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Final Fantasy XIV Alpha Discussion

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Pai Pai Master

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Jinko said:
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LMFAO I was guna go female Lalafell but that has sold me.
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lol wtf, how'd he get facial hair on his character, there was no option.
 
notworksafe

notworksafe

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notworksafe said:
Okay! Here's the first five of the movies I recorded. Have at it guys!

All of them are in 720p. I cut off the character creation early, for obvious reasons, but you didn't miss much after that. I just picked my starting city (only one was available) and logged in.

Major thanks to Gromph for hosting these!

http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/character_creation.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene1.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene2.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene3.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene4.wmv
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Just reposting for a new page. I added them to the OP as well.
 
K

Kandinsky

Member
notworksafe said:
Okay! Here's the first five of the movies I recorded. Have at it guys!

All of them are in 720p. I cut off the character creation early, for obvious reasons, but you didn't miss much after that. I just picked my starting city (only one was available) and logged in.

Major thanks to Gromph for hosting these!

http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/character_creation.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene1.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene2.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene3.wmv
http://91.121.82.119/ffxivmovies/cutscene4.wmv
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Any of them have the tutorial/battle part in the boat?
 
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Jinko

Member
Pai Pai Master said:
lol wtf, how'd he get facial hair on his character, there was no option.
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It's an NPC I think, but looks promising :), its also a Dunesfolk by the looks of his eyes.
 
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B-Dex

Member
So far my only major gripe is with the "FFXI slide down cliffs/ledges" problem. No jumping, no step-up animations when you encounter a ledge that isn't too high so you have to run around it, and falling straight down edges and cliffs.
 
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Jinko

Member
B-Dex said:
So far my only major gripe is with the "FFXI slide down cliffs/ledges" problem. No jumping, no step-up animations when you encounter a ledge that isn't too high so you have to run around it, and falling straight down edges and cliffs.
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They don't really need a jump button, they could have a passive jump similar to FF13 so when you hit a ledge you just jump off it.

Problem with jumping and swimming is that it can lead to massive glitches and bug like lalafell's getting stuck in trees :p
 
Gromph

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It's np for hosting they :)

When i finish editing will upload the rest.
 
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B-Dex

Member
Jinko said:
They don't really need a jump button, they could have a passive jump similar to FF13 so when you hit a ledge you just jump off it.

Problem with jumping and swimming is that it can lead to massive glitches and bug like lalafell's getting stuck in trees :p
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I Don't really care that there isn't any jumping. But the same weird edge/cliff thing in a new game on a completely different engine? If they don't want to add jumping I think a system like FFXIII (just remove the circular marks that scream you can jump here) or even the last couple of Zeldas where it auto-jumps for you would be good.

EDIT: If I am not mistaken I think LoTRO has a sliding animation if you go down steep slopes. Even just adding that would be better than falling straight down without any animation.
 
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LaneDS

Member
notworksafe- Thanks for the vids! What are your PC specs? Cutscenes ran better on your machine than the YouTube vid I saw yesterday.
 
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Teknoman

Member
I just cant over how great the standard battle music sounds. Then again, I expected that with him coming off Lost Odyssey.

EDIT: Nice, videos are up. Downloading now.
 
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Freyjadour

Member
notworksafe said:
Ooh nice! Next NA Alpha test is on the 13th! Unfortunately I have to redownload the whole Alpha client because Square didn't build in a way for it to be updated
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You are shitting me.
 
notworksafe

notworksafe

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Freyjadour said:
You are shitting me.
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Nope. Are you running the Alpha now? I guess Square's method is to re-run the ffxivsetup.exe and use the uninstall option. At some point I believe they will post when to redownload the Alpha client.

LaneDS said:
notworksafe- Thanks for the vids! What are your PC specs? Cutscenes ran better on your machine than the YouTube vid I saw yesterday.
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Not especially great, but not bad.

I'm running a late-2008 Macbook Pro in Boot Camp (Windows 7 32bit)
2.4ghz Core2Duo
2gb RAM
256mb GeForce 8800
 
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LaneDS

Member
notworksafe said:
Not especially great, but not bad.

I'm running a late-2008 Macbook Pro in Boot Camp (Windows 7 32bit)
2.4ghz Core2Duo
2gb RAM
256mb GeForce 8800
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Nice, in-game did it also run alright?
 
notworksafe

notworksafe

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LaneDS said:
Nice, in-game did it also run alright?
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Eh. 15-25 FPS. There needs to be some optimization done on that end because a lot of people were having in-game issues unless they had beastly machines.
 
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Freyjadour

Member
notworksafe said:
Nope. Are you running the Alpha now? I guess Square's method is to re-run the ffxivsetup.exe and use the uninstall option. At some point I believe they will post when to redownload the Alpha client.
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Yep. That is almost funny if it weren't such a pain in the ass.

notworksafe said:
Eh. 15-25 FPS. There needs to be some optimization done on that end because a lot of people were having in-game issues unless they had beastly machines.
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I'm running a brand new high end Desktop and I got around the same FPS unless I could get away from people.
 
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desa

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Teknoman said:
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Wonder what combat skills an Armorer would have, especially if Blacksmith already repairs armor.
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What are the jobs for the disciple of the land again? Miner and woodsmith?
 
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Rocwell

Member
Teknoman said:
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Wonder what combat skills an Armorer would have, especially if Blacksmith already repairs armor.[/QUOTE]
In the crafting system in ffxi you often needed to level additional craft skills to make stuff, like if there was a gold cloth ingredient in the plate mail recipe you needed sufficient skill in cloth or your synths would bust.

Maybe an armorer skill is kind of an answer to that? Rather than having to level 3 different crafts to synth armor you can just choose this skill and take the raw materials made by other skills and put them together?

[QUOTE=desa]What are the jobs for the disciple of the land again? Miner and woodsmith?[/QUOTE]Miner, botanist, and fisher.
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Pai Pai Master

Banned
Armorer is likely the heavy-armor version of Weaver. i.e. Weaver makes cloth/light armor, armorer makes metal/heavy armor. Blacksmith repairs armors/weapons.

Guess we won't know for sure until later, though. Only abilities present in the alpha have been leaked via .dat mining, correct?
 
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Chris R

Member
notworksafe said:
Not yet. Anything that has a name showing is still being edited.
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Thanks for doing this dude. Can't wait to see the battle system in motion since I missed out on the live streams last night.
 
Gromph

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rhfb said:
Thanks for doing this dude. Can't wait to see the battle system in motion since I missed out on the live streams last night.
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I'm encoding the battle video right now...
3GB uncompressed :)
Takes time couse i need to animate the blur so the name is shadow all the clip :)
 
notworksafe

notworksafe

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Gromph said:
I'm encoding the battle video right now...
3GB uncompressed :)
Takes time couse i need to animate the blur so the name is shadow all the clip :)
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Yeah sorry about that. Sending the raw files probably wasn't the best call. :lol
 
Gromph

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notworksafe said:
Yeah sorry about that. Sending the raw files probably wasn't the best call. :lol
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No no, the firstbattle_tam was fine around 24 MB

Adding the blur and motion and publish in avi = 5GB

Compress in Xvid = 30 Mb+- :)

So is ok :)
 
A

Achtius

Member
Jinko said:
The Twelve info
[im g]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6681/thetwelve.jpg[/img]
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Some elements appear twice...I wonder what effect does choosing a guardian have

VVV

you're right. *Facepalm at myself*
 
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Teknoman

Member
Can someone explain how you fight in detail (button presses, etc.) because even after watching that video, i'm still not clear.

EDIT: Emotes seems like it wont download completely.
 
Gromph

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Forgot one video, uploading before i go to bed.


Teknoman said:
Can someone explain how you fight in detail (button presses, etc.) because even after watching that video, i'm still not clear.

EDIT: Emotes seems like it wont download completely.
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Try now.
 
S

Soroc

Member
Thanks guys! These look fantastic!

I know there is only one big region available now in alpha, is it all open and persistent or is it chunked and instanced?
 
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