Version Update: What did SE break this time? [Shit's Borked reports go HERE]

[Balthasar]

I did the same thing. UI Mod Installer wouldn't connect, so I manually found and moved the FFXIStyle (widescreen) dats into the corresponding ROM folders. Now when I log on (after you push "Play") I get a "configuring Final Fantasy XI" window with a status bar. I'm able to log on fine if I hit cancel a few times though. I did do a file check, and while it recognized 5 files that needed to be repaired, it didn't repair them -,-

So I hope Aikar updates the UI Mod Installer soon

I reran the UI Mod Installer just now and re-picked the options I wanted right after I replaced the dat files in my ROM folders with the backups provided on Emiko's blog (i don't know if replacing with the backups actually did anything important). It seemed to properly download/connect to and install the dats this time, and the previous error upon pushing "Play" has gone away.

and if it matters, the mods I used with it are:
Screen Res: Widescreen (16:9)
UI: FFXIStyle 1
Icons: FFXIStyle 1 (Normal Utsusemi)
Silent Marches (Muted Login Music): ON
Menu Sounds: FF12 Menu Sounds
Background: Solid Black (Red Border)

[Talint]

Are titles borked? Beat a chariot yesterday, but no title change. I read some people didn't get the krakatoa title...

[Forte]

It seems to me a separate thread for things SE isn't responsible for breaking would be much better than sifting through numerous "OMG WINDOWER BROKE" posts while looking for ACTUAL game bugs.

Maybe it's just me though.

[jmc]

Anyone do Dynamis-Beaucedine since the patch?

We got to boss, pulled like normal......... eye warped from the puller but it was no where to be found back at its original location. Ran around for 10 minutes, with no dice

[Clerix]

Anyone do ASA last fight since update?

Friend was trying to do it today and said that it's no longer SMN-burnable (4-5 SMN 1kiter)

[Vandalhart]

Did Signet Staffs get changed in some way?
I'm trying to use mine in Beacedine Glacier and it won't go past 80% or so.

Could you use them in Beastman owned areas before? That's the only thing I can see now that'd cause an issue.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Anyone do ASA last fight since update?

Friend was trying to do it today and said that it's no longer SMN-burnable (4-5 SMN 1kiter)

I have noticed a change with this. Garuda no longer had like 4k Hp and Pred Claws was doing ass Dmg the whole time. I don't think I broke 300. I assumed it was cause I just bought the Hexes instead of getting them.

[Naash]

Forte, agreed, a separate Windower thread would be nice (console users etc).

Clerix, I believe there was something on the official site about broken pet buffs in the Shantotto BF.


I was going to post that I couldn't use the new R/E quivers... but that's because they're *belts* and not quivers! :O
(Also, it's not an issue per se, but note you have to trade to the guard of that nation to get the quivers, not "any" guard).

[Firedemon]

Did Signet Staffs get changed in some way?
I'm trying to use mine in Beacedine Glacier and it won't go past 80% or so.

Could you use them in Beastman owned areas before? That's the only thing I can see now that'd cause an issue.

I just used mine 30 minutes ago when I OPed to Meriphataud Mountains which is a Beastmen controlled area. And yes, you could use the staff in those areas before the update.

Myself and two of my buddies who static various ENMs entered Sheep in Antlion's Clothing on Thursday night and got royally fucked over. We popped Tuchulcha right away in his normal spot, and after he retreated, we were unable to find him for 10 minutes. We were finally able to pop him on a place we had already walked over, which was really odd. We timed out because of that which pissed us off. Don't know if it was an update glitch, or a glitch like Dynamis-Tav rarely has. Anyone else had this happen to them over the week?

[Shenrien]

Did Signet Staffs get changed in some way?
I'm trying to use mine in Beacedine Glacier and it won't go past 80% or so.

Could you use them in Beastman owned areas before? That's the only thing I can see now that'd cause an issue.

is it the signet staff from the same nation your from..? cause that will certainly hold you from getting signet from it.

[Atomic Skull]

If you set the background resolution higher than the overlay resolution on screen battle damage messages will appear off center from where they are supposed to.

Not using windower btw.

EDIT: Actually they are off center at any resolution. Seems that the higher the background resolution the more off center they become. Tried running the game at 256x256 background and messages were only slightly off center. Set it to 2720x1536 and they were way off center.

Further edit: Seems that it's also based on distance from the "camera". People fighting further away have battle messages that aren't as far off center.

[Vandalhart]

I just used mine 30 minutes ago when I OPed to Meriphataud Mountains which is a Beastmen controlled area. And yes, you could use the staff in those areas before the update.

is it the signet staff from the same nation your from..? cause that will certainly hold you from getting signet from it.

Yeah, it's my same Bastok Signet staff I've had for a while. I never had one before I switched nations and did them all. I'll try again later at some point. Could it be because I was already under the effect of Signet? I was trying to refresh it because I hadn't gotten it before leaving town.

[Raelia]

EDIT: Actually they are off center at any resolution. Seems that the higher the background resolution the more off center they become. Tried running the game at 256x256 background and messages were only slightly off center. Set it to 2720x1536 and they were way off center.

This is a known, classic, and hilariously ignored issue with people who think they're being smart by setting their background render resolution to something non-square. Make it square and it'll be fine.

Protip: Graphic Cards around FFXI's release couldn't do non-square texture resolutions. FFXI renders to a texture, vis-a-vis could only run square render res, which is why everything gets scaled weird if you don't.

[Valient]

I have noticed a change with this. Garuda no longer had like 4k Hp and Pred Claws was doing ass Dmg the whole time. I don't think I broke 300. I assumed it was cause I just bought the Hexes instead of getting them.

Hmm. Did a run Wednesday after patch and my SMN said her Pred Claws wasn't doing as much as the week before. I just assumed it was because WHM Shan had cast pro and shell on D Shan unlike the week before. Will not get a chance to try again for a couple weeks.

EOL

[Firedemon]

Could it be because I was already under the effect of Signet? I was trying to refresh it because I hadn't gotten it before leaving town.

Bingo. I just grabbed Signet and tried to use my staff and it wouldn't work. I guess you can't refresh Signet while you're still under the effect.

[Max™]

Did anyone get their bonanza prizes mailed yet? I checked my dbox for my rank 5 prize but not there. I sincerely hope they didn't mail it to kujata after the servers came down...

Oh wow, I see it now, items delivered to the appropriate servers in step 3 of the maint. Servers merged in step 27 of the maint. The QQ forms a black hole of emo angstness in step 1 of the post-maint bitching.

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showp...0&postcount=45

Hmmm....

[Atomic Skull]

This is a known, classic, and hilariously ignored issue with people who think they're being smart by setting their background render resolution to something non-square. Make it square and it'll be fine.

I tried that already, it didn't fix the problem.

I tried all three "standard" resolutions (256x256, 512x512 and 1024x1024) and as the resolution increased the off-centerdness of the battle messages increased along with it. Setting the background resolution to double the foreground caused battle messages to be *really* off center. It did not matter if the resolution was square or not, the problem was still there.

Using a non square resolution does affect the aspect ratio of the battle message font, but that isn't what I am talking about here.

Protip: Graphic Cards around FFXI's release couldn't do non-square texture resolutions. FFXI renders to a texture, vis-a-vis could only run square render res, which is why everything gets scaled weird if you don't.

My old Geforce 3 that I had when I started playing this game handled non square textures just fine and it predated FFXI by about 2 years.

[Byrthnoth]

Has anyone gotten their rank 3/2/1 prizes yet?

[Darkmoon]

I posted this in the Relic Augment thread but may be better here.


Possibly messed up Augment on Yoichinoumi....(or just Yoichi)

Went to kill Medusa tonight for a person that needed title. My Girlfriend has finished Trial 1 for Bow and working on second. She noticed that she was doing less per arrow then our E.Bow RNG and Selele's bow RNG. Checked food, buffs, etc. Everything was fine. Just doing crap damage.

We tested a few situations last night.

Nakid side by side with another Yoichi holder. They did very similar damage, but he usually did 2-5 more (even though his has no trials started/done, and hers has 1st done (+2DMG))

Second we tried the same relic vrs an Ebow. Wore no gear at all and the numbers were:
Ebow 295, 299, 299
Relic: 279, 275, 281

Third was vs same Ebow with some gear on both (Orc Helm, Osode, Skadi feet)
Ebow: 325, 328, 321
Relic: 287, 284, 286


Anyone else getting some goofy Yoichi results?
all these tests were with Velocity shot and Pot-au-feu, done on Gigantobugard.

I have more data, and screen shots, I'm at work atm, but will try to complie the Screen shots into a easy to see format.

[Atomic Skull]

For reference here is how battle damage messages *should* be lined up with your character name:

youtube.com/watch?v=SXxSBx4RLto


Battle messages have always been off center in the PC version, but in the last patch it seems to have gotten much worse. You don't really notice it till you start using the supersampling trick though. As you increase the background resolution FFXI renders the game at the battle message text starts getting displayed further off center from your character to the point that when you have it set to render at 2720x2720 the mobs "miss" messages are appearing over your head and yours are almost off the edge of the screen.