I've Taken FFXIV, WoW & GW2 To The Next Level... 

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Just a clarification point, the graphical updates to FFXIV should be already underway by 7.0. From what I understand its a gradual process starting in the patch content.

I personally love gw2 action camera system, I think it wasn't initially in game, but added later on as some open world activities used it in HoT

Now this doesn't take FFXIV to "the next level" but I mention this every time someone talks about FFXIV's color feeling "washed out" - and you can heavily fix this problem by adjusting the "Full Screen Gamma Correction". You can still use G-Shade, or NVidia freestyle but these options take some framerate where lowering Full Screen Gamma Correction doesn't... It's default is set to 50, and moving it down to 10 removes the white plaster look from it. This ALSO works on Playstation where the other options do not, it's under the display options and contrary to it's name - it still applies gamma when in windowed mode. No one catches on to this but it's worthy of mention!

The GW2 action camera setting was actually a mod at first. Arenanet allowed the mod and eventually added their own version to the game. It's a great way to play but more difficult to use with more challenging content. I've had to relearn how to play well without the action camera. Especially in PvP and T4 fractals.

Just booted up GW2 to try it out and oh my god it is a literal game changer

Guild wars 2 is a genuinely great game and deserves more love. The cash shop can feel overbearing at times with how many premium only fomo items are pushed in,but I kind of have to give it a pass due to the game being buy once play forever. The only thing I wish is that you could earn thematic Mount skins through in game achievements. Like you would complete a specific dungeon or fractal and get enough currency to buy a mount skin themed around that specific content.

I always have to giggle a bit when so many people talk about the art of colour grading and then proceed to absolute fucking crush every single black in every single pixel with gshade, bombard the entire background with nothing but bokeh and just oversaturate every single colour. Yes FFXIV can indeed look flat, hopefully that's something that will get a new coat of paint with the update, but so far all the user made "fixes" I've seen just look way worse. It's a bit like one of those "graphic design is my passion" moments.

That FF14 action camera is actually in game. It’s called lock-on and you can toggle it with F5 I believe or default left stick on controller.

For FFXIV, the change that has a huge impact but I see the least for many new players is the “camera angle” setting. You can basically move the camera lower behind your character such that your character is lower on the screen and you can see much more of the world. This is both amazing while exploring the world but also means you can actually see the top of most huge bosses and mechanics without having to continually adjust your camera or looking straight down at the floor the whole time.

Try turning on Legacy movement in FFXIV, it changes the feel quite a bit, as well as adding ease-in/ease-out to walk and run speeds. Some people don't like this, as when you play casters as I usually do, your spells can't be cast until your character comes to a complete stop, but I like the more action-combat feeling to the movement, when you hit S to move in reverse, you turn about and run in the direction pressed. In addition you can easily maneuver using mouseview, and this will make mechanics much much easier, especially those regarding where you face your characters. It's a bit to get used to, but we'll worth it I feel.

My issue with gshade in ffxiv is that it's inconsistent. What may work in one zone doesn't it work in another. Meaning I lose consistency across zones. For example, Il mehg suffers greatly from washed out colors, but if I apply a "good setting" for il mehg to the tempest, it can ruin the whole mood of the area, making it feel less hostile and less isolated. I'm hoping that this lightning update in 7.0 gets a good hybrid, where colors pop much more, but that consistency and mood is kept intact. The washed out colors allow for consistency across the various styles without much individual tweaking, which is why I assume it's why it's like that currently. Hopefully though, the success of Endwalker means they will have the budget for some more graphics tweaking! (Please no million polygon flower pots though, thanks.)

I like action cam in GW2 and always use it for story segments or exploring a zone for the first time for immersion's sake - but at the same time I can totally see why it's sorta been buried away. It's just really impractical and pretty much not meant to be used for the vast majority of gameplay. Would've loved some more improvements for it but I guess there's only so much you can realistically do when the game wasn't really made with it in mind

Legacy movement gives FFXIV more of a console ARPG feel, but the biggest thing is, well, using a controller. The controller hotbars tend to be far less intrusive and you can have the wide bars and combo bars be hidden unless/until you're using them. (I think you can hide the actual crossbars when not in use, too?)

I've messed around with G-shade, and personally I actually like the more "washed out" default look. I've even used setting my friends set up on theirs just to make sure I wasn't just doing a horrible job. It just wasn't for me. HOWEVER, I really like the look of what was done in GW2 here, and if I ever manage to find some downtime in my gaming life again, I'll probably give something like that a spin!

Isn't that action camera footage for FFXIV just a toggle by hitting num5 while targeting an enemy and not a mockup?

There’s actually a XIVLauncher/Dalamud plugin that auto hides UI elements in certain conditions like being in a duty, being in combat, and a bunch of other conditions. Similarly, SimpleTweaks has a setting that shows your job gauge when your weapon is drawn or you’re in a dungeon.

In the gw2 part, what is the outfit you are running on your character? The two swords on the back piece looks awesome

Bellullar, FYI, your profile on DynamicCam tutorial doesnt exist anymore

I've used action camera since my first day playing gw2. That combined with 1-12 short cut keys on a mouse you can grind gw2 with minimal wrist effort

I´m pretty sure theres a dalamud plugin for fading parts of the ui in or out when in combat edit: the plugin is called "Fader Plugin"

Thank you for this, been playing GW2 since launch but had no idea about the action camera, has completely changed the experience especially on my warrior.

I love GW2 so much, even watching comparisons like this i still firmly believe i picked the best mmo for my own taste.

theres a few features imo that should been on by default for gw2, like "show skill recharge" and "show all useable objects" just press f11 and read each check box you might fine something helpful you wanted. Another one is in your inventory click the cog wheel and hit hide bags this get rid of that bars in your invo if you want a more compacted view your what your holding. another button you will love is the box with a down arrow in your inventory click that when out in the world any craft-able mats will be sent to your bank storage slots for that mat to get them again go to a bank and simply look at the left panel. the one will have alot of squares that the mat storage by default it can storage 250 of each craft-able material in the game etc like leather ,cloth, wood, ores. you can pay gems or use gold to get gems to upgrade the amount you can store.

I recently found another video randomly suggested to me that showed the action camera, other setting improvements, and reshade settings. And I decided to download the game (after six years) and try it out... Yep, haven't played another game and am finally enjoying the game and am confident in spending money on the game to get expansions. And even started playing it while streaming. Not having the over saturated oil painting-esque look of GW2. Has greatly improved my enjoyment of the game. And I even have a setup for vastly improving underwater combat. IT. IS. AMAZING.

FFXIV has a fanmade Addon System called Dalamud. It comes with the XIVLauncher for example. It has lots of addons like hiding UI outside of Combat, ElvUI and so on. You may want to check that out.

Not bad, that said gshade including its many ff14 presets works with wow as well while it doesn't have the ff14 'restoreui' function/it doesnt work when applies to the wow ui, it looks and feels a LOT better than the basegame. Something as simple as adding a little bloom to make spell effects shine more, a little bloom for lighting, adding a light distant fog and/or blur to help with wows otherwise fairly rough textures in some places and most of all... adding hbao or similar ambient occlusion where lighting goes from plain out flat to things like your hair casting proper shadows on your face... It is a far better looking experience with it and i'd super nudge people to give it a try. Make sure you tick all the boxes when asked if you want the ff14 presets as well and try some out and alter them as needed to suit your style. Add actioncam on or full on top and enjoy the spectacle... makes for pretty as heck screenshot material as well.

@bellular gaming you are not the only one, wish this kind of setting was actually just an on and off toggle in every MMO

I really want an action camera for FFXIV so badly. Been wishing for one for ages. The game is fantastic but gosh, having an over the shoulder camera for exploration and questing would make it even better!

Just a small comment about adjusting your field of view in GW2. The wider you make it, the more impact it will have on your framerate. After getting a new gfx card, I tweaked my settings and my reshade and it definitely does have an impact. I feel the optimal field of view is out just far enough to be able to see those blasted "defuse the bomb/console" minigames where you have to see the sequence of shapes. That way you have a good view and not also wonder where the minigame icons are lol.

It's probably my monitor, but I found that there was way too much red in your shader examples. I'm just hoping that FF 7.0 doesn't emulate that, as I like the colors, as washed out as you say, as they are.

So then what is your Gshade preset for FF? The one I choose overlights in bright places like limsa.

Holy fucking shit, I've had the option for Action Camera toggled forever, but never noticed a difference and then forgot about it entirely. I didn't realize I had to set a hotkey to toggle it on, and I then lost the whole rest of the day playing because it feels great to play that way. Burninating the countryside with my Charr Engineer feels better than ever, >=D

I would love to know what gshade preset you play with in FFXIV! Both for cutscenes and gameplay

I was just typing something sarcastic about how you should use Scroll Lock and then you mentioned it. Last year one content creator, MrHappy maybe?, was doing dungeon runs with UI turned off completely. Personally I never minded MMO UIs that much, especially 14's

Trying out Ipsusu's "pastel" setting and it makes FFXIV look so much better. I didn't realize how "grey" the game looked before installing Gshade

On console, you can fade parts of the UI. I don't simply mean transparency. For example, I don't see my hotbar unless I'm holding l2/R2 for ability input. I also have a macro to keep my duty list hidden. Essentially, I only see my HP when playing. Idk what it is but the graphics just look better when the UI is hidden. I play in Japanese so I hiding the UI during cutscenes is a No for me.

Well if you use the blue light filter in windows and push saturation to what you need you have 90% of what gshades give with 0 impact to performance

4:25 holy shit who is that young man? jesus christ, have i aged too?! omg... what have you made me realize?! you bastard!

A few years ago I made a AutoHotkey script for FFXIV that allows for a full fledged action camera. Never played without it. A bit on the grey side maybe, but as long as I don't automate tasks or get into other peoples way it isn't that big of a deal I guess...

If anyone can explain how to properly set up an FFXIV style controller for GW2 I would absolutely play it.

I just don’t really know why I should hide the UI. I tried it once and it feels off to me to not see it. But to each it’s own

Playing with controller on pc does a pretty good job mimicing the feel of a action rpg game. Esp if you hide a good amount of ui for ffxiv.

how many downloads / users does gshade have ? a friend of mine called it "shady shit" : D

Having subtitles grab your attention is something that I find you kind of get used to over time. It’s similar to watching subbed anime. I know people complain about finding them distracting,and I get it, but as noted, you get used to it, and it eventually feels natural.

Pro-Tip: Now combine this with vorpX and play your games in 3D-VR. Esp. FFXIV with vorpX and Cammy plugin(to change the FoV) is insane.

I haven’t hopped into GW2 since the Endwalker watch in day, and that was me just starting the game. I think I’ll give this a shot next time I play

Eurika bgm LUL

When I was still playing WoW outside of raids or m+ I made my entire UI out of weakauras with a billion conditionals to only trigger upon certain things or targets/etc with things like the Immersion addon for questing. Programming weakauras was very fun and so insanely powerful.

I wonder if SWTOR has a setting like this.

nice vid

I'm *really* hoping the lighting changes will lead to FFXIV looking the way it should without using gshade and the like. The flat colours really are a crime committed upon the rest of the game.

I can't say that I've ever played a PC title thinking "Man, I wish this was more like a console game." That's the exact opposite of the reason I play PC titles.

I don't like it when the camera is slightly to the side.

i like eureka music ❤️

Would be great if you could link to the tools used for all 3 games in the description. Just a thought. I think most people aren't gonna be bothered to search on google.

Should have added ESO into the mix and noted the first person game play I never have and never will like playing with my camera pulled way back I always play close up

Tbh, I can't be arsed.

The main issue as to why XIV does not support mods is two fold. One the risk of using DPS meters to bar players from joining into content and two because the game is on console, it'd be a unfair advantage for PC players to have. However they take a certain approach when it comes to mods on 14 as its been said, no one talks about ACT.

Woah hold up, my sweaty xiv raid ui *is* clustered so I only have to glance a couple places and I see more of the action. I want the important shit near my character but not on top of indicators and boss animations. Also for what it's worth, I think the whole point of xiv's washed out look is to be more true to life instead of on a camera, which I actually appreciate. I understand I'm in the minority though, and I do agree more light sources will be nice. I also find that xiv is one of the least straining games for my eyes, and I suspect that's also color related.

I have gshade on and I only really have the color saturation on ff more, the normal color is just a bit too washed for my taste.

i dont use reshaders in 14 or gw2 i dunno i just never had a problem with the visuals

Do you think FFXIV's color is for the raiders' comfort? Because the Dev knew their animation can be very flashy so they make it so to make it easy on the eyes for raiders who wanna raid long hours. This is just my guess tho~

You too? I always turned off UI for FFXIV cutscenes for the very same reason.

I actually prefer MMO settings even in action games, as I find fixed camera games annoying.

I tried the action cam in GW2 when they first put it in and.... didn't like it. I can't imagine trying to do raid rotations while dealing with the action cam...

I started playing free mmo called swords of legends online on steam and ti's quite good too so wonder what would Belu said for it 🤪

Pushing the camera so far in is detrimental to gameplay. You just can't see what's around you and react to it. Even in the 3rd person action games you're trying to emulate, I push the camera out as far as I can, and often it's just not enough to satisfy me.

For GW2 I reccomend Reshade3D! It's $10, but it's very well done.

I personally disagree about ffxiv's color palette. Every time I see someone using gshade it hurts my eyes lol

"enable toggle action combat" - enables toggle action CAMERA. It's literally just how the camera follows your char. Doesn't change combat one bit..

Yeah ff looks flat to me too but I don't want any bloom, it just ruins anything in my opinion haha.

Oh god no... I love RPG games, but I hate over the shoulder camera. In my opinion a character has to be centered and the camera has to have to zoom out. In the case of GW2 it is really good, because you can still center your character. But For example if we take the new Elex 2 game, there it is fucked up you can not set anything there, and your character is always shifting from right to left, which causes nausea for many people.

Since when does more contrast mean better graphics? Those gshade examples look terrible to me...

I actually don't like g-shade, it just makes everything look funky, too bright, not bright enough.

They'd have to do much much much more than that for people to return to wow. 🤣🤣

Playing WoW with a controller is fun except when your class uses targeted aoe

macro for hiding UI stuff is old school tech. instead you xan setup different huds

I'm actually not a fan of GShade. Those shots on the wagon ride blow out the background to a point where it seems like your're going through some treeless Mediterranean landscape at the zenith of the Summer solstice, instead of a shady forest, for example. It just doesn't fit the landscape or intention, more often than not. And the lack of control over the bokeh on a lot of shots also removes some of the intention from the artists, as well. Don't get me wrong, the lack of lighting does mean colors get muted, when the texture artist would probably want them better lit. But you trade off fixing the lack of lighting for poorer intentions elsewhere. Like in the last zone of FFXIV, as I've watched various streamers play through the story, GShade will make the blue smoky effect glow to a point where it's harder to see the skybox than it is normally. It actually ruins the environment for me. So I'd rather not play with GShade, myself. I do have to wonder, though. I've noticed a lot of huge proponents of GShade tend to have some kind of vision problem. I wonder if colors and brightness are lost in refractions through glasses/lenses, or glare, or because they're blurred a little. Same with colorblind folk. My friend is red/green colorblind, and whenever I go to his place I notice the contrast on his monitor is pumped so high as to actually make the reds hurt my eyes. But it makes sense for him, not having the rods and cones that would make red as vibrant as it is for me. I know that's not the main point of this video, though. Going back to that... Another MMO I found that you could play differently from typical MMOs is BDO (not that I advise anyone play that grindfest). It's already designed such that is breaks away from the tab targeting mold, but what's interesting is that it also has a control set where you could play it like an isometric ARPG (or like a MOBA, or custom RPG built in SC2/WC3). It's really intriguing and I wonder if other MMOs could benefit from something like it. Imagine dodging mechanics by just left- or right-clicking on a location on the ground you want to move to. The pathing in that game is crazy, too. You can literally auto path in that game. It'd be cool if other games could build that tech into their games for yet another playstyle option.

And yet, I'm still on ps4 for ffxiv and everything is still great?

oh god Bellular please for the love of god turn off Screen Shake while recording or streaming GW2. its such a headache inducing feature to watch. Its just a checkbox in the options.

If you play ff12 and compare it to ff14 you can notice a lot of similarities in the lighting. FF12 gets around this by having the bright and vibrant colors of rabanastre and its dusty deserts kinda distract you from the washed out graphics. And it for the most part holds up to modern graphics. FF14's color grading unfortunately makes some of the more bright and vibrant zones like Radz-at-han, Limsa, and Sharlayan, look washed out like you said.

IIRC, you can change the height of the camera in FFXIV. Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow. It's useful for Lalafells since their cameras start of so low. Personally, I don't see the point in any of what's in the video. Why would I limit myself on purpose? I have no problem immersing myself in a game. Hell, I can immerse myself in a game of Civ. You just need to use your imagination, and if you're struggling with MMOs, then your imagination needs some serious working out.

I feel like I'm the only person that hates gshade and similar programs. I love how grey FFXIV looks because it makes it realistic. Real life isn't that colorful.

what... That camera and control scheme was how Guild wars 2 launched What numb nuts complained and forced the devs into contrived MMO BS? I only ever played it for the first week of launch. But fuck me

ESO has this built into the game. You can switch to a first person mode, and hide the UI completely Also has built in controller support

I liked GW2 for a play through, but I never felt like it was a mmorpg and lack of group roles so it came off feeling like a 3d Diablo.

uuuuuuuuuuuh why the fuck, did your editor not even put a "Before/After" text on the FFXIV GShade segment? Like, I barely know anything about colour this or gradient that, just whatever feels better or nicer to look at. all those words flew over my head and so did your point. But the least your editor could do is place Before/After on the respective sides. I cannot tell which is supposed to be which. the only difference is one looks brighter and the other looks darker. the fuck is that supposed to mean?

the only reason I quit gw2 is because they ban my account for a month and a half after 2 months of the first release. they thought I was a gold farmer for controlling the end game materials I was making 10k to 20k gold a week. after waiting 1 month of them giving me the run around digging through my data they gave my account back with no armor a level 10 weapon and 2 gold.... I even emailed them asking for my gear and armor back and they told me that it was like that when they ban me which was a complete lie I was posting on the auction house at the time, most likely they didn't want me to ruin the economy again

WOW looks like DOG Shit by 2010 standards.

GW2 just need to put in controller support and I'll go back to playing it.

Your video is super quiet again.

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I disliked because this is minor improvements and the title is very exaggerated. And it wasn't you that did it but the people that made gshade for example.

Try first person.

GW2, no matter how good it may look, its still boring as shit to play.

As a FF 14 player since ARR I can say that I'm in love with Guild wars 2 the Open world is miles away from FF14 same thing for the mounts. The horizontal procession system remind me of FF11. I don't feel like my work in my gear will go away in the next update. The best part is free to play no subscription you buy the game and is yours to keep and play. Your character is no taken from you if you don't pay the sub. Total freedom. I don't think I can go back to FF14.

Your FF Gshade presets are terrible and make the game look worse imo.

I cannot play ffxiv without a shader. Game is so boring and drab without it.

Action combat : The worst thing to ever happen to MMORPGs.