FFXIV Closed Alpha/Beta Discussion (Cancelled for this week)

[rufus9]

You are right. I posted my comment when only the first batch of songs were available.

Still though, there's also a lot of crazy 8 bit synthesizer songs.

there are a ton of peaceful tracks.. i hope they're like zone music for beautiful fields and such.

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2D has nice piano and strings..
3D has nice slow chimes
4A is peaceful xylophome/chimes.. has a quiet night town feel..
4C is another peaceful one. sounds like uematsu's usual town theme style.
26 peaceful piano
27 has that angel choir thing.
29 sounds like a love song similar to eyes on me.
32 is so peaceful and calm. I love this one so much... its the flute i swear.
37 is piano and strings, feels melancholic tho
42 is really ambient and fairly calm. seems to be area music.. love it too.
47 sounds homely cos of the guitars imo.

thats a lot of peaceful tracks no?

[Eldan]

Also, here is some info from Famitsu, translated by the staff of FFXIVCore

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This information has been leaked to the Internet from this week's issue of Famitsu. It's about alpha, apparently. Hope you enjoy it!

Done by SteveManly

* Area changes between cities and the field are seemless
* BGM flows naturally
* Private instances will not be interrupted by things happening around you (chat, crowdedness)
* The L3 button is the target lock
* Everyone can use teleport from the beginning
* Warp (like FFXI) sends you back to your home point, which is defaulted to the last Aetherite you used.
* There are only male Highlanders.
* You can only play as female Miqo’te, but males exist.
* There is a difference in starting stats between tribes, but this can be overcome with character growth (?)
* Gender has no effect on play
* Roegadyn females exist (does not say they are playable)
* The difference between tribes isn’t that big
* The opening will be real time, not pre-rendered.
* Flow of battle:
o Select target with directional keys
o Draw weapon with R1
o Select commends with directional keys
o Effect gauge charges

* Alpha was made with casual gamers in mind, too, but it may still be difficult
* Players will be able to reallocate stats in the final version
* They want to make teleport and warp available for all classes, and make it low-cost.
* After alpha comes beta 1, then beta 2. PS3 should be playable from beta 2.
* Alpha and beta 1 will be mostly the same thing.
* Parties cannot be formed unless the other members are close to you when inviting them.
* There are five different ranks of guildleve difficulty.
* After being defeated in battle, there is a five minute “weakened” state (It may be possible to be revived without a raise spell?)
* There are things like attack magic which can be used without MP
* Casting while moving is possible
* There are MP restoring abilities
* HP regenerates pretty quickly in passive mode

[naninani]

inb4 crying about the proximity requirement for party invitations

I really don't see why this is a big deal for so many people...

[Shuichi]

Glad to see target lock making a return.

[Destinye]

inb4 crying about the proximity requirement for party invitations

I really don't see why this is a big deal for so many people...

Lazy and Impatient people or "This is 20xx year" people really. If something small like that annoy people..no wonder people had so many gripes with FFXI.

[arus2001]

inb4 crying about the proximity requirement for party invitations

I really don't see why this is a big deal for so many people...

On one hand, not having to wait for people to be in region is nice, but on the other, I remember WoW and how RMT would spam invites not unlike they're doing now with tells in XI. At least tells aren't a pop-up window, though.

[Uzor]

Also, here is some info from Famitsu, translated by the staff of FFXIVCore

Spoiler: show

This information has been leaked to the Internet from this week's issue of Famitsu. It's about alpha, apparently. Hope you enjoy it!

Done by SteveManly

* Area changes between cities and the field are seemless
* BGM flows naturally
* Private instances will not be interrupted by things happening around you (chat, crowdedness)
* The L3 button is the target lock
* Everyone can use teleport from the beginning
* Warp (like FFXI) sends you back to your home point, which is defaulted to the last Aetherite you used.
* There are only male Highlanders.
* You can only play as female Miqo’te, but males exist.
* There is a difference in starting stats between tribes, but this can be overcome with character growth (?)
* Gender has no effect on play
* Roegadyn females exist (does not say they are playable)
* The difference between tribes isn’t that big
* The opening will be real time, not pre-rendered.
* Flow of battle:
o Select target with directional keys
o Draw weapon with R1
o Select commends with directional keys
o Effect gauge charges

* Alpha was made with casual gamers in mind, too, but it may still be difficult
* Players will be able to reallocate stats in the final version
* They want to make teleport and warp available for all classes, and make it low-cost.
* After alpha comes beta 1, then beta 2. PS3 should be playable from beta 2.
* Alpha and beta 1 will be mostly the same thing.
* Parties cannot be formed unless the other members are close to you when inviting them.
* There are five different ranks of guildleve difficulty.
* After being defeated in battle, there is a five minute “weakened” state (It may be possible to be revived without a raise spell?)
* There are things like attack magic which can be used without MP
* Casting while moving is possible
* There are MP restoring abilities
* HP regenerates pretty quickly in passive mode

So if barb = Highlander (male only), then perhaps the 10th set of emotes (assuming it even exists) could be a tribal difference, too. Like Sunseeker/moonseeker.

Makes me sad if I get no Gria

[Lurking Badger]

I thought maybe #10 could be a set for child npc's.

[Cray]

Also, here is some info from Famitsu, translated by the staff of FFXIVCore

Spoiler: show

This information has been leaked to the Internet from this week's issue of Famitsu. It's about alpha, apparently. Hope you enjoy it!

Done by SteveManly

* Area changes between cities and the field are seemless
* BGM flows naturally
* Private instances will not be interrupted by things happening around you (chat, crowdedness)
* The L3 button is the target lock
* Everyone can use teleport from the beginning
* Warp (like FFXI) sends you back to your home point, which is defaulted to the last Aetherite you used.
* There are only male Highlanders.
* You can only play as female Miqo’te, but males exist.
* There is a difference in starting stats between tribes, but this can be overcome with character growth (?)
* Gender has no effect on play
* Roegadyn females exist (does not say they are playable)
* The difference between tribes isn’t that big
* The opening will be real time, not pre-rendered.
* Flow of battle:
o Select target with directional keys
o Draw weapon with R1
o Select commends with directional keys
o Effect gauge charges

* Alpha was made with casual gamers in mind, too, but it may still be difficult
* Players will be able to reallocate stats in the final version
* They want to make teleport and warp available for all classes, and make it low-cost.
* After alpha comes beta 1, then beta 2. PS3 should be playable from beta 2.
* Alpha and beta 1 will be mostly the same thing.
* Parties cannot be formed unless the other members are close to you when inviting them.
* There are five different ranks of guildleve difficulty.
* After being defeated in battle, there is a five minute “weakened” state (It may be possible to be revived without a raise spell?)
* There are things like attack magic which can be used without MP
* Casting while moving is possible
* There are MP restoring abilities
* HP regenerates pretty quickly in passive mode

not pre rendered? interested in seeing this pan out

[rufus9]

So if barb = Highlander (male only), then perhaps the 10th set of emotes (assuming it even exists) could be a tribal difference, too. Like Sunseeker/moonseeker.

Makes me sad if I get no Gria

1. Lala male
2. Lala female
3. Elezen male
4. Elezen female
5. Hyur (midlander) male
6. Hyur (midlander) female
7. Hyur highlander male
8. Roegadyn male
9. Miqote female
10. ????

[Uzor]

1. Lala male
2. Lala female
3. Elezen male
4. Elezen female
5. Hyur (midlander) male
6. Hyur (midlander) female
7. Hyur highlander male
8. Roegadyn male
9. Miqote female
10. ????

Yes, but what I'm saying is, since one of them were revealed to be Highlander (which means a tribe get their own set of emotes), the 10th one could be a tribal difference too. Like Miqo'te moonseekers get one set of emotes and sun seekers get another, which would cover all of the 10 slots.

[Gokulo]

Yes, but what I'm saying is, since one of them were revealed to be Highlander (which means a tribe get their own set of emotes), the 10th one could be a tribal difference too. Like Miqo'te moonseekers get one set of emotes and sun seekers get another, which would cover all of the 10 slots.

Which would be weird because only 2 races would get different emotes for different tribes.
I'd go with the child emotes or something.

[Hyan]

If anyone would be kind enough to PM me a link for a site that has class skills info and such, that'd be appreciated. If one even exists, that is..

[ringthree]

Honestly, I am pretty impressed so far. It looks like they have all the bases covered so far. Not saying its going to be perfect, but Lua, game design and combat seems pretty good.

I am not digging the 5 minutes weakness, especially if you have to home point every time you die. But this may just be comparing apples (FFXI) to oranges (FFXIV). Then again, I thought SE was trying to avoid losing big chunks of time to nothingness in FFXIV.

[rufus9]

Yes, but what I'm saying is, since one of them were revealed to be Highlander (which means a tribe get their own set of emotes), the 10th one could be a tribal difference too. Like Miqo'te moonseekers get one set of emotes and sun seekers get another, which would cover all of the 10 slots.

Highlanders do not look like male midlanders at all. They have a totally different character model.

This is not the case for the other races, that is e.g. Miqote sunseekers and moonkeepers are based on the same character model.

[Destinye]

Also keep in mind there's typically a set of 'other' emotion files used for NPCs only.

[sruon]

There are Reraise & Raise skills

[Purrrfect]

Loving the Black Mages feel to some of the music. Their first 2 albums where balls to the wall awesome (3rd was a let down for me /sad). As far as the calm songs from XI, I really liked

植松伸夫氏/ やまも＆morio - Ronfaure FINAL FANTASY XI

but I dunno where it was in XI as I don't remember hearing it ingame (the file I have is called ronfauresong.mp3 and says it was on an album called Eternity). And the gustaberg bonus track on the CoP OST was win as well (even though I hated gustaberg with a passion). And the snowdrift waltz.

[Cray]

There are Reraise & Raise skills

link?

[Purrrfect]

link?

He's been finding skills. >.> He is the link lol.