New Screenshots from E3

[Cendres]

/sigh..... Textures are not exactly a difficult thing to put in or take off, we know SE has fantastic mastery of them already, what we didn't know is if they could manage great lighting for most PC's, downscale without losing all the eye candy and apparently they can. This is pretty exciting, I can't believe people are actually worrying over something so small when we know the textures can rock. Now people who can't handle the high textures can still play, yay!

And what I see in those screenshots are skies and environments with better color, and far less blocks, in the game right now you see blocks of ground everywhere, Limsa is bad for that as they are a lot of ups and downs and everywhere I look are blocks of terrain sticking out of the ground, now that's far better designed and the land actually looks a lot more natural.

[Starlord]

Graphics still look okay, but they also look just like TERA and Blade and Soul. I thought they would be optimising the game so it still looked as good as it does now but allow more than 40 people to be on screen at once. Smaller zones should have taken care of copy paste problems.

I think it's a downgrade so people with lower spec PCs can play. They shifted the bellcurve down. And now highest settings looks like those screenshots. That's my theory.



I kind of have to agree. I saw some guy earlier say "never before has a game made a come back like this!!! omg" or something to that effect.

I wanted to say "um... it's just a couple of screenshots... which are technically worse than what we already have."

I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but best to assess things rationally.

I understand, and I'm sure we will get answers by either the website or by Dev responses. But I feel like this is just for the Standard user, not a person who has the money to have a beefed up computers to have the highest settings. But we will see.

[Altera]

I have upgraded my PC as much as possible for the arrival for FFXIV2.0 ))
I wanna experience these genreleading gfx they talk of first hand
So Ive treated myself to i7 3930X cpu, Asus P9X79Pro Mobo, Asus Radeon 7970, 16gb ram, SSD drives, h2o cooling etc XD

I am SO looking forward to this relaunch DD

[ESAR]

another major thing they were aiming at with the redo of the engines was to fix the latency issues.

they know what caused them in the last engine, so I'm sure when they were putting the work into the new one, they made special care to climb that mountain as well.

you can also look forward to them being able to release content faster, fix bugs faster and just generally not run into as many bugs/ problems when creating new content, since that by far was probably one of the biggest reasons for this change. the fact that it was overly complicated to do anything within the old engines code.

[Starlord]

another major thing they were aiming at with the redo of the engines was to fix the latency issues.

they know what caused them in the last engine, so I'm sure when they were putting the work into the new one, they made special care to climb that mountain as well.

you can also look forward to them being able to release content faster, fix bugs faster and just generally not run into as many bugs/ problems when creating new content, since that by far was probably one of the biggest reasons for this change. the fact that it was overly complicated to do anything within the old engines code.

Either:

-1 month per update and get the same amount of content we get now for 3 months

or

- 3 months per update and get double the amount of content

[b0ats]

Damn those looks good!

[Alise]

I wonder if the new graphic are all cel-shade now? or it is 3D? hard to see for me. but I hope it is not cel-shade, because cel-shade usually look good as screen shot, but then see a lot of bad side when actually play. If it is 3D, then the more play, the more you see how deep graphic is, good thing.

Either:

-1 month per update and get the same amount of content we get now for 3 months

or

- 3 months per update and get double the amount of content

Don't expect too high. I m actually thinking that they have been spending all their time into engine already, so they barely get any time to make content at all. So most content will be slow release by time.

[Teakwood]

The stuff that looks cel shaded is concept art, yo.

[neorei]

here is the preview of the luminous engine the same engine FFXIV is going to be on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU&feature=plcp

[Climm]

here is the preview of the luminous engine the same engine FFXIV is going to be on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU&feature=plcp

Maybe they are using this as part of the new engine?
Though i AM a little worried of the Final Fantasy tittle at the end. because, you know, that doesn't look at all like final fantasy