Request: Battle Damage

After dipping into other games recently (basically Dissidia NT and Dragonball FighterZ), I realize that I miss one little detail that I would love to see in FFXIV - Battle Damage. I'm not asking for something exquisite like clothes tearing as a battle wears on, wounds or anything of the sort...but I wouldn't mind seeing my character have some dirt marks on them after a fight. Make it an optional thing of course, but you know, something little like that would be pretty enjoyable. Can't be glamorous and spotless all the time.

If that could be put in, maybe even allow showers to wash the battle damage off - or really, any type of water that washes over our characters.

Adding an extra slider to miqote customization will cause the servers to crash.

So I'm afraid that this will probably not be added because ...

#serverlimitations

I've personally just given up on asking for what I call "advanced" customization requests until they can give us the basics.

SE has made it clear they can't even give us that.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

SE has made it clear they can't even give us that.

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I'd be happy if they'd just give us the option to flip hairstyles, which is a very simple thing to do on most engines, but still hasn't happened.

I don't see this happening, and personally, with the fact that the dev team already struggles with designing gear, I would rather the art/gear developers focus on that than visual wear and tear on our gear.

I dont see this happening. I mean we cant even get new faces in the game.

This is done in FFXV and that feature can get annoying with your clothes getting dirty every mission, even on small missions where you dont even get hit.

I'd rather get new faces first

I expect it would be another one of those things that maybe could have been done if they'd had the idea when they were building the game, but with the current system there's no way to add in such information now to make an item slowly change appearance with wear.

If such a thing was included from the start though, I think it could have been useful to link it to the 'gear condition' stat! (If your gear is looking worn, it's time for a trip to the repairman....) Or have three setting options of [on] / [linked to status] / [off] so you can opt to have it look like that for actual wear indication or just for aesthetics.

If I ever design an MMORPG, I'll keep it in mind...

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Originally Posted by Yorha

I'd rather get new faces first

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Same. Along with other character creation options.

I think it would be a cool option. Realistically, we all know that they 'don't have the server space' to do it, but that doesn't mean we can't express what we like and +1 the cool ideas.

An interesting idea. Besides damage, just having evidence of being out in the world could change the way you feel about those "meaningless" quests. I remember the shock when my characters in Dragons Age were covered in blood and stayed that way. It was a grim reminder of the dirty work I was a part of. "Out! Out! Damn spot!"

Quite a while ago, I received the achievement for killing 100,000 creatures. Imagine if we had to face the horror of that "achievement" (bloody gear; persistent corpses; the haunted and judging faces of those who had to clean up; the vengeful kin; their lawyers?!). But no, we are Teflon heroes (mercenaries).

This has been requested before, but personally I don't think it'd work out. As often as considerable damage is taken and healed it would turn off and on far too frequently, potentially producing unnecessary lag. Furthermore, you wouldn't really have any time to truly appreciate it. Also if it isn't tied to remaining HP then what would it be tied to, not to mention how would it be remedied?

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Originally Posted by Joe777

This has been requested before, but personally I don't think it'd work out. As often as considerable damage is taken and healed it would turn off and on far too frequently, potentially producing unnecessary lag. Furthermore, you wouldn't really have any time to truly appreciate it. Also if it isn't tied to remaining HP then what would it be tied to, not to mention how would it be remedied?

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Easy. Just tie it to the equipment condition and have it cleaned when mended.
I agree this would be a major graphics/data burden though. If they implemented it, but then had to provide a user setting to toggle it off for performance reasons, then it's better just to fix a more pressing issue.

People already complain as it is, while it is a nice feature and mend while repairing, not everyone would be able to take advantage do to system specs. Next thing you know people will complain system crashes do to over setting their device and expect SE to make it better lol.

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Originally Posted by Slevin_Impudicus

Easy. Just tie it to the equipment condition and have it cleaned when mended.
I agree this would be a major graphics/data burden though. If they implemented it, but then had to provide a user setting to toggle it off for performance reasons, then it's better just to fix a more pressing issue.

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Tied to equipment condition = awesome.
Overlay on the body of dirt marks and scuffs that appear as the condition worsens. Dings and gouges on weapons would be cool too. Functionality wise it'd be a good way to show that your gear was getting close to needing repairs.
I agree it should need an option to turn it off since it would add some processing requirement to users machines.


I don't think it should be just poo-poo'd away as "we have other things that would be better use of dev time". While this isn't what I'd like instead of my new relic quests, I would like the devs putting a little time into it when they could.

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Originally Posted by Slevin_Impudicus

Easy. Just tie it to the equipment condition and have it cleaned when mended.
I agree this would be a major graphics/data burden though. If they implemented it, but then had to provide a user setting to toggle it off for performance reasons, then it's better just to fix a more pressing issue.

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That's more worn gear though than worn adventurer. Now that you mention it though worn gear is the previous request I was thinking of lol

We have a better chance of a another Calamity before SE actually cares about Character Creation.

Anyone that knows anything about 3d-modeling/texturing realizes that this requires it's own texture layer for each armor model in the game. Of which there are thousands. It will never ever happen. And it won't have anything to do with SE "not caring about glamour", it's just a phenomenal amount of work for little benefit.

They really can't implement something like this in a believable way when you can be beaten (or fall off a cliff) within an inch of your life yet 30 seconds afterward you're perfectly fine.

It's kinda like how you can get periodically shot up by turrets in Portal with blood spattering the walls everywhere, but as long as you hide behind a wall for a few seconds every now and then you're good as new again. If you think about it too much, it gets a little egregious.

Well...clearly, there are more negatives to the idea than positives...so /thread I guess.

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They can't even fix the clipping on gear when it comes to game basics like the character hair lol I rather not give SE any hard jobs because if the basics are this hard sheesh imagine battle damage lol servers crashing and random disconnects (sorry but I just don't think SE has this capability as we see since apparently the PS4 is holding them back on customizations that the PS3 held them back on lol)