dev1037 battle effects need a lot more than a resize

[Spuffin]

Resizing clearly means they're paying attention to the fact animations need a change and there will no doubt be more done than resizing of the particle effects (a lot of magic in general is just "small") -- it's like them saying they'll add new areas and people expect them to not add NPCs or music simply because they didn't mention it.

However, a lot of FFXIV's effects are more on the "real" side because of mocap they did for animations, whereas FFXI's focus on the particle effects because the animations themselves were very plain.

So you are telling me you rather take "RL" animations like these :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFIGtkuo-Q

Over Fantasy animations (with a mix of RL movement but more epic and ALIVE) like every game should have like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4GLckLOXGc
:50 seconds are bad ass archer animations

If I want to ever play a game that's based off of RL... I would burn my gaming career and continue on with my own RL, I feel that might be more enjoyable...

[Majidah]

So you are telling me you rather take "RL" animations like these :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFIGtkuo-Q

Over Fantasy animations (with a mix of RL movement but more epic and ALIVE) like every game should have like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4GLckLOXGc
:50 seconds are bad ass archer animations

If I want to ever play a game that's based off of RL... I would burn my gaming career and continue on with my own RL, I feel that might be more enjoyable...

If you ask me, the XIV animations look a lot better. Problem is that THERE ARE ONLY THREE FOR LIKE TWENTY SKILLS!

[Jennestia]

So you are telling me you rather take "RL" animations like these :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFIGtkuo-Q

Over Fantasy animations (with a mix of RL movement but more epic and ALIVE) like every game should have like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4GLckLOXGc
:50 seconds are bad ass archer animations

If I want to ever play a game that's based off of RL... I would burn my gaming career and continue on with my own RL, I feel that might be more enjoyable...

I don't recall ever saying what I prefer.

[Anathiel]

in all fairness they said they were rehauling the battle system, what if making the effects bigger is just the first step, shouldn't we be excited theuyre beginning?

[BelgianRofl]

in all fairness they said they were rehauling the battle system, what if making the effects bigger is just the first step, shouldn't we be excited theuyre beginning?

Many of us share the same point as you, we're just asking for an answer to that question.

[Anathiel]

Many of us share the same point as you, we're just asking for an answer to that question.

Now I'm not white knighting here just being a realist, they're 14 hours ahead of us. When that was posted it was evening in japan right? So we probably wouldn't get an answer until tomorrow morning at the earliest. So instead of everybody screaming omfg why are they just doing that? They didn't post it in a question form. Let me start:

Dear Mr. Moderator can you please clarify if this is all the Dev Team plans on doing for battle animations? Or can we expect more changes in the future?

[gifthorse]

Magic and attacks in FFXIV are just generally worthless.

Why does everything pretty much do the same thing? Blizzard, Fire, Thunder, Water etc etc. They all just do the same stupid thing but with different elemental stats.

Everything in FFXIV battle system is about stats - balancing math and stats.

Changing animations is only half the problem, the biggest factor is changing what spells actually do.

[Corrderio]

Magic and attacks in FFXIV are just generally worthless.

Why does everything pretty much do the same thing? Blizzard, Fire, Thunder, Water etc etc. They all just do the same stupid thing but with different elemental stats.

Everything in FFXIV battle system is about stats - balancing math and stats.

Changing animations is only half the problem, the biggest factor is changing what spells actually do.

And battle adjustments are over the horizon.

[gifthorse]

And battle adjustments are over the horizon.

Yeah auto-attack so we can keep our DPS up while doing some math equations on the side to make sure our DPS stays up.

Sounds really promising.

[Corrderio]

Yeah auto-attack so we can keep our DPS up while doing some math equations on the side to make sure our DPS stays up.

Sounds really promising.

And you think that took them all this time? umad?