we need a high res texture pack as an optional download

[ErzaScarlet77]

please. Hien's coat look horrendous during cutscenes. its literally pixelated.

im not asking for 1.0 flower pot level, just do it for the players' equipment and important NPCs, but optional hi res texture dlc for pc players would go a long way.

[KisaiTenshi]

I'll second this.

At 4K, the backgrounds are fine, but the foregrounds.... well every piece of gear looks pixelated when zoomed in. ALL of it.

Example:


vs
Regular game play

[Anzaman]

Yes please, would be nice to have HD texture pack.

[xbahax92]

I wish hair styles would get a nice rework as well. So many look shabby af... It hurts my eyes, dont want to use them even. I agree on the texture pack as additional option for pc players.

[AsahinaMyLove]

no thanks and bad idea! Imagine the high res texture: your PC or PS4 system has way more to handle than before for graphics and even more in raids with 24 people! The System can get behind resulting in Frame rate drops, game freeze, system overheat + damage, or even client crashes. and.. uhh... I dont want our nice game gets minutes of long loadscreens like FF15 has...

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

no thanks and bad idea! Imagine the high res texture: your PC or PS4 system has way more to handle than before for graphics and even more in raids with 24 people! The System can get behind resulting in Frame rate drops, game freeze, system overheat + damage, or even client crashes. and.. uhh... I dont want our nice game gets minutes of long loadscreens like FF15 has...

I mean, if you are playing on a 5 year old laptop with integrated graphics maybe. Its also optional, as in, you don't have to download it.

[Azurein]

no thanks and bad idea! Imagine the high res texture: your PC or PS4 system has way more to handle than before for graphics and even more in raids with 24 people! The System can get behind resulting in Frame rate drops, game freeze, system overheat + damage, or even client crashes. and.. uhh... I dont want our nice game gets minutes of long loadscreens like FF15 has...

Notice the OP said optional dlc. Meaning you can uninstall said dlc without consequence. If the patch hurts your PC then simply uninstall it and problem solved. I for one would love to see better textures on this game. When I try to take up close screen shots the horribly pixelated textures makes me feel as if I'm playing on low settings.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

no thanks and bad idea! Imagine the high res texture: your PC or PS4 system has way more to handle than before for graphics and even more in raids with 24 people! The System can get behind resulting in Frame rate drops, game freeze, system overheat + damage, or even client crashes. and.. uhh... I dont want our nice game gets minutes of long loadscreens like FF15 has...

I can understand your concern because I can relate, as my current laptop will not run FFXIV well at all with a GeForce 555M GT 3GB RAM. I have to play the game on my Alienware now, and I just upgraded the graphics card and everything (1060 GTX 6GB). Like it was mentioned, a texture package is optional.

[CrystalRainbow]

I vote for this every time it comes up even gear needs this for screen shots

[KisaiTenshi]

no thanks and bad idea! Imagine the high res texture: your PC or PS4 system has way more to handle than before for graphics and even more in raids with 24 people! The System can get behind resulting in Frame rate drops, game freeze, system overheat + damage, or even client crashes. and.. uhh... I dont want our nice game gets minutes of long loadscreens like FF15 has...

Do realize that the size of the textures has never been an issue. Current video cards come stock with 4GB or 8GB of memory. What makes the GPU work harder is the number of polygons in the actual models. Like I'm not sure if you've notice, but if you actually look at that first image I posted, you can see the actual lines in the polygons around the face and the edges of the clothing as well.

Like that doesn't quite bother me as much because the detail that matters is the eyes, eyelashes and eyebrows for making faces.


Now they probably should update the hair, because as much as these hair styles are nice, they are suffering from DX9 fatique in shading. Like, this is what V2.0 looked like:



And this is what V1.0 looked like: