New FFXIV Graphics Update Is Actually Insane
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- A new graphical update is coming to Final Fantasy 14 with the new Dawntrail expansion! Here is a detailed FF14 character creation comparison video I made using the first version of Dawntrail Benchmark.
What do you think of the new changes coming to the textures and character models in FFXIV Dawntrail?
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Glasses slot, two dye channels, more outfits, more stuff to explore, paintbrush weapons!
Yup, a lot to be hyped for just in quality of life improvements alone. I'm personally happy to report that my gaming laptop was able to run the benchmark at max settings with only one hiccup during the all classes fight scene. I didn't even notice it, just saw the little performance gauge dip a bit.
Awesome! Hope you have a blast with Dawntrail! @@kaylawoodbury2308
praying to the TWELVE that the "two dye channels" is actually +1 to Dye Channels
my Flame Elite's Vambraces still need to be dyeable to begin with
@@rathernot6509 That's not what it is, there's already official videos up of what the 2 dye channels look like.
Now that we have seen Hrothgirls, you have to make the 'why you should play hrothgar' video, lol.
They are always hilarious! I love them.
Thanks for helping me with my benchmark withdrawals by providing some lovely comparisons. I just want to keep looking at it until it manifests in the full game!
I keep launching the benchmark just to stare at my new eyes 😭💜
Female hrothgars can growl and hiss. Oh my god.....
You're tempting me to join the hrothfems now.
A specific voice?!
@@7Celestron Do it. The power of catmommies compels you~
@@psychomoon7185 From voice 8 to 11
Find god
Au Ra have been up-"scaled" hehe
I hope you make another video once the new Benchmark comes out to compare these shots against the newer versions so that we can visually see what, if anything, has changed. I found this comparison a lot more useful than the 90 minute livestream as their stream quality was just way too low for me to fully appreciate all the work that they've put into this graphics update.
I'm SO happy with the graphics update! It's so much work from the developers, but it helps tremendously in making the game look less dated. I think that's huge for the continued longevity of FF14, and I'm really glad that the devs have the foresight to dedicate the resources to this task of essentially remastering the game.
its not much work, they basically did what reshade can do and baked it into the game. its all just texture maps. if they actually replaced all ttextures in the game with HQ ones that's be impressive. its 2024, we don need ps2 style floor textures. its always the same with ff14. i played the game for 8 years on and off since 2013 and they ALWAYS cut corners and try to save money. oh you want 3 dungeons? nah-ah, heres only 2 per patch cycle. oh you though we would add other good content? nah heres a trial and some meaningless side quests. oh you want better graphics? no proble, give us 6 years for a mediocre update.
square enix is keeping this game on life support when it comes to new content patches. why invest more if the player keep eating up the same old forumlar with boring old recycled content. that gear you got in x.3 last expansion? guess what, its now the leveling gear, tough luck.
@@kjhin6431This doesn’t really sound like an issue with square Enix but more so you just growing bored of the game after 8 years, which is completely natural. There is so much content in this game and it is one of the best MMO RPGs out there currently, the player base speaks for itself.
I put my hellsguard femroe through the benchmark and I'm pretty disappointed. They softened her nose smudge and pretty significantly changed the shape of her lips. And every time I tried to take a screenshot of her in the benchmark, she came out looking so sad. YoshiP, you gave my character depression! D:
Yeah, I also play a female Hellsguard and the fading of her ash mark is the biggest thing that stands out to me. If they are going to make clear style changes like that, I think they should make it a selectable option in the facial features section of the character designer, like iris size or beauty marks and scars. I haven't done a detailed side by side to consider the nose and lips but I have heard that criticism from other players! The main thing I am leery about right now is the level of skin translucency. In some lighting it makes people look waxy, though that might just be the character creator's lighting.
I don't have the best system to run that benchmark but I could see even my femroe looked a but weird.
For the new graphics, I'm mostly excited for how dang *shiny* dunesfolk eyes seem to be, way better for staring at someone until they give me a free cookie or seven.
I thought the characters faces looked worse. I mean, the texture quality being higher is great, and I like the changes to the au ra horns, but the changes to the faces appearances coupled with everyone looking oily now is um... yeah... especially Veena, Idk what happened there.
Thank you for this comprehensive comparison upload and commentary. 🙏🏾
To be frank they made a lot of minor changes like chin shape, eye shape and so on, that taken altogether, I would consider it a substantial change. It's understandable if people are too used to the old designs and want to just port the exact face shapes to the new graphics, but calling the new looks bad is just dishonest.
They took my midlander's eye brows and stubble! I want it back.
I still wish that the benchmark was available to everyone, but I know this is the point of the benchmark to provide feedback and to make improvements. But overall I’m still very impressed with what we saw, ang I can’t wait to see how my bun boy looks in Dawntrail.
It is available to everyone? You can download it for free
@@NarhiFaunlha I think it’s only available on PC. Unless I’m severely misinformed on it at the moment.
@@VashimuXIV It is, but you don't need a PC account to download it.
It was clear to me that the environment in the benchmark character creator didn't get the update, but that didn't stop me to actually see how good the improvements are. People were exaggerating all the "Issues", I'm still glad they addressed it though. All my char presets looked fabulous in the benchmark and I'm definitely making a Cat Mom for the new MSQ. Viper Femhroth HERE WE GOOO
WHAT??!? They didn't update the environment??? So the colors are still unnaturally desaturated throughout most of the game!?!? That was the biggest reason a graphics update was even needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@darthgorbag in the benchmark character creator it's the old one, that's why people were seeing weird lighting effects. Once you run the benchmark itself it's the new graphics, but the background when you create character it's clearly the old one... Not a big deal for most, but it's evident.
@@darthgorbagOnly in character creator - the benchmark sequence is fully ran on new stuff for fps tests to be reliable.
@@darthgorbag They gonna rework that for the benchmark. So there will be benchmark 2.0 that address the character creation part. I hope they add unlockable hairs to it since its kinda janky to preview unlockables.
@@Pandaxtor Especially unlockable hairs on hrothgals since we can't use the same trick to preview them for obvious reasons.
Though I still feel like the whole "hairstyle is tied to face" thing is going to discourage some people from changing at all because they have a face they like, but don't care for the default hairstyles, or they love a certain hairstyle, but don't want the face at all. And while they *could* use an unlockable hairstyle, that requires them to actually obtain it, and goodness knows some of the more popular ones are expensive as is, now imagine them getting uncharged further because the sellers know there's a lot of female hrothgars out there with minimal options.
I'm just looking forward to all the new stuff to see and do, honestly! Content to run, glams to acquire, new crafts and new treasure maps, heck yeah!!!
Also re the benchmark changes: My fem duskwight elezen uses the roundest face shape, and it seems they slimmed it down a bit??? Her mouth now looks too wide for her face, but luckily there is another option I like!
So tl;dr I like the changes for the most part and the one thing I don't I can easily fix with the free fantasia ^^
i didnt see the fluffy tail problem till you pointed it out and now i cant unsee it (im a fluffy tail catboy so this may have me change my entire character i have been playing for 10 plus years D: )
amazing video as always!
My Au Ra looks so good with the update! The big thing I noticed was they improved the texture on the lips for face 1 and also made the chin less point on the female model so it looks more round and natural. I was going to switch to viera but after the update im keeping my au ra and might add the limbal ring since it looks like they majorly improved that! I didnt like how much it stood out before the update so its nice it is more blended now
How do you import your character into the benchmark?
All of your saved characters from the character creator in game should automatically be in the benchmark. Mine were.
My Lalafell boy was immune to the faulty lighting it seems. There is an issue with soulless eyes. Mine is a milky white Dunesfolk, it's soulless as it should be. The shape of the face was another issue but my Lalafell face is still round. With closer inspection, it's even more round. And the texture being dull and flat, my Lalafell often gets mistaken with minions, a lifeless doll. It's all as it should be.
My Lalafell eyes are milky white as well like the snow ❄️ in a cold winter.
Thanks for all your work and efforts! I play as male miqo'te and I absolutely love the improvement of graphics in dawntrail. Even though I have to wait for dawntrail to enjoy(bc I'm playing this game in KR server), I am so glad about this upcoming expansion. I really love your content, and I look forward to watching more videos about FF14.
Wait, you can make other races in the Hrothgal creator? Neat!
XD
Love your videos. Please continue your Ten Reasons to Play Every Job series, you have so many jobs left to do!
Pupils and teeth should be customizable 😭
I played ff14 last year for the first time in many years as an Au ra and during the last couple of days before my 30 days were up, I switched to viera and cat to try them out since I didn't like my scales anymore. Now I'm planning on going back to being an Au ra but for some reason, I can't help but be enticed by Vieras even though I can't get it to feel like my WoL. Nonetheless, I'm super excited for Dawntrail and I plan to main viper both story/rp reasons and because I spent most of my time as a ninja
How do you play in the benchmark?
You can't. It's just the character creation + the video
The benchmark is on the official website. You can simply find it by googling it! I want to leave the link to the site, but youtube automatically deletes website link.
I had to recreate my WoL to check how they'll look in Dawntrail, since I'm a console pleb. Although I couldn't pick my actual hairstyle, my character looked so damn good.
I was a little afraid at first, because there were a lot of unsatisfied people, saying that their WoL's have been changed beyond recognition.
not me still stuck in 6.1 :)
need to finish everything before summer
Look forward to seeing all those upgrades :D
I am excited with what I am seeing for elezen and roegadyn improvements!
So I didn't try everything for the benchmark other than my main, and some of my other characters who are Fantasia options, but I was confused seeing your video with the Male Elezen since it looked like you made James Masters as a playable character. I now am stuck wondering if there was ever a time within the near future to have a live action series for FF14 and casting him as an Elezen or Rosario Dawson as Fran in Bozjah.
I will say for my testing out options, I do like the fact that my Goth BunBun looks even more Goth in the Benchmark 🥹 Roegadyn are still amazing, not sure how to feel about my Au Ra eyes since one eye was supposed to look blind and now it looks like I can see perfectly fine and then some like a cat about to pounce. Also, I wanted Venat's hair style for all female races, not just Hrothgals 😢
Looking forward to going from one of the shortest races to one of the tallest on my alt lol
The new graphics really speeding up my interests in alt characters. If only because I'm so attached to my OC.
What im looking forward to the most is Square Enix fixing the keeper fangs...
The Devs for Pokemon Go need to take notes
Looks good , soo excited. Just about to enter endwalker. Already preordered Dawnstrail
Sad that the cross fur on the fluffy miqo tail is still there...
Nooooo 😭
AAbout the ffxiv coins on xbox if you switch your account from the xbox to playstation do you still need to buy those coins please someone answer my question
No. When you are logged in on mogstation and you have both versions on your account. In the top left corner you will see a drop down menu with a Xbox tab or PS4, PS5, PC, Mac tab. You can switch between then and pick the payment option of choice.
I will pass to Hyurgoth at DawnTrail.
I'm playing Au Ra currently but GOSH the work on the Hyurgoth is incredible. They are less angular and the character I have done is sooooooooooo pretty.
That free Fantasia will hopefully be my last. So I’m very excited to change over to the Elezen race with their new and improved look, right before Heavensward
wait, are we getting a free fantasia with dawntrail???
@@aecrys That's what I've been told, yeah. I think it was for the graphics update and if you are unhappy with how your character comes out with it.
Honestly, this seems like work that a modder would do and not a development studio
With a little reshade adaptative contrast and Fake HDR, the game will look really good
I really would like them to make the fluffy tail, well....fluffy also.
Found out today that lala teeth are a little well dolphiny xD everything else is 👌 purrfect
is the benchmark really laggy for anyone? my laptop is only a year old and can run a lot of games on at least medium graphics, im kinda scared i'll have to get a new laptop just to run the game :(
I sub only occasionally due to life and alternating with WoW... but I'm dumb and got so excited about the updates I subbed INSTANTLY... and then later read the video description that it comes with DT. 😂 The funny part is I was most excited about the anti-aliasing. The flickering, and poor anti-aliasing would drive me crazy, so I'd always play with Gshade and heavy depth of field turned on. Regardless, I'm still excited :) nice video.
the second female au ra face is actually cute now! they don't look like fish!
Hmm. Changing face shapes is an interesting choice :-?
I still want an option for different ear shapes on miqo’te
The Elezen necks look shorter because the shadows are not as harsch.
Its crazy how it took FF14 more than 10 years to get new graphics goddamn
@4:23 oh my god… subsurface scattering
Me looking at all the other graphics updates: Yes Yes Yes!
Me seeing that us Keepers got defanged: NO NO NO!
A small price to pay for salvation
I'm really happy with the update, my character really looks better. Although... he doesn't look quite the same. Thing is, I don't know if he's really that different or if it's just my eyes being unreasonably picky after having watched that same character nod through 500 hours of cutscenes.😅
I'm looking forward to the updated benchmark to see if it "fixes" him, but either way I'm very hyped with the updated graphics.
7:39 I was not expecting to see the meme here but I'm glad it's there lmao
During character creation I wasnt that impressed... but then I heard they didnt update the lighting there, so there's that. What I immediatly noticed were the eyes - love 'm ^.^ Also, the characters look way more life-like ingame than in the creation screen. Other than that... Please, fix the fluffy tails. Give the poor highlander their eyebrowns! And even though this might be a lighting thing but... I want my black hair back! The current version is... well, dark grey. And talking about hair... you just need to compare the old hairstyles with the single new one... its night and day.
I *loved* what they did with the Roegadyns! I may not play one but I can appreciate what they did :) Overall, the benchmark is just that: a benchmark. Its not the finished product, barely a peep inside. I'm looking forewart to the update but other than that... DT is due the end of June (for me :P ) ! I'd rather they forget about the benchmark and its character creation flaws and focus on the job trailer for May :)
I'm eager for Hrothgals, for sure. Also, the material textures. Those will go a long, long way. The metal, leather and cloth on the armors are wayyyy better.
Just one question, does it look great on PS4 as well? ;o
Honestly it will probably look better, kinda juicy
A very odd and seemingly insignificant thing, I know, but I honestly am looking forward to the more realistic, blanket effect that fog will have xD
Ooo - excite - going to come back to this game cos of this update.
Wait the new version is out already? 😳
As an ARR lover i hope for a fresher look on older maps, specially for the new players. The flufyness of the Miqote's tail is a thing that must be improved.
Hi male Miqo'te here. Yeah I was conflicted too cause like, there was clearly a massive improvement to the textures so my armor looks beautiful and you can see the details more and the world looks more vibrant and real but my face looks like... Literally EXACTLY the same except I'm paler. Soooo much paler. Like porcelain
FemRa scales \o/ and pictomancer game is gonna look so pretty im so ready
Hi Avycatte I love your videos and i just wanna let you know that I'm a new miqote player and I'm just loving the cat neko girl life.. There so cute! And i also named my character Y'nalia Rhul so you can guess who she's related to but she has black fur due to her being the black kitten of the litter
As a miqo player, I dislike the filing down of the fang's too. My miqo's face appeared longer and thinner than it used to, forcing me to change the face shape and I think even the jaw, before it looked right in the benchmark cutscene. Also, is it just me, or do the hands now look even more "arthritic" than they used to?
Hopefully they will start giving way better hairstyles and updating the old/obtainable ones too.
now if they just fixed a realm reborn content and cut it down even more, that'd be great
Maybe Amon's hat will get a few pixels.
nooo my keeper teefers ;-;
Just grateful they fixed the antialiasing years later.
I think im gonan for gemale hrothgar for the expansion, atm im elezen male :D
I’m most exited over aura changes. I played mostly hyur and while I love the graphic update, the new noses feel a tiiny tiny too big but no other complains, however I always loved aura for their slender and petite build but I hated their teeth, their lips and too small noses, the update however fixes all of these for me and I must say I’m so exited for the update so that I can finally create my dream aura character and not hate how she looks.
Overall impressed with the update, though I have a bit of a pet peeve with how my character's eyeliners look much thicker than they did before. My girl apparently went through a goth phase when I wasn't looking (Though I suppose it was inevitable, being a BLM main and all).
ngl my seeker looked a lil busted XD The new lighting and hd textures made my current setup uhhh...not great. More tweaking...I spend a kajillion hrs in character creators...what's a kajillion more?
I only wanted one thing from the graphical update, and that was antialiasing. Luckily, I only started this game in 2019, so I only had to be extremely annoyed at the lack of antialiasing for around 1500 hours of gameplay at the time of writing. Every time I played the game, it irritated me so much. When they showed off the new antialiasing in the recent livestream, I was so happy.
Better textures and shaders are a nice bonus, but that stuff would still suck if the game renders images with an extremely rough, grainy look and let's not forget the terrible shimmering in the distance.
Finally, we get proper antialiasing, and we can truly appreciate the graphics of FFXIV. I am also happy that we get better shadow rendering as well, which was another nitpick of mine. The current version of the game has terrible shadow quality and rendering distance, but that also seems to have been fixed and improved.
I was not prepared for how many skirt shots there were running a miqogal through the benchmark. >.> Perhaps adventurers should wear pants, after all...
Lol I wish this game had like small human sized elves, bit taller than the Miqo lol, I’ve always liked elves but I wish they weren’t so girrafey, or had the option like mid and highlanders.
2:58 what hair is this and how can I get it??? S.O.S
Moon cats loose their fangs in the update. That was the reason I picked moon cat -_-
1:20 Min.: THIS is the most importent part ;) xD
2:54 Min.: I play a Rava Viera so my Skin Ton is a bit Darker then outher bunny but she is only taned skin tone. So im happy about this change tbh.
3:54 min.: Is this the Legendary Warrior form One Piece? @ss d. Head? :D xD
4:40 Min.: You are crazy in my eyes.
Its the same picture just upscaled form the hair. Clear its looks like but its just the hair.
5:26 min.: Nah. I wait for my bun buns! :3 my bunny girl! :3
Like i say im a rava bunny ingame :3
6:16 min.: Are you a keeper of the moon?
Because the cat eye keeper of the sun are much better in my eyes. As i was a mique in the past i was keeper of the sun. Without cat eyes without me as a cat. The eyes be much more importent. Eyes and hair style is by a female chara the most importent once.
the differences other than horns are negligible at best lol
I wonder if they'll give everyone a free fantasia.
GIVE MIQOTE TAIL FLUFF YESSSSS ;w;
5:01 she do be mewing for this update
The update is doing the impossible: my bunboy is becoming even twinkier. 10/10 update
Still holding out hope for hats that Viera can wear.
I play a brown skin Viera and I'm super excited.
Just wait for the updated Benchmark. Its so great people complained about a tech demo and made the team pull resources and put more man hours on updating a trailer for the game. Its soo good. So happy they are not focusing on just the expansion and are updating this demo we are never going to look at again
The little detail with the elezen ears is really nice! I wonder if it's the same for lalafell and maybe even viera + miqote ears? The glowstick bunny boy ears have me wondering lol
"What's next, they're going to declaw the Hrothgar?"
Um..... About that.... -Cries in smallclothes-
My poor face sculpts. RIP. You will be missed... and hopefully updated :D
I'll probably get hate for it, but while some of this is nice, especially that old pixelated hair... I really wish they went further. A lot of things are barely noticeable.
I just upgraded to a 3060 ti and am hype as faurk. I was punishing my 1060 for years.
Now i need a new computer. Kind of frustrating. Went from max settings to the benchmark saying I can only play on default settings.
At least you can still play it
I love my WoL with the graphics update, but she's a hellsguard, and her smudge has been stolen from her.
The nose knows. The ash mark removal is so odd, especially given that they stated intentions to make this just an update of existing appearances, rather than a redesign. Hopefully they restore the nose marks, or at least make darker marks a thing in the character creator for hellsguard.
@@yukonexpatriate4017 and the thing that kills me is sea wolves don't have it, so if you really don't want the smudge there is an option if you really can't stand the smudge.
...I need to upgrade my PC.
What about the blocky hands and feet
Moon Kitty teeth 😢
i am sorry, but i just dont consider this graphics update as even hitting the minimum.
i rather would like for them to give us round fluffy tails, 3 dimensional trees or... better ground textures for... basically everything... stuff like the aura scales are great! but... i feel like there are things in game that need new graphics much more urgently