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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August

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Filth said:
any1 know when you had to register your code by? im trying to do it today and it says registration is down. i could of sword it was before the 30th
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Wait, register what code? I purchased via GMG but went to the website and says they will send an email when I can register the game.
 
dramatis said:
It would be nice if they'd just let us save multiple HUD configurations so we can just switch them according to situation.
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I agree. I feel like I might be switching between controller and kb/m depending on what I am doing and finding a layout that works well for both of these things is bleh since the controller interface display is so huge. In phase 3 it was larger than 3 rows of action bars stacked on top of each other. I will see how it goes with the re-size options.
 
major_killjoy said:
Someone from Reddit has brought this up:

Reminder: Make sure the account you use for P4 is the same region as your Pre-Order!

Hm. I checked my region for my SE account and it says US. Is it even possible for me to have accidentally used a EU beta code to play Phase 3? I'm a little bit paranoid now.
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I think you need to create a NA account to use a NA registration/beta code, that's all, if you signed up for NA beta and created an NA account, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Some people signed up for both NA/EU beta and received the EU code, so they probably made an EU account.
 
Khrno said:
EB Games Canada have an special bonus for pre-orders (besides the in-game items and early access).

Note: the bonus banner is for all versions, not just the CE.
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Kinda surprised they're using that Roegadyn art for that. I love the race but the numbers kinda conflict with it as a marketing thing. ...Guess I have to hand it to them for going against market research and whatever. Unless they just believe Murricans'd just like the big guy race more, I guess.
 
Anteater said:
I think you need to create a NA account to use a NA registration/beta code, that's all, if you signed up for NA beta and created an NA account, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Some people signed up for both NA/EU beta and received the EU code, so they probably made an EU account.
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Thanks for clearing this up. : )

I'd just hate to be in the shoes of someone who zerg-leveled in Phase 4 and subsequently end up not being able to use that character for early access/release.
 
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More or less what im thinking of making mine look like. Will be smaller since the sim doesn't allow us to scale anything. Hoping for actionbar paging, so i'll only need 1 horizontal bar and just use a modifer key to have access to other bars.
 
Unknown Soldier said:
So much mad here, just stawhp!

No one would ever made a Rate my Lala thread, because honestly who cares? :3
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Clearly TenshiInoue is your SE forum name or an alt account of yours. Besides we Lalafells are too busy getting shit done in Eorzea instead of looking at ourselves in the mirror.
 
fluffydelusions said:
Wait, register what code? I purchased via GMG but went to the website and says they will send an email when I can register the game.
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They are talking about phase 4 beta which you need to sign up separately for,
to get keys, link should be in the end of the gmg email

The actual game registration is later
 
I'm trying to keep my facts straight as I get a little flavorful with my city descriptions... IIRC there was a "first" grand company revival which inspired the others. Was it Gridania's Order of the Twin Adders? I do know Kan-E-Senna was essential for getting them all together.
 
I looked in Phase3 but couldn't find a way to separate the enemy cast bar from their big health bar. did SE say anything about allowing us to customize that?
 
I don't think they look bad, they're just too small. You can't really tell from those pictures. I wish they were at least noticeably larger than Carbuncle and/or the Scholar pet.

Edit: They actually do seem larger in those pictures. Not sure if that's actually the case or not though.
 
Yeah, the Egis look pretty cool - I like the stylized reduction shit they've got going on with them.

Wondering how you change them, though? Because it doesn't seem like it'd make sense for them to be treated like standard abilities. Especially with more coming in future updates.

Maybe you equip something in the ammo slot or something?
 
Ravidrath said:
Yeah, the Egis look pretty cool - I like the stylized reduction shit they've got going on with them.

Wondering how you change them, though? Because it doesn't seem like it'd make sense for them to be treated like standard abilities. Especially with more coming in future updates.

Maybe you equip something in the ammo slot or something?
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Hm...interesting idea...but I feel they will work as stances skills or something similar.
 
Ravidrath said:
Yeah, the Egis look pretty cool - I like the stylized reduction shit they've got going on with them.

Wondering how you change them, though? Because it doesn't seem like it'd make sense for them to be treated like standard abilities. Especially with more coming in future updates.

Maybe you equip something in the ammo slot or something?
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There was a dev post on the Beta forums awhile back that mentioned that a seperate action bar comes up for ACN pets to use their abilities. So that leaves room for summoning the pets to be all that's on the ACN action bar.

Also, SMN and SCH lose access to the Carbuncle twins so that's two slots right there opened up.
 
Jinko said:
I assume SMN will have to quest for their pets, defeating primals hopefully.
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Yeah, I'm sure they'll have job quests like everyone else, lol.

I wonder if they've changed the job quests much with level sync and what not in the game.
 
Yoshi posted about the latency/AoE attack issue that's been a hot topic.

Quote of the important parts for those who can't access forums yet:
When Ifrit used eruption in phase 3, the animation had a momentary build-up before the explosion. Because of this momentary buildup, there was a slight delay between the server's check and the explosion. This has already been corrected for phase 4 and release.

1. Registering Player Damage

In phase 3, when judging whether a character was standing in an attack's area of impact, your position was checked using a circle around your character to represent the space your character stands in.

Furthermore, to keep the different races balanced, the radius of this circle was the same for all characters. Because of this, even if you appeared to have barely escaped the area of effect, a portion of the circle was still within range. This created the illusion that you barely evaded attack, with varying results depending on your race.
For phase 4 and release, this circle has been reduced to a single point at the center of where your character is standing to more accurately determine your position.

2. Enemy Progress Bars and Area of Impact

Being an online game, there will always be a minimal delay when input is received from the player and sent back after being processed by the server.
In FFXIV: ARR, your position is checked by the server once every 0.3 seconds. This timing is synced and processed according to the servers to prevent lag between your input and what you see.

During phase 3, however, this syncing did not take place due to stringent server checks that took place, causing lag between what you saw on the enemy progress bar and your character's positioning. As a result, even if you appeared to be outside the area of impact when the progress bar was filled, damage was still taken.

Adjustments are being made to reduce lag as much as possible, and syncing should improve the timing between enemy cast bars, area of effect markers, and the actual attacks.
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Meh.
Good the ridicolous part is fixed, but checks every 0.3 seconds on evading is still 0-300ms, which are randomly added to input\server lag.. meh.
 
Ceylon said:
Are you sure you're using the right URL? I don't think you can do it directly from your account.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/preparebeta/index_en.html - Scroll down and click "Click here to register your beta registration code" and it should work.

(If you're talking about a P4 Beta Code that is, which seems to be the case?)
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I'm using that link. It's telling me my beta code is from the wrong region? I signed up saying I'm from USA and my account is usa. I'm not understanding why it's not working.
 
Aureon said:
Meh.
Good the ridicolous part is fixed, but checks every 0.3 seconds on evading is still 0-300ms, which are randomly added to input\server lag.. meh.
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0.3s is much, much better than the almost 1.5s delay I had. I want to try it out before dismissing it as 'meh'.
 
Its stupid how excited I am for this. I played FFXI for so long and I get that same feeling in the pit of my stomach when something new shows up on this game. Less then a month away..
 
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