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The game looks so good, because they're doing magic with shaders. If you zoom in on your character and look real hard you'll notice legs/hands are literally 4-6 sided, but it's not noticeable at all due to really well done lighting. Plaster a nice texture over the whole thing and boom, looks decent. Of course, you *need* to do this when you spend your polygon budget on flower pots 
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Evil Fluffy posted:I guess even wizards like to get shitfaced, considering the quality of the engine in 1.0's launch. And the 20 years it took them to consider PC a viable platform
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isk posted:SE are nothing if not wizards at programming and graphics engines. The DX11 patch with Heavensward improved the lighting immensely, with a performance bump for cards that support it. I love FF14 to death but this is neither a reputation SE has nor deserves They've gotten a lot better since ARR but yeah.
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Dec 27, 2016 00:40
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Yeah, SE has a shitload of very good artists, but that's a different thing.
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Dec 27, 2016 00:41
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Givin posted:Is now a good time to pick this back up or should I wait for the expansion? I played through till 50 and quit at the first Coil of Bahamut or whatever that raid was so there is probably a ton of content I've never experienced. I had a few jobs at 50 but honestly I can't remember how to play them so I'd probably just start over. For what it's worth I hear the expansion is going to have content specific to helping returning players. Not sure what exactly that entails.
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Dec 27, 2016 01:09
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ScrubLeague posted:TPT is the chillest goon guild I highly recommend it. I agree. I should play more often and make friends.
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Yeah PBC is full of curmudgeony old farts that just complain about stuff all the time. Don't join us.
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ScrubLeague posted:TPT is the chillest goon guild I highly recommend it. TPT is full of good and cool people and I also recommend it. Thought it seems to be emptier than usual right now. I blame the patch cycle and also the holiday season.
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Dec 27, 2016 03:28
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Is there a reason why people generally recommend against getting this on Steam? There was some talk on Games about it a little while ago but this seemed like a better place to ask for a follow-up.
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Oxxidation posted:Is there a reason why people generally recommend against getting this on Steam? There was some talk on Games about it a little while ago but this seemed like a better place to ask for a follow-up. When you buy it on steam you are locked to purchasing your Expansions on steam, that's it as far as I know?
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Stormgale posted:When you buy it on steam you are locked to purchasing your Expansions on steam, that's it as far as I know?
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You do not have to make your payments through steam. I pay for my sub directly to SE. Although if you wish to do so, owning a Steam copy of the game is the only way to enable that option. This was temporarily useful for me, as I had several hundred dollars of steam credit at the time. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Well, SE usually runs sales at different times and sometimes better sales than the Steam version, which generally follows normal Steam sales.
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Heavensward preorders were annoying on steam too. Can't remember the details, but I think it took way longer than other stores. That said, early access and all the bonus goodies unlocked just fine.
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WhiteHowler posted:I think you also have to make your subscription payments through Steam, which some people seem to have a problem with, but it has always been seamless for me. You aren't required to, but depending on what you press it can be awkward to figure out how not to. Basically, never, ever press a link to mog station from the Steam version's launcher. If you do, it saves a thing in a cookie somewhere that hides every non-steam option from you until you clear your session and cookies for the website.
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The reason why we tell people not to get the Steam version is precisely because of the Heavensward preorders. Preorders became available to everyone not on Steam for several months, with the prices progressively dropping over time until you could get the expansion for 35% to 40% off from some retailers. When it did finally become available on Steam, no such discount was to be had. Therefore, owning a Steam version of the game is of insignificant utility. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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As someone who owns a copy on steam, I recommend against it.
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Xarbala posted:As someone who owns a copy on steam, I recommend against it. I'm swimming in steambux all the time, so I find it useful to blow some oh dem bux.
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have you guys seen this interview? http://gamerescape.com/2016/12/26/famitsu-sits-down-with-naoki-yoshida-at-jp-fan-festival-2016/
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EponymousMrYar posted:Lorebook excerpt about The Missing Member (the bar/food place the Sirens hang out at and where you go for 50->60 CUL quests.) One
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Tsk, RDM is a pure DPS, and there is no offhand. Gonna go start farming wolf marks, though. =P
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Clearly, we're getting another set of artefact gear. Will DRK actually get Cecil's set this time? 
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Considering the collab will apparently require pvp, does anyone have tips for it? I've never really touched it before. I normally play Dragoon in pve but I have no idea how it fares in pvp.
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Eopia posted:Considering the collab will apparently require pvp, does anyone have tips for it? I've never really touched it before. I normally play Dragoon in pve but I have no idea how it fares in pvp. I don't play drg but I do play melee in frontlines, although I haven't done so in months since I got everything. The main general tips I would give are don't forget to put your PvP abilities on your bars, somewhere they can be easily accessed. You can use all of them without having invested any experience into them. For your first upgrades I would definitely recommend the dot in purify and the 2 in fetter ward first and I imagine enliven after that but someone with more drg pvp experience should chime in. In terms of equipping, I am pretty sure the ilvl sync is 150 and neither morale nor materia melds function in frontlines or the feast. My personal set is all crit and det but I hear drg's have an important skill speed cut-off? May want to look into that.
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Eopia posted:Considering the collab will apparently require pvp, does anyone have tips for it? I've never really touched it before. I normally play Dragoon in pve but I have no idea how it fares in pvp. The number one most important thing for a newbie is to stick with the crowd. Don't race off by yourself, and don't get overextended. If you're charging into the fight, make sure other people are charging with you. It's real tempting to leap into a pack of enemies, but that's a guaranteed way to get murdered before your allies can even get to you.
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Reminder to never interrupt a cat couples erp session at the Marketboard outside of your house by filling their chat logs with snowball throwing emotes unless you want to get a warning 2 weeks later. 
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Dastardly posted:Reminder to never interrupt a cat couples erp session at the Marketboard outside of your house by filling their chat logs with snowball throwing emotes unless you want to get a warning 2 weeks later.
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Martman posted:Just cause they're doing ERP doesn't mean they're into snowballing.  Also incoming nerdrage about how RDM isn't a support DPS or some stupid Damage/Healer hybrid. Thank goodness Yoshi-P and his team have enough sense not to indulge that ongoing delusion.
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Martman posted:Just cause they're doing ERP doesn't mean they're into snowballing.
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Logicspren posted:
I mean, if you want, I *could*.  Here: I AM SLIGHTLY-LESS-ENTHUSED ABOUT THIS THING WHICH NOBODY EXCEPT DEV TEAM HAS SEEN AND IS PROBABLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE BETWEEN NOW AND JUNE. I WILL ONLY BE GIVING RDM A LEVEL-HEADED FAIR SHAKE AS OPPOSED TO SPERGING OUT AND CONTINUALLY SOILING MYSELF WITH GLEE.
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Logicspren posted:
Technically support in as far as that is a role that exists in this game hasn't been ruled out yet. All it takes is an ongoing mana and tp regen effect. Obviously the people wanting an ff11/eq1 style support were insane and never going to get what they wanted.
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Failboattootoot posted:Obviously the people wanting an ff11/eq1 style support were insane and never going to get what they wanted. Based on comments posted on Reddit and within this very thread, this reality was far from obvious to those people. Observers with reasonable expectations will come to your conclusion, but jobs like RDM have been idolized into a sort of Platonic ideal that can't fail, it can only be failed. Basically, the developers will make a good RDM that hardliners hate because they already have an idea of what RDM is supposed to be, and it's not what they're going to get.
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i see no real problem with giving rdm a token single-target healing cooldown and calling it "curasa" or something, like tetra on a 3m cd. it's not like the universe will end if a non-healer gets a healing action (see: clemency) and as long as it's on a fairly long cooldown the worse it'll do is make single-target healing checks like in a12s a bit easier.
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i never played ffxi and play a ton of ffv, so when i think red mage, i think "spend hours grinding for !dualcast for the privilege of being way worse at everything than a real caster"
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5kiy4z/egi_glamours/?st=IX7PVVVX&sh=32aaca17 Reddit's mad about the first round of Egi glamours. Like super mad.
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I've a question for excal goons.. how easy is it to pug raid content? Is party finder usually active and full of good players? I'm looking to transfer to a more active server and I can't decide between excal or gilgamesh
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I see PFs looking for subs for 8 latest man savage raids fairly often and I play in eurozone. If you're USTZ, I imagine it's pretty active.
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IdealFlaws posted:I've a question for excal goons.. how easy is it to pug raid content? Is party finder usually active and full of good players? I'm looking to transfer to a more active server and I can't decide between excal or gilgamesh If you're talking about savage, I see savage Alexander groups pop up in the party finder on Excalibur fairly regularly. Usually 9s and 10s, can't speak to how successful they are. Ex Primal groups start up often, as well. Definitely consider Excalibur. I'm in DGKK and it's one of the best MMO Guilds I have ever been a part of. I've also only heard similarly good things about the other two Goon guilds TPT and PBC, so you're spoiled for choice.
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They implied that cross realm PF would be coming in 3.5 anyway. Come to Excalibur, there are tons of goons to chill with. Also, finally caught up on things; RDM as a high mobility ranged/melee DPS sounds awesome. Can't wait.
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