Damaged gear appearance!

So, we all have been through great battles with god-like foes. though it's kinda weird that we come out of the fight unscathed. our skin without a single scratch and our gear in perfect condition (at least in appearance). so i was thinking maybe damaged versions of gear could be added. say you have your beautiful gear at 100% condition, and that when it reaches a 50% condition it would change into a damaged version of the same with maybe some damage on our character's body! it would be cool in my opinion. making our characters look less "extremely overpowered".

They'd have to make new models for every single piece of visible gear or apply some sort of effect. Not really worth the time.

As long as they don't touch my skin (as in damaging it) I'm fine with gear getting visibly damaged!...

Most cool games out there know something called collision damage (or similar) and Square Enix well known for great graphics can't possibly fall behind!...

Maybe it will happen in 4.0 when they remake the whole game in 4K (I really hope), it would be nice to see parts of gear being chipped away, just like the clothing damage in Dead of Alive 5!... :D

No time for that?, please, don't fool yourself, SE can do whatever they want if they decide to do so, the time they don't spend in this game is spent making several others which don't benefit us at all!...

I really think this will use up too many resources and won't likely to happen.

Maybe once they get around to have decent textures they can get on dynamic gear wear and tear.

We can't even mail alts yet, like in every other game EVER. Not happening!

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

They'd have to make new models for every single piece of visible gear or apply some sort of effect. Not really worth the time.

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Not really, all they'd have to do is introduce a function that, once gear repair gets to a set percentage, dulls the gear. No new models & not really an added effect, merely a shift in the colour wheel (actually, a shift in the chroma). To make it even easier still they could just turn the gear a set colour at a defined repair level.

These abilities are already in the system as we can change colours via dyestuffs. The server would be, in essence, dyeing the gear at the preset percentage. Should be very simple with a decent game engine, which we are led to believe SE has.

So...hypothetically speaking: If people run around in a glamoured Bikini, how much can you "damage" it before things become NSFW?

Nice idea but sadly I fear that this would take to much work. :(
It would be kinda nice if we got more scar or burn options for our skin. :) Like at the beginning your character has no scars and maybe after defeating Ifrit you can go to the hair npc and get yourself a nice burn mark in your face or on your body. Or even more scars all over your body. (All of this would be optional and removable)

Or give us items to glamour which are bloody bandages? :) So we can pretend that we are hurt?

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Originally Posted by Zojha

So...hypothetically speaking: If people run around in a glamoured Bikini, how much can you "damage" it before things become NSFW?

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Joined Ifrit HM for esoterics, got naked after 3 hits, earned 7 MVPs for being Bikini-Tank. 8/8 would fight again.

It would be nice to have some additional effects on the clothing after a longer fight (like ash/snow/dirt/wounds/s.o.).

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Originally Posted by Zojha

So...hypothetically speaking: If people run around in a glamoured Bikini, how much can you "damage" it before things become NSFW?

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Isn't it the general rule of mmorpg, less armor = more defense.

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

Not really, all they'd have to do is introduce a function that, once gear repair gets to a set percentage, dulls the gear. No new models & not really an added effect, merely a shift in the colour wheel (actually, a shift in the chroma). To make it even easier still they could just turn the gear a set colour at a defined repair level.

These abilities are already in the system as we can change colours via dyestuffs. The server would be, in essence, dyeing the gear at the preset percentage. Should be very simple with a decent game engine, which we are led to believe SE has.

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That sounds more like you're chipping away at the paint job rather than actually showing damage. OP wants to see actual physical damage to gear and you can sort of see it with the zombie BLMs and WHMs you fight in the Lost City of Amdapor hard mode.

I would like idea. At certain damage percentages it just applies a dirt/scratch overlay to your character.

Make the graphics look in a way that works on both skin and gear - like a smudge of dirt - so its just the one overlay regardless of it you are wearing a bikini or full metal gear.

I don't see this as being worth development time to be honest.

Instantly made me think of this
http://i.imgur.com/2XLxQ.jpg

From Parasite Eve 3rd Birthday, honestly feel it sucked as a PE game. However I agree on the no, we don't need clothing to be damaged, nice touch but a pointless effort in the end I feel.

"Decal Texturing" will do the job.

No thanks. Leave my gear look alone. I don't want anything to show my gear damaged, we spend a long time on glamours don't want to mess up the look at all thank you.

PS3 limitations.

When this happens maybe actually have bare feet when we take our footwear off.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

Or give us items to glamour which are bloody bandages? :) So we can pretend that we are hurt?

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I always thought chest bandages would be really great glamour-- I mean MNK/NIN have handwraps already so why not?

But honestly if you're wanting all gear to show damage to be even halfway to believable they'd have to go over every single model and there's so much more important things SE needs to focus dev time on before stuff like this.

As much I would like to see this I doubt they will do it. They are already busy making new gears where they copy paste casters and ranged with same equipment with different color instead each one with theirs to the point of being even lazy to make primal gears with just 4 types instead of 6 so... adding even more the same gear getting broken seems like impossible.

Do you notice that just AF gear that come once a expansion is the one that get privilege of getting each job their own gear? Because they got a lot of time to make them, making same thing in every patch seems kinda hard.

With the low resolution of the gear in this game, it already looks damaged.

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Originally Posted by mufasapower

So, we all have been through great battles with god-like foes. though it's kinda weird that we come out of the fight unscathed. our skin without a single scratch and our gear in perfect condition (at least in appearance). so i was thinking maybe damaged versions of gear could be added. say you have your beautiful gear at 100% condition, and that when it reaches a 50% condition it would change into a damaged version of the same with maybe some damage on our character's body! it would be cool in my opinion. making our characters look less "extremely overpowered".

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They did do this in Third Birthday.

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Originally Posted by mufasapower

...it would be cool in my opinion. making our characters look less "extremely overpowered".

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Great idea!
The only problem is then ppl will ask for glamour broken look gears.
Alternatively, it can make players lost their glamour effect when a gear is under n% durability. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Zojha

So...hypothetically speaking: If people run around in a glamoured Bikini, how much can you "damage" it before things become NSFW?

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The glamour won't take visual damage, but what is being glamoured (what you're actually wearing) will. So the bikini would only be damaged if it's actually what you're wearing.

Might be a fanservice on female character. I bet ppl disgusted to see male damaged gear has undies shows.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

The glamour won't take visual damage, but what is being glamoured (what you're actually wearing) will. So the bikini would only be damaged if it's actually what you're wearing.

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Well, then it's pointless to even put in the effort to add "damage look" to gear if it doesn't affect glamour. It will require significant time to create, and if putting a glamour just covers that up, why should they spend the effort?

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Originally Posted by MaeIsMean

Well, then it's pointless to even put in the effort to add "damage look" to gear if it doesn't affect glamour. It will require significant time to create, and if putting a glamour just covers that up, why should they spend the effort?

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Echoed my thoughts exactly. All that resource and energy used is better off making better content or improving on the one we have now and we need a LOT of improvements right now.

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Originally Posted by MaeIsMean

Well, then it's pointless to even put in the effort to add "damage look" to gear if it doesn't affect glamour. It will require significant time to create, and if putting a glamour just covers that up, why should they spend the effort?

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Exactly and as neat as this idea sounds, it's better to use whatever amount of resources the XIV team has into making better content (as Miles said), rather than redesign the exact same gear for every % lost.

Gear ripping, please.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Might be a fanservice on female character. I bet ppl disgusted to see male damaged gear has undies shows.

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Too many naked People in Idyllshire already, I doubt this will happen, the only thing you would see with this Feature is that People would be naked with destroyed Gear.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

That sounds more like you're chipping away at the paint job rather than actually showing damage. OP wants to see actual physical damage to gear and you can sort of see it with the zombie BLMs and WHMs you fight in the Lost City of Amdapor hard mode.

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Agreed, but like the poster I was replying to, the likelihood of actual damage being shown is nigh on impossible due to having to remake every piece of gear. I though the idea of it getting dirty, faded or rusty (depending on the material the gear is made of) would be a reasonable compromise.

So long that you can't spend 10 seconds to get it repaired. You life must be so very busy... ;D

Making other models will be impossible. They could use some overlay effects to make the gear seem dirty and rusty. Don't know if they want to do something like that although I would prefer them to fix the shadows on the DX11 client.

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Originally Posted by MaeIsMean

Well, then it's pointless to even put in the effort to add "damage look" to gear if it doesn't affect glamour. It will require significant time to create, and if putting a glamour just covers that up, why should they spend the effort?

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SE could do the smart decision to not allow bikinis to be damaged because there's nothing to damage that will keep this game rated T.

The better decision would be to make body damage when wearing a bikini and possibly just making the bikini itself dirty.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

SE could do the smart decision to not allow bikinis to be damaged because there's nothing to damage that will keep this game rated T.

The better decision would be to make body damage when wearing a bikini and possibly just making the bikini itself dirty.

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Or make the character can be more vulnerable compared to people not wearing bikini or trunk shorts/speedo.

While an interesting concept, It would require more resources than it would be worth. I'd rather more armor models, than variants of existing ones

This would be cool if we had things like tatoos, scars, and other marks but the customization for characters in this game is kinda lame imo. Ya ya memory limits or w/e. I'll believe that excuse when they actually explain it in detail.

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Originally Posted by mufasapower

So, we all have been through great battles with god-like foes. though it's kinda weird that we come out of the fight unscathed. our skin without a single scratch and our gear in perfect condition (at least in appearance). so i was thinking maybe damaged versions of gear could be added. say you have your beautiful gear at 100% condition, and that when it reaches a 50% condition it would change into a damaged version of the same with maybe some damage on our character's body! it would be cool in my opinion. making our characters look less "extremely overpowered".

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I'd like that idea. Too much resources some say but I don't see anyone complaining about the squadrons or the little miqote girl book of w/e's being a waste of resources.

Anything increasing immersion is cool by me. /like