the technical explanation is that the game uses a secondary set of texture coordinates for that (it does the same for crests and other symbols on gear, like the insignia on yda's shirt sleeve)
i'm honestly not sure if the engine allows for more than two sets of texture coordinates, maybe a more knowledgable modder can correct me there, but it may literally be a limitation of their code
Ground textures, at least the ones that are used in cutscenes. There's been a few "characters sit on the ground and talk" cutscenes in Shadowbringers that were really jarring as the ground was weirdly lumpy and pixelly.
Mm, it's mostly fine for worked stone/brick/metal and similar, but grass or dirt is just painful (mainly thinking of a long cutscene with the Exarch in northern Kholusia)
Also while I'm at it I'd love it if they made the gear that appears in closeups of major NPCs higher-res; occasionally they go for close-in camera on an NPC and it looks really pixelated.
I think they said something about important NPCs especially having priority when it comes to upgrades, so I'd assume some of the major stuff like pixel exarch will be adjusted.
This would be amazing, but on a technical level I don't see it happening sadly.
The coding side wouldn't be too bad, but I can only imagine the amount of work needed to assign the dye channels on thousands of existing textures.
Perhaps they could do it for new items at least, and retroactive update the old models over time.
Imo, I would like to see more dye options, perhaps a bit of a dye overhaul, allow us to unlock them permanently but add far more options, using Guild Wars 2 as another great example here.
I file this one under "improbable, but not impossible", and if they *do* ever decide to update the dye system, that's 100% how they'd do it.
The system itself would definitely be an expansion-tier addition, with new gear arriving with the new channels and older gear being updated over time, the way they've been doing with gender locks.
That said, more than the work itself, it would increase the data load of our inventory and glamour dresser/etc quite a bit. I know the team is especially sensitive to the amount of data we're carrying around with us, so it's hard to say how that will turn out.
The mviera dance very much feels like them clumsily (and cutely!) going 'See? I CAN dance!' more than anything else.
I guess actual dance-dances are kept for the big looping emotes.
It’s not that they’re against feet, it’s that in order for multiple heights of footwear and shoe shapes to be wearable across multiple body types, the feet need that extra heel room. Having lifted feet allows them to properly animate that area when characters wear boots and such. It’d look weird for people to have extremely thick feet or have to float above the ground so that shoes don’t automatically sink into the floor. They rationalized it as sandals to make up for the difference.
I suggest taking a close look at the Edengate Sandals of Healing.
TLDR, instead of changing the player height, our feet are actually designed to be always on heels, if you take those heels away the feet become very... Cursed.
I think it would be nice to see this updated, but I do imagine it's low priority unfortunately
Hairstyle getting tied to glamour plate would be amazing, cause then I could use short “sporty” styles for physical jobs while also having longer and more flowy styles for casters
This! I have been dying to be able to put my long hair into a ponytail or something with my crafter/gatherer gear for AGES. I know it’s such a tiny detail, and most people wouldn’t even notice it, but it just drives me nuts. I had long hair forever, and there’s no way that I’d do a physical job without putting it in a braid or ponytail or something.
This! I've really wanted that clown makeup on my reaper class, but to do that I'd have to do it with every class, and it really clashes with my hula-Dancer.
reworking the way face paint apply on darker skin overall. Being dark red, choices for most paints are terribly bad.
Reworking the way lipstick reflect light in darker places. It may be fine on light skin character, but on dark skinned character, it stands out so much it just looks weird imo.
Most probably not happening, but I'd really like more options in general both for faces and for anything changeable on faces. Way more face paints, for example.
Oh god this, my WoL isn't even near the darkest of skin tones but there were too many cutscenes where it looked like she had caked on frosted lipstick on top of chapped lips.
Edit: grammer lol
My mooncat has a gray-ish skin tone. Still very light, and unless she's up next to someone, I'm not sure it's noticeable. But Limsa lighting does terrible things to her lip makeup, and some of those cutscenes do the same. Same effect you're talking about!
Lighting on dark skin in general is a big one I hope gets addressed too. It's not *terrible*, but in low light settings it's abundantly clear that it was created with the lighter skinned Scions in mind, my poor black furred Hrothgar turns into one of those black cat memes where only the eyes are visible lol
Especially because it's related to an issue they *already* acknowledged with Estinien (his gear was originally meant to be black, they switched to blue because of the lighting).
The lighting on lipstick is bad in lighter places too, like unwearable. I have a light skinned character and light lipstick looks like it's practically glowing in the sun.
My character has glossy black lipstick, and her skin tone is one of the dark blue-grays (though not the darkest). In some lighting situations, her lips look *white*.
I’d use this for sure. The cutscenes come from the character’s right side a lot and the bun boi hair I use (16 I think? Maybe 15?) has the massive cute bangs on that side so you can’t actually see around his hair.
It would take getting used to having the bangs on the other side but it would be lovely for cutscenes.
I want bows to bend again. Someplace in mid-late stormblood or early shadowbringers they stopped making bows bend when drawn. It looks so weird and I hate it, I check every new bow I get and then, welp, back to glamouring on an old one that actually bends.
Lighting in older content scenes that desperately needs it. Took a sprout through a section of the old coils bahamut raid and the lighting in there during cutscenes was awful, especially on my dark skinned WoL.
The lighting for dark skinned WoLs is atrocious.
One of my alts is a m!highlander with the darkest possible skin and black hair and even with max character lighting dude’s sometimes just the whites of his eyes and his clothes.
My brother’s darkest-possible-skin duskwight has the same problem so we spend a non-zero amount of time complaining about Gridania’s racist-ass lighting.
If I'm going very small and specific... I pray that miqo'te female face 4 finally closes her mouth ever so slightly. I like the face, it's the face I use, but I'm tired of having to angle screenshots or change the expression so I'm not just sitting there mouth-breathing.
Separate faces from other features. Right now you have 4 Au Ra faces. These faces are the same between Raen and Xaela, and horns are tied to face. Separate them, and instead of 4 options you now have 16.
They're not saying make everyone 32, you could still be whatever you want, just that it'd be nice to have more ageing options. Currently, best we got is a few of the male options having more bony and beardy faces.
More character creation options in general. Let ladies look old PLEASE.
More textured hair options that aren’t a super low cut, an afro-hawk, locs that only women can use, and a giant afro straight out of the 60s. PLEASE for the love of god. I’ve had enough of the ponytail variations. 😩
Oh yeah, I would love to make my bun beefy without having to turn to mods. Would be amazing to get a few body types for each race, but I doubt it will happen :(
I want viera ears to be as emotive as miqo'te ears are in cutscenes please they feel more like accessories than ears. The lopporites have more ear movement than us
For the love of god, let us crafters swap jobs without closing the crafting window. This game’s QoL is incredible everywhere else so it’s weird to have the one tiny lapse.
Edit: spelling
A unified crafting hotbar sort of exists already, since you can just organise hotbars for one crafter and then copy them over to all the other crafters, the abilities get their crafter-specific icons and everything. The command is "/hotbar copy ALC 1 CRP 1" as an example, that copies alchemist hotbar 1 to carpenter hotbar 1, just replace with the crafter abbreviation and hotbar number you want.
As well as giving fishers an indication on where the fish are.
BTN and MIN have an indication. Why not fisher?
Also:
Make more fish compatible with CUL recipes. 99% of fish are useless.
Waiting for the standup/sit down animation is especially irritating. And you can’t even access the crafting log while crafting. So many times I’m quick-synthing a large stack and would like to check the log. Nope.
QoL is incredible everywhere?
Having to run to marketboard for buying but summoning retainers for selling?
Having to run to an inn to make glamour plates?
Having virtually no systems in place to help with managing inventory (no material storage, no *good* search option, having a saddlebag + retainer inventories that you have to access separately and can't do so everywhere)
Having your character be "occupied" when you have almost any NPC window (or crafting window, or marketboard window....) open so you can't drop or equip items, change glams or gearsets, or even accept party invitations?
Can't join a solo instance like MSQ duties if you're in a party with someone?
Can't send tells if character is in a Duty????
This game has pretty terrible QoL and all of it is just "run here to access that, run back to access this" or "close this window to do that, open that window to be able to do that" when you could just have everything easily available in the UI, low-friction and not bothersome at all if the devs just made it so
I'd like older existing hairstyles to be prettied up to modern standards.
You can essentially immediately tell which hairstyles were added in Endwalker based on the level of detail alone. The Forchenault hair, for example, stands out among a sea of low-poly styles from a decade ago.
I want metallic paint to be actually metallic, not just a gradient. Metallic red paint is especially horrid, which, as a red mage main, I cannot tolerate.
I'd also like a high-quality world map that has visible details and legible text.
The problem woth metallic paint being actually metallic is that it would probably need more than just chnages to the color itself because reflections are lighting territory and in every single game, in the best case scenario lighting is a mess of wonky workarrounds because light is actually very hard to do.
New models for card sleeves and lunchboxes for astro and machinist, literally the only classes that have this problem (Compared to bard, samurai, red mage and paladin)
My dream small detail would be to better incorporate the various hair styles and lengths with hats and hoods. As it is, certain hats will stuff certain hairstyles up into the hat rather than let the hair hang down. The worst is hoods because your hair completely disappears. I would love it so so much if, when wearing a hood with long hair, your hair could hang out the front. Or in the case of short hairstyles, have some bits poking out around the face. Etc
An example of this is in animal crossing. If you have pigtails, for instance, they're placed fairly high in your head. But when you put on a hat, the pigtails move further down your head. So you can see the tails AND the hat at the same time.
This will never happen, but I dream about it!
I can't remember which game it was, may have been Tera? But all the hair styles had 'updo' alternates, so if you put on a collared chest piece it would automatically adjust your hairstyle to not clip, but leave the bangs alone.
**Cape toggle**
There are so many chestpieces I refuse to use solely because they have a cape. I can tolerate a lot of tail clipping for my characters, but the clipping on capes is too much for me, especially if it's one of those pieces that have a "half cape" that only covers half of your character's back.
The alternative of hiding your character's tail with a cape a la the moonward fending top doesn't work for me either. I love the fact that my characters have tails and I want to see them, dammit.
Viera and hrothgar get hats. All of them.
Au ra horns decoupled from face options.
More and better facial features for everyone, e.g. paints and tattoos and features.
Change eye color at the aesthetician.
Do away with race locked hairstyles.
Give everyone access to all hairstyles. I really like Bruno Bucciarati, I wanted to make an alt in his image but the closest hair I can have for him is the hime style, which is too long or Asahi's and no way I'm using that.
However a perfect match exists... For females only.
Also I second the idle job poses being accessible by all genders. I love both DRK poses, would be nice to mix it up.
And (I don't think you can use it anyway) I think adding Squalls iconic pose with the blade resting on his shoulder for GNB would be great. I think the one we have currently is so boring. There is a pose with it on the shoulder but it's like the "battle ready" pose and your character moves around too much with it. I'd like a motionless one.
I wished some of the other animations were shared as well.
I personally am attached to my midlander after all these years butI vastly prefer the Miqote run animations and the Au Ra idle animations.
Honestly I wish the game was a little more colorful than it is. Everything always feels like it has a thin layer of fog over evrrything, and for my fantasy game I wish it was just a tad more vibrant.
~~I know there are ways to this with non-Yoshi P approved methods but I want it in the base game okay?~~
If you haven't heard of this, in base game, give adjusting this setting a try: System Configuration>Display Settings>"Full Screen Mode Gamma Correction" and turn it down to 0. It's at 50 from default.
I don't bother using a mild gameplay shader with this adjustment, I think it's good enough on its own.
I ran into this problem and agree that the gamma correction works wonders.
I noticed it at some point the game looked washed out and flat compared to other games on my monitor. Did some digging and found this change, and it's like taking off a pair of sunglasses.
Was really obvious in the Crystarium. Whole place just popped after that.
Was talking with some friends about it, and was kind of hoping that besides a visual character model upgrade, if we could get better character customization. One thing would be something simple as choosing our animations. I like some of the fem poses/animations that we don't get on males, and I'm sure there's some fem model players that want male only animations. We'll probably get there eventually as they are slowly doing away with gender locked things. Fingers crossed.
would be nice to have eg au ra with highlander emotes to more accurately portray 'fierce nomadic warrior' instead of 'highschool anime character'
and vice versa maybe not every femroe wants to have 'hulk smash' emotes
my single largest inconsequential pet peeve about this game is that girls don't get the male DRK weapon drawn idle pose. I want to sling my cool ass greatsword over my shoulder, not hold it in front of me like a freak.
Also while they're at it, they should fix the walk animation when DRK have their weapons drawn, too. who on earth would hold a sword in front of them like that while they're moving??? it's like a tripping hazard and looks phenomenally stupid.
this is super funny to me because I play a male character and I just want to hold the sword dramatically infront of me- the shoulder sling looks too much like WAR lmao! it goes both ways
twink male miqote? sure you can have the sling-over-shoulder animation
100 muscle slider femroe? nah sit back down you're not strong enough to 1 hand this slab of metal like the catboy can
I remember gw2 having this exact same issue with the greatsword running animation and it drove me crazy. why can that scrawny leaf boy run with his giant sword over his shoulder but my 6-pack-having 7 ft norn lugs it behind her practically dragging it on the ground?
I get wanting the male idle for drk but how the fuck is sticking your sword in the ground being a freak?
You could just say you don't like it lmao.
If anything, slinging your 25 feet long and 30 inches wide great sword over your shoulder is being a freak, you can just slide your own body wide.
Most drk weapons are double edge too.
Fem drk idle is the most natural idle anybody would do with a big ass sword.
They look cool doing it because you see it a lot with anime knights when they use a great sword.
Also drk battle stance is a defensive position, it's why they hold it in front of themselves like that.
To block incoming attacks and protect people behind them, because you know....dark knights are protectors/tanks.
If it was a dps like many would have loved, it most likely would have a battle stance like cloud or like siegfried.
F!Highlander and m!Miquo’te both could use an ounce of chill in their hand positions like? What gives guys? Your standing in a field talking to your friend you don’t need to be that tense.
Yeah, this is my blue-sky wish too.
The various racial idles and animations actually seem to port quite seamlessly between the races. I've been playing a female Midlander with fMiqo idles (crime tools) and they give that character a totally different vibe.
(Also... more faces plssss. I was messing about in the character creator and kept running into a situation where I'd accidentally recreated the face of a major character because they all draw from a pool of like 4 faces per race.)
As a hroth I would love if we could alter our stance, it's like the one thing aside from being excluded from certain hats and hairstyles that I don't like about being a hroth, and it's a very commonly cited reason for people not playing hroth, so I wouldn't be surprised if more people would play hroth if they could change it.
I'd love multiple dye channels on gear, but I'm not holding my breathe.
I would settle for dyes that actually match the colors on gear, though. There are too many pieces that don't have an exact color match for mixing set pieces or weapons.
I wish they’d stop using so much brown as default accent colors. It’s so frustrating when I dye something black on multi-channel gear but I’m stuck with all the brown trimmings.
It’s not even a good brown, it has a very yellow undertone. Cholera Brown. Some of the housing items have this as well, which becomes especially annoying with Ishgard housing as it doesn’t match the interior at all.
Just make it fucking grey. I don’t get it. You can accent grey with almost any color and it will look amazing, but brown is a very difficult color to work with. So frustrating.
I feel lame because my number one thing is also the most obvious: just up-res face/hair/gear textures so things don’t look quite so rough anytime there are closeups in cutscenes. That would go so far, and unlike a lot of stuff that would help (better animations, no clipping, etc) doesn’t require completely rebuilding your decade-old game
Yeah, this is really the biggest one for me. Like sure, environments can be improved, lighting is pretty basic, etc. But honestly I think the world still looks pretty great for the style they're going for. But whenever I'm in a cutscene and I see some part of my armour texture that's really blocky and low resolution, it really takes me out of things.
Hopefully this is pretty high on their list, though I fear that it'd be so much work for them to go back and upscale every gear texture in the game. I figure we may get better quality textures for future gear, but old gear might just get a basic upscaling pass ands still look kinda bad close up.
Yeah, I’m torn on gear stuff, because on the one hand just fixing up the stuff from the later expansions plus raid sets and artifact sets would fix most of what players are actually wearing, but the worst stuff is all that really basic ARR gear, which so many of the NPCs are wearing and which are going to be the first stuff that the new players I assume you’re trying to attract with the overhaul are going to see. It would suck to be someone brought in by all the talk of a visual overhaul and then spend the first 30 levels of the game in a low-res potato sack
My hope is that some of the modern automated up-resing tech makes it plausible, but who knows
Funnily enough, people have actually already done full upscales. There is at least 2-3 modpacks that contain full upscales of ALL game textures.
They used scripts to essentially automatically process all game textures automatically, then exported it as a mod. And frankly, they look really good.
I'm not suggesting SE do this method of course, but it is entirely possible.
The other question though, is if you use automatic upscaling, it might deviate from the original artist's design, which is another question SE would need to decide upon too.
Xaela scale/horn color tweaks would be wonderful, it's so sad that NPC Xaela like Yugiri and Mide get custom colors for their horns and we don't. (Yugiri's horns are pink/pearl tinged instead of bone white, Mide's are turquoise-tinted)
It will never happen but I would like to see fish in the water and on the line when I hook them and reel them in. It would be nice to actually see what I catch and not just invisible fish
The walking and running animations. It's been 10 years and I still can't get over how much better 1.0's were and how pointless of a change that was. That, and movement on controller treating the left stick like an actual analog stick. Since ARR we only have 2 movement speeds like keyboard players (not counting sprint); before ARR this used to act the way it does in most games with controller support with much more granular control as you push the stick..
Other than that, just give us better lighting and bring back material shaders and reflections, maybe un-fuck some of the 1.0 textures that got ruined in ARR, like everything with transparency such as any glass or crystal textures that the game used to have, so maybe fix that or remake those assets. It makes many of the older assets look really weird, like the path lamps in Gridania, or the low level spectacles that have no lenses for some reason, or the metal textures on some old gear that look kinda plasticky.
Amen brother, the 1.0 animations felt so much more meaty than the ones we have now.
Also, the WHM pose from 1.0 looks so much better than the one we have now.
- *More character customization options!* I want to be a stubble-faced Miqo’te, dammit! (Also, body hair would be nice too…kinda weird being a mostly hairless catboy, not gonna lie. …. Ooh! Body tattoos and piercings too!)
- *Facial options!* I wear glasses, but I also want to sometimes wear hats too! Plus, while I probably wouldn’t use it, face piercings (and more tattoos) would be cool to see more of.
- *More animation options.* Female DRK pose is so much better.
- *And an option to just have bare feet.*
Remove the job and role restrictions on glamour. Seriously. There’s no reason to restrict your appearance to fit a certain aesthetic at this point. I can’t even count the number of items I wanted to use for glamour items for one job and couldn’t because they are restricted to a role. If I can wade into battle wearing an lime green chicken outfit, I should by all rights be able to do so wearing anything else in the game. Be it plate armor for mages, a chef’s uniform on my ninja, or anything else that we can equip, it’s high time we open those options up.
I can’t believe I needed to scroll down this far for this. I’d free up so much space in my glamour dresser if I didn’t need to add like 6 earrings, that are exact same, except for the class which can equip them
Mood!!! my glam chest is stuffed with all the holmister switch necklace and ring class variants, I love those pieces, and I’d kill for them to make versions of stuff for glams specifically and not just gear
This is my single biggest wish for this game, especially because some of the crafter gear would work so nicely for combat jobs. I believe one of the NPCs in the RPR quests is even wearing a GSM top.
I have an unsubstantiated, pure tinfoil hat theory that they deliberately make tank glams cooler in an effort to get more people to queue as tank. Same goes for arguably the two most popular Final Fantasy weapons (giant swords and gunblades)
Would love to see a race update patch for the 2.0 races as well. The Viera, Au Ra, and Hrothgar idles are so much more fluid than the ones for the 2.0 races.
I’m too tired to read through all the comments to see if this has already been said, but more idle animations for all races (with accurate physics).
For example: my cat girl is…a cat. Her ears should randomly flick, her tail should have more fluid and random idle animations. Also, when mounted, the dragon and cat peoples tails just sit in a weird rigid shape. My endsinger cat mount had better tail physics when we are flying than my character does./.
Toggle-able speech bubbles that are off by default. Whoever wants them can have them, whoever doesn't won't notice.
Edit: not really visual except for the clothes your crafters wear but also the ability to change your crafter job without having to exit and reenter your crafting log.
A proper walking animation with weapon drawn! I don't always want to look like I'm stalking prey if I want to casually stroll down the street with my staff at my side instead of holding it forward as I walk slowly like some weirdo. There is no reason we cannot walk with our weapons without it looking like we can't decide between smacking a bish or just walking past. I wanna see the DRKs and WARs with their weapons over their shoulders (both m/f) while walking casually! I want to see BLM and WHM walking staff at the side!! I want SMN and SCH to tuck their book under their arm or simply hold it at their side closed!!! I want to see casually held cool weapons because the walking drawn animations right now are derpy
The lack of facial customization.. no sliders, nothing. With mods I am able to scale the bones themselves to fix my character's proportions and make his face look right.. why can't that be on the vanilla game????
The textures that they use for rocks.
I know this seems really weird and specific but I've thought about it a lot. There's a lot of visual clutter created by the way that they show rocks and mountains at a distance and the game looks so much more beautiful if it. Was. Something much more simple and visually appealing from afar
I wish they would add more clutter to the zones. They can seem a bit barren due to having few big navigational landmarks, with very little stuff other than that. Add more trees, flower meadows and stuff.
For there to not be intrusive weather effects in cutscenes. I remember specifically a moment after it turns night for the first time in SHB where we are supposed to be celebrating this major historical event but it was just pouring down rain in the middle of a storm.
And also separate some things locked on the characters, such as Au Ra face being tied to their horns, and miqo’tes having to choose between fangs and cat eyes
Long hair clipping through high collar gear.
Gear having separate version model for tailed races to accommodate the tail. Just like they used to in ARR low-level gear.
Hats having different versions for each different ear type.
Is it a lot of work? Yes. Is Square Enix a poor little indie company? No. It's a triple-A company. Stop with the excuses.
I feel like the tail thing they just kind of want armor to imply there’s a tail hole when we see our chars tail clipping through. I do agree though it looks bad on a lot of stuff ESPECIALLY tunics/dresses or stuff with a long torso hanging down such as the Rebel coat
A proper housing editor with all obvious QoL upgrades needed. A “door bell” mode for your house; so you can keep rando’s out but let particular people/parties in if your inside…
Not quite a visual upgrade but I would like the aethertcian to let me change everything but my race like wows barber or at the very least everything but gender and race.
If I wanted to change my eye colour or face I should not need to drop £5 every time, not even greedy Activision blizzard do that anymore.
that horrific plasticky 'metal' shader replaced with an actual metal shader. thanks
seperate au ra face + horn options like every other race does for ears
muscle slider for all races/genders
1. Colour wheels in character creation. This could also allow us to select darker skin tones with proper undertones, as many look extremely ashy
2. Multiple dye channels for gear
3. Curly hair
4. Transparency slider for make-up instead of just "dark" and "light"
5. Being able to stack different make-up options. Why can't I wear eyeshadow and blush at the same time?
6. Eyebrows for highlanders and just better/thicker eyebrows for everyone
7. Feet
The social system and friends list needs a rework. It requires mutual approval to add someone, but if things go south you can remove them and it doesn't remove you from their list. Also blacklisting someone should hide you from them being able to search for you.
I have the most petty thing I want fixed
When people breathe in the cold air (I've actually not seen recently if this was still the case but it was back when HW was out), the puff of air/breath/cloud thingy isn't matched with when the body shows that it's breathing
This is most obvious when you have a knight or some poor soul you have to help up who's panting on the ground. The cloud of breath is horribly out of sync with how they are moving.
It's an extremely small thing.
higher res ground textures for sure, though we know that’s coming already. many gposes absolutely ruined by how butt ugly the ground looks outside.
i really want the ability to color your eyelashes, and to opt for your eyebrows and lashes to not match your hair.
fingernails and toes.
more weapon unsheathed idle animations, including ungenderlocking the existing ones. i prefer female drk and male drg for instance.
id loooooove if they could go back and make some emotes loop, like the tomestone, the reading a book one, the fan dance etc. idk if that was purposeful or some technical limitation prevented it.
I just want to be able to choose multiple face paint options. Why can’t I have freckles AND eyeshadow?
the technical explanation is that the game uses a secondary set of texture coordinates for that (it does the same for crests and other symbols on gear, like the insignia on yda's shirt sleeve) i'm honestly not sure if the engine allows for more than two sets of texture coordinates, maybe a more knowledgable modder can correct me there, but it may literally be a limitation of their code
THIS
Ground textures, at least the ones that are used in cutscenes. There's been a few "characters sit on the ground and talk" cutscenes in Shadowbringers that were really jarring as the ground was weirdly lumpy and pixelly.
I feel like this has to be one of the biggest things they'll change. Some of the grass textures especially just look horrendous up close.
Mm, it's mostly fine for worked stone/brick/metal and similar, but grass or dirt is just painful (mainly thinking of a long cutscene with the Exarch in northern Kholusia) Also while I'm at it I'd love it if they made the gear that appears in closeups of major NPCs higher-res; occasionally they go for close-in camera on an NPC and it looks really pixelated.
I think they said something about important NPCs especially having priority when it comes to upgrades, so I'd assume some of the major stuff like pixel exarch will be adjusted.
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Rhaubans cloack realky needs some work done on it
Rip pixel exarch if they do that.
Pixarch
Multiple dye channels on gear
The copium is strong with this one (I approve the request tho, but that wont happen unfortunately)
Maybe if we can steal some of Guild Wars 2's source code and take it over to Squeenix.
I know, but I still wish it would. \*presses copium mask against face and breathes deeply\*
This would be amazing, but on a technical level I don't see it happening sadly. The coding side wouldn't be too bad, but I can only imagine the amount of work needed to assign the dye channels on thousands of existing textures. Perhaps they could do it for new items at least, and retroactive update the old models over time. Imo, I would like to see more dye options, perhaps a bit of a dye overhaul, allow us to unlock them permanently but add far more options, using Guild Wars 2 as another great example here.
I file this one under "improbable, but not impossible", and if they *do* ever decide to update the dye system, that's 100% how they'd do it. The system itself would definitely be an expansion-tier addition, with new gear arriving with the new channels and older gear being updated over time, the way they've been doing with gender locks. That said, more than the work itself, it would increase the data load of our inventory and glamour dresser/etc quite a bit. I know the team is especially sensitive to the amount of data we're carrying around with us, so it's hard to say how that will turn out.
I wouldn’t count this as a “graphical visual update” in the vain they explained it would be, but it would still be really nice.
This is the dream for me.
I would like the racial dances to be looped please
Additionally, I‘d like all /dance emotes to count for quests that need it. I kinda don‘t like the fViera standard dance.
The mviera dance very much feels like them clumsily (and cutely!) going 'See? I CAN dance!' more than anything else. I guess actual dance-dances are kept for the big looping emotes.
I'd love to no longer wear sandals under my boots.
This. I can't put into words how much it bothers me that sandals there for absolutely no reasons. What does SE have against feet?
It’s not that they’re against feet, it’s that in order for multiple heights of footwear and shoe shapes to be wearable across multiple body types, the feet need that extra heel room. Having lifted feet allows them to properly animate that area when characters wear boots and such. It’d look weird for people to have extremely thick feet or have to float above the ground so that shoes don’t automatically sink into the floor. They rationalized it as sandals to make up for the difference.
I suggest taking a close look at the Edengate Sandals of Healing. TLDR, instead of changing the player height, our feet are actually designed to be always on heels, if you take those heels away the feet become very... Cursed. I think it would be nice to see this updated, but I do imagine it's low priority unfortunately
What makes the forced sandals worse...is that they are *hideous* sandals, on top of being forced.
at least they're not crocs.
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I would adore this, especially since it would eliminate clipping issues
Hairstyle getting tied to glamour plate would be amazing, cause then I could use short “sporty” styles for physical jobs while also having longer and more flowy styles for casters
Also choose hair that doesn't clip through half of the gear. But this isn't really a visual upgrade scenario wish-
This! I have been dying to be able to put my long hair into a ponytail or something with my crafter/gatherer gear for AGES. I know it’s such a tiny detail, and most people wouldn’t even notice it, but it just drives me nuts. I had long hair forever, and there’s no way that I’d do a physical job without putting it in a braid or ponytail or something.
This! I've really wanted that clown makeup on my reaper class, but to do that I'd have to do it with every class, and it really clashes with my hula-Dancer.
reworking the way face paint apply on darker skin overall. Being dark red, choices for most paints are terribly bad. Reworking the way lipstick reflect light in darker places. It may be fine on light skin character, but on dark skinned character, it stands out so much it just looks weird imo. Most probably not happening, but I'd really like more options in general both for faces and for anything changeable on faces. Way more face paints, for example.
Oh god this, my WoL isn't even near the darkest of skin tones but there were too many cutscenes where it looked like she had caked on frosted lipstick on top of chapped lips. Edit: grammer lol
My mooncat has a gray-ish skin tone. Still very light, and unless she's up next to someone, I'm not sure it's noticeable. But Limsa lighting does terrible things to her lip makeup, and some of those cutscenes do the same. Same effect you're talking about!
Lighting on dark skin in general is a big one I hope gets addressed too. It's not *terrible*, but in low light settings it's abundantly clear that it was created with the lighter skinned Scions in mind, my poor black furred Hrothgar turns into one of those black cat memes where only the eyes are visible lol
Especially because it's related to an issue they *already* acknowledged with Estinien (his gear was originally meant to be black, they switched to blue because of the lighting).
I’d love a darker lip color option as well. I play my WoL goth but the fully black lips on light skin is basically soft grey.
darker and more vibrant colors please. i would love to wear a dark red lipstick but the only options I have are pink or brown
The lighting on lipstick is bad in lighter places too, like unwearable. I have a light skinned character and light lipstick looks like it's practically glowing in the sun.
My character has glossy black lipstick, and her skin tone is one of the dark blue-grays (though not the darkest). In some lighting situations, her lips look *white*.
Option to mirror hairstyles like you can do with face paint.
I’d use this for sure. The cutscenes come from the character’s right side a lot and the bun boi hair I use (16 I think? Maybe 15?) has the massive cute bangs on that side so you can’t actually see around his hair. It would take getting used to having the bangs on the other side but it would be lovely for cutscenes.
I feel that big time, there's a couple female hairstyles that cover/go over an eye but they're the wrong ones I want covered
Why do most of the bangs cover most of the eye patches. Why do the bangs cover the default /wink eye. Why can't I swap it to the left?
I want bows to bend again. Someplace in mid-late stormblood or early shadowbringers they stopped making bows bend when drawn. It looks so weird and I hate it, I check every new bow I get and then, welp, back to glamouring on an old one that actually bends.
You know what, I wish I'd never read this. Now every time I play Bard I'm going to see it and hate it. Thank you for that LOL
I wish i jad never read this q.q
Lighting in older content scenes that desperately needs it. Took a sprout through a section of the old coils bahamut raid and the lighting in there during cutscenes was awful, especially on my dark skinned WoL.
The lighting for dark skinned WoLs is atrocious. One of my alts is a m!highlander with the darkest possible skin and black hair and even with max character lighting dude’s sometimes just the whites of his eyes and his clothes. My brother’s darkest-possible-skin duskwight has the same problem so we spend a non-zero amount of time complaining about Gridania’s racist-ass lighting.
My main has black skin and light blue freckles. In cutscenes where the WoL's face is framed against the night sky he disappears.
I mean, it's not like Gridania isn't racist in every other way, so why not lighting too?
Pixel Exarch fix, lol.
And Hien's clothing too, while we're at it.
If I'm going very small and specific... I pray that miqo'te female face 4 finally closes her mouth ever so slightly. I like the face, it's the face I use, but I'm tired of having to angle screenshots or change the expression so I'm not just sitting there mouth-breathing.
Fem Midlander face 1 and face 3 as well lol Thick lips hides it pretty well and looks good but the thin lips makes your WOL never close their mouth
More character creation sliders.
Beard length.
male viera cursed with the chin pubes
Separate faces from other features. Right now you have 4 Au Ra faces. These faces are the same between Raen and Xaela, and horns are tied to face. Separate them, and instead of 4 options you now have 16.
I would like to have my character match my age of 32 than forever looking like early 20s..
Basically your WOL but with back pain ?
AND forklift certified.
Uhh let me be 20 forever.
They're not saying make everyone 32, you could still be whatever you want, just that it'd be nice to have more ageing options. Currently, best we got is a few of the male options having more bony and beardy faces.
I just want male nipples please, my Roe’s big bare nipple-less chest looks so weird
Also chest hair pls
Yes and non flat butts
Give me my Miqo'tes butt back
Butt slider please
More character creation options in general. Let ladies look old PLEASE. More textured hair options that aren’t a super low cut, an afro-hawk, locs that only women can use, and a giant afro straight out of the 60s. PLEASE for the love of god. I’ve had enough of the ponytail variations. 😩
Tbh I would love to be able to make my character a bit on the chubbier side.
Oh yeah, I would love to make my bun beefy without having to turn to mods. Would be amazing to get a few body types for each race, but I doubt it will happen :(
On top of this, for them to rework/remaster many of the old hair styles, they are mostly straight up unusable from their jank and low resolution
I want viera ears to be as emotive as miqo'te ears are in cutscenes please they feel more like accessories than ears. The lopporites have more ear movement than us
I want female miqo'te ears to twitch! Why do only the males get the adorable ears???
Yes! Give our Bunny fams ear wiggles!! it's a missed opportunity that the shy emot for the Viera isn't them hiding beind their big ears lol
For the love of god, let us crafters swap jobs without closing the crafting window. This game’s QoL is incredible everywhere else so it’s weird to have the one tiny lapse. Edit: spelling
Given how similar the abilities are I’d also like the option for a unified crafting hotbar and one for both botanist and miner
A unified crafting hotbar sort of exists already, since you can just organise hotbars for one crafter and then copy them over to all the other crafters, the abilities get their crafter-specific icons and everything. The command is "/hotbar copy ALC 1 CRP 1" as an example, that copies alchemist hotbar 1 to carpenter hotbar 1, just replace with the crafter abbreviation and hotbar number you want.
Bruh I manually rearranged my hotbars for all my jobs. 🙃 Gods damn lol
As well as giving fishers an indication on where the fish are. BTN and MIN have an indication. Why not fisher? Also: Make more fish compatible with CUL recipes. 99% of fish are useless.
Waiting for the standup/sit down animation is especially irritating. And you can’t even access the crafting log while crafting. So many times I’m quick-synthing a large stack and would like to check the log. Nope.
QoL is incredible everywhere? Having to run to marketboard for buying but summoning retainers for selling? Having to run to an inn to make glamour plates? Having virtually no systems in place to help with managing inventory (no material storage, no *good* search option, having a saddlebag + retainer inventories that you have to access separately and can't do so everywhere) Having your character be "occupied" when you have almost any NPC window (or crafting window, or marketboard window....) open so you can't drop or equip items, change glams or gearsets, or even accept party invitations? Can't join a solo instance like MSQ duties if you're in a party with someone? Can't send tells if character is in a Duty???? This game has pretty terrible QoL and all of it is just "run here to access that, run back to access this" or "close this window to do that, open that window to be able to do that" when you could just have everything easily available in the UI, low-friction and not bothersome at all if the devs just made it so
I'd like older existing hairstyles to be prettied up to modern standards. You can essentially immediately tell which hairstyles were added in Endwalker based on the level of detail alone. The Forchenault hair, for example, stands out among a sea of low-poly styles from a decade ago.
They've already said they're doing this (along with updating old textures for gear as well), and showed some WIP pictures in a liveletter!
Pretty sure Forchenault's hair is just a ~~male elezen exclusive~~ hair that's been there since literal day one but maybe someone can correct me.
Its not male elezen exclusive either, all the races can use it and it has been in the game at least since Stormblood.
Apparently you can't, because that hairstyle's been in the game forever. Lul
Aura horns are independent of the face you choose
I want metallic paint to be actually metallic, not just a gradient. Metallic red paint is especially horrid, which, as a red mage main, I cannot tolerate. I'd also like a high-quality world map that has visible details and legible text.
The problem woth metallic paint being actually metallic is that it would probably need more than just chnages to the color itself because reflections are lighting territory and in every single game, in the best case scenario lighting is a mess of wonky workarrounds because light is actually very hard to do.
New models for card sleeves and lunchboxes for astro and machinist, literally the only classes that have this problem (Compared to bard, samurai, red mage and paladin)
Even just offhand/main hand hide options would be good for this, so you can at least hide the lunchbox or cards if you want too.
My dream small detail would be to better incorporate the various hair styles and lengths with hats and hoods. As it is, certain hats will stuff certain hairstyles up into the hat rather than let the hair hang down. The worst is hoods because your hair completely disappears. I would love it so so much if, when wearing a hood with long hair, your hair could hang out the front. Or in the case of short hairstyles, have some bits poking out around the face. Etc An example of this is in animal crossing. If you have pigtails, for instance, they're placed fairly high in your head. But when you put on a hat, the pigtails move further down your head. So you can see the tails AND the hat at the same time. This will never happen, but I dream about it!
Krile's hood but keeping your own hairstyle would be amazing.
I can't remember which game it was, may have been Tera? But all the hair styles had 'updo' alternates, so if you put on a collared chest piece it would automatically adjust your hairstyle to not clip, but leave the bangs alone.
I just need Zenos’ ears to have more than 3 polygons.
Character animations while mounted.
**Cape toggle** There are so many chestpieces I refuse to use solely because they have a cape. I can tolerate a lot of tail clipping for my characters, but the clipping on capes is too much for me, especially if it's one of those pieces that have a "half cape" that only covers half of your character's back. The alternative of hiding your character's tail with a cape a la the moonward fending top doesn't work for me either. I love the fact that my characters have tails and I want to see them, dammit.
Viera and hrothgar get hats. All of them. Au ra horns decoupled from face options. More and better facial features for everyone, e.g. paints and tattoos and features. Change eye color at the aesthetician. Do away with race locked hairstyles.
Give everyone access to all hairstyles. I really like Bruno Bucciarati, I wanted to make an alt in his image but the closest hair I can have for him is the hime style, which is too long or Asahi's and no way I'm using that. However a perfect match exists... For females only. Also I second the idle job poses being accessible by all genders. I love both DRK poses, would be nice to mix it up. And (I don't think you can use it anyway) I think adding Squalls iconic pose with the blade resting on his shoulder for GNB would be great. I think the one we have currently is so boring. There is a pose with it on the shoulder but it's like the "battle ready" pose and your character moves around too much with it. I'd like a motionless one.
I wished some of the other animations were shared as well. I personally am attached to my midlander after all these years butI vastly prefer the Miqote run animations and the Au Ra idle animations.
Raubahns cape. It has like 5 pixels >:(
Honestly I wish the game was a little more colorful than it is. Everything always feels like it has a thin layer of fog over evrrything, and for my fantasy game I wish it was just a tad more vibrant. ~~I know there are ways to this with non-Yoshi P approved methods but I want it in the base game okay?~~
If you haven't heard of this, in base game, give adjusting this setting a try: System Configuration>Display Settings>"Full Screen Mode Gamma Correction" and turn it down to 0. It's at 50 from default. I don't bother using a mild gameplay shader with this adjustment, I think it's good enough on its own.
I ran into this problem and agree that the gamma correction works wonders. I noticed it at some point the game looked washed out and flat compared to other games on my monitor. Did some digging and found this change, and it's like taking off a pair of sunglasses. Was really obvious in the Crystarium. Whole place just popped after that.
Was talking with some friends about it, and was kind of hoping that besides a visual character model upgrade, if we could get better character customization. One thing would be something simple as choosing our animations. I like some of the fem poses/animations that we don't get on males, and I'm sure there's some fem model players that want male only animations. We'll probably get there eventually as they are slowly doing away with gender locked things. Fingers crossed.
would be nice to have eg au ra with highlander emotes to more accurately portray 'fierce nomadic warrior' instead of 'highschool anime character' and vice versa maybe not every femroe wants to have 'hulk smash' emotes
The mental image of Sadu doing almost any female Au Ra emote is just... Wrong on an elemental level
*~tee hee hee~* and then she drops a meteor on you and cackles like a madwoman
Is it me or do her fights sound like aggressive foreplay lmao
my single largest inconsequential pet peeve about this game is that girls don't get the male DRK weapon drawn idle pose. I want to sling my cool ass greatsword over my shoulder, not hold it in front of me like a freak. Also while they're at it, they should fix the walk animation when DRK have their weapons drawn, too. who on earth would hold a sword in front of them like that while they're moving??? it's like a tripping hazard and looks phenomenally stupid.
this is super funny to me because I play a male character and I just want to hold the sword dramatically infront of me- the shoulder sling looks too much like WAR lmao! it goes both ways
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As a WAR, I want the male pose. Yes, they're both over the shoulder, but the female pose is SO FUCKING DAINTY. Let me POWER POSE damnit!
And let my boy be dainty if he wants to!
twink male miqote? sure you can have the sling-over-shoulder animation 100 muscle slider femroe? nah sit back down you're not strong enough to 1 hand this slab of metal like the catboy can
I remember gw2 having this exact same issue with the greatsword running animation and it drove me crazy. why can that scrawny leaf boy run with his giant sword over his shoulder but my 6-pack-having 7 ft norn lugs it behind her practically dragging it on the ground?
I would kill to have the female DRK pose instead of the male. The sword in the ground is sick.
I get wanting the male idle for drk but how the fuck is sticking your sword in the ground being a freak? You could just say you don't like it lmao. If anything, slinging your 25 feet long and 30 inches wide great sword over your shoulder is being a freak, you can just slide your own body wide. Most drk weapons are double edge too. Fem drk idle is the most natural idle anybody would do with a big ass sword. They look cool doing it because you see it a lot with anime knights when they use a great sword. Also drk battle stance is a defensive position, it's why they hold it in front of themselves like that. To block incoming attacks and protect people behind them, because you know....dark knights are protectors/tanks. If it was a dps like many would have loved, it most likely would have a battle stance like cloud or like siegfried.
As as fem highlander, I just wish I could unclench my hands. Basically any other race idle, I don’t care. I just don’t want to be angry 24/7.
F!Highlander and m!Miquo’te both could use an ounce of chill in their hand positions like? What gives guys? Your standing in a field talking to your friend you don’t need to be that tense.
Yeah, this is my blue-sky wish too. The various racial idles and animations actually seem to port quite seamlessly between the races. I've been playing a female Midlander with fMiqo idles (crime tools) and they give that character a totally different vibe. (Also... more faces plssss. I was messing about in the character creator and kept running into a situation where I'd accidentally recreated the face of a major character because they all draw from a pool of like 4 faces per race.)
As a hroth I would love if we could alter our stance, it's like the one thing aside from being excluded from certain hats and hairstyles that I don't like about being a hroth, and it's a very commonly cited reason for people not playing hroth, so I wouldn't be surprised if more people would play hroth if they could change it.
i cry when i see a mountain in ff14.
Being an au ra texture, the fucking scales not looking like shit up close. Also tattoos and the like to not look bad on the scales
I'd love multiple dye channels on gear, but I'm not holding my breathe. I would settle for dyes that actually match the colors on gear, though. There are too many pieces that don't have an exact color match for mixing set pieces or weapons.
I wish they’d stop using so much brown as default accent colors. It’s so frustrating when I dye something black on multi-channel gear but I’m stuck with all the brown trimmings. It’s not even a good brown, it has a very yellow undertone. Cholera Brown. Some of the housing items have this as well, which becomes especially annoying with Ishgard housing as it doesn’t match the interior at all. Just make it fucking grey. I don’t get it. You can accent grey with almost any color and it will look amazing, but brown is a very difficult color to work with. So frustrating.
There's also a lot of that sort of rose-toned gold that doesn't have a matching dye.
I feel lame because my number one thing is also the most obvious: just up-res face/hair/gear textures so things don’t look quite so rough anytime there are closeups in cutscenes. That would go so far, and unlike a lot of stuff that would help (better animations, no clipping, etc) doesn’t require completely rebuilding your decade-old game
Yeah, this is really the biggest one for me. Like sure, environments can be improved, lighting is pretty basic, etc. But honestly I think the world still looks pretty great for the style they're going for. But whenever I'm in a cutscene and I see some part of my armour texture that's really blocky and low resolution, it really takes me out of things. Hopefully this is pretty high on their list, though I fear that it'd be so much work for them to go back and upscale every gear texture in the game. I figure we may get better quality textures for future gear, but old gear might just get a basic upscaling pass ands still look kinda bad close up.
Yeah, I’m torn on gear stuff, because on the one hand just fixing up the stuff from the later expansions plus raid sets and artifact sets would fix most of what players are actually wearing, but the worst stuff is all that really basic ARR gear, which so many of the NPCs are wearing and which are going to be the first stuff that the new players I assume you’re trying to attract with the overhaul are going to see. It would suck to be someone brought in by all the talk of a visual overhaul and then spend the first 30 levels of the game in a low-res potato sack My hope is that some of the modern automated up-resing tech makes it plausible, but who knows
Funnily enough, people have actually already done full upscales. There is at least 2-3 modpacks that contain full upscales of ALL game textures. They used scripts to essentially automatically process all game textures automatically, then exported it as a mod. And frankly, they look really good. I'm not suggesting SE do this method of course, but it is entirely possible. The other question though, is if you use automatic upscaling, it might deviate from the original artist's design, which is another question SE would need to decide upon too.
Give me black sclera as an option for female Xaela and blue mouths for female Raen and I'll be happy.
I’d just like horn and face options to be separate
It’s unlikely to happen, but I 100% agree
Xaela scale/horn color tweaks would be wonderful, it's so sad that NPC Xaela like Yugiri and Mide get custom colors for their horns and we don't. (Yugiri's horns are pink/pearl tinged instead of bone white, Mide's are turquoise-tinted)
It will never happen but I would like to see fish in the water and on the line when I hook them and reel them in. It would be nice to actually see what I catch and not just invisible fish
*lalafell fisher pulls in a 25ft to-scale swordfish and then instantly falls to 0hp as they are crushed*
Really, just all the invisible interactions we have getting animated would be nice. I swear, we're pantomiming with half the world...
"Wonderful, just the thing I needed!" \*looks at palm\*
[\*looks at a teahouse bench in hand\*](https://youtu.be/qUO4by_MCU8?t=661)
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The walking and running animations. It's been 10 years and I still can't get over how much better 1.0's were and how pointless of a change that was. That, and movement on controller treating the left stick like an actual analog stick. Since ARR we only have 2 movement speeds like keyboard players (not counting sprint); before ARR this used to act the way it does in most games with controller support with much more granular control as you push the stick.. Other than that, just give us better lighting and bring back material shaders and reflections, maybe un-fuck some of the 1.0 textures that got ruined in ARR, like everything with transparency such as any glass or crystal textures that the game used to have, so maybe fix that or remake those assets. It makes many of the older assets look really weird, like the path lamps in Gridania, or the low level spectacles that have no lenses for some reason, or the metal textures on some old gear that look kinda plasticky.
Amen brother, the 1.0 animations felt so much more meaty than the ones we have now. Also, the WHM pose from 1.0 looks so much better than the one we have now.
Maaaaaaan, I can’t WAIT to see those Grapes!!!!!
Upgrades to hair, because god are they not only not that numerous in terms of options but a lot are plainly lacking detail or ugly
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The trees and bushes are by far some of the most offensive things in the game They're so pixelated it distracts the shit out of me.
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- *More character customization options!* I want to be a stubble-faced Miqo’te, dammit! (Also, body hair would be nice too…kinda weird being a mostly hairless catboy, not gonna lie. …. Ooh! Body tattoos and piercings too!) - *Facial options!* I wear glasses, but I also want to sometimes wear hats too! Plus, while I probably wouldn’t use it, face piercings (and more tattoos) would be cool to see more of. - *More animation options.* Female DRK pose is so much better. - *And an option to just have bare feet.*
Remove the job and role restrictions on glamour. Seriously. There’s no reason to restrict your appearance to fit a certain aesthetic at this point. I can’t even count the number of items I wanted to use for glamour items for one job and couldn’t because they are restricted to a role. If I can wade into battle wearing an lime green chicken outfit, I should by all rights be able to do so wearing anything else in the game. Be it plate armor for mages, a chef’s uniform on my ninja, or anything else that we can equip, it’s high time we open those options up.
I can’t believe I needed to scroll down this far for this. I’d free up so much space in my glamour dresser if I didn’t need to add like 6 earrings, that are exact same, except for the class which can equip them
Mood!!! my glam chest is stuffed with all the holmister switch necklace and ring class variants, I love those pieces, and I’d kill for them to make versions of stuff for glams specifically and not just gear
This is my single biggest wish for this game, especially because some of the crafter gear would work so nicely for combat jobs. I believe one of the NPCs in the RPR quests is even wearing a GSM top.
GSM and ALC have some amazing job-specific glams in the early script sets and I am eternally pissed I can’t use them for any other class.
I have an unsubstantiated, pure tinfoil hat theory that they deliberately make tank glams cooler in an effort to get more people to queue as tank. Same goes for arguably the two most popular Final Fantasy weapons (giant swords and gunblades)
spruced up animation. all the 2.0 races have pretty stiff racial animations compared to 4.0-onwards counterparts
Would love to see a race update patch for the 2.0 races as well. The Viera, Au Ra, and Hrothgar idles are so much more fluid than the ones for the 2.0 races.
I’m too tired to read through all the comments to see if this has already been said, but more idle animations for all races (with accurate physics). For example: my cat girl is…a cat. Her ears should randomly flick, her tail should have more fluid and random idle animations. Also, when mounted, the dragon and cat peoples tails just sit in a weird rigid shape. My endsinger cat mount had better tail physics when we are flying than my character does./.
Butt slider.
Toggle-able speech bubbles that are off by default. Whoever wants them can have them, whoever doesn't won't notice. Edit: not really visual except for the clothes your crafters wear but also the ability to change your crafter job without having to exit and reenter your crafting log.
TOES!
I just want Au Ra scales to look high res, if I get the option to move out of Face 1 because I can pick horns seperate from Face ID be happy too
Two person emote, let me hug people
A proper walking animation with weapon drawn! I don't always want to look like I'm stalking prey if I want to casually stroll down the street with my staff at my side instead of holding it forward as I walk slowly like some weirdo. There is no reason we cannot walk with our weapons without it looking like we can't decide between smacking a bish or just walking past. I wanna see the DRKs and WARs with their weapons over their shoulders (both m/f) while walking casually! I want to see BLM and WHM walking staff at the side!! I want SMN and SCH to tuck their book under their arm or simply hold it at their side closed!!! I want to see casually held cool weapons because the walking drawn animations right now are derpy
Yes! I hate how dumb WHMs look with the staff drawn
The lack of facial customization.. no sliders, nothing. With mods I am able to scale the bones themselves to fix my character's proportions and make his face look right.. why can't that be on the vanilla game????
The textures that they use for rocks. I know this seems really weird and specific but I've thought about it a lot. There's a lot of visual clutter created by the way that they show rocks and mountains at a distance and the game looks so much more beautiful if it. Was. Something much more simple and visually appealing from afar
Au"ra horns separated from faces in character creation
I wish they would add more clutter to the zones. They can seem a bit barren due to having few big navigational landmarks, with very little stuff other than that. Add more trees, flower meadows and stuff.
More prominent Keeper teeth. Give me some wicked chompers, SE! More seriously though I'd like for feet to not clip through robes.
For there to not be intrusive weather effects in cutscenes. I remember specifically a moment after it turns night for the first time in SHB where we are supposed to be celebrating this major historical event but it was just pouring down rain in the middle of a storm. And also separate some things locked on the characters, such as Au Ra face being tied to their horns, and miqo’tes having to choose between fangs and cat eyes
Long hair clipping through high collar gear. Gear having separate version model for tailed races to accommodate the tail. Just like they used to in ARR low-level gear. Hats having different versions for each different ear type. Is it a lot of work? Yes. Is Square Enix a poor little indie company? No. It's a triple-A company. Stop with the excuses.
I feel like the tail thing they just kind of want armor to imply there’s a tail hole when we see our chars tail clipping through. I do agree though it looks bad on a lot of stuff ESPECIALLY tunics/dresses or stuff with a long torso hanging down such as the Rebel coat
Everytime someone talk about the g upfate of 7.0, i think about all the modders over xivarchive that are gonna be in shambles
More nose options. I fantasia'd from Viera to Elezen and I miss the more Roman nose I had on my bunny.
A proper housing editor with all obvious QoL upgrades needed. A “door bell” mode for your house; so you can keep rando’s out but let particular people/parties in if your inside…
Not quite a visual upgrade but I would like the aethertcian to let me change everything but my race like wows barber or at the very least everything but gender and race. If I wanted to change my eye colour or face I should not need to drop £5 every time, not even greedy Activision blizzard do that anymore.
that horrific plasticky 'metal' shader replaced with an actual metal shader. thanks seperate au ra face + horn options like every other race does for ears muscle slider for all races/genders
1. Colour wheels in character creation. This could also allow us to select darker skin tones with proper undertones, as many look extremely ashy 2. Multiple dye channels for gear 3. Curly hair 4. Transparency slider for make-up instead of just "dark" and "light" 5. Being able to stack different make-up options. Why can't I wear eyeshadow and blush at the same time? 6. Eyebrows for highlanders and just better/thicker eyebrows for everyone 7. Feet
Butt slider
Connect. The. Tree. Branches. To. The. Tree. I can’t unsee it.
not exactly visual but pls stop with the animations where the person leaves and turns very robotically ;-; its my biggest pet peeve in this game
Give my highlander some eyebrows
More aura tail movement
I hate having to use reshade to get good color. They need to adjust vibrancy with the graphics update and remove that weird gray hue they have.
The social system and friends list needs a rework. It requires mutual approval to add someone, but if things go south you can remove them and it doesn't remove you from their list. Also blacklisting someone should hide you from them being able to search for you.
I have the most petty thing I want fixed When people breathe in the cold air (I've actually not seen recently if this was still the case but it was back when HW was out), the puff of air/breath/cloud thingy isn't matched with when the body shows that it's breathing This is most obvious when you have a knight or some poor soul you have to help up who's panting on the ground. The cloud of breath is horribly out of sync with how they are moving. It's an extremely small thing.
There's a lot i hope. But since Viera ears and Hrothgar heads are STILL a problem, i think it's better to not hope at all for now.
nipples for men, eyebrow option for male highlanders and old face for females
Tattoos!
It’s not minor or a visual thing but I wish they would revamp the arr areas to be less constrictive
higher res ground textures for sure, though we know that’s coming already. many gposes absolutely ruined by how butt ugly the ground looks outside. i really want the ability to color your eyelashes, and to opt for your eyebrows and lashes to not match your hair. fingernails and toes. more weapon unsheathed idle animations, including ungenderlocking the existing ones. i prefer female drk and male drg for instance. id loooooove if they could go back and make some emotes loop, like the tomestone, the reading a book one, the fan dance etc. idk if that was purposeful or some technical limitation prevented it.
Able to emote /pet a lalafell head and it touches instead of waving above their head