The Great Bug Fixing of 2015

[Unelonborro]

Good day, everyone,

As you know, the final chapter in Rhapsodies of Vana'diel will be coming in a short time, and I'm excited beyond belief to help bring the conclusion of Iroha's saga to you. I hope you're also waiting with bated breath to learn what will happen next (trying to stay spoiler free here...)

With that said, I know that there are those who are going to come back in November specifically to experience the storyline in its entirety, and I'm making it my personal mission to make Vana'diel sparkle for their arrival.

And so I'd like to enlist your help. I know that there are some outstanding typos, bugs, and oddities with in-game text, and I'm working to root them out wherever I can. But there's a limit to what the team and I can accomplish on our own while continuing to translate and fulfill our other XI-related duties, so I'd like to ask for your help.

If you encounter any issues with text (unclear explanations, typos, and the like) or anything with naming that doesn't make sense ("Hey, Unelonborro, why are there two Bouncing Berthas?") please report it in this thread!

I cannot guarantee I'll be able to get to everything, especially once we get closer to the November release, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to try!

Regards,

Unelonborro
Localization Lead

[Tidis]

("Hey, Unelonborro, why are there two Bouncing Berthas?")

Actually why are there 2 Bouncing Berhas? Why is one a lizard and the other a chapuli!

[Unelonborro]

As of September, there will only be one Bouncing Bertha! I've renamed the Wanted NM.

[Leonardus]

If you encounter any issues with text (unclear explanations, typos, and the like) or anything with naming that doesn't make sense ("Hey, Unelonborro, why are there two Bouncing Berthas?") please report it in this thread!

While you're in the area Unelonborro, I noticed BouncingBertha parries attacks "...with his weapon." (The BST jugpet Bertha)

It should probably be "her."

[Tidis]

Someone has told me that if they are on BLU and swap their spells on floor 5 of Arrapago Remnants II so it is in the process of cooldown where you can't use blue magic, if he then goes to use the teleporter, it moves him straight to floor 7 and he said he was able to recreate this so has done it twice.

Does that belong here or does it need it's own bug report?

[Merton9999]

Here you go making Vana'diel sparkle again Unelonborro! Thanks for this. The one that springs to mind is:

Enlightenment
Ophannus created a thread about it here. The description says it optimizes both white and black magic capabilities, but it actually doesn't. It only gives access to one addendum spell. The word "Optimizes" is used in the description of Light Arts and Dark Arts. We assume the word refers to the decrease in casting time and MP cost of the associated spells, neither of which are conferred with Enlightenment. I think most SCHs would be elated if the ability were changed to fit the description, but if that can't happen I'd be happy with a fix to the text.

[Unelonborro]

While you're in the area Unelonborro, I noticed BouncingBertha parries attacks "...with his weapon." (The BST jugpet Bertha)

It should probably be "her."

I'll see if I can get this changed, but changing gender pronouns involves touching a part of the program that I don't have access to.

Someone has told me that if they are on BLU and swap their spells on floor 5 of Arrapago Remnants II so it is in the process of cooldown where you can't use blue magic, if he then goes to use the teleporter, it moves him straight to floor 7 and he said he was able to recreate this so has done it twice.

That's...really specific, and unfortunately not something I can fix on my end. He's better off reporting the issue to the GMs so it can make its way over to QA.

Although, on the topic of blue magic, one time I was checking blue magic names for overflow and discovered that if I use debug commands to change my job to BLU while not in a Mog House, I'm unable to set blue magic until I zone. The more you know.

Ophannus created a thread about it here. The description says it optimizes both white and black magic capabilities, but it actually doesn't. It only gives access to one addendum spell. The word "Optimizes" is used in the description of Light Arts and Dark Arts. We assume the word refers to the decrease in casting time and MP cost of the associated spells, neither of which are conferred with Enlightenment. I think most SCHs would be elated if the ability were changed to fit the description, but if that can't happen I'd be happy with a fix to the text.

I agree with you that the help text is a little weird. Here's what I've tentatively changed it to.

"Allows access to both addenda for your next spell, regardless of whether you are under the effect of Light Arts or Dark Arts."

Does this better capture the ability, or is there another way you think it should be worded? Definitely open to suggestions here.

[Merton9999]

"Allows access to both addenda for your next spell, regardless of whether you are under the effect of Light Arts or Dark Arts."

Does this better capture the ability, or is there another way you think it should be worded? Definitely open to suggestions here.

This sounds fine to me! That's all the base ability does as far as I'm aware.

[Merton9999]

This sounds fine to me! That's all the base ability does as far as I'm aware.

It looks like I was wrong about the current effects of Enlightenment. When I activate it naked now, it not only provides access to all addenda spells, it also raises all SCH's native magic skill levels to the levels they would be under their corresponding arts. Swapping between arts while Enlightenment is active has no effect on my skill levels. When enlightenment wears, I can see all skills opposite of my current arts drop. I can't find documentation of this on either major wiki. Was it changed at some point? Can anyone else confirm this? I'm just looking at the skill levels listed in the menu.

In any case, I still think the Optimizes text is misleading, or at least inconsistent with the Light Arts and Dark Arts descriptions. They both contain the "Optimizes" sentence, then go on to list the magic skills that are increased. So I assume the first sentence refers to the reduced casting times, recast times and MP costs, and Enlightenment is definitely not providing those right now.

So perhaps to be complete and consistent, the Enlightenment description should be something like: "For your next spell, allows access to both addenda and grants a bonus to divine, healing, enhancing, enfeebling, elemental and dark magic."