Final Fantasy XIV

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

@Bhaalspawn Jr what VPN do you use? I think we banned a few free VPNs to prevent abuse iirc

The built-in one in the Opera browser.

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

@Bhaalspawn Jr what VPN do you use? I think we banned a few free VPNs to prevent abuse iirc

I just tried it again and it's working now.

[LemonDemonGirl]

You can turn off assets such as pauldrons, belts, sashes, scarves, sleeves, etc.

WoW needs this ****

[Val the Moofia Boss]

You can turn off assets such as pauldrons, belts, sashes, scarves, sleeves, etc.

WoW needs this ****

There are only a very small handful of WoW armors that have additional assets on them like sash models, like the League of Explorer's shirt from Dragonflight. Otherwise, WoW models are just a texture/shirt pasted onto the body of the character, and then maybe a 3D chestplate, and that's it.

What is there to turn off here? The only thing on his chest is the shirt and the 3D plate. You can turn off the 3D plate, and you are just left with the texture on his body.




WoW still has FF14 beat in terms of customization because there you do not have chestpieces/shoulderpads/belts/cloaks all in one item. You can mix and match different chestpieces, shoulders, cloaks, and belts. So far there has been indication that you will be able to mix and match assets from different chest armors in FF14.

[rusty_shackleford]

You can turn off assets such as pauldrons, belts, sashes, scarves, sleeves, etc.

WoW needs this ****

The work required to implement this is much higher than you'd think, FFXIV puts a ton of time into these details because such a significant portion of their playerbase are RPers

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Final Fantasy XIV - patch 7.5

Hrmmm...

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Endwalker 6.0 ending: Alphinaud and Alisaie declare that they will stay in Garlemald to help the poor survivors dwelling in subway tunnels and train cars.

Dawntrail: 7.0 Alphinaud and Alisaie leave Garlemald to go back to their wealthy homeland and then sail to Tural for a vacation trip

Dawntrail 7.4: Alphinaud and Alisaie go back to Garlemald and Alisaie tell the Garlean survivors (still dwelling in subway tunnels and train cars) about how awesome their trip to Tural was and Gulool Ja Ja's fortune cookie wisdom

Alphinaud and Alisaie proceed to once again leave the Garleans by the end of this patch.

Fair weather volunteers.






These people have been down here for how many years now? Didn't Varshan offer a trade agreement that would provide economic stimulus for Garlemald instead of just poaching their magitek engineers? Why aren't they building or fixing up houses on the surface?

The 7.5 dungeon has Voidsent invading in a huge Garlean airship factory that produces the Ifrit/Dalriada class vessels. The Garleans could be making a lot of money if they used their machina and finished up these ships and sold them to other countries that would now be turning against each other with Garlemald having fallen as the superpower that everybody was worried about. Or convert them into merchant hulks.




Demon lord that has devoured countless people invades from hell with his army and kills more people in Garlemald

Is struck down by our heroes

The heroes are about to seal the portal he came through so no more demons can come through and eat people

Demon lord: "Nooooo if you close the portal, I'll be trapped here on your world!"

Jullus: "Oh, our bad. Here, we won't execute you. You can go back through the portal to hell, and then we will seal it."

Demon lord: "I pinky promise I won't eat more people!"


What is this? Should have beheaded him. Should have slugged Jullus in the face too.










The key (called "Ethos" by Y'shtola) allows the WoL/Azem to summon a portal that only he can use and go planeswalking to other shards. That is underwhelming. This is not anything we did not already have. The Crystal Tower is already under our control, is easily accessible, and has the ability to send exclusively the WoL to other shards. And then this new saga introduced Varshan having figured out how to capture and enslave Atomos to use as portals to the Void, and then Alexandria's stargate in the Skydeep Cenote. So regular people can now walk through these fixed gateways to other shards now. So the big payoff for the key that was introduced two years ago as the big plot mcguffin of Dawntrail has turned out to be redundant and inferior technology.








The Evercold first teaser cinematic trailer depicts the Scions portalling to the Fourth, so it seems that Y'shtola and Shale will reattach Calyx's modification back onto the key to allow regular people to come with me. I am very nervous about the narrative implications of this. Does that mean we have a get out of jail free card to portal the crew out of any situation? Or to portal past enemy armies straight to the bad guy's bedroom?




I think I preferred the idea of the fixed stargates. It's an asset that has to be defended and is at risk of being destroyed or captured by enemy forces before you can escape back through it to where you came from. That can create plot tension, and also create more interesting movements for the societies if nations began mobilizing to construct or capture the stargates, merchants travelling through them to the other shards and that flow of wealth/ideas/power/talent/etc affecting other societies, etc.


The new trial boss, Enuo, has a neat phase similar to the Sha of Fear from WoW where he submerges and transports you to huge empty expanse. Not as scary, though.




It is neat that Golbez and Zero join in during the fight. I guess Gaia and Wuk Lamat had also joined in prior trial/raid boss fights, but here it was actually welcome and it felt like they did more here to contribute and actually fight with you. Rather than steal the spotlight in a cutscene but not really actually do anything to help during battle.




Really? There is nothing else out there that might be significant on this shard? Wow, that is disappointing. Sucks the wonder out of the setting.




How does Thancred know that an antagonist is walking up to us? This could be just be a curious ordinary person you pulled your gun on. Remember, in Endwalker, the Eorzean Alliance's occupying forces in Garlemald bossed the Garleans around to maintain a highway to the teleporter to the moon in their tower. And refugees were being escorted to the teleporter to immigrate to the moon and colonize it. There are miners and botanists out here handing out random leve quests to go pick plants or mine ore, surveyors for construction, etc. Even Hildebrandt and co casually went up here. There is also the Cosmic Exploration project in this expansion, where lots of people from the earth are travelling to the moon to join the Loporitts on the construction of their huge NASA moon base and then colonizing other planets. Random people being on the moon should not be a surprise. This is not some extremely difficult to access place like seeing a Garlean on the First. YOU made this place extremely accessible Thancred!




Once again, this never would have happened if Venat had not performed the sundering and caused mankind to fall, disease and strife between men, etc.








I am guessing that the key will be used to bring everyone - including the secondary Scion cast -with us to the Fourth. Or they will be condemned to being offscreen again doing background work on the Source while we are off on the next expac adventure.

Let me get this straight. Yoshi-P showed off of the Beastmaster job in the 7.5 livestream last week, but it's not arriving in 7.5 today and is instead not coming until the next patch in September!?!?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Coming back to FF14 and having to party with the Scions for the umpteenth time after their story ended five years ago reminds me how spoiled I am by the latest Trails games, even the Kuro games. It's not that much of a thing in the first game, but in Kuro 2 and Kai you are most certainly not condemned to only use the Arkride party. You are constantly running into other characters and groups and get to use them if you want. Elaine, Kincaid, Zin, Jolda, Renne, Heiyue, Ouroboros, Marduk, Ikaruga, etc. Marchen Garten lets you run around with a fully party of non-Arkride characters. I should have put that in as a plus in my reviews. Actually not even a Kuro thing but is something that got started with the later Trails of Cold Steel games. Trails did have a similar issue to FF14 with Crossbell where you are condemned to only use the lackluster SSS party members.

[Sinfield]

Realistically, could SOLDIER be a class? I feel like that's the kind of clapbait a dying game needs.

[J1M]

Realistically, could SOLDIER be a class? I feel like that's the kind of clapbait a dying game needs.

Yes, but only for SOLO play and only available LEVEL 1-26 and only playable between 1:00-5:00 (AM or PM). Also, it was delayed until patch 2 of the expansion.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Realistically, could SOLDIER be a class? I feel like that's the kind of clapbait a dying game needs.

Unlikely. Yoshida said during the Endwalker reveal that they would prefer to only do FF14 original jobs from then on, and he reiterated it at Fanfest for the Evercold. In Endwalker we had Sage (uses UC Gundam fin funnels to perform surgery and laser enemies) and Reaper (Garlean farmers who wield magitek scythes and made a pact with Voidsent). In Dawntrail we had Viper (Kirito anime dual wielding swordsman who dashes) and Pictomancer (uses magically infused paint to manifest ideas as attacks). Only Pictomancer was a job that existed in this franchise previously.

• SOLDIER wouldn't really make sense as a distinct job in FF14's setting. What makes a SOLDIER unique in FF7's setting is that most people there are ordinary people incapable of casting magick or superhuman speed, etc. SOLDIERs are people bathed infused with mako (magick), and use condensed orbs of magic called materia. So they can cast spells and move super fast.
• But in FF14, it is already baseline for everyone (except Garleans) to be able to cast magic on their own. All of the crafting and gatherer jobs involve using magick to make a cake or craft a stool. Anyone can attune to an aetheryte and teleport to it. Etc.
• Most of the jobs already use equipment to further bolster their magic or superpowers. Samurai sheathes are infused with magick, so samurai sheathe their swords to further charge up the blade with magick before performing an iajutsu. Sages uses their nouliths as focui for their magic. Etc. And we already have a class aesthetically very similar to SOLDIER, with the Gunbreaker class based on Squall, which uses a revolver gunblade with magical powder cartridges to create shields or to dash super fast.
• You then get into the issue of the weapon. FF14 has every job use one weapon and tries to avoid overlap. We already have a greatsword wielding class with Dark Knight, and a katana wielding class with Samurai. Those are two most prominent weapons used by SOLDIERs in FF7. Otherwise you are looking at the guns that Shinra mooks use, but Machinist already uses guns (albeit one handed pistols instead of two handed rifles).

People have been suspecting that - going by weapons that current FF14 jobs don't use - that we would be getting a hammer wielding job (green mage?), some sort of throwing weapon job (be it throwing axes, blitzballs, throwing grenades, etc), a gunshield job (now teased by Yoshida at Evercold where he wore a shirt of Rhitahtyn), maybe a one handed spear + shield combo job, etc.

[J1M]

Realistically, could SOLDIER be a class? I feel like that's the kind of clapbait a dying game needs.

Unlikely. Yoshida said during the Endwalker reveal that they would prefer to only do FF14 original jobs from then on, and he reiterated it at Fanfest for the Evercold. In Endwalker we had Sage (uses UC Gundam fin funnels to perform surgery and laser enemies) and Reaper (Garlean farmers who wield magitek scythes and made a pact with Voidsent). In Dawntrail we had Viper (Kirito anime dual wielding swordsman who dashes) and Pictomancer (uses magically infused paint to manifest ideas as attacks). Only Pictomancer was a job that existed in this franchise previously.

• SOLDIER wouldn't really make sense as a distinct job in FF14's setting. What makes a SOLDIER unique in FF7's setting is that most people there are ordinary people incapable of casting magick or superhuman speed, etc. SOLDIERs are people bathed infused with mako (magick), and use condensed orbs of magic called materia. So they can cast spells and move super fast.
• But in FF14, it is already baseline for everyone (except Garleans) to be able to cast magic on their own. All of the crafting and gatherer jobs involve using magick to make a cake or craft a stool. Anyone can attune to an aetheryte and teleport to it. Etc.
• Most of the jobs already use equipment to further bolster their magic or superpowers. Samurai sheathes are infused with magick, so samurai sheathe their swords to further charge up the blade with magick before performing an iajutsu. Sages uses their nouliths as focui for their magic. Etc. And we already have a class aesthetically very similar to SOLDIER, with the Gunbreaker class based on Squall, which uses a revolver gunblade with magical powder cartridges to create shields or to dash super fast.
• You then get into the issue of the weapon. FF14 has every job use one weapon and tries to avoid overlap. We already have a greatsword wielding class with Dark Knight, and a katana wielding class with Samurai. Those are two most prominent weapons used by SOLDIERs in FF7. Otherwise you are looking at the guns that Shinra mooks use, but Machinist already uses guns (albeit one handed pistols instead of two handed rifles).

People have been suspecting that - going by weapons that current FF14 jobs don't use - that we would be getting a hammer wielding job (green mage?), some sort of throwing weapon job (be it throwing axes, blitzballs, throwing grenades, etc), a gunshield job (now teased by Yoshida at Evercold where he wore a shirt of Rhitahtyn), maybe a one handed spear + shield combo job, etc.

Alchemist
Geomancer
Werewolf (to appeal to their target demographic)

[Finarfin]

I'd rather have a vampire class tbh

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Werewolf (to appeal to their target demographic)

It is baffling that we don't have a druid/shapeshifter class, though I would prefer to see it done in the imaginative Final Fantasy style than a simple animal transformation. GBF has a character who is an alchemic creation and can shapeshift into different forms, including a tank/bodyguard form as gellatinous blob that can absorb incoming force for the wheelchair girl he protects. Maybe FF14 could do that but have the character drink different potions to transform into different states.

[J1M]

Werewolf (to appeal to their target demographic)

It is baffling that we don't have a druid/shapeshifter class, though I would prefer to see it done in the imaginative Final Fantasy style than a simple animal transformation. GBF has a character who is an alchemic creation and can shapeshift into different forms, including a tank/bodyguard form as gellatinous blob that can absorb incoming force for the wheelchair girl he protects. Maybe FF14 could do that but have the character drink different potions to transform into different states.

I don't like animal forms because I don't like seeing animals get hurt.

[LemonDemonGirl]

I wonder if they'd be able to do a proper Necromancer, or does Reaper already fill that niche?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I wonder if they'd be able to do a proper Necromancer, or does Reaper already fill that niche?

FF14 Reaper's voidsent is not an actual unit on the field like pre Endwalker summoner rework Egis were. It is just a model that appears behind your character for a second for a few of your empowered scythe swings.

The abysmal netcode of the game makes allied units really janky to play around with. Old summoner Egis were condsantly lagging behind, and you can it happening in the livestream where Yoshida showed off beastmaster. Trust NPC party members have severe movement constraints that hamstrings fight and environment design. When adding trusts for ARR through Stormblood dungeons, the dungeons and fights were redesigned to accomodate trusts. The swimming through water segment in Sui no Sato wad removed because trusts can't swim. Boss mechanics. Etc. Summoner was reworked in Endwalker with their on field pets removed and replaced by untargetable models that jump in and out for two seconds. There are harfly any quests in the game where you can have an NPC follow you around in the open world, usually only in the city maps where there are no mobs. Etc.

The game has just been trending away from and avoiding allied units. I don't see how a traditional necromancer archetype could work unless the skeletons were not actual units but just spell animations, which is probably not what people would want. WoW however had just very recently converted Unholy DK's Army of the Desd summons (the lesser ghouls) from being units everyone could see to being client side only (seen only bt the DK player) animations. There has not been mass outcry about that.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

A GM has permaed Xeno, claiming he was being aggressive outside of the game (possibly referring to Xeno calling out the dangerhairs Kate and Sena?). Crazy world we live in now. It's not enough to just not use the ingame chat or official forums anymore. Dangerhairs will ban you for stuff you say on twitter/youtube/discords.

https://kick.com/xenosysvex/videos/1b87 ... 05b?t=8678

[Valter]

A GM has permaed Xeno, claiming he was being aggressive outside of the game (possibly referring to Xeno calling out the dangerhairs Kate and Sena?). Crazy world we live in now. It's not enough to just not use the ingame chat or official forums anymore. Dangerhairs will ban you for stuff you say on twitter/youtube/discords.

https://kick.com/xenosysvex/videos/1b87 ... 05b?t=8678

Banned from chatting ingame or from playing the game?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

A GM has permaed Xeno, claiming he was being aggressive outside of the game (possibly referring to Xeno calling out the dangerhairs Kate and Sena?). Crazy world we live in now. It's not enough to just not use the ingame chat or official forums anymore. Dangerhairs will ban you for stuff you say on twitter/youtube/discords.

https://kick.com/xenosysvex/videos/1b87 ... 05b?t=8678

Banned from chatting ingame or from playing the game?

Playing

[Valter]

A GM has permaed Xeno, claiming he was being aggressive outside of the game (possibly referring to Xeno calling out the dangerhairs Kate and Sena?). Crazy world we live in now. It's not enough to just not use the ingame chat or official forums anymore. Dangerhairs will ban you for stuff you say on twitter/youtube/discords.

https://kick.com/xenosysvex/videos/1b87 ... 05b?t=8678

Banned from chatting ingame or from playing the game?

Playing

I keep a low profile on other platforms on the assumption that I can still access the content they provide. Steam, Twitch, Facebook, online video games, etc. Twitch already has "bad behavior outside the platform" clauses to their ToS, and I thought them lunatics for it but it seems this **** is getting normalized? Absolute mad world

[7Trickster]

You can turn off assets such as pauldrons, belts, sashes, scarves, sleeves, etc.

WoW needs this ****

WoW needs actual 3D armor instead of body retextures with bits of 3D on top of it.

[mynameismortis]

A GM has permaed Xeno, claiming he was being aggressive outside of the game (possibly referring to Xeno calling out the dangerhairs Kate and Sena?). Crazy world we live in now. It's not enough to just not use the ingame chat or official forums anymore. Dangerhairs will ban you for stuff you say on twitter/youtube/discords.

https://kick.com/xenosysvex/videos/1b87 ... 05b?t=8678

We will see bans like this getting more and more common

[mynameismortis]

Banned from chatting ingame or from playing the game?

Playing

I keep a low profile on other platforms on the assumption that I can still access the content they provide. Steam, Twitch, Facebook, online video games, etc. Twitch already has "bad behavior outside the platform" clauses to their ToS, and I thought them lunatics for it but it seems this **** is getting normalized? Absolute mad world

This reminds me how few days ago the biggest hoi4 streamer bokoen1(******** eurocuck i believe he even has kiwifarms thread about him) got permabanned on twitch because, he said that Allies during WWII should have, instead of doing Yalta drop all the bombs in Russia(drop on every big city and glass them).So he got perma-banned, moved to Kick, and they offered him big money, but he will still enforce Twitch's TOS. People like him normalise this **** and will not stop

[Valter]

FF14 frogs be like "yeah, that's my composer right there"
[FF14] Masayoshi Soken - LAHEE

[mynameismortis]

did they throw tomatoes at him after this "concert"?