When I play XIV, and either rain begins to fall or dust begins to stir, I notice my FPS drop considerably, close to half of what it was. For this reason, I would really like to see a toggle implemented to allow weather effects to be turned on and off.
Weather Effects Toggle
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06-25-2011, 04:54 AMKeyserSozeWeather Effects Toggle
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06-25-2011, 05:06 AMReinheart
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I would like this as well, I know already heard before on my post with same subject that this game is meant to have it... yeah FFXI had it too and we could turn it on/off... I want to turn it OFF sometime! -
06-29-2011, 01:26 AMEnthy
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Yes, please. I'd very much like to be able to toggle weather effects in game. -
07-02-2011, 03:58 AMBayohne
Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.
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07-02-2011, 04:13 AMReinheartI see, well if it's going to have meaningful event that goes with it then it makes sense I guess + we have the mini-map so doesn't really matter I guess for most people, still can run around with the heavy sand storm outside of uldah sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayohne
Off Topic:
Do you know if the devs have any plans to make the game in low quality mode for current FFXI player that can't play FFXIV due to the specs required for the PC? Just wondering both mine and wifes one are OK since we basically built this whole PC up for FFXIV lol but if in future they are planning to get lots of players back I would think adding a low quality version would make those happy for the time being until they get new pc, graphics card etc. -
07-02-2011, 04:37 AMBruceyBruceyBangBangYou don't need the weather toggled on to know what conditions there are in the field. Just look at the weather icon. Excuse me for being blunt, but are you sure you got the right message to him? It sounds like he's answering a different question. This is more of a graphical issue for low spec systems. It has nothing to do with removing the graphical weather effects altogether.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayohne
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07-02-2011, 04:47 AMFusionxCan we get weather added into cities in the future as well then? It doesn't make sense that it's pouring in Thanalan and then when you go into Ul'dah the rain has suddenly stopped. Is there a reason for this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayohne
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07-02-2011, 04:48 AMAntyimprove the engine would be a better way (And as far as i know they are doin it... well they have to to reach more people as well). And giving more meaningful graphic options would do as well. So far we have some options but most don't have a big effect on fps. ONLY when you change the drawing qualitiy... but its not like other games who have less details on textures... so the game can still look good and sharp... in ffxiv you have the option, look good, or look bad as hell and still use a lot of resources...Quote:
Originally Posted by KeyserSoze
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07-02-2011, 05:07 AMAlhanelem
Optimizing these effects so they require less resources would be far preferable to having to turn them off.
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07-02-2011, 05:28 AMJennestiaYou just don't like the answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang
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07-02-2011, 05:48 AMAistarainaWalk into Ul'dah. Look at frame rate and GPU temp. Now add in crazy weather effects. Watch frame rate dip and GPU temp soar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fusionx
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07-02-2011, 05:50 AMBruceyBruceyBangBangThe answer doesn't affect me. I don't need them toggled off. The answer wasn't an answer to the right question. Which, yes, I don't like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennestia
This has been going on in a few topics now. There are questions being asked in the OP and then the answers have very little to do with what was brought up. For instance, There will be new main content to rank up?. Although, the dev post was very nice and informative when it comes to future content in adjustments, it didn't actually answer the OP's question in what would be the main party focused progression content. If you want to make guildleve soloable, what are now our party focused progression options? Answer? Here are plans for the future that are general and have no time frame release attached to them. Thanks, that's great, but what specifically do you vision the main progression content to be? It's not a hard question.
You guys shouldn't exactly be hanged for language barrier issues. I appreciate you trying to get the information from the devs, but when they give you a answer that doesn't match up with the question you gave. It's probably good to re-phrase it and get the correct answer. -
07-02-2011, 07:06 AMChreesI don't think you understand the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennestia
The reason people want weather effects to be toggleable is simple: they put more stress on the system, and disabling them would decrease lag for some people, myself included.
Like Brucey said, even if weather is going to play a more important role, simply looking at the weather icon would be enough to tell me what's going on, even if I can't see it. That wouldn't affect the gameplay at all. -
07-02-2011, 07:12 AMZenakuother words you have no idea how to make a toggle so you don't want to waste your time and money to fix it you just make events for it to make up for it this seem to be SE response for everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Bayohne
Sorry right now we can't fix the issue with mobs SP so we going to add quest hubs so you can spam the same quest over and over and get sp. I don't want to solo i want to party and fight mobs.
I'm starting to lose hope with SE all there response are the same. I don't know about everyone else but did you hear the response about the sound in the game? where you want to just shut up the weather or something else but can't? or about the issue with alt-tab? then again 1 person fix the issue in few week of beta release?
If you don't know how to do it yourself hire a 3 party company to come and help you out... i don't want to wait 5years for a fix that it's to late. In ffxi there so many issue now being fix why could you not make all the AH link from day 1 of the game? oh now you want to link them?
how about ffxiv wards? can't you just link them all?
"Sorry i just need too b**** a little seeing how everyone else" -
07-02-2011, 07:18 AMZenakuThe city have lag as it is i don't think adding rain in the city going to help us much. Do you remember the snow? i sure did and even people with good pc had lag. But i do agree maybe once this game is fix and the core system is fix they could add this i do like to see it rain within the city.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fusionx
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07-02-2011, 07:57 AMKeyserSozeThank you for getting a response to my thread, though the response is kind of underwhelming. I like the fact that more things in-game will be tied to elements and weather, but this puts a lot of stress on my PC. I know XI had a lot of things tied into weather, and it had a toggle. I just figured it would be an easy fix for a lot of people to see improved performance on lower-end (hell, mid-grade) PCs, myself included.Quote:
Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.
(btw, this is the only modern game my PC has any trouble playing at all. This includes Bioshock 2, Crysis 2, The Witcher 2, etc) -
07-02-2011, 08:07 AMColdbrand
Bayohne how about adressing the real problem, will you be fixing the rain falling through the canopy of the tents in encampments when out in the wild?
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07-02-2011, 08:14 AMCutrissIt's not a very good answer. It's ignoring the original reason for the request.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennestia
^^^ Winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrees
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07-02-2011, 08:51 AMRedAffinity
I don't think they took it as "we want a way to turn weather on and off server-side"
But i think they forgot there's a simple indication that can tell you the current weather about as effectively as seeing the actual effects.
That or there is some kind of actual element they're developing we just don't know of, that we'll need the actual weather for. *shrug* -
07-02-2011, 11:00 AMXmbei
I think what he means by weather will have major impressions in the future is...
Sandstorm is occuring in Thanalan, and there is a large scale besiege-like event happens with empire/beastman tribes marching to the city and they are using the weather to cover their movements. Such so that you can not see them in the feild/their number's in a distance and the movement patterns they are using to come to the city and you have to run around "blind" to find them. I could be wrong, definately speculating. I think that is what they mean by weather will be very important in the future. If you could just turn off the weather you would see people going, "Oh I turned off the weather effects and they are flanking us from the west!!! Everyone go west, we need to stop them before they reach the city!!!"
Now if my instance is the case.... I don't see why "normal weather effects" cant be turned off, and when an event like this goes on it over rides the toggle for the time of the event... but I would like my idea for what he meant, could you imagine a siege is about to happen you are running through Thanalan in the sand storm and a Cerberus like monster rears it's head out of the sand storm at you and attacks but you couldn't see it 50 steps before but at that point it has aggroed you and you have to run away, or die a warrior's death!
EDIT: also Zenaku.... recently your posts have started giving me migrane's like you post full of rage mindset and not actually think about what you are posting.... just a bunch of non thought out hate.... not saying some is not needed with the things going on... but you just have become super bitter before things have been resolved.... -
07-02-2011, 11:09 AMZahak
I agree. We need weather toggles. My PC suffers from dust storms. XI had this part right.
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07-02-2011, 11:47 AMBruceyBruceyBangBangVery elaborate guess, but wouldn't matter with the weather effect toggled off. In FFXI, when you toggled off weather effects and there were dust storms the orange murky fog was still displayed. So, if that were the case, they'd still be hidden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xmbei
I think this has more to do with a translation error in the question presented to the developers. Actually, it is obvious, being that the answer Yoshida gave had not very much to do with the question and didn't answer what was actually being asked. -
07-02-2011, 11:59 AMPrettyPrincess{yes please}Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang
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07-02-2011, 01:02 PMBenji
I feel like this problem is going to be resolved when 1.18 rolls around. Tons of game optimization incoming, right?
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07-02-2011, 11:32 PMCutrissI'm impressed. I was very hard-pressed to figure out a situation that would conform to the dev response, and that not only fits, it sounds cool. Well done, and that sounds pretty awesome. Way better than "Oh, weather's out, better start watching out for water elementals".Quote:
Originally Posted by Xmbei
Only if you get your hopes up. I'm not setting myself up for that disappointment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benji
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07-04-2011, 04:21 PMShiki_Lockhart
You know that this game is of next generation right? You know that you need a GOOD PC to play this at 1080p with all maxed right? So if you know and like this game start collecting some money and buy/upgrade your pc.
If you do that you wont notice those problems with weather.
Or try to reduce to lower quality until you dont get that problem. -
07-04-2011, 05:25 PMChreesForcing your playerbase to upgrade PC components is never an excuse for poor coding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart
I'm sure a lot of players are in the same boat as I, in which we have a lot of settings fairly high or maxed out and the game runs beautifully...until we hit weather. I consistently see a 10-15 FPS drop when it rains, for example. And my PC parts are quite good, thank you.
All we want is a toggle to switch it on and off, just like there are toggles and different levels for the other graphical settings. These kinds of settings are in practically every other MMO, I don't see why we can't have it in this one.