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Von Himmel · 2013-06-14, 13:47

Here in Australia I can login just fine. I'm using PC though so maybe if you use PS3 you still can't login yet?

Crimrui · 2013-06-14, 14:02

Yeah, I'm using ps3. Thanks for the info. ^^

creb · 2013-06-14, 17:33

Hrm. This blows. Took several hundred screenshots as I leveled to 16 Pugilist last night, using MSI Afterburner, and find out that for whatever reason, screen overlay programs used for screenshot purposes apparently don't work with this game. :/

Anyways, you can take screenshots via the game with Prnt Screen, and they're located in your Documents -> My Games -> FF XIV -> screenshots folder. Of course, SE adds a copyright watermark/caption to all screenshots taken this way. :/

My Pug:

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Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?

Much more boring looking than my Pug in 1.0, even at similar levels, but since gear is level-based now, that's to be expected.

Limsa Lomina, at least on Bahamut, seems to be relatively a ghost town compared to Gridania and Uldah. I suspect that's due to so many people playing the spell casters in Uldah/Grdiania.

English players continue to be lazy and anti-social, which isn't going to make for a robust, long-term English community. Looking at the people who have themselves tagged for LFP under the social tool as we tried to get two others to join us for one of the level 15 dungeons, there was...ONE person with the English client, while a whole host of those with the Japanese. :/

The quest breadcrumbs kind of end at the level 15 dungeons, so we'll either try to put a group together again tonight, or reclass to crafters and see how much more feasible it is to do. I did take a quick look at crafting vendors, and at first glance, the vendors seem to have a wide range of crafting materials for cheap for the first 1-15 levels or so. Not sure if that's just for beta or not, but if that remains at release, the gathering classes are going to be low to no return for those levels I suspect.

Lots of great cutscenes (for the Uldah story anyways), and even one fairly difficult story fight (level 15 Pugilist). Crits make such a huge difference, and the NPC companion that does the tanking and healing died in the first wave in my first attempt, I was one-shot in the second by a stray axe crit, and then in the third that NPC never dropped below 50% health. :/ First time I've died in pve outside of initial raid progression in....years?

Airships drastically reduce the tedium of traveling between the three major cities.

Guildleves are largely pointless due to only having 3 to do a day. Nice to see ones designed for parties of 4 though.

I could have sworn FF XIV had a day/night cycle, but we didn't see it occur in Uldah in 16 levels, so maybe my memory is playing with me. Edit: Logged into Limsa, and it was night, so day/night cycle still exists. Weird I never saw the night in Uldah though.

Really wish we had an appearance tab. On the other hand, I've always thought the clothing/armor textures-for an MMO-were fantastic. I just don't like some of the aesthetics. Like subligar gear. *shudder*

Also wish we could play for the Garlean Empire, but yea, this is SE and Final Fantasy. We'll never be able to play for the "bad" guys.

They have the best looking armor...and magitek though! And people who are badass and slice people in half!

The client download is pretty small, so presumably it's still missing a ton of the game. I seem to remember 1.0 taking up 6? 8? times more space? :/

Crimrui · 2013-06-14, 18:25

Finally able to get it work. Played it for an hour and I'm pretty satisfied so far. I went in the game blind with having no prior knowledge of it's content. The cuscenes are really well done and made me interested in the world and it's history much more. Your character facial animation is really nice looking during certain scenes. Quality stuff here. Social factor is zero, might as well play offline. Everyone is just running in a hurry, as if they don't even read the quests that are given to them. Can't even ask someone something.

What kinda surprised me are the names of players. There are a lot of them which are quite normal. From Japanese and well-known celebrities to Greek mythology names. Kinda nice change as the usual names I see in orther MMO are Recanon298_XTT or something. ^^'

Von Himmel · 2013-06-14, 21:30

Well early levels are easy to grind so people might not really want to bother getting a party. The quests npcs are easy to find too so most people won't likely socialize to finish it.. though I did ask someone during one absurd quest a few hours ago. The quest was to take food order for 4 people but I only could find 3 people in the bar. Turns out the last npc was at the top of the hill, which is also directly on top of the bar (this makes the quest marker makes him like he's inside the bar

).

At least the FATE system forces us to band together to finish a quest

Sassarai · 2013-06-14, 22:11

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Originally Posted by Von Himmel

At least the FATE system forces us to band together to finish a quest

Should just call it what it is. The Zerg system!

kuroishinigami · 2013-06-15, 04:20

Himmel, which server are you playing at?

Anyway, I've tried playing at JP server. Color me surprised. This is the first time I see players queueing for a quest, and the line is super long lol. Usually people just went "the faster to click get it" mode lol.

synaesthetic · 2013-06-15, 04:33

A lot of people apparently accidentally used the Japanese beta servers, which are inexplicably listed first (the NA/EU beta servers are on a separate tab).

This has resulted in my time being... rather quiet, as much of my playtime was during the wee hours of the morning for Japan, and now that I'm getting ready to crash, they're really starting to come out.

Eh. Not concerned. The data's being wiped anyway before Beta 4, so it's not a big thing. I'll be rerolling regardless on the NA RP server no matter what.

Really like that the game is light on breadcrumb-hub quest design and for jobs beyond your first one you'll have to oldschool it up with parties, dungeon runs and guildleves. The constant "hallway" of quest grinding in modern MMOs really numbs the mind. It's refreshing to actually have to look around and explore to find quests instead of just having them shoved down your throat.

I've been playing thaumaturge (which, incidentally, is what I played in 1.0) and the changes make the class feel really dynamic and quite a lot of fun. It's not the round-robin elemental spells then wait for cooldowns to refresh that it was before. Hard to really tell though at this point, and since I have yet to make the trip to Gridania and unlock conjurer I'm still missing out on some useful spells.

Not going to really stress it much since the data's going to be wiped... and surprisingly I haven't found more than one bug to complain about (which, of course, tons of other people also complained about). This kinda bothers me since I really like to put in good bug reports during beta, but things are just so polished, it doesn't even feel like a beta.

Von Himmel · 2013-06-15, 05:13

Quote:

Anyway, I've tried playing at JP server. Color me surprised. This is the first time I see players queueing for a quest, and the line is super long lol. Usually people just went "the faster to click get it" mode lol.

They're lining? what?

I seem to remember a screenshot of something like that in another game lol.

I played in Diabolo(?) server..luckily I managed to see that I almost chose JP server when I created a character.

Oh also I finally found some monsters who attack on sight. Seriously though, I hope they'll differentiate them with colors whether the monster is aggressive or not for the next phase

kuroishinigami · 2013-06-15, 11:35

Put the feedback in beta forum. Yoshida-P seems to listen a lot of the feedbacks, although there's some aspect of the game that he wouldn't budge such as elemental weakness(although I can see his point on refusing to use elemental weakness).

Iron Maw · 2013-06-15, 11:40

Damn Puglist is really awesome once hits Lv 6, dem stances

Game's a blast!

Von Himmel · 2013-06-15, 11:56

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Originally Posted by kuroishinigami

Put the feedback in beta forum. Yoshida-P seems to listen a lot of the feedbacks, although there's some aspect of the game that he wouldn't budge such as elemental weakness(although I can see his point on refusing to use elemental weakness).

What's his reason?

synaesthetic · 2013-06-15, 16:16

People were lining up like that for a specific quest because it was erroring out if too many people tried to activate it at the same time.

Looks to be fixed now. The lines are gone, and I was able to advance my questline.

Edge Meltdown · 2013-06-15, 17:43

Can we hit lvl 30 and change jobs in phase 3 now or is it gonna be on the 4th phase?

Crimrui · 2013-06-15, 18:21

I can't believe I was stuck on that gladiator quest where I had to say ''face /me!'' to those bunch of punks outside of Quicksand. But yeah, I'm taking it slow. Really enjoying myself. ^^

I haven't experienced any bugs, aside from people sliding from time to time. I just wish there were more clothing or at least give option to put a custom color.

kuroishinigami · 2013-06-15, 22:11

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Originally Posted by Von Himmel

What's his reason?

He doesn't want some class to be excluded from certain content just because their element affinities doesn't match with the enemy. For example, the Ifrit primal battle, it's clear that Ifrit is a fire based monster. Now let's say that most pugilist skill is fire-based, most people will most likely not willing to invite a pugilist in a battle against Ifrit and more prone to invite jobs with ice affinities against that dungeon. Yoshida-P want to avoid these kind of scenarios so every job has an equal chance of getting invited to any kind of contents.

synaesthetic · 2013-06-15, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Edge Meltdown

Can we hit lvl 30 and change jobs in phase 3 now or is it gonna be on the 4th phase?

You can change jobs after finishing your first guild questline. I've already picked up Conjurer with Thaumaturge at level 12.

Knight Hawk · 2013-06-15, 22:57

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Originally Posted by Von Himmel

They're lining? what?

I seem to remember a screenshot of something like that in another game lol.

Quest chain to get your companion. I waited for an hour or so, it was a long wait.

Ronfaure arena battle!

Batallia Downs (i think)

synaesthetic · 2013-06-16, 01:19

The more I play this the more I want launch--or at least hope that they preserve Beta 4 data (signs point toward yes since Beta 4 is open beta and will also enable 1.0 characters).

Gah, this game is awesome.

Von Himmel · 2013-06-16, 03:03

People said that the game only work during the weekend? Is that true?

2013-06-14, 13:47	Link #561
Von Himmel エーレンフェストの聖女 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dollars	Here in Australia I can login just fine. I'm using PC though so maybe if you use PS3 you still can't login yet? __________________ 「何かが起こっても、わたくしが守ります」

2013-06-14, 14:02	Link #562
Crimrui Hollow Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mecha cockpit	Yeah, I'm using ps3. Thanks for the info. ^^ __________________

2013-06-14, 17:33	Link #563
creb Hiding Under Your Bed Join Date: May 2008	Hrm. This blows. Took several hundred screenshots as I leveled to 16 Pugilist last night, using MSI Afterburner, and find out that for whatever reason, screen overlay programs used for screenshot purposes apparently don't work with this game. :/ Anyways, you can take screenshots via the game with Prnt Screen, and they're located in your Documents -> My Games -> FF XIV -> screenshots folder. Of course, SE adds a copyright watermark/caption to all screenshots taken this way. :/ My Pug: Images Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload? Much more boring looking than my Pug in 1.0, even at similar levels, but since gear is level-based now, that's to be expected. Limsa Lomina, at least on Bahamut, seems to be relatively a ghost town compared to Gridania and Uldah. I suspect that's due to so many people playing the spell casters in Uldah/Grdiania. English players continue to be lazy and anti-social, which isn't going to make for a robust, long-term English community. Looking at the people who have themselves tagged for LFP under the social tool as we tried to get two others to join us for one of the level 15 dungeons, there was...ONE person with the English client, while a whole host of those with the Japanese. :/ The quest breadcrumbs kind of end at the level 15 dungeons, so we'll either try to put a group together again tonight, or reclass to crafters and see how much more feasible it is to do. I did take a quick look at crafting vendors, and at first glance, the vendors seem to have a wide range of crafting materials for cheap for the first 1-15 levels or so. Not sure if that's just for beta or not, but if that remains at release, the gathering classes are going to be low to no return for those levels I suspect. Lots of great cutscenes (for the Uldah story anyways), and even one fairly difficult story fight (level 15 Pugilist). Crits make such a huge difference, and the NPC companion that does the tanking and healing died in the first wave in my first attempt, I was one-shot in the second by a stray axe crit, and then in the third that NPC never dropped below 50% health. :/ First time I've died in pve outside of initial raid progression in....years? Airships drastically reduce the tedium of traveling between the three major cities. Guildleves are largely pointless due to only having 3 to do a day. Nice to see ones designed for parties of 4 though. I could have sworn FF XIV had a day/night cycle, but we didn't see it occur in Uldah in 16 levels, so maybe my memory is playing with me. Edit: Logged into Limsa, and it was night, so day/night cycle still exists. Weird I never saw the night in Uldah though. Really wish we had an appearance tab. On the other hand, I've always thought the clothing/armor textures-for an MMO-were fantastic. I just don't like some of the aesthetics. Like subligar gear. shudder Also wish we could play for the Garlean Empire, but yea, this is SE and Final Fantasy. We'll never be able to play for the "bad" guys. They have the best looking armor...and magitek though! And people who are badass and slice people in half! The client download is pretty small, so presumably it's still missing a ton of the game. I seem to remember 1.0 taking up 6? 8? times more space? :/ __________________ http://myanimelist.net/animelist/creb http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/creb It feels like years since they've been updated, btw. Also, cake.

2013-06-14, 18:25	Link #564
Crimrui Hollow Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mecha cockpit	Finally able to get it work. Played it for an hour and I'm pretty satisfied so far. I went in the game blind with having no prior knowledge of it's content. The cuscenes are really well done and made me interested in the world and it's history much more. Your character facial animation is really nice looking during certain scenes. Quality stuff here. Social factor is zero, might as well play offline. Everyone is just running in a hurry, as if they don't even read the quests that are given to them. Can't even ask someone something. What kinda surprised me are the names of players. There are a lot of them which are quite normal. From Japanese and well-known celebrities to Greek mythology names. Kinda nice change as the usual names I see in orther MMO are Recanon298_XTT or something. ^^' __________________

2013-06-14, 21:30	Link #565
Von Himmel エーレンフェストの聖女 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dollars	Well early levels are easy to grind so people might not really want to bother getting a party. The quests npcs are easy to find too so most people won't likely socialize to finish it.. though I did ask someone during one absurd quest a few hours ago. The quest was to take food order for 4 people but I only could find 3 people in the bar. Turns out the last npc was at the top of the hill, which is also directly on top of the bar (this makes the quest marker makes him like he's inside the bar ). At least the FATE system forces us to band together to finish a quest __________________ 「何かが起こっても、わたくしが守ります」

2013-06-15, 04:20	Link #567
kuroishinigami Ava courtesy of patchy Join Date: Jan 2009	Himmel, which server are you playing at? Anyway, I've tried playing at JP server. Color me surprised. This is the first time I see players queueing for a quest, and the line is super long lol. Usually people just went "the faster to click get it" mode lol. Last edited by kuroishinigami; 2013-06-15 at 04:55.

2013-06-15, 04:33	Link #568
synaesthetic blinded by blood Author Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 40	A lot of people apparently accidentally used the Japanese beta servers, which are inexplicably listed first (the NA/EU beta servers are on a separate tab). This has resulted in my time being... rather quiet, as much of my playtime was during the wee hours of the morning for Japan, and now that I'm getting ready to crash, they're really starting to come out. Eh. Not concerned. The data's being wiped anyway before Beta 4, so it's not a big thing. I'll be rerolling regardless on the NA RP server no matter what. Really like that the game is light on breadcrumb-hub quest design and for jobs beyond your first one you'll have to oldschool it up with parties, dungeon runs and guildleves. The constant "hallway" of quest grinding in modern MMOs really numbs the mind. It's refreshing to actually have to look around and explore to find quests instead of just having them shoved down your throat. I've been playing thaumaturge (which, incidentally, is what I played in 1.0) and the changes make the class feel really dynamic and quite a lot of fun. It's not the round-robin elemental spells then wait for cooldowns to refresh that it was before. Hard to really tell though at this point, and since I have yet to make the trip to Gridania and unlock conjurer I'm still missing out on some useful spells. Not going to really stress it much since the data's going to be wiped... and surprisingly I haven't found more than one bug to complain about (which, of course, tons of other people also complained about). This kinda bothers me since I really like to put in good bug reports during beta, but things are just so polished, it doesn't even feel like a beta. __________________ Indie science fiction author and all-around weirdo: Check out my original fiction here! Read an excerpt from my sci-fi novel Binary System!

2013-06-15, 11:35	Link #570
kuroishinigami Ava courtesy of patchy Join Date: Jan 2009	Put the feedback in beta forum. Yoshida-P seems to listen a lot of the feedbacks, although there's some aspect of the game that he wouldn't budge such as elemental weakness(although I can see his point on refusing to use elemental weakness).

2013-06-15, 11:40	Link #571
Iron Maw Banned Join Date: Feb 2006	Damn Puglist is really awesome once hits Lv 6, dem stances Game's a blast!

2013-06-15, 16:16	Link #573
synaesthetic blinded by blood Author Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 40	People were lining up like that for a specific quest because it was erroring out if too many people tried to activate it at the same time. Looks to be fixed now. The lines are gone, and I was able to advance my questline. __________________ Indie science fiction author and all-around weirdo: Check out my original fiction here! Read an excerpt from my sci-fi novel Binary System! Last edited by synaesthetic; 2013-06-15 at 17:05.

2013-06-15, 17:43	Link #574
Edge Meltdown AxS HxM TxA RxS JxK HxM Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: akihabara :D Age: 36	Can we hit lvl 30 and change jobs in phase 3 now or is it gonna be on the 4th phase? __________________ "Nothing is true, Everything is Permitted" - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

2013-06-15, 18:21	Link #575
Crimrui Hollow Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mecha cockpit	I can't believe I was stuck on that gladiator quest where I had to say ''face /me!'' to those bunch of punks outside of Quicksand. But yeah, I'm taking it slow. Really enjoying myself. ^^ I haven't experienced any bugs, aside from people sliding from time to time. I just wish there were more clothing or at least give option to put a custom color. __________________

2013-06-16, 01:19	Link #579
synaesthetic blinded by blood Author Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 40	The more I play this the more I want launch--or at least hope that they preserve Beta 4 data (signs point toward yes since Beta 4 is open beta and will also enable 1.0 characters). Gah, this game is awesome. __________________ Indie science fiction author and all-around weirdo: Check out my original fiction here! Read an excerpt from my sci-fi novel Binary System!

2013-06-16, 03:03	Link #580
Von Himmel エーレンフェストの聖女 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dollars	People said that the game only work during the weekend? Is that true? __________________ 「何かが起こっても、わたくしが守ります」