Patch 7.0 hopes

I don’t know if this will happen or work but I thought I try to see if anyone like or dislike this ideas but I’m hoping to see female hrogthar, more visible hats/helmets for viera and hrogthar. And last adding muscle sliders to viera and au ra. I’m courious to see if this will happen but what do you all want or think?

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We probably won't know anything til they tell us something..,

The latest big thing is NA Datacenters getting an Upgrade.., How much, and how much it entails/Changes things, no way of knowing.

Specially with how it all ties in with the Graphics Update in 7.0
Which assumingly, also ties into the quality of basic materials Female Hroths will look like.(but not their shape, or figure, or over all look)

We can only hope they Start relasing a couple of cats out of the bag in the looming Fanfests later this year, and early next.

I understand just a wish list. It’s a incredibly game with awesome people and players but just making a hope list.

Well there was that big "Ask Yoshi P" thread. I put in asking for more makeup and face paint options. Really I would just love more customization options altogether.

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Originally Posted by Swampking

I’m hoping to see female hrogthar,

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We already know female Hrothgar are coming.

4K textures, DLSS/FSR support, better shadows and AntiAliasing, a change in the content pacing, a focus on creating replayable content. An MSQ that exists because of the world, not a world that exists because of the MSQ only. Any acknowledgement to exploration content and people who like to explore. More verticality in fights and zones. More purpose to swimming/diving. Zones with more objects/life in them. A better integration of mobs into the zone, such as grazing or eating each other instead of just idling until someone kills them.

Basically I hope for different things than the predictable things we always get in regards to content.

Yeah, like I've said countless times.., we are in a transition period between Arcs..,
And as I've said to some.., If 7.0 doesn't meet to the standards/expectations that they've built up, exactly as their words were meant to be interpreted.., then they are free to tear when the day comes.
[Though, of course one person's view alone cannot temper what even one other person feels about things rn]

at the very least, well get a smooth running game with basic potential to expand its systems as the next 10 years go by.

at the very best, we get all that we could "Reasonably" want, without stepping toes on existing functions/remade systems, with renewed hope in various sectors many have taken to let out differing opinions on as of late.

At worst, another notch to "The Various Deaths of XIV" that isn't actually a joke.

I'm most excited for the environment updates. One of my main issues with the game is that every zone is just a big empty field. They just can't add a lot of the little details that make areas feel alive and lived in due to current engine limitations. Not only is this uninteresting to look at and play in, it really snaps me out of the story when an NPC says "be careful out there in the jungle" and the "jungle" is five trees and a couple bushes scattered around. Even Radz-at-Han, which is supposed to be a bustling trade city, is mostly just empty rooms.

Going off of the example shown in the graphical update preview it looks like that will be a thing of the past in 7.0 and I can't wait. I hope they do a pass like this on some old zones as well, especially the main cities. :D

https://i.redd.it/muivv5sh5ri81.png

Well, we have a basic idea of what the graphical update will entail. Not how it will end up looking, but the components that will be overhauled. We've seen some mesh updates (at least for the faces and I assume the bodies will follow suit), heard about material rendering updates, texture updates, lighting updates (sorely needed for the overworld), foliage improvements, increased clutter in areas to make them feel lived in, improved shadows, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope they also finally add some proper anti-aliasing because the options we have are harrowing. Oh, and to add more texture randomization for landscapes. A lot of the times, you can see repetition and seams if you look at the ground, and it would be fairly easy for them to fix that.

As for potential customization updates? I doubt those will hit anytime soon; the most we've heard is that YoshiP and his team have discussed it. If it's something they're looking at, though, I hope they start by untying existing customization options from each other. Think au ra horns and faces being connected, or hyur faces and beards being connected; those should all be separately usable. If I want to use au ra face 2 horns with the face 4, let me do that. Same for other facial features like scars. In fact, make scars their entire own category of customization. That's all just the baseline. We could also use just more stuff in general, but separating out the existing options should already be an improvement.

What else... maybe (body) tattoos as a separate customization category? Body scarring? I dunno.

Otherwise, I'd like to see them continue to iterate on Island Sanctuaries. Pull off the bandaid and just add housing 2.0/instanced housing to it. I mean, seriously... just cut the crap. You already have an instanced entire zone (2 in 6.4) for any character that finishes 6.0 that even saves/records trivial changes made to it as well as progression: just add a housing plot to it.

On the other hand, I'd also like more fun activities. The gathering side of it is fine and all, but it doesn't justify the foundational effort put into the islands so far. They could've put those activities anywhere in the world. Give us things that are just more.. fun? Maybe small side-activities like treasure tracking or something on the level of Gold Saucer GATEs. (but less restrictive, I guess) I dunno what, exactly, but I know they can do more with it.

Story-wise, I dunno. No idea what 7.0 will prove to be, but I'm curious to see how/if they can hook people. I for one can't say that just the prospect of Meracydia (undoubtedly covered in Allagan crap) alone intrigues me, if that's what it is. Still, they've proven that they can get me invested time and time again, so I'm happy to wait in that sense.

I would want more character customization options for the existing races, if they aren't adding more they could at least do that.

my wishful hope is that they fix the server tick between mechanics and player movement.

Outside of the visual upgrades which granted we haven't seen their high res textures on the world or creatures with the physical based renderer yet (only saw it on characters) I am more interested in them talking about a bigger allocation towards animation as a whole which they said longer emotes but this could also extend into more in depth emotes that can make the MSQ which is dependent on them a good boost of variety.

I would like them to rework the level and fate system and personally make it take much longer to level crafter/gatherers. Having your 100 levels made levelling a cake walk and they honestly should rework it or make it much more of a harder choice to expend a leve on this X job rather than Y job.

Outlandish expectation....make the original 3 cities seamless :P It would be really really nice for them to make them a seamless experience.

This is more an overall hope for the future. I doubt 7.0 will bring anything like it, but I hope they start to consider more free movement. I get that some limitations exist and most likely will forever, but some spots on a map are just boxed off for no reason, and it makes the game feel less immersive than it could. Some stuff is just cordoned off for what feels like "Well, what if someone can fall down?" or "What if someone loses the way or gets a little stuck" reasons, and it just makes me kind of roll my eyes. Let people fall into pits, let people climb up mountains, let people run all the way around the interior of the Pendants, etc. Additionally: let more settlements and houses have interiors. There's so many of them that are just singular objects with locked doors, but then there is one that is entirely modeled from the inside: just copy that interior and shuffle some stuff around. It will make the world feel a lot more lived in, even if it seems minor.

On a similar note, and this is a super vain hope, but whatever, this is a hopes thread: consider one day stitching more zones together and phasing out loading screens. In the major cities, in all of the Black Shroud/Thanalan/La Noscea, in and out cities, etc. I know they can't possibly stitch every ARR zone together and allow is to fly all around it like it's one world, but they could at least combine the various locales and fill up the sides/between so it feels like it's all part of the same space.

Magitek Garlean job class!

Also Chemist as a healer and Chrono Trigger crossover alliance raid.

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I'm most excited for the environment updates. One of my main issues with the game is that every zone is just a big empty field. They just can't add a lot of the little details that make areas feel alive and lived in due to current engine limitations. Not only is this uninteresting to look at and play in, it really snaps me out of the story when an NPC says "be careful out there in the jungle" and the "jungle" is five trees and a couple bushes scattered around. Even Radz-at-Han, which is supposed to be a bustling trade city, is mostly just empty rooms.

Going off of the example shown in the graphical update preview it looks like that will be a thing of the past in 7.0 and I can't wait. I hope they do a pass like this on some old zones as well, especially the main cities. :D

https://i.redd.it/muivv5sh5ri81.png

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watch it be just a couple barrels and chests added in near-aethryte locations. I doubt the zones will look lively even after the update

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Originally Posted by Shinkuno

watch it be just a couple barrels and chests added in near-aethryte locations. I doubt the zones will look lively even after the update

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Even if they do look great I'm sure you'll find something to whine about. :)

Female Hrothgar turn out really cool and the graphical update fixes all of Viera and Hrothgar's glamour problems.

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Female Hrothgar turn out really cool and the graphical update fixes all of Viera and Hrothgar's glamour problems.

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if so, it'd be a much needed salve..,
<the only negative to that would be the forums balance of even/negative/positive voices would shift.., in a good way.>
(leading to many getting impatient for SE to fix/improve what they want. which in a way, also a good thing, asides asking for them to calm)

For me, my only wish, would be just some reduction to fomo in some sectors, and general varied paths to be able to obtain/complete tasks of certain quests.[ie: not choices. I mean different independent activities to accomplish a goal, faster or Meta'd together, but regardless. Suited to what one cares to do atm. as seen with those unhappy with previous past current and potentially future relics]

Let alone grind reduction for alts covering already treaded ground on a main.

and I guess visual representation of how the Adventurer affects the landscape, npcs, and world.
[we already have indicators of that, but text/menu statuses hardly get people to calm down, when, shared Fates for example say the zone is better off than before. but to the player, they do not see a thing. despite change clearly having occurred. causing reactions of others.]

Really looking forward to the graphics update.

I just want access to all the helmets and hats that everyone else can wear. That's it.

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Originally Posted by kpxmanifesto

Really looking forward to the graphics update.

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Hear hear! Funnily enough, that lighting update should go the longest way towards fixing the big issues in the overworld, but everything helps. For example, the improvements to the face meshes will make shadowing and lighting on them less jarring as well.

We might get to see a Varis that doesn't look like ps2 jank and a non-pixel Exarch in our lifetimes. How harrowing. (/sarc)

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Originally Posted by EliaStormblade

Hear hear! Funnily enough, that lighting update should go the longest way towards fixing the big issues in the overworld, but everything helps. For example, the improvements to the face meshes will make shadowing and lighting on them less jarring as well.

We might get to see a Varis that doesn't look like ps2 jank and a non-pixel Exarch in our lifetimes. How harrowing. (/sarc)

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That’s a big thing for me to when you get certain indoor scenes and the lighting causes some real questionable self shadowing/brightness on the face of someone and their skin looks like a barbie doll haha. Seeing the example image already makes it a million times better with the actual skin shader. Lighting, shadows and anti aliasing are the biggest issues outside of obvious things like textures.

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Originally Posted by kpxmanifesto

Really looking forward to the graphics update.

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Likewise, though am concerned that my aging PC might find it hard work, if it can even handle it at all!

And have started saving for a new PC with that in mind!

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

Even if they do look great I'm sure you'll find something to whine about. :)

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Ask Hrothgar players how good Square is at updating existing assets

I want to go to the city state of Lea Monde. Unlike its variant in Vagrant Story, XIV's version is said to still be bustling with activity.

I would like to see the western continent, home of the Mamool Ja and Blue Magic. Further, I would be interested in seeing if there are any analogs to North America or South America, like parts of Othard and Eorzea have been reminiscent of Asia and Europe.

I want to go to more shards. We've been to the First and the Thirteenth, but we still have many other worlds we could check out- worlds not yet threatened by calamities, where the entirety of the land's flora and fauna could have evolved differently than the Source.

I want to see Battleleves return as a method of storytelling and item acquisition. Leveling maybe as well, but I think that they have more potential than what we have seen since ARR and Heavensward, and having them only be available to crafters is boring.

I want the "Return to Vana'diel" Final Fantasy XI content they teased. Give me my Brigandine as a raid reward already, and add more onto Iroha's story. Canonically she's still running around Eorzea somewhere.

Oh and I want them to bring back Matsuno to properly finish Noah van Gabranth's story. We have plenty that can still be told, especially regarding Dalmasca and its Resistance Leaders.