Strange Update Errors

[Ludaen]

Friend of mine updated his NA version before his JP version and a whole lot of weird stuff started happening when he logged onto it.

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If you can't tell he is being hit as if it were 100fists. And he saw it say that "Jurek is under the weapon's control". After logging in and out a few times it fixed itself too.

[SephYuyX]

Nifty.

[Not Kuno]

rofl I woulda stayed in to see what happens.

[BRP]

You are the matrix.

(anyone else lol at the Cover! Resist! Magic Burst! Lightning Earth ect line?)

[Eternus]

Yeah this patch was buggy as hell.. LS members were reporting similar shit.

[Woyn]

dummy dummy dummy?

[Toth]

I like the gaining experience bug and the time allowed in dynamis bug XD

[Jackyl]

Time allowed in Dynamis has been extended by 812348513 minutes.

lol. "god dammit that's the 45th wyrm mail, where are the petasos!"

[Paralyzed]

I liked: http://img419.imageshack.us/img419/9762/na9az.gif

[BRP]

I liked: http://img419.imageshack.us/img419/9762/na9az.gif

That is totally sig worthy. Best JP Onry phrase, ever.

[Not Kuno]

dummy dummy dummy dummy dummy dummy dummy dummy

[Janice]

Does he goof around with dats?

I remember once copying the dat folder with one normal one and one modified one. One got updated and one didn't. When I tried to switch them, every NPC didnt work properly. They all had someone else garbled text and choices that were non existant. Never tested that on enemies though.

[Dank]

Wow that's awesome, that dancing weapon gained 1624697026 exp.

[Janice]

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/5571/pld6ng.jpg

I know PLD got a good boost in their abilities, but damn!

[Xiona]

when you replace the updatedffxi main.dll with the pre patch one it does this.

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the goblin used 100 fists on me and actually used it knocking off 1/2 my life by the time i crashed

[Ludaen]

He doesn't mess around with .DAT files. I guess he had a bad install on the update because he has both the JP and NA FFXI.

[Janice]

Kids, don't smoke trees while on drugs, mkay?

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5613/pld6tu.jpg

[Xiona]

then its possible the updater over looked his FFXImain.dll

but i tell you i was laughin my ass off when my was doing all this haha

[Janeru]

My harddrive gets "HDD Error" a lot when I try and download updates, basically I have the most fucked up .dat files ever (thanks to my fk'd up harddrive). Whenever I download a new patch, NPC's are named funny things, and the people who offer chocobo's and airships say things like "You're not fenrir!". If the .dat files get corrupted, it can really affect gameplay.
The trail markings to enter dynamis would say "Carbuncle" instead, and it would give me error messages if I tried to cast certain spells or when mobs attacked me.

Bottom line: .dat files are nasty. I've had to singulary replace them all thanks to a very good and patient friend willing to burn entire folders of FFXI for me.

IF you get errors like this, run check files from the play online menu, but even that won't catch them all. Most of the corrupted files appear to happen in ROM2 btw... just a pattern I noticed.

[Avvesione]

Tanat falls to level 812348513

Wonder how long it'll take before he gets back to level 812348514