1.0 Ending, Did you know?

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Originally Posted by Nero

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There's at least a couple of huge reasons why it was so epic outside of the obvious visual flair. One was the fact that it was an inevitable war that we saw happening before our eyes, which involved characters that we grew attached to and in that one case... unexpectedly lost. The other was the fact that it was an ending to an MMORPG, which is something that never (or rarely) happens. And yeah, watching our side essentially lose despite the best of efforts to beautifully dominant destructive power (... Bahamut) certainly added to the epic feeling. We're not used to losing.

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Originally Posted by Razzle

The red dalamud started as a small star in the sky that approached the planet after every update. When it was a small red star in the sky no one even worried it would grow to such a thing lol

Near the end of 1.0 when it was close to hitting, it was clear it was not a normal meteor but some kind of a machine or special technology by the looks of it and I think many speculated that something was inside

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http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...alamud_120.jpg

And the event to this picture was around 1.18 or 1.19
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...IV_Dalamud.jpg

Those last days.... monsters attacking the cities (that lvl 100 Magiteck Vanguard lol)), all aethers camp invaded by atomos and voidsents.. lightnings everywhere.. "slow Answers theme" as background music. It felt really depressing and discouraging

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Originally Posted by Felis

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...alamud_120.jpg

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thanks for the image. so nostalgic ( ^ - ^

I remeber something funny:D.. when you do (/pary) at atomos or voidsents or those wondering soldiers, your character would instantly get killed XD. I think the 12 would curse you and you die.

The final event was laggy as hell, but it remains one of the best moments of my MMO life.
The reason is simple, everyone was playing with everyone. Healers were healing and raising from everywhere, tanks were trying to hold hate on most mobs...
No trolling, just like if everyone who played until the end wanted to "be a part of this".

It lasted something like 2 hours maybe, and during these 2 hours, with this music and this feeling floating around, I felt like I really wanted to save this world. And this is coming from someone who cannot stand RP.
It was just.. how it had to be done.

And when the "contact was lost", when the waves of mobs stopped, we could gather with the LS to take last pictures of this world about to die.

Yeah, I really felt like I was playing in a movie. Maybe even a bit more than this.

(But V1 was borring, don't regret it)

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

The final event was laggy as hell,

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Yeah... 2 hours... i was able to play for 10 minutes only and i couldn't see almost any mobs since it took forever to load... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNrB3tbcOQk

Is there any way I can see the entire story line for FF14 1.0 (pre ARR)?

Including who the main characters were and such?

Well there where hints that Bahamut would be in Dalamut, like Nael using Megaflare. When he was released in the cinematic it was like a facepalm... "Why didn't i recogniced it before"

There were a lot of theories, going around as Dalamud drew ever closer, and through all our attempts to prevent it, even after Van Darnus was using Megaflare, on the forums we didn't mention Bahamut being inside, SE even made us all think it would actually impact, what with calling the Garlean attempt to drop it the Meteor project, and the timer in the launcher saying "Impact in". The entire 7th Umbral era storyline was one of the best I have seen, and we really felt we were a part of events.