Final Fantasy XIV at E3 2010

[Agito]

As for the battle system, I am clueless.. It simply looks like she's spamming moves WoW style and I dont get the purpose of the bar moving up and down as she does so...

When the bar reaches zero you can no longer perform actions so if you use it up to fast you'll have to wait a little while for it to fill back up or something.

[Croy]

Horned kid seems a lot like a storyline NPC to me...

As for the battle system, I am clueless.. It simply looks like she's spamming moves WoW style and I dont get the purpose of the bar moving up and down as she does so...

The action gauge seems to have been replaced with something akin to the FFXIII ATB system (constantly filling up gauge) and the Rogue Energy system in WoW. It now always fills up at the same pace and all actions take off a 'bar' from the action gauge differently. Thus you can't 'spam' abilities unless you want to just do the same normal attack infinitely and have no special attacks. Now you have to wait for the gauge to fill up a bit more to use bigger abilities. I like it, fast and allows for a degree of strategy with when and where you should be using abilities. Store up to make a good selection of abilities quickly or just spam a routine. Should make partying dynamics interesting. Especially for healers. "Oh crap I can't heal you fast enough because my ATB gauge is near depletion!"

[vadre]

The basic moves (like slashes and phantom needle or whatever) take out chunks of that bar, or MP. This works the same as in alpha now, as these moves generate TP, which is now a bar next to the HP and MP down the bottom.

It looks like a pretty good way to allow constant attacks I guess, though I'd imagine more powerful moves take out larger chunks ala FFXIII? I think the ability to stack moves might not be such a bad idea either.

EDIT: You can also see in the video, when her bar was depleted, a small box showed up when he selected a move over the amount of the bar that was required and it simply waited for that to be full and then initiated the attack.

[Thiefami]

When the bar reaches zero you can no longer perform actions so if you use it up to fast you'll have to wait a little while for it to fill back up or something.

thats what I was thinking. Once you spam it down to 0 it probably turns red and you will have to wait till its over the hump to use it again

[BlackheartX]

Come on people get a grip that horned kid is obviously not playable. Probably a stupid npc like that one in COP that was so annoying.

[Fawkes]

contrasted against the Moogle you can clearly see it is a horn

Also he has regular ears.

[njitjk68]

Horned kid seems a lot like a storyline NPC to me...

As for the battle system, I am clueless.. It simply looks like she's spamming moves WoW style and I dont get the purpose of the bar moving up and down as she does so...

I thought the battle system was simple to understand.

You have 2 gauges, TP gauge and stamina gauge.

Using Light stab and Light slash costs certain amount of stamina and raises TP gauge on hit.

Special abilities like Red lotus blade and phalanx costs both stamina and TP.

[BlackheartX]

I thought the battle system was simple to understand.

You have 2 gauges, TP gauge and stamina gauge.

Using Light stab and Light slash costs certain amount of stamina and raises TP gauge on hit.

Special abilities like Red lotus blade and phalanx costs both stamina and TP.

Maybe you haven't seen the player base. "Simple" isn't the same for everyone.

[omegaB]

looks like the major change is they got rid of teh effect gauge, because you fools couldnt handle having the option to attack faster! no lag, and slightly faster atb charging, but the biggest difference is that now your atb just keeps charging, each action uses a portion of the atb, the person playing was basically spamming attack though, didnt use thier tp very often or thier skills, probably to make battle seem fast as possible. its not a huge change really but it gives you the ability to chain attacks more, also reaction skills should work better like this, you can just save a little atb for skills that require a parry or evasion before execution. looks nice though, i wonder if shield works the same here

[ascalon]

Looks like RLB also still uses MP, which is odd as I haven't yet seen any other Weapon Skill-like moves use MP.

[Roscobel]

Nice updates :D

[vadre]

http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/...benson/kid.png

This was the one i was thinking of, his ears just seemed a bit.. pointier than usual.

[Fayttt]

God all this does is make me want it more.

[BlackheartX]

Watched the combat video again looks spammy. I wonder how the charged bar will work with accuracy ect now.

[Loaar]

Am I the only one who thought this guy looks awesome?

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/173/53325111.png

[Rustyhagun]

Also he has regular ears.

No he doesn't 1:58-1:59 into the video if you can pause it there. you see horn again and vulcan like shaped ears.

[Fawkes]

No he doesn't 1:58-1:59 into the video if you can pause it there. you see horn again and vulcan like shaped ears.

Regular as in not miqote ears.

[Rustyhagun]

Regular as in not miqote ears.

heh... sry then

[Isla]

You think that FFXIV is going towards a more natural understated armor artwork vs. some of the more unique outlandish stuff in FFXIV?

[Cray]

At what time is the male mithra? I don't pay attention well. Wife had to show me the moogle.

Blind as a fucking bat.