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Final Fantasy XIV Beta Discussion + Media
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How is it not? when you click on something you expect it to go the second after, not 2 or 3, you cant tell me with a straight face that retargetting a mole after their annoying ws move is easy, is fucking terrible, what about mages, have you tried combat on a Conj and tried to heal your tank? is fucking offensive, how about when you get locked on on every single action due to the animation, or when you have to go into active mode for everything, from healing to refill your arrows, buffs, flee (and then going passive to take full effect), etc, i could keep going on this but meh, no point.Teknoman said:
IonicSnake
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Azrael said:
:lol :lol
Sorry, it just sounds so funny.
IonicSnake
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carlo6529 said:
I don't think it matter as long as the combination is not the same as someone else. I saw someone that had the same last name as my character did.
I really hope they have a newer build with a lot of bug fixes ready for the OB. At the very least fix the UI. Any new players who try it out in OB won't give the game a second look if it's is still in the current state it's in.
The more I think about this game the more I get frustrated. They say certain things, like making the game for casual players with only 1-2 hours to play, but the systems they put in place go completely against casual players and really just end up hurting everyone instead.
The more I think about this game the more I get frustrated. They say certain things, like making the game for casual players with only 1-2 hours to play, but the systems they put in place go completely against casual players and really just end up hurting everyone instead.
Kandinsky said:
Well I havent tried anything other than Gladiator and Marauder in this phase, and only fought a few moles...but other than retargeting after the dig attack, its been pretty responsive for me. The rest I cant comment on since I dont have any experience with em yet.
nataku said:
It'll definitely be a newer build with alot of the fixes, but there will still probably be tons of fixes people will request before retail as well.
Hopefully they actually keep an open line between all region players even during retail.
Oh and when you die: Main menu -> return -> sends you back to the last crystal you hit.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I swear I played with a GAFer right now :lol We discovered the whole map and said good bye to each other on the beach (which took 2 hours to find)
Alex
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I hope there's not tooooo much more accent work in the game. FFXI and XIV show the teams Chrono Cross staff roots so clearly with it, but it can be a little tiring at time in Limsa.
The writing otherwise is most excellent, even better than XI for the more menial bits, and I really respected the work there. Excited to see some of the more important tasks or the more in-depth side stuff. I never hear it much, but for example I really, really liked the things like the Adv. Job quests in XI. Really cool character vignettes.
It's really nice to see titles in the genre focus more and more on writing. Loving the flourish and charm here and the mass humor and parody in Cata.
Good writing in an MMO is becoming fairly important to me, since I'm most interesting in world building and mass character and faction work in games rather than the bullshit melodrama and cutscene spam single player titles inject more and more.
The writing otherwise is most excellent, even better than XI for the more menial bits, and I really respected the work there. Excited to see some of the more important tasks or the more in-depth side stuff. I never hear it much, but for example I really, really liked the things like the Adv. Job quests in XI. Really cool character vignettes.
It's really nice to see titles in the genre focus more and more on writing. Loving the flourish and charm here and the mass humor and parody in Cata.
Good writing in an MMO is becoming fairly important to me, since I'm most interesting in world building and mass character and faction work in games rather than the bullshit melodrama and cutscene spam single player titles inject more and more.
rhfb said:I've applied to more than that and nadaOh well, Open Beta should be soon I guess :| Still think switching my PC Beta application to PS3 with my FFXIII code was a huge mistake : (
I had done the same, so I created 3 new SE accounts and applied for the beta on each of them, still got nothing from SE.
Zomba13
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Just started getting surplus skill on Conj. Gone from the end of rank 12 to around 3/4 of the way through rank 13. It's not getting too far away from my other classes either as I have PUG and GLAD both at 13. I take it SE wants me to stop playing Conj now and do something else? Not even played it much today. Like an hour or so doing leves.
rhfb said:
How not, you have Limsa Lominsa at 3.5 gbs compressed, two new area's and prob a bit more so 9-10 gbs sounds about right to me.
I guess you could subtract 1-1.5 gbs for game code so 7-8 might be more like it, is still a lot either way you look at it, especially with there crappy P2P sharing.
fizzelopeguss
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Yoshichan said:
It must be love.
No I wasn't saying the size of the full game wouldn't be that big (I'm expecting bigger). I just was meaning the game doesn't have to my knowledge "streaming" where you only download areas/textures/animations you see and only download the other stuff when needed. If you have a fat enough pipe the system works great. So if you only created a character and started in a single city the game would download that city partially during your character creation and continue to stream in the remaining content while you watch the opening cinematic. Then it would start to download the first area connected to that town ect. So you could start playing with an initial download of like 500 mb instead of 10gb.Jinko said:
Zomba13
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So true. Really annoying when you just start a leve and then get an R0 or runtime error or some shit and then lose out on it. They should make it so when you reconnect you are still in the leve but the time were were offline has gone. Like you drop just after starting it and cant get on for 5 mins then you'd still have 25 mins of the leve left (same if you d/s in the middle with 3/6 enemies killed. When you get back you should pick up where you left off)Jinko said:
Square Enix broke the Miner class beyond belief by making low-level nugget synths require fire crystals. Who the hell is going to synth, say, bronze nuggets when an NPC sells them for 40 gil apiece and the fire crystals to make them are incredibly rare at low levels and sell for thousands of gil? Blacksmiths are better off getting their nuggets from NPCs and crafting items like nails and fish hooks with shards instead. I think for the time being I am done with mining.
I'm starting to rethink what direction I want to go with crafting in retail based on problems like this, as well as the interdependency of crafting classes with no real economy to support it. Initially I wanted to do Miner, Blacksmith, and Armorer because they would complement Gladiator. But perhaps the best route at launch will be to go Culinarian, since at least that class should be pretty self-sufficient and I won't need components made from three other classes just to cook something. Then when SE gets its head out of its ass other crafting classes may actually be viable.
I'm starting to rethink what direction I want to go with crafting in retail based on problems like this, as well as the interdependency of crafting classes with no real economy to support it. Initially I wanted to do Miner, Blacksmith, and Armorer because they would complement Gladiator. But perhaps the best route at launch will be to go Culinarian, since at least that class should be pretty self-sufficient and I won't need components made from three other classes just to cook something. Then when SE gets its head out of its ass other crafting classes may actually be viable.
Its only broken for beta, because I can't see SE vendering harder to get metal's in town. The only way to get these metals is from a miner or kill a mob that drops it.
If anyone wants to craft their gear, I have found a good link for recipes.
http://www.eorzeapedia.com/wiki/en/Category:Recipes
If anyone wants to craft their gear, I have found a good link for recipes.
http://www.eorzeapedia.com/wiki/en/Category:Recipes
Gromph said:For me as PUG it only give me conjurer marks
Also many r0's here too
The guild marks change, I have had THA, ARC and GLD so far, dont' have enough to buy anything yet though.
Item placement will change, I'm not expecting to see mining resources on any NPC at starter area's and if it does happen it will be a limited amount.
Cook will make next to no money for the first few months, but once people start to get to a point where food buffs are more worthwhile, rank 30+ it will prob be a massive income.
Best way to make money out the starting gate will probably be gathering, name your retainer something like CraftingMATZ
Jinko said:The guild marks change, I have had THA, ARC and GLD so far, dont' have enough to buy anything yet though.
Item placement will change, I'm not expecting to see mining resources on any NPC at starter area's and if it does happen it will be a limited amount.
Cook will make next to no money for the first few months, but once people start to get to a point where food buffs are more worthwhile, rank 30+ it will prob be a massive income.
Best way to make money out the starting gate will probably be gathering, name your retainer something like CraftingMATZ
Yeah because i can see that crafters will be the source for all gear. Crafters need the materials to make it.
Zomba13
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Just logged back on after logging off not long after making my last post and I'm still getting conj surplus. Is here a real reason? I thought maybe it was playing it too much in 1 sitting but I've had a good few hours break. It cant be because it's too close to my Phys level as it's 7 levels higher and it can't be because it's getting too far ahead of my other classes because it's 1 level about PUG and GLAD which are both at 13.
Anyone know he way to stop surplus exp? Or is it just stop playing this class and move on to a new one?
Anyone know he way to stop surplus exp? Or is it just stop playing this class and move on to a new one?
Ideally you would see one of two things.Jinko said:
1) NPCs sell nothing related to crafting at all that can come from a player. If it drops in the real world, don't allow the NPC to sell it.
2) NPCs sell items related to low level crafting, but at "market price". AKA if an item takes 2 of those and one of that, make the NPC sell it for the current AH average price of the components over the past 3 or 4 days or however the market takes to balance a price out, plus a little "profit" for the NPC.
Because if the system stays as it is now, or is similar to the system found in FFXI, where NPCs sell low level synthesized items for cut rate prices, bad things will happen. Even more so if a majority of the items are supposed to be coming from players crafting them and not from drops.
Jinko said:
What they need to do is change low-level synths like copper nuggets and ingots to require fire shards instead of fire crystals. Looking over the recipe list, very few low-level synths require crystals, but Miners have been given the shaft with their low-level yields requiring crystals to work with.
I noticed this on ffxivcore
Off note update: We'll be publishing a second interview within the coming weeks. Previously we said it would be up today, but due to a couple of factors it's been delayed.Also, we have some very interesting things in store in the near future, stay tuned!
I wonder if SE asked them to not put it up for obvious reasons :lol.
Off note update: We'll be publishing a second interview within the coming weeks. Previously we said it would be up today, but due to a couple of factors it's been delayed.Also, we have some very interesting things in store in the near future, stay tuned!
I wonder if SE asked them to not put it up for obvious reasons :lol.
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