@@lokiacross0077First ask yourself what you want out of mods and where your boundaries are. makes it a lot easier to navigate if you have an understanding of what YOU want to change about the game visually or gameplay-wise. Then start small. learn about xivlauncher first. what are plugins and what gameplay/functions they affect. what Sea of Stars is. what kind of mods for cosmetics/vfx/assets exist. etc. lastly, ALWAYS read the userguides/documentations/descriptions provided and DONT SPEND ANY REAL MONEY at least until you've acquired an eye for things. (don't spend real money period tbh since the scene is extremely vast there's always, always, always going to be a free alternative).
I wholeheartedly agree with the glamour part. It was mostly anamnesis that sent me down the rabbit hole. Still try to keep my character as close to vanilla as possible (literally just so I can flex), and modding still helps with that. Also, GYAT
To my knowledge, the "don't talk about mods" bit is precisely so they don't have to come after your ass. There's a quiet understanding that people will mod, but as long as it's not egregious (e.g. people flaming others for their DPS when using ACT, going satellite mode when doing a world first live on stream, or otherwise fuck with the game files to get an unfair advantage or create irl billboards) they're turning a blind eye. There's so many streamers that use an entirely alternative client (for chatbubbles and some other such shenanigans) and where we know the devs have watched them at least once or know of their existence.
Out of sight, out of mind kind of thing. And other times, so long as it's not messing around that much and breaking the game's initial design like difficulty or something, then it should be fine
I honestly have trouble playing without mods after having been using them for years. High quality au ra scales, freckles, makeup, flat as a board, a fat ass, and all sorts of outfit mods to make in-game clothes properly compatible with everything. One of my favorite mods is an overhaul of White Mage's spell effects, spell names, and spell icons turning it into a blood mage/vampire aesthetic. Also GShade is an absolute requirement to even play the game for me. Vanilla FFXIV looks so grey and washed out to me.
My general understanding is that Yoshi P doesnt much care about cosmetic mods, so long as they can't somehow improve your performance. The only thing he's really antsy about is mods that give people an edge in raids and such, as it's from a tool not everyone has/has access to. He also doesn't like people streaming this stuff because if he sees it, he is bound by law to do something.
My god I hope so. Do it if you want but stuff like this is just baiting others to follow suit and make it a real problem in the game. Before you know where we are you've got the same issue WoW had where the developers are making content that makes it hard for moded play and virtually impossible without mods Keep mods personal and respect the wish or Yoshida rather than testing the ban's efficacy like 14 year old school kids
One of my favorite mods, allows Bards to make accurate (well CLOSE to accurate) MIDI's of songs and play them instantly in the game, which allows you to do what bards are supposed to do... make others feel a bit better by listening to some banger music.
That's not really a mod though, that's a third-party program that automatically inputs key presses. No modification to the game, outside of making sure the keys are set properly, is required to make it work.
I have one similar to that, it runs a scroll like Guitar Hero where you have to hit notes accurately and I have a mini Korg MIDI keyboard plugged into my PC so I can "play" while I play. I think it's "Bard Hero" or something like that, I'd have to go home and look that up.
The modding scene is an incredibly vast place and I don't think it truly registers in most people's minds as such outside of the usual "cheaters & slutty glams" sterotypes. As somebody who largely prefers to stick to "vanilla-adjacent" stuff and focuses more on QOL tweaks, vanilla models/texture upgrades and so on, I'm aware that it's not the majority of the scene either but, I love this game so much. Why would I not want to invest efforts and put creativity into my character's appearance and my own immersion as a player beyond the vanilla character creator's limits? There's a very good reason why one of the broadest categories of mods in the entire community are "vanilla mashups" simply blending elements from two or more existing gears/hairs etc together to make a cool new subvariant. Unquestionable illegality of mods in the eyes of the TOS aside, it should also be noted that the devs themselves are not only aware of the scene but actively have spoken up about learning valuable lessons from it in the past especially when it comes to the QOL parts A surprising amount of things in today's XIV would not have been implemented if not for the devs looking into what's popular among mods and plugins/addons. the Disable Camera Pivot setting when using Legacy controls? that was a mod before. the Little Checkmark next to obtainable mounts/minions you already own? that was a mod before. the HUD using Green text for your dots/debuffs vs white text for other players' dots/debuffs? that was a mod before. the Sword, star and staff icons next to damage flytext to indicate if they're physical, magical or true damage sources? that was a mod before. I could go on for hours. But the point is it's not hard to figure out why the modding scene ALSO contributes to the playerbase's happiness, and I can only wish for the game to continue adding or evolving things based on what players like to see or use.
Honestly it full well makes the game playable for me. I'm chronically scatter-brained and the default UI just makes it worse, so my main mods are those that clean that up, declutter, simplify. I don't understand the mentality of people who want to ban others over accessability in online games, especially when it doesn't affect them personally.
While I would never personally use character mods, there would be no force stopping me from downloading Gigabytes worth of dumbshit brainrot mods like turning the MCH bot into Freddy Fazbear if they let the genie out of the bottle.
The godsend of the combo mods for someone like me who have hand injuries saved my experience for this game. Not talking about the one that turns everything into one button but the ones that puts the 123 combos into 1 and shoves buttons that SHOULD already be 1 button together. Saves me a lot of aches and pains and lets me enjoy playing the game.
I've tried to talk to others about these mods before, because I use them myself due to pain and difficulties with movement in some of my fingers. Its baffling how many people think I'm cheating and turn hostile and insult me, with some saying that disabled people shouldn't be allowed to play the game because we are a burden on the main playerbase.
@@KajuKajuKatli Google "very accurate overwatch death ffxiv" and you should see a link to a page from gumroad. This has the ragdoll, a flying spinning death, and 3 sound effects
I could go into detail about the whys but I'll leave it at that. As long as I dont hurt anyone, as long as I dont cheat, as long as I keep it to myself... yeah. I know its against TOS, but instead of spending money on countless Fantasias (and I used them A LOT), I use a mod. That way my character stays who they are, keeps their identity, and I'm having tons of fun.
My view on mods depend entirely on the type of mods in question... Cosmetic stuff..? 100% cool, even if I have personal issues with stuff that radically clashes with in-game aesthetics. (But folks can do what they want, even if I dislike it.) Quality of life stuff? Heck yeah. Other stuff is more questionable a touch more questionable. Sometime like ACT is good in theory, allowing you to improve your skill in the game... But it's also something that doesn't really matter in the games' casual content. As long as you know the basics, that's more than fine for MSQ and roulettes. It's still a useful tool, however, and I think more good than bad. What I am 100% against however are some of the mods that call out mechanics, show safe spots in raids, etc. Anything that trivializes game design, even game design you personally think is bad, isn't something I think should be supported in a multiplayer game. I also think there's a fine you can cross when you're no longer playing the game. If you ever feel you *need* mods, forgetting what drew you to the game in the first place, it's problematic. (But I'm the maniac that plays vanilla Skyrim/New Vegas/Fallout 4 every few years to remember what I like about the core game.)
I am in the same belief as you 100%. I am a vanilla player in FFXIV, and I've enjoyed thousands of hours without the use of a single mod only because I am just satisfied with how the game is, and I take breaks when I feel caught up. Not only that, but I have many friends who use mods, and I let them enjoy their stuff without judgement. The only thing that got me sort of riled up was when a static member was using cactbot to improve his parses and felt the team was holding him back because they didn't have the tool, and two of them played on console. Thankfully, it was short-lived, but it didn't make anyone feel good about raiding on this team after the fact. Aside from that experience; it has been very chill with the people around me who uses mods.
lol. You published this video at about the same time I stopped using mods on my main character. I felt she had lost her identity as a Seeker. She no longer had her clan identifiers. her face, while absolutely gorgeous, just wasn’t her face. Don’t get me wrong, all my other characters still have their mods and I’ll still have fun doing all the stuff, like exploring new mods etc, but on my main, not anymore. She needs to be herself, the way I created her and spent the last 2.5 years with. I love mods, they’ve really got the creative side of things going, but for the character I play with as my main, that I do content with and see in cut scenes, I want that to be what Squeenix envisioned. I’ll have my mod fun time with the other 9 characters. Great video, really enjoyed it :)
For me, I'd enjoy the outfit mods and attack animation mods. I get the game's limitations but the modders do some damn good work with new animations. I still remember seeing a person show off a Gunbreaker mod where each attack had a blood splatter effect. That and a cool attack right out of Mortal Kombat X where they got their gunblade stuck in the enemy and kicked it to dislodge the weapon. The reason why I said Mortal Kombat X also is because Jason's grab attack was the same concept where he brings his machete down on the opponent's head and kicks them away to dislodge it. Honestly my favorite attack animation in the game due to how much it screams Jason Voorhees and the kick sounds like its packing a punch behind it
Rightfully pointed out one major thing people forget. We are playing a Japanese game that's just translated. The laws of Japan come first. It would be on the JP players to make their lawmakers change.
A HUGE fan of mods in FFXIV, started the game playing vanilla and as I reached EW I started to poke around, my WoL is still mostly unmodded but mods have helped me explore him as a character more and more. I also got into the RP scene, and no, not the degenerate one (not that there's anything wrong with that), but high quality RP that has helped me make friends in my 30s and explore the depths of my creativity. Mods help with that, I have characters that are able to be accurately represented, I can explore themes of disability, trauma, gender etc etc. There are incredible tools to assist with RPing in-game comfortably. Additionally, as a disabled person with a deep love of photography, being able to gpose in a more advanced way has been an incredible gift that allows me to enjoy one of my favorite hobbies without having to physically push myself to be out in a specific location at a specific time with a specific subject. As for visual mods/character mods I think that on a base level its just, nice to have that creative freedom. But I also think its SO important to talk about how mods generally help those from marginalized communities better represent their characters/themselves! More skin tone options, body types, scars (including gender affirming surgery scars!), mobility devices, prosthetics. The list goes on and on, it is so nice to see people able to play a character with those aspects because of mods and anyone who shits on mods inherently should really poke around some themselves, I think they'd change their tune.
I wholeheartedly agree with your points. Mods made me more expressive, and in turn more confident in myself and what I like. Do you remember when I commented at one point about switching to "big tiddy fem au'ra"? I went through with it as you can see in my pfp, and modding made representing myself through her a lot more meaningful. For context, I am born male, but feel like I'm both male and female inside, so having my WoL and being able to truly customize everything about her, enables me to live out that side of me. Not only has FFXIV as a game made me way more social and welcoming, it has also enabled me to explore sides of myself I never knew I had/needed to live out. I don't think that I could say this with the same energy if mods weren't involved. From dances, to comedic animations, gear replacements and even the spicy stuff, these ways of expression that mods provide us with, are essential and important in my eyes. Since I've been watching your stuff since almost the beginning of my journey in XIV, your Hyur was among the first I had ever seen with mods on in your videos so she really influenced me wanting to switch to a fem character, initially it was going to be a Hyur as well. I am happy with my scales though, and most of all happy I am able to be her and still feel like myself thanks to mods. I hope we run into each other in the game someday! 💜
Your point about people living out their whole side of masculine/feminine through their characters applies to a lot of people I think, something that more and more people realise.
@@Lyu-PhyActually very true! I do this too and even Xenosys Vex does it with Thirsty Bia lmfao it's an excellent way to express another side of yourself considering we, as people, are complex beings and all :3
Ive already said it to you personally but ill say it here again, thanks to you I discovered mods back when in the first place and Im glad I did. A big point, that you also touched on, is that mods help to create a character that really feels like *your* character and not like preset nr.546. And once youve started using some QoL mods going back to base game is just a pain every single minute of it... until someone gets banned for it and they add it in the game themselves.
Modding actually got me into learning how blendr works. I couldn’t find the kind of mod i wanted for my character, so learned to edit mods and even started uploading them to the archive.
Its...i have a mixed opinion of mods for XIV because i DO use the QoL stuff and that shit makes a world of a difference and some vfx mods (time/space blm ftw) but i cannot stand the absolute horniness of the community it gives me so much disappointment so kuch i dont bother letting people know i even have them as im afraid of whatever mistake im going to find existing
Could you make a video on how modding works because with your charm, it would make something seen as difficult to get into a little less. Love your channel. Keep up the great work! 👍
My personal favorite mod has to be a certain Taco Bell sound effect mod I added a little bit ago. Not only does it add a ragdoll effect to deaths (only to humanoid looking characters) but it plays the Taco Bell noise and so I can't help it but laugh my ass off every time I defeat Gaius on the elevator. Edit: On another note, I'd love it if anyone knew a mod that changes the male midlander animations or at least their sprinting animation. It always felt off to me compared to the other races' animations.
I've been playing and modding the game for 5 years but I never got into modding my character's body shape myself. It's so easy to mess up, at least from my experience. Doesn't stop me from modding everything else though, like teleport animations to minions to mounts and going wild with Glamourer XD
Im lazy and don't care about making my characters look different. I have enough fun as it is using the vanilla stuff for my characters. But i love seeing what other people come up with. Plus, i don't have to see what they're doing in game.
I really wish that the base game would at least add some new hair styles. I want some punky styles. I used to have a lot of mods but my computer had an oopsy and I lost them all. I haven't downloaded any of them again, not even reshade. Well that's not entirely true, I did download reshade for about 10 minutes but then I got a direct x error and couldn't log into the game so I uninstalled it ;_;
You misunderstood something. What is illegal in Japan is to mod the console, i.e. to crack the console's OS. Modding a game installed on the console (or a PC) is a completely different thing, despite the same word being used. The worst that can happen to your for installing a mod in your FF14 is a ban of your FF14 account. Thankfully our lord and saviour Yoshi P. said between the lines "Use whatever you like, but keep it as the down low." So as long as you don't go and harrass people over their DPS in the meter, nobody will mind, regardless which country you are in. So far the only mod I used is Hrothgar and Viera hats.
From what I saw in research it gave the impression that everything that alters a game's files is dubbed illegal, but Squeenix also has the ideology of "Out of sight, out of mind" just to ignore the other players' enjoyment
@@SamTheLemonBoyThat is what their TOS States. Basically they made everything that modifies or injects into the game (Reshade, Steam/discord/gog/epic/etc Overlays, dalamud, etc) against TOS. But quite ironically their specific provisions make auto-clickers 100% within TOS - Because they interact with some external system (Window manager) that just happens to interact with the game.
As a side note, while not a total replacement for ACT, Stone Sky Sea actually works pretty decently to tell you how well you know a job on a dummy, so you don't necessarily need 3rd party tools to know if you are good or not like you did at the start of the video. ACT doesn't really shine until you use it in a real fight which is where you see how well you can apply your rotation knowledge while also doing mechanics.
Honestly I've always been scared to death to try mods in FFXIV. I play a male viera because I like the body structure and poses, but I wish I could play without the ears and maybe a longer hair. Sadly I'm too much of a coward to use mods for that because I fear SE will ban me if I start posting screenshots of my character just because of that-
So long as you aren't so open with things like your character's full alias/name and just keeping it on socials, it should be fine, a lot of people are doing it and they aren't being so open about their characters identity and such
Mods give more life to the game that SE takes years to impliment. Like 70% of the rp scene uses mods. They havent given us customization, emotes, chat bubbled, antiscroll lock for chat. Just dont talk about it in public and youre fine
I can't get in to cosmetics because not only do I feel like it's "cheating" still (We put a lot of effort in to our glams too, subverting that is cheating the process) but those around me can't see it. And who am I dressing for? Not myself. I made my catboi and I can't bear to part with him despite all the female glams that look good. Or hairstyles.
I haven't thought about modding too much since I've only been playing for a few months and is currently a free trial player, but I have heard there's some useful ones like ACT you mentioned. I knew visual mods exist, and could understand why. Admittedly, I'm debating on maybe changing into a Hrothgar whenever I buy the game. Not sure yet. So I looked at a video of the character creator to maybe get an idea. And holy crap, they're have it rough! I knew about the whole hat situation and admittedly the video is outdated, but geez! I know some Hrothgar players use "certain" mods, but I totally don't blame them for using any visual mods to spruce of their character's appearance. I might have to look into it myself once I buy the game. Here's hoping Dawntrail does add more though. They need it.
Dawntrail will fix everything, prayge. But don't let that discourage you from playing as a Hrothgar, they look great in their original design! Minus the fact that they can't wear hats but still, they have a great design
@@SamTheLemonBoy Oh yeah. I'm definitely gonna create one when I buy the game. I do like their designs and seen some really good glamour on them. Hopefully it won't be too long. We'll see!
I find this ironic for me cuz i just started modding after 10 years of playing on ps3 and ps4. And i can say, that lil lala devil is real. And im glad to have knowledge of body sliders :D
Is it easier to get banned if i use mods. Just say like the gshader one? How do modders love life without getting banned? Do they just not talk about it at all?
I just started using body mods previously I just did ui stuff and the Viera hat mod. But the skyworker's singlet top made my boobs look really blocky from the side and so change was needed!
Honestly without them I don't think I would have spent thousands of hours in the game. They've allowed me to socialise and make plenty of good friends with them. It's allowed me to become more integrated into the community than I did with out them. Was hugely against it to start with but I'm honestly glad I gave it a shot, or I would have been that anti-social solo player still, only playing with close friends when they got online.
I think another big part of why third party tools aren't allowed is because the devs want the game to be fully available to both console and PC players. If third party tools and plugins are allowed carte blanche, there will arise an issue of people (or PF particularly) not allowing console players to join their party for HL content because console players do not have access to tools like ACT and melon. There's already a bit of that, but it would become much more prevalent if third party tools were openly allowed. Hence why the devs don't really care if you make your Hrothgar have a huge bulge or whatever, but will say something if people are showing themselves using third party tools to raid.
yes for sure, they want to keep it fair between PC and Console, but unfortunately everyone knows that there will naturally be a big gap in fairness when it comes to consoles vs computers
Part of me was always a stickler for vanilla, and as little modding as possible - and I still am. BUT, my new friend group nudged me to install some, and I said "okay just qol and whatever you guys have so I can see your char as you wish them to be with their changes" and here I am being a goofball looking at stuff like animation updates for certain jobs - literally have the Friday Night dance from Yakuza 0 , etc. who knows, I might dabble in it one day more, but it def makes the game more fun and goofy
A lot of mods are harmless, but the XIV community is the worst community in gaming. Modders will backstab each other and content creators for clout. Some will use parsers to exclude people from play, even if they're not good mechanically themselves and cause more wipes than a player with lower DPS. I can see both sides to the argument / discourse. I dabbled in mods for a time, but... it just causes MORE problems. So I ditched playing on PC and moved to PS5. I prefer my gaming experience to be consistent and getting 60+ frames in hunt trains with 400+ people on reset before raid? Yeah, I know my stance. My favourite QoL mods were a greyscale version of the maps, and a square mini-map. Bigger boobs and asses also improved morale for a time, but you know...
Mods are not really necessary to become better at the game though. You just need to look up guides that go in depth with the job. Look up the rotation and practice it nonstop everywhere and you'll perform better than most if youre actually trying to master the job you're playing, plenty of JP players that play exclusively on console shows this. Mods are def necessary to fix the abysmal character options the game gives you though and not to mention people that suffer without hats (Hroth, Viera), small indie company btw.
Used to be a console player. Up until a couple years ago I had a potato laptop that could barely run most games on "The dirt is brown and there are no shadows" quality. Found a static near the start of Endwalker's second raid tier, and played with them for a good while. By the end of that tier, they had me convinced to buy it on PC and start modding. Started off small with some minor body tweaks and glamour options. Turned into ACT (And while I love this thing sometimes, at least to give me an idea if I'm doing good damage or not, I can admit I am probably pretty silently toxic with it), class reworks and emote swaps. Can't understate how much I agree that modding makes this game better. Even for someone like me with next to zero creativity. Just a shame that DT kinda broke everything like that for over a month (And most are still broken).
Customization+ lets you modify the shapes and sizes of any bodypart by modifying the model's skeleton itself. First thing I did was make my miqo'te's ears into fennec ears, extended my bangs and twintails, and I've loved it ever since.
I don’t think anyone cares if your toon looks this way or that on your box. But when you start talking about “tools” to “improve performance,” what you are doing, whether or not you realize it, is opening the door to a corruption of the social environment. Let’s cut to the chase. Parsers & other “meta optimization tools” may be “optional” in theory, but if allowed to infect the social environment, they start creating barriers. “Only X dps or gtfo” is just the tip. Once these mods etc become normalized, anyone not using them gets excluded. They stop being actually optional, because they become expected. And as that occurs, the devs start changing their design methods to take them into account. This is what happened in WoW, and part of what caused that entire community to become so utterly toxic, fragmented, and hierarchical. It isn’t fun, and it drives people away, which is bad for the game itself, as a product, as in the current business climate, products & studios get burnt down for the crime of making slightly less massive profits than the C Suite ghouls are thirsting for. Lately, as the WoW tryhards & “competitive gamers” have started sullenly & angrily filtering into FF XIV, we have been seeing an uptick of the amount of harassment & toxic behavior. So much so that Yoshi-P & Co. decided to implement a change to blacklisting; putting someone on your black list now completely blocks them from contacting, interacting, or even seeing your presence, account wide. We didn’t used to need this, but here we are, and in no small part to mods & other “tools” being used to justify treating other players badly.
I think the best way to describe mods is simply If it looks cool, changes how you see the game visually, and has no advantage: go for it. If it makes you be a math major at Harvard causes you to scream at the Whm didn’t hit Holy at this point of the fight and this point in the fight for maximum damage Go touch grass and uninstall that shit. If you can be mentally sound then that’s fine, don’t bitch it to others who probably Don’t use it
@eriksilva8072 the mod's name is YAB, Yet Another Body, and with another mod in Dalamud called Customize+ that allows you to alter the sizes and proportions more effectively
Good ol' booba. Very true lemon! Without visual mods i would have unsubbed for probably 8-9 months in the middle of endwalker where I wasn't raiding or actively doing much other than logging in and tailoring a character with those tools. It really adds to the longevity for me.
Mods saved my Ninja, I genuinely loathed the Ninja run because the character I wanted to make for my Ninja was more practical and also more into perfecting their form and the Ninja run is just arms flopping uselessly like a naruto cosplayer. Getting to use the Rogue's running animation was so huge for my enjoyment of the class and is why it's one of my 3 favorite classes so far(alongside white mage and my main Scholar)
i use hair mods, bc i find the hairstyles to be very BORING and bland. like white bread. i wish the hairstyle contest they had had allowed for longer time but it just revealed they allow more of what we already have. cutesy hairstyles with hime bangs or a type of shaggy cut or mullet. what hair mod are you using? its gorgeous. i usually stick to really long hair mods as well- and ppl still cry "the clipping! ughhhh" but you can see that most of them are thick enough that it's not an issue. ppl just have limited view bc they like white bread.
Square Enix don't really care about cosmetic mods from what I know, I mean Yoshi-P used shapely taters lol. I use subtle cosmetic mods and body mods like the body se, I'd use bibo+ if it didn't cause my TexTools to freeze and then subsequently my fucking computer to also freeze. Idk why that happens to me, it's weird. I also have a face modifier that makes the faces more detailed and crisp it really pairs well with the body se and bibo+ and then a hair up reser to improve the way hair looks.
Says he uses mods... sees his character is 1000% Straight Thirst for "mommy nonsense" ... immediately purges the channel from my suggested feed.... Goodbye you poor straight sir.
I never cared about fleshing out "Lore" for my character until I modded her to hell and back, and now she has lore through every single expansion and a cool character arch
As a console player, before Mare existed, I really disliked people who modded because they would put a blanket mod on every character and every item of clothing. People would send me screenshots of my character with a bunch of tattoos or gooned out clothing and it really creeped me out that people would not see my character the way I want to be seen. But since Mare came out, most people make sure to only mod themselves and it hasn't bothered me as much anymore outside of just jealousy haha
Its wild to me people openly post videos of them openly breaking ToS. I hope they dont get banned tho because mods like this aint harming anyone. Ive always wanted to use mods but seeing as I have 13yrs in this game and im scared to lose all that time yo a ban.
I say if it’s for visual stuff and it doesn’t hurt the game, why not? Let them make the choice, as long as they aren’t cheating. And yes, I wouldn’t mind my goth mommy, it’s my autism and I choose the hyperfixation. Edit: I didn’t notice the Garlemald bit until it was mentioned 😂😂😂
I think something that would help with character creation, albeit something that would obviously be stupid difficult for Square to do, is to completely overhaul the character creation system. Remove race locked faces, remove race and gender locked emotes, let us use every face and every eyebrow, eye, mouth, and nose on every face. Add a new section called "personality" where you can choose which animation set you use, like playing a Hyur and wanting to use M Viera animations on your Hyur because Midlander animations are trash. That alone would enable players to make more unique characters, because they have every eye, nose, mouth and other facial customisation option on every head/face sculpt in the game, wanna use one of the Miqo eyes on a Viera with an Au'ra mouth and Roe eyebrows? Go nuts, they're just different shapes and sizes of the respective part of the face, no reason for them to be race and face locked, especially if it means M Aura are stuck looking constantly pissed off in the eyes cause of a permanent frown. Edit: And for god sake add Zero's body type to the game because I'd play a female character if I could play one that isn't so curvy and use the male character animations.
When someone brings up tht most people don't subscribe to there channel it makes me more likely not to subscribe it makes me think that people aren't following them for a reason
I'm not horribly ashamed of using cactbot. It just made a lot more sense, the more I progressed in the game, and the more mechanics I was expected to remember because of roulette. There's so goddamned many. Fortunately, the only way anyone knows I'm doing so, is the same reason I know you're using cactbot: We haven't even seen the tell yet, but we're already reacting to the mechanic.
Without the little helper mods and the one reading NPC unvoiced lines to me, man...mods really help a lot of people, especially the impared ones like me.
there is a whole rabbit-hole you go through when it comes to that, you have XMA that is a hub for cosmetic stuff, and you have the Dalamud launcher that is your go-to, to get started with this thing
The only thing that annoys me is when someone using 25 addons that do everything but actually play the game for you (boss timers and the like) complains about how bad someone else is. If you're using all those addons, _you're_ the one not good at the game.
i love playing my ninja but holy shit without some simplifications im unable to play it that well, before u raze me on grill for that, all i do is simplify the 123 combos and mudras. SE really need to rework that class bc its super complicated and doesnt rly top dps meters which is big sadge.
One thing to remember, you really only need to be 'good' at your job in higher end content, storymode, dungeons, trials, hardmode, extremes, whatever it's totally fine. If you're not proging an Ultimate or going into Savage Raids you're okay to suck.
@@SamTheLemonBoy Oh for sure, there's never anything wrong with playing better or striving to improve. More so just a reminder for anyone watching that if they just want a casual experience it's more than fine too.
What is this guy even talking about? Anyways, what you do YOU guys think about Mods? Have any opinions for or against them, I'd love to hear it here!
yoshi p has entered the chat
helpful and honestly makes the game feel more enjoyable, so long as it doesn't heavily cheat the game
Do you have any advice for where/how to start for someone interested in modding but don't know sh** about it ?
@@lokiacross0077First ask yourself what you want out of mods and where your boundaries are. makes it a lot easier to navigate if you have an understanding of what YOU want to change about the game visually or gameplay-wise.
Then start small. learn about xivlauncher first. what are plugins and what gameplay/functions they affect. what Sea of Stars is. what kind of mods for cosmetics/vfx/assets exist. etc.
lastly, ALWAYS read the userguides/documentations/descriptions provided and DONT SPEND ANY REAL MONEY at least until you've acquired an eye for things. (don't spend real money period tbh since the scene is extremely vast there's always, always, always going to be a free alternative).
I wholeheartedly agree with the glamour part. It was mostly anamnesis that sent me down the rabbit hole.
Still try to keep my character as close to vanilla as possible (literally just so I can flex), and modding still helps with that.
Also, GYAT
I am convinced lemon is making this video just to show off his waifu wol
WoL= Waifu of Light
It's cute though.
True, actually, you saw through my charade!
I'd do it too...
Ngl I’m slightly curious how my WoL would look like with mods
Would I try it? maybe would I risk it? Nope
To my knowledge, the "don't talk about mods" bit is precisely so they don't have to come after your ass. There's a quiet understanding that people will mod, but as long as it's not egregious (e.g. people flaming others for their DPS when using ACT, going satellite mode when doing a world first live on stream, or otherwise fuck with the game files to get an unfair advantage or create irl billboards) they're turning a blind eye. There's so many streamers that use an entirely alternative client (for chatbubbles and some other such shenanigans) and where we know the devs have watched them at least once or know of their existence.
Out of sight, out of mind kind of thing. And other times, so long as it's not messing around that much and breaking the game's initial design like difficulty or something, then it should be fine
The biggest issue with having a hot character is the nonstop erp approaches.
Otherwise, it's the most fun I've ever had in a game.
I honestly have trouble playing without mods after having been using them for years. High quality au ra scales, freckles, makeup, flat as a board, a fat ass, and all sorts of outfit mods to make in-game clothes properly compatible with everything. One of my favorite mods is an overhaul of White Mage's spell effects, spell names, and spell icons turning it into a blood mage/vampire aesthetic.
Also GShade is an absolute requirement to even play the game for me. Vanilla FFXIV looks so grey and washed out to me.
To make yourself feel like a unique character, besides. And yeah the shaders part really makes everything so much shinier
gshade bad
That whm mod you mentioned picked my interest... Can you link or name it?
My general understanding is that Yoshi P doesnt much care about cosmetic mods, so long as they can't somehow improve your performance.
The only thing he's really antsy about is mods that give people an edge in raids and such, as it's from a tool not everyone has/has access to.
He also doesn't like people streaming this stuff because if he sees it, he is bound by law to do something.
Naturally
Honestly Id love to try modding but I have NO Idea what to do lol
I am impressed how well you can edit with only one hand.
Me too, honestly
Yoshida's arming the Square Enix orbital laser as we speak. I wish you luck sir.
"I am no longer asking you to stop using mods." - Yoshi P.
Nah I'll live through it, I've played enough HELLDIVERS 2
@@SamTheLemonBoy⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
My god I hope so. Do it if you want but stuff like this is just baiting others to follow suit and make it a real problem in the game.
Before you know where we are you've got the same issue WoW had where the developers are making content that makes it hard for moded play and virtually impossible without mods
Keep mods personal and respect the wish or Yoshida rather than testing the ban's efficacy like 14 year old school kids
One of my favorite mods, allows Bards to make accurate (well CLOSE to accurate) MIDI's of songs and play them instantly in the game, which allows you to do what bards are supposed to do... make others feel a bit better by listening to some banger music.
Oh yes, that completely slipped my mind, but I loved making performances as a Bard
That's not really a mod though, that's a third-party program that automatically inputs key presses. No modification to the game, outside of making sure the keys are set properly, is required to make it work.
Hey so asking for a friend what is this program ?
@@bellingtoned The one I know is called Bard Music Player
I have one similar to that, it runs a scroll like Guitar Hero where you have to hit notes accurately and I have a mini Korg MIDI keyboard plugged into my PC so I can "play" while I play. I think it's "Bard Hero" or something like that, I'd have to go home and look that up.
The modding scene is an incredibly vast place and I don't think it truly registers in most people's minds as such outside of the usual "cheaters & slutty glams" sterotypes.
As somebody who largely prefers to stick to "vanilla-adjacent" stuff and focuses more on QOL tweaks, vanilla models/texture upgrades and so on, I'm aware that it's not the majority of the scene either but, I love this game so much. Why would I not want to invest efforts and put creativity into my character's appearance and my own immersion as a player beyond the vanilla character creator's limits? There's a very good reason why one of the broadest categories of mods in the entire community are "vanilla mashups" simply blending elements from two or more existing gears/hairs etc together to make a cool new subvariant.
Unquestionable illegality of mods in the eyes of the TOS aside, it should also be noted that the devs themselves are not only aware of the scene but actively have spoken up about learning valuable lessons from it in the past especially when it comes to the QOL parts
A surprising amount of things in today's XIV would not have been implemented if not for the devs looking into what's popular among mods and plugins/addons.
the Disable Camera Pivot setting when using Legacy controls? that was a mod before.
the Little Checkmark next to obtainable mounts/minions you already own? that was a mod before.
the HUD using Green text for your dots/debuffs vs white text for other players' dots/debuffs? that was a mod before.
the Sword, star and staff icons next to damage flytext to indicate if they're physical, magical or true damage sources? that was a mod before.
I could go on for hours. But the point is it's not hard to figure out why the modding scene ALSO contributes to the playerbase's happiness, and I can only wish for the game to continue adding or evolving things based on what players like to see or use.
The best part is when the ban a person to implement a QoL mod, I love it
Honestly it full well makes the game playable for me. I'm chronically scatter-brained and the default UI just makes it worse, so my main mods are those that clean that up, declutter, simplify. I don't understand the mentality of people who want to ban others over accessability in online games, especially when it doesn't affect them personally.
While I would never personally use character mods, there would be no force stopping me from downloading Gigabytes worth of dumbshit brainrot mods like turning the MCH bot into Freddy Fazbear if they let the genie out of the bottle.
hur hur hurhur
please tell me the Freddy fazbot mod is real
Me, as a skyrim and Minecraft player, i use mods in every game who have mods for use 🤝
I like to use, its fun
It's always fun to use them
loved the angel and devil bit
My pride and joy
Honestly probably everyone at one point before starting to use mods, lol :D
The godsend of the combo mods for someone like me who have hand injuries saved my experience for this game. Not talking about the one that turns everything into one button but the ones that puts the 123 combos into 1 and shoves buttons that SHOULD already be 1 button together. Saves me a lot of aches and pains and lets me enjoy playing the game.
definitely
I've tried to talk to others about these mods before, because I use them myself due to pain and difficulties with movement in some of my fingers. Its baffling how many people think I'm cheating and turn hostile and insult me, with some saying that disabled people shouldn't be allowed to play the game because we are a burden on the main playerbase.
@@liliumvulpes VPR is prove of how that should be baseline for all of these 123 combos.
@@liliumvulpes dang that's rude of them
My favorite mod is the ragdoll mod it makes failing less annoying and I can’t help but laugh
I never laughed so hard as I did when I got yeeted into a small wall then flailed in the air as I landed behind it
It was the best thing about prog
wait don't be shy what's the mod?? I NEED IT. AS A DRAGOON I NEED TO DIE AS STUPIDLY AS POSSIBLE
@@KajuKajuKatli Google "very accurate overwatch death ffxiv" and you should see a link to a page from gumroad. This has the ragdoll, a flying spinning death, and 3 sound effects
I'd actually love a ragdoll mod
I could go into detail about the whys but I'll leave it at that. As long as I dont hurt anyone, as long as I dont cheat, as long as I keep it to myself... yeah.
I know its against TOS, but instead of spending money on countless Fantasias (and I used them A LOT), I use a mod. That way my character stays who they are, keeps their identity, and I'm having tons of fun.
Yeah, so long as you are not bothering others then it should be chill
My view on mods depend entirely on the type of mods in question...
Cosmetic stuff..? 100% cool, even if I have personal issues with stuff that radically clashes with in-game aesthetics. (But folks can do what they want, even if I dislike it.)
Quality of life stuff? Heck yeah.
Other stuff is more questionable a touch more questionable. Sometime like ACT is good in theory, allowing you to improve your skill in the game... But it's also something that doesn't really matter in the games' casual content. As long as you know the basics, that's more than fine for MSQ and roulettes. It's still a useful tool, however, and I think more good than bad.
What I am 100% against however are some of the mods that call out mechanics, show safe spots in raids, etc. Anything that trivializes game design, even game design you personally think is bad, isn't something I think should be supported in a multiplayer game. I also think there's a fine you can cross when you're no longer playing the game. If you ever feel you *need* mods, forgetting what drew you to the game in the first place, it's problematic. (But I'm the maniac that plays vanilla Skyrim/New Vegas/Fallout 4 every few years to remember what I like about the core game.)
So long as they don't cheat the game in horrid ways then it should be chill
I am in the same belief as you 100%. I am a vanilla player in FFXIV, and I've enjoyed thousands of hours without the use of a single mod only because I am just satisfied with how the game is, and I take breaks when I feel caught up. Not only that, but I have many friends who use mods, and I let them enjoy their stuff without judgement. The only thing that got me sort of riled up was when a static member was using cactbot to improve his parses and felt the team was holding him back because they didn't have the tool, and two of them played on console. Thankfully, it was short-lived, but it didn't make anyone feel good about raiding on this team after the fact. Aside from that experience; it has been very chill with the people around me who uses mods.
Okay, after seeing your character's face for the first time and hearing the smallest snippets of her backstory, I just want a lore video on her now.
Some RUclipsr made her in a basement with a box of scraps
That has been something I'd love to work on, but in time when I can invest so much time into story-writing and telling
@@SamTheLemonBoy so... she is like Cid? but has Aether power lol
lol. You published this video at about the same time I stopped using mods on my main character. I felt she had lost her identity as a Seeker. She no longer had her clan identifiers. her face, while absolutely gorgeous, just wasn’t her face. Don’t get me wrong, all my other characters still have their mods and I’ll still have fun doing all the stuff, like exploring new mods etc, but on my main, not anymore. She needs to be herself, the way I created her and spent the last 2.5 years with. I love mods, they’ve really got the creative side of things going, but for the character I play with as my main, that I do content with and see in cut scenes, I want that to be what Squeenix envisioned. I’ll have my mod fun time with the other 9 characters. Great video, really enjoyed it :)
Thank you for sharing your story! It's always awesome to hear people's side of things, and thank you for the comment, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
For me, I'd enjoy the outfit mods and attack animation mods. I get the game's limitations but the modders do some damn good work with new animations. I still remember seeing a person show off a Gunbreaker mod where each attack had a blood splatter effect. That and a cool attack right out of Mortal Kombat X where they got their gunblade stuck in the enemy and kicked it to dislodge the weapon.
The reason why I said Mortal Kombat X also is because Jason's grab attack was the same concept where he brings his machete down on the opponent's head and kicks them away to dislodge it. Honestly my favorite attack animation in the game due to how much it screams Jason Voorhees and the kick sounds like its packing a punch behind it
Oh that's cool, I don't think I've ever seen that mod! :O
Rightfully pointed out one major thing people forget. We are playing a Japanese game that's just translated. The laws of Japan come first. It would be on the JP players to make their lawmakers change.
Which won't do much of a change, I think, I would assume it's set in stone
A HUGE fan of mods in FFXIV, started the game playing vanilla and as I reached EW I started to poke around, my WoL is still mostly unmodded but mods have helped me explore him as a character more and more.
I also got into the RP scene, and no, not the degenerate one (not that there's anything wrong with that), but high quality RP that has helped me make friends in my 30s and explore the depths of my creativity. Mods help with that, I have characters that are able to be accurately represented, I can explore themes of disability, trauma, gender etc etc. There are incredible tools to assist with RPing in-game comfortably.
Additionally, as a disabled person with a deep love of photography, being able to gpose in a more advanced way has been an incredible gift that allows me to enjoy one of my favorite hobbies without having to physically push myself to be out in a specific location at a specific time with a specific subject.
As for visual mods/character mods I think that on a base level its just, nice to have that creative freedom.
But I also think its SO important to talk about how mods generally help those from marginalized communities better represent their characters/themselves! More skin tone options, body types, scars (including gender affirming surgery scars!), mobility devices, prosthetics. The list goes on and on, it is so nice to see people able to play a character with those aspects because of mods and anyone who shits on mods inherently should really poke around some themselves, I think they'd change their tune.
Me watching this as a ps4 player
Same...
it goes from reshade to modding to erp to earning gill from being a succubus.
I can't wait to be a gillionare
@@SamTheLemonBoyyou can also do patchday crafts xD
I wholeheartedly agree with your points. Mods made me more expressive, and in turn more confident in myself and what I like. Do you remember when I commented at one point about switching to "big tiddy fem au'ra"? I went through with it as you can see in my pfp, and modding made representing myself through her a lot more meaningful.
For context, I am born male, but feel like I'm both male and female inside, so having my WoL and being able to truly customize everything about her, enables me to live out that side of me.
Not only has FFXIV as a game made me way more social and welcoming, it has also enabled me to explore sides of myself I never knew I had/needed to live out.
I don't think that I could say this with the same energy if mods weren't involved. From dances, to comedic animations, gear replacements and even the spicy stuff, these ways of expression that mods provide us with, are essential and important in my eyes.
Since I've been watching your stuff since almost the beginning of my journey in XIV, your Hyur was among the first I had ever seen with mods on in your videos so she really influenced me wanting to switch to a fem character, initially it was going to be a Hyur as well. I am happy with my scales though, and most of all happy I am able to be her and still feel like myself thanks to mods.
I hope we run into each other in the game someday! 💜
Your point about people living out their whole side of masculine/feminine through their characters applies to a lot of people I think, something that more and more people realise.
@@Lyu-PhyActually very true! I do this too and even Xenosys Vex does it with Thirsty Bia lmfao it's an excellent way to express another side of yourself considering we, as people, are complex beings and all :3
Thank you so much for sharing your side of things, and I hope we one day do cross paths with one another! :O
@@SamTheLemonBoy You're welcome! I'll see you in Eorzea 🙂
@Lyu-Phy yeah, it took me a long time as well to realise I'm more complex than I thought 🙂
Whoa, who's that weirdo upscaling the reaper's corsetlet? c:
Ain't No Way :O
@@SamTheLemonBoyhehe, a friend DMed me like "yoooo I just saw you in a youtube video" and sent me the link!
Ive already said it to you personally but ill say it here again, thanks to you I discovered mods back when in the first place and Im glad I did. A big point, that you also touched on, is that mods help to create a character that really feels like *your* character and not like preset nr.546. And once youve started using some QoL mods going back to base game is just a pain every single minute of it... until someone gets banned for it and they add it in the game themselves.
I still can't get over that reality, I'm glad you found some enjoyment in it!
Mods ruined my life. What am i doing in blender. What the fuck is a colorset
The colorset in Blender got me fucked up, not gonna lie
I thought I recognized YAB+ right away.
Large+SC here XD
It's great, no?
Same! God bless Aleks
(Small+Buff+Small WC here - perfect tomboy umu)
YAB and Bimbo+ the greatest of bodymods out there
I prefer T&F ^^
Modding actually got me into learning how blendr works. I couldn’t find the kind of mod i wanted for my character, so learned to edit mods and even started uploading them to the archive.
Long story short: Big bewbs mods made him play more ff14. Also, his character is his waifu
Kinda true
Its...i have a mixed opinion of mods for XIV because i DO use the QoL stuff and that shit makes a world of a difference and some vfx mods (time/space blm ftw) but i cannot stand the absolute horniness of the community it gives me so much disappointment so kuch i dont bother letting people know i even have them as im afraid of whatever mistake im going to find existing
Do you have recommendations when it comes to plugins for getting into creating custom cinematographic shots and the like? 🤔
Ktisis or brio for Gpose
Could you make a video on how modding works because with your charm, it would make something seen as difficult to get into a little less. Love your channel. Keep up the great work! 👍
My personal favorite mod has to be a certain Taco Bell sound effect mod I added a little bit ago.
Not only does it add a ragdoll effect to deaths (only to humanoid looking characters) but it plays the Taco Bell noise and so I can't help it but laugh my ass off every time I defeat Gaius on the elevator.
Edit: On another note, I'd love it if anyone knew a mod that changes the male midlander animations or at least their sprinting animation. It always felt off to me compared to the other races' animations.
im stuck on an old as hell laptop, but once im not ..mods are gonna consume my life XD
Just got into modding because my e wife made me, dont regret it. The whole FC syncshell shenanigans are so worth it.
im not kidding when i say that I found lifelong friends through big pp hrothgar mods
What… 😧 (this made me spit my coffee)
amazingly based
I KNOW THAT BNUUI! THAT'S MY FRIEND BOA! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Very nice bnnuy, prayge
I've been playing and modding the game for 5 years but I never got into modding my character's body shape myself. It's so easy to mess up, at least from my experience. Doesn't stop me from modding everything else though, like teleport animations to minions to mounts and going wild with Glamourer XD
I am a console peasant. :(
I am sorry :c
Im lazy and don't care about making my characters look different. I have enough fun as it is using the vanilla stuff for my characters. But i love seeing what other people come up with. Plus, i don't have to see what they're doing in game.
I really wish that the base game would at least add some new hair styles. I want some punky styles.
I used to have a lot of mods but my computer had an oopsy and I lost them all. I haven't downloaded any of them again, not even reshade. Well that's not entirely true, I did download reshade for about 10 minutes but then I got a direct x error and couldn't log into the game so I uninstalled it ;_;
I'm actually laughing, my friend took a screenshot of my gpose in the video and showed me, I literally got out of bed to watch this. IM THE SEXY AURA.
You misunderstood something. What is illegal in Japan is to mod the console, i.e. to crack the console's OS.
Modding a game installed on the console (or a PC) is a completely different thing, despite the same word being used. The worst that can happen to your for installing a mod in your FF14 is a ban of your FF14 account. Thankfully our lord and saviour Yoshi P. said between the lines "Use whatever you like, but keep it as the down low." So as long as you don't go and harrass people over their DPS in the meter, nobody will mind, regardless which country you are in.
So far the only mod I used is Hrothgar and Viera hats.
From what I saw in research it gave the impression that everything that alters a game's files is dubbed illegal, but Squeenix also has the ideology of "Out of sight, out of mind" just to ignore the other players' enjoyment
@@SamTheLemonBoyThat is what their TOS States.
Basically they made everything that modifies or injects into the game (Reshade, Steam/discord/gog/epic/etc Overlays, dalamud, etc) against TOS.
But quite ironically their specific provisions make auto-clickers 100% within TOS - Because they interact with some external system (Window manager) that just happens to interact with the game.
LOL HELLO THATS ME!?
It's YOU!
Thoughts and prayers to all of us for when Dawntrail comes out
Surely
As a side note, while not a total replacement for ACT, Stone Sky Sea actually works pretty decently to tell you how well you know a job on a dummy, so you don't necessarily need 3rd party tools to know if you are good or not like you did at the start of the video. ACT doesn't really shine until you use it in a real fight which is where you see how well you can apply your rotation knowledge while also doing mechanics.
Honestly I've always been scared to death to try mods in FFXIV. I play a male viera because I like the body structure and poses, but I wish I could play without the ears and maybe a longer hair. Sadly I'm too much of a coward to use mods for that because I fear SE will ban me if I start posting screenshots of my character just because of that-
So long as you aren't so open with things like your character's full alias/name and just keeping it on socials, it should be fine, a lot of people are doing it and they aren't being so open about their characters identity and such
Mods give more life to the game that SE takes years to impliment. Like 70% of the rp scene uses mods. They havent given us customization, emotes, chat bubbled, antiscroll lock for chat. Just dont talk about it in public and youre fine
The fact that Squeenix can take so long for a small bugfix gets me fucked up
I can't get in to cosmetics because not only do I feel like it's "cheating" still (We put a lot of effort in to our glams too, subverting that is cheating the process) but those around me can't see it. And who am I dressing for? Not myself. I made my catboi and I can't bear to part with him despite all the female glams that look good. Or hairstyles.
Jesus Loves all of you guys
what shaders are your favourite? and if you were to install those thinsg that shalt be named. what aones would you have? *winkwink*
Looks like I’m playing this game now.
I thought ESO would of supported mods but all we get is UI stuff…
this is the worlds most federal video bro you finna get them all banned
I was a double-agent all along
we stan YAB users here. (even if I'm more of a rue girlie myself, I still need those buff arms and watermelon crushers)
thank God for YAB, and Rue, we love a good tumtum
How does one even use mods like this? I've seen mods for replacing gear with other stuff but how are you full on changing your characters proportions?
Been waiting for this vid for real, also what's your hair ?
It's a paid mod, but here's the link to the original creator!
www.patreon.com/posts/umbra-65205646
I haven't thought about modding too much since I've only been playing for a few months and is currently a free trial player, but I have heard there's some useful ones like ACT you mentioned. I knew visual mods exist, and could understand why. Admittedly, I'm debating on maybe changing into a Hrothgar whenever I buy the game. Not sure yet. So I looked at a video of the character creator to maybe get an idea. And holy crap, they're have it rough! I knew about the whole hat situation and admittedly the video is outdated, but geez!
I know some Hrothgar players use "certain" mods, but I totally don't blame them for using any visual mods to spruce of their character's appearance. I might have to look into it myself once I buy the game. Here's hoping Dawntrail does add more though. They need it.
Dawntrail will fix everything, prayge. But don't let that discourage you from playing as a Hrothgar, they look great in their original design! Minus the fact that they can't wear hats but still, they have a great design
@@SamTheLemonBoy Oh yeah. I'm definitely gonna create one when I buy the game. I do like their designs and seen some really good glamour on them.
Hopefully it won't be too long. We'll see!
I find this ironic for me cuz i just started modding after 10 years of playing on ps3 and ps4. And i can say, that lil lala devil is real. And im glad to have knowledge of body sliders :D
The Lala devil is literally me frfr
Your character really do be lookin fine though. I looked respectfully *nods*
Is it easier to get banned if i use mods. Just say like the gshader one? How do modders love life without getting banned? Do they just not talk about it at all?
Just dont talk about using mods in public places.
I just started using body mods previously I just did ui stuff and the Viera hat mod. But the skyworker's singlet top made my boobs look really blocky from the side and so change was needed!
the immersion, Mason!
Honestly without them I don't think I would have spent thousands of hours in the game. They've allowed me to socialise and make plenty of good friends with them. It's allowed me to become more integrated into the community than I did with out them. Was hugely against it to start with but I'm honestly glad I gave it a shot, or I would have been that anti-social solo player still, only playing with close friends when they got online.
I think another big part of why third party tools aren't allowed is because the devs want the game to be fully available to both console and PC players. If third party tools and plugins are allowed carte blanche, there will arise an issue of people (or PF particularly) not allowing console players to join their party for HL content because console players do not have access to tools like ACT and melon. There's already a bit of that, but it would become much more prevalent if third party tools were openly allowed. Hence why the devs don't really care if you make your Hrothgar have a huge bulge or whatever, but will say something if people are showing themselves using third party tools to raid.
yes for sure, they want to keep it fair between PC and Console, but unfortunately everyone knows that there will naturally be a big gap in fairness when it comes to consoles vs computers
Part of me was always a stickler for vanilla, and as little modding as possible - and I still am. BUT, my new friend group nudged me to install some, and I said "okay just qol and whatever you guys have so I can see your char as you wish them to be with their changes" and here I am being a goofball looking at stuff like animation updates for certain jobs - literally have the Friday Night dance from Yakuza 0 , etc. who knows, I might dabble in it one day more, but it def makes the game more fun and goofy
the world changes when you discover player mod syncing
A lot of mods are harmless, but the XIV community is the worst community in gaming. Modders will backstab each other and content creators for clout. Some will use parsers to exclude people from play, even if they're not good mechanically themselves and cause more wipes than a player with lower DPS. I can see both sides to the argument / discourse. I dabbled in mods for a time, but... it just causes MORE problems. So I ditched playing on PC and moved to PS5. I prefer my gaming experience to be consistent and getting 60+ frames in hunt trains with 400+ people on reset before raid? Yeah, I know my stance.
My favourite QoL mods were a greyscale version of the maps, and a square mini-map. Bigger boobs and asses also improved morale for a time, but you know...
Can someone link me to the orange Justice mods? Im having a hard time finding it.
sure!
here's for Female: www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/38240
here's for Male: www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/38239
@@SamTheLemonBoy bro, thank you so much.
Mods are not really necessary to become better at the game though. You just need to look up guides that go in depth with the job. Look up the rotation and practice it nonstop everywhere and you'll perform better than most if youre actually trying to master the job you're playing, plenty of JP players that play exclusively on console shows this. Mods are def necessary to fix the abysmal character options the game gives you though and not to mention people that suffer without hats (Hroth, Viera), small indie company btw.
...... Me sitting here with penumbra with my bun-boy: Hehehehe mods. Hehehe tattoos.
More tattoos, more bnnuy
Used to be a console player. Up until a couple years ago I had a potato laptop that could barely run most games on "The dirt is brown and there are no shadows" quality. Found a static near the start of Endwalker's second raid tier, and played with them for a good while. By the end of that tier, they had me convinced to buy it on PC and start modding. Started off small with some minor body tweaks and glamour options. Turned into ACT (And while I love this thing sometimes, at least to give me an idea if I'm doing good damage or not, I can admit I am probably pretty silently toxic with it), class reworks and emote swaps.
Can't understate how much I agree that modding makes this game better. Even for someone like me with next to zero creativity. Just a shame that DT kinda broke everything like that for over a month (And most are still broken).
NUTTY
Nut
Customization+ lets you modify the shapes and sizes of any bodypart by modifying the model's skeleton itself.
First thing I did was make my miqo'te's ears into fennec ears, extended my bangs and twintails, and I've loved it ever since.
I don’t think anyone cares if your toon looks this way or that on your box.
But when you start talking about “tools” to “improve performance,” what you are doing, whether or not you realize it, is opening the door to a corruption of the social environment.
Let’s cut to the chase.
Parsers & other “meta optimization tools” may be “optional” in theory, but if allowed to infect the social environment, they start creating barriers. “Only X dps or gtfo” is just the tip. Once these mods etc become normalized, anyone not using them gets excluded. They stop being actually optional, because they become expected. And as that occurs, the devs start changing their design methods to take them into account.
This is what happened in WoW, and part of what caused that entire community to become so utterly toxic, fragmented, and hierarchical. It isn’t fun, and it drives people away, which is bad for the game itself, as a product, as in the current business climate, products & studios get burnt down for the crime of making slightly less massive profits than the C Suite ghouls are thirsting for.
Lately, as the WoW tryhards & “competitive gamers” have started sullenly & angrily filtering into FF XIV, we have been seeing an uptick of the amount of harassment & toxic behavior. So much so that Yoshi-P & Co. decided to implement a change to blacklisting; putting someone on your black list now completely blocks them from contacting, interacting, or even seeing your presence, account wide. We didn’t used to need this, but here we are, and in no small part to mods & other “tools” being used to justify treating other players badly.
I think the best way to describe mods is simply
If it looks cool, changes how you see the game visually, and has no advantage: go for it.
If it makes you be a math major at Harvard causes you to scream at the Whm didn’t hit Holy at this point of the fight and this point in the fight for maximum damage
Go touch grass and uninstall that shit. If you can be mentally sound then that’s fine, don’t bitch it to others who probably Don’t use it
Sorry for the question, but how did you manage to make this female character with thick legs? Is it an option in the game or was it through mods?
it's a mod, YAB
@@SamTheLemonBoy Can you tell me the name of the mod?
@eriksilva8072 the mod's name is YAB, Yet Another Body, and with another mod in Dalamud called Customize+ that allows you to alter the sizes and proportions more effectively
Good ol' booba. Very true lemon!
Without visual mods i would have unsubbed for probably 8-9 months in the middle of endwalker where I wasn't raiding or actively doing much other than logging in and tailoring a character with those tools. It really adds to the longevity for me.
It really revived that desire to just login to enjoy the "other life"
Shhhhhhh we don't talk about those! xD
I am whispering
Mods saved my Ninja, I genuinely loathed the Ninja run because the character I wanted to make for my Ninja was more practical and also more into perfecting their form and the Ninja run is just arms flopping uselessly like a naruto cosplayer. Getting to use the Rogue's running animation was so huge for my enjoyment of the class and is why it's one of my 3 favorite classes so far(alongside white mage and my main Scholar)
i use hair mods, bc i find the hairstyles to be very BORING and bland. like white bread.
i wish the hairstyle contest they had had allowed for longer time but it just revealed they allow more of what we already have. cutesy hairstyles with hime bangs or a type of shaggy cut or mullet.
what hair mod are you using? its gorgeous.
i usually stick to really long hair mods as well- and ppl still cry "the clipping! ughhhh" but you can see that most of them are thick enough that it's not an issue. ppl just have limited view bc they like white bread.
Nah Mods Kinda Cringe!
True, actually...
Square Enix don't really care about cosmetic mods from what I know, I mean Yoshi-P used shapely taters lol. I use subtle cosmetic mods and body mods like the body se, I'd use bibo+ if it didn't cause my TexTools to freeze and then subsequently my fucking computer to also freeze. Idk why that happens to me, it's weird. I also have a face modifier that makes the faces more detailed and crisp it really pairs well with the body se and bibo+ and then a hair up reser to improve the way hair looks.
I believe that they don't care as well, but they will have this stance because of consoles, surely
Maybe put TexTools away and look into Penumbra.
Is there a source for that shapely taters claim cause I need it xD
Says he uses mods... sees his character is 1000% Straight Thirst for "mommy nonsense" ... immediately purges the channel from my suggested feed.... Goodbye you poor straight sir.
I never cared about fleshing out "Lore" for my character until I modded her to hell and back, and now she has lore through every single expansion and a cool character arch
I spent like 5k combined hours on ps4/ps5. When i finally decided to build a pc i realised i was playing a whole different game for those 5k hours
6:40 MY WIFE
A very nice bnnuy
@@SamTheLemonBoy we've had like two or 3 diff people send us the video lol, tysm for including her @ too :D
As a console player, before Mare existed, I really disliked people who modded because they would put a blanket mod on every character and every item of clothing. People would send me screenshots of my character with a bunch of tattoos or gooned out clothing and it really creeped me out that people would not see my character the way I want to be seen. But since Mare came out, most people make sure to only mod themselves and it hasn't bothered me as much anymore outside of just jealousy haha
Its wild to me people openly post videos of them openly breaking ToS. I hope they dont get banned tho because mods like this aint harming anyone.
Ive always wanted to use mods but seeing as I have 13yrs in this game and im scared to lose all that time yo a ban.
What a great video. You made your point clear and all the reasons you presented are well explained. Awesome work Lemon!
Thank you, I'm really glad you think so!
I say if it’s for visual stuff and it doesn’t hurt the game, why not? Let them make the choice, as long as they aren’t cheating. And yes, I wouldn’t mind my goth mommy, it’s my autism and I choose the hyperfixation.
Edit: I didn’t notice the Garlemald bit until it was mentioned 😂😂😂
This video was one of the reasons why I wanted a pc
....I just built my first pc a couple days ago 😌
I think something that would help with character creation, albeit something that would obviously be stupid difficult for Square to do, is to completely overhaul the character creation system. Remove race locked faces, remove race and gender locked emotes, let us use every face and every eyebrow, eye, mouth, and nose on every face. Add a new section called "personality" where you can choose which animation set you use, like playing a Hyur and wanting to use M Viera animations on your Hyur because Midlander animations are trash.
That alone would enable players to make more unique characters, because they have every eye, nose, mouth and other facial customisation option on every head/face sculpt in the game, wanna use one of the Miqo eyes on a Viera with an Au'ra mouth and Roe eyebrows? Go nuts, they're just different shapes and sizes of the respective part of the face, no reason for them to be race and face locked, especially if it means M Aura are stuck looking constantly pissed off in the eyes cause of a permanent frown.
Edit: And for god sake add Zero's body type to the game because I'd play a female character if I could play one that isn't so curvy and use the male character animations.
When someone brings up tht most people don't subscribe to there channel it makes me more likely not to subscribe it makes me think that people aren't following them for a reason
I'm not horribly ashamed of using cactbot. It just made a lot more sense, the more I progressed in the game, and the more mechanics I was expected to remember because of roulette. There's so goddamned many. Fortunately, the only way anyone knows I'm doing so, is the same reason I know you're using cactbot: We haven't even seen the tell yet, but we're already reacting to the mechanic.
Without the little helper mods and the one reading NPC unvoiced lines to me, man...mods really help a lot of people, especially the impared ones like me.
I'm so glad this reappeared, for I had forgotten about this masterpiece.
Still scared to give it a try, though.
I feel stupid but, how does one go about moding ffxiv? Because I've thought about using some shaders and other cosmetic mods for a minute now lol
there is a whole rabbit-hole you go through when it comes to that, you have XMA that is a hub for cosmetic stuff, and you have the Dalamud launcher that is your go-to, to get started with this thing
@@SamTheLemonBoy Awesome, thank you!
I personally use XIVLauncher.
The only thing that annoys me is when someone using 25 addons that do everything but actually play the game for you (boss timers and the like) complains about how bad someone else is. If you're using all those addons, _you're_ the one not good at the game.
Agreed
i love playing my ninja but holy shit without some simplifications im unable to play it that well, before u raze me on grill for that, all i do is simplify the 123 combos and mudras.
SE really need to rework that class bc its super complicated and doesnt rly top dps meters which is big sadge.
One thing to remember, you really only need to be 'good' at your job in higher end content, storymode, dungeons, trials, hardmode, extremes, whatever it's totally fine.
If you're not proging an Ultimate or going into Savage Raids you're okay to suck.
But it would be really nice to have an ability to play better than decent in casual content too, but naturally there is no real incentive to do so
@@SamTheLemonBoy Oh for sure, there's never anything wrong with playing better or striving to improve. More so just a reminder for anyone watching that if they just want a casual experience it's more than fine too.