Imminent FFXIV Dawntrail Benchmark Update Sees Massive Graphics, Model Improvements | MMORPG.com

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Imminent FFXIV Dawntrail Benchmark Update Sees Massive Graphics, Model Improvements | MMORPG.com

During the Live Letter, Yoshi-P and Foxcon addressed the ongoing saga of character models in the Dawntrail Benchmark's outdated character creator.

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Scot

Isn't that the same selfie used for a FF XIV article a few weeks back? You need to do a new one.

riningear

Scot said:

Isn't that the same selfie used for a FF XIV article a few weeks back? You need to do a new one.

Fine, I'll screencap another angle soon...

Scot

Not that gamers are demanding or anything.

ShinyFlygon

Holy cow! I'd heard the first version was bad, which is why I didn't bother downloading it, but I never would have guessed it was this bad! Did they think no one would notice? Maybe they just wanted broad feedback on all the problems so they could address everything before releasing the final version. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Angrakhan

Pretty dramatic improvement in the lighting for sure.

Vidahr

And yet the textures are still horrible and stretched out. A swing and a miss from Squeenix, but their recent track record hasn't been all that great lately.

ShinyFlygon

Vidahr said:

And yet the textures are still horrible and stretched out. A swing and a miss from Squeenix, but their recent track record hasn't been all that great lately.

I don't think it's realistic to expect perfect, unstretched textures in an MMO with as many different race and clothing models as you see in FFIXV. That's an aspiration for a single-player game where every model has a fixed wardrobe.