HappyBivouac
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I'm fairly certain they'll be using different server names for retail. They always used different server names for test servers in ffxi.
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Final Fantasy XIV Beta Discussion + Media
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Playing FFXI the controls feel fine. My only issue is the camera control which I hope they move back to the arrow keys. I never use the mouse for XI so not using the mouse for XIV feels fine.Kirashi said:
Tried using the PS3 controller and I did not like it. Keyboard only ftw.
HappyBivouac
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Kirashi said:
It's in beta, and they've been testing different control schemes. People have been going crazy complaining about the way it is right now, so they'll change it.
Protip: move using numpad, not wasd. It's a lot less clumsy, since you can lock onto mobs using the numpad, then take your left hand off the camera controls for battle and have your left hand on the numbers for actions, and right hand on the numpad for movement. It works out decently if you're used to numpad movement, but it's still not as good as ffxi or wow controls.
sky said:
La Noscea is really big. There is a place called Casseopia Hollow that I want to check out in the zone though. Same with a bay section that looks like it has Drakes. Not sure if anyone has covered the entire zone yet...
But once I get situated on Shadowlord, thats the first thing i'm going for.
MomoPufflet
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Teknoman said:
thanks
The armor system seems to be alot more lenient too. I mean, i'm a lancer running around with a mage hat. Kind of reminds me of Dragon Quest IX, where most armor pieces are universal except a few gender specific items, job specific items, or items that are just better with certain jobs than others.
Hopefully the dye/color edit system is easy to use.
Hopefully the dye/color edit system is easy to use.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
You should be able to wear whatever the hell you want, IMO. Leave it up to the players if they wanna be jackasses and go tank mobs in mage gear.
HappyBivouac
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It'd be end up a balancing nightmare I think.
But since they're more keen on players making their own classes, maybe it could work.
But since they're more keen on players making their own classes, maybe it could work.
HappyBivouac
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Teknoman said:
Thinking in FFXI terms...
Byakko's Haidate is a great leg piece for the jobs that can wear it. The DEX+15 is fairly nice for those jobs, so they wanted to put it on there. But if suddenly the piece was available to THF, it would be a completely broken item for that job. (though SE could throw THFs a bone or two...)
It just seems like they'd have to take too many things into account and end up limiting themselves where gear stats are all relatively similar.
To me it's something that at first sounds like it could be cool but would lead to headaches down the road.
New update:
Ok, here is a workaround for anyone who didnt make to the last update.
Download the SquareEnix.rar file and extract to FFXIV instalation folder, then launch FFXIV and i will update to the last one (small file)
Ok, here is a workaround for anyone who didnt make to the last update.
Download the SquareEnix.rar file and extract to FFXIV instalation folder, then launch FFXIV and i will update to the last one (small file)
thanks for the heads up on the update doing it now so I wont have to tomorrow.
Tek and all other shadowlord people, I wont be able to play until the 2nd test period but as soon as I get on I want to start killing mobs for exp.
I will most likely stay in the area just as you leave town until we get a party going so look for me there.
Tek and all other shadowlord people, I wont be able to play until the 2nd test period but as soon as I get on I want to start killing mobs for exp.
I will most likely stay in the area just as you leave town until we get a party going so look for me there.
HappyBivouac said:
i know to use numpad for movement, i played ff11 for 4 years.
i don't exactly remember how camera was controled in ff11 however it wasn't as tedious as ijkl control, and since my hand is on numpad, there's no way i'll be using the mouse. maybe wasd could been camera instead of secondary movement?
or maybe numpad 7 9 can be camera control (but what about up and down?), and we all know 7 is the beloved auto run in ff11 (which still is the case now)
O and, the active/passive thing. .... it took like 4 second after pressing f for the animation to start, very ;/
i'll try more tomorrow (or rather later today) when beta starts again... the action is WAY SLOW ;/
I launched it and it says it is downloading 07.05...
But I launched it last time and had it on 07.12
Should I not be running the updater now?
*Wait no it says 07.14
It was the boot version I was looking at.
Looks like the patch files are:
D2010.07.14.2000
D2010.07.14.2001 (Of course all peers are stuck at 84.2% :lol )
D2010.07.15.2000
if that is all I can UL them to mediafire.
15.5MB total
If someone can remind me how/where to install/place the patchs and run the updater.exe? that would be great.
But I launched it last time and had it on 07.12
Should I not be running the updater now?
*Wait no it says 07.14
It was the boot version I was looking at.
Looks like the patch files are:
D2010.07.14.2000
D2010.07.14.2001 (Of course all peers are stuck at 84.2% :lol )
D2010.07.15.2000
if that is all I can UL them to mediafire.
15.5MB total
If someone can remind me how/where to install/place the patchs and run the updater.exe? that would be great.
Nose Master
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Gromph said:
Wait so, you're gonna host the newest little patch seperate on top of the squareenix.rar one? Cause that'd make me love you even more
Seriously though, I fucking love you for doing this, man. I probably wouldn't be able to play tomorrow otherwise.
2h 20mLonda said:
Here's 100%* of the patch. If you put it in the directory under my documents then patch FFXIV it should work ok
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzmiwngjzwvnt5j
Hopefully that works, if it doesn't don't blame me. Got me to the menu screen at least...
Unknown Soldier
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desa said:
That's some lethal guano. :lol :lol :lol
Azure Dream
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I've spent since Monday night trying to download the patches. I finally just found the link here this morning to download the 7/12 3 gig patch, so I did... now it wants to download another 3 Gig patch (H2010.07.15.2000.patch), and by the time it'll be done, today's beta testing will be over too. What a mess.
It's 15MB. If you've updated and installed the 7.12 patch you are ok.Kulock said:
07.15 patch: http://www.mediafire.com/?wzmiwngjzwvnt5j
Azure Dream
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Hazaro said:
I figured it was trying to redownload the whole thing with the recent changes rolled in, but how do I force it to install the 7/12 patch? Something to do with ffxivupdater.exe?
MiloFoxburr
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Kulock said:
The patcher is fairly stupid, if you're in the middle of downloading or have downloaded an older patch but not installed it by the time a new patch is released the patcher will begin downloading the new full patch.
What you need now is http://awk.cenobyte.org/ffxiv/SquareEnix.rar which Gromph awesomely uploaded. It's the full FF14 install folder rar'ed up. So you can download that and just have to download a couple of small patches with the updater.
Azure Dream
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Hazaro said:
That was the first thing I tried once I'd downloaded it, unfortunately.
MiloFoxburr said:
I'll do this then, 2 hours is better than nothing. Thanks for the help, and thanks to Gromph.
Of course, if I could force the patch I already downloaded to install, that would be great too.
MiloFoxburr
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Kulock said:
I'm not sure you can. Some of us had the same issue on Tuesday. What I did was rename the patch I had gotten from Gromph to the new patch name which gave me about 60% of the new patch and then just had to grab the last 40%.
Getting the fully installed folder is far easier though.
Ok, i'm bad ass man :/
Got the ventrilo running, but you need a special Ventrilo.exe, anyway it can co-exist with normal one.
For windows && OSX : http://awk.cenobyte.org/ffxiv/ventrilo
10 / 30000 users online.
:lol
Got the ventrilo running, but you need a special Ventrilo.exe, anyway it can co-exist with normal one.
For windows && OSX : http://awk.cenobyte.org/ffxiv/ventrilo
10 / 30000 users online.
:lol
HappyBivouac said:
I checked the beta forums and people have been complaining about it pretty much since the start? Yet there was nothing changed. Also this game has been in development for 5? years and yet the controls are utterly shit, honestly a 1-2 man indi team gets better controls together. I really have very very little faith into the fact that they will suddenly make the controls useable in two months (but obviously I would be more than happy to be wrong about this...).
Yesterday I bought a logitech controller for my Laptop. I just could not get with using "wasd" for movement and using "jikl" for camera. My hands felt cramped together and it was harder to tab through targets while trying to move. Wtf was they thinking by doing a change from the number pad?
This set up is better for desktop computers. But for my laptop it was a pain. Maybe I will try using my logitech cordless keyboard later today... hmmmmmmmm
This set up is better for desktop computers. But for my laptop it was a pain. Maybe I will try using my logitech cordless keyboard later today... hmmmmmmmm
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