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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Xux
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Damn, DoMs seem kinda weak. CNJ doesn't exactly scream solo or DD but I just had my first levequest where I didn't finish with a time bonus and the level 15 quest is exponentially harder to solo than the ARC one since you're fighting two specifically anti-mage enemies. Kind of annoying.
On that note, Lancer is ridiculously strong once you can combo even with comboed WSs not being free in this version.
On that note, Lancer is ridiculously strong once you can combo even with comboed WSs not being free in this version.
notworksafe
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Got in 
Got in
Stefan™;45344164 said:
Yay, i got in finally!
Congrats everyone....go moogle.
IonicSnake
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ForzaFerrari
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Except me!
Was the same in 1.0 though, some leves were piece of cake and others were much more difficult depending on what you had to fight.
Gratz to everyone who got in, add me to friends list if you start on bahamut and we can do Tam Tam at some point
Yea its pretty standard cookie cutter stuff, but I expect that's what they were aiming for.
Corran Horn
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Got in...I guess ill give this game another go here soon.
Xux
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It's just weird that the level 15 CNJ quest monsters completely debilitate my CNJ but my LNC destroyed them in about 15 seconds.
Xux
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Relaxed Muscle
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I don't think that was the intention. At least now that Niinou is on there I expect quest be way better (if not by release in next patches)
Nerdy Fergy
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I had to make sure that I really did apply to the alpha. Turns out I did, but I just didn't have the best luck. Oh well. Maybe I will have better luck with the beta.
Grats!
Turning on the "Low poly models for distant objects" or whatever its called will probably get you 5-10 more fps. Thats how it is for me.
Have they said at all if the Alpha version we are playing is unoptimized? I still wonder if the Beta will bring any engine improvements with it or has all that been implemented.
Relaxed Muscle
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Yeah using LOD gives you a nice boost. Also I'm sure the game will be better optimized by the release.
Yeah, I might just turn that on and cap the fps at 30. Id rather a solid 30 than a 60 with drops. With some minor tweaking, I think this can happen.
I thought it was nice that they have framerate caps built right in.
Conversely, it's kind of funny how fast some things will run with the cap set to unlimited. I've seen as high as 450fps in the login and character creation screens.
Yea looking at my usage, CPU is at 36% and GPU is 99%
You are right though LoD does give a good boost to FPS.
Crafting is pretty awesome btw guys
I think they've said that the optimization isn't complete yet, and they expect further performance improvements before release.
...Which is amazing, because if this is "unoptimized" then what the hell was 1.0?
Crafting is pretty awesome btw guys
Everyone says this, which makes me wonder what the changes are... and those are probably not something we should discuss.
Is it just a matter of speed, flow and the new ability paradigm?
Relaxed Muscle
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FF XIV 1.0 engine is probably one of the worst in the entire gen, what a mess.
Yeah, it's really "impressive" that they managed to screw up the 1.0 engine so badly.
And it was even worse at launch, amazingly - a patch about two weeks after release improved my performance by 25% or more.
Lol. I have Vsync on all the time regardless so my fps never even goes above 60, even at the title screen.
Yea looking at my usage, CPU is at 36% and GPU is 99%
Lol. Fry an egg on that GPU!
I didnt have too many issues with 1.0 once the playerbase died off. That engine could not handle large crowds. Such a pain.
Also echoing your sentiments on crafting. I really need to try that out already.
Yeah, the engine for 1.0 was completely fucked up, priority-wise - they were completely focused on rendering huge distances without LOD, pretty much at the expense of everything else in the game, and most importantly, characters.
And the fact that a "huge crowd" was 40 characters since they had a hard cap on the number of characters rendered makes it even more amazing.
All of the above, its just set out better and more intuitive.
It's all the above plus one other note worthy addition; attributes matter. Updating crafting gear is going to be very important if crafting stays as is at launch, especially for HQ crafting.
Definitely glad to hear about the crafting changes - it's amazing what the XIV community will resist, when the improvements are obvious just reading about them.
How anyone thought arbitrarily limiting you to 5 abilities that you an only use once was good design is beyond me. Yet people fought it, like they do everything else they propose, just because it's different.
I'm definitely glad for Yoshi-P, especially in that he actually seems to understand which feedback he should listen to and which he should ignore.
How about gathering? Is it as much of an improvement over crafting? If anything, I expect it to be an even bigger improvement?
How anyone thought arbitrarily limiting you to 5 abilities that you an only use once was good design is beyond me. Yet people fought it, like they do everything else they propose, just because it's different.
I'm definitely glad for Yoshi-P, especially in that he actually seems to understand which feedback he should listen to and which he should ignore.
How about gathering? Is it as much of an improvement over crafting? If anything, I expect it to be an even bigger improvement?
Is this available in the Alpha? I haven't heard anything about it yet.
They really need to give all of fisher a paradigm shift. To make it, you know, fun.
Attributes mattered in 1.x! Just...... you couldn't really tell how they mattered.
(Well, I crafted a ton, so I could tell how certain things worked but I had nothing scientific to back up my claims. Base stats did help boost quality and crafting stats did matter in regards to overall synth progress, quality, and stability, but it was anyone's guess how effective X points of Y crafting stat really were. Skills definitely did matter and after the revamp they mattered even more, but the system was still quite obtuse.)
Yea botanist is in the Alpha, Im guna give it a quick try now, fishing is being completely redone, no more spearfishing either.
There was a video a while back showing gathering, I think it was in one of the live letters.
Edit:- It's pretty amazing tbh, so different than 1.0 and you can actually select what you want to gather, so no more gathering stuff you don't need. (you really have to try this when you get the chance)
I just tried crafting and gathering. Gathering is much improved from what I remember. You right click a node and it will bring up a menu of all the items you can gather from it and your % chance to gather it. All you do is click which item you want and it will do the gathering animation. If you succeed, you get the item you picked. I was getting 5-6 gathers per node.
Crafting, the actual crafting part, is the same from what I remember of early 1.0. You pick what type of synthesis you preform. I only had standard available at a low level. I'm assuming you unlock the others as you level. The durability goes down as you synthesis it and you have to finish making the item before it reaches 0. The much improved part is the crafting menu. You get a list of all available things you can make and the required materials. No more putting random items in to see if it makes an item.
Xux
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Alpha Tester Applications closing in five hours, Alpha Test scheduled to end late December:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/index.html
Also, Gathering+ gear makes a huge difference; the +30 from buying all the gear from the Bentbranch NPC maxed out my gathering chances for everything in the area.
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/index.html
Also, Gathering+ gear makes a huge difference; the +30 from buying all the gear from the Bentbranch NPC maxed out my gathering chances for everything in the area.
id fish all the time.
Xux
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notworksafe
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On Moogle as Londa Gaf :3
Holy shit this is gorgeous, UI especially!
Holy shit this is gorgeous, UI especially!
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