elezen won tbh

@@SnapCube2 fem Elezen already made me die(in a lesbian way) but GOD they really look so beautiful now

Mommy Miounne now

1:47

*claps*

hey, that's my line!

I'm not a 12yo kid, so i don't know what that means lol

@@MegaAndyGG i'm not a*

​@@NovaTedd Happy? And for you too. The sentence starts with a capital letter.

I'm 100% doing a full replay of the game eventually JUST to see everything with these new graphics, holy shit.

Some zones are so good now. The Vault, Syrcus Tower, Amh Araeng, Kholusia. KHOLUSIA (that was one of the ugliest zones in the game and is now something I can look at), Aetherochemical Research Facility. Some zones need some touching up for sure. A lot of Endwalker zones seem only partially updated, like Garlemald where I really feel like minimal work was done. So I hope they do that. And of course gear and NPCs will get updated in the patches, which will make everything look even better. I have noticed that the new graphics don't play nice with the old lighting, particularly in older cutscenes like the ARR, HW, SB ones. I hope they take a look at that and kind of adjust what needs adjusting. I think it's the same issue as with the first benchmark, where it was still using all the old lighting, even though it no longer works with the new models, lighting system and shadows.

Mind Blowing lol I love FF14 but the graphics update is a joke, there was so much more potential🥲

@@danii5630 Turn 3d resolution scaling to 99 and actually look around and compare. Go to Syrcus Tower for example.

also 6:31

You'll be in for one hell of a journey 🥰

cool thing is you can play right up till 4:25 completely free with the free trial, with no restrictions on playtime

Whenever i enter gridania's markets, my hair basically turns into a glowing orange if i walk under a light. Lmao

AND IT'S FROM FUCKING YAKUZA!? OHMYGOD, I'VE BEEN ON SUCH A YAKUZA GRIND RECENTLY. The timing couldn't be better.

They mentioned early on in the announcement of the graphics update that characters with unique models like Zenos would not be updated right away. NPC that are based on the character creator are the ones what got the glow up for now.

Yup. Zenos isn't updated yet. He's a unique NPC model so they're going to manually have to update him. He's not even the most obvious example. That one goes out to Varis, who in cutscenes is standing in an updated golden Garlean Throne Room... in all his PS2 looking glory that was outdated when it was first introduced 10+ years ago. Venat, Hermes and I think Hades and Hythlodaeus also didn't get updated yet, but Athena did. Which is weird, but I think it might be because she uses a midlander face for the most part.

@@Zakjuh hythlodaeus's eyes in the video look less bright in 7.0 if u caught it idk why

@@alyssarasmussen1723 I think it's because they also didn't get updated. I dunno, older cutscenes are a mixed bag now. I assume they'll go back in to fix it eventually.

@@alyssarasmussen1723honestly everyone's eyes look less bright :( they took away the constant eye shine/orb and put a darker filter on the top half for a lot of races

There are definitely some scenes in here that i feel like lose a bit of nice contrast with the 7.0 lighting! if I had to guess i'd assume it comes down to the lighting engine carrying ambient light and color a lot better. But many of those old dramatically lit cutscenes were created with the old system in mind so they potentially had to overcompensate on light intensity to make things visible, so the new engine takes that and renders it a bit more naturally and thus we see that extra light bouncing around and making the overall impression brighter. there are also examples where the new system ADDS contrast though so it's really an interesting case-by-case thing and you're gonna run into that when you make system-wide automatic adjustments to content thats already been created with another system in mind. i'd hope someday they go back and tune up things but i doubt it'd be worth the effort since it's extremely rare that the changes make anything look markedly WORSE.

@@SnapCube2 I you remember the benchmark version 1 troubles with it still using the old light, or the new light but straight converted from the old version without any adjustments, I think that's what you're seeing here. New lighting and shadows might be in place, but it probably used the same old parameters directly converted from the old lighting. Which isn't going to work. So honestly... if you think a cutscene looks off or lost its dramatic flare, you should report it to them so they can take a look at it and maybe manually fix up some of the lighting. I've noticed that scenes that take place in outdoors settings that just use zone lighting are fine. Ones in instances with specific dramatic lighting are having trouble. So I assume it's not necessarily intended. Maybe an oversight, or maybe something they're working on. But it's worth letting them know.

the ascian is a weird bug i noticed pretty early on yeah! hope that gets fixed

Also im hoping one day the Exarch is gonna get the glowup that Aetherytes got cause GOD could you imagine. I need it. Begging on my hands and knees

DLSS, FSR, and more lighting fixtures and more polygon count on modes.

@@Firelord_Ozeni don’t really think it comes down to any of that, most of the stuff you listed is completely unrelated to lighting quality. what really makes the difference when it comes to character lighting and their increased lifelike quality in this update, imo, is a combination of more subtle tech like new skin shaders and ESPECIALLY the addition of subsurface scattering. the latter being something that is so hard to point out even side-by-side anywhere except the tips of ears but for some reason your brain picks up on that subtlety and it genuinely makes a character feel more alive. add improved normal mapping (i believe?) on the faces to make the lighting behave more smoothly and you got yourself a MUCH less waxy looking character. normal mapping improvements are also why i believe a couple key characters with bespoke models (ie zenos) honestly don’t look too different right now in the new lighting. their face is still interacting with even the new lighting in a way that creates harsh contours in most environments. this is all speculation to be fair, but it’s my guess more so than something like DLSS or FSR which almost exclusively deal in resolution upscaling.

yea it’s gonna be in waves over time. like i wrote at the beginning of the video i would assume we see this update in its final form around 7.5 which should be a couple years from now, but there will be steady progress in between.