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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Niiiice. Character Creation is looking pretty great.
IonicSnake
Banned
They are, but for the alpha we are only restricted to male hyur and female miqote.
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?
NIIIIIIICE!Bigger screens.
The new launcher.
I haven't heard a single thing about them since they brought them up in the first place.
They are coming, there was a new piece of concept art for female Highlander in the pamphlet at the 25th Anniversary event in Japan which later was discovered in english fansites sometime around October. Alpha test is Male Midlander Hyur and Seeker of the Sun female Mi'qote only, so that's all you see.
As always, I'm able to count on you.
Bigger screens.
~Squeals~ :O The Miqo start outfit is soooo cute.... Can't wait to wear it.
As far as the boob size, they look like the same size as my character right now lol...
I would say it leans more towards dungeons, although story is much more prevalent than in other MMO's with actual cutscenes for all major story plots.
Exploration is there if you choose to do it, there will probably be more emphasis on this in ARR though as they have changed it so you discover the map as you explore.
Dungeons and story are what I enjoy about MMO's. So seeing both these aspects focused on in the same MMO makes me interested.
I truly enjoy GW2 for its combat and style. But the story is very lack luster and the amount of dungeons is dissapointing. So I am looking for a game to give me that fix.
I truly enjoy GW2 for its combat and style. But the story is very lack luster and the amount of dungeons is dissapointing. So I am looking for a game to give me that fix.
IonicSnake
Banned
Looks great, this can't come soon enough!
Yes, we're currently on Sargatanas. Not sure what's gonna happen come 2.0 however.
Our website: reddot.guildwork.com
Although some gaffers aren't in it for silly reasons. . . They're in on the fake servers XD
SARGATANAS FOR ALL.
IonicSnake
Banned
Looks like the alpha is underway.
Just applied to beta some days ago. Didn't want to at first, but I think it might be cool, so I can lower my expectations at 2.0 /debbiedowner. Nah, now seriously, I think 2.0 has good chances of having a great success, as long as they don't rush again. Game has come such a long way. If they can remove UI-clunkyness, fix drops and overall make it less demanding/more efficient, I'll be satisfied.
As an update, yesterday I finally got all my Hamlet seals!! It's been hectic, but I'm glad to have accomplished it in such a short time! It was a _ton_ of work though, and I'm a bit burned out of it, but totally worth it!
Also, a friend of mine decided to take some pics of me, because since I play on "legoland" (shitty graphics), I wanted to have some pictures of my jobs before 2.0, hehe. Hope you guys don't mind the spam!
380hrs before impact!
As an update, yesterday I finally got all my Hamlet seals!! It's been hectic, but I'm glad to have accomplished it in such a short time! It was a _ton_ of work though, and I'm a bit burned out of it, but totally worth it!
Also, a friend of mine decided to take some pics of me, because since I play on "legoland" (shitty graphics), I wanted to have some pictures of my jobs before 2.0, hehe. Hope you guys don't mind the spam!
380hrs before impact!
Munba
Member
New Producer Letter!
Letter from the Producer, XXXVII (10/26/2012)
Alpha starts on October 29.
The Iron Giant is awesome.
Letter from the Producer, XXXVII (10/26/2012)
Alpha starts on October 29.
The Iron Giant is awesome.
Munba
Member
There is a Yoshi in the background lol
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Yoshi, did you quit WoW? Also, this isn't a Blizzard game - whatchoo doin?
Anyone else notice height differential while fighting the Iron Giant? Looks like (hopefully) they got rid of the stupid height requirements to attack mobs as you can see Archers fighting the iron giants from high up on cliff while the others fight on ground level. Drove me nuts how I was pretty damn close to a mob yet I kept getting the warning of "Mob elevation is too high to target" and it required me to be basically right next to the mob on a descending platform where there was no obstruction with magic/arrows, this showed up the most often in dungeon like environments especially Cassiopeia Hollow.
Not sure how I feel about all this.
Will the beta roll out more content to mess around with? Are they doing 1 free month trials again for release?
Waaat
Beta will have the full game being tested eventually with exception to the main storyline and likely a couple other events (Raids etc. will probably limited to little or no testing done so it can be fresh content for lvl 50's when the game launches again). At least that is what I am hearing/seeing from a mix of forum leaks and what Yoshida has personally said. Basically Alpha is limited combat testing, UI testing (limited, just making sure its responsive is my guess) and full on server stress testing. Its purpose is to get the game up and running with minimal issues and to see how lag is effecting combat etc. Beta is the content testing phase where they invite more people to test content balance, combat changes, crafting, questing/leveling etc. I'm sure not all the content will be ready right out the door but the beta will likely last long enough where they can get a good idea of where the balance needs to be for launch, has minimal critical bugs, and has enough content from lvl 1-50 to get the game where it needs to be to revive it for new players.
As for another free trial when the game launches, I got no idea. Other then the conditions for Alpha (which we got this week) we really don't know exactly what the internal schedule is for content.
IonicSnake
Banned
With every picture it makes it harder and harder to wait.
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?
:lol wow
Whatcha talking about! Yoshi is a gamer, he plays all the good games!
♥ ♥ ♥Yoshi is going to be rocking FFXIV 2.0 as well? GLORIOUS! Maybe...just maybe...I can play on the same server. I'll be rolling a fresh character from scratch.
Me and the guys I play with are torn on whether we should head to a EU server or stay on an international realm for 2.0. The latency is really affecting gameplay bad so that speaks for changing to EU zone, but it's a big plus having people all over the world on the same server too as it never really feels dead. Also with them changing the gamestructure, higher latency might not be that big of an issue. Time will tell!
Would be great to play with other EuroGaffers though. Us 'Närkebor' need to stick together, Yoshi
Would be great to play with other EuroGaffers though. Us 'Närkebor' need to stick together, Yoshi
Me and the guys I play with are torn on whether we should head to a EU server or stay on an international realm for 2.0. The latency is really affecting gameplay bad so that speaks for changing to EU zone, but it's a big plus having people all over the world on the same server too as it never really feels dead. Also with them changing the gamestructure, higher latency might not be that big of an issue. Time will tell!
Would be great to play with other EuroGaffers though. Us 'Närkebor' need to stick together, Yoshi
Yea its the main reason I will be going to an EU based server, from what I understand the gamestructure latency thing is more down to the data centres and where the servers are distributed than the actual netcode they will be using.
You can't get away from the 300 ms from EU to JP.
That being said Sarg could very well end up in Europe and then I have no reason to change lol.
Did they say they would allow server transfers a few months in? I'd consider switching to a Euro one, but i really don't want to lose my progress. 3 lv 50's was a lot of work.
Not yet. 1.0 is being finished up in the next couple of days and Alpha testing for JP players next week.
Couldn't think of a better way to close out 1.0
12% final meld.
Whoa, you exist?
FrankNitty
Member
Just got my Darklight Corselet finally. Better late then never lol. I can now focus on a few other pieces and hopefully finish up this weekend
Grats! I'm still lacking Darklight! I'm currently priority looter on Darklight gloves, but I don't think they'll drop before 2.0, sadly! Would be nice to have some DL so I can start saving totems in 2.0 for other pieces. I have a hunch that the Cowl will be very good for Arcanist.
In other news, yesterday we beat Darnus (hard)! They had gotten a win the day prior to that, and we had already set up that Saturday we'd do it non-stop. After not so many runs and one 3% wipe run, we got it down!! I'm so happy, didn't even expect to get it.
I was DD-WHM for it, and managed to pull off 33k damage on it (on their other win run, the relic DD-WHM got 34k! So I'm happy with myself). That fight was soooo much fun!
In other news, yesterday we beat Darnus (hard)! They had gotten a win the day prior to that, and we had already set up that Saturday we'd do it non-stop. After not so many runs and one 3% wipe run, we got it down!! I'm so happy, didn't even expect to get it.
I was DD-WHM for it, and managed to pull off 33k damage on it (on their other win run, the relic DD-WHM got 34k! So I'm happy with myself). That fight was soooo much fun!
ty Ammy <3!
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