Was This Graphical Update Necessary?

[Anneliese_Lev]

I started playing 2 months ago, and once I got used to Endwalker's graphics I thought they were wonderful

No need to change in my opinion (not to mention my character looks different in a way I don't like)

[Granyala]

Yes. Yes it was.

Definitely. The new materials look absolutely fantastic.
It's just a royal shame that they use crappy DX1 skin textures, riddled with green compression artifacts.
Also, face paints are still blurry as fudge and clearly not updated... looks so out of place on the new faces LMAO. Easily seen on Mr. Promise 2.

Was THAT really necessary just so XIV does not go beyond a pathetic 4GB VRAM in 2024?!

I’m thankful I posted this. Because it just validities that my brain does not register minor details in FFXiV.
I opened up the game this morning and spent ages staring at the ground or plants to understand if there was any kind of difference present or if it was still all mostly the same . It genuinely just looks like the same game to me.

Especially metals are a night and day difference between EW and DT.
Look at Wuk Lamat's head ornament or at The blue Promise Nr 1 guy's headdress.

Yes it IS supposed to look mostly the same. They didn't want to change the personality of the game entirely.
So this isn't a Tomb Raider 1 vs Crysis 3 levels of update. :'D

But the improvements are definitely there, if you pay actual attention.

[sindriiisgaming]

Try changing the light source of your character. The lips, eyes and brows Seem to be bugged in some way

[Granyala]

Talking about updates: Stuff like this pisses me off.

In the words of an infamous boss mob: SLOPPY!

[angelar_]

i frankly can't even tell the difference in the update for character models other than faces are subtly different, and like, obviously the fact hair was an atrocious resolution before. does not seem worth tbh

[Mimilu]

Something weird someone pointed out to me, if you go into your settings in system config and change the new 3D Resolution Scaling from 100 to 99, you're character's look slightly sharper. ヽ(๏ ∀๏ )ﾉ

[BeoCat]

Something weird someone pointed out to me, if you go into your settings in system config and change the new 3D Resolution Scaling from 100 to 99, you're character's look slightly sharper. ヽ(๏ ∀๏ )ﾉ

It's because when it's in anything other than 100 you activate FSR which has a really aggressive sharpening filter.

[Mimilu]

It's because when it's in anything other than 100 you activate FSR which has a really aggressive sharpening filter.

Why doesn't having it at 100% activate it? (◑ ○◑)

[Vahlnir]

I do think that the update was beneficial overall, but it clearly came with a few negatives. And there are the usual signs of texture clipping around. Could have been better but it could have been worse.

[Wildheaven182]

Why did theyvwaste their time making subtle, minute and irrelevant changes to models that only resulted in clipping bugs when there isnt even a spanish localization of the game yet?