Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

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Originally Posted by Xeno

It'll always be the next patch that will bring something we need to the game, don't you see the pattern? SE are expert liars.

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Except they haven't lied about anything since Yoshi came into control. In fact they've gone out of their way to be clear what the situation is on each aspect.

But yeah, hyperboles are good too, so run with it.

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Originally Posted by Meridian

The goblin tells me that he is angry he was the target of this video. He feels victimised. He was only minding his own business, picking onions, and this happened? Not once, not twice, but thrice.

You will be hearing from his lawyers, apparently.

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Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

From that vid it seems they didn't make to changes to mob difficulty as the LNC and PUG both make short work of the R60 Goblin. Seems stupid that they can easily down a mob that is 10 Ranks higher than them without any trouble.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

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Everyone knows the best quality onions are there this time of year... This is an outrage! You cannot discriminate against a goblin for wanting high quality goods, no matter the location.

He was caught off guard. Had he been prepared he would certainly have defeated the thugs that were picking on him.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

They could add more interesting tp abilities etc that require more movement to keep the players attention more now they're not spamming button presses, too.

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This would be desirable, but what is the likelihood they will make the effort required to add a whole world of variety like this? My magic fingertips are typing... not likely!

We can all hope.

@Xeno: The video is simply for testing purposes. He also said in a previous letter when discussing auto-attack, that battles would need to be made more difficult with the arrival of auto-attack, otherwise people will be able to just afk while their character kills monsters. I'm thinking a distinct flavour of FFXI... coming soon to a battle near you!

Just noticed that the GLA was R40 against a R50 Gob and the LNC and PUG were both R50 against a R60 Gob so they did make sure the Gobs were 10 ranks above them and they still took them down easy, I hope there is some serious changes to the SP/EXP cap or mob difficulty before this patch drops because that is a joke.

Surprised nobody mentioned the physical level still being present. I don't know what the schedule was for abolishing that, but just figured I'd mention it.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

From that vid it seems they didn't make to changes to mob difficulty as the LNC and PUG both make short work of the R60 Goblin. Seems stupid that they can easily down a mob that is 10 Ranks higher than them without any trouble.

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Monster AI might have been off.

I think they're waiting until the next patch but I'm not certain? Abolishing the physical level requires re-routing all stats to the classes you've leveled, and then discussing how this should be implemented and how many points one receives for each level obtained, and from then onward.

You guys are looking @ this video wrong like its the current build of the game. The same rules does not apply if they balanced stats like they said they did you should be able to kill a mob 10 level's higher than you if stats and player skill come into account.

I'm also pretty sure that level gap will not be the same when the patch is released.

One thing I noticed is that the action bar is locked and up while he is in passive mode.

I didn't notice that different music at first but that armor he uses has always been the one the GLA uses in test vids if I'm not mistaken?

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Originally Posted by Firon

You guys are looking @ this video wrong like its the current build of the game. The same rules does not apply if they balanced stats like they said they did you should be able to kill a mob 10 level's higher than you if stats and player skill come into account.

I'm also pretty sure that level gap will not be the same when the patch is released.

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Precisely, it was already said in a previous letter than battle difficulty will be increased once auto-attack is fully implemented.

All I can say is wow. Choas Blade and Riot Blade are super bad a$$ in that video. Still not sure how I'll like Auto-attack vs. Selecting normal attacks, but it definatly looks way smoother. That Gladiators (Paladin??) Guard ability after using Aegis Boon is 100% smoother when paired with auto-attack.

Is that new gear too? Those kinda look like new Jobs too

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Originally Posted by Judge_Xero

Is that new gear too? Those kinda look like new Jobs too

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Is that Cait Sith?!?

...No.

Wow...nice looking chaos thrust! O_o And w/e the glad one is. Also does one of the pugilists abilities stun now? Looks kind of what I do on lancer. Leg sweep to stun then run behind to attack his weak spot for MASSIVE damage (crit)

The Pugilist used Jarring Strike II. It stuns.

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Originally Posted by Zahak

Wow...nice looking chaos thrust! O_o And w/e the glad one is. Also does one of the pugilists abilities stun now? Looks kind of what I do on lancer. Leg sweep to stun then run behind to attack his weak spot for MASSIVE damage (crit)

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Jarring Strike has always stunned.

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Originally Posted by Zahak

Wow...nice looking chaos thrust! O_o And w/e the glad one is. Also does one of the pugilists abilities stun now? Looks kind of what I do on lancer. Leg sweep to stun then run behind to attack his weak spot for MASSIVE damage (crit)

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pug always had that stun skill it was jarring strike

I am not too worried about the auto attacking and haven't been for awhile since SE had advised there will be increased difficulty involved. You still have to do your special skills - you have to still pay attention. That's what matters to me. :)

So... no job system mentioned in his "rough sketch", do we have to wait until 1.20? Sigh. As cool as the new animations and auto-attack are, I haven't logged in for like 2 weeks now and with the delay of the patch/potentially underwhelming patch, I likely won't all summer.

SE is so dumb....

Was it so difficult to create a video like this, behind the new raid entrance??????????? What's their idea of marketing?

Fraps video outside Limsa. Cool.

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Originally Posted by popdai

SE is so dumb....

Was it so difficult to create a video like this, behind the new raid entrance??????????? What's their idea of marketing?

Fraps video outside Limsa. Cool.

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The Closed-mindness in this one is really strong. And anyway, Marketing <-> Battle System. They interact each other so much. SO MUCH.
Did you feel the sarcasm? Because I meant it.

Renshi! Go to bed! You've been posting all night!

Renshi, I like your sarcasm. #winning

The video itself (if you consider it's original intentions) seems reasonable enough. In truth I was expecting something on the rest of the 1.18 content as well though. This was the shortest Letter From the Producer ever, and it really should not have been.

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Originally Posted by Archadius

The video itself (if you consider it's original intentions) seems reasonable enough. In truth I was expecting something on the rest of the 1.18 content as well though. This was the shortest Letter From the Producer ever, and it really should not have been.

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Agreed, it really can't have been that hard to add in SOMETHING else, concept art? anything? They're getting a lot smaller overt time. Also Popdai seems like a total idiot, probably best just to ignore him.

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Originally Posted by Vackashken

Oh yes, blindside wasn't what I was questioning. It was the fact the Gob didn't follow him allowing him that much time to use blindside.

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It's because it was stunned by Jarring Strike II. :)

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Originally Posted by Archadius

The video itself (if you consider it's original intentions) seems reasonable enough. In truth I was expecting something on the rest of the 1.18 content as well though. This was the shortest Letter From the Producer ever, and it really should not have been.

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This definitely isn't the 'shortest' letter ever. In fact, at a glance it looks comparable to http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...803-16-2011%29 or http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...5685#post65685 and http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-02-2011%29

It was a letter only about Auto-Attack, how much did you want him to write on the subject?

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Originally Posted by DurtiMonkeyToe

This definitely isn't the 'shortest' letter ever. In fact, at a glance it looks comparable to http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...803-16-2011%29 or http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...5685#post65685 and http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-02-2011%29

It was a letter only about Auto-Attack, how much did you want him to write on the subject?

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All 3 of those are considerably longer than this letter.

I was under the impression that this letter was to shed a bit of light on some patch 1.18 details, not really just an Auto-Attack dedication with a sentence or two on the remaining details.

any chance this video is anywhere other than youtube? cant view it at work >:(

I'd like/hope they give us the option to turn off recast timer (numbers) and just have the blue circle timer, would make the action bar look a bit better IMO.

Battle system looks a lot like FF11 now IMO, Pugilist has lost a lot of speed due to no spam attacking, not sure if that's a good thing or not.

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Originally Posted by Vackashken

Oh yes, blindside wasn't what I was questioning. It was the fact the Gob didn't follow him allowing him that much time to use blindside. Also, it seems like they raised the window of opportunity to use jarring strike and haymaker since he used both with a lot of time in between the evade activation.


Something is different there but I'm not quite sure what it is :)

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I don't know if anyone has answered you yet but that isn't new stunned mobs can't move at all. I do it all the time to break shells.

I was also noticing the PUG speeds, not a big deal since I don't play PUG. Lancer looks right on cue though, and I am drooling over the new Chaos Thrust

Oh, so those ARE new weapon animations. I haven't made it to rank 50 on anything yet...

WoW /facepalm on several posters here XD lol.

You guys seem to forget how mmo are or something. ffxiv will ALWAYS get patched. That is the nature of mmo. They are just fixing more then adding. Once they fix the major stuff then they will add. If your too much a cynic maybe go play a different game for a while. Only thing actually dragging the game down are the negetive posting from the cynics and not really the game. I have fun on ffxiv. I make my own fun. Pick somethong you like doing. And just do it. If there is nothing you enjoy, there never will be.

The letter said what it needed to say. He doesn't HAVE TO write them. He wants to do so since he is a first time being the head of a game and more importently an mmo which is a different beast.

As for AA, I like it. Its just fast enough to be enjoyable and not as slow as it looks. They just took time to show off a few skills. One thing I noticed that no one seems to even mention was the Action bar. Did anyone notice it got changed? And i like it.

I did notice the change to the action bar actually. I also like it.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

I'd like/hope they give us the option to turn off recast timer (numbers) and just have the blue circle timer, would make the action bar look a bit better IMO.

Battle system looks a lot like FF11 now IMO, Pugilist has lost a lot of speed due to no spam attacking, not sure if that's a good thing or not.

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The DMG has been scaled up due to AA being implemented. The only downfall is the fact you cant get TP or Hate generation as fast.

I feel pretty relieved by this, oddly. I didn't expect an update till July-ish, anyhow, and it's good they're learning to hold off on something until it's absolutely complete.
You can almost see a timid looking Yoshi-P going into a allegorical conference room full of rabid honey badger fans, knowing this might not be what they want to hear, but it's the reality and they're owning up to it as best they can.

Respect to this likely extremely stressed dev team for sticking it out and keeping us informed.

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Originally Posted by Archadius

All 3 of those are considerably longer than this letter.

I was under the impression that this letter was to shed a bit of light on some patch 1.18 details, not really just an Auto-Attack dedication with a sentence or two on the remaining details.

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I'm sorry, you're just wrong. The first link had 378 words, the second link had 402 words, and the third link had 522. The new letter has a total of 512. Like I said it is COMPARABLE to what we have gotten in the past, especially in the middle of a new phase of work. Only one of the letters I posted had MORE words than the new letter. So I say again, with gusto, you're wrong. This is not the shortest letter we have ever gotten.

I loved it, mainly because of the animation and sounds.