please reconsider this character graphical update

[Lauront]

Honestly, I was thinking the updates didn't change enough. As I play a femiqo, I found that the sample femiqo they showed was barely changed at all from the current model. I'm glad they said they're still trying to push it harder and farther than the samples.

Yeah same, although I am admittedly surprised by the scope of what they are doing (wasn't expecting them to extend it to the environments so soon), I'm eager to see if they can do better still. For a first pass, it looks pretty decent.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm waiting for Rokien to make a comeback about this.

I miss rokien. He was a much better troll than what we have these days...

[Alestorm]

I paid for the graphics card, I want to use the WHOLE graphics card.

In seriousness, as beautiful as this game can be a graphics update is something people have been asking for. Many MMO's have to do this at a certain point to avoid looking dated if possible. Even WoW overhauled their character models with an extremely dated and near exhausted game engine; granted making the players look nice made looking at the environments, gear sets and enemy models look a bit out of place.

[StriderShinryu]

Yeah same, although I am admittedly surprised by the scope of what they are doing (wasn't expecting them to extend it to the environments so soon), I'm eager to see if they can do better still. For a first pass, it looks pretty decent.

Absolutely. The environmental changes are fantastic. Even just the extra lighting completely changes the scenes they showed, and that updated shot in Thavnair was like night and day. It's really only the character updates that, so far, aren't really impressing me.

[Nav_Fae]

I really like that the updates are subtle enough to feel like the season 2 direction of 7.0 feels more like an FFXIV-2 sequel without being so over the top drastic

[Kes13a]

I think the changes are awesome even after only being able to test for a month. kudos to the team and I look forward to seeing them in the real world

as for the poor npc's and "immersion". you sit on a chair, in front of a computer, moving with a mouse and typing any words you say to others on the keyboard.

and you worry about some npc's not getting a facelift at the same time as everyone else as being "immersion breaking"? if you tend to examine npc's in the world THAT closely, I suspect immersion breaking isnt the only issue here.

[Shougun]

Oh is it time for the arguments about graphic changes again? Taking a page from the forum playbook circa 2012 when people were arguing over grass.

Never agreed with the doomsayers for grass but I was on the same page that the grass did look bad, funnily enough at the time they did add better quality grass.. multiple times. Then here Yoshida himself says he feels bad that plants sometimes impact the quality of presentation - honestly I feel vindicated. It was annoying people were acting like it had no impact and to have the dev themselves says it can and does is like... HA SO THERE!

Though I am aware some people suggested the game would fail because of it, and that was silly. I also didn't love my own thread on it at the time but I maintain that something that can easily cover 50% + of your screen is.. surprisingly important, and people who made it a clown joke weren't helping >.<.

[Maxilor]

This graphics update was long overdue and i'm glad to be alive to see it.

[Katt_Felista]

It's fine. But it's an engine update or overhaul that should have been the priority.

[Larirawiel]

It's fine. But it's an engine update or overhaul that should have been the priority.

They do update the engine incrementally.

Cheers