Old Weather Animation Graphics - What do you like more in the Old Version of FFXIV?

Dont get me wrong, most of the things are better in the new Version of FFXIV. But sometimes i remember those times.. as a legacy player...

having these great weather effects and sounds.. wide open world regions. of course mostly there was not much to see except realistic environments.

But thats what i did like about Final Fantasy XIV.. it felt organic and real.. and it had a huge OpenWorld.



I would love it.. if they could get back these great weather animations. I mean the sky.. the thunder and all. What we do have now looks very cartoonish in my opinion. far away from being real.


Do you also think there is a possibility to get rid of loading screens and put all regions together to an openworld when they end the support for the ps3? Seems very unlikely huh?


Weather in "ARR":
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Spgpzf3HNI...013_134334.png
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...-35-42-457.jpg
http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/Final_Fan...orn/ss-248.jpg


Weather in 1.0.:
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...ona_ARR_01.jpg
http://www.finalfantasy.net/wp-conte...10/badass4.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tine/011-1.jpg

(And i mean look at these bump map textures on the ground.. these stones.. they do look like little "pimples"):
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...landscapes.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7IBwA9FGbD...0/ff-grass.JPG


Especially in the video you can see how much more superior and qualitative the old weather system looked like.. :

OLD VERSION [>>VIDEOS<<]
Weather System Demonstration - Old Version [Youtube]

Uldah Time Lapse - [Youtube] .... THAT MUSIC XD

Time Lapse La Noscea - [Youtube]


Operation Crosseyes - Openworld


Rest in Piece old Version ;I

It does look nice, but it probably would have made it a bit too intensive for the mainstream PC gamer to run without choking.

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Originally Posted by Tonkra

Rest in Piece old Version ;I

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Yes... please do. Rest forever.

yeah 1.0 textures were way better.

I miss the character animations and cut scenes as well. The running animations were unique for all races and had more weight behind them when turning, stopping etc. As for the cutscenes, since they went with a seemingly separate engines for the CS and gameplay they seemed to do a lot more with them without being restricted by the animations of the in game models.

You do realize that the DX11 version will probably add back all of the textures we once had in 1.0, right?

The current sandstorm weather in Thanalan need more sand


Example from 1.x:
http://zam.zamimg.com/images/b/9/b9c...aaeb7b939a.jpg

1.0 had better textures and bump/normal mapping, the game running like crap was more the fault of Crystal Tools being a horrible engine. Just look at how bad the FF13 PC port is without any mods, as bad as the game itself. It also made good use of color filters to accentuate scenes. Here's hoping DX11 will bring back some of that detail back.

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

You do realize that the DX11 version will probably add back all of the textures we once had in 1.0, right?

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Why did FF 14 launch without DX11?

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

You do realize that the DX11 version will probably add back all of the textures we once had in 1.0, right?

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Nope. Yoshi confirmed no new textures. Only lighting changes. Because "nobody notices the textures".