Robobandit
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Nothing like exploring dangerous areas to get the blood pumping..
"weakness" may as well be a permanent status effect as far as my character is concerned ^^
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Nothing like exploring dangerous areas to get the blood pumping..
"weakness" may as well be a permanent status effect as far as my character is concerned ^^
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Deleted member 17706
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How does one attempt to get in the Alpha?
Is there a sign up? Does one just need to have a Square Enix Account with FFXIV registered to it? I'm very keen on getting in.
Is there a sign up? Does one just need to have a Square Enix Account with FFXIV registered to it? I'm very keen on getting in.
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Deleted member 17706
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Thanks!
NinjaJesus
Member
YES! GOT IN. Next wave going out.
So much for being uninvited buddies...
IonicSnake
Banned
Still nothing.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Got an invite this morning!
Won't login till the weekend. Need to finish finals.
Won't login till the weekend. Need to finish finals.
Don't feel too bad, I don't think my PC is going to play it anyway
Guess I know what will be #1 on my santa list.
Decent speeds on the download and its only 3.5GBs. I started it and checked back in an hour and it was done.
Don't feel too bad, I don't think my PC is going to play it anyway
Guess I know what will be #1 on my santa list.
What happened to your old FFXIV 1.0 PC? Didnt you used to have a decent rig?
The download for the game is almost 4 GB
It died, so using a £300 laptop at the moment, surprisingly it does play it (intel intergrated chipset) its however on the low side of the framerate lol.
I'm on Bahamut also, Jinko Jinko as usual.
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Deleted member 17706
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For people getting invites, were you paying subscribers to FFXIV up until the servers went down?
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Nope.
What died? That sucks, man.
Motherboard, Just been digging about in the PC graveyard I call my attic and threw something together, is playing half decent now.
Still think I need a new PC for Christmas
Robobandit
Member
I am on Moogle..
NinjaJesus
Member
Ha, I ran by you just a sec ago. My character is Final Boss.
Finally got a chance to play today after being invited late last week. I enjoyed my few hours with it much much more than I did when 1.0 first came out.
Fans of XI and XIV scare me a bit. I was reading through the forum and they all seem to be stuck in 2003. They all love the old mechanics from back in the day that made MMOs tedious for me and seem to hate most "post-Word of Warcraft" features that seem to be standard in every MMO.
Fans of XI and XIV scare me a bit. I was reading through the forum and they all seem to be stuck in 2003. They all love the old mechanics from back in the day that made MMOs tedious for me and seem to hate most "post-Word of Warcraft" features that seem to be standard in every MMO.
Robobandit
Member
You don't.
No controller support in Alpha.
It has its own UI.. which will be present in beta
Ah I see.
Eh, Yoshi-P and crew seem to know what to take from the older series and what to improve upon/revamp, as well as what user requests to take into account. I wouldnt worry much about stubborn fans (even though some of the old mechanics with improvements could work today).
Im getting between 20 and high 30 at times with everything maxed aside from shadow res (at medium). Either need a new video card, just this build, or its just ATI being ATI again (4870 2GB). Sometimes it drops to the teens but its for like a split second or so.
Of course it is nice to have AO maxed, and still get a decent framerate.
Of course it is nice to have AO maxed, and still get a decent framerate.
Discussing framerate without mentioning resolution is pointless.
A 4870 was a still a great card four years ago, just as my 5830 was decent 3 years ago. However, I wouldn't dream of driving any recent game maxed out with either card anywhere near max at say 1920x1080. Thankfully I'm still driving 1680x1050 monitors so its still adequate for most games and certainly at that resolution comparing vram over 1GB is pretty pointless.
A 4870 was a still a great card four years ago, just as my 5830 was decent 3 years ago. However, I wouldn't dream of driving any recent game maxed out with either card anywhere near max at say 1920x1080. Thankfully I'm still driving 1680x1050 monitors so its still adequate for most games and certainly at that resolution comparing vram over 1GB is pretty pointless.
Good point.
I'm running 2.0 at 1680x1050, with just about everything maxed.
It runs better than 1.0 running at a lower rendering res with middling settings. I think I ultimately settled on 2 notches of drawing quality below standard (which I think was 75% of the window res?) in 1.0, with no AA or anything to improve the rendering quality.
I'm running 2.0 at 1680x1050, with just about everything maxed.
It runs better than 1.0 running at a lower rendering res with middling settings. I think I ultimately settled on 2 notches of drawing quality below standard (which I think was 75% of the window res?) in 1.0, with no AA or anything to improve the rendering quality.
Chances are its your CPU, from whats been said *cough* you know where, 2.0 is more dependent on processing power. ( 1.0 was using shaders for everything remember
)As said above though 4870 would prob be better suited to 720p @ max settings.
Just ordered my new PC should be here tomorrow yay !
IonicSnake
Banned
Woke up to a ARR e-mail, got my hopes up then read it.
"We are recruiting! Apply for ARR alpha!"
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FU S-E is all I was thinking at this time.
"We are recruiting! Apply for ARR alpha!"
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FU S-E is all I was thinking at this time.
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