Official HD Textures pack?

[rachcouture]

ENB is made by a private developer, who himself said will never make one for ff14, in fact who also had some not so subtle choice words about the game and the players here.

He's also a massive homophobe. Any opinion he has might as well be irrelevant.

[grinkdaboy]

no reason why something like this couldn't be outsourced

[Canadane]

no reason why something like this couldn't be outsourced

Horsebirds

[Saefinn]

There could be a community project to create unofficial ones...It'd probably be against the TOS though. However, there is s HD texture project at the moment for FFXI. Hell, I suspect with how good neural network AI's have gotten, I expect there could be a lazier solution that would at least offer a fair improvement. Its what modders have been doing to boost the resolution and quality of background renders in FFVII, VIII and IX.

Of course it'd be preferable and way less dodgy if the devs did it. But the impression I often get is that their resources are pretty stretched. But I guess if a mog station purchase as suggested, it might be a worthy investment, as I think plenty would buy it. Depending on how big the job is and how much they can get away with charging.

[Missbone]

To be honest i don't see the need for an HD Pack. Especially not for PC Users.

This game already looks amazing. Just turn everything to max and use Reshade with a nice Preset. Also using 4k instead of 1080p as resolution also makes a big difference.

[Lacan]

Well, an alternative for me at least, is to just play the game with my glasses off. My astigmatism makes everything a little blurrier so I don't notice the blocky textures as much.

So if you wear glasses, I'd give that a go! Because Yoshi isn't gonna give us hd textures, we ask him every year and he keeps saying no in different more obtuse ways. :v

[Kuroka]

Also using 4k instead of 1080p as resolution also makes a big difference.

I can sign that, even on low settings the higher ress helps... but still at least for large stuff, floor, walls, etc they could add some better textures...

[Missbone]

I can sign that, even on low settings the higher ress helps... but still at least for large stuff, floor, walls, etc they could add some better textures...

Sure improving some basic stuff that is used a lot would be a nice thing but i doubt SE will do that. I think it would better and maybe easier to add some new filters to the game (like higer sharpening, color saturation, color and lightning adjustment and stuff like that), something that improves the overall visual quality and can be adjusted. They could add this in the advanced graphic setting menu.

@Mods
There are mods for FF14 and not just nude mods, there are some pretty mods that improve basic stuff like the quality of the hair, eyebrows or eyes etc.. As long the mods are only client side and do nothing else than making your game prettier and don't give you ingame advantage or you harass players with that (like parserfreaks that bother other ppl with to low dmg messages) you are fine. If you take a look at instagram or other social media you can easily see that there is a pretty big community that uses graphic mods on their game. Like already mentioned in this thread, this game can look amazing with the help of a few mods and ReShade. This game is already one of the best looking MMOs at the market if you know how to use the stuff mentioned before.

[Nora_of_Mira]

I know that there's probably reasons for not including HD textures in the base game.

yep, yoshi p gets asked this in almost every interview and has given the same reasons to everyone. They'd rather work on future content than spend the manhours creating HD textures for the millions of assets they have in game. He doesn't believe in staying competitive in the market "because the game is the prettiest" but rather staying competitive with its content.

[Rasikko]

yep, yoshi p gets asked this in almost every interview and has given the same reasons to everyone. They'd rather work on future content than spend the manhours creating HD textures for the millions of assets they have in game. He doesn't believe in staying competitive in the market "because the game is the prettiest" but rather staying competitive with its content.

I just want better character models. All of say, Limsa, shouldn't be looking better than my clay self.