Beta Test Emails Now Released

[Oreth]

I just splooooged all over my desk haha

[Oreth]

Current PS3 play / video side by side with windows pc. Only 75% optimized at present so is noted to have framerate issues!

[bori]

That be a roaming Ifrit?

Loved the super-move Ifrit pulled off at 2:06!

[Oreth]

Omg the mithra / mantha run animation at 2.30 is surely different to Alpha? Looks different

[Jaxzer]

I have a hard time believing that framerate will ever be 100% optimized with such a limited amount of RAM available to the PS3. I just see PS4's 8GB of DDR5 now and chuckle. I got chills from that vid though.

[Stromgarde]

So this is a flood of information. I like it!

[Deuce]

Wow! That PS3 version looks amazing even though it still needs further optimization. This means that I may have to get a copy of ARR for my PS3.

[Intense]

I love that they have players dying during those raids lol

[Gokulo]

Heh, lots of haters will be satisfied to know there's no backpedaling with gamepad.

[Lucavi]

I have a hard time believing that framerate will ever be 100% optimized with such a limited amount of RAM available to the PS3. I just see PS4's 8GB of DDR5 now and chuckle.

^This. The framerate was struggling in that exploration vid, and while a console kiddie won't see it, anyone used to playing games on a PC can easily spot the missing frames.

I have a feeling its still going to feel a bit like XI: stiff, and with frames almost excluded from animations, but honestly, looking back on how FFs have played since they began using polygons... its just part of how they feel. I don't know if SE designs them that way or if that's just all they're capable of, but I suppose it is what it is.

Just hoping they clean up the fluidity when free-running. I'd like to see movement take a step up in agility from Alpha, but we'll see what happens.

[avelle]

Heh, lots of haters will be satisfied to know there's no backpedaling with gamepad.

In the controller video Yoshida said that they made the character face the camera by default when it ran backwards, it's conceivable to think that there might be an option for that or something. Not that I care one way or the other.

[Nadrojj]

They mentioned in the last vid that the controls could be fully customized on the PC version.

Man the ending of that middle video, the Lala jumps off that giant cliff on it's chocobo!

[Lucavi]

In the controller video Yoshida said that they made the character face the camera by default when it ran backwards, it's conceivable to think that there might be an option for that or something. Not that I care one way or the other.

Agreed. That's for the console kiddies to squabble over. PC Master Race Squad, reporting in!

[miokomioko]

I am excite.

[Cream Soda]

For the people who played in alpha, is the game less demanding on your system specs? I'm running a Nvidia gtx 670m

[Lucavi]

Its hard to say, because the game, compared to WoW and GW2, is still unoptimized. Its a lot better than what it was, however, and it never really taxed my system at all. That said, there are still areas that aren't smooth, but you can possibly chalk that up to simply being an alpha. I am loathe to take all the pressure off of SE in that regard, however, because they actually fucking launched 1.0. in Alpha state, the bastards.

[Cayos]

There is a HUGE adamantoise walking in the background of the video at 3:00. It looks bigger than those huge mobs from FFXIII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38WppE345o&t=3m0s

[Deelo]

I have a silly question...have they talked about job/class changes since 1.0? What I really want to know: Is PLD is back to being a tank? Or will it still be useless vs WAR?

Sorry if this is old info, I just haven't been keeping up. Any response is much appreciated.

[MrDodo]

DAT exploration trailer

I'm hyped as FUCK

[Eagleheart]

If anyone sees my mind, please tell me. ;_; It got blown away. I need my mind back posthaste.