7th Alpha video "Levequests and Party Combat"

[Alhanelem]

One of the few, at least, because "hot topics" has been stupidly placed higher on the page than the more important dev tracker.

I minimized the "hot topics" because I don't give a rats behind whats hot. I only care what's important.

[Felis]

It would be best if SE would just stop showing vids to you ppl till open beta. No more vids no more crying about an game during alpha test...

People would cry for new videos

[Eekiki]

I minimized the "hot topics" because I don't give a rats behind whats hot. I only care what's important.

If only everyone did that.

[Fadigre]

I also find it highly unlikely that these characters were playing optimally (especially considering whoever is being shown is clicking with the mouse). This is yet another case of people oversimplifying to make things sound bad ("tank & spank").

Yeah, you can see that when the Lancer uses True Thrust they completely disregard their combo bonus from Heavy Thrust by using Vorpal Thrust instead. I imagine this video caters to players outside XIV's current community

[AlexNiculaie]

They ignore the combo bonus because those systems aren't active in alpha. Only the most basic systems are implemented.

[moriandrio]

People would cry for new videos

Even betther then crying about mechanics that haven't even been implemented in the alpha...
Sry but after reading this thread alot ppl don't deserve to watch those vids....

[Fadigre]

They ignore the combo bonus because those systems aren't active in alpha. Only the most basic systems are implemented.

Blimey o_o

[Radnar]

Not gonna read the rest of the thread so I can just give my first impressions:

* Looks better than 1.0's combat by a fair amount.

* I'm worried there will be a "color-overload" in larger fighter, which will wash out parts of the UI.
(Using bright colors with minimal borders for important things like health bars isn't always the greatest idea)

I've got other thoughts, but kind of hard to nail them down in a constructive or accurate way without playing the game.

[Eekiki]

* I'm worried there will be a "color-overload" in larger fighter, which will wash out parts of the UI.
(Using bright colors with minimal borders for important things like health bars isn't always the greatest idea)

This is a good point. Another thing I noticed was the health bars don't change color depending on HP, turning yellow and then red as HP is lost. That feature was always the main thing that let me know when I needed to start dishing out cures when healing in a PT.

[Gao]

It's like some people think they know what they're talking about... as if... as if they were in the alpha!