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

[Biggie]

Can you play all known races and classes in the alpha?

I will assume you can...

* The Alpha/Beta versions contain only a fraction of what is planned in the full version. This includes playable races
and clans, character customization options, selectable classes, and available areas, to name a few.


Is this a hint that we will see more classes and even races announced before retail release?

[Biggie]

No, its stated in eBook/manual

#8 is a nice one

Ah, I must have missed that...

[ScGr]

I saw Astral and Umbral mentioned some posts ago.

Where is the source on Astral and Umbral?

I would be disappointed if every deity of the 12 had an element as well as a positive/negative alignment. I wanted the 12 to be more vague than that.

[Kaslo]

Some more information:

Client supports IME
Client will have some sort of "Benchmark" which will output a numerical value (unknown if user will be able to run the benchmark or see the results)

Selectable Races:

Hyuuran Male
Hyuuran Female
Elezen Male
Elezen Female
Lalafell Male
Lalafell Female
Roegadyn Male
Mi'Qote Female
"Barb" Male (unknown)

Slots which have skill attached to them:
Main
Sub
Throwing
Pouch
Bandolier

That sounds like a new race at the end, seeing as there are no clan affiliation for anyone so it can't be highlander.

[Rustyhagun]

Ah, I must have missed that...

I'm gonna correct myself, looking over the question again. "All known" races, so far revealed to us, should be playable in alpha.

[Metafox]

I saw Astral and Umbral mentioned some posts ago.

Where is the source on Astral and Umbral?

I would be disappointed if every deity of the 12 had an element as well as a positive/negative alignment. I wanted the 12 to be more vague than that.

I saw it in the description for thaumaturge spells a while back. I'm too lazy to go find it right now, but among other things, they had dia do "astral" damage, and they had bio do "umbral" damage.

EDIT: It was posted earlier on this thread, but I can't find it now. It must have been taken out during an NDA spree, so I guess I can't prove anything for now.

[Vuitton]

There sure is a lot of heavy metal / electric guitar influences in this music. A lot of it also seems sort of when a DJ trainwrecks two tracks on accident (two tracks playing at the same time).

Track 30 is pretty fun though.

Track 45 sounds very very "moogle theme" to me for some reason.

[Kurokikaze]

Wow this is not exactly what you'd expect in an MMO OST... Hmm some of the tracks are good while others just sound out of place.

[Eldan]

Wow this is not exactly what you'd expect in an MMO OST... Hmm some of the tracks are good while others just sound out of place.

Well, they are all out of place in a media player. They are supposed to be in the context of whats going on in the game.

[vrumpt]

I'm gonna correct myself, looking over the question again. "All known" races, so far revealed to us, should be playable in alpha.

i've said it before somewhere else, it's all but confirmed were getting more than the old FFXI crew back. Been hinted at too many times in multiple places.

[ScGr]

I saw it in the description for thaumaturge spells a while back. I'm too lazy to go find it right now, but among other things, they had dia do "astral" damage, and they had bio do "umbral" damage.

EDIT: It was posted earlier on this thread, but I can't find it now. It must have been taken out during an NDA spree, so I guess I can't prove anything for now.

Hm. Well NDA it is. I'm trying to match elements to the known deities right now. It doesn't make sense.

There is a quote on the disciples of magic that says "Aether knows neither sacred nor profane", so if the 12 are related to elements, maybe they will still be vague in their alignments.

[Vuitton]

i've said it before somewhere else, it's all but confirmed were getting more than the old FFXI crew back. Been hinted at too many times in multiple places.

RANDOM SPECULATION!

Moogles are the new race, which explains why there has been zero info released about them. Just give Lalafell a fur coat, a red ball on a string, and some bat wings and there you go.

[Reality]

For those of you who use a wireless 360 controller for FF11 on PC, and are using the hacked japanese drivers for switching the rear triggers to digital (on/off) buttons, for auto-run and are curious about what settings will work with FF14, with regards to the directional pad

(Took me about 30 minutes to figure these out)

FF14:

Directional Pad Tab

Slider 1/Z Axis
Reverse Vertical Axis: Unchecked

Advanced Settings Tab

Slider List
Slider 1: All 3 Boxes Unchecked
Z Axis: All 3 Boxes Unchecked

[EdgeMoragan]

This zodiac crap reminds me of FFtactics, and the Guardian crap reminds me of Tactics Ogre

[Purrrfect]

Wow this is not exactly what you'd expect in an MMO OST... Hmm some of the tracks are good while others just sound out of place.

Also, the northern country that is wrecking shit, has been said to be very technologically advanced. Some of the more techishy stuff might be from those areas.

[Akiyama]

This zodiac crap reminds me of FFtactics, and the Guardian crap reminds me of Tactics Ogre

Both games were full of win. What's your point?

[Metafox]

RANDOM SPECULATION!

Moogles are the new race, which explains why there has been zero info released about them. Just give Lalafell a fur coat, a red ball on a string, and some bat wings and there you go.

Now that sounds nice, I've wanted playable moogles ever since ff6. Well, minus the lalafell model, in this case. Maybe if we believe in the playable moogles, they'll come true.

Hm. Well NDA it is. I'm trying to match elements to the known deities right now. It doesn't make sense.

I didn't realize that we knew about any of the deities, so my guess about an orderly elemental correlation could very well be incorrect.

[Purrrfect]

Speaking of moogles, has one appeared in any ss or video yet? I don't recall seeing one. And the thought of a world w/o them is about to make my brain lock up.

[Dantrag]

0E kind of reminds me of this dude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXrVO7xR9U

anyone else <.<;?

[EdgeMoragan]

Both games were full of win. What's your point?

What gave you the impression I was complaining!!! D: