Final Fantasy 14 players waiting for Dawntrail news will soon be in luck, as Square Enix announced that the next Letter from the Producer Live broadcast and the updated Dawntrail benchmark are right around the corner. The 81st Live Letter will air on the morning of May 16, and the updated Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail PC benchmark is slated to be released during the week of May 23.
Naoki Yoshida Says Final Fantasy 14 Update Will Fix Dawntrail's Dead, 'Lifeless Eyes' | Push Square
23.04.2024 - 06:21 / pushsquare.com / Naoki Yoshida / Fantasy Xiv
Last week, Square Enix unveiled the official PC benchmark and accompanying trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Dawntrail. The trailer gave fans glimpses of new in-game areas, enemies, and combat upgrades. While that all went over rather well, the game's decade-old character creation engine is drawing ire this time and the eyes of character models, in particular.
Now, we'll admit to not being experts on the exact pixel count of character models in the game, but some are, and we'll defer in this case. Alongside Dawntrail, Final Fantasy XIV fans on all platforms will get the game's first major graphical update, but it seems someone forgot about the character creator. Fans kicked up a stink, enough to get game director Naoki Yoshida to comment on the situation and on the supposedly «lifeless» eyes of characters, which is due to a lack of highlights in the pupil:
«The character creation environment should have been updated but was overlooked as we prioritized the development of Dawntrail and tuning the graphical update in the actual game, for which I would like to apologize. We are currently expediting a rework of the environments and light sources of character creation for both the actual game and the benchmark; once that is complete, the current benchmark will be replaced.»
Dusk till dawn
What do you think? Are you excited to see a little more life in the eyes of your long-suffering Eorzean adventurer? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
The graphical enhancements are what I am most excited about with Dawntrail. I'm still only at the end of Shadowbringers, but I'm thinking of preordering and getting back into FFXIV when Dawntrail rolls around. It's just such a tremendous MMO.
@GMaster7 Honestly kinda glad I don't have to buy Dawntrail right now just because I'm still way behind from reaching the expansion lol I just reached Stormblood
«Now, we'll admit to not being experts on the exact pixel count of character models in the game»
you probably meant polygon count?
«Like mirrors to the soul»
No, no. You're on point. It's a reflection of Yoshida's who probably needs as much of a vacation as Sakurai did when he worked on Smash Bros for twenty years straight.
I'm mostly worried about how the graphical update affects performance. They finally got it running smooth at 4k, and I thing I'd rather have that than have to to to 1440p
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