New Head/Frame

[Dzspdref]

Second note: They're implying that new PS2 devkits are that hard to get, but you can find them on eBay and online to purchase yourself!

So not to sound cliché, but heck they are Japanese development and engineers!

Why can't they get one then duplicate it a couple thousand times for themselves?

Ok, possible copyright or Trade Mark hurdles, but giving Sony/PS2 a few bucks for each one they "replicate" so they can have more might be a way to get the problem solved and then GROW more FFXI development?

Just a thought.....

[Typral]

It is just an elaborate excuse, they simply don't want to spend resources into this old game. They could even use the same concept as sony with ps2 dev kit and replicate it and just not use it for resale, that isn't illegal.

[Alhanelem]

It is just an elaborate excuse, they simply don't want to spend resources into this old game. They could even use the same concept as sony with ps2 dev kit and replicate it and just not use it for resale, that isn't illegal.

They'd eventually end up in the wild, just like the real ones.

[Chharith]

Hello everyone!

While we definitely understand the desire to see new head and frame options for automatons,
this would require entirely new designs and graphics which are currently difficult to implement into the game, so unfortunately, this is something that we can't do at the moment...

2023 now and the XI dev team are now working from virtual production machines, how feasible is the new Head/Frame request now? I would like to see a dual wield and blink tank, or a Blue Mage Automaton, since puppets were designed based off the Empire's greatest mages.

[Marquiss]

Everytime I visit Japan and see the cherry blossoms, I think of new life, hope, and the future of PUP. I hope that one day we can at least have an AOE attack to help maintain control of enmity of large groups of monsters similar to a beastmasters "snarl", and that we can have an update to the number of automaton attachments we can add to the currently existing limit of 12.

[Alhanelem]

Though I doubt they're going to be willing to do it, they make new vanity gear all the time, and people have modded the games graphics before. If the main barrier is updating visuals for the automaton, I really don't see how that is much of a barrier. They wouldn't necessairly have to use new models, can just reskin/recolor.z

PUP was my second love after SMN and I'd certainly like to see a boost to its versitality. Even if it does have more use today than it did back then, no reason to stop there eh?

[Gwydion]

The graphics don't have to be extremely intensive. A color/re-skin, of existing automaton head/frame, say ...a dark gray/purple tint? That's the trend in FFXI now, right? Make everything purple or grey, haha.

Some improved automaton functionality would be really nice. Pet jobs are not doing OK, right now.