Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE LX (UI Designer Kei Odagiri)

Please can we have some confirmation of whether FFXIV (PS4 version) will be playable on PS5 at launch?

(Maybe a cheeky update on a PS5 version, if you're feeling generous?)

Thank you!

Would it be possible for the aether compass to work when riding someone else's 2-4 seater mount instead of having to put them down and pick them back up constantly to check if the direction/range is still correct?

Will you ever implement rearrangement of squadron members or are anything to do with them not on your worklist anymore?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dsgawwewerfw

I just wanna know what's magic damage and what isn't

---

I like this. Methinks they can just change the cast bar/action name colors for each.

Thanks so much for requesting player questions! I look forward to the PLL :D

Could we get a new feature that catalogues the look of every item in the game? I'd love this to coordinate new glamours and set goals for obtaining item pieces that I don't have yet.

Would it be possible to save titles and glamour plates with gearsets?
It's already been mentioned by a previous poster that they'd love glamour plates to work everywhere and my request partially builds on theirs for the glamour plate part.

Many of us collect as many things as we can in-game but it is difficult such as card or orchestreon drops in raids since there are no way to search for it. Will Cards, Orchestreons, Minions and other collectables have "OWNED" or "COLLECTED" / "NOT OWNED" or "NOT COLLECTED" in the description when hovering over it be it in a dungeon, chat, or Market?

Can we get a better visual indication on the item tooltip of collectible items to show that we already own, like orchestral rolls, hairstyles, emotes, chocobo bardings, minions or master crafting books, etc, or some other way to track these collectables easier.

Bard and Machinist both have two bars as part of their job gauges, but the bars are stuck together in a single UI element. Other jobs, like ninja and dark knight, have two bars in their job gauges but you are able to move them around the UI separately. Would it be possible to make the battery and heat bars separate UI elements for machinist. Similarly, would it be possible to separate the song and soul voice bars for bard.

Could we get more Waymark Save slots?

While in the Duty Finder window, could we get a keybind or controller button option for "Clear Selection"?

Following up to this as well

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The-Real-Link

Greetings Odagiri-San! I love the changes you made to the game's UI in Patch 4.2 for larger icons (buffs / debuffs etc.) for us players with poor eyesight. Some of the fonts such as Buff and Debuff timers however have very thin fonts and are hard to read even when increased to a larger size. Is it possible to use a different font, increase the size of buffs and debuffs even more than 200%, or make them stand out more? Thank you.

---

This for sure. When you upscale most elements in the UI, it's all blurred out or pixelated. It does not look good and it does not help people that have a bit of a visual impairment.
Also, a lot of times I find myself I could use something in between the 60 and 80%. It would be nice if we could resize and stretch certain UI elements to our liking, instead of having to adapt the options that we have.

2nd
https://i.imgur.com/1XrFtUp.png

We need an option to disable glamour plate messages. I don't want to disable certain system notifications on the chat, because they are needed. There's no reason to have to deal with this clutter.

Would it be possible to get a "preview/test mode" for HUD customization? As it stands, if we want to be able to see our debuff bar as we adjust, we have to go to Mor Dhona or Dravanian Hinterlands, aggro a Morbol, and stand in the bad breath to get a nice slate of debuffs to look at while we do so. Or find enough people willing to sit around in a PF to help you adjust party/alliance lists or buff bars. A preview that fills those areas with dummy entries would be splendid for making quick adjustments.

Could we get an option to op-out of the exclamation mark + its new sound cue notification when you catch fish other than turning down visual effects, or whichever function it is? I'd much prefer a simple toggle button for this since I prefer to go by fishing rod sound cue only :)

Can you add option to SHARE MACROS, it would be useful for PS4 Savage raiders, especially for strategy macros.

In the PC version of the game would it be possible to make it so that if you fail to connect to the datacenter, the game remains on the title screen instead of closing completely?

Could we get a larger blacklist or some sort of system to avoid people that are blacklisted, for example it happens that i get qued (duty finder) with players on dalies that are on my blacklist dont know how u can avoid or change it but it would be nice for the overall game experience.

Can we have the option to disable the "achievements nearing completion" and "local achievements" notifications that appear upon login or changing areas?

Would it be possible to implement more detailed customization for flying text? I don't need to be able to see every single bit of damage or every single buff and debuff being applied to everyone, it would be nice if we could customize what text is shown. For example I don't need to see when I apply a buff to myself, I already know because I pressed the button. This can be pretty annoying on certain jobs which are constantly applying new effects, such as Monks shifting forms.

Any changes for Fishing Log planned?

The log's map shows aetheryte but we aren't able to click it, so we need to open additional menus to actually visit fishing spots.

https://i.imgur.com/IQWXvBF.png

Also can we get better information for fish we have caught?
Right now the information is either "None" or "???" even if we have caught the fish. It is not very helpful.

https://i.imgur.com/HlSvWKL.png

Also: another player's question about Fishing Log and Fishing Guide updates.

As the game ages and new companies move forward with technologies such as DLSS and ray tracing I would really like to know if the developers plans for this game is to let it age as is until it becomes replaced or if there will be an effort to make sure it keeps up with new technologies?

Most long term players put heavy emphasis on Glamours, Housing and Aesthetics because it is one of the few things to do and farm once the MSQ is done and the raid tiers are cleared.

While new content is fun and the way the story line is told has become brilliant I cant help but feel that Graphics are massively important to me and a huge set of the gaming community as we have just witnessed from the incredible demand for Nvidia's new graphics card launch.

I would love to hear a statement from the Developer Team to do something to update the game graphically or at least the assurance that no such plans are in the work so I no longer have to wonder. Open communication is very important and this topic has always remained in abstract terms.

Thank you for the gpose additions! Camera/eye tracking and the new stickers and frames are great ♥
I would love to see additional features to make posing with friends easier.

Can we get something like this in settings, so that there is more freedom of animation (with consent of player)?

Gpose Character Settings:
☒ Allow friends to set my emotes
☒ Allow party members to set my emotes
☐ Allow all players to set my emotes

Can we also get an animation scrubber, to view emote animations slowly and choose the point we would like to pause?
Right now it can be tedious to toggle play/pause to find the moment we want to capture in our picture.

Additionally, a way to remove the camera from the character (or to focus it on the model's location instead of hitbox) would be helpful.
Example issue: Right now it is very difficult to take a screenshot of some of the DNC LB3, because the character model moves so far out of screen you would need a second player to stay in the instance with you so that you can use their camera location instead of your character's, since the camera will not zoom out far enough to see your own character when it's the target. It's also difficult to move the camera when the character is in the air, since it cannot rotate at angles that would show their face due to ground collision.

Thank you for continuing to update gpose!

https://i.imgur.com/UCPR72p.png

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fate_Testarossa

You can actually use Ctrl to push other elements into the background in order to be able to click the aetheryte. A similar way to access your summoning bell is also available by pressing X in case the summoning bell is crowded by players. However, I'm not sure what other interactable elements you're talking about so I'm not sure if this is a solution for everything you wanted.

---

OH! That's great to know, thanks.

Edit: It's still a bit obscure, so maybe that option could be made more obvious?

Can you please give the gardening interface some updates? To use it right now requires a lot of clicking and I personally stopped fertilising each hour because of how much clicking is involved. If you don't want to drastically change the interface, could you please just add options for:

1) Tend all crops (if nothing else please add this!)
2) Fertilise all crops (which would need the number of fishmeal for the amount of applicable crops)

Thank you.

Could the retainer interface be given some updates please? Right now if you have multiple retainers then talking to each of them, collecting what they have bought back and sending them out again requires a lot of clicking/button pressing.

If would be fantastic if we could just say "Collect all retainer items" (to return back all items from ventures at once) and also "Send retainers out on same ventures again" (which would send any waiting retainer back out on the previous venture). If someone wanted to change the venture, they could do it between the two steps.

Thank you.

Can we get an actual UI for egi glamours? It's kind of ridiculous to have to remember the specific text command syntax every time we wanna change our summon from one glamour to another. Maybe put a Bahamut size option in that UI as well.

Hello Mr. Odagiri,

I will start off by saying that GPose is by far and away my favorite feature of FFXIV. I was introduced to the concept of "in-game photography" in Dragon's Dogma and Grand Theft Auto V, but FFXIV's GPose feature is the most robust in-game screenshot tool I've encountered in any game thus far. I've appreciated all the updates that have been made to GPose since it was introduced. I've entered almost every Screenshot contest that the NA community has held, so I've spent a lot of time playing around with all the options.

* On to my first question... Would it be possible to add an Ability selection feature within the GPose interface? (Similar to how we can change characters emotes within GPose)

It'd be nice to be able to play with different battle animations in GPose after dungeons/trials/raids in some of arenas without the limitation of only being able to use the last ability used by the character in battle (or abilities that don't require a target).

It'd also be extra nice if this menu included all versions of abilities a class/job would have access to (i.e. Stone I, Stone II, Stone III...) and all versions of the Limit Break. Limit Break screenshots are fun... but it's very tense in battle (especially as a tank or healer) when the boss get's down to less than 5% and no one has LB3 yet... and you start to wonder... "can I get away with using the LB3 now and not doing anything else til the battle is over so I can play with the animation in GPose afterward? What if I use it then something goes wrong and I have to use other abilities? Then I've 'wasted the LB' and wasted my opportunity to play with it in GPose."

To me it sounds like a simple menu to add... but are there factors I'm not considering that would make this difficult to implement?

Since early on in ARR the max rank attainable in Grand Companies has only increased twice from 2nd Lieutenant to what is now the max rank of Captain. Is there any plan on bringing out more content and ranks in a speedier fashion? At the current rate, we might (if ever) get to the max rank in about 15 to 20 years.

Could a method of sorting our learned Blue Magic be implemented? Perhaps by name for example. It's difficult to find a spell sometimes.

Could Free Company member names be given a visibility option like we have for friend list? I like to play with names off but it's nice to see when my friends are nearby, it would be nice to extend this to FC members so I don't need to add them all to friend list.

Is there the possibility of adding some sort of snap to grid feature when rearranging your HUD. Or have different HUD options lock together like in some other MMO's

While in the HUD Layout, could the unmovable system notification message location be displayed on screen so that i do not place any HUD elements over it as the system message notifications seem to have top visual priority if something needs to be displayed.

Has the possibility of female Hrothgar and male Viera changed at all? Would really love those.

Is it possible to hide the entrance/exits to dungeons in Gpose? I love taking screenshots after finishing dungeons, but having the blue exit effect in the background can detract from that

Could we get a search function and set favorite option for titles?
With nearing 200 titles personally, it's getting hard to find them ^^'

I would like to have an option to enable certain UI elements (including Job Gauges) to be hidden on screen when I am not in combat (or gathering/crafting).

You can see an example in this Guild Wars 2 video

I would like the option to enable Mouseover as a primary method of targetting, so as a healer I can handle my job without detargetting the boss.

Macros can mimic some of this functionality, but relying on macros causes massive delay per action and isn't feasible in current content.

Will there eventually be an option to turn off the auto-scroll for the chat box? ♥

Could you add a Sort filter to the in-game FC Member List? For large FCs it would be helpful to have an alphabetical list and rank member list sort function when trying to find certain members in your FC.

Player HUD and keybinds layout ID, there is any possibility to make a in-game way to import a hud layout.
Example i create a hud, and someone wants to use it, then in the hud editor i have a tab where i can put the id of my friend or any player and it will import or the hud layout or/and the keybind.