Thread: My Three Main Wishes for 7.0 Graphical Update

I believe your desires are going to be addressed but certainly explaining what concerns you have might help them focus on something if it was missed, so the pictures and text is nice still

They also mentioned potentially weather, and that is definitely one of the ones I think could have a 'major' subtle impact. Water would be another. Some high quality snow and sand shaders could make the snow and sand zones next level without much else than just a shader giving them better sense of traction and dynamic shape. For example sand skirting across the surface, appearance of movement, sinking. Snow is more obvious.. make it crunch lol. Semi-related but a surprisingly a decent amount of mounts don't have 'footprints' or at least logical ones.

Further improving parallax would be nice.

Game is far from ugly but I could imagine quite a few 'systems' under graphics that could have large impacts to the game without many small individual changes. By that I don't mean 'easy' just for example if you said update the textures (and we're not using some AI lol), that could be billions of textures XD. Meanwhile if you upgraded the shader for sand, water, or what have you- it would be a lot of code / work but you'd re-use it over and over and over. So my personally the 'I don't feel guilty to desires' / votes are to some of the environmental shaders and systems like weather, water, snow, sand, etc. Grass is another one they mentioned where improving the system can have wide reaching impact once developed, and the example they showed was very nice- if they're going hog wild and while not really necessary light filtering through (translucent) and flora responding to physics (like spells and physical body mass) would be neat (though just looking better is already great).

A guilty example would be a particle system like they have in their more recent FF games (flashy SFX with dynamic particles) lol. Fire particles blasting out into the environment and scattering with physics into the walls XD... So unnecessary but I'd turn it on if it was an option. Melt computers if you left the setting on for all entities in a large battlefield.

Originally Posted by OogaShaka

Square should take a page out of WoW's playbook for this and look at the "against ToS" mods out there that accomplish what you want graphically and just buy the code and implement it, saving time and resources for other game related things.

I've already said this to someone, but I can say it again:

ReShade is a post processing tool. The changes I'm hoping for are at an engine level, and ReShade can't go that deep. One of the reasons why FXAA sucks is that it's a Post AA solution. We need something at the render level. Lighting sources and how it behaves is also an engine-render level change. There's no real third party fix for either of these right now. Texture (and body) upscales on the third party side are actually rather nice. Can't believe we still have sausage fingers and N64 feet, so I guess I should have added that one to the OG post.

The reason I'm not too concerned with post processing changes to the visuals is because ReShade can always take care of that, though a better vanilla post pipeline would be very nice for console users.

The most obvious issues to me are the pixels visible on the moon's rocky areas, the pixels on some of the newest gear, the overly smooth faces lacking any sort of detail and how grainy grass and trees look from a distance. They are definitely looking at the last two.