No before and after shots, lazy writing, bad article.
Graphics updated for entire game, it just the newest expansion?
Edit: upon getting my lazy ass to read, it says the whole game! Nice.
They’ve done new lighting and stuff like DLSS that applies to the entire game, and they’ve also done a bunch of new textures and art assets for some of the game.
Sorta the whole game, like for example gear textures are mostly for new gear, I think the same applies to npc textures
11 years? Damn, time flies. I waited in line for the 1.0 release and took a week off of work to play it. I really need to give XIV another shot once I’m done with XI.
It made it so I couldn’t play the game, because my computer didn’t meet the spec requirements.
Not saying it was a bad call. My computer was old and shitty, but now I’m out another $900.
Maybe it could work with some FSR settings? And yeah in this case it would have been better if they did allow to use two game clients, old and new.
Do they still slow you to a snail’s pace as soon as you progress to a new area? It felt so scummy losing my flying and mount speed as soon as I hit an expansion in a subscription based MMO. “Let’s slow that roll there gamer, can’t have you beating that content too fast. Why not buy a few more months play time?”
Is it not all shades of grey anymore?
You joke, but I did a ten year old dungeon earlier today and the group talked about how much more colorful it was.
Yeah it never looked good in the first place without mods haha, I’ll have to check it out this year then I guess
Can this game be played mostly solo? I’d just be interested in the story mainly.
You can solo all of the main story quest except for 8-player boss battles and one required 24-player alliance raid series.
And that can be done through group finder and the wait is very short. However if you’re just into the story I’d recommend watching a YT video that cuts it together since the gameplay loop is really really boring
Shout-out to the Dan Floyd and his PlayFrame channel, where he’s been doing a condensed playthrough of the game with just the MSQ, the interesting side-content, and highly cut segments of the interim gameplay. It’s only near the end of Shadowbringers right now, but it’s what got me into the game (as someone who was never into and mostly still isn’t into MMOs).
Also, the few points others are talking about needing others, there’s a group-finder and I’d say most people running those raids in group finder groups don’t talk at all, so you can just pretend they’re NPCs if you want.
Sometimes you end up in groups and you really wonder if they’re npc or not
Definitely one of the most easily single player mmo’s I’ve ever played lmao.
You can pretty much play without ever talking to another player. The dungeons and duties are on a roulette system that encourages people to actually go through older dungeons, so you just get randomly paired with people whenever you queue.
Very little of it is a lot rarer, and more likely to find other players on a Japanese server though, and basically not solo-able unless you’re a vastly higher level than the content.
I played the whole game solo. The big boss battles take in a lot of people, but you don’t really need to interact with them. Just watch what they do and do your best to keep up, help out, and not die.
