QisTopTier
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You missed out on everything as it's a continuation of the story.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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BUT Collectors Edition comes with swanky recap disk for our otherwise n00b-viewing pleasure!
...and/or YouTube
AuthenticM
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Damn. So... what's going to happen to my character ? I was a third through the main story, I believe. Will I be a third into the new story ? That would be weird...
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
No, everyone starts at the start of this story arc, it's a continuation so yeah wouldn't make sense for people to skip past it all and miss it.
During story events you will be scaled down to what ever level the event was tuned for
Theres a new live letter Thursday, where they will announce the next beta date. People hope will start Friday/this weekend.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
This is not correct
Augemitbutter
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Only way to pass the time till friday:
i need that. it's so fucking hot in here.
Phew. So where is best place to put in this preorder then? (not gamestop)
AuthenticM
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I see. Thanks. I guess I'll watch the original story on youtube.
Since you failed to defeat Nael van Darnus, your character got killed by Bahamut, to be more specific one of the debris from Dalamud fell on your character and got crushed
Yeah, it should be up some time before like at the start of phase 3. 2-3 days maybe.
Is there a link to a good youtube video that covers the 1.0 story? I only played 1.0 a little bit so never really got into the story at all so I'd like to get caught up just so I'm at least a bit informed on the lore of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22lISH6LYj-2JySwUlJ9dNYLdt1RjP1O
This playlist has all the story cutscenes from 1.0 launch until the last story cutscene from 1.23
I'm hopping on the US server, I've been saying it the entire time the amount of people ingame during the times I was playing were plenty to get a group going.
Relaxed Muscle
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Is not a problem of "there's plenty of people playing in my timezone" rather than "will be people to prepare and schedule end game content on a timely basis?"
And when I mean people I mean people I and you can trust and hang out without elitism or other rather poisonous MMO behaviors.
That said Ultros GAF should be fine, if enough ppl sticks long enough.
Riposte
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Actually, I'm saying the opposite of that. FCs seem designed for everyone. They make it seem a like quite a few way to gain points for the FC will be tied to helping new players or at least getting them to join. Stuff like getting exp bonuses from what you put into your FC's HQ also seem more geared toward lower leveled characters.
By the time housing comes out, people should already be 50, before then and until we see the -real- details about the FC benefits and workings, everything is just speculation and random comments.
Hopefully Thursday's stream will have detailed information about FCs, if not at least I hope they do a detailed post about them on the forums.
Morphine1680
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Riposte
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People who begin playing at launch will be, but FFXIV will likely see new (GAF) players all the time.
While we don't know the details, the general impression I can get from looking at many live letters and interviews is that FCs are not designed to be exclusively endgame.
Chie Satonaka
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Already answered, but no, not correct. They screwed me out of my preorder code, too. I'll be cancelling my order there. Amazon sent me the early access code within 15 seconds of me completing my transaction.
Still no preorder codes from amazon.de makes me kinda nervous :-/. I will be heartbroken when they fuck this up and I don't end up getting early access. The good part is, no one seems to have gotten a preorder code from amazon.de yet, so it probably is just amazon.de beeing slow bums.
Morphine1680
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You can always contact them and make sure it is suppose to be this way. You still have time to preorder from other places if in doubt
zer0blivion
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I think my current PC is just about tapped out. I have an i7 920 over clocked to 4GHz and a 6970 on which I'm in the process of installing a new cooler. With the stock cooler, I was able to boost up my gpu clock to 920 and memory to 1500, but with furmark it would reach about 100c by the end of the basic test. With that, the lowest framerate I got in the ffxiv benchmark at 1080p max settings was 30fps, during the scene where dudes are fighting imps and the camera pans around to the dudes on chocobo. I hope the new vga cooler allows me to bump it up a little further, but I'd be happy with 30fps minimum and no overheating. I bet I sound like a crazy person.
Why... would you have to?
SoraanTribal
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The only thing similar would be the scar. But even then, nothing else looks alike, so I think you're fine.
Relaxed Muscle
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Nah, he dosn't look like Squall.
I guess is because he has that bishonen kind of face, like Squall, but he really don't look like him.
Cause Squall is a whiny little mascara model! XD
I kid, though I'm not terribly fond of that character.
Xux
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The scar does seem to be there to make characters look like Squall. Yours looks a little too happy to be mistaken for him, though.
It does seem weird that the end game group thing would be so much larger.
If that makes you feel better, Amazon.fr claim they'll send their codes on the 16th.
Oh good, for a second I thought I was going to have to break out the Darth Vader "Nooo," gif.
Haint
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Can anyone comment on this?
Morphine1680
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Here are the updated results of that poll, looks like they took off those compromised votes:
Sample is 16k votes
Damn Gridania is losing
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p595UaZIEZMMZZRmTejNlEU_8WD7udPkqHaw_Oqtrec/viewform
Sample is 16k votes
Damn Gridania is losing
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p595UaZIEZMMZZRmTejNlEU_8WD7udPkqHaw_Oqtrec/viewform
....Yes, I'd probably do something drastic if that happened. >_<;;
The site where I pre-ordered from (ShopTo) has an option where you commit to buy the game from them, this way they won't accept any cancellation after you click on that option, they didn't charge me at that point tho.
So as soon as I committed to buy (since June), they gave me my code and now I'm just waiting to put it in the website.
theSlacker
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I think it's more the scar. Could put that same scar across a taco and people would say you are trying to make squall.
Here are the updated results of that poll, looks like they took off those compromised votes:
Looks like it's still:
Unknown Soldier
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I have added an informal FAQ and the official GAF server lists to the Steam group front page. I hope this will reduce the amount of same questions being asked, you can just direct people to it.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ffxiv-gaf/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ffxiv-gaf/
Here are the updated results of that poll, looks like they took off those compromised votes:
for a new job
summoner not very popular
jeez i wonder why
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Shame I couldn't spring for the Collectors Edition just for the Coeurl Mount and Behemoth barding which are both awesome. Hope theres plenty of other mounts and cool bardings so I don't feel like I've missed out too much.
My first paid up MMO sub locked in. Never thought I'd see the day. Guess remade Eorzea and dat lighting engine just has enough pull on me.
My first paid up MMO sub locked in. Never thought I'd see the day. Guess remade Eorzea and dat lighting engine just has enough pull on me.
Haint
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I was thinking more along the lines of Amazon or Best Buy who have presumably never done stuff like you're referring to. I mean I paid $80 for fucking 1.0 CE, we should get early access after that broke ass shell of a game.
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