FFXIV – Yoshida Responds to Dawntrail Benchmark Troubles

The Dawntrail Benchmark has been out for a couple of week and gamers are already up and arms about it. After a lot dialogue, Yoshida responds and guarantees swift corrections.

The discharge of the Ultimate Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Benchmark shortly turned from pleasure to real horror by giant elements of the group. Whereas everybody was very happy with the graphical updates to the critically acclaimed MMORPG, the brand new graphics now seen within the character creator have gamers up in arms.

Naturally with elevated polygon counts, new lighting, and textures our characters will look just a little completely different. However side-by-side comparisons within the Benchmark by gamers who seen their characters are just a little off affirm that that is greater than only a easy high-rez graphics replace and a few aren’t completely satisfied.

Naoki Yoshida Responds to the Dawntrail Benchmark Complaints

As complaints concerning the adjustments to character look mounted, director and producer Naoki Yoshida lastly responded and gave, as regular, a breakdown of what was occurring from the developer facet.

He defined that one of many principal culprits was the Character Creator which is identical since A Realm Reborn Launched over 10 years in the past. And whereas character textures and shaders have been up to date, the character creator itself options lighting and environments that do not signify the look of the particular recreation.

Should you take your Benchmark created character into the precise benchmark, the distinction is evening and day. The outdated character creator ought to be chargeable for the “lifeless” eyes, faces trying flat, and textures not reflecting the sunshine correctly.

After some investigation from the developer facet, there appear to be another points concerning the Benchmark, principally within the character creator concerning textures not being in all probability applied, knowledge not being processed accurately, and fashions clipping and tearing in locations they should not.

The Male Viera appeared to be the worst offender on this regard, however feminine Miqo’te and Roegadyn did not get off straightforward both. There are another points that are not simply textures not rendering accurately. Some have seen that character faces have now nearly double the polygon depend and have further bones to show a wider vary of feelings.

Naoki Yoshida supplied a proper apology in a current weblog put up and proposed the next. The system is wildly outdated and for now, they’ve prioritized engaged on graphical updates within the precise recreation, with the character creator being simply an afterthought. Because of this they proposed the next:

With a purpose to resolve the factors outlined in 1 and a pair of, we’re planning for a substitute of the benchmark software program. As we require a while to research the problems and reconstruct the benchmark atmosphere, the timing and additional particulars of the substitute will likely be introduced later.

We may also proceed to make changes which is able to incorporate as a lot of your suggestions as potential into the revision of the benchmark, in addition to the discharge model of Dawntrail.

(Because of completely different launch dates, nonetheless, there are more likely to be some variations between the benchmark software program and the discharge model.)

This implies they hope to launch a brand new and up to date model of the Benchmark someday between now and the discharge of Dawntrail on July 2, 2024. For extra data concerning this, regulate Ultimate Fantasy XIV’s social media channels within the Loadstone and we’ll after all have the newest information right here.

For extra on Dawntrail, the upcoming Ultimate Fantasy XIV enlargement be certain that to take a look at our detailed breakdown of the final Letter from the Producer Live that explained everything you need to know about the graphics update. In addition to our abstract of the Fan Fest Keynote from earlier this year.