Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn Media Embargo Lifted!Follow

ok confused media embargo lifted but NDA isnt? soo whats that mean exactly? i.e the "media" cant say anything about whats in the beta... what if said members of media or playing beta? In otherwords I dont see what they can or cant release/show if the game is in beta and NDA is still in affect

Yeah I'll have to go edit that one

If you got an email from SE's PR team saying that you could speak once the embargo was lifted, then you're media. It's not confusing at all.

You'll notice all of the images in my article are property of SE, I was not allowed to use anything of my own in my article.

So then basically aside from Images.. If youre Media (i.e you) then the NDA no longer applies to you so you could tell ppl everything you wanted to tell them about the beta if you choose?

Can you go more in-depth with the combat system? How exactly is it different, and why are so many people complaining about it? Is it that different from 1.23?

I haven't heard anyone complaining about it, since anyone who did so before today was breaking the NDA.

I think it's fine, the global cool downs are 2.5 seconds for skills, 3.5 seconds for spells but you can queue up the next spell before the current one is finished. Couple that with equipment and food that further lowers the cool down time and combat is very fast paced.

Since you're into negativity, this is another thing I'll admit: combat is slow for the first 10-15 levels or so. Once you start getting more abilities you can start performing combos which make the game more interesting for sure. Guildleves are obviously less exciting than other things, FATEs are a notch above them, and Instanced Dungeons are quite a bit of fun. I spent a lot of time running around doing FATEs, it's relaxing actually because there's usually a bit of a lull between them so you can get up and get a drink or do something else for a bit.

Dungeons require full attention, and they're timed (you have an hour to finish them) so there is a certain pace you need to maintain to get them finished. You don't actually have to beat the dungeon to still get a ton of XP and items, but the treasure chests after beating the boss are certain to have very good stuff in them so it's usually in your best interest to try to get them done.

Tam Tara takes about the full hour if you go in with the lowest level possible (15) but if your 17 or so you can dink around a bit and still finish it.

Toto-Rak is a little faster to get to the end, but the boss battle is very tough and you may wipe and need to start again. Starting again doesn't mean defeating everything in the dungeon all over again by the way, everything you kill stays dead so you can run all the way through the dungeon again or use a teleportation device to get down to the boss chamber again.

Haukke manor is probably the fastest, but by this time everyone has quite a few skills and you can usually make short work of everyone but the boss. They are constantly tweaking those things however, so the launch might see differences than what I've seen so far.

@ Wint, What rig do you have, what settings and resolution to you run the game on, and what is your average FPS? Would you say that the world looks better or worse than 1.0 and why?

The monsters for your guildleve are not visible to other people until you attack them, then they become visible to everyone. So really if you are fighting the NM then yes, people would be able to see you fighting it. If the monsters were all visible the game would probably crash having to draw that many models at once.

I was teasing

TP regenerates yes. You start with 1000, and each skill you use lowers that amount. As I stated in the article, while soloing or doing FATEs and Leves, TP management isn't that important unless the FATE lasts much longer than usual. Where you have to start managing your abilities and skills are when you're working as a group in a dungeon. There are limits to how fast you can progress between the healer and tank having to manage their MP and the DD keeping an eye on their TP.

Let me add to this and hope you can answer. How is your frame rate when you're looking at the Aetheryte plaza, which you stated gets pretty jam packed? Does it bog down?

Lastly, you mentioned a chocobo porter which I'm a bit confused about. Is that like an automatic ride from one spot to the other? Is it instantaneous if so, or do you actually "ride" the automatically driven chocobo?

This is so one sided I cannot comment :

You are currently commenting. It's like, if I said:

Ostia, I don't want to be mean to you, so I will just say nothing. This is me, saying nothing. In case everyone forgot, I'm saying nothing because I don't want to be mean to Ostia.