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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail Early Access Now Live - But Square Enix Says Mind the Spoilers! | MMORP

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited June 28 in News & Features Discussion

imageFINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail Early Access Now Live - But Square Enix Says Mind the Spoilers! | MMORPG.com

The much-anticipated early access for the Dawntrail expansion has officially begun. Will you be jumping in?

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  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    edited June 28
    Here's a spoiler: the "graphical update" looks like shite. Redoing characters and faces only just makes blurry armor and environment textures stand out like a giant sore thumb. https://imgur.com/a/MHbX53e That's the new Pictomancer outfit, by the way. Such quality, much wow.
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  • slowz2secretslowz2secret Member RarePosts: 449

    GrimDogGaming said:



    Here's a spoiler: the "graphical update" looks like shite. Redoing characters and faces only just makes blurry armor and environment textures stand out like a giant sore thumb.


    https://imgur.com/a/MHbX53e

    That's the new Pictomancer outfit, by the way. Such quality, much wow.



    it actually looks pretty good!
    LePetitSoldatRoin
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178

    slowz2secret said:



    GrimDogGaming said:






    Here's a spoiler: the "graphical update" looks like shite. Redoing characters and faces only just makes blurry armor and environment textures stand out like a giant sore thumb.





    https://imgur.com/a/MHbX53e



    That's the new Pictomancer outfit, by the way. Such quality, much wow.






    it actually looks pretty good!



    Sure, if those were low settings and not "maximum" graphics on 2560 x 1440 @ 120Hz.
  • ACommonMuggerACommonMugger Member RarePosts: 563
    Looks fine, overreacting.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    edited June 29
    Looked alright to me, but only alright. Clearly they need to spruce up the graphics for outfits for 8.0 and the environment for 9.0. A game this long in the tooth needs to update all its graphics, I was under the impression that was what 7.0 would do.
    LePetitSoldat
  • KaylessKayless Member UncommonPosts: 365

    GrimDogGaming said:



    Here's a spoiler: the "graphical update" looks like shite. Redoing characters and faces only just makes blurry armor and environment textures stand out like a giant sore thumb.


    https://imgur.com/a/MHbX53e

    That's the new Pictomancer outfit, by the way. Such quality, much wow.



    There seems to be a bug with 100% res. scaling atm, if you change it to 99% in settings it sharpens everything up. Or at least it was for the streamer I was watching.
    LePetitSoldatValdheim
  • JomoasisJomoasis Newbie CommonPosts: 4
    History atm is pretty disapointing, maybe It gets better once pieces are in place, cities seems empty of life, the rest is good.
  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,098
    Scot said:
    Looked alright to me, but only alright. Clearly they need to spruce up the graphics for outfits for 8.0 and the environment for 9.0. A game this long in the tooth needs to update all its graphics, I was under the impression that was what 7.0 would do.
    Yes I thought so too. It said they would update a lot of the outdated textures, but I don't see much difference.

    The lighting and Shadows is greatly improved though and that helps. So is water. Though not on-par with more current-gen games today.

    My character still looks exactly the same. Don't see much difference if any lol.

    Enjoying the new areas and MSQ at the moment. :)
    LePetitSoldatScot
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    edited June 29
    Kayless said:

    GrimDogGaming said:



    Here's a spoiler: the "graphical update" looks like shite. Redoing characters and faces only just makes blurry armor and environment textures stand out like a giant sore thumb.


    https://imgur.com/a/MHbX53e

    That's the new Pictomancer outfit, by the way. Such quality, much wow.



    There seems to be a bug with 100% res. scaling atm, if you change it to 99% in settings it sharpens everything up. Or at least it was for the streamer I was watching.
    I will check into this, thank you. Edit: Just tried this, did not work unfortunately.
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,839
    I don't play anymore but looks good to me. Way more detail than WoW, which I recognize the bar isn't super high there. Maybe you're critical because the game already looked pretty solid before the update? I dunno I'll shut up.
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    edited June 29

    Angrakhan said:

    I don't play anymore but looks good to me. Way more detail than WoW, which I recognize the bar isn't super high there. Maybe you're critical because the game already looked pretty solid before the update? I dunno I'll shut up.



    Sure, it did look good for being an old game. My problem isn't the crap textures on their own, it's that they upgraded character skin textures only which in turn makes everything else suddenly stand out as 15 years old and muddy. Even the new clothing looks old because the textures are the same low res.
  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,098

    GrimDogGaming said:



    Angrakhan said:


    I don't play anymore but looks good to me. Way more detail than WoW, which I recognize the bar isn't super high there. Maybe you're critical because the game already looked pretty solid before the update? I dunno I'll shut up.






    Sure, it did look good for being an old game. My problem isn't the crap textures on their own, it's that they upgraded character skin textures only which in turn makes everything else suddenly stand out as 15 years old and muddy. Even the new clothing looks old because the textures are the same low res.



    It's weird though and something doesn't add up. My Endwalker cloak for example is way more detailed now, as was shown in the graphic update examples that they have updated textures on cloth fabric, etc.

    Maybe they just ran out of time and couldn't finish all the texture updates before release, which I cannot blame them... it's a daunting task, updating 10+ years worth of textures.
    GrimDogGaming
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    JeroKane said:

    GrimDogGaming said:



    Angrakhan said:


    I don't play anymore but looks good to me. Way more detail than WoW, which I recognize the bar isn't super high there. Maybe you're critical because the game already looked pretty solid before the update? I dunno I'll shut up.






    Sure, it did look good for being an old game. My problem isn't the crap textures on their own, it's that they upgraded character skin textures only which in turn makes everything else suddenly stand out as 15 years old and muddy. Even the new clothing looks old because the textures are the same low res.



    It's weird though and something doesn't add up. My Endwalker cloak for example is way more detailed now, as was shown in the graphic update examples that they have updated textures on cloth fabric, etc.

    Maybe they just ran out of time and couldn't finish all the texture updates before release, which I cannot blame them... it's a daunting task, updating 10+ years worth of textures.
    Yes, it's possible. My Endwalker gear also looks to be a bit more detailed than before. I'd understand not getting all the old textures updated, but using old texture resolution for the newest outfit that belongs to the newest class that's one of the main selling points of the new expansion? That would not be an oversight, that would be laziness.
  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,098
    edited June 30

    GrimDogGaming said:


    JeroKane said:



    GrimDogGaming said:





    Angrakhan said:



    I don't play anymore but looks good to me. Way more detail than WoW, which I recognize the bar isn't super high there. Maybe you're critical because the game already looked pretty solid before the update? I dunno I'll shut up.









    Sure, it did look good for being an old game. My problem isn't the crap textures on their own, it's that they upgraded character skin textures only which in turn makes everything else suddenly stand out as 15 years old and muddy. Even the new clothing looks old because the textures are the same low res.






    It's weird though and something doesn't add up. My Endwalker cloak for example is way more detailed now, as was shown in the graphic update examples that they have updated textures on cloth fabric, etc.



    Maybe they just ran out of time and couldn't finish all the texture updates before release, which I cannot blame them... it's a daunting task, updating 10+ years worth of textures.


    Yes, it's possible. My Endwalker gear also looks to be a bit more detailed than before. I'd understand not getting all the old textures updated, but using old texture resolution for the newest outfit that belongs to the newest class that's one of the main selling points of the new expansion? That would not be an oversight, that would be laziness.



    lvl80 quest gear (and quest gear in general) was probably on bottom of their list to update, since you cycle through it so quickly.
    Since my current lvl90 gear from Endwalker (which I use as Glamour) is updated, so I think they focused on the gear people use as Glamour the most first. Like tomes gear, endgame gear, etc.
    That would explain it though.
    GrimDogGaming
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