Patch 5.0 Notes

[NefarioCall]

OH JOY! I wasn't expecting this till tomorrow night.

[Kalise]

and there they are lol.

*Cries in Glorious PC Master Race*

[Vurtney]

Why? Did 144 fps upset anyone?

I'm going to assume there's a new option for 144 fps. Otherwise this change doesn't make any sense.

[DevilsDontFly]

and there they are lol.

I think it's less about outcry and more of the fact some people reported having issues using SE's artificial FPS limiter. Some people had issues trying to cap it at 60 and had to run it uncapped, while other happen to have a 120 or 144hz monitors that would benefit more from uncapped FPS. This might negatively affect some people, even though they are far from being the majority of the players.

I am biased towards having uncapped FPS though, but I am more concerned about the reports about capping your FPS on XIV causing people some issues.

I'm going to assume there's a new option for 144 fps. Otherwise this change doesn't make any sense.

From what I understood they are just replacing the Unlimited FPS with the 90 FPS max without adding anything else to the options menu.

[MaethusXion]

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

[Iscah]

"Hair style and face paint obtained as rewards can now be applied to retainers during customization."

... Face paint, huh? That's new. Hrothgar/Viera equivalent of new hairstyles maybe.

There's one unlockable face paint style from a seasonal event a few years ago. (Spiderweb for All Saints' Wake if I remember correctly.)

[CorbinDallas]

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

To be honest they're probably going to kill off regular linkshells completely. As they increase the CWL cap there's no reason for server only LS to exist.

[Iscah]

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

I think they're planning to replace linkshells with cross-world ones entirely in the long term. It's possible the underlying system is different despite the UI being the same, so maybe they either can't or don't want to alter it for the originals at this point if they're on their way to being obsolete.

[MaethusXion]

To be honest they\'re probably going to kill off regular linkshells completely. As they increase the CWL cap there\'s no reason for server only LS to exist.

I think they\'re planning to replace linkshells with cross-world ones entirely in the long term. It\'s possible the underlying system is different despite the UI being the same, so maybe they either can\'t or don\'t want to alter it for the originals at this point if they\'re on their way to being obsolete.

Maybe, but if they replace a system that remains until the LS is deleted with a system that deletes a CWLS when no one is online it... well that\'s just a mess. Unless they changed the CWLS to not delete when everyone is offline in a previous patch that I missed?

[CorbinDallas]

Maybe, but if they replace a system that remains until the LS is deleted with a system that deletes a CWLS when no one is in it... well that's just a mess. Unless they changed the CWLS to not delete when everyone is offline in a previous patch that I missed?

They only delete if there's fewer than a certain number of people in them. Like 1 or 2, I don't remember off the top of my head. So long as there are 3+ in there they don't auto delete?