Why didn't anyone tell me Variant Dungeons were so fun in #FFXIV !? I'm hooked. This is like the perfect solo content for me since I can never find a group.
@mikey
Variants are fantastic! I did all of them solo, then when people finally took an interest I got to enjoy them with whatever size group was available. I'm excited to see more of them in Dawntrail! :blobcataww:
@mikey lol when I first picked a caster I was intimidated by it and went with BLM thinking it was easier, I was way wrong lol but now I like both. I also played the whole game as SCH not realizing SMN leveled with it.
I wish more games did stuff like #FinalFantasy Tactic's "Faith" stat. It's mostly a generic force multiplier for incoming magical healing/damage
But if your faith is 0, AKA your character does not trust/believe in the divine whatsoever...magic doesn't affect them. At all. Cannot be healed, or hurt by magic. Which is otherwise, by any other measure, completely real in this universe.
The game mechanic is kind of neat (though requires serious work to tinker with IIRC) but the lore implications are super cool.
Like the 'divine' is real (and, apparently, mostly evil) but it only hurts you if you think it will. But it's also not just psychosomatic/groupthink. You ACTUALLY die.
IDK if it's ever explained in lore but I wonder if atheist characters in the game's world actually see the effects of magic or not.
It's some real Bene Gesserit shit if you see this giant fucking dragon drop from the sky, breathe fire at you and you're just thinking "Fuck off summons aren't real. Fuck you. Nerd."
@xgranade Check if your rendering resolution is set to 100. If not, it will apply FSR/DLSS scaling (the setting can't be turned off so you'll see it next to the score but at 100% it won't have an effect).
It should be a resolution setting bug and not an issue with scaling, my screenshots are properly 2560x1080
@exec To be sure, it all works fine if I open Settings and then cancel. The problem only comes in if I run the benchmark without opening Settings at all.
When I make sure to open Settings, the screenshots are all 2160p as expected.
@mikey I started playing right at the end of the last one so Iβm looking forward to it. It sounds like itβs not just a couple of fetch quests like other events?
Havenβt gotten this to run full size yet, does very well on my laptop at the default windowed size. π€· Borderless claims full size but the window is the same. Iβll try Fullscreen later.
On the #FFXIV benchmark, My husband got "High" with a bunch of people cheering, I got "Fairly High" with less people just clapping (funny). I wonder what you get with "Low"? Your character standing there looking sad?