Yep. Full screen or borderless full screen windowed. A lot of the options from the benchmark are there too.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT2| ARR: Phase 4 August.
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Yep. Full screen or borderless full screen windowed. A lot of the options from the benchmark are there too.
Yeah, you have to get in-game before you can change them though.
theSlacker
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IonicSnake
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I think the graphics have had a major upgrade.
It's nice that the beta have more activity than 1.0 the game had.
Got to the character creation screen, it didn't bother loading anything then it threw up an error and closed itself. Now I can't get past the launcher.
Oh well, perseverance is key.
I'm not sure if it's related, but no one here has mentioned this. In the Beta forums they posted this:
Well I would say character/monster models look good, however the foliage (grass, trees, bushes) looks extremely bad...worse than vanilla Skyrim. Not that I really care but I do hope they improve later down the road.
Relaxed Muscle
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Textures might be worse, but lightning and level of detail of the world got a huge upgrade. Also is nice having more than 20 people on the screen without sttuterring.
Did you put it to max? I'd say textures are a lot better than vanilla Skyrim..
And yeah, models are defo much better.
we.are.the.armada
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Are these characters that we are making in Tonberry eligible to be our actual characters at launch?
lol I knew that was going to happen in the beta. I guess it'll be somewhatlike that after the head start launch?
Nope, not in this phase anyway.
Well, there will be more cities, so that'll help.
DIdnt they say at one point that they *might* let us use our 1.0 characters in a later phase? They ever elaborate on that?
Yeah I think its in phase 3, they'll probably ask or detect a character via SE ID?
EDIT:Heh cant get past the title screen now with the world full message.
Really? the visuals are a major upgrade from what I saw of XIV 1.x and most MMO's.
Lumpy Onion
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lol first area outside of town is so freaking hectic. So many bodies moving around. Sucks I have to go to class now, otherwise I would be playing much of the day. Probably gonna re-roll multiple times to find a character that I want before I dig in any deeper. Can't believe I am finally playing this. Hoping there is a decent amount of content.
Comparing the UI in this to 1.0 is night and day. They really made things look and feel like they have real quality. Sucks I can't use controllers yet, but i'll get used to it.
Comparing the UI in this to 1.0 is night and day. They really made things look and feel like they have real quality. Sucks I can't use controllers yet, but i'll get used to it.
TERA is completely F2P now and uses a really good nonrestrictive model similar to GW2. The cash shop is primarily cosmetics and convenience boosters. I updated the OT with all the new information:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471756
There doesn't seem to be many GAF members left on the GAF PVE guild side and the guild isn't very open to casual players and non-level 60s. They recently shifted the guild to a more hardcore focus. If you decide to give the game a shot, check out the GAF PVP guild at http://tera-believe.guildlaunch.com. The site is fairly new so not everyone is registered yet but we have picked up a lot of new members lately (GAF and non-GAF) and Mumble has been pretty active. I would say that about 60-70% of our current active players are actually GAF.
If you're not really into PVP you can always level on different channels but there is no guarantee you aren't going to get into any fights. If asked, we will save our lower level members or revenge kill for them.
Open world PVP and high level ganking isn't nearly as active as it used to be now that Battlegrounds exists. Just roll on Mount Tyrannas. Besides, even the GAF PVE guild on Tempest Reach will be involved in PVP often because they always run for Vanarch via Guild Vs Guild combat and there is a new update coming that will introduce Consul politics utilizing faction based PVP and that is what they are currently aiming for.
P.S. No offense to NeOak but I have played with some of the GAF PVE members in Battlegrounds (there is cross-server matching) and found some of them (non GAF) to be douchebags.
Is there a separate one that the old/current FFXIV guild uses or do we just use the public GAF Mumble server?
Nooooo... maybe we should pick an alternate? It sounds like everything is getting full so not sure what I'm going to do since I'm not going to be able to play this for another 8 hours or so. Stupid work.
I'll give that a shot then, probably inbetween beta phases, but on Tonberry, just keep trying. Probably have people that just logged in and are "holding" a space until whatever player gets back.
Was only able to get on briefly before the first server restart last night (was one of the few who got through the character creation window issue on Tonberry!
Since I had played a bunch in alpha my first instinct instead of doing quests was going exploring; I got to finally see the stuff behind the gates in North Shroud, pretty cool (and different I might add) little area. The place almost feels made for the new fall damage update heh. Also Gridania is VASTLY improved from Alpha visually thanks to the proper day and night cycle. My character's cut scene transpired right before dawn so it was dark outside, by the time I got done with the first quest that lets you out into the normal world the sun was rising and everything was either glowing warm or was dark and in the shade, really felt like a true forest city unlike Alpha when it was stuck at perpetual 11:00 in the day time and no clouds.
Since I had played a bunch in alpha my first instinct instead of doing quests was going exploring; I got to finally see the stuff behind the gates in North Shroud, pretty cool (and different I might add) little area. The place almost feels made for the new fall damage update heh. Also Gridania is VASTLY improved from Alpha visually thanks to the proper day and night cycle. My character's cut scene transpired right before dawn so it was dark outside, by the time I got done with the first quest that lets you out into the normal world the sun was rising and everything was either glowing warm or was dark and in the shade, really felt like a true forest city unlike Alpha when it was stuck at perpetual 11:00 in the day time and no clouds.
theSlacker
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An issue they are trying to sort out. Logging in to seeing other people's characters.
If you log out and log in again it should fix it, or show you someone else's.
They have been restarting the servers several times trying to fix the issue I just mentioned.
Yeah I know, it just felt really weird seeing someone else character on my account. It kinda sucks cause my character was deleted and I had already reached level 7 last night, oh well.
On another note, it seems they are doing maint. on the servers again
SnakeLinkSonic
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So...are we using mIRC or something. Or just posting names here?
theSlacker
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Yeah I know, it just felt really weird seeing someone else character on my account. It kinda sucks cause my character was deleted and I had already reached level 7 last night, oh well.
On another note, it seems they are doing maint. on the servers again
When it happened to me, after re logging my toon popped back up. Only one that I've had go completely missing was the one before the first downtime.
Relaxed Muscle
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Goodbye, my cute Not-A-Tarutaru.
DrForester
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Started on Tonberry. Say hi to Miyara Dantes if you see her.
Pinko Marx
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I was able to create a char, move around for a few seconds, mess with some graphics settings this time at least.
DrForester
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I like this. I was able to accept the friend request right in the middle of the opening sequence.
Pinko Marx
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Ghostface Killah on Tonberry
Pinko Marx
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Its like impossible to play this game for longer than 10 minutes.
I played for an hour earlier today before work.
Btw how far did rollback go? did they roll back everything?
Yea they need like a small cog icon on the patcher.
theSlacker
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Had a good like 4-5 hours straight earlier while they were monitoring things to see what the problem was. Was amusing going everywhere in a big parade of lancers all dressed in the same red outfit.
Don't know yet. Servers should be back up in like 20 minutes according to the beta forums, and we will see then.
Maintenance again.
Tons of people in one spot should hinder performance I guess...but I'm using the same benchmark settings, and getting framerates between 20 and 60+ usually seems to hover between 25 and 30 near the main Aetheryte.
Anyway, my character got made and I passed the first tutorial quest, so add Teknoman Blade to your friend list!
EDIT: Maybe I shouldnt be using AMD's latest beta drivers?
Tons of people in one spot should hinder performance I guess...but I'm using the same benchmark settings, and getting framerates between 20 and 60+ usually seems to hover between 25 and 30 near the main Aetheryte.
Anyway, my character got made and I passed the first tutorial quest, so add Teknoman Blade to your friend list!
EDIT: Maybe I shouldnt be using AMD's latest beta drivers?
SnakeLinkSonic
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Same for me. It seems a lot of things are unstable, but after this one it was running a little bit better. I guess it'll improve over time.
Pinko Marx
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Gunna play a game of Dota and hope everything has stabilized.
LowParry
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I'm so glad they've made controls so modernized. But damn it takes some getting used to after so much play with TERA. Have to hold right click mouse to move the camera around rather than just moving the mouse itself. This is such a better beta and I'm really looking forward to putting some time in. Tonberry GAFs home then?
Edit: Conjure can heal right? (Healing has been my new thing lately with classes)
Edit: Conjure can heal right? (Healing has been my new thing lately with classes)
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