Final Fantasy XIV @ gamescom 2009 (Updated)

[Agito]

Caption says Mammet, text below the Cactuar and that says something like "First video footage was released on Gamescon and player reports are coming up". (No I don't speak japanese, that's what a friend told me)

/edit:Agito broke the thread... http://wuselfuzz.de/images/bork.png

I hit the "Submit Reply" at the exact same moment someone else hit it and thus breaking it.

[100percentile]

About the interviews, the french-speaking website JeuxOnline is going to post its report this morning (GMT+2 here) on their boards. They mention they're going to post screenshots of the powerpoint presentation, dealing with combat system, 3 jobs, a few armor sets and interactions between character classes (dunno what they mean here).
The interview itself is (sadly) going to be about global stuff and not really specific, as they say. I really don't know what to expect here but I'll keep you in touch.

Thank you man! looking forward to it!

[Sethe]

I hit the "Submit Reply" at the exact same moment someone else hit it and thus breaking it.

Almost logical, but not quite how the internet works It was the Japanese characters breaking some function, resulting in a tag not being closed correctly...

But anyway, shouldn't some interviews start being published soon, it's almost lunch time in Germany damnit.

[Altanass]

ZOMG PUP?!?
http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000...cs1w1_290x.jpg
http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000...87583/img.html

yay :D :D :D :D :D

[killerc4]

Working on the interview I just had with Hiromichi Tanaka at #Gamescom about #FFXIV

from ffxivcore twitter

[tripnotic]

French Interview :
ffxivDOTjeuxonlineDOTinfo/?idNouvelle=23917

Only thing interesting is "change job by switching weapon BETWEEN fight"

I suppose QotsaM will make a full translation.

[100percentile]

P.S good fucking job agito

French Interview :
ffxivDOTjeuxonlineDOTinfo/?idNouvelle=23917

Only thing interesting is "change job by switching weapon BETWEEN fight"

I suppose QotsaM will made a full translation.

Awesome. Goodbye gear swap.

[HiPotion]

i thought the weapon job system is too limiting to have a pup/bst in there
but i hope not..

[Folant]

P.S good fucking job agito



Awesome. Goodbye gear swap.

Nothing really to concretely suggest that. Could be just the weapon is locked during combat because it's directly effecting which class you're playing as.

""change job by switching weapon BETWEEN fight""

[Cantih]

French Interview :
ffxivDOTjeuxonlineDOTinfo/?idNouvelle=23917

Only thing interesting is "change job by switching weapon BETWEEN fight"

I suppose QotsaM will make a full translation.

Actually, google translate does a pretty decent job of it.

[Ender]

Did anyone else find this to be exciting news?

" the main frame of the game is announced as even more epic than its predecessor, with elements such as voice recorded for most of the NPCs in the world Eorza to make more interactive quests and trade."

[100percentile]

Nothing really to concretely suggest that. Could be just the weapon is locked during combat because it's directly effecting which class you're playing as.

""change job by switching weapon BETWEEN fight""

Hopefully they'll have a kind of timer/cool down for all other equipment as well.

[Rautha]

man, who asked those questions? no idea of the game... bah

-ok, no online-shop planned so far (ingame-online shop for equip or money like those korean free to play MMos)

-armoury system: no comment
only that you can change job during battle by equip change

-more occasional gamers blabla

-of course there will be difficult mobs where you need a lot of players. something about "toujours des monstres"... like intensive mobs anytime/always.

-something about the communication on the SE premiere site with a calandar system (events)
meh..

edit: damn. i never think of google. well, at least i tried to translate. cookie +1

[Agito]

Looks like there won't be any auto-attacking. I suspect we'll be using different directional swings for regular attacks like the Roegadyn on the boat. Speaking of the Roegadyn fighting on the boat he actually picked the monster up with the Great Axe but i didn't see anything like that in the gameplay videos.

[luciferu]

Little sum-up:
- FFXIV is 8 years old project from FFXI experience
- Story and gameplay will be totally different from FFXI
- Story promised to be more epic than FFXI
- Recorded voices for NPC for a better interaction and immersion
- Game is aimed for neophytes and fans

- They're hesitant to port it on 360 because of Xbox Live (i.e. PSN = $ and XL = points)
- Playing with pad will be featured of course and it will be intuitive

- How does Amoury System work? They can't reveal anything for now but they said you can change your job as much as you want between fights by changing equipment (like FFXI's automatons?)
- Game will be based on one main quest said to be very difficult and come with casual quests
- It won't be about powered characters, PT will be about abilities and what you can bring in your PT: veteran players and occasional players will be able to group together
- There'll still be intense fights against monsters

- Concerning communication: it was the will of the team who wished to do the opposite of FFXI's strategy: getting feedbacks and comments from the beginning
- Linkshell system overhaul to make PTs and online tools to help players by gathering informations of the social life of FFXIV
- Premiere Sites system will be extended with events' calendar


Source:
JeuxOnline's team
Thanks to Myrhdin
Translated by luciferu

[Gokulo]

man, who asked those questions? no idea of the game... bah

Someone said the interviews are supposes to be more general, and the game won't be discussed in-depth by them today

[QotsaM]

Considering that Luciferu made a quite good summary, I'm considering wether or not the translation is worth it, but as expected, there are not really specific infos.

[Azriell]

Was hoping to gleam some more details from the PS3 footage IGN has, but its all being played with keyboard.

The reason FFXI used sort of chat window it did (I assume), is because things have to be larger when you're playing on a TV that's across the room, instead of a monitor thats 18 inches away. For people concerned about the chat window in XIV: we already know the UI is customizable. I'd would have to imagine this includes resizing the chat window to something more along the lines of XI.

Also for those concerned with the skill bar a few pages back, unless XIV requires a keyboard for more than just chat on PS3, that skill bar is going to have to be accessible via a controller. It will probably function just like the macro bar did in XI, if you're using a controller (Shoulder buttons + Dpad + Confirm Button). It is worth noting, however, that in another PS3 vid from IGN, you can clearly see numbers on the skill bar icons, denoting the number to press on your keyboard to use the commands. While this suggests a keyboard is required for play on PS3, I would be more inclined to believe that this is just indicative of the early stage of development, with the PS3 version's UI not having been completed yet.

Also it's already been talked about, but in the same IGN vid that the 2nd pic comes from, the TP bar bounces around quite a bit. At 0:05 he uses Red Lotus (red fire attack), which drops his TP from 3,000 to 2,500. At 0:20, the green AoE WS (Rundumhieb, google translates "Rundum" as "round", "hieb" as "stroke")drops it from 2,512 to 1,002. Each hit he takes seems to give 2 TP. At 0:26 he raises his sword in front of him ("Du fangst ab Schutzschild zu wirken" in the chat log, google translate says:"You starting to act as shield"), at 0:29 his TP drops to 510 (presumably from the defensive move). Finally at 0:35 his TP rises from 512 to 2,500 when he uses Red Lotus , which kills the puk. It is probably a bug that Red Lotus seems to put you at 2,500 TP regardless of when you use it, but it does seem clear that different moves (including JA) use TP. It seems that non-mage jobs might perform like DNC this time around.

Oh, also there are 2 icons before the "1 Icon" (far left of skill bar). They are hard to make out, but the first looks like an orange sword to me, and the second looks like headphones (doubt this is accurate). There are 3 more icons on the far right, which looks like an item bag (inventory, although it looks just like the bazaar icon from XI), a chat balloon, and what I assume to be a Linkpearl.

[Ender]

They were playing on PC's, not ps3's. If you look at one of the screenshots on ffxicore, on one of the distant computers u can see the windows XP task bar at the bottom of the screen, as if someone alt tabbed or is playing in a windowed mode. Which also confirms that we wont need a windower for the pc version.

[Rautha]

Also it's already been talked about, but in the same IGN vid that the 2nd pic comes from, the TP bar bounces around quite a bit. At 0:05..

welcome to 4 pages ago :D
nah, you saw that right

Oh, also there are 2 icons before the "1 Icon" (far left of skill bar). They are hard to make out, but the first looks like an orange sword to me, and the second looks like headphones (doubt this is accurate). There are 3 more icons on the far right, which looks like an item bag (inventory, although it looks just like the bazaar icon from XI), a chat balloon, and what I assume to be a Linkpearl.

the very first one is a sword, the second a coloured circle. like an element-rotation

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5449/ff144.png


the icons on the right are: an item bag, a chat symbol and a black linkpearl-like stone

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2476/ff145.png