NDA Lifted for Screenshots for Phase 3 Beta

[Rocl]

Are they going to be releasing the character creator with the benchmark or in some way separately downloadable? I keep seeing that but I can't tell if it was news or an assumption

The new benchmark, scheduled for release on August 1st, will allow you to save your character appearance data and easily import it into the release version.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/487

[miokomioko]

The character creation chunk of the game should essentially be part of the new benchmark. I'm just wondering, since it obviously won't require an active account to run, how will it save the characters you create with it for importing to the retail version?

[Caiyuo]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/487

Awesome, now I'll never have to actually play the game.

[Rocl]

The character creation chunk of the game should essentially be part of the new benchmark. I'm just wondering, since it obviously won't require an active account to run, how will it save the characters you create with it for importing to the retail version?

Character Appearance data carried over from 1.0 after uninstalling the game completely so it's tucked away somewhere separately on your PC.

Actually it took 30s to find it >_>; apparently I still have an FFXIV Folder nvm

[Monkor]

The character creation chunk of the game should essentially be part of the new benchmark. I'm just wondering, since it obviously won't require an active account to run, how will it save the characters you create with it for importing to the retail version?

If you were to save presets in the creation during beta it would dump files in your Documents>My Games>XIV Beta folder like this: FFXIV_CHARA_BETA01.DAT.

I'm assuming the benchmark/creator will do the same and then the game will look for them and import those settings for you to use in the release build.

[miokomioko]

Ah, nevermind then. I had assumed the character presets were saved server-side, account-bound.

MAH BAHD

[Rowe]

I found the character data saves a while ago and thinking people could actually share them, if you made a character someone really liked you could just give them that dat file for them to drop into their folder.

[Rocl]

I found the character data saves a while ago and thinking people could actually share them, if you made a character someone really liked you could just give them that dat file for them to drop into their folder.

Pretty sure it's possible, Charismatic/shibodu might know for sure

[Stromgarde]

It is, the slot is determined by filename. The sliders just use byte values although they only span 1-100, plus there's a few other bytes which seem used for checksums. Non-scalar values are stored as indexes, which are also bytes. What this means is that if you set the height to 50, you can open up FFXIV_CHARA_BETA##.dat and it'll show up somewhere in there as 32. You can't artificially change this to FF and make your character super-tall due to the checksums.

[Amiricle]

Anyone have a picture of the full Battlemage set from Brayflox? I only saw the duckbills drop, no idea what the robe, etc. looked like.

Thanks in advance.

I have a few pics actually
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A /happy roegadyn is a VERY happy roegadyn

[Lucavi]

Roegs actually look 100% viable when sitting in chairs. Mancats look so stiff...

[Mabubeezareel]

Make her eyes a shade of Violet and she is Daenerys Targaryen. You know the real one from the books.

Y'know, I wasn't even thinking about that at all when making her. Of all the hair colors available, only the platinum white seemed to look the best with that hairstyle. Maybe I'll be a lame and name her Dany Stormborn or something equally unoriginal.

[Gulkeeva]

http://forum.neko-sentai.com/attachm...9&d=1374052781

Burn your self out on beta? naaahhh

[Seiji Okita]

bravo~ pretty nice ^.~

[Gulkeeva]

bravo~ pretty nice ^.~

I feel like its either.. some crazy JP that had multiple people playing, or someone learned how to bot 2.0 already O_o

Thats just crazy imo (or they didn't slept for 5 days)

[Seiji Okita]

I feel like its either.. some crazy JP that had multiple people playing, or someone learned how to bot 2.0 already O_o

Thats just crazy imo (or they didn't slept for 5 days)

Some kids at Tokyo U started a FFXIV play group and they each play the same character in shifts.... Or something like that.

But yeah, that is some crazy progression.

[Foxer]

Was leveling a craft more time consuming than leveling a normal class?

[Raldo]

If you exclude the time taken acquiring materials and/or shards, then leveling a DoH class is way way way way way way faster.

[Foxer]

Oh, was there a free 1-15, like there was with the other classes? If so then 8 35s and 3 32 shouldn't be too hard to get with just one person doing 18/6s or something like that, considering how long that shit lasted.

Also, I'm sure staying awake for 48 hours every weekend was normal to him. :3

[Gulkeeva]

Oh, was there a free 1-15, like there was with the other classes? If so then 8 35s and 3 32 shouldn't be too hard to get with just one person doing 18/6s or something like that, considering how long that shit lasted.

Also, I'm sure staying awake for 48 hours every weekend was normal to him. :3

Was only for DoW, not for crafting/gathering, and yeah doesn't take too long, but it still takes awhile to do! I'm thinking he was using the trick to spam HQ, to level at an obscene pace (you get a ton of bonus exp), and all the crystals would come from gathering.

You can get a level per 4-5 leve's, so same could be done with HQ turn ins probably.