FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread III: Where's my beta invite?

[Senji]

Is everyone trying to avoid Sephiroth server or something? I've been waltzing in and out since the start of the beta with no queues lol.

Sephiroth and Kefka will likely be the servers to avoid come launch, but shouldn't matter for beta.

[Celeras]

Does anybody understand the conditions for which you have to 'exchange' a leve? It doesnt seem to be connected to how many I have accepted, what type they are, or where they're accepted for. But sometimes, seemingly random, I'll have to 'exchange' a completed leve in order to accept a new one?

Like for instance, I have NOTHING but the initial tutorial leve for the rats. Completed. I go to accept the other battlecraft leves, I have to exchange the tutorial leve. I accept the bearded rock leves, and do them. Return to the NPC and go to accept the tutorial leve again.. and i can do so without exchanging anything.

[Evenstar]

Where is this whole behest thing they added?

[Rocl]

Where is this whole behest thing they added?

There's 1 yellowjacket NPC that appears at each camp that you have to talk to. However, said NPC has a global cooldown, so if someone beat you to him and flagged Behest-- you can't do it. No idea how long it takes for Behest to become available again. I saw some people doing Behest outside of Bearded Rock (is that the name? I forget now) with the Yellowjacket NPC nearby, and when I went to Camp Skull or w/e its called, the Yellowjacket NPC was at camp, and upon talking to her she just went "I just finished killing shit, go away a while."

[Evenstar]

Thanks Rocl! Good to know, didn't know there was some kind of cooldown on it.

It is sad the official beta forums are such a freaking mess and full of retards.

[Rocl]

Sometimes I try to read/post there but most of the time I find I can figure things out on my own faster

(Also the "Unable to perform that action." engage bug with Guildleves sucks, as does Arbor Call crashing the game.)

[Myth]

Thanks Rocl! Good to know, didn't know there was some kind of cooldown on it.

It is sad the official beta forums are such a freaking mess and full of retards.

People complaining about not being able to run the game on their PoS 5 year old PC? Or are there other things people are bitching about?

[Draylo]

Well I sold my alpha account a few hours before the beta started on the weekend, I figure, meh, probably the same as alpha and since I capped a character in alpha I won;t be missing much.
Man this morning the players site was released/opened and what was I thinking! Probably a bad idea now since I want to play really bad, but I bought the account, so I still have my personal SQEX acc, and bottom line, now I can buy the CE and get the cool helmet, and security token for my account when the game launches, still would be nice to see some pictures at least of the beta.

Not really... its still the same shit as Alpha. Just kill mobs for exp and some other small time stuff, its pretty boring.

[Maguspk]

Kind of worries me the game is coming out in 2 months yet there is such imbalance among the disciplines. Also, guildleves seem to only be good for money, you gain much more exp and skill point just soloing stuff. Which makes melees extremely fast levelers and casters extremely slow levelers.

What's Behest?

[Kaisha]

Is there anything specific I'd need to do if I were to copy this to another PC to test the performance on?

I'm zipping up the XIV folder to transfer, but I get the feeling I'd need the installer itself also.


Also, I'm taking it I got fucked out of my levequest since server booted me 5min after I started it. ;/
(granted it was my fault, but I didn't realize I would be timed on it, though it'd just be like any other quest)

[Sephiroth]

FU Square Enix! Stop sending me e-mails unless it's an invite. >.<

Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth Special Appearance on July 19 in Los Angeles!‏
Sent: 13 July 2010 21:00:16

[Skai]

This may have been brought up before, but does anyone else besides me noticed that the more stamina you have before using a skill, the less likely you'll miss? I was eyeballing it so I can't say for sure if this is true, but it's something to look at.

[Purrrfect]

Man wtf is up with the settings, in any window size other than 1920x1080 I cant see health bar or enemy health or even the difficulty, blue yellow red. Its just me isnt...

I had a similar problem when I change my res from 1776x1000 to 1440x900. All my shit on the right was hanging off the screen. Luckily I could move everything back, except the minimap, it was too far gone to save. Haven't hit the tester forum and I have no answer other than set your res up, log in and move stuff up/left, log out change res and go back in.

[Kurokikaze]

rofl got a video with ventrilo chat of this failed crab battle.. Too funny. XD

[mr.bryce]

first and foremost question, does anyone have a tip to download and browse that damn slow beta forum offline ? this shit is unusable i dont know where or what to post not until i can review it properly aka browse through all the posts

Does anybody understand the conditions for which you have to 'exchange' a leve?

i hear about that a lot but couldnt see any way to exchange anything. would love to get more detailed explanation

People complaining about not being able to run the game on their PoS 5 year old PC?

well they dont have any excuse really i just spent the whole day playing with a core 2 duo and an ATI 3450HD which sells for 30$. it doesnt get lower than that. basically if you need to get more than 200 in the benchmark, and then you re in for a 10fps average and amstrad graphics. this shit is so pixelate i cant even read avatar names.

So, does anyone know If I can use a EU account??? I have the client installed. Is there a difference between clients for NA and EU...

testers from all regions play alltogether so i dont think it matters. however i dont understand how 15k x3 players can fit into limsa lominsa... i must be missing something

Is there only windowed mode still? Seems odd that 1920x1200 would have issues, as that's the default resolution of most high res widescreens nowadays.

tons of predefined modes ranging from 1024x768 to 1920x1080. no exotic resolution though (no portrait mode )

Its just me isnt...

certainly seems so.

[Celeras]

i hear about that a lot but couldnt see any way to exchange anything. would love to get more detailed explanation

You're forced to do it on occasion. You accept a guildleve, and the NPC brings up your leve list and says 'Please pick a leve to exchange'. Trying to figure out why.

[mr.bryce]

I'm zipping up the XIV folder to transfer, but I get the feeling I'd need the installer itself also.

i think its safe to assume it will only update as needed
reinstall and copy over

[mr.bryce]

You're forced to do it on occasion. You accept a guildleve, and the NPC brings up your leve list and says 'Please pick a leve to exchange'. Trying to figure out why.

i m starting to understand they call these quests "leves" because they actually are fuckin CARDS. so you re exchanging cards right ? and you have to do so when you already own the one you picked.

am i delusionnal ?

[Zeh]

Will our beta names carry over? Or can I just have a beta name and use the actual character name I have planned for the real game when it comes out?

[Ratatapa]

Beta data is wiped when game is released gotta restart at 0