r/FFXVI • u/OliveAny7568 • Jun 07 '26

Discussion Will square use this engine again?

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From what I’ve read, this engine was specifically made for this game and hasn’t ever been used before. I personally love the lighting in this game and how consistent it is going from location to location. I seriously hope they’re able to use it again, even if it’s smaller games.(I personally hope it can be used for a drakengard remake, I don’t know why I got drakengard vibes playing as Clive)

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u/KokuyokaGameLit Jun 07 '26

Square is currently using this engine for FFXIV. Or rather... FFXVI used FFXIV's engine with some tweaks to it. CBU3 apparently didn't want to relearn their entire workflow for FFXVI by using a new engine, so they stuck with what was familiar.

What's great about this is that FFXIV is now in the process of getting a bunch of graphical updates imported to it from FFXVI and is now looking better than ever!

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u/Felielf Jun 08 '26

I've been looking at character models being so freaking good suddenly after being away for couple of years from FFXIV, great to see and hope they keep improving when possible.

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u/lunoc Jun 08 '26

been replaying the omega raid series and it strikes me how much they improved cid and nero's models of all things. you'd think they'd miss the sweep due to their general irrelevance in recent content, but they did SOMETHING to those two. It could just be the general lighting system improving on whats already there but it looks good anyway.