pepega when it comes to downloading mods I'm really grateful for these graphics updates
Goodbye Cape Westwind and your tricky mechanics. You will be missed 🥺😭
They can cancel all of these changes, as long as they get rid of the mip-map flickering of grass and other low-poly textured assets.
the new res pics look so much like the La Hee intro video that Scrye uses when he streams on parties! woah!
The graphical update… hm, I'm somewhat indifferent about it, honestly. FFXIV looks great already, but if the dev team can improve upon what is already on offer, then I say they should go for it!
Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium becoming four man dungeons? Oh boy, what is that going to look like? Thankfully, with the update to the Trust system, Castrum won't take as long. Trust companions do their jobs and they follow mechanics, so I am very excited for this change!
For those who want longer, time-wasting, janky runs of Castrum, well… y'all can queue up in the roulette and party-up with players that don't know nor care what they're doing! HA!
That option isn't going away, and with the reduced party size, it shouldn't take as long to wait around for a full team.
As for the rest? It all sounds great! The new deep dungeon, Criterion dungeon, expansion to glamour plates and maybe(?) the dresser space, absolutely fantastic. Island Sanctuary coming out eight months from now in 6.2? Yeah, that's actually what I was expecting, (I honestly don't know why people are complaining that it's not coming sooner.) No mention of relic weapons? I'm rather indifferent about this as well. Remember when people started bitching for no reason about the designs for the Bozja relics? Maybe the dev team is taking their time to come up with designs that fewer people won't complain about. Who knows?
Our man, Hildy is coming back and I couldn't be happier about it! WOOO!
Increased time between patch cycles? YES, PLEASE! We all know what happens when games and patches are rushed out without proper care being put into them!
Give the devs TIME to work, give them TIME to rest so they can put their best effort into FFXIV, for the love of Bahamut!
This Live Letter was altogether nice to watch and thank you, Meoni, for your hard work in providing this summary. 🙂
Hope I won't have to upgrade to a PS5 to enjoy the graphics update coming as I have a PS4 pro right now. But all great news!
It's so funny, I just got into Gposing and using other things to improve my shots for an RP profile, but I'm almost wondering if I should just hold off on it until 7.0. Gonna go back and watch some of the critical cutscenes in the new engine.
RIP Cape Westwind trial. They keep taking the stuff that let's veteran players poke fun at new sprouts.
Kinda wondering/worried how they will work with Au Ra since they got all those scales and such.
I use a texture mod for scales and such, so hoping i wont have to anymore with 7.0~
Titania is already a beautiful fight. Even just revamping the lighting is AMAZING!!!
As a tree, my main thoughts can be summed up as: LUSH VEGETATION
You can see the face models are slightly higher res, especially on the round cheeks. And the reflections on the eyes and lips are just shader and texture improvements.
Still missing subsurface scattering on skin though. Hair could do with a few more layers too, instead of just a higher res texture since it lacks depth.
That lighting. Almost looks like global illumination is being added. Don't like the Titania images, it's completely changed the colour temp of the scene, changing the cold sinister feeling.
…so were on the same page. We are not getting the grapes back?
loved this game— the only thing i didnt like is if i fell behind on the story and my friends were playing a dungeon that was further in the story i couldnt join them– so while they're playing together im off on my own trying to complete the 30 quests to get caught up…
My big concern with the graphics is that, unfortunately a lot of people who built their pc in the last few years were totally shafted in terms of VCards, and those prices still haven’t dropped. I’m hoping my pc can keep up with this update…
Hi, real question. Not being sarcastic/trolly:
Isn't the game already soloable? Why is there a need for a Trust System?
They dodged the healer question in the Q&A. “Play Ultimate raids” for a better healer experience Yoshi-P? Kinda dismissive response if you ask me.
msq roulette can still exist, u still can add arf, ala mhigo, dead lands, amarot in its own roulette and change up certain roulettes like 56789 or leveling
I hope they do the physics eventually, having hair not clip, or floppy capes would be awesome.
I am hyped for the trust system improvements
Tl;dr : I better start looking into getting a better GPU
Was kinda hoping for an eta on oceanic housing. It's pretty feelsbad when you loot some furnishing, since no one's buying.
OMG how more hot can ser ameryc get
If Deep Dungeon #3 isn't based around Smileton, I'm gonna be so mad. It would be perfect
They showed all the base races except Elezens. They truly hate us T_T
So with this new Patch Schedule I guess we’re looking at August or September for Island Sanctuary.
A little sad but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!
Thanks for keeping us informed, this is a great service you're providing
Awesome break down, thank you! I just started playing a month or so ago and sort of wished I had waiting for these updates before getting into FFXIV.
Thank you Meoni!
Thanks for this awesome summary 😀
so they are finaly adding a ghshade too ffxiv yippie
Could you imagine doing Sastasha with Edda and Avere, before Avere dies a few quests later?
Looking at the updated textures on the "Canon WoL" alone makes the graphics look similar to that of the trailers for each expansion, which is incredible.
Omfg! The grass in Elpis was making me so annoyed I was messing with my settings trying to get it to look better then mine craft. So this is amazing news.
I'm reminded of what happened with Evangelion. Everything was turned up to 1000 once an appropriate budget was finally approved. Happy for Yoshi-P!
Just personally, I really hope they make the trust system flexible in a way that allows more than one player to play the same trust run. There are couples and friends who'd like to play together but not with randoms…
I dont know if have my laptop can handle the upgrade
I just want to add to the Titania section, for those that didn't watch the livestream, the reason the lights are red in the after image is because Yoshi P requested it specifically for the demonstration so he can better see the effect it's having, the lights won't actually be red when they're done.
i wonder if it would be a good idea to even remove multiplayer normal trials from the game entirely and only have the extreme versions be with other players. Instead they would be solo trials with trusts and maybe your friends in your group. Trials are not exactly challenging or super interesting after you completed them for the first time.
Can't wait to use improved-HD texture hats-helms on my improved-HD textured Viera!!
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Veira hats? Since we are adjusting all the gear…….
I just love it, nothing else to say. :3
Loved the new grass!
New Quests with Tataru and a returning Hildibrand? Sign me the heck up, I love them both! xD
my highlight is definitely more bot dungeons. i hate the dungeon meta in this game. the constant rushing is stressful and annoying. i'll return to ff14 as soon as stormblood dungeons can be run with bots. mmos are just not for me.
these are more than textures… these are intricate, engraved, architecture piece, worthy of attention, admiration, or even study.. all this summarized in high resolution, accessible through certain degree of knowledge and of course admiration, also a bit of sub price
I'm conflicted about the trusts overhaul because unless they fuse both concepts, that pretty much kills the squadron system entirely.