Time to improve texture work in the expansion pack

[TheGrimace]

I think it would take a lot of effort to do a texture pack. That effort could be better spent elsewhere.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I think it would take a lot of effort to do a texture pack. That effort could be better spent elsewhere.

People have said that in software development that textures are made at very high qualities, and then scaled down to whatever your requirements end up being.

If that's the case with FFXIV, they'd just need to rescale the originals again.
Still some work, but less than redoing all of the textures.

[Gyson]

The images in the original post are of extremely closeup shots - far closer than we typically have our camera to a character, I think.

I suspect they look perfectly fine when viewed at a realistic distance. FFXIV is one of the better looking MMOs out there.

[Riardon]

The images in the original post are of extremely closeup shots - far closer than we typically have our camera to a character, I think.

I suspect they look perfectly fine when viewed at a realistic distance. FFXIV is one of the better looking MMOs out there.

Not quite. The ground is so bad you can see it even for afar. The armours need improvements too. Except if you play with a helicopter camera. FFXIV texture quality looks bad except if you compare it with MMORPG's that are years older. There are some newer ones which look better than FFXIV. Armors look dull and pixelated. Ground and mountains/rocks also look horrible and DX11 made some things worse. If you think that a ground which looks like muddy goo of some short is nice looking then yes it may be nice. Cutscenes also look very bad because the camera is always a bit closer. It's one of those things you think it's not a big deal unless you see them. the difference will be big and you will wonder why it wasn't a thing for so long.

[Ametrine]

I have no issue with PC and PS4Pro players asking for a high-rez texture pack add-onl, just as long as PCs that can't run it and PS4s aren't cut off of content.

The PS3 is really too weak. I hope it get's dropped soon from updates, too.

[Derio]

The current ps4 can handle 60fps gameplay as other ps4 MMOs have that capability. The problem is ps3 and how devs don't want people running at different fps due to system. Hopefully that will change with the announcement of no ps3 support come 4.0 announcement at fanfest