dev1037 New Battle Effects

[MysteryG]

I'm not sure this is what we need or want at this point. With the game as graphically intense as it is already. It's only going to get worse in dungeon and raid groups where there's tons going on at one time. Unless it somehow magically makes things run faster and easier on my hardware, <Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.>

[Eldaena]

It seems rather odd to emphasize this. What it's telling us is something that I would come to expect to see hidden in patch notes or something. I'm okay if they make it a priority to put dev posts on the main page but as this is the first one I'm aware of that they've done that for, I find the content a little lacking for a first look. lol

[Judge_Xero]

Scroll to 0:54 - THIS is an example of battle effects done right... [link]

Thanks for the Vid Belgian, almost looks as good as FFXIV's FMV.

How bout we collectively list our ideas about what we feel makes an Attack/Skill/Magic look Epic/Cool/Non-Lackluster.

IMO: I do like the FF style of magic. Ice is an ice shard falling on mob. Fire is a Flame on the mob more than an Explosion (Reserved for Flare or Ancient) Wind spells should have leaves swirling. Water, looks good IMO (short of having a wave rushing past, which would be rediculous IMO) Earth, Banish, Scourge, seem fine to me.

Melee WS - Animations look good IMO. for the most part they are believable, which I like. If all the Tier 2 WS had larger special effect animations over the Tier 1 that would be fine IMO.

For Puglist - When using Claws over Fists, the addition of a claw animation during WS would be cool.

For Buffs - Feriocity, should make hands have Flame Aura while buff is active. Shield Skills should make the shield glow while they are active. Hawks eye....maybe make players eyes glow while active.....etc

[Renshi]

FMV.

Full Metal Vag-

[Abriael]

Scroll to 0:54 - THIS is an example of battle effects done right... [link]

In a world that looks overally much worse, with characters that look much worse, and a much lower level of detail.
Some understand that hardware resources are finite, some others, quite evidently, do not.

[BelgianRofl]

The spell-casting animations, as well as the spell animations themselves are just weak in FFXIV. It seems all they did here was adjust one variable - the size.

April 19th, ppl....

[Jennestia]

The spell-casting animations, as well as the spell animations themselves are just weak in FFXIV. It seems all they did here was adjust one variable - the size.

April 19th, ppl....

Still nothing particularly important about this date unless again, there's conventions I'm not aware of.

[Abriael]

The spell-casting animations, as well as the spell animations themselves are just weak in FFXIV. It seems all they did here was adjust one variable - the size.

You may want to be made aware of the fact that animations and effects are two different things. Animations don't even have a "size". And increasing the size of effects is doubtlessly quite an effective way to increase their visibility and overall impact on the game's visuals.

April 19th, ppl....

Absolutely nothing relevant for the MMORPG market happens on april the 19th.

[Alhanelem]

Making the effects more visible helps a lot, though some effects just need to be plain redone.

[Betelgeuzah]

For Buffs - Feriocity, should make hands have Flame Aura while buff is active. Shield Skills should make the shield glow while they are active. Hawks eye....maybe make players eyes glow while active.....etc

The game's style is supposed to be classy and more realistic than not, as opposed to cartoony and overdone. We don't need glowing characters and huge shoulder pads. Glowing weapons may still be fine if the effect is subtle.

TERA and this game do not have the same visual style. While TERA's is without a doubt better for what it tries to accomplish, it's animations and effects would not fit in this game for the most part.

The whole game takes everything to extreme in a true Korean fashion, as that is "epic". It should work for them, but that is not the case with FFXIV.