AuRa and the ability to chance horns

[Naunet]

look @ wow, it has an even more basic CC this is due to each faction having several races.

WoW's basic CC is more due to its age than anything. But again, GW2 and WildStar both prove that you can have very detailed graphics/armors, a wide variety of races, huge customization, and a thorough costume and dye system. SE, I suspect, just coded themselves into a corner and don't really want to admit it or put the effort into getting out.

[Evergrey]

"DS: With the release of Stormblood, support for PS3 will be discontinued, and you’re encouraging players to move to a 64-bit version of Windows. Could you explain if this change will lead to visible effects in the expansion? Perhaps bigger areas, better effects or something else?

NY: Just to clarify, the ability to traverse seamlessly within large areas is something that was aleady possible. We just wanted to have dynamic changes in the scenery, which is why we included some of those loading screens. It’s not completely related to technical specs.

With the improvements in the baseline hardware, the biggest boon for us is that memory size will be vastly increased, but our intent isn’t to create graphics that might be even higher quality than what we have now. Instead, we want to increase how many assets we can show on your screen at the same time.

Outher improvements would be being able to travel faster on the map, and while some haven’t been announced yet, we are planning for various updates and upgrades."
http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/...ments-paladin/

Now I don't know anything about this technically. But could the part about "Memory Size" and the "how many assets we can show on your screen at the same time" have an impact if there could be a possibility if they wanted to to make it able for more character costumizations?
Honest question since I dunno how that kind of things work.

[Celef]

Not playing an Aura myself because of that :/ I like a face but hate the horns or vice and versa

[Evergrey]

Since "everyone" is talking about new races I'm gonna put this one up there again.

I still hope that now without the PS3 limitation we will someday see more character costumization options.
Not just for Au Ra, but for all of them. This topic just simply focus on this one since it was a big topic back in HW.

[Beatrice]

Since "everyone" is talking about new races I'm gonna put this one up there again.

I still hope that now without the PS3 limitation we will someday see more character costumization options.
Not just for Au Ra, but for all of them. This topic just simply focus on this one since it was a big topic back in HW.

I'd rather see more customization for our current races than a new one to be honest. Before I get mobbed on, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more races but we'll just get new ones with the same old limited options at this rate!

[Evergrey]

I'd rather see more customization for our current races than a new one to be honest. Before I get mobbed on, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more races but we'll just get new ones with the same old limited options at this rate!

Just as I think aswell.
I too want new ones just like everyone else.
But we should not forget about what we already have. Alot of what we got could use an update.

Alot of people have complained about how everyone basicly looks the same and that people meet twins here and there.
And with the horns being such a big part of the Au Ra they could need an update to make them more unique to each others.

I know that adding more costumization to any race would require (unless deciding not to) old NPC models to be updated aswell, and that might be too much for them to care about.

[FallenArisen0990]

Personally, I want more horns. I've just about exhausted almost every option Au Ra has to offer. More tail options would be nice as well.

[AluneTempest]

reviving the thread because we are on PS5 hardware now, can we please have this?

[Soge01]

Twould be a nice change. I like my alt's old female Au ra look more, but the oversized mandible horns sticking out from the sides are too much. I prefer the thin backwards horns or forward ones. Wish the devs could look into this issue with the Au ra.

[Midareyukki]

I'd rather see more customization for our current races than a new one to be honest. Before I get mobbed on, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more races but we'll just get new ones with the same old limited options at this rate!

I can't tell if this aged poorly or too well...
I'd rather we fixed the ones we got rather than adding new ones, but c'est la vie when people spam their streams with "support" for a race.

reviving the thread because we are on PS5 hardware now, can we please have this?

We're technically still operating for PS4 but with some options available for higher hardware. So that baseline must still be met. That said, this was said when the ceiling was the PS4. Meaning what was once the maximum is now the minimum, even if it implies a new maximum. If it was possible before to have all this, it should still remain so.

But reality shows differently. Budget, assets, the team and even the mindset of the guys calling the shots. In 2017 we didn't have CBU3 working on FF16, so they were more dedicated. They weren't searching for staff because they had one that worked just fine for the time. Covid hadn't happened, nor its consequences. And at the time, FF14 was beginning its popularity wave, so it was in the head honchos' best interest to keep this afloat.

Two races were released in an "unfinished" state, not much else was granted to the races overall, and it's taken them this long to begin adding stuff to them. The ARR races are now getting a graphical update, but that's no guarantee of any addition to character creation. And, I dare say, the use of third party tools that change the graphical assets of the game would have been in its early stages, not having yet grown to a concern with its use being widespread.

Overall it just seems that reality is far different now than it was 5 years ago. And because of that, what was promised before and what we currently have won't match. Au Ra having changeable horns has been asked for for years now. And given how things are like, odds are we won't see that happen until way later, if at all.