Request: DX11 to have the return of character physics and weight to movement?

[Meier]

I'm in favor of this as well. Please bring back our physics and weight.

[Karnyboy]

I agree I wish there was a bit more movement in your character, the animations were much more appealing in 1.0 and when it comes to general movement, I don't see how this is a problem for avoiding mechanics with a couple of extra frames of animation.

[Ryihito]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRbf0HCAGqc

Here, this is a good video showing the movement in 1.0.

[Jynx]

I'd love to see them return, but we will never see it come back.

[dejavutwo]

You can't make a change like momentum in a DX11 client because that is a feature of the game simulation as opposed to the game's display. Things that could be enhanced in a DX11 version could be things like models, textures, lights/shadows, particle effects, water, animations, ect.

The important thing about the DX11 client is that it won't contain any game-play changes. That means they could possibly change the way they blend animations to look like they have momentum, but they can't actually give the characters momentum.

Also, as far as character momentum goes, I always find it makes it feel like you are running on ice when you have momentum in MMOs.

[Gardthorne]

I know and have accepted that much of the physics, weight to characters and armor, etc were removed in order to allow a wider variety of hardware to play this game.

It was removed so that the game controls properly instead of like a clunky unresponsive mess.

[Eunys]

The difference between DX9 and DX11 will not be all that much. The main improvement in DX11 vs DX9 is increased sunshafting, water-effects, tesselation. While adding a new client to enable DX11 call use will help these things it has two things going against it for an MMO. First is over all most people will barely see any performance boost and actually many who will enable it just because they hear it's better will have a performance drop. There is also the thing of if square even bothers optimizing the game around the newer API.

While in the end options are always nice due to the difference in systems out there, you have to stop and ask if this one is of most importance over other things about the game that could be worked on.

[bonedeaf]

Yes please bring back weight, I miss not being able to jump. Can we please let FFXIV 1.0 everything just burn in hell?

[Jynx]

Yes please bring back weight, I miss not being able to jump. Can we please let FFXIV 1.0 everything just burn in hell?

Mmm... the mature way to go about it I see.

[bonedeaf]

Mmm... the mature way to go about it I see.

It was quite possibly the worst game I have ever played. The insane idea that anyone wants the bumbling feeling of inertia slip and slide play style back hurts my head.