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Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Aphrodite posted:

Language support, maybe?

Can confirm that changing language in launcher from Japanese to English did download quite a bit extra when I did it. Maybe PS4 has all languages downloaded always?

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Klades
Sep 8, 2011

Grim Up North posted:

What's up with the extra 20 GB the PS4 uses compared to PC? Console inefficiencies? Better textures?

I would think it's either languages or compression differences. Or both.

Virulence
Jun 14, 2012


Belzac posted:

Yeah but that means there's going to be a stupid cutscene with Mide talking for like 10 minutes about how it could be back on and the whole time I'll just be wishing she wasn't in the game game and how she could have just been replaced by Cid.

don't worry there will probably be a boss where you have to protect her or some poo poo as she does some really important thing

ilifinicus
Mar 7, 2004

escorting NPCs in raid encounters is literally hitler

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E
I just now realized that Estinien was them testing this out. Next raid confirmed to have an escort.

Scrublord Prime
Nov 27, 2007


I hope it involves having to use the /beckon command to get 'em out of aoes

sword_man.gif
Apr 12, 2007

Fun Shoe
you have to use /slap to knock her out of the animation where she touches her scar

Pumpkinreaper
Jan 19, 2010
Goons helped me do the fresh level 50 msq last night.

AND THEY RUINED IT (may need to open in a new window to see chat)




Me staring in disappointment:





(Damnit Baphoment)

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

There are two things I think they need to do to make the Alex story better: make it connect to the overarching story, and have the final battle be on top of Alex's head as he stomps towards Idyllshire.

primaltrash
Feb 11, 2008

(Thought-ful Croak)
We did an item synched Cape Westwind for Brawn a couple weeks ago and hosed it up good. Goons rule.

Zweihander01
May 4, 2009

Fister Roboto posted:

There are two things I think they need to do to make the Alex story better: make it connect to the overarching story, and have the final battle be on top of Alex's head as he stomps towards Idyllshire.

The Warrior of Light and the leader of the Illuminati stand on top of Alexander, strip off their shirts, then have a bare-knuckle brawl only interspersed with jamming each other with epipens.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Everyone is busy talking about how disappointing Alexander is and no one is talking about how Bismarck was so terrible that it was literally patched out of the progression path.

ilifinicus
Mar 7, 2004

no point hitting on a dead horse

alexander however people will for some reason still defend as Not Bad

Drizvolta
Oct 31, 2011

Zweihander01 posted:

The Warrior of Light and the leader of the Illuminati stand on top of Alexander, strip off their shirts, then have a bare-knuckle brawl only interspersed with jamming each other with epipens.

So long as I can smooch a gobbie

rio
Mar 20, 2008

Has anyone played on both Windows 7 and Windows 10? My computer keeps bugging me to upgrade; it is an old build that was current in like 2011 so I wouldn't want to upgrade and then find that the game's performance is lower - I'm barely able to run the game as is.

Mymla
Aug 12, 2010

ilifinicus posted:

no point hitting on a dead horse

alexander however people will for some reason still defend as Not Bad

I did alex. I thought it was good.
Then I did coil, and I thought it was better than alex for the most part. Coil being better than alex does not make alex bad.

And I will reiterate the fact that we cannot yet judge the quality of alex's story, because we haven't seen it yet.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Considering the cutscenes after T5 / T9 / T12 / T13 it'll be pretty hard for Alexander to top it.

Mymla
Aug 12, 2010
It doesn't need to top coil to be good.

Niton
Oct 21, 2010

Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

Mymla posted:

It doesn't need to top coil to be good.

But it does need to be close to justify cutting it off from the main plot entirely.

And it's not doing that. Which is a shame, because Void Ark does do that, and a whole lot less effort went into making that a big deal.

Meiteron
Apr 4, 2008

Whoa! You're gonna be a legend!

Fister Roboto posted:

There are two things I think they need to do to make the Alex story better: make it connect to the overarching story, and have the final battle be on top of Alex's head as he stomps towards Idyllshire.

Not for nothing but if this is actually how it ends I would forgive them for a lot of their faults.

Not al of their faults, but a lot of them.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Tiny Cat Sith is weird, ok?

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E

nuru posted:

Everyone is busy talking about how disappointing Alexander is and no one is talking about how Bismarck was so terrible that it was literally patched out of the progression path.

You can say the same about the original hard primals, don't be a dummy.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

rio posted:

Has anyone played on both Windows 7 and Windows 10? My computer keeps bugging me to upgrade; it is an old build that was current in like 2011 so I wouldn't want to upgrade and then find that the game's performance is lower - I'm barely able to run the game as is.

I believe most found their performance to increase in this game once switching to W10.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

They weren't terrible!

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E
Neither was Bismarck. :colbert:

Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Fister Roboto posted:

There are two things I think they need to do to make the Alex story better: make it connect to the overarching story, and have the final battle be on top of Alex's head as he stomps towards Idyllshire.

Way back in like 2.4 I thought it'd be amazing if the upcoming Midagrdsormr dungeon actually took place on his back while he flies around. We never got that, but I'd take a battle in top of a giant robot while it visibly tramples the countryside.

Maybe tie it to the story by waking up Tiamat to help, so now you are having a battle on top of a giant robot while it has a kaiju fight with a huge dragon.

Thundarr fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 14, 2016

vOv
Feb 8, 2014

A raid where the Warrior of Light fights Alex in a giant robot, Voltron style.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Wait so you don't do the hard primals anymore for the story?

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

vOv posted:

A raid where the Warrior of Light fights Alex in a giant robot, Voltron style.

And Minfilia forms the head

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E

Aphrodite posted:

Wait so you don't do the hard primals anymore for the story?

You don't need to do Ifrit, Titan, or Garuda who were originally required for a couple end game things and are no longer. You then needed and then didn't need to do extreme versions to challenge high level extremes. It's part of them making the content initially tuned for end game nerds and then making it available to everyone after a patch or two.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
So if there is no such thing as elemental resistance/weakness why is it not a good idea to just cast ice all the time, get the same damage boost through umbral ice stance and just have like unlimited mp through the regen?

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Volume posted:

So if there is no such thing as elemental resistance/weakness why is it not a good idea to just cast ice all the time, get the same damage boost through umbral ice stance and just have like unlimited mp through the regen?

Astral Fire boosts damage and removes Umbral Ice, Umbral Ice boosts mana regen and removes Astral Fire.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
But doesnt umbral ice also give a damage boost to ice spells?

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E
SE hosed up so hard making Fire 1 and Blizzard 1 having the same potency in their tooltips. Like, what a completely stupid decision.

Volume posted:

But doesnt umbral ice also give a damage boost to ice spells?

No.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Bismarck EX and Ravana EX are both hard fights, but Ravana EX is way more fun and gives a feeling of "heh, that was cool" after finish it instead of "thank god I never have to do that fight again."

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E

seiferguy posted:

Bismarck EX and Ravana EX are both hard fights, but Ravana EX is way more fun and gives a feeling of "heh, that was cool" after finish it instead of "thank god I never have to do that fight again."

Bismark is a cool fight with cool music that has some fun stuff to do. Ravana is lame, stupid, garbage and has lovely music. I would describe neither as hard, even in 170 gear.

Belzac fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jan 14, 2016

Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Volume posted:

So if there is no such thing as elemental resistance/weakness why is it not a good idea to just cast ice all the time, get the same damage boost through umbral ice stance and just have like unlimited mp through the regen?

You do more damage with fire spells thanks to Astral Fire and switching to Umbral Ice for a few GCDs once you run out of MP casting fire means you essentially have infinite MP anyway.

I mean it's possible to do nothing but cast bliz1 over and over forever but that is both lovely damage and way lazier than switching between Astral and Umbral. And the THM rotation is already pretty simple.

Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E
The only cool part about Ravana is his VO.

primaltrash
Feb 11, 2008

(Thought-ful Croak)

Belzac posted:

Ravana is lame, stupid, garbage and has lovely music.

This is it. You've finally had the worst opinion.

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Belzac
Mar 20, 2008

The third fracture I would do away with...I can't, sorry.

F R A C T U R E
I'm being hyperbolic, as I am want to do. It's not horrible and compared to other primals it's fitting and I wouldn't change it but it doesn't mean I would listen to it on it's own and enjoy it as I would with other themes.

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