How To See Your Character in 7.0 Graphics ALREADY (Graphics Update Comparison)

[@Reld0n]

wouldve recommended changing the environments in the bottom right of the char creators to help show lighting changes between the materials, but nonetheless good info!

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Oh yeah, absolutely!

[@katarh]

I've also been begging folks who are complaining to SPIN THEIR CHARACTERS AROUND. And also change outfits on that main page selector page. And change from Standing to Unique pose. Things felt "off" on my characters until I did all those things, then after a few tweaks they "clicked" again and my characters were themselves. The lighting even in the outside zones scatters so much that the shininess is lost on hair and lips and eyes, but if you spin them around within the Aetherial background, it's still there.

[@tiopapichulo2136]

It’s just funny how people were first complaining about the graphic update not changing enough and now the very subtle changes that they have done are making people lose their minds saying they can’t recognize their characters lol

[@boehan605]

i thought all the face graphic changes were ass cant lie but if i speak im in trouble

[@geebster.]

@@boehan605 All my characters look worse with the update and still are super low poly when I zoom into them. They shouldve held off making changes to character faces until they released a more comprehensive character creator update.

[@jasonzarek7315]

The most underrated change is definitely the improved anti aliasing.

[@RitzyBusiness]

Dlss is also pretty exciting, it means we can also hack in DLAA which is better than whatever new solution they have.

[@Xerkrosis]

@@RitzyBusiness Maybe don't need to. When using DLSS and not reaching threshold, there is still some AA applied, but the noise artifacts from FSR @ 100% is gone. I assume it's DLAA or some mimic of it. It's possible it uses DLSS only for the enhancements, but the render resolution and scaling to native resolution at the end may be handled by the client's dynamic resolution module. Basically DynRes makes game render native, inputs frame to DLSS-part, which DLSS-enhances it, and then scales the output frame back to native res. DLAA with extra steps.

[@Demmrir]

Good AA was my #1 desired graphics update and we got DLAA. Then upgrading the abysmal ground texture quality. Everything else is just icing on top.

[@kobiblade]

Is not underrated, we've had ways to deal with that for years.

[@mightyfineincredible2252]

The anti-aliasing and supersampling are thee best changes by far.

[@holo_val]

I am so glad they kept the upturned nose for my viera. When they first showed off the character improvements the lighting was so neutral is looked like the contrasting darkness above the nose tip and the lighter patch below was missing. The biggest improvements I noticed were hair looks softer and skin tone looks fuller/richer. I was super worried going into the benchmark with my WoL but overall very pleased.

[@Starxnd]

Blows my mind this is what they accomplished when modders have made better textures years ago

[@jordanbell6349]

Devils Advocate (I think some faces are worse others are better), but mods are made for the PC community and people who can run them safely can choose to do so, there is an across the board update for console and PC. Sure it could be a bit better while still running just as well, but you cant expect it to look like the mods and run universally well. I hope they drop ps4 support in the next expac or two and then do more visual improvements.

[@karurosu4121]

idk if its true but some peeps are saying the benchmark doesnt have the lighting updates implemented yet. Which honestly i can see because if you look at the backgrounds they are still the old background from the standart character creator. Before someone says something the backgrounds in the character creator not in the benchmark video itself

[@Ms._Crimson]

They ruined my Miqo'te... her eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth all look completely different in the Benchmark, i tried to change some things to bring back her old look but failed T_T "Overall appearance of player characters will be altered as little as possible." "We want your characters to still look the way you enjoy them now" "We're really taking care to make sure you don't look at your updated character and think 'That's not what I thought it'd look like at all'" Yeah... sure, my character doesn't look a little bit like it did before.

[@Shadowtron1221]

The very first thing I said to myself when I looked at the new overhaul on my OC is that "This doesnt look like her, but if she had a daughter in a spitting image of her." Its so weird to look at but I am definitely going to try to change some of the values to get my old eye colors back.

[@Tailionis]

My lala lala looks like a doll now. Idk if I like it or not. I'm going to have to get used to it.

[@Danzavier]

My midlander looked weird lol. Au Ra looked pretty good though

[@roanen5285]

Take a peak at the hands and feetsies too! We don't have lego shaped fingers and melted wax feet!

[@bender9740]

I play as the "aged" Male Miqo, and when I imported him into the Dawntrail benchmark he looks great. Looks slightly older but still very much the same character, so I am pleased.

[@aullador32Ch.]

What do you mean "aged"? If may i ask

[@katarh]

@@aullador32Ch. It's the character model with a more rugged face and darker stripes. The clan leader of the U clan wears it, and it's generally associated with more mature male Miqo.

[@DanielRoloff]

when i loaded a saved preset of my wol, i thought the skin color was off, then i realized it's just the terrible lighting in the default char creator room . it looked fine in the actual benchmark scenes all in all the updated visuals look great on my au ra, it just looked weird to see her without glasses, as i always wear glasses XD though ngl, part of me still hopes that they will expand upon character creation options with the full 7.0 version, like unlink hairstyles from face presets for some races, or more color options.

[@andry6164]

Actually outfits in this game is all that matters,I am glad we can have a detailed gear form down trail on.

[@sourPatchkidHaley]

The face paint needs to be updated too. It still looks very pixelated, even more so on the Dawn Trail character models.

[@Denu85]

thank god for the anti aliasing. that bothers me so much in this game. are they putting dlss or fsr too?

[@rivenoak]

me went from _standard_ result to _fairly high_ just by change to full screen. play around with the settings often

[@thesoul777]

idk if anyone else had this issue but I made my char (male hyur) and the lips looked flat and lacked depth. Basically, it was missing the default "gloss" effect and seemingly had less detail. Maybe it was just me or the race but it definitely looked worse imo

[@katarh]

It's the lighting. The gloss is still there if you go to the aetherial background and spin 'em around.

[@rai5169]

Jst saw in another video that there is also April Fools day secret if system date is back-dated to April 1 before launching the Dawntrail benchmark.

[@volzod1199]

The updates are amazing, and I'm loving the results so far. Most of my presets (fantasia addict) did require some tweaking to bring back the original attitude or spirit of my live WoL, but it was all worthwhile, everything I did ended up being a substantial improvement. In my opinion, Miqos, Elezen and thighlanders are eating like kings with this. The only race that I think needs some help are Viera.

[@SampoPaalanen]

I might have been just lucky as my characters have been more or less identical just with higher resolution, I think only the lips are a bit darker

[@celphalonred1999]

My bun boi definitely got a nice glow up

[@yexiu5649]

It looks so good dude!!! You just need to get used to the new model but for real, looks really nice. I like how she looks! ❤

[@itsnotpan.]

Either I have terrible attention to detail or the graphics update for this character isn't too noticeable. If no one told me they updated that race I would probably not notice unless I zoom in and have a good look. But the environment, rain and lighting is definitely a pretty big change.

[@raistlin3k]

My only complaint about the upgrade is the skin textures. I feel like they are too smooth.

[@fluxwise]

In the end, I think most of us would agree that Desperia is a cutie and an adorable kitty :>

[@Tailionis]

His waifu

[@fluxwise]

@@Tailionis we all have our favorites :>

[@briandblanchard]

I have dyed Cloud Hair on my main, unfortunately don't get to see my character T_T

[@Disciplined_Fate]

My male miqo'te now looks like a beautiful imposter.

[@Sinistah665]

Looks good..but I was hoping for a side by side comparison

[@MrBuurt]

My character just doesen't look my character anymore, I wished they would have just updated the graphics and texture and not change up the faces so much

[@Majkelo_]

Cry more

[@Tailionis]

I agree. My lala looks like plastic. Least we got... mods..*cough*

[@Tailionis]

​@@Majkelo_hes not crying. He's giving an opinion.

[@Majkelo_]

@@Tailionis my opinion is that he is crying

[@kylerobinson6102]

They should leave in an option to show 'old graphics'. Have a toggle switch.

[@Yawnhy]

Wow this is awesome! Can’t wait for Dawntrail!

[@natebroadus8474]

I wasn't too happy, at first, because my Highlander's eyes were just not right. Turns out, all I had to do was change to a different eye shape and I got the feel of my old Highlander back. I feel like the changes may initially take some people aback, but with the character creator you can find something closer to what you originally went for if you try. Then I created an Elezen male that actually made this cis guy's heart skip a beat. Seriously, Elezen won this update.

[@King-2077]

I dont see much difference, it blows my mind there are people saying they “cant realized their characters anymore”.

[@RitzyBusiness]

Since i cant choose ny au ras hair in the benchmark its hard to truly gauge, but my miqote preset looks really good.

[@wildheaven1827]

This isnt a graphics upgrade, its a graphics compatibility update for xbox release. Thats why you look like swtor now, which had the same style of change when they ported to xbox too.

[@xaizard]

This is a very useful video

[@rezort879]

Clothes look better but player models are gonna need another graphical update or 3.

[@hasseo195]

Wonder, if this update will be in conffict with some grapic mods, like, eye of eozera, who works with the eyes of the chara. Or body mods.

[@Frogstoney]

100% were not gonna have mods for a while

[@katarh]

Mod makers have said they will probably not have any mods available day 1, and even then it may take a few days to get out releases of even the most basic mods (nips, toes, etc) because of changes in character data, file structure, and the fact that they too want to play the game when it comes out.

[@CydonianKnights11]

Male viera don’t really look any different in dawn trail also I have some fantasia so I will be able to change if need be.

[@DanielRoloff]

every character will receive a free fantasia with 7.0 so that all player will be able to adjust things

[@CydonianKnights11]

@@DanielRoloff i have two fantasia just laying around good that they are giving a free one though.

[@markup6394]

1:42 --- Nooooo, of *course* not. Why, who would *ever* !?

[@RaynexD]

This is for pc only tho.

[@DanielRoloff]

tbf, the point of the benchmark is to see if your pc hardware can handle it or if you need to replace parts. console doesn't have that weakness, the game will run on it equally for everyone

[@RaynexD]

@@DanielRoloffoh okay i see

[@katarh]

@@DanielRoloff And it was crucial too. A lot of us were afraid that with the increased recommended requirements that we'd have to upgrade our laptops, but after I made some adjustments to my 5 year old Surface Book 2 (with a wimpy 980 mobile GPU) it went from a score of 1200ish aka "you're joking, right?" on the benchmark to a score of 8000 on Laptop Standard. Which is fine! I don't use my laptop for raiding, only for checking retainers and filler activities like gathering when I'm on vacation, so I'm breathing a sigh of relief that I can delay buying a new laptop for another few years.

[@Rey-Rey2077]

Before it looked like Early Ps3 Era now it looks like Late Ps3 Era lol...

[@darkfallenmage1]

Idk😂 hair good in black desert.

[@double02002]

looks good

[@Setuaro]

Sadly the differences for Hrothgar are very minimal if at all persceptible. Feel like it's one of those things where you get told and gaslit into seeing changes that aren't there. Mind I do know they're there but it's so subtle there might aswell have been none. Always taking the L, we do.

[@boehan605]

my character looks fucked bruh

[@Beamin439]

Literally 0 difference lol

[@veambeam]

It's mostly lighting and armor texture but yeah there's not really a big difference and I'm glad tbh

[@Tailionis]

Did you do it on max settings? The difference is insane

[@bluebebop2337]

What a waste of money. There is no noticable difference unless you start pointing things out

[@yang_xiongvr565]

Dude you gonna compare a mmo hairstyle with a fighting game hairstyle dude every one have there own taste man, even your speaking sounds bad

[@gojiramonster2388]

I see no difference lmfao

[@Tailionis]

You will if you actually do it. I can't see the difference either on my phone.

[@wetnoodlex]

Not gonna lie, as cool as it is that Squeenix is doing this, having played the game almost entirely with shaders, the changes don't really do much. That said, wish there was a side by side comparison to see how it would look like for others who, for some reason, don't bother with shaders.