Thread: Question about the 2.0 zones in Endwalker

Originally Posted by TheVigilant

In the Shadowbringers trailer we saw Y'shtola and Urianger watching Rak'tika Greatwood being destroyed like it's burning everywhere too, can't remember seeing that in the game later though. Perhaps things in the trailers don't necessarily exactly happen in the game.

We see the aftermath of that fire, it's that burnt out town at the start of the zone when you enter from Lakeland. So the events of the Shadowbringers trailer were in the time between the Scions arriving and the WoL arriving.

Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

Ahh, shoot, yeah that makes the visuals largely irrelevant then, unless they could maintain the very same collision boxes (which, actually, could probably occur for most of the Foundation's mess).

They can maintain the collision boxes. If you looked at the bubble between 3.0 and 3.3 there were a bunch of rocks jutting out that you could land and walk on, these rocks were removed and replaced by the external bits of Alexander after the cutscene where he stands up in 3.4.

Originally Posted by Xiomara

We see the aftermath of that fire, it's that burnt out town at the start of the zone when you enter from Lakeland. So the events of the Shadowbringers trailer were in the time between the Scions arriving and the WoL arriving.

Great, thanks for clarifying.

Originally Posted by Xiomara

They can maintain the collision boxes. If you looked at the bubble between 3.0 and 3.3 there were a bunch of rocks jutting out that you could land and walk on, these rocks were removed and replaced by the external bits of Alexander after the cutscene where he stands up in 3.4.

I didn't mean it in a technical sense, but rather a question of whether, say, fixing up Ishgard could be done effectively even when limited to just reskinning the sides of buildings, rubble piles, etc. Such would be a pretty large design constraint if, no matter the skins, the collision boxes must remain consistent for everyone.