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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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HappyBivouac
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Yeah you're off course all right.
I miss my taru 
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Hmm...something odd is going on with this game. It's crash city.
Unknown Soldier
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I think it's Squenix telling you to cut back a little.
I like all of the upcoming change discussion, but I don't know how much I'll play before the PS3 release. I have lots of free time, but I have no desire to play FFXIV at the moment. Most of my FFXI friends will cross over to XIV with the PS3 release. Couple that with the battle changes and I'll be more motivated to play (and have far less to complain about... if anything).
So you might see me on here and there, but I don't know if it'll be anything regular until PS3.
So you might see me on here and there, but I don't know if it'll be anything regular until PS3.
Unknown Soldier
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426264
If you guys are looking for a real challenge, I'm seriously thinking about buying a Korean account for TERA Online. Games which are in a language you can actually read are for nubs, games in a language you can't read are for REAL MMOG CAPTURING GODS!
If you guys are looking for a real challenge, I'm seriously thinking about buying a Korean account for TERA Online. Games which are in a language you can actually read are for nubs, games in a language you can't read are for REAL MMOG CAPTURING GODS!
staticneuron
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Unknown Soldier said:
The art is amazing in that one. Reminds me of the fun times I had in RF online. Man the korean MMO's constantly seem more alluring to me than any other region. Great stuff.
Dev key points update:
Overtaxation of PC Hardware:
Hey everyone,
What everyone's saying about FFXIV currently being a large burden on the PC is something we've been seeing on our end as well. We brought this up with the development team and hope to have a comment from them soon.
Removal of Slot-Cost Accessory limitation
Heads up, gang.
The development team is well aware of this concern from the community and already has plans in place to change this. We're working on organizing the information so please wait a bit while we gather everything together.
Petition To Add Behest Rank Restrictions
I made sure to organize all of your comments, suggestions and feedback and submitted it to the development team. As always, thanks for the feedback!
Of course, if you have any other ideas/feedback please don't hesitate to let us know.
Good to know they are already fixing up the acc. slots. That was a dumb idea to begin with.
Overtaxation of PC Hardware:
Hey everyone,
What everyone's saying about FFXIV currently being a large burden on the PC is something we've been seeing on our end as well. We brought this up with the development team and hope to have a comment from them soon.
Removal of Slot-Cost Accessory limitation
Heads up, gang.
The development team is well aware of this concern from the community and already has plans in place to change this. We're working on organizing the information so please wait a bit while we gather everything together.
Petition To Add Behest Rank Restrictions
I made sure to organize all of your comments, suggestions and feedback and submitted it to the development team. As always, thanks for the feedback!
Of course, if you have any other ideas/feedback please don't hesitate to let us know.
Good to know they are already fixing up the acc. slots. That was a dumb idea to begin with.
New Battle Effect
New level and aggro icon
JP forum was shown but the rest of the world was kept in the dark.. nice play SE !
Anyways it will be interesting to know what sort of SP/XP we would get from killing something the same level as us, now that we know what level stuff is.
Might make grind parties more popular.
New level and aggro icon
JP forum was shown but the rest of the world was kept in the dark.. nice play SE !
Anyways it will be interesting to know what sort of SP/XP we would get from killing something the same level as us, now that we know what level stuff is.
Might make grind parties more popular.
staticneuron
Member
Jinko said:
I can dig it.
I take it, this is more of a move to make mage types happy.
Unknown Soldier
Member
POSTCARD: Wish you were here!
Yes, this game really does look like that.
Not only am I hot, but I have horns. Devilchick has never been this awesome. Deal with it.
The battle system in this game is fantastic. While FFXIV is going backwards in time towards a system with auto-attack, this game is advancing into an action-oriented system that really feels like the future of MMOGs. You don't lock on to anything, you have a crosshair in the middle of your screen and you point it at the mob you want to kill. The mob will do it's best to charge up attacks and knock you down so it can whale on you, while you are busy circle-strafing around it so you can get behind it to land critical hits. Just as in Vindictus, auto-attacks are out, ass-kickings are in. If you time your attack right when the enemy starts a huge attack, you can stagger or even knock down your enemy. Doing certain skills will start a combo skill chain, similar to what you might have seen in Aion, which lets you chain skills together for MASSIVE DAMAGE on the mob. It's actually fun to get into battles even with the trash mobs you have to kill 5/5 of to complete a quest to get a new pair of gloves, because you'll be blocking attacks with a shield or doing a flip over your enemy to dodge it's attack and then chaining into skill combos while it's stunned or looking for where you went. There's nothing passive about evade and dodge in this game, nor blocking, everything is active and based on what you do. It's more like God of War than EverQuest, and yes, that's a good thing.
As you might expect, the Unreal Engine 3 makes this game look fabulous. Rift was a piece of shit graphically, this game is visualy like Aion with the graphical detail turned up to 9006. It runs quite well too, I think in terms of performance it feels comparable to FFXIV on my GTX 470 SLI with roughly similar game settings. The sound and music are pretty conventional, NPCs speak a line of Korean at you when you talk to them to get or turn in a quest and the music is rather nice and fades enjoyably into the background while you're busy slaughtering your enemies and splattering their blood everywhere. Yes, this game has lots of splashing blood effects when you rip into your mob-of-the-moment.
Oh, guess what. This game has quests. LOTS of quests. Most of them are kill 8/8 mobs or gather this item by mining that rock, but it follows the 'theme park' model of MMOG progression invented by WoW which was so painfully rehashed in Rift. And yet because battles are actually fun in this game, you actually look forward to the next 6/6 mobs you get to kill. Yeah, not mobs you HAVE to kill, mobs you GET to kill by spilling their blood all over the pretty landscape with your huge weapon which is as large as you are. I haven't grinded a single mob outside of the ones I'm tasked to kill on quests, and progression feels smooth and even.
The character designs are absolutely shameless and totally awesome. Everyone has huge boobs, every weapon is as big as it's wielder, just the mere act of running causes your character to show you her pantsu constantly, all the attacks look like they can dismember your opponent or just cut them in half. It's like the developers of the game made Soul Calibur the MMOG in terms of character designs, fanservice, and brutal-looking attacks.
Everything about this game screams polish, from the shiny graphics, to the exaggerated and brutal animations, to the busty and fanservice-maxed out character models and designs, to the quests, quests, OMG QUESTS! Despite the fact I'm connecting to a server in the Republic of Korea, lag actually feels quite minimal and is very manageable, and in a very action-oriented battle system like this one, even a little lag would make the game unplayable. It's way less laggy than FFXIV is to roughly the same part of the world (Korea and Japan), or at least it feels that way. Maybe there is something to be said for UE3's netcode, which after all was designed for FPS and TPS titles where split-second response from the game engine and server is crucial to a smooth gameplay experience.
Yes, this game really does look like that.
Not only am I hot, but I have horns. Devilchick has never been this awesome. Deal with it.
The battle system in this game is fantastic. While FFXIV is going backwards in time towards a system with auto-attack, this game is advancing into an action-oriented system that really feels like the future of MMOGs. You don't lock on to anything, you have a crosshair in the middle of your screen and you point it at the mob you want to kill. The mob will do it's best to charge up attacks and knock you down so it can whale on you, while you are busy circle-strafing around it so you can get behind it to land critical hits. Just as in Vindictus, auto-attacks are out, ass-kickings are in. If you time your attack right when the enemy starts a huge attack, you can stagger or even knock down your enemy. Doing certain skills will start a combo skill chain, similar to what you might have seen in Aion, which lets you chain skills together for MASSIVE DAMAGE on the mob. It's actually fun to get into battles even with the trash mobs you have to kill 5/5 of to complete a quest to get a new pair of gloves, because you'll be blocking attacks with a shield or doing a flip over your enemy to dodge it's attack and then chaining into skill combos while it's stunned or looking for where you went. There's nothing passive about evade and dodge in this game, nor blocking, everything is active and based on what you do. It's more like God of War than EverQuest, and yes, that's a good thing.
As you might expect, the Unreal Engine 3 makes this game look fabulous. Rift was a piece of shit graphically, this game is visualy like Aion with the graphical detail turned up to 9006. It runs quite well too, I think in terms of performance it feels comparable to FFXIV on my GTX 470 SLI with roughly similar game settings. The sound and music are pretty conventional, NPCs speak a line of Korean at you when you talk to them to get or turn in a quest and the music is rather nice and fades enjoyably into the background while you're busy slaughtering your enemies and splattering their blood everywhere. Yes, this game has lots of splashing blood effects when you rip into your mob-of-the-moment.
Oh, guess what. This game has quests. LOTS of quests. Most of them are kill 8/8 mobs or gather this item by mining that rock, but it follows the 'theme park' model of MMOG progression invented by WoW which was so painfully rehashed in Rift. And yet because battles are actually fun in this game, you actually look forward to the next 6/6 mobs you get to kill. Yeah, not mobs you HAVE to kill, mobs you GET to kill by spilling their blood all over the pretty landscape with your huge weapon which is as large as you are. I haven't grinded a single mob outside of the ones I'm tasked to kill on quests, and progression feels smooth and even.
The character designs are absolutely shameless and totally awesome. Everyone has huge boobs, every weapon is as big as it's wielder, just the mere act of running causes your character to show you her pantsu constantly, all the attacks look like they can dismember your opponent or just cut them in half. It's like the developers of the game made Soul Calibur the MMOG in terms of character designs, fanservice, and brutal-looking attacks.
Everything about this game screams polish, from the shiny graphics, to the exaggerated and brutal animations, to the busty and fanservice-maxed out character models and designs, to the quests, quests, OMG QUESTS! Despite the fact I'm connecting to a server in the Republic of Korea, lag actually feels quite minimal and is very manageable, and in a very action-oriented battle system like this one, even a little lag would make the game unplayable. It's way less laggy than FFXIV is to roughly the same part of the world (Korea and Japan), or at least it feels that way. Maybe there is something to be said for UE3's netcode, which after all was designed for FPS and TPS titles where split-second response from the game engine and server is crucial to a smooth gameplay experience.
staticneuron
Member
Unknown Soldier said:
Lol, you actually did it. Downloaded 22 gigs, go through an account set up in korean, just to get a jump on a title that is coming to the states soon.
You are a REAL MMOG CAPTURING GOD!
Geeze that game looks great though, how taxing is it on your rig? Is it more or less than FFXIV?
Edit: Thanks for the info. It is amazing how this exploded onto my radar. Sounds epic.
22 gigs ... lol wow
I couldn't play an MMO in a foreign language it would drive me insane, but cool screens
Impression are in line with what I thought the game would be like, hopefully there will be plenty of raid and dungeon content, I really hate PvP and it seems to be what most Korean developers design their games around.
I couldn't play an MMO in a foreign language it would drive me insane, but cool screens
Impression are in line with what I thought the game would be like, hopefully there will be plenty of raid and dungeon content, I really hate PvP and it seems to be what most Korean developers design their games around.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Jinko said:
It was only about 8 hours from a torrent of the OBT client that's floating around. I started the torrent, went to bed, went to work, and when I got home it was done.
I couldn't play an MMO in a foreign language it would drive me insane, but cool screens
Amazingly enough, the WoW-style UI is essentially universal. I can't read a word of
edit: Did I mention that this game has a PROPER fullscreen mode? When in fullscreen, the graphics engine is active and rendering, alt-tab out and the game shuts down rendering (unloading the GPUs!), alt-tab back in and it resumes rendering. Simple, flawless, everything FFXIV's fullscreen mode isn't. It also supports a proper fullscreen windowed mode that renders continuously in the background for people who prefer that to regular fullscreen mode, and a windowed mode as well.
Sounds like the sort of game a competent developer would make, it really shows you how much out of touch SE are, and the lack of talent they have working for them.
There seems to be a massive divide in skill between PC developers and console-centric developers and even now JP devs are struggling with HD consoles.
Tera and GW2 will probably kill FF14 for me and for many others no doubt.
There seems to be a massive divide in skill between PC developers and console-centric developers and even now JP devs are struggling with HD consoles.
Tera and GW2 will probably kill FF14 for me and for many others no doubt.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Emenis said:
The catgirl race in this game (actually they are like bunny girls) are a bit too loli for my tastes. I really want to roll a panda race character just for the lulz, though.
staticneuron
Member
Emenis said:
I feel the same. If people didn't mention that it was coming stateside I probably would have done the same just to try it out.
What kills me about all of this is how many MMO's slated for release seem to be filled with content and somehow FFXIV feels so starved. On the heels of FFXI, I would have thought they were building a beast of a game, storywise/contentwise. I was under the impression they were working on this for quite some time. It is kinda a let down, to be hoping for more, when these title comes from a company known for making epic FF titles and still has a large following from their other MMO.
staticneuron
Member
DoctorWho said:
Great Question. I don't know for sure but I think they are planning to charge after first major content update. Or the most crazy assumption is that they wont charge until everything on the list the new director posted, is completed.
Once they say they are done with all the changes, they could probably do a relaunch type of advertising blitz to bring people back to the game.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Hot damn that looks like sex. FF14 doomed lolz. Nah, they still got hope. They just need to listen to me and implement Triple Triad.
How does one apply for the TERA North American beta, anyhow?
Edit: Too bad the only Moonspeak I know is of the Japanese variety, otherwise I might have given it a shot. Korean confuses and infuriates us.
How does one apply for the TERA North American beta, anyhow?
Edit: Too bad the only Moonspeak I know is of the Japanese variety, otherwise I might have given it a shot. Korean confuses and infuriates us.
Rentahamster said:
http://www.tera-online.com/
Go there and Click "Join the community" to sign up for the forums and get a login name.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YKRJX7N
Go there with your newly acquired forum name and sign up for the beta.
Anyone want to weigh in on my idea?
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...the-ranks-required-for-current-story-missions
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...the-ranks-required-for-current-story-missions
Salaadin said:
That second link doesn't work for me.
Edit:- WoW I didn't know EU/NA beta was already open.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYutyAo71Q8&feature=related
Jinko said:
Weird, it works for me.
To get to the application, go here:
http://www.tera-online.com/
Mouseover "Game", click FAQ. Click the 3rd question "Where can I download TERA" and youll see the link for it.
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