Messed up tails?

[Shioban]

I don't know about you guys but.. Is it supposed to be like that?

Welcome to the unforgiving world of animation.

[Vorpal_Spork]

Welcome to the unforgiving world of animation.

Speaking as an animator myself. even as an amateur that's very easy to fix. I barely know what I'm doing and even I could stick the two together so the armor can't move out of alignment with the tail.

[Shioban]

Speaking as an animator myself. even as an amateur that's very easy to fix. I barely know what I'm doing and even I could stick the two together so the armor can't move out of alignment with the tail.

I never once said that it wasn't possible, I know exactly how you could fix it as well, having had similar issues in the past.

But to implement a fix for that just one particular piece of gear when you're shunted into a 3-month or less development cycle, you simply just go "Eh, it'll do" and move on, it's just not worth the time.

The amount of stuff we've skimped over in the past has saved us a ton of time, a few negligible bits of clipping don't matter that much.

Although I do miss the tail armour;

[Canadane]

I never once said that it wasn't possible, I know exactly how you could fix it as well, having had similar issues in the past.

But to implement a fix for that just one particular piece of gear when you're shunted into a 3-month or less development cycle, you simply just go "Eh, it'll do" and move on, it's just not worth the time.

The amount of stuff we've skimped over in the past has saved us a ton of time, a few negligible bits of clipping don't matter that much.

Although I do miss the tail armour;

I've been asking for this back for about a year now.

[Shneibel]

I've been asking for this back for about a year now.

we did, but the answered was a no, we even tried to ask for our hips to be back too, and got no answer as well.

[coldreactive]

I'm guessing you've never seen a miqo'te wear Evenstar body?

[Noshpan]

I'm guessing you've never seen a miqo'te wear Evenstar body?

I hate that coat so much...

[Illya]

I'm pretty sure they actually designed tail holes into the armor in 1.0. I quit 1.0 a really long time ago, but I remember the tail holes. This was completely removed in 2.0 probably because they got tired of adding tail holes to everything they designed. So now our tails just clip through everything all the time.

Of course every race's hair clips though everything too, and they even design armor with lots of narrow high collars at the neck area with a complete lack of regard for the hair clipping right through it. They just don't care about the clipping of things in this game I guess.

[kyuven]

I'm pretty sure they actually designed tail holes into the armor in 1.0. I quit 1.0 a really long time ago, but I remember the tail holes. This was completely removed in 2.0 probably because they got tired of adding tail holes to everything they designed. So now our tails just clip through everything all the time.

Of course every race's hair clips though everything too, and they even design armor with lots of narrow high collars at the neck area with a complete lack of regard for the hair clipping right through it. They just don't care about the clipping of things in this game I guess.

Actually a lot of armor has tail holes or at least alterations to that particular area to make the tails unintrusive to the design aesthetic. For example, there's at least one coat where the cut is different for miqo'te than other races to allow for the tail.

[Edellis]

Lets hope they take the time to fix this in Heavensward...? Probably not. Nothing is easy to fix in a game of this size, there are tons of things to consider that would make an easy job for an amateur a helltask for a developer of the game.

I was not aware Miqo'tes had literal tail armor though...that's pretty awesome. But it's gone now, just like the super sexy physics-assisted animation and the supple miqo'te derriere...but let's not start that up again, please.


Honestly, FFXIV ARR is such an anomaly in Square Enix's recent game history that I would fear giving them more excuses to not do things, because this company loves them some excuses. If they say altering miqote armor is too tough, then i just...i just let it happen.