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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| World Full. Try again later. Please Understand
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Just seeing that map frustrates and enrages me.
Horrid. Absolutely horrid. I'm glad I started in Limsa.
Yep you can download.
The retail disc just dumps it all onto the HDD anyway. The game never runs off the disc.
You're a freak! It's so confusing. ;_;
The world itself is pretty awesome in how it's built and how different groups interact with one another and the players. Out side of the quests that actually progress the story, most of them are trivial at best and can be somewhat annoying at how much you need to travel to do some pretty simple things. Especially since SE uses the Linkshell to allow NPCs to communicate over large distances with no problem. Right now it's the money sink set up for the game.
The only other quest disparity I see is the strange quests used during the main one that include some pretty basic tasks fit for a commoner, not someone who slays primals, dragons, and other threats to the entire realm. I slayed Ifrit, why am I throwing water on a drunk or doing dances for lettuce people?
The main story though really picks up around halfway through and more of the inbetween quests seem to deal more with the overall story, not just filler.
letterboxart
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I was sitting outside Haukke Manor scrolling through the combat log last night and saw this when I scrolled back down:
Anyway, what a cool instance. This is probably the first dungeon that we didn't just zerg down. The story was a lot darker than I expected (in FF), but it was a nice contrast to the general tone of Gridania. Also, the lighting at the entrance is pretty amazing. What a way to greet new players:
Haha... what? It was probably just a typo, but now I can't unsee it. I mean, what would be worse... the cat hair or the chafing?
Anyway, what a cool instance. This is probably the first dungeon that we didn't just zerg down. The story was a lot darker than I expected (in FF), but it was a nice contrast to the general tone of Gridania. Also, the lighting at the entrance is pretty amazing. What a way to greet new players:
Massive Duck. C.M.
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You have to hit 20 first.
I think it's a pretty easy city to navigate too. Ul'dah's more confusing to me.
I did spend close to 30 minutes learning the lay of the place, though.
Others will expand on this for sure, but I do recall servers being full and some zones crashing. Nothing to the effect of accounts getting borked, no ability to download or update clients, or other more fundamental issues like contacting support at all.
Catastrophic I would relate in parrallel to Anarchy Online in general.
Reminds me a bit of Mistmoore Castle in EQ2 - which is a good thing
Variety, world building, bits of levity that help the major encounters truly stand out. Unless the game is lacking in meaningful epic encounters and dungeons, this sort of stuff is genuinely beneficial to round out the experience and not make it purely a string of monster encounters.
You can download it on PSN, but new sales are closed off until server load issues are resolved, likely next week. If you can't wait, you can go buy a physical copy in the meanwhile.
still early....
Rockandrollclown
lookwhatyou'vedone
So for dungeons, I imagine they get more difficult around 30? 30 onwards I assume having your job is about mandatory?
While true, some of it is, again, ridiculous. While seeing the group come together was pretty awesome, the quest to
get cheese and wine
fighting the boulder.
Really, it feels like there's too much padding and not enough world building in a good chunk of these quests.
Huh? I use filters every day and I only play with the controller. I wouldn't be able to participate in FATEs without my enemies only filter.
Filth
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Manor wasn't hard but I'd say it was a nice change of pace. The music is fantastic.
Filters do not work for me either (I'm using a 360 controller, well I WAS, I got fed up and switched to keyboard).
What's the problem?
Brayflox is a little more difficult, but not much than other dungeons up to that point. You really only need to worry about poison there. The hardest dungeon I have run though is Sunken Temple of Qarn. There are mob and boss mechanics that take a coordinated party with decent gear to tackle. It was a blast to run.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Aeana, how do you have your filter options set? I thought I set mine up to ignore squirrels by only targeting enemies when my weapon is pulled, but it still does.
Reposting.
TheContact
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in the back of your game manual is the 12 digit code, once you register that to PSN, it recognizes you have the game, and when you log in to square enix account through the ps3, it will ask you to sync your beta account to your new full account.
Targeting friendly npcs is the problem for me.
Was finally able to get onto Odin EU, where most of the guys I play MMOs with are. Really enjoying it so far. Although I think the mapping system is a bit strange and hard to keep track sometimes. Other than that though, the game is pretty damn solid. Didn't play XIV 1.0 , but I have heard some horror stories. Please enjoy my very stylish Miqo'te 
centracore
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Would you be able to post a screenshot of your targeting settings? I can't seem to get them to work as intended but I'm probably just doing something wrong.
Baleoce
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To people using controller who can't get rid of friendly NPC targetting whilst weapon is drawn:
Character Configuration > Control Settings > Filters > Target Filter Settings > While Weapon is Drawn (Untick NPCs/Objects) > Apply
You can help yourself out here by getting used to making sure you're in fighting stance with L3 before you engage in battle.
If you *really* want to get used to this, then go to Character Configuration > Control Settings > Character > Auto-sheathe weapon when not in battle (untick)
This way you won't have to worry about it auto-unsheathing mid FATE if you can't target one quickly enough, and it gets you used to toggling with L3 more (just got to make sure you don't have a target first, or it'll just lock onto them).
Character Configuration > Control Settings > Filters > Target Filter Settings > While Weapon is Drawn (Untick NPCs/Objects) > Apply
You can help yourself out here by getting used to making sure you're in fighting stance with L3 before you engage in battle.
If you *really* want to get used to this, then go to Character Configuration > Control Settings > Character > Auto-sheathe weapon when not in battle (untick)
This way you won't have to worry about it auto-unsheathing mid FATE if you can't target one quickly enough, and it gets you used to toggling with L3 more (just got to make sure you don't have a target first, or it'll just lock onto them).
Should be a gear icon next to your chat window.
by using /tell forename surname. You can also right click/option menu a highlighted person or search to bring up that prompt.
I'm curious about this as well, outside of doing the whole right click -> send tell thing.
In addition, is there a quick response key (like r in wow) to hit and automatically start responding to your last tell?
I got a Roe Lancer I'll post later today. Also, is there like a "screenshot mode" for PC? Like where I can hide the HUD?
Click on the gear icon at the bottom of the chat and select General under Log Filters and uncheck Shout.
The market on our server is so useless. It's almost not even worth leveling crafts like Armorer and Blacksmith considering you can buy almost all the gear from npc's now. Can't even make a dollar and people are competing so much for selling high end gear that gear with materia is barely bringing in 15k.
Not only that as a armorer the most valuable stuff the Darksteel gear requires Darksteel Ingots which require 9 coke that cost 125 tomes like its so ridiculous that it isn't even worth the effort. Not only that the selling of stacks only is such a poor decision like I didn't think they could make the market place worse than 1.0 but congratulations you have SE.
Not only that as a armorer the most valuable stuff the Darksteel gear requires Darksteel Ingots which require 9 coke that cost 125 tomes like its so ridiculous that it isn't even worth the effort. Not only that the selling of stacks only is such a poor decision like I didn't think they could make the market place worse than 1.0 but congratulations you have SE.
Shouta
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Are you on Excalibur now or some other server?
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