Thread: 1.0 vs ARR Areas - A Visual Comparison

Originally Posted by Shougun

Some stuff looks better now, some stuff better then ... meme at this point but those 1.0 walk and run animations were pretty sweet. The animation lock not so much lol.

Wish when they added animation blending / canceling that it was to facilitate personal high quality animations (though I can imagine it melting most PCs if everyone had it). Certainly the game runs way better on more machines now though, so that's a win.

I'm hoping the future graphics update will be an opportunity to fine tune some aspects without losing much performance for the general audience and then at the same time adding a few enthusiast settings.
Few examples:




Wasn't shown or discussed, afaik, but I would love to see things like weather, water, and other additional concepts like environmental / spell shaders or physics discussed. Weather effects are not bad, but some recent games or crazy older games, have made me go 'hot damn that weather is fine'.. and with such a diverse weather setting in this game that could be pretty fun. Although not graphics I'd love to see a movement / collision update, as we're seeing WoW do such in Dragonflight (and already had fairly smooth movement systems), and I've been goofing off with GW2 per recommendation and have been extremely impressed with their mount movement system (which I had recommended SE do before GW2 had.. and saw videos of GW2 and thought it was cool, but having played it- damn it's really cool to feel so fluid).

There is a lot of different weather in FFXIV but it seems to be very localized. For instance it only seems to storm in the black shroud, I don't remember seeing actual lightning or hearing thunder in any other zones.

Originally Posted by Rannie

I may be going crazy but wasn't there stories circulating during 1.0 where high end PCs were basically burning out and dying due to how hard it was on them? I don't know how true that was but I also remember once my friend's screen going green when some of us were screwing around casting holy and Flare at one time. (Though his pc wasn't the greatest I think.)

I think a lot of people with "high end" pcs were stretching it. If you were zoomed in all the way and had people have a spam Holy Party, it would stutter and lag like it does now - and kick some people off the game. In the albeit short time I played I'd never heard of anyone blue screening/shutting down if their computer was properly set up. You aren't supposed to play on Ultra with a potato - same as now - but some people still do.

Originally Posted by Rannie

I may be going crazy but wasn't there stories circulating during 1.0 where high end PCs were basically burning out and dying due to how hard it was on them? I don't know how true that was but I also remember once my friend's screen going green when some of us were screwing around casting holy and Flare at one time. (Though his pc wasn't the greatest I think.)

I had never monitored pc temps before. But when i put 1.0 on it was like my PC had turned into an oven.



I think Ashes of Creation kind of looks of the same quality as 1.0.


My favourite 1.0 moment. The door into Quicksand was an interactive object. Click open the door. The door wouldn't load to click leaving dozens of players trapped outside.

look up the noClip documentary series on FFXIV. it will explain a lot.

I had a potato of a pc, and I never had an issue with 1.0. I found it fun and playable.

It seems to boil down to lighting changes due to the different engine, which should get an overhaul in 7.0, and ARR cities being separated for performance reasons, I think at this point in time stitching the ARR cities (+Ishgard) back together wouldn't be much different in performance than Crystarium or Sharlayan, but I doubt they'll do it.