Final Fantasy XIV 7.0: Dawntrail - Summer 2024

[Gokulo]

Benchmark trailer out. Benchmark will be out @tomorrow (depending on your timezone etc). They've also shown FSR and DLSS available in options.

[Lokus]

And another semi-popular plugin being added to the base game, this time the one called voidlist which is an updated blacklist.

[Prothescar]

Graphics update has some OK things but overall kinda mid. They're definitely still hamstringing themselves with the PS4. FSR1 is basically unusable, DLSS2 is fine but hopefully they implement 3 at some point. New AA option is welcome and better than FXAA at least, it's no DLAA but ill take it. Shadow options are fine but the real problem with XIV overall is its lighting, was hoping for a big more than changes to reflection and refraction on some surfaces.

Not bad and I'll take what I can get for a 10 year old game, but I know they can do so much more if they weren't tied to the ps4.

[Anoat]

The amount of people who play on PS4 only I imagine is high enough that they don’t want to abandon them. But perhaps on the next console cycle they will finally drop it.

[Prothescar]

Spoiler: show

As expected, FSR1.0 is trash. Also I really really don't like the next skin textures on most characters; it almost feels like they've lost detail and look too smooth.

Edit: did a little dive and discovered that the benchmark is using dlss 3, not dlss 2 as the live letter said. The exact version according to the dll is 3.5.10. Very good. We should be able to get a DLSSFG mod eventually if SE doesn't add it themselves.

As an aside to this, the Frame Rate Threshold setting is for DLSS. If you keep it at the default, it only engages resolution scaling under 60fps, when set to always on it'll run full time. However, and this is the fun part: if you keep it at 30 or 60, it will run dlss in DLAA mode. That's why TSCAA isn't available when DLSS is enabled I wish they had covered this.

[RalphTheDwarf]

8876. This old GTX 1060 did better than I expected. lol

[Madeline]

10 series are the beginning of a long plateau for nvidia cards imo, they'll be amazing for the foreseeable future too

[Vaspinne]

8876. This old GTX 1060 did better than I expected. lol

My 1080 has been a tank. Has surprised me on a few occasions with some games

Edit: I hit 4600 on my 1080 with 4k borderless windowed and all high settings. So I'm happy

[Lokus]

Up close comparison shot of my character:



With max settings, I got the same score of 17kish with FSR or DLSS. Not too bad for this sporadic purchase of this best buy PC I bought when my old one died.

[Elizara]

I"m going to go ahead and try on my old pc soon as this downloads. Hopefully it'll work until I can work up the money for a major rebuild here (I have a lot of pulls on my money atm if you can believe it). Hoping I can eek out a little more out of this old thing, long enough for me to save up the $600 for a rebuild. Be a bit.

[Edit] 8416, not bad. Hopefully that means I can still RUN it but proly on slightly lower settings. ^^

[Anoat]

So heads up basically if you pay your sub with Visa and you are on a recurring payment you are good but if you cancel your Visa gets rejected. New Mogstation payment portal doesn’t like Visa at all. Even though it is supposed to. This is on top of all the mess international players are having with the new payment portal. Pretty fucking lame this happening so close to Dawntrail launch.

[Gokulo]

At least it's already acknowledged, so hopefully will be sorted out soon:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...2906d71c19064c

[Kaisha]

I've been paranoid from the double-charge/Verified-by-Visa XI days and have always been taking the Paypal-friendly option ever since Crysta via UGC payments started to be a thing (and eventually, SE allowing direct Paypal purchases for those when UGC stopped being an option).


In other news, the benchmark's getting a re-release later this month to address some of the common complaints with lighting/character aesthetics.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d94201115b6930

[Anoat]

Just a random thought but I’d love it if you got some kind of extra reward if you make it through a boss fight without getting a vuln stack. Maybe extra tomes or gil. Locked to one attempt per day each roulette. For dungeons you’d get it per boss and if you made it through the whole dungeon without you’d get an extra bonus. Locking it to one attempt per roulette per day so people won’t rage quit if they get a vuln stack and try again.

I just find it unrewarding when I am on a DPS job and I do the highest damage and don’t get a vuln stack and people just drop comms on the healer or tank automatically ya know? Gimme some kind of reward for doing my role well.

[arus2001]

The comm system is generally dumb for the DPS stigma in general. I'd just rather them get rid of it, but then they'd have to figure out another way to work out the mentor system which has its own issues.

[Prothescar]

CDawg and Ironmouse gonna be playing XIV on the 8th/9th. Might see another little spike in player numbers

[Lokus]

And another round of stream viewer pick-mes is born coupled with blocked/congested zones.

[Dantrag]

The GU def seems to be lacking more than I thought it would. Does it look better? Yes, but not enough of an upgrade in my opinion :/

[Lokus]

The game in general could do better with its color palette since it has a green/Grey filter over it that just washes out everything. Close up shots should look a lot better at least.

They couldn't really do much with the player models as we saw with how many players (NA, EU, and JP) began malding that their character had pointy elbows now and they couldn't recognize their character anymore.

[Lokus]

CDawg and Ironmouse gonna be playing XIV on the 8th/9th. Might see another little spike in player numbers

https://twitter.com/QueensWrath_/sta...87625155768695

This shit is so cringe jfc