More wildlife, please!

I really wish that there would be more wildlife in the game. This was talked about in 2012 on the forums and even had a dev responding to it. However, there is still a lack of background wildlife. I'm talking about butterflies, small birds (even owls at night coming to perch on tree branches, and they leave to go higher up during the day), even fish! Costa Del Sol's beaches just seems totally empty without having fish swimming around. Heck, make an NPC on the boardwalk in Limsa chumming the water and have sharks swimming around it. And sharks in Costa, too.

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Also have stray animals prowling the alleyways in Ul'dah. Make the game seem like it's more alive. FFXI added wildlife, why not this game?

This game needs attackable critters.

I tots like this idea, anything that makes the game more life like is a like from me.

Lol, I remember s similar topic last year asking for more wildlife like seeing groups of chocobos in an inaccessible area of the map.... well we got groups chocobos in maps, but they want to kill us!

But yes would be nice to see wildlife that's not trying to kill you. Maybe they can do what they do with those Carbuncles/ retainers popping in occasionally and apply it to wildlife? At the very least ad them to each city

Can you imagine? While fishing you see a flock of ducks just passing by you.

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Originally Posted by RiceisNice

This game needs attackable critters.

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Your sig had me thinking a bug was on my screen lol

Only if when we kill one a butterfly pops out that our minions eat. :]

Also maybe more, well I don't know what the word is but more life movement from the World enemies we see on screen? Like when you go up to certain enemies they notice you and they get in a defensive position or a Mob just doing a natural call/roar and last but not least maybe catch one of them sleeping?

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Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess

Also maybe more, well I don't know what the word is but more life movement from the World enemies we see on screen? Like when you go up to certain enemies they notice you and they get in a defensive position or a Mob just doing a natural call/roar and last but not least maybe catch one of them sleeping?

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Such as one of the HW dungeons (sohm al? The aery? Cant remember) where you see sleeping dragons.Stuff like this would definitely improve the overworld

I love this idea. Especially the fish swimming around in the water part. Would be nice to see some random sea shells, starfish, crabs and whatnot on the beaches in areas like Costa and Mist too.

I'd love if there were more wildlife that didn't try to kill you, and not just like random small animals too. Like.. Everything is hostile, why are all the various creatures trying to kill anyone who passes by?

Indeed would love to see more wildlife. I remember in 11 watching the dolphins and whales swim by and standing at the edge of the water fish swimming by. The owl that was in Carpenters Landing was fun as well.

Would also like to see the seasons change, night time sky change a moon cycle. More life besides grinding dungeons, fates and leaves. Safe spots to just hang out and enjoy the scenery would be awesome.

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Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess

Also maybe more, well I don't know what the word is but more life movement from the World enemies we see on screen? Like when you go up to certain enemies they notice you and they get in a defensive position or a Mob just doing a natural call/roar and last but not least maybe catch one of them sleeping?

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Aldgoats used to notice players that were close to them and follow the players, it always made me laugh when I was harvesting and had five goats clustered around me. I would like to see more idle animations from mobs, instead of them forever waiting to be attacked. It wouldn't hurt to have critters running about for atmosphere.

Extra idle animations seems kind of minor, but I could get behind it. On the other hand, in terms of random untargetable critters and things, that also sounds like it would make the game so much more alive, but it would have one slight drawback. You'd have to render these things, and while I doubt either PS4 or high-end computers will have much of a problem, players who are stuck playing on a normal computer set-up will probably be forced to reduce their settings even further, and PS3 probably wouldn't even get the option to see the additional wildlife (Though that would be awesome incentive for those still on the PS3 version of the game to upgrade).

I'd hope that these additional wildlife, if implemented, would have their own toggle so that players on the low-end performance wise don't have to suffer extra lag. This would of course mean that these critters would be purely aesthetic (which should be their only intention when adding background wildlife) and cannot be targetable.

I just want to run into a garden and make all the butterflies scatter while shouting "TAKE WING YE SOULS OF WAR!"

Make it happen SE.

Most enemies in the open world is wild life

Definetly want this. I particularily like the idea of stray dogs in Ul'dah.

I really like this idea, especially the one about fish. The oceans and lakes really do seem dead.
Maybe that's why my retainer always brings me kelp...

They could set it up as a client side thing. Especially if it was untargettable.
You'd be able to set up how much of the wildlife was visible, much like the terrain quality settings. Wouldn't affect the servers as its all client side, wont be hackable either, since its literally just a graphics thing.

If they ever add wildlife, I want it to be flavor not game mechanics. Make them untargetable, more like moving scenery pieces than mobs.

I hope for more "lively" maps too. That's a really good idea.

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Originally Posted by Sylve

They could set it up as a client side thing. Especially if it was untargettable.
You'd be able to set up how much of the wildlife was visible, much like the terrain quality settings. Wouldn't affect the servers as its all client side, wont be hackable either, since its literally just a graphics thing.

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They already have some of this. Ships in the background of the Mist, for example.
Heck, even minion positions are, to an extent, client side only. Unless the player is moving or the minion is mounted to the player, it's position is random per client it seems. At least until you give it a /handover.

agreed, extra wildlife for pure scenery enhancement would be very nice to see.

I have a funny feeling it will not happen, but I do support the idea :)

funny thing FFXI did an awesome work with the wildlife , if u havent seen the videos go watch it u will be impressed! the amount of little details that made Vanadiel a living world


https://youtu.be/iesY1XssACM
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https://youtu.be/kzrmwcSizIY

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

funny thing FFXI did an awesome with wildlife , if u havent seen the videos go watch it u will be impressed! the amount of little details that made Vanadiel a living world

https://youtu.be/iesY1XssACM

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Why can't we have this! :(

Yes this would be awesome!

I'd like more NPCs to pat around, too. Off the top of my head, the only ones I can think of are the elezen lady at the alley in Limsa going from stall to stall, and the miqote lady in Revenants toll looking for her carbuncle. Too many NPCs just stand there looking around; more should be moving through the cities and on paths that are farther apart than two merchant stalls.

There are moments in Thanalan and Limsa Lominsa where you see birds soaring overhead. So there's potential for them to add something more.

PS3 Limitations.

PS3. They said mem is capped now with the expansion

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

PS3 Limitations.

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Originally Posted by Jin-

PS3. They said mem is capped now with the expansion

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Easy, just make it a toggle-able setting. LotRO had ambient birds that would fly around in the distance as a setting, if your rig could handle it, great, game looked even better. If your rig slowed to a crawl, oh well, turn it off and back to playing. If they can't find a way for ps3 to run it, just make it so it doesn't show on that client.

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Originally Posted by MynxLynx

Aldgoats used to notice players that were close to them and follow the players, it always made me laugh when I was harvesting and had five goats clustered around me. I would like to see more idle animations from mobs, instead of them forever waiting to be attacked. It wouldn't hurt to have critters running about for atmosphere.

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Dodos did this too! I loved it! :D

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Originally Posted by Gralna

Easy, just make it a toggle-able setting. LotRO had ambient birds that would fly around in the distance as a setting, if your rig could handle it, great, game looked even better. If your rig slowed to a crawl, oh well, turn it off and back to playing. If they can't find a way for ps3 to run it, just make it so it doesn't show on that client.

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True, but i think there is more on to that like extra stress on the servers etc.... They could do the same with HD textures.
After playing Skyrim with the birds of Skyrim mods etc... It is just beautiful.

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Originally Posted by GeorgeKhan

That's the best signature ever. I actually poked my screen just to be sure.

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Luckily ADblock can block stuff like that :). Too many times there is flashy or moving gifs on these forums. Although that current one is pretty fun at first