Open Beta Screenshots

[Kuya]

jesus christ

[solracht]

This didn't end well:

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http://i53.tinypic.com/2q0ra6e.jpg

[Kuya]

lol

[TStupified]

Here's another boring Ishgard shot, whoopie fookin' doo:

http://i6.aijaa.com/b/00950/6661002.png

It's still giving me the bad vibes tho. Somethin's wrong with that city I tells you.

Also, ventured rather deep to the woods and found some various and rather weird shit from there:

http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00092/6661031.png
http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00800/6661028.jpg
http://i6.aijaa.com/b/00609/6661029.png
http://i5.aijaa.com/b/00512/6661030.png

[Kaia]

Found a big tree D:

Kinda looks a lot like the upper floor of Boyahda Tree, minus the crabs and flies

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...g?t=1283656437

Also, obligatory landscape@sunset shot:

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...g?t=1283656329

This game is so beautiful, clunky UI be damned.

[Snowknight26]

Stumbled upon South Forest. Looks beautiful.

http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-00-22-26.png

Then stumbled upon this thing..
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-06-51-51.png
..and died after being attacked for 5k.
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-07-19-22.png

[Snowknight26]

This game is huge.

http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-37-05-25.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-38-32-25.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-40-31-96.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-43-03-30.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...3-46-11-76.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...0-00-14-01.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...0-04-29-00.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...0-05-11-35.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...0-06-36-86.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...0-07-13-87.png

[JigglyJam]

http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6661147.pngGame's pretty for sure. And i see what you mean by ATI and shadows. But it's also textures, lots of lines.

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http://i4.aijaa.com/b/00943/6661147.pnghttp://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6661147.png

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http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00797/6661154.png

[Kayatani]

dem graphics

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...1-10-09-81.jpg

[miokomioko]

This game is fuckin' beautiful, bro.

That verdant drop area is really sweet, someone screenshot that endlessly dark pit with the trees coming out of it~

[Spikey]

dem graphics

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http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...1-10-09-81.jpg

Back to FFXI graphics I see... lol

[miokomioko]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...gfury/butt.jpg

lol

[Gokulo]

Hot

[Air]

Moar Ishgard:

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http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8347/1283686354.jpg

[TStupified]

Since we've all seen the lowest possible settings screenies here, would anyone mind posting one with the highest ones (if there already isn't one)?

I'd like to see what I'm missing, but hesitating to try the absolute max settings in fear of melting my GPU.

[miokomioko]

Anything Gulkeeva posts... I think all my settings are set to max other than Ambient Occlusion for obvious reasons. But I'm only 1920x1080. There was someone with some 3-monitor eyefinity shit going on... ridiculously wide-angle view. Now I wanna' test ambient occlusion after having overclocked my CPU/GPUs a little. This will probably be the last time I post from this system. :3

edit: grr, every time I change the settings so I can do a side-by-side comparison for Ambient Occlusion, the weather or the time-of-day lighting changes. Either way, it's honestly not a very noticeable effect at all. Definitely not worth turning on unless you have some liquid-nitrogen-cooled system and top-notch hardware.

[Snowknight26]

Since we've all seen the lowest possible settings screenies here, would anyone mind posting one with the highest ones (if there already isn't one)?

I'd like to see what I'm missing, but hesitating to try the absolute max settings in fear of melting my GPU.

http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...7-26-46-49.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...7-31-34-20.png

^ ATI card so I'm sure it can look even better.

[TStupified]

http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...7-26-46-49.png
http://stfcc.org/ffxiv/i/ffxivgame%2...7-31-34-20.png

^ ATI card so I'm sure it can look even better.

Certainly looks very nice indeed, but I'm happy it's not like a "different world" sort of thing from my own settings.

[drewbixcube]

http://imgur.com/C2Z6U.jpg

[Cjskater]

Curious why all you ATI guys think you alone got ugly-grainy-shadows.

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A few games that use similar ugly shadowing techniques:
Mass Effect
Oblivion
GTA4 (dear god how could you guys forget this one)

...and that's just the ones I can remember off the top of my head.