Thread: Geography of ARR vs. 1.0

For people who want a good look at what the old Shroud was like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2AIhEoH9Y

To be frank, it can charitably be called a forest. You actually see rather few trees unless you look up. And you can see that virtually all of the navigation was done by these tiny, winding corridors that were difficult to differentiate from one another. And this is being done on choco-back; imagine doing this without a 'bo or without sprint, which didn't exist.

To be frank, desite the sometimes-thin treeline, the ARR Shroud feels more like a forest than the 1.0 version did. 1.0 Shroud was a series of ravines with some bushes.

Oh, also, it's worth pointing out that, yes, the major areas were one "zone"... but all of them, not just the Shroud, used a lot of narrow corridors between major areas to mask the loading. General consensus is that it was an attempt to make seamless zones work with the PS3's piddly memory budget... and it still didn't work, as the 1.0 PS3 version was reportedly a huge mess.

Originally Posted by StarDrake

and it still didn't work, as the 1.0 PS3 version was reportedly a huge mess.

It was such a mess that it actually never happened.