Is the water that bad?

My only complaint about the water is the water you see while waiting on the ferry... it looks a little weird, but everything else is fine

In my opinion the only things that look good is the characters everything else is second rate no shadows casted water is flat and stale light passes through stuff characters do not stand properly on surfaces they sometimes float if the terrain is slanted its just crap

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Originally Posted by Sinzfeldt

You aren't funny or clever so quit trying.

I was asking for a screenshot of the supposed reflections in FFXIVs water. And no it doesn't reflect the sky as it always remains that darkish blue where as the sky, doesn't.

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I don't want to be funny and clever, so quit trying to figure out.

And as in a Forum, I guess you should use terms like Screenshot rather than SS which is not well known by the majority of this Forum's users.

I can tell you that the sea remains the darkish blue as it is even when there are clouds.
http://www.goldenbaylodge.co.nz/pics/cloudy-sunrise.jpg

If you wanted high-quality realism where the water changes color when it rains, reflects the sky even when cloudy, shows deforming when objects pass it and other realistic effects, then I'm afraid games will never make you happy.

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Originally Posted by Renshi

I don't want to be funny and clever, so quit trying to figure out.

And as in a Forum, I guess you should use terms like Screenshot rather than SS which is not well known by the majority of this Forum's users.

I can tell you that the sea remains the darkish blue as it is even when there are clouds.
http://www.goldenbaylodge.co.nz/pics/cloudy-sunrise.jpg

If you wanted high-quality realism where the water changes color when it rains, reflects the sky even when cloudy, shows deforming when objects pass it and other realistic effects, then I'm afraid games will never make you happy.

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I didn't have to figure it out, but suprise suprise trying to be funny again. I'm not interested in pictures from the real world the waters fine here. I'm interested in seeing a ss of the supposed reflections in FFXIV that you seem to have dreamt up.

NT

What a funny conception of funny you have =)

http://www.carterpants.com/wp-conten...1288232870.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2598169...in/photostream
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/mithra6.jpg
http://www.miingno.ch/ffxiv/beautyofhydaelyn/05.jpg

http://img4.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2010/04/27/ff14/1.jpg

There is no reflection on the sea as you can see, because it doesn't need it.
Why? Because
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/med...tifull-sea.jpg
http://wallpaper.wallpedia.org/29_~_..._Wallpaper.htm
http://tokyo5.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shepherd.jpg

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Originally Posted by gifthorse

Trust me, the water in FFXIV doesn't look real, and I think I speak for everyone when I say we have all had experience with seeing water in our lives, so your personal biography doesn't really lend credence to your case.

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there is a pretty big diff between lakes rivers and oceans. as well as differnce in oceans based in geography.

For how hardware intensive this game is it really doesn't stun visually much. I'd like to see it better optimized and some of the graphics tweaked. The water out on the boats at sea, for example, is horrid.

The water looks great.
In actual fact the Black Shroud is my favourite zone as it feels like the devs spent more time on the details in it.

I don't really understand the issue with the water. As a fisher who spends 90% of my playtime staring at the stuff, the only thing I find funny is when the animation loop loops back and there's a huge visual shift that goes so fast I had to see it three or four times before I was sure I saw it properly.

Other stuff to complain about right now. Priorities people.

While we'll never get to swim in it I do agree the water is bad and it is just animated tiles as already stated. I still remember one time during the beta all the water animation around LL froze in place.

While I can roughly deal with this I still wish they hadn't resorted to the same corner cutting they did with FFXI, which Gifthorse has already roughly mentioned. It makes the game seem not very much evolved from its predecessor.