FF14 Graphics Update Comparison | The Parting Glass [ARR Patch 2.5 Climax]

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29 күн бұрын

Never done this kind of video before, please forgive the jank format
Both videos recorded at their highest settings, AA disabled on both to avoid blurring, game is 1080p resolution, as it's the most widely used, DLSS/FSR disabled on the DT side
Chose these cutscenes because there's a number of techniques used to help enhance the scene, and it has most of our scion crew with us.

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@OmegaEnvych 27 күн бұрын

The new lighting looks a bit off in specific moments (mostly due to how we got used to old rendering method), though shadows and general character lighting does look much better

@Zakjuh 23 күн бұрын

It's probably that especially in older cutscenes, they tailor-made the lighting specifically for the system they had at their disposal at the time. To get the max "dramatic value" out of it. This lighting... probably doesn't play nice with everything else. If you remember the benchmark 1.0 problems with the character creation using the old lighting and how "wrong" it looked. Probably the same deal here. One can hope they'll comb through it at some point.

@natebroadus8474 27 күн бұрын

I never expected it to be so drastic. The moment I stepped out of my inn room at the Quicksand it was like stepping into another world.

@FunkiestChickenlawl 27 күн бұрын

Ikr? I had my character parked in Ishgard before the patch, and was blown the hell away at how good the city looks with the new graphics. Especially when the sun moves in.

@tuduermestrop8474 26 күн бұрын

there is just more light ... stop jerking on square enix please

@Zakjuh 23 күн бұрын

@@tuduermestrop8474 Turn your 3D resolution scaling down to 99, then visit The Vault, Aetherochemical Research Facility or Syrcus Tower. You'll see the difference.

@redisssska 20 күн бұрын

It looks slightly better in some places and WAY worse in others

@doubleclick4132 17 күн бұрын

is this sarcasm? god i cant stand you xiv shills.completely brainwashed cultists. ITS LOOKS THE SAME! maybe like kicking the gamma settings up a few notches

@fayte0618 27 күн бұрын

You notice the graphics update more when you’re in dawntrail areas. The old zones at this point feels like you are wearing glasses for the first time

@ZelosSama 26 күн бұрын

yeah people praising this is just being fanboys at this point ..... everyone can toggle brightness and contrast ..... i do hope you are right for DT area, but im gonna wait before coming back to this game .

@Miracle7Seven 26 күн бұрын

I wear glasses, and I love the better looking old zones. Like I can see the difference and gives me more lighting and see ability. Also FUCK LOLORITO

@Medbread 26 күн бұрын

@@ZelosSamaYou're underestimating how good it feels to wear new glasses lol

@ZelosSama 26 күн бұрын

@@Medbread well there is a difference between wearing glasses fornthe first time and wearingnnew glasses. The new glasses should be the same strength as the previous pair., if not a little bit better. That said yeah i might have exaggerated a bit, but the way i see it the improvement is not that muxh as just a brightness improvment and some littlenadded shade effect. Its not what they showed us during that demo that other live letter ( maybe a separate video from the live letter ? Forgot ) that they showed us .

@Medbread 26 күн бұрын

@ZelosSama It looks pretty different to me, idk. As for the glasses, as someone who's worn glasses my entire life, getting new glasses could be just like getting new glasses, because you usually get new glasses when your vision gets worse. As a kid, my eyesight was only a little bit worse, say 10% worse. Then they got even worse later on, say maybe another 10%. So when I got a new pair, the new glasses were maybe 20% eyesight correction, thus equivalent to when I got my glasses for the first time with a net 10% increase in better eyesight for both the first and second times I got glasses.

@LTLotusHeart 26 күн бұрын

It’s like there is a flashlight pointing right at the faces of those characters.

@Soooooooooooonicable 24 күн бұрын

Improved graphics aside, this is still one of the best cutscenes in the whole game.

@harozuken 20 күн бұрын

can't wait until wave 2+ when we get high rez clothing textures and meshes.

@69Bhullar 27 күн бұрын

at the 6.16 mark you can really see the difference.... more life in the expression!

@AceA254 26 күн бұрын

Yeah, at 6:16 the difference is like night and day

@Kaij- 25 күн бұрын

too much brightness on the characters now, look at 1:56, detail lost on his face due to how the increased the lighting.

@CCKaraoke 25 күн бұрын

In most cases I'd call this a major upgrade, especially with the environment textures. I do think they probably didn't have time to fine tune every cutscene though. You can see at 1:56 a perfect example of where the previous lighting was much superior and menacing. That said, at 2:02 in the very next frame, even though the same issue persists, the rest of the surrounding scene is more detailed in the new lighting.

@kiibo1786 25 күн бұрын

Character lighting is a little bright and unnatural in some areas, like there's a constant flashlight being held up to each model. But besides that, changes look well, some higher detail in textures, metals have a real shine, lighting that doesn't fall onto character models seems to interact with the environment more naturally. If we can fix the character lighting, should be perfect

@Zakjuh 23 күн бұрын

I surmise that this is not intended by the developers, but simply a consequence of how they set up the lighting in the old system, and they basically didn't go in and finetune that for the new system, so now you get this really discordant look where before there was probably a light placed in front of a character to emphasize certain parts, but now it's way too bright and just seems like a spotlight in the scene itself.

@killtrigger16 26 күн бұрын

Do we have to buy dawntrail in order to get the graphics upgrade?

@Solidus113 26 күн бұрын

nope, just meet the updated system requirements

@MrMarcosleg 26 күн бұрын

My thoughs on the update are mixed. Sometimes, it looks pretty good, sometimes, my rough character now looks like Sora

@TheNomadJack 27 күн бұрын

Is the Graphical Update rollout complete now Dawntrail has released?

@hkoizumi3134 27 күн бұрын

The update rolled out for NPC that used character creation assets (Like Teledji). Custom NPC that didn't use them are still to be rolled out through 7.x

@Solidus113 27 күн бұрын

The general large-scale changes seem to be complete. There's much denser and higher resolution grass, as well as general field texture improvements, more shadows being rendered in scenes, metals having a nicer sheen to them, along with all player model assets getting bumped up (except face tattoos for some reason), not to mention the fantastic lighting improvements in zones. There's still a lot of work to be done for NPCs that use custom assets, a massive amount of old gear to rework, as well as old textures for stuff like wood or cloth that are currently unchanged. As well as a lot of dungeons that haven't been adjusted.

@Zakjuh 23 күн бұрын

Not complete, no. They said they'd be carving away at it more during the patches. Especially custom NPCs and gear. The lion's share of the zones is finished, but I'd argue there are still a few parts to be adjusted there.

@LBPreviews 27 күн бұрын

AA shouldn't be disabled, as it was broken prior to 7.0 but basically fixed now.

@oxnerd 22 күн бұрын

thank you for this video, hard to find one without some whiny furry cam girl speaking in broken english

@jaybee4288 26 күн бұрын

So they turned up the brightness?

@ZelosSama 26 күн бұрын

basically. they are good at hyping stuff like these as exploits

@arnauddelaclos3221 26 күн бұрын

Now they need to fix hands and feet

@MrErick1160 26 күн бұрын

So they just increased the luminosity?

@JKurayami 22 күн бұрын

Other than too much light, I only notice anything because I am watching critically. If no one told me there was an update, I wouldn't notice.

@channelofstuff6662 26 күн бұрын

would of had more effect if they used HDR. other than characters textures and lighting its not much.

@SylvaGardenia 26 күн бұрын

How someone can look at a shot like 0:48 or 2:45 and say the only change they made is things look brighter is actually beyond me. You have to be hard of sight, have a shitty monitor, or trolling to not notice the improvements to lighting, shadows, textures (mostly in the environment and the character models). Sure, the less intentional lighting through the use of actual environmental lighting and shadows makes some stuff a little less dramatic, and some stuff is a definitely awkward as a result of putting upgraded tech into an older cutscene not built for it, but to ignore all of the changes and downplaying it is crazy. Edit: Forgot to mention that shadows are definitely sharper, making dark spots even darker. How you can make something darker by "just turning up brightness" is beyond me.

@MercWithMouth1234567 25 күн бұрын

It’s like the models are in HDR but not the backgrounds which is a tad weird

@rieyuki 21 күн бұрын

Biggest winners to come out of the graphics update are console players and those on PC who don’t use reshade/mods

@pumpkingamebox 26 күн бұрын

Some things I like, some things I hate. What a weird update. Definitely hate my face now, and Fantasia doesn’t help. Fuck.

@BradburyTheCharizard 25 күн бұрын

Graphics aside, it's crazy how much better the writing is here compared to Endwalker

@CCKaraoke 25 күн бұрын

Is is one of the game's finest moments, so it's a tough bar. I tend to agree with the mob that Shadowbringers is my favorite overall, but the Stormblood Patches and especially the Ivalice Raid probably take top spot for me. I was satisfied with Endwalker for the most part, especially in certain parts, but I think that the 'Dark Cloud' would have been a far more appropriate antagonist. That was a major missed opportunity.

@mariomario7379 26 күн бұрын

In person, the difference is alot more noticeable. The videos don’t do it justice.

@Zakjuh 23 күн бұрын

Yeah. Also, cutscenes (especially the older they are) are currently borked to hell and back, because they probably still use older lighting. Turn your 3D resolution scaling down to 99, then visit The Vault, Aetherochemical Research Facility or Syrcus Tower. You'll see the difference.