Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[giftforce]

Bad things about FFXIV's graphics:

Water
Texture resolution at far distances
Spell and skill effects (just awful)
No shadows

Those are the main things.

[Eekiki]

Bad things about FFXIV's graphics:
Texture resolution at far distances

With my system (i7 with a GTX590 graphics card, kinda high end for most people), I can run it with Depth of Field turned on, and I increased oversampling on distant objects to "High" from "Standard". Distant textures look pretty good now.

The thing that bugs me the most is the "no shadows" thing. We cast shadows. The big easter egg balloon that was floating around during the egg hunt cast a shadow. But terrain does not cast a shadow! There's no shade under the trees! That irks me greatly (probably more than it should).

[Trocien]

With my system (i7 with a GTX590 graphics card, kinda high end for most people), I can run it with Depth of Field turned on, and I increased oversampling on distant objects to "High" from "Standard". Distant textures look pretty good now.

The thing that bugs me the most is the "no shadows" thing. We cast shadows. The big easter egg balloon that was floating around during the egg hunt cast a shadow. But terrain does not cast a shadow! There's no shade under the trees! That irks me greatly (probably more than it should).

For those non-believers, check out this video to see how much of a difference adding shadows can make. Also - what leaving a game engine up to a real developer can do for your game.

[zaviermhigo]

With my system (i7 with a GTX590 graphics card, kinda high end for most people), I can run it with Depth of Field turned on, and I increased oversampling on distant objects to "High" from "Standard". Distant textures look pretty good now.

The thing that bugs me the most is the "no shadows" thing. We cast shadows. The big easter egg balloon that was floating around during the egg hunt cast a shadow. But terrain does not cast a shadow! There's no shade under the trees! That irks me greatly (probably more than it should).

That irks me too, this game is kinda half ass and lazy, maybe it was rushed.