Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail is getting its first main patch subsequent week, including the growth’s first alliance raid, final raid, and new fundamental story quests. It’s additionally sprinkling a good quantity of quality-of-life modifications in. There’s a much-needed portrait replace, new glamour dresser options, and, uh. Well, there’s toes. Improved toes. 1,180 of them.
Yup, tucked fairly far down the checklist of upcoming modifications within the patch notes is that this: “Character toe element when sporting the next foot gear has been improved,” together with a listing of 118 footwear objects throughout A Realm Reborn, Shadowbringers, Endwalker and Dawntrail getting the HD toe therapy.
Now, to be honest to Square Enix, a helpful before-and-after picture included with the patch notes does present some very improved toe element. The “earlier than” toes have been fairly blocky for so long as I can bear in mind, full with some low-poly toenails. It’s not precisely the worst trying foot on the planet, but it surely does give “PS2 character with mittens for palms” vibes.
The upcoming enhancements look much more foot-like, softening up a number of the uglier shadows and making the toes look much more spherical, and fewer like a 2D texture. Did I count on to be going into this a lot element about some videogame toes right this moment? Absolutely not.
I’m not completely certain if this consists of each open-toe shoe within the recreation—Heavensward and Stormblood are notably absent on the checklist of impacted expansions—however I’m not precisely preserving observe of the place you possibly can acquire each flip-flop and strappy wedge. Safe to presume most of them have been enhanced.
While a small element, it is a welcome change in Square Enix’s ongoing try and zhush up the sport. The crusty-blockiness of these little piggies has positively been one thing I’ve seen each time I throw a pair of sandals on my Warrior of Light, typically an odd outlier in what’s in any other case a fairly serviceable character mannequin.
It’s not the one graphical change, both. Vegetation is getting a pleasant facelift in A Realm Reborn zones together with Endwalker’s Island Sanctuary mode. There are additionally some beautiful environmental additions occurring in a handful of the vanilla zones—not together with the Gold Saucer, Coerthas Central Highlands, or Mor Dhona. The patch notes promise additional polygons, objects, and higher texture resolutions in addition.
What’s extra, the stroll from Horizon to the Waking Sands—one you may end up making frequently within the early recreation—is getting a smattering of greenery and vibrant lily pads that give the zone actual oomph. The patch notes additionally embody a comparability pic between two variations of a market stall in Ul’dah, that seems to have high-res beans? Peas? Of types, now, plus some extra appetising-looking meat.
Patch 7.1 is ready to launch on November 12.
