Zone transitions

[Magic-Mal]

Totally agree, this is the worst offender in my opinion.

Worst offender?? Have you tried Coerthas Western Highlands <--> Sea Of Clouds? xD

[Pomelo]

Is that the one from the gate to the weird floating island? :/ Yeah thats really bad too....xD

[SilkaN]

Does OP really want "proper" zone transitions?

He'd have to walk...

...quite a...

...bit.

[Astyrah]

Does OP really want "proper" zone transitions?

He'd have to walk...

...quite a...

...bit.

tbh i dont mind having those ingame if it means pleasing a certain group of people (like the OP) for immersion. we have mounts and teleports for people who don't want to travel that much anyway

but from those images (are they from 1.x??) i can see that they're way too bland and boring.. could use more detail in the environment

[Pells]

tbh i dont mind having those ingame if it means pleasing a certain group of people (like the OP) for immersion. we have mounts and teleports for people who don't want to travel that much anyway

but from those images (are they from 1.x??) i can see that they're way too bland and boring.. could use more detail in the environment

They're likely from escaping the normal paths and exploring the out-of-bound areas. They're meant to be background and not seen close-up, and so aren't as detailed.
Of course if you could walk everywhere instead of zoning, they'd need to fill in details for all those long boring stretches or it'd look pretty much like this. Lots of work.

[SilkaN]

tbh i dont mind having those ingame if it means pleasing a certain group of people (like the OP) for immersion. we have mounts and teleports for people who don't want to travel that much anyway

but from those images (are they from 1.x??) i can see that they're way too bland and boring.. could use more detail in the environment

I merely posted these to show OP that the North Shroud being devoid of snow is justified. There's just too much distance between it and Coerthas.

As to where these screenshots have been taken or whose screenshots they are... who knows?

[Holy-chan]

Worst offender?? Have you tried Coerthas Western Highlands <--> Sea Of Clouds? xD

That's different. There is a large distance between Ishgard and Sea of Clouds. One does not just walk to the Sea of Clouds. You go there in a traversible. It is implied that there is considerable distance.