Thread: 2.5 - Before the Fall

Findings post for ppl to review These are taken from stream, so excuse the quality
2.5 Before the Fall will go live January 20th!
Trailer revealed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5K-70mm29g

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Golden Saucer
Video:Here





Setzer gear obtainable from Golden Saucer



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2.5
Dungeons
Trailers: Here

Keeper of the Lake







Wanderers palace (Hard)



Amdapor Keep (Hard)





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- World of Darkness Was Previewed, have no video, its like 2am for me
- New CT will have obtainable items to upgrade Ironworks gear, however it'll work differently to the ct2 system to avoid weekly picking
- New CT gear was also shown in handouts, will upload when possible
- World of Darkness drops new crafting materials for the new recipes (duh)
- No RMT for gold saucer, you use gil to buy tokens for the Gold Saucer |untradeable, unsellable |
-Setzer gear available from Golden Saucer
- Chocobo Racing also confirmed + Triple Triad | Chocobo racing is a separate chocobo with stats etc | Feeding it can change stats e.g: Stamina
- Triple Triad explanation here: 1 2
- how to get triple triad card Here
- Triple triad competitive play confirmed Here
- Demon Wall returns, but can't fall off, but apparently 4x scarier.
- Direct X11 Confirmed and coming, improving reflections, depth, shadows,graphics, yada yada yada
-Soken looking for something to use Tina's theme in game with
-Going to try add a jukebox to housing (changing housing themes etc)
-There is NO real lyrics to Ultima, Soken made them all with sounds
-Music for fights is created after content is made, Soken hasnt made a song yet for a fight before it has been finalised
-After 2.51, New OST planned
-No plans to extend BGM for older dungeons


For those who missed the new classes, i may aswell put them here anyway.
http://a.pomf.se/ltwexc.webm - Au Ra
http://a.pomf.se/xqdbbw.webm - Dark Knight <3 <3 <3
http://a.pomf.se/jktuif.webm - Astrologian
http://a.pomf.se/numrwy.webm - Rootin' Tootin' Machinist
Credit to: someone else's thread i forgot to get the name of for the above class links.

Heavensturn event confirmed December 31st, check page 3 for picture. Due to image limit.)

All other info, Direct X 11, World of darkness, CT Armour etc, can be found here: http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/12/...raphics-shown/
Thank you to:
Samburi
Vejjiegirl
Nalien
For Finding other sources of info

I believe the Aetherial Wheel is the first part of the free company crafting towards airship building or something like that.

Wow, this raises a lot of questions. I'll be on the edge of my seat as new info starts to leak in.

Originally Posted by Nalien

Wonder why they split the story arc over two updates... I mean, I can kind of understand it, but 2.51 just seems early given that's basically right after 2.5 so still quite a ways off Heavensward...

They're probably setting us up for another "shocking finale" akin to the 1.0 ending so they're spreading out what they can over the course of the patch.