IonicSnake
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Dragoon "uses his"
Everyone "WTF!?!" "kick from party and blacklisted"
This is the first thing I thought about when we learned how limit breaks will work in FFXIV.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT2| ARR: Phase 4 August.
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Dragoon "uses his"
Everyone "WTF!?!" "kick from party and blacklisted"
This is the first thing I thought about when we learned how limit breaks will work in FFXIV.
Oh, come on, we don't know anything about them especially how they'll fit into the balance of things.
I think it's far too early to be drawing criticisms on something we've yet to see and know little about. I wouldn't be surprised if that concept for the limit break has already been changed considering all of the other drastic changes they're doing going from earlier phases to the third.
I would say thats pretty accurate, there is no way you could set up skillchains with the speed of ARR's battle system.
They way I see limit breaks is the end goal of what a skill chain should be without the combinations and setting up, granted that was kind of fun in itself but also really annoying when someone just couldn't get the timing right and a total pain in the ass for magic bursting ancient magic lol
I'm just hoping that each job has a useful limit break.
Riposte
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That kind of synchronization is a natural and easy way to add depth to the multiplayer aspect of the game, not to mention the overall strategy of picking the right "combo" (though that's not always as dynamic as it should be). Making it a fundamental aspect of a game can be a really elegant way to engage the player. Yeah, some people were bad at it, but that's apart of the appeal: so you can improve and be good at it. Without that, and FFXI is mostly without that, then the combat system loses a layer when it might really need. Reducing a game's depth in order to reduce frustration in multiplayer is a depressing prospect, but unsurprisingly common in the MMO market, at least when it comes to most of the content.
Not saying that is what Limit Break will do though. I don't know what Limit Breaks will ultimately provide. I could see how they could use the way players gather the "resource" to go one way or another. Maybe it works like a point system where a WHM has to be good with heals or a melee fighter contributes more by hitting the monster's weakness. This would reinforce good "solo" performances side by side so that eight or so players who "do their job" get rewarded with a bonus special attack (in this case bad teamwork wouldn't be a frustrating and obvious fumble, but an overall lack of performance over time). Maybe it features more cooperative aspects, though I'm not sure what those would be right now.
I wouldn't mind having both.
Black Door
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And Paladin gets the shaft as usual
This was my first real MMO
Why didn't someone warn me the life of a PLD was such a soul crushing experience
Walking the divine path builds character.
You're playing a class that is told to eat crap and like it, what did you expect
(Was a life long PLD in FFXI!).Ooh yesss. When the 1.xx servers went down I was willing to wait forever for ARR, but I can slowly feel the urge to get back to XIV growing. I thirst for new info once again.
http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/341
New blog up.
Nothing overly interesting and it seems as though they're only just now making the videos? lol.
Some interesting things I see in the video:
予約特典 - pre-order privileges
Foxclon talks about a schedule and you see a bunch of stuff on the paper, including ARC>SMN art.
New blog up.
Nothing overly interesting and it seems as though they're only just now making the videos? lol.
Some interesting things I see in the video:
予約特典 - pre-order privileges
Foxclon talks about a schedule and you see a bunch of stuff on the paper, including ARC>SMN art.
Robobandit
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Must be the video where they show off arcanist and summoner... it would make sense for that to have developer commentary being a new class with new skills, etc.
Yeah, wasn't anything out of the norm said although it seems (lately) Foxclon has a habit of getting tongue tied when speaking. I think it was just they were really tired lol.
Really need some media goodies, getting dry out here.
Relaxed Muscle
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Looks very blurry. It's clearly sub HD, but seems VERY sub HD. Well, given how old the PS3 I don't think they can do much better.
Robobandit
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Those pics were blown up to 1920x1080.. that's why they look so incredibly blurry.
They've replaced them with different shots now.
FF XIV Screenshots said:
Relaxed Muscle
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Oh that looks better. I still think is sub HD. But at least is not Star Ocean 4 level of sub HD. Looks very good considering is PS3. Let's see how well it runs.
Not that I care since I'm superior PC race member in this case lol.
Not that I care since I'm superior PC race member in this case lol.
Goodacre0081
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i feel bad for the developers having to spend time on a shitty port delaying the PC version.
didn't know about this, thanks!
Robobandit
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Yoshi-P said the HP/MP thing was a display issue w/ level sync that has already been fixed now.
Oh, good to know. Thanks!
Thats the most important thing about those shots. What the hell are they fighting? Some sort of Scorpion wyvern?
Not really, those things were already in the beta.
I mean... or so I've heard. Are we even doing this anymore? I lost track of the NDA...
Monsters from this family have been shown on the dev blog before Beta started (albeit not clearly) and they've been recycled/adapted from FF12 (Deathgaze).
I haven't seen it anywhere. Looks cool, though.
The wings, in particular, remind me of Panzer Dragoon, which is always a plus in my book.
Wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to post this last night (not until Yoshi-P had made mention of it) but 2ch is scary - they managed to find Yoshida's blog from 2003 and had a handful of DaOC videos among other things. He used to also run a Diablo 2 fansite in which he translated all the daily announcements and item stats - pretty cool. If you see the tag "Naony" being thrown in the Japanese threads that's the vippers.
They also found his supposed FFXIV character (doesn't look like he played much after launch).
They also found his supposed FFXIV character (doesn't look like he played much after launch
).Wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to post this last night (not until Yoshi-P had made mention of it) but 2ch is scary - they managed to find Yoshida's blog from 2003 and had a handful of DaOC videos among other things. He used to also run a Diablo 2 fansite in which he translated all the daily announcements and item stats - pretty cool. If you see the tag "Naony" being thrown in the Japanese threads that's the vippers.
They also found his supposed FFXIV character (doesn't look like he played much after launch
I knew I liked him for a reason.
I smiled.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17888840
He's 道産子 too, another cool thing (pun, zing) in my book.
This man never ceases to amaze.Wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to post this last night (not until Yoshi-P had made mention of it) but 2ch is scary - they managed to find Yoshida's blog from 2003 and had a handful of DaOC videos among other things. He used to also run a Diablo 2 fansite in which he translated all the daily announcements and item stats - pretty cool. If you see the tag "Naony" being thrown in the Japanese threads that's the vippers.
They also found his supposed FFXIV character (doesn't look like he played much after launch
creid
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So he's one of us!
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