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[Aeana]

omggg Leviathan clip.

 

[raven777]

OMG at Leviathan

 

[chrono01]

Leviathan looks great. Apparently the stage sways/moves, as well.

 

[EndcatOmega]

RIP melee.

 

[Stuart444]

That was quick but got one screencap of Leviathan:

 

[Ken]

Same thing came to my mind, dunno why anyone would bother with CT anymore. Especially since you can run Coil so much faster.

For sure, but at least CT is still doable with pugs. Even with the supposed Echo system, that really doesn't prevent rot wipes and probably won't be enough to brute force Turn 4's puzzle-ish encounter design with DF pugs.

And even ignoring that running CT for the vanity stuff is still something.

 

[chrono01]

Footage of Turns 6-9!!

 

[Kagari]

ahhh more jumping.

 

[chrono01]

ahhh more jumping.

The nightmares begin anew.

 

[Stuart444]

Quick shot of the new dungeon and the new coil turn (sorry, too fast to get more than one screencap a clip):

Sorry for low quality as well, quality is worse during movement when screencapping

 

[Unknown Soldier]

ahhh more jumping.

I hope you enjoyed the Sonic level Turn 3 because there's more coming like it!

 

[desu]

Well, CT's gear is going to be fairly worthless once 2.2 hits anyway... but I think the fact that you can do CT and sleep through it will still appeal to people.

Coil 1-4 is super easy to farm, in the time you need to complete CT you can clear all 4 turns with more and better loot. Always these lazy people!

 

[Aeana]

Coil 1-4 is super easy to farm, in the time you need to complete CT you can clear all 4 turns with more and better loot. Always these lazy people!

Well, you don't have to tell me that. My group completes turn 1-4 in a little over 30 minutes on average.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Now they're just sitting around shooting the breeze. Either show us more stuff or end this letter, it's been an hour and a half already!

 

[desu]

The difficulty of dive bombs is positioning since the wall is OHKO regardless of ilv. Secondly, the Twisters are OHKO too I believe? So it's just mechanics like that which still prevent groups from doing T5 for whatever reason.

Quite honestly, neither Divebomb nor Twisters are exactly hard mechanics, if people get stuck on these than the game might be just too hard for them, no matter what they will nerf.

 

[chrono01]

Wait, Takai increased the size of Fire 1/Fireball and I didn't know!? It wasn't even mentioned in the patch notes?

O_O

DAMN IT! PS4 exclusive CE bonus items, including a Wind Up Moogle minion and Fat Chocobo Mount?

DAMN IT!

 

[Aeana]

Glad that the PS4 CE bonuses are the same as the others, so I don't have to worry about that. (._. )
EDIT: DAMN IT I spoke too soon!

 

[raven777]

PS4 version box art:

 

[kiryogi]

ROFL, fuck this, not triple dipping XD Next ARR LE for me will be expansion.

edit: oooh looks like we don't have to get the CE to get those goodies. For previous CE owners?

 

[chrono01]

Glad that the PS4 CE bonuses are the same as the others, so I don't have to worry about that. (._. )
EDIT: DAMN IT I spoke too soon!

Wait, current CE owners get the new items!!!

Whew!

 

[Unknown Soldier]

FAT CHOCOBO

As expected, PS4 beta will start the day Greatness Arrives in Japan, 2/22/14.

 

[Aeana]

Oh good. These items will be available to people who already bought the PS3/PC CE.

 

[Mature]

This fat chocobo changes everything.

 

[GraveRobberX]

OMFG!

 

[Aeana]

4/14/2014 will be the release date of the PS4 version.

 

[Ken]

PS4 version box art:

ugly ugly ugly

 

[Aeana]

ugly ugly ugly

Minfilia looks out of place

 

[kiryogi]

Taking on ESO

 

[Stuart444]

PS4 package art:

PS4 CE bonuses:

Release date:

 

[Unknown Soldier]

4/14/2014 official release date of PS4 version.

I guess they're just about done here.

 

[chrono01]

Next Live Letter scheduled for March.

 

[Aeana]

Man, the second half is over a month away. :\

 

[Ken]

Minfilia looks out of place

Tons of other issues with it too.

 

[chrono01]

Realm Reborn OST information!

Over six hours of music...

 

[tiggerkiddo]

Fat chocobo...<3

 

[Unknown Soldier]

OMG SOUNDTRACK RELEASE

 

[chrono01]

March 27th release for the OST!

 

[Aeana]

Don't really get why the soundtrack will release after patch 2.2 but only include music through 2.1.

 

[kiryogi]

Don't really get why the soundtrack will release after patch 2.2 but only include music through 2.1.

Before Meteor was out during ARR and that's all 1.x music. Production and marketing reasons most likely. Although, Soken said something about ARR OST itself was so immense it could be 2 blurays.

 

[Stuart444]

Because it's a BD, you can't rip the songs straight into itunes from it can you? (at least not without a BD drive)

 

[chrono01]

Never mind, apparently the release is for the 26th?

Also, the Bahamut minion looks great.

Because it's a BD, you can't rip the songs straight into itunes from it can you? (at least not without a BD drive)

If it's similar to the Before Meteor soundtrack, you can get a "code/URL" from the menu in the PS3/PS4 and use that to download MP3 versions of the songs.

 

[Aeana]

Before Meteor was out during ARR and that's all 1.x music.

Yeah but they might as well include the 2.2 stuff.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Because it's a BD, you can't rip the songs straight into itunes from it can you? (at least not without a BD drive)

Before Meteor came with all the tracks in a directory in MP3 format, you just put the disc in your PC and copied the tracks over. There wasn't any kind of copy protection on those tracks. They were 320kbps MP3s too, they didn't skimp on the quality. But uh you still needed a BD drive in your PC to get to that directory.

 

[Stuart444]

Never mind, apparently the release is for the 26th?

Also, the Bahamut minion looks great.


If it's similar to the Before Meteor soundtrack, you can get a "code/URL" from the menu in the PS3/PS4 and use that to download MP3 versions of the songs.

Well that's better than nothing, can you take the songs from it via USB then?

I love a lot of the tracks so it's tempting to order this.

edit:

Before Meteor came with all the tracks in a directory in MP3 format, you just put the disc in your PC and copied the tracks to over. There wasn't any kind of copy protection on those tracks. They were 320kbps MP3s too, they didn't skimp on the quality. But uh you still needed a BD drive in your PC to get to that directory.

Oh, awesome then

 

[Aeana]

The timing on all of this stuff is wrong. These guides won't even get a month of being current before they're completely outdated.

 

[chrono01]

Well that's better than nothing, can you take the songs from it via USB then?

I love a lot of the tracks so it's tempting to order this.

You mean after you download it from the PC? Yeah, you can do whatever with them afterwards, they're not copy-protected.

The URL they gave you also gave 320kbps versions of the songs, so it's essentially the same as the method Unknown Soldier posted [well, the same outcome anyway].

 

[Stuart444]

You mean after you download it from the PC? Yeah, you can do whatever with them afterwards, they're not copy-protected.

Haha, I thought you meant you download them on the PS3, not the PC. Sorry about that

So yeah, think I'll pre-order this asap

 

[kiryogi]

Well as the event hints at the end and here, looks there could be more Shantotto!

 

[GraveRobberX]

For those LTTP or just want all the new from Live Letter aggregated

Took info/pics from this thread and presented it better

Patch 2.16 drops on February 22 to release with the PS4 (Beta) launch in Japan

2.2 Info:

Leviathan Arena:

Leviathan Barding:

Ruins of Amdapoor (new dungeon):

Coil Turns 6, 7, 8, 9

*No Turn 3 Trolling, All 4 Turns are Battles*

2.2 and Beyond!:

Wrap-Up:

Recap:

Turn 1-5 weekly lock out is removed, can be run as many times as you like, whatever Turn you like
Also accessible through DF now
If you fail Turns, you get Echo (buff), will stay until you defeat it
Sahagin (Levithan) and Kobold (Titan) beastmen dailies
Pharos Sirius is getting nerfed, Ruins on Amdapoor will be tougher than PS was when it was released

CT will get fucked over when 2.2 comes, why chase ilvl80 gear and get 1 piece per week, when you can just DF Coil Turns 1-5 freely for ilvl90 gear and deck yourself out...

New Allagan Tomes coming (most likely for AF2) to go along with Turn 6-9 Drops that will be Coil 2 gear

_________________________

PS4 CE

If you got PS3 CE already, you get this as you upgrade, if you had vanilla, can buy CE upgrade and get it.
PS4 release 4/14/14

Blu-ray OST:

DAT Minion!

Hope that's OK

 

[chrono01]

Haha, I thought you meant you download them on the PS3, not the PC. Sorry about that

So yeah, think I'll pre-order this asap

Yeah it's a bit weird to obtain, but it worked well enough!

Some great music in there, for sure. I look forward to the new OST.