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I'm only just now in Doma, but this expansion is leagues above HW just for the fact that we're not in snowy wastelands and dealing with catholic elves all the time. Maybe it's just me but the the whole aesthetic of HW was dreary and I didn't care for it. I've been having a seemingly random issue where the game crashes due to a directX error. Sometimes it effectively brings the computer down as my display never comes back, sometimes it just kills the game. I redownloaded my drivers this morning and after running those and windows update (which found a driver for my card?) the game seemingly ran normal again. It's weird because I played for a few hours Tuesday with 0 issues, but last night and this morning were crash city.
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Depths posted:Is it just me or does the rhalgrs reach theme sound oddly familiar? Definitely because I was humming it as soon as I stepped foot there, unfortunately my brain hasn't coughed up the information about what song it is exactly.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:23
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Aphrodite posted:Powershell is a fancy command prompt. Okay, did that. Thank you and hopefully this will be the end of the crashing.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:24
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World War Mammories posted:the stormblood Quest Complete jingle sounds like a section from the ending of the Internationale, and it fills me with patriotic fervor to destroy the hated capitalist imperialists Not empty quoting  Ouhei posted:I'm only just now in Doma, but this expansion is leagues above HW just for the fact that we're not in snowy wastelands and dealing with catholic elves all the time. Maybe it's just me but the the whole aesthetic of HW was dreary and I didn't care for it. I'll never get this because Heavensward had only one zone with any snow in it. And the Ala Mhigo zones are just as harsh of environs as, say, Dravanian Forelands or Churning Mists.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:24
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Ouhei posted:I'm only just now in Doma, but this expansion is leagues above HW just for the fact that we're not in snowy wastelands and dealing with catholic elves all the time. Maybe it's just me but the the whole aesthetic of HW was dreary and I didn't care for it. A dreary aesthetic is probably as spot on as it gets for a Catholicism expansion.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:28
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Cythereal posted:Okay, did that. Thank you and hopefully this will be the end of the crashing. Nope. Didn't fix it.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:29
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unseenlibrarian posted:Nah, they remember the echo earlier than that, just...really obliquely. There's some dialogue right before the first primal fight that's like "Well, we can't go fight it. You know why." because the folks with you don't have the echo and would get tempered. I just did this last night and I laughed real hard when Alisaie goes Oh yeah you probably have few friends conveniently in the area who can help you with the fight or something i dunno ask them for help I guess I love the localization team
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Jun 22, 2017 15:30
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Cythereal posted:Nope. Didn't fix it. Next thing I'd check is if Catalyst has any built in streaming features, or gameplay recording. Those would be overlaying the game even if you don't see them normally.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:31
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Meldonox posted:A dreary aesthetic is probably as spot on as it gets for a Catholicism expansion. We're going to commission some of the most extravagant art and architecture the world has ever seen but nobody's allowed to be happy!!
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Jun 22, 2017 15:34
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Aphrodite posted:Next thing I'd check is if Catalyst has any built in streaming features, or gameplay recording. Those would be overlaying the game even if you don't see them normally. Could Steam also be doing something with it? I downloaded and run the trial through Steam.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:35
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a kitten posted:Definitely because I was humming it as soon as I stepped foot there, unfortunately my brain hasn't coughed up the information about what song it is exactly. Note Block posted:I haven't been there since the story forced me to Doma but the song that played per Doma was almost exactly America the Beautiful but with a slightly slowed tempo. I started singing the chorus of the song and the syllables outright matched as well.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:37
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Cythereal posted:Could Steam also be doing something with it? I downloaded and run the trial through Steam. Oh yeah I forgot about Steam. Yeah try turning off Steam overlay too. FF14 has had this issue for a few years, it comes and goes.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:39
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SonicRulez posted:That tower challenge don't gently caress around. Had to tap out after 40 minutes of trying. I will say I am both impressed and totally jealous of everyone who pulled it off. tower challenge?
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Jun 22, 2017 15:40
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Aphrodite posted:Oh yeah I forgot about Steam. Fingers crossed. I'm enjoying the game okay when it's not crashing every five to twenty minutes. A punishingly slow start for an MMO veteran, but I knew that going in from my friend who's been badgering me to play.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:41
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Every time I start to whistle one of the field themes in SB it segues seamlessly into the song "alone" from the bio lab in Saga Frontier.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:42
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Most people probably have already noticed but the ala mhigan earrings give extra 30% xp for crafters and gatherers as well!
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Holyshoot posted:tower challenge? there are various sightseeing spots in Kugane that require long and elaborate jumping sequences to reach
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a kitten posted:Definitely because I was humming it as soon as I stepped foot there, unfortunately my brain hasn't coughed up the information about what song it is exactly. It's a variation on the expansion's theme that gets used all over the drat place. Most blatantly is the scene early on with Zenos walking to the throne room with the big military welcome and the singing and stuff. It maybe sounds familiar because it's full of expressions that are all over every single part of Stormblood (this includes stuff like the quest complete jingle). This is a guess - it might also be reminiscent of music not from FF14, I don't know. edit: The Yanxia day theme has this one phrase in it that reminds me of the FF4 music in Troia and it kills me because FF4 is my most played/favorite mainline FF. Alakaiser fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Jun 22, 2017 15:50
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I'm pretty sure the recurring jingle is the Garlean national anthem.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:55
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Spoilers for the main scenario, don't look if you haven't completed it unless you don't care I thought it was the Garlean anthem too, but the ending doesn't make a lick of sense if it is. They're all on the roof of Ala Mhigo singing it and poo poo, unless I really misread that scene. It caught me more than a little off guard.
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Jun 22, 2017 15:59
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Renegret posted:I just did this last night and I laughed real hard when Alisaie goes They've been lampshading that more and more since ARR. By the time we were at the Warring Triad the npcs started just saying, "Go grab your adventurer friends and murder this God, thanks Godkiller"
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Alakaiser posted:Spoilers for the main scenario, don't look if you haven't completed it unless you don't care I think it's a Soviet Russia, post Soviet Russia kind of thing. The melody was kept but the words were changed.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:10
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nuru posted:They've been lampshading that more and more since ARR. By the time we were at the Warring Triad the npcs started just saying, "Go grab your adventurer friends and murder this God, thanks Godkiller" I sure beats the hell out of hey WoL you did it, you beat Titan all by yourself. With no help. Just you, and you alone defeated Titan. Yup. I do remember they acknowledge it for Crystal Tower too but that was a while ago.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:12
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Is Black Mage as fun as it looks in Stormblood? I ask because I just watched a video in which I'm pretty sure I saw a Black Mage Triplecast Flare-Foul-Flare and it looked amazing.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:14
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Renegret posted:I sure beats the hell out of Anonymous god killer adventurer friends who have no presence in the story aside from occasional comments is at least as jarring as just pretending the WoL does it all solo. The WoD being a group did suggest that the WoL could be a group too though; it's just weird since the adventuring group idea actually does seem to have been a part of 1.0 (or at least the Bahamut video), while it's been downgraded to throwaway references here.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:17
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The Black Stones posted:Follow up question to what I was asking before. So my tracking information says my package departed and the arrived right back in Miami and I've abandoned all hope of receiving this anytime soon. I assume my account can only have 1 copy of the game on it. So if I bought a standard digital when my CE comes I couldn't register that for the bonus items? I would have to buy digital CE and that comes with all the in game items the physical CE does? Just wanna make sure if I decide to do something drastic. lol that this happens for literally every single game release idk why people buy physical copies of games, especially via mail order, unless they're prepared to wait for up to a week after the game is actually out
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Jun 22, 2017 16:19
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Sinteres posted:Anonymous god killer adventurer friends who have no presence in the story aside from occasional comments is at least as jarring as just pretending the WoL does it all solo. The WoD being a group did suggest that the WoL could be a group too though; it's just weird since the adventuring group idea actually does seem to have been a part of 1.0 (or at least the Bahamut video), while it's been downgraded to throwaway references here. yeah but it's really funny which is important
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Jun 22, 2017 16:19
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Didn't 1.0 also let DoL classes enter combat trials?
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Sinteres posted:Anonymous god killer adventurer friends who have no presence in the story aside from occasional comments is at least as jarring as just pretending the WoL does it all solo. The WoD being a group did suggest that the WoL could be a group too though; it's just weird since the adventuring group idea actually does seem to have been a part of 1.0 (or at least the Bahamut video), while it's been downgraded to throwaway references here. They're not god killers. You kill the god, they handle the adds.
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And besides, who here hasn't carried a group before?
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nuru posted:Didn't 1.0 also let DoL classes enter combat trials? Technically they would bypass the trial via "parley", as I recall. Which was really weird.
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Alakaiser posted:Spoilers for the main scenario, don't look if you haven't completed it unless you don't care My interpretation was that it was originally the Ala Mhigan anthem but the Garleans co-opted it when they took over because that is the sort of poo poo conquering empires do to undermine an occupied nation. Then at the end they changed the lyrics again to celebrate the liberation.
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Thundarr posted:My interpretation was that it was originally the Ala Mhigan anthem but the Garleans co-opted it when they took over because that is the sort of poo poo conquering empires do to undermine an occupied nation. Then at the end they changed the lyrics again to celebrate the liberation. This is what I thought too. Ala Mhigo is now a free nation, so it's people can now sing THEIR anthem, and not the bastardized occupiers one.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:31
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That makes perfect sense and is probably correct! Neat. Makes the whole thing even cooler.
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Sinteres posted:Anonymous god killer adventurer friends who have no presence in the story aside from occasional comments is at least as jarring as just pretending the WoL does it all solo. The WoD being a group did suggest that the WoL could be a group too though; it's just weird since the adventuring group idea actually does seem to have been a part of 1.0 (or at least the Bahamut video), while it's been downgraded to throwaway references here. I think it would be rad if you could pick three people on your friends list to occasionally appear in cutscenes with you, but that would probably be more trouble than it's worth.
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Fister Roboto posted:I think it would be rad if you could pick three people on your friends list to occasionally appear in cutscenes with you, but that would probably be more trouble than it's worth. That would be really great. Or, hell, just let the player customize "party members" like you can customize retainers, maybe? If it's too much trouble to bring in your friends, just have cutscene party members that show up if there's nobody in your party to show up.
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You gotta remember that most of the Ala Mhigans fighting have never known a free Ala Mhigo. But regardless it's textbook national anthem especially after a war. Most war anthems are marches.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:38
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The SB story can be summarized as a very angry, yet Scholarly, Lalafell constantly punching his other palm.
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Harrow posted:That would be really great. I think that's where they might be going with the adventurer squadron.
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Come to think of it didn't SB promise dungeons with your adventurer squad? I should probably get mine to 50.
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