FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread VI: Phase 3, FFXIV is still on the rag!

[YukonWildAss]

- /sit emote functional
- UI is still the same and still laggy
- All 3 cities (obviously)
- you can /check people
- macro's working

that's just a small taste.

Thanks Calemero! My biggest hope isn't coming true it seems, but it'll be nice to /check and /sit. Don't hold back if you have more info now!

[miokomioko]

Just a drop from the mob and not as a reward for participating? I imagine all beastmen types will drop beastcoins again...

[Calemero]

Thanks Calemero! My biggest hope isn't coming true it seems, but it'll be nice to /check and /sit. Don't hold back if you have more info now!

If one of my ls-mates hops on later I can ask him. He got to test the build for about an hour. They did about 96 runs and that was a small list he gave us.

[YukonWildAss]

If one of my ls-mates hops on later I can ask him. He got to test the build for about an hour. They did about 96 runs and that was a small list he gave us.

Haha no worries, I thought you were just trying to be mysterious!

[miokomioko]

So, is it getting wiped in an hour and a half?

[Reii]

Does /sit being added imply MP REGEN??????????

[Callisto]

So, is it getting wiped in an hour and a half?

That's just server maintenance, wipe happens Wednesday at 5pm PDT/8pm EST

[plue]

Does /sit being added imply MP REGEN??????????

No. They said they want MP to remain a pain in the ass for everyone.

[Gokulo]

What do you mean macros working? Anything different from what we have now?

[Mishari]

No. They said they want MP to remain a pain in the ass for everyone.

It's not a pain. Just look at the Skills of THM...
I leveld THM to 22 and i never had any issues regarding MP.
If you want to level CON, i would recomend to level THM first to 16 for
the Recovery-Skills.

[miokomioko]

What do you mean macros working? Anything different from what we have now?

It has happened to be about 5+ times in the last few days, but sometimes the macro fucks up placing the actions and makes the game unplayable until you log out/in since the only action that works is Stone Throw. Not to mention it's laggy as all get-out as it is now.

[fussel]

I waited so long for Vanguard, was very excited to play that game and was very interested. Only to get the game and play 15 min at release....

At least you could play Vanguard at release. I had to wait for a week until the EU servers were running stable. -.-

Since this is totally off topic, my 2 gil about the "milestones"-discussion:

It's very very obvious, that we've only seen a very small part of the game by now. And I'm pretty sure, that there'll be "milestones" that might be worthwhile, but are probably inaccessible even during open beta. To draw another FF11 comparision, it'll be stuff like reaching Sky/Tavnazia/Sea for the first time (for the exploration guys) or completing AF1/AF2 (for the item collector guys) or getting Maat's Cap (for the hardcore grind guys).

[Calemero]

Full list from GamesCon Open Beta build:

- Gridania and Ul'dah included, tutorial fight, storyline and guildleves
- You are allowed to Skip the cutscenes pushing ESC -> Skip
- Lancer & Archer Guild are in Gridania
- /sit emote included
- some emotes like /clap are possible to do while in /sit
- Chocobos still NOT working
- Found an Airship dock inside Gridania, but seems not do work either
- Able to mark the mobs like in wow "please kill this one first"
- you can make some bubbles like "I'm low on HP, please cure me"
- Friend and Ignore List included
- LS NPC in Limsa may be moved, didnt find her
- You can still accept Lv.1 and Lv.10 Leves with Rank1

[Gokulo]

Lulzy

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/0...-1-hour-a-day/

[Croy]

At least you could play Vanguard at release. I had to wait for a week until the EU servers were running stable. -.-

Since this is totally off topic, my 2 gil about the "milestones"-discussion:

It's very very obvious, that we've only seen a very small part of the game by now. And I'm pretty sure, that there'll be "milestones" that might be worthwhile, but are probably inaccessible even during open beta. To draw another FF11 comparision, it'll be stuff like reaching Sky/Tavnazia/Sea for the first time (for the exploration guys) or completing AF1/AF2 (for the item collector guys) or getting Maat's Cap (for the hardcore grind guys).

The first milestone is probably finishing whatever the current slate of nation missions will be. Also if they implement a way to get Guild Marks (even if its a fairly grinding process) outside of Guild Leves, I expect buying traits and getting a character class to 100% affinity or all crafting manuals on disciple of the hand classes etc to be a part of endgame/class milestones. And then we got the supposedly harder, once a day, faction leves that they tout as a 'form' of end game they will implement fully for the final game (we got them now, but they are hardly end game material at the moment). That should hopefully tide most people in the hardocre community over till the first content patch.

Lulzy

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/0...-1-hour-a-day/

Where is this one hour and 4 hour BS coming from? Such an issue doesn't even happen in beta right now and I highly doubt it will for the final game. Sounds like a bitter person on an emotional tirade trying to destroy the game before it gets out the front door (Like SE really needs helpers though).

[fussel]

- You are allowed to Skip the cutscenes pushing ESC -> Skip

*thumbsup* Getting tired about Leviathan jumping over that boat.

- Chocobos still NOT working

This was expected. They said in an earlier interview, that there'll be Chocobos for players, but probably not on release.

- Friend and Ignore List included

{Friend List} is already in the {Auto-Translation Dictionary}, too!

[Gokulo]

Where is this one hour and 4 hour BS coming from? Such an issue doesn't even happen in beta right now and I highly doubt it will for the final game. Sounds like a bitter person on an emotional tirade trying to destroy the game before it gets out the front door (Like SE really needs helpers though).

Seems they've just picked the worst comments on the system from test page and gathered it into this shitty post :D

[Spork]

I just posted this on my linkshell forums but I figured I'd post it here too, might be useful to others.

Spoiler: show

I went out and got a xbox360 controller today for FFXIV because I can't stand the controls in the game. With a little program called Xpadder it's pretty damn amazing.

I have it setup so the holding down the right or left trigger changes the bindings on the buttons.

For example:

Not holding down any trigger and pressing the (A) button on the controller is just the default confirm/select (enter key)

Holding down (RightTrigger)+(A) = Alt-1 // (LeftTrigger)+(A) = Ctrl-1

Here are the basic bindings without any triggers.
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/439/xp1k.jpg



Here is the bindings while holding the (RightTrigger)
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4031/xp2.jpg


Here are the bindings while holding the (LeftTrigger)
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4074/xp3.jpg


Holding down the left and right trigger = F9 = Vent hotkey. :D

It's pretty pimp, you can pack a ton of hotkeys onto one little controller. Xpadder works with all kinds of controllers as well, not just the 360.

I tried it out in-game tonight and it was 1000% better than the keyboard.

[Galkaeater]

Lulzy

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/0...-1-hour-a-day/

I knew before I even clicked the link I was about to get a face full of mithra titties

[Lordender]

I feel like i'm being trolled by SE or that website.