High-res font = yay; Now, how about the title screen?

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

What's ridiculously stupid about having 109 buttons at your disposal? What's ridiculously stupid about being able to customize any individual key on the keyboard to do whatever you want, like most modern games do?

It does take getting used to if you haven't used it before. I totally agree with it having a steeper learning curve. But it's just so much more powerful, so much more flexible that it's worth the time it takes to learn. Add in the mouse and you have much quicker, much more precise control than what an analog stick can offer.

BTW plural of mouse is mice.

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Using W, A, D and S to move like most games do is a prime example. The mouse movement is alright but so many games do the movement so weird it just doesn't look natural. That said, I already stated you got more use out of a keyboard. Moving with a mouse or keyboard however is just not me.

BTW I know, don't ask me why I typed 'mouses' probably wasn't concentrating.

everyone playing with keyboard should be using compact keyboard mode, just throwing that out there

People wonder why we don't get change when we have people who fight against said change.
This isn't a keyboard/mouse vs controller thread guys.

And try not to be so narrow-minded, that there can't be a UI in which can decent for both setups.

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Originally Posted by Finuve

everyone playing with keyboard should be using compact keyboard mode, just throwing that out there

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Why? :S

I know I don't.

One thing that I look forwards to (hopefully) being changed is the location of important information. With the current layout, high resolutions cause a lot of unneccessary eye movements, such as having to move focus to the top left of the screen to check the macro panel, then all the way down to the bottom right to select the target for the spell. Same applies when using the spell/JA hotkey menus.

Greetings :)

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka announced earlier that during the next version update they will be upping the resolution for damage numbers/text

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He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

We plan to continue to adjust this in the future for the 360 version; however, since it is difficult to do this for the PlayStation2 version due to its resolution, we won’t be making any changes to that version.

Any possibility of a full game overhaul? Lie to me. It's okay :P

How come that galka gets a brew outside abyssea/WoE, and why is he wasting it on Too Weak mobs?

Looks nice, as minor as it is. Nice to see changes made to the game that ignore ps2 limiations too.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings :)

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka announced earlier that during the next version update they will be upping the resolution for damage numbers/text

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He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

We plan to continue to adjust this in the future for the 360 version; however, since it is difficult to do this for the PlayStation2 version due to its resolution, we won’t be making any changes to that version.

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Thanks Camate.

Could you pass along that it would be nice for a graphics engine overhaul on the PC, from DX8 to DX9. I know it's not high priority, we can wait awhile, but could the devs at least look at placing it on their long list of things to do.

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Originally Posted by Duzell

How come that galka gets a brew outside abyssea/WoE, and why is he wasting it on Too Weak mobs?

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In Undine Orcish Trooper farms you. Therefore, brew.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Now, a full high-res textuer pack would be nice, though I don't see that happening...

That being said, the title screen logo and the Select/Create/Delete Character/Exit buttons look positively nasty on high screen resolutions. It would be great it we could get those cleaned up to go with the font improvement (the buttons themselves seem to be full images, rather than images with the text on top; so even though we have the new font, it looks like the old one here).

I know it's not really important, but it's one of those things that has been bugging me.

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I think for the 1st time ever on this forum, i agree with you lol

do i spy possible adjustments to chat box height width? please say its true for so long as a taru my chat box has covered a lot of the screen maybe we can finally see something

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Originally Posted by Jamesy

do i spy possible adjustments to chat box height width? please say its true for so long as a taru my chat box has covered a lot of the screen maybe we can finally see something

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You can do that now, though it's still always anchored to the bottom left.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings :)

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka announced earlier that during the next version update they will be upping the resolution for damage numbers/text

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He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

We plan to continue to adjust this in the future for the 360 version; however, since it is difficult to do this for the PlayStation2 version due to its resolution, we won’t be making any changes to that version.

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That looks WAY better! OMG MUCH way better.

By the way, currently, player names currently obscure the numbers. The other way around is much more preferable.

I think this is a great direction for the game. New people don't want to jump into a game that looks and feels 10 years old. Graphics update is obviously still necessary to win more over.

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Originally Posted by Camate

He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

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Ideally, shouldn't the numbers always obscure the names if anything is obscured?

I already know that the guy with a level 68 spear equipped on his level 99 Warrior is named Dankseffiroff, but while I can make estimates, I do not already know to what degree he will truly and thoroughly fail to damage anything.

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Originally Posted by Rewyen

Any possibility of a full game overhaul? Lie to me. It's okay :P

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Tanaka doesn't see us as a pay check pit and will more then willingly devote team resources into fixing the interface so a computer 8yrs old cant play it... you'd have to goto a 5yr old one.

I like Zeedof's HP! :D

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Originally Posted by Duzell

How come that galka gets a brew outside abyssea/WoE, and why is he wasting it on Too Weak mobs?

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What is even more scary is the .4 skill up he is getting from what looks like the swing of the GK >.>;;

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Originally Posted by Runespider

Nice to see changes made to the game that ignore ps2 limiations too.

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That's the only reason I liked it. The more and more they phase out the PS2-changes from the regular lineup, they'll (hopefully) convince more people to switch over. Even starting with minor things like this.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings :)

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka announced earlier that during the next version update they will be upping the resolution for damage numbers/text

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He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

We plan to continue to adjust this in the future for the 360 version; however, since it is difficult to do this for the PlayStation2 version due to its resolution, we won’t be making any changes to that version.

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Looks good.

I also would worry about the names getting over the numbers instead of the other way around, however.

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Originally Posted by Duzell

How come that galka gets a brew outside abyssea/WoE, and why is he wasting it on Too Weak mobs?

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What makes you think there is brew in use at all?
Firstly, there are no status icons (though they might be simply disabled/hidden).

If it's just the HP/MP, well, it is a Developer-Galga.
Simple as. ^^

Same reason for the 'uncapped' skill(s).

Who knows what those Orcs are capable of, too!

I wonder what you would say if you knew what I have been using the brew on (that is on the test-server as it costs too much for me on the regular one).

One might speculate that in the future the regular testers are able to use such options as well, to better test certain things.

Looks good.

Any more thought into making it so we can turn our player character name off while leaving the rest of the names on?

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Originally Posted by Duzell

How come that galka gets a brew outside abyssea/WoE, and why is he wasting it on Too Weak mobs?

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Galkas need all the help they can get.

With all of those HUD tweaks over the pass 5 months, how long before we finally get a fix to this age-old problem?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...atisanicon.jpg

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings :)

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka announced earlier that during the next version update they will be upping the resolution for damage numbers/text

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He notes that it’s become quite easier to read, but there may be some cases where the numbers cover names making it difficult to see due to the display positioning when the font was smaller.

We plan to continue to adjust this in the future for the 360 version; however, since it is difficult to do this for the PlayStation2 version due to its resolution, we won’t be making any changes to that version.

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That is gorgeous. GORGEOUS :wub: Seriously excited - particularly love the 'Miss!' text, it's cute!

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With all of those HUD tweaks over the pass 5 months, how long before we finally get a fix to this age-old problem?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...atisanicon.jpg

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Don't worry they are working hard on a way to remove them from the game.

During tomorrow’s test server update we will be changing the display position of damage values. However, due to display priority ordering there may be times when it is more difficult to see than currently.

We’d especially like to apologize to Galkas… We will continue to work on adjustments to this, but it will take a little bit of time.

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Originally Posted by Camate

We’d especially like to apologize to Galkas…

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For the pungent body odor, which required weeks of painstaking development time to be made just acrid enough?

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Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull

Don't worry they are working hard on a way to remove them from the game.

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lol, I see what you did there.

Galka just do too much damage I guess.

Nothing like resurrecting a dead thread, but how does one go about configuring the ffxi game for the high resolution icons that have been mentioned. I looked through the ffxi config utility and didn't find anything. I'm definitely still seeing the same status icons that I have seen since 2003. I saw a screenshot of a player with some very pretty icons. I want those. How is it done?

Sappho,

There is nothing to configure, as far as I remember. ^^;

If you indeed are playing the windows or the xbox360 version of the game, the icons should be 'high-res' very much by default, unless I missed something somewhere...

I do have a faint recollection of the resolution to possibly affect it, but I think that is not a memory that holds true, or it was regarding something else... but it's still there.

What are the 'Screen Size' resolutions you are using?

Guess it would make sense that it would be connected to the Fonts quality, but I don't think so, and can't test it right now. >:Ð

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Originally Posted by Sappho

I'm definitely still seeing the same status icons that I have seen since 2003. I saw a screenshot of a player with some very pretty icons. I want those. How is it done?

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PS2 by any chance? If so, no luck. PS2 is low-res only. Soon, PC and 360 with have shiny new reflective water surfaces! (Or not. It might spook the crabs.)

HD icons may be bound to the resolutions being set, kind of like how they were initially handling the macro pallet shift--have to be above 1024 settings or something like that.

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Originally Posted by Camate

During tomorrow’s test server update we will be changing the display position of damage values. However, due to display priority ordering there may be times when it is more difficult to see than currently.

We’d especially like to apologize to Galkas… We will continue to work on adjustments to this, but it will take a little bit of time.

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I'll never forgive you all, Camate! It's the supreme insult to all of Galkadom!

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I'm definitely still seeing the same status icons that I have seen since 2003. I saw a screenshot of a player with some very pretty icons. I want those. How is it done?

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Modified dat file for the status icons to replace them with new ones

Ok, presuming that the screen shot that I saw was not a modified dat file (as Tahngarthor suggested), then I will change my resolutions.

My previous resolutions were:
Overlay Graphics 1280x960
Background Res. 2048x2048
Menu Res. 1280x960

I will bump them all up one size category and see if:
1. my comp can handle that
2. i get the new shiny candy-like buttons.

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Originally Posted by Sappho

Ok, presuming that the screen shot that I saw was not a modified dat file (as Tahngarthor suggested), then I will change my resolutions.

My previous resolutions were:
Overlay Graphics 1280x960
Background Res. 2048x2048
Menu Res. 1280x960

I will bump them all up one size category and see if:
1. my comp can handle that
2. i get the new shiny candy-like buttons.

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It might still not trigger at 1368/1024. Might have to go to 1080, idk. That would put it at 1440/1080 I think.

You might find the system is a bit more responsive too if you run the background at a multiple (2x, 1x, etc.)of your foreground instead of the flat 2048/2048 (2560/1920 or 1280/960, 2736/2048 or 1368/1024, 2880/2160 or 1440/1080--could even try some 1.5x, but you may not notice any difference at 1.5x). Depending on the dot pitch/pixel size of your monitor, you may find you don't really need the forced 2x AA for a decent screen once you hit that 1080 level either. It's fairly sharp on my 23" Acer monitor at 1:1 1920/1080--and I only have a couple FPS dip at telepoints and such, nowhere near as bad as when I try to 2x the background. It still has a bit of that "shimmering" on the steps when the light changes and is a bit distracting, but other than that it looks decent for the most part. My main concern is usually smoother animation over eye candy.

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I will bump them all up one size category and see if:
1. my comp can handle that
2. i get the new shiny candy-like buttons.

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You won't. The status icons do not change in any way based on screen resolution. Any screenshots you've seen where the status icons look significantly different is becasue of a dat-swap mod.

If in doubt, check the fourth post of this thread for comparison of the old and the new, and how they should look like without any 'hacks'.

For a quickie, here's one of them examples:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...826191&thumb=1