Better Gear Coloring, is it confirmed?

[Gramul]

If by "better" you mean oversaturated, yes.

Also, chainmail bikini.
I'm dissapointed.

[Alhanelem]

If by "better" you mean oversaturated, yes.

Also, chainmail bikini.
I'm dissapointed.

? Everything in the game on the new screenshots looks heavily DEsaturated, as if we're returning to the glory days of everything being a different shade of brown.

Even the UI looks kind of desaturated.

[KiriA500]

If by "better" you mean oversaturated, yes.

Also, chainmail bikini.
I'm dissapointed.

That's just a type of harness, a type of gear we've already had in the game. The guy you fight in the Marauder story line wears it.

[REDace0]

That's just a type of harness, a type of gear we've already had in the game. The guy you fight in the Marauder story line wears it.

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Isn't the militia harness the same model?

[KiriA500]

Isn't the militia harness the same model?

Yep! It just has different textures.

[Arcell]

That's just a type of harness, a type of gear we've already had in the game. The guy you fight in the Marauder story line wears it.

^This. That's just a variant of the harness, has always looked that way on female characters. Not a ton better on guys lol.

[Gramul]

That's just a type of harness, a type of gear we've already had in the game. The guy you fight in the Marauder story line wears it.

Still not peachy with it looking like a flippin chainmail bikini on girls. If anything I'm a little more dissapointed.
But it's a small thing overall, so not too bad.

Those crazy bright colors on the armor are a little silly looking though. Hope they have an option to keep the subtle colors in.

[Alhanelem]

Still not peachy with it looking like a flippin chainmail bikini on girls. If anything I'm a little more dissapointed.
But it's a small thing overall, so not too bad.

Those crazy bright colors on the armor are a little silly looking though. Hope they have an option to keep the subtle colors in.

Can't say I agree. I hate it when games use too much desaturation. The world has more color than that. There's a hapy medium between superultrasaturated intense color, and "clothing that's been washed too many times with too much bleach" desaturated.

[Gramul]

Can't say I agree. I hate it when games use too much desaturation. The world has more color than that. There's a hapy medium between superultrasaturated intense color, and "clothing that's been washed too many times with too much bleach" desaturated.

I can understand what you mean, undersaturation can make a game feel dull or lifeless. But I feel XIV has a good range of color for its visual style. The armor in the preview site looks a little too bright and cheery to be used for a realistically styled RPG. I like the natural tones on the current armor. It looks like they where dyed from natural resources instead of chrysoiodine, pararosaniline, and RED 122 (side note, avoid eating RED 122).

[KiriA500]

I can understand what you mean, undersaturation can make a game feel dull or lifeless. But I feel XIV has a good range of color for its visual style. The armor in the preview site looks a little too bright and cheery to be used for a realistically styled RPG. I like the natural tones on the current armor. It looks like they where dyed from natural resources instead of chrysoiodine, pararosaniline, and RED 122 (side note, avoid eating RED 122).

In the current game, armor can a much different appearance based on the lighting. Looking at these pictures, it appears there's just a bright white light somewhere...something we don't have anywhere in Eorzea. I'm guessing they're just images made to show the classes, and that the ingame stuff will look better.