Thread: 1.0 vs ARR Areas - A Visual Comparison

Originally Posted by Shougun

The 1.0 ascians stood out to me

Travanchet hasn't been addressed, even though we're wrapping up with the Ancients. Last we heard of him he was causing trouble in Alexander, but after that... who knows.

Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Travanchet hasn't been addressed, even though we're wrapping up with the Ancients. Last we heard of him he was causing trouble in Alexander, but after that... who knows.

If there is any one thing left from 1.x that I would like payoff on—beyond the blink-and-you-miss-it "hey, remember that thing he stole from Y'shtola and you all on Seal Rock? Look what he did with it!" moment we got during the Alexander quests—it is Travanchet. We don't know what Ascian he was—one we've seen in another form? One we've heard about? Just one of the lesser ones? He's certainly the only Ascian I can think of who we've seen take a host that wasn't a Hyur (or, I suppose, a Garlean), what's up with that?

Btw everyone 1.0 Gridania jackanapes says Hello!!!!

The West Shroud - It was completely destroyed in the Calamity. This is what's left of it, as seen in the distance from the Central Shroud in ARR


There isn't really an equivalent view in 1.0 but here's a place called Lichenweed in the West Shroud as it was then.


It'd be kinda cool if the West Shroud was re-introduced in 7.0 or something...

"Ah, Warrior of Light... our scouts have finally found a path to the West Shroud. There's a strange concentration of aether in the area and two of our scouts have gone missing..."

I have so many screens from V1.0 from the first closed alpha test and lots of others. They are all on my old PC and I play on PS5 now but if I get chance sometime I will try and upload some.

I loved the style of V1.0 way more and I have a lot of love for the memories and also the journey of 12 years. The one thing I do miss is the world feeling and looking more alive and I feel the modern glams do not really fit with what the game began as but times change I guess and I am getting old haha <3

There's also a bit of a caveat when it comes to map size.

1.0 had no sprint or jump, and only got mounts (Chocobos) later in its life. Go to any HW+ area and navigate it only on base running speed and every single map will suddenly feel massive. Not as massive as a 1.0 map but this is does contribute to the sense of how big a map can be. I imagine if flying ever made it to 1.0 that many areas would have suddenly felt way smaller.

Originally Posted by DiaDeem

There's also a bit of a caveat when it comes to map size.

1.0 had no sprint or jump, and only got mounts (Chocobos) later in its life. Go to any HW+ area and navigate it only on base running speed and every single map will suddenly feel massive. Not as massive as a 1.0 map but this is does contribute to the sense of how big a map can be. I imagine if flying ever made it to 1.0 that many areas would have suddenly felt way smaller.

Moreover, I feel like in my recollection, most of the zones other than Coerthas had something like 80% of the map consist of the same copy/pasted assets. "Look, there's that rock again." "Hey, look, it's Tree Cluster #3, again!" Etc. And in some cases they blocked off what would be a rational path from point A to point B just to make you go out of your way. (Which, I mean, the overworld was dangerous and you don't want players shortcutting around that, so... fair, I guess?)

The practical result being they weren't just incredibly huge, they were also incredibly easy to get lost on at times.

*cue silent glaring at the 1.x Black Shroud again*

(Side note: I am convinced that the ARR version of Toto-Rak had the little ledge you had to jump up on at one point to continue through the dungeon just so they could be like "Look! You can jump now! Jumping, hooray!" Especially since dropping down those exact same sorts of ledges prevented you from backtracking in the original Toto-Rak due to the inability to jump...)