If voices are confirmed for phase 4, I hope we can get a good hack to either turn them off or switch to another language.Better yet, give us the option to choose in game.
I thought you can choose JP voice with English subtitles?
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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I thought you can choose JP voice with English subtitles?
Hope so. I might be able to afford a new card before phase 4, but I doubt I'll be able to afford the premium for nVidia hardware. Seriously, comperable nVidia hardware costs a lot more, you end up paying a lot for those improved drivers.
Granted, probably worth it for a lot of people, but I'm not the type to sink 500USD into a new card.
The 7950 and 760 are around $250 or so. The 4GB I bought was $280. Not bad at all really.
theSlacker
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So yeah, anyone want to hit me up with them pics. Feels like I slept though something good.
I can grab a 7870 for 169.99 right now actually, and for my needs that should be fine. Problem is, I'm about 50 USD short of being able to justify the expense. Hopefully that sale lasts till this cash crunch ends.
Lé Blade Runner
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FFXI Online was magical, but it really was quite unforgiving for a number of years ( until they softened the experience a bit ). I was in high-school when I began playing, and I had the time and the patience to learn the game through trial and error, and player-communication. There was a real sense of discovery, since the whole "get to end-game as fast as possible" trend hadn't really begun yet. Or I wasn't aware of it, at least.
These days, though, I probably wouldn't have that kind of patience. The pacing in FFXI was slow in comparison to modern MMORPGs - damn if the game didn't make you look for party for hours at a time unless you were a healer or a tank. The game didn't even support windowing in its native state ( I remember the revelation that was FFXI Windower - I was very happy when I successfully installed it for the first time ). I know that I won't have that much free time to spend thanks to a busy work-schedule, so I am happy that FFXIV seems to support more casual play.
These days, though, I probably wouldn't have that kind of patience. The pacing in FFXI was slow in comparison to modern MMORPGs - damn if the game didn't make you look for party for hours at a time unless you were a healer or a tank. The game didn't even support windowing in its native state ( I remember the revelation that was FFXI Windower - I was very happy when I successfully installed it for the first time ). I know that I won't have that much free time to spend thanks to a busy work-schedule, so I am happy that FFXIV seems to support more casual play.
Unknown Soldier
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If you're in a position where you're just short of the $200-300 mainstream price bracket, you should save your pennies longer and buy upwards a bit later. Buying cards in the sub-$200 price bracket is not something I recommend. Remember that FFXIV doesn't actually launch until August 27th, you've got a whole month to save up! If you have to scrape through Phase 4 with what you have now, so be it!
You should ask in the "I need a new PC 2013" thread for more advice on how best to squeeze the most videocard out of your available funds. Remember that with video cards, there's a pretty dramatic bell curve on price/performance, in the mainstream is where you get the most bang for buck. At the bottom and at the top you're getting way less grunt per dollar. That's the nature of the market. Capitalism, ho!
i'm not sure if it's the same pictures but my bro found a link on bluegartr forums, is that black and white robed AF arcanist's?
Thanks guys! I may just use that space to play DCUO to tide me over until phase 4.
It's Darklight set for White Mage.
theSlacker
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I don't think I would want capes and cloaks if they always look like that...
From what I've seen with clothes physics I don't know if they can really do it right enough to look good with all the different movements a character can do.
I'll say the same of my 4GB GTX 670. That said, though, price difference between the two cards isn't what it was in the spring, making the 680 an even more tempting option for upgrade purposes now for anyone who's willing to spend past the 400$ range.
If I can afford a card with extra RAM, I'll grab one. Though the 760 actually has fewer processing cores than the 7870 I've been looking at, slightly lower clockrate too. I know nVidia is supposed to give slightly better performance per clock and per core, but the two cards should fairly comparable in most regards.
Extra RAM does make a substantial difference though.
The 7870 was actually one of the cards they recommended when I asked a month ago, and its a card that normally MSRP's at the 200USD or higher range. It just, goes on sale for less, intermittently. It'll probably go on sale more frequently in the coming months too, since AMD is reportedly going to be introducing their 9000 series in October, mostly skipping the 8000 moniker.
Anyhow, I'm very disinclined to spend more than I have to on a card, since I don't actually do all that much high end PC gaming. So the only thing really tempting about higher end cards, is the extra RAM. That can make a difference, if you're forcing your own anti-aliasing and other features onto a game.
You can do that with AMD cards too incidentally. I just, typically don't as a general practice, since my 6850 typically doesn't have the horsepower to spare. nVidia is supposed to be slightly better at this of course.
Of course, as these items will be bound to your account.
Relaxed Muscle
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Meeeeedic!
SoraanTribal
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Oh snap, they brought back Khimaira:
Looks like a nice updated model of the FFXI one.
Looks like a nice updated model of the FFXI one.
It was in 1.0 already, the final boss in the Cutter's Cry raid. Pesky boss haha.
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*fixed
It's called Chimera, and is the boss for Cutter's Cry. The version that appeared in Ul'dah was called Bixie.
Edit: beaten
SoraanTribal
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It looks a lot scarier than the one in FFXI, lol. Nice screenshots.
To be honest, the fight due to the engine of the previous version was really boring. As BLM you would just stand against the wall and cast cast cast, lots of ants would appear and just firaga them. Same for the tank and whms, stand agains the wall, in the right positions and stay there. The brd had a little bit more of fun moving closer to the whms and then back to the spot with the blms right outside Chimera's attack range. All this even when there were traps in the cave during the fight, and sand explosions and stuff.
As MNK the fight wasn't that much different, the tank engaged it, MNKs would stand on the sides and then go to the back trying to break the tail, when they did which was rather quick, everyone doing their combos non-stop although taking care of hate since that was hard work for the tank to keep it in place against 4-5 MNKs going all out. This was the speed-run way to fight it by the way.
Yes, lv 15 dungeon > 16 > 17 > 20 > 23 > 26 > 29 > 32 > 35 > 38 > 41 > 43 > 45 > 47 > 49. And then 3 lv 50 dungeons for your pre-raids grind.
You mainly level up with quests, FATE (public quests with varying objectives such as "kill the monsters", "defeat the boss" or "gather these items"), instanced dungeons, levequests (repeatable quests with vaying objectives), guildhest (instanced group quests with fun objectives) or your Hunting Log (kill X monsters and get a nice xp bonus). Grinding (in the FF11 sense) is not very efficient in this game.
The closest to it is instance dungeon grinding, there is no group EXP grinding, it is flat out impossible in this game the way its designed as monsters give a paltry amount of EXP aside from instanced dungeons and there is no endlessly repeatable quests that give EXP for grinding mobs (Guild Leves can give you a steady supply of EXP but its a mostly solo affair). You get most of your EXP from completing one shot quests and FATE battles with a sprinkling of Guildhest maybe which only gives decent EXP the first time you do them and spamming instanced dungeons.
Oh you can bet your ass that end game raids in ARR will be a grind fest just like the end game stuff in 1.0 was.
oh ok thanks. Didnt know she had already a concept art.
Theres some really nice pics in there. Loving the "led"-themed bows and
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It'd have more if the downtime wasn't going for so long, you need to tell Bayohne and Fernehalwes to at least do some random blog updates to keep us going until the 1st, because August can't come soon enough!
Unknown Soldier
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So many pages
Is there any good reason why owners of 1.0 CE who are not Legacy have no way of getting access to Head Start without buying the entire ARR CE game again? Why is there no Digital Upgrade package for like $20 or something which includes the Head Start, the 2 preorder items, and 30 days of play?
Robobandit
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I haven't been paying attention. Is August 1st confirmed Phase 4 start date?
Robobandit
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That's when they release the character creation benchmark.
They are supposedly going to announce the start of phase 4 during the next Live Letter from the Producer, which takes place on august 8th
BananasWithGuns
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August 1st is the new character creation benchmark.
August 8th is the new live letter.
Phase 4 will start sometime after the 8th, people seem to be thinking the 9th. Either way it should be shortly after the 8th.
Edit: Beaten
Ploid 3.0
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wait, this doesnt look like Garuda, right?
Me leveling smn, confirmed... ~D:
Look at the size of that thing. Goodness.
If size matters to you, you're going to be disappointed with Summoner.
SMNs aren't getting the Primals, they are getting Egis.
No way dude.
Yoshida hates the idea of having a godly being submit to a person so he is not making the Primals pets.
Besides there was still the idea of having Primals being summoned by a FC and affect the whole world at the moment they do. Wonder if that's still a thing.
They won't.
And I really don't want everyone running around with something the size of actual Primals behind them.
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