Updating Existing Races

[Asheilin]

I want to be able to get my highland's ponytail on my Au Ra. I miss that hair style so much. ya know, the one with the ringlets and hair over one eye?

[ADVSS]

They should. The standards for character creations nowadays are far higher than the really cheap customization FFXIV brings us. Instead of giving us 12 different voice options for each race they could've given us more body sliders. We shouldn't even ask for 1.0 butt,
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this really triggered me. ps3 limitiations? you know i have to admit back in my teen years sporting a ps1 there were WRESTLING games out there with much more customization and sliders available, and this is just 1 form of game on a lower level than even ps3 limitiations that allowed this stuff...but that was back in the day, with 1mb memory cards, im sure that the the mb required would just explode the servers now,i mean theyre right, its just too much. ps3 limitations, anything really, as if a ps3 cant handle thigh thickness or whatnot....

[MaeIsMean]

this really triggered me. ps3 limitiations? you know i have to admit back in my teen years sporting a ps1 there were WRESTLING games out there with much more customization and sliders available, and this is just 1 form of game on a lower level than even ps3 limitiations that allowed this stuff...but that was back in the day, with 1mb memory cards, im sure that the the mb required would just explode the servers now,i mean theyre right, its just too much. ps3 limitations, anything really, as if a ps3 cant handle thigh thickness or whatnot....

I don't think body sliders are a PS3 limitation. I think it's more of a "gear creation limitation." The more variety you allow players on their characters, the more "hooks" you need to apply to your gear to ensure there's no clipping. Wildstar has a fantastic character creation, very detailed. It also resulted in a certain pair of pants on a certain of my characters to look like a thong, as my ass cheeks clipped through them just right. It was amusing, but quite embarrassing too! The game you mentioned is not a game that comes with lots of variety of gear. They all wear a certain outfit and don't change. So of course you can have more customization.

I'm not excusing SE. Their character creation is very archaic. There needs to be way more face options, and more variety in hair styles (no race should be subjected to 4 identical hair styles with different color barrettes like I mentioned above), and different builds. I don't necessarily think every inch of my body should have a slider, but I do think that not EVERY Elezen should have identical bodies with only different size boobs.

[Iromi]

I am happy with my character and don't really see myself changing her much.

More hair styles would be interesting..especially the female one that actually won...the high braid pony tail -_- It would be amazing if we could have our 1.0 bodies back...I must admit lol.





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[Tanama]

Honestly, I would not mind if they didn't add a new race in 4.0 only if they greatly expanded the custom options for the existing races. As it stands now there are tons of clones running around with some races have that one-face syndrome.

(I'm looking at you female Au Ra Face 1)

[Ametrine]

I was more than a little disappointed when I was making my Elezen and saw 4 identical hair styles with only the color of the barettes different. Like.... really?

Lalafell have a set a pigtails with ribbons that do the same thing, and the old Y'shtola hair had a silver and gold clip version.

It's actually a leftover from 1.0. There were only 4 haircuts per race and gender, so they had an option to change clip or ribbon color. 2.0's designers just opted to list them as separate styles, since that's probably how they were programmed in, anyway.

[Freyyy]

Is it me or the whole graphic quality was way better in 1.0 ? I didn't play 1.0 but everytime I see pictures of it I find it way more beautiful than what the game looks like now.

A little example that I found on Google by just typing FFXIV 1.0 :



The lighting seems better, the shadows look better, the hair looks like actual hair, the textures seem to look better too. Looks like an upgraded version of what we have here. Wtf happened ?

[Ametrine]

Honestly, I would not mind if they didn't add a new race in 4.0 only if they greatly expanded the custom options for the existing races. As it stands now there are tons of clones running around with some races have that one-face syndrome.

(I'm looking at you female Au Ra Face 1)

I think that face is so popular from how non-invasive the horns and facial scales are.

I feel like all Miqo'te girls look the same. Actually messing with the creator show that face 1 and 3 have the same eyes...

[Ametrine]

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You're not losing your mind. 1.0 WAS better.

But it was too much, it was so much to render and load at once. That doesn't sound bad, but the optimization and coding in 1.0 was trash.

This meant only beefy PCs at the time could run the game, and even they had bizarre hiccups. The joke that a flowerpot in 1.0 had as much detail and pixels as your avatar wasn't too far from the truth, and the open world was a barren wasteland of highly textured ground. :/

This version couldn't scale to PS3, let alone less than high-grade PCs, and SE had promised/contracted from day 1 to put XIV on the platform.

Thus, one of the first orders of business for 2.0 was to create a new graphics engine that could be scaled down to function on PS3, while simultaneously filling the world with detail.

The issue now is gaming has graphically gotten past 1.0, let along 2.0, and PS4 and current PCs could pull off the higher detail.

/shrug

[Istaru]

Is it me or the whole graphic quality was way better in 1.0 ? I didn't play 1.0 but everytime I see pictures of it I find it way more beautiful than what the game looks like now.

A little example that I found on Google by just typing FFXIV 1.0 :



The lighting seems better, the shadows look better, the hair looks like actual hair, the textures seem to look better too. Looks like an upgraded version of what we have here. Wtf happened ?

1.0 did not run very well on low end computers and I don't think it would ever have run on the PS3. So they dropped the polygon count on everything, made low Res textures, changed lighting and other things and launched it as the new and improved version of the game.

In some ways. 2.0 was better than 1.0, in others, 1.0 was better.