FFXIV GRAPHICS UPDATE/OVERHAUL - WHEN???

[KageTokage]

While it's not an upgrade, I'd love if they added a middle option for shadow cascading because the Best setting currently makes extremely distant objects get an awful flickering effect on them, while Normal renders shadows within such a limited radius that there's a lot of pop-in while moving.

There needs to be an in-between.

[Ash_]

I wonder if they've thought of using AI to do some of the work in up-scaling the textures. There's been some news articles lately showing off the possibilities of what AI can do, so maybe that would be a cost effective way of doing it.

[Fynlar]

No thanks. The game looks fine; content lulls are the biggest issue we have atm.

[Vahlnir]

No thanks. The game looks fine; content lulls are the biggest issue we have atm.

Updating the engine and updating the graphics aren't really the same thing, but you have to consider what is underneath it all. The game LOOKS fine, I can agree with that. The game is not BUILT fine though and apparently limits everything that they can do, or so they would have us believe. We're not talking about appearances, we are talking about what allows those appearances and lets us run the content they give us. Aka, what's under the hood of this "vehicle". We will never know what the reality of the situation is but the game is apparently very, very limited in its capabilities.

[Fynlar]

Like updating the engine.

I don't feel like that's what's to blame for our content lulls, so nah, not on board with this necessarily. (Refer to your own WoW mention for another example of this; despite regular overhauls the game is still apparently struggling now, so what are these overhauls really fixing/addressing?)


Maybe if you actually specified what/how exactly "The Engine" limits the devs in its current iteration and how an overhaul would allow them, both in terms of technical limitations and their own man hours/resources, to address those limits, then you might get more people on board with this idea.

[Fynlar]

Updating the engine and updating the graphics aren't really the same thing.

I don't really know/care what the difference is. The topic is addressing a "graphics update/overhaul", and that's what I'm responding to.


I think we have far more critical matters at hand.

[Vahlnir]

I think we have far more critical matters at hand.

Like updating the engine.

[Awha]

Like updating the engine.

If content luls are an issue for a lot of people, I do not think updating the engine will help with said content luls.

[hynaku]

I heard for long time now engine to game is running about at its max limits. If keeps it up it is going to break. I would thought by now they been working on a new engine or update this engine so can handle graphics ones want.

[CptEgo]

They can't make it look totally amazing because noone would be able to run the game.