Realistic Water Reflections

[Zhyrios]

Do you think we'll finally get them?

Yoshi did mention the water shaders arent finished but the lack of realistic reflections in water has been something i've been sorta sad about since i first played the game in beta.

[Dragonheart]

something like this?



gw2 has simple the best water i've seen in an mmo.. even if the screen i found doesn't give much justice to it..
well if i have time ill do a better screenshot

Yoshi P. has stated many time that they're still working on water, and at same time he said before that the game will features the most beutiful graphics in an mmo... So i hope yes.

[Lirion]

Maybe when/if they add swimming.

@Dragonheart: Here you go. http://i.minus.com/iZCt0NnXH5iX.png

[Zhyrios]

something like this?



gw2 has simple the best water i've seen in an mmo.. even if the screen i found doesn't give much justice to it..
well if i have time ill do a better screenshot

Yoshi P. has stated many time that they're still working on water, and at same time he said before that the game will features the most beutiful graphics in an mmo... So i hope yes.

the water alone in that screen really brings the picture to life, why i really want something like that in ffxiv, i picked Aion as an example of a game much older than ffxiv to show the realistic capabilities of ffxiv implementing it

[Randelmire]

I really do hope they do it right it.

The water in Gridania flowing in the wrong dirrection was kinda deceiving.

[Dragonheart]

Maybe when/if they add swimming.

@Dragonheart: Here you go. http://i.minus.com/iZCt0NnXH5iX.png

Thanks Lirion, nice example!



posted as pics, it deserve best visibility! arenanet have done a wonderful work with waters in the game..
Not only it looks beutiful, but you can swim, and go underwater.. (and yes, even the underwater world looks beutiful and living.. ) .

We can only hope that SE will do the same treatment to water

[Lirion]

Yes swimming in GW2 really made me want it in FFXIV! I hope they can get it to work properly. Everytime I enter GW2 I have to take a swim. :P

[Angelas]

Better water graphics would be awesome... as far as swimming goes I highly doubt it..

In GW2 they have 2 different sets of weapons, one for land and one for underwater. I also believe they have an entirely different set of abilities when they are swimming as with the monsters that can swim, they change their style of attack and abilities as well..

From what I gather they are focused on fixing the regular combat, doing something underwater from the start would be extremely difficult and highly unlikely

[Dragonheart]

Better water graphics would be awesome... as far as swimming goes I highly doubt it..

In GW2 they have 2 different sets of weapons, one for land and one for underwater. I also believe they have an entirely different set of abilities when they are swimming as with the monsters that can swim, they change their style of attack and abilities as well..

From what I gather they are focused on fixing the regular combat, doing something underwater from the start would be extremely difficult and highly unlikely

exactly, gw2 underwater has a completly different gameplay.. different weapon, monster and skill ofcourse... but this is a bit ot, we're just talking about graphics

[Lirion]

Yoshi himself have talked about possible swimming.

As for swimming, it would to be something that wasn’t just swimming. If we were going to put this in the game, we would want to make it a part of the game. For example, swimming to certain dungeons to do things, battles in water, etc. While this isn’t something we could put in for 2.0, it might be something we consider for the next expansion pack. We’d make sure that it would have something worthwhile.
We do have the swim suits, so they have to be good for something, right?

http://pc.rpgsite.net/interviews/327...-naoki-yoshida