Letter from the Producer LIVE LXVIII: Ask Your Endwalker Questions!

[Kogeta-Shizuha]

At the moment Viera characters are able to pick any kind of ears no matter which face they pick. However for Au'Ra characters the horns are linked to specific face types. Would it be possible to add more customization to Au'Ra characters so that we can choose horns and scales separately from face types, similar to Viera characters?

Thanks to everyone for their hard work!

[Nibelung2]

Any plans to expand the Companion App to do more stuff?

[Kismetta]

Some others touched on this with the job-specific idle animations or gear but:

Is a true gender neutral option something that would ever be considered?

I understand it would likely be a lot of work. I love playing as a catgirl, but her emotes are just too feminine for me, I'd love to be able to choose the male viera animations instead!

And it can be disappointing to see a cool looking piece of armour only to realise it's something you have, but just looks drastically different on another gender (Such as the Spring Bottoms being shorts vs pants, the Neo-Ishgardian/Chondrite chest pieces are completely different, or even the Etoile 90 gear for DNC looks quite different from male to female. Especially considering the feminine versions are generally more revealing, just compare the male to female Viera racial gear. To clarify, I'm not saying the feminine versions are bad, but I'd love for it to be a choice.

Would it ever be possible to choose masculine/feminine in character creator for things like weapon/idle animations, emotes, gear, hairstyles, even pronouns in NPC dialogue? Or better yet, not making things gender locked going forward and just in-game options? i.e. choose a personality style for emotes/animations instead of tying them to gender - such as stoic, childish, relaxed, aggressive, confident etc.

I know that would likely be a lot of work, but I think a lot of people would appreciate being able to customise their characters in ways like this!

[Icehunter]

1. Will you offer the ability to split accounts? My wife and I use the same SEID but two legacy service accounts. This was back when 1.0 couldn't ship more security tokens so we've been stuck with 1 token since 2010.

2. Will there be an option to increase graphical fidelity for those systems that can handle it? i.e. raytracing, better ambient occlusion, etc instead of relying on reshade

3. Can we rework the housing system? Things such as dynamic ward counts on a per world basis in conjunction with in-place upgrades? The idea originally I thought was you buy a plot, and build N size, but save up and upgrade. This would of course require a rework of the zones for every plot to support a large.

Thanks for all the hard work!

[Arcanith]

Are there plans to making more accessibility options for epileptics to limit the contrast/flicker/brightness of enemy effects that has been (even more) prominent in almost every fight of Endwalker?

[tearagion]

Is the development team satisfied with the current state of summoner? What is their impression and conclusion from feedback received?

[supadude5000]

As FFXIV moves on from the Hydaelyn-Zodiark story, are there any plans to make this saga easier to catch up and digest via an outside source, such as an anime or film series, for players that want to dive in starting with the new story?

[supadude5000]

Many have accepted that the cutscene at the end of "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know" is not to be a literal recounting of the events from Zodiark's summoning to Hydaelyn's sundering, but the imagery has caused some contradictions between Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Was this friction a purposeful choice or one bred from the economics of development, causing an old area to be used over the cost of creating a whole new area for one cutscene?

[MoshrocaIl]

Is there a possibility of shorter, non-canon questlines that explore alternate story paths to be added at some point? Quests that explore "what if" type scenarios, such as such as if the Warrior of Light didn't fail Emet-Selch's test during Shadowbringers? Could we see a short questline showcasing what would happen if he deemed the Warrior of Light worthy at that point?

[angeliquee]

We haven't heard of Yuyuhase and Laurentius for a while, while the Crystal Braves have been mentioned very recently in patch 5.55. Is there a chance to see what will be of their fate?