Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Or, you know. They could just end the world again.

He keeps joking about it.

I am somewhat encouraged by the answer he gave during the guest meetings - whilst he considered having multiple body types (in light of the ShB trailer showing these for Miqo'te) infeasible for player characters, he did say they wanted to challenge themselves in regards to character customisation.

Of course, how that would play out in practice, if at all, is unclear, but the desire is there, at the least.

Considering how old this game is now, and how other MMOs are more visually pleasing. FF14 is certainly in need of a graphic overhaul and in dire need of the CC being overhauled, that's not something that can really be denied. Especially with ShB being voted as the top game of this year so far.


Reddit Post Regarding ShB being top game. Note; this is reddit. Look at your own peril.

Certainly if they want to increase on 5.0's performance, they're going to have to bite the bullet at some point. It's not just other MMOs that compete with the game but other games in general and even other uses of your time in addition to that.

[Iscah]

I am somewhat encouraged by the answer he gave during the guest meetings - whilst he considered having multiple body types (in light of the ShB trailer showing these for Miqo'te), he did say they wanted to challenge themselves in regards to character customisation.

Of course, how that would play out in practice, if at all, is unclear, but the desire is there, at the least.

I'm fairly sure that's just in regards to NPC designs, where they can do things that are beyond the reach of players.

Now that we've actually got the game and can poke around at its data (thankyou Garland Tools), the two really unusual character designs are the "fat cat" Miqo'te such as Dulia-Chai, and Ran'jit who seems to be a Highlander-cross-Xaela, as far as I can guess?

I was curious to see exactly how they were doing it at an underlying level, and expected something like all the Garleans technically being Elezen... but as it turns out, neither of them are programmed as normal NPCs. They're derived from standard models and animations (Dulia uses Lalafell emotes!), but their character data doesn't show the appearance or equipment information that is available all normal NPCs. And it isn't that the site hasn't updated the information yet for those characters, as it's available for others in the same zone.