Thread: Are 2.0 Graphics going to be better?

I really dislike the lighting and textures in FFXIV right now, honestly. It just seems really uncanny, especially in places like Thanalan and Coerthas.The sun is beaming yet there is shading on the rocks where the sun is aiming at directly. I'm not a fan of that, honestly. I think the game is just way too bright at times.

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

im not really sure what there is to be excited about though. are there pictures of the new luminous engine at work?

there is so much crap going on in that pic that i cant tell what looks improved/worsened.

You can see the vastly improved shaders and lighting. Not much else can be analyzed from a pic alone graphics wise.

The pic had a lot of lighting and shader effects going on, all of which were vastly improved from the current build.

The picture/screen shot looks like it's been doctored with photoshop. Will just have to wait for a game trailer.

It really depends on what you mean by Better Graphics.
Something fluid and requiring little resources? Something fluid with top-notch graphics that require a recent gaming computer to play? Something that aims on best graphics sacrificing the FPSs by dropping them to 30 for example?

Eitherway, they said it in the 2.0 documents, it's slightly gonna be different than what we have now (we even can change our character's appearance if we don't like it after the graphical changes), but it's gonna be more portable (not IT term) for most of the PC (actual FFXIV requires a John Madden of resources).

So yup, I bet it's gonna be "better", nonetheless =)