Letter from the Producer, XXIV (01/30/2012)

So far as content goes, this is the first one of these lists with which I've been wholly comfortable, basically o.o

Hurrah.

Also yay private rooms! I wonder if we'll be able to customise them any prior to 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Supergroovegear

I wonder if cut scene replay will replay the seen in current clothing or clothing as it was during the original event. I wore some attrocious things when I was new and poor!

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I think it will play in your current clothes, if im not mistaken the animation is made in real time so the character is dragged as how it is at that moment, but maybe could be something that we've been recording without having any idea.

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Originally Posted by Skies

Your LS mates are halfway correct. The new jobs are a party-geared setup. That is, they're far more focused on their sole roles than being able to do a lot of different things like classes. Or at least that is the design structure that the devs are going after. However, you are not required to be in a party to change to them at all.

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Thankyou very much for the info. LOL I just want to run around in my new AF, I like thm but the AF looks hot.


Now regarding player houseing hopefully if not in the upcoming up date, maybe later, players can actually decorate their house walls with weapons (like a trophy room or something). This would be a nice add to player houseing instead of just tossing everything into a little box. This would also help players that like to collect (horde) items and what not and help with inventory issues some players have. I tend to keep my inventory clean but it would be nice to put up weapons that are rare/ex or U/U that you want to keep for the hell of it.

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Originally Posted by Quatre

If anyone actually believes 2.0 isn't going to be delayed just a LITTLE bit is completely delusional.

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That's not actually entirely true. We don't know enough about their team organization to know for sure, but when we first heard about 2.0, Yoshida-san implied that there was a completely separate and distinct team working on the 2.0 engine. If this is indeed the case, delays in the current content would actually have literally no effect on the pace of development on 2.0.

As to the patch itself, sounds quite intriguing. Enough so that I will have to make time to play some more this week (I haven't had the time to play in recent weeks, so this incentive is quite welcome).

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Originally Posted by Maxthunder

I had some1 in the LS I am in say something about the new jobs can only be used if you are in a party. Now I dont know if this is true or if it is just made up. Honestly though if it is in fact set up that yu can only use the new jobs if you are in a party, I find that counter productive. I hope it isnt that way as I would like the freedom to play whatever class/job I choose.

Now lets not forget that a lot of players have all jobs at level 50, so myself included have no reason to party up other than for the new content (and you know players will have it done in a month maybe month and a half). Granted I havent finished the moogle fight and in all honesty dont really care about it, as it is just another variation of the primal fight/s.

Can anyone confirm this or is it just something some player made up?

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I dont think it will be something only for parties, but as i see it if you are a black mage maybe you wont be able to equip cure spells at all , only damage spells like aero, fire, thunder, stone, blizzard and their current combos tiers, so as black mage you will be perfect for damage dealing but wont be able to cure anyone or yourself, so for solo content it would be wiser having a class as current than a job.

im a bit dissapointed for not having hamlet defense yet but from what i read it sound kinda interesting that all clases and jobs will have their role in those events, maybe carpenters, armorers and other crafters may take repair roles there.

I hope to get a huge PvE events when implemented.

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Not til we get our own personal housing.

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They are implementing housing in 1.21

A good info packed letter! While sad that hamlet defense is postponed I hope it is because they thought of more cool stuff they wanted to add to it to make it fun.

Also, 2 week delay is disappointing but not really surprising.

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Originally Posted by Rizon

I was hoping someone would bring this up before now but being as they didn't I will. I do not remember anything being said about an Exp Bonus while logged out before. Has there been anything posted about how this will work?

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I would imagine it will work like it does in TOR. If you log your character out in a specific location (like in your house for instance), you will get an xp bonus the next time you log back in. In TOR, the longer you stay logged out in said location, the longer the xp bonus lasts when you come back.

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Originally Posted by LavellaNyteshade

They are implementing housing in 1.21

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No, they're implementing housing in 2.0. 1.21 is the foundation of that system.

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Originally Posted by LavellaNyteshade

They are implementing housing in 1.21

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We don't get personal houses, but rooms at inns

I didn't see any mention of party flag, /anon, offline personal messages to friends, /lsmes or removing linkshell members who are offline.

Yes, I know that there are a lot of changes planned for 1.21. Seems like these fixes wouldn't take that long to do though.

Don't even go all whiner etc. It's just my harmless opinion.

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Originally Posted by elreed

yep im thinking the same, this are in my op. temporary until we get our houses

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I'm not so sure it is temporary, actually. Remember, 'our houses' will be on company estates - spaces owned by the free companies.

As such, my money is on the Private Room system being for characters that aren't in a company with an Estate. It seems to me a pretty nice solution too, so I hope I'm right.

I'm pretty confident that by 2.0 / the release of the full housing system, private rooms will be decorable and perhaps be able to grant any bonuses you can get from different furnishings and so forth. Meanwhile, free companies that go to the effort of having an estate will give their members access to the gardens, basements, and customisable exteriors that Yoshida mentioned along with everything they permit (like say, chocobo rearing), as well as the indoor stuff private room-users get access to.

CYBER TIME

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Originally Posted by Zoltan

I didn't see any mention of party flag, /anon, offline personal messages to friends, /lsmes or removing linkshell members who are offline.

Yes, I know that there are a lot of changes planned for 1.21. Seems like these fixes wouldn't take that long to do though.

Don't even go all whiner etc. It's just my harmless opinion.

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It would take long to do when you handle alot of your interface serverside. Messaging for example is a client feature which the only server interaction is sending and receiving it, XIV isn't built to do that which is why they said it won't happen until the new servers are up and running so it can handle doing all of that stuff.

They can add in text commands, but stuff planned for around 2.0 is still going to be released in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It would take long to do when you handle alot of your interface serverside. Messaging for example is a client feature which the only server interaction is sending and receiving it, XIV isn't built to do that which is why they said it won't happen until the new servers are up and running so it can handle doing all of that stuff.

They can add in text commands, but stuff planned for around 2.0 is still going to be released in 2.0.

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Still doesn't seem like adding /anon (anonymous) or kicking offline players from a linkshell would be difficult.

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Originally Posted by Zoltan

Still doesn't seem like adding /anon (anonymous) or kicking offline players from a linkshell would be dificult.

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It's not, but shitty server software and hardware can make things problematic when your interface is handled online like XIV's is for example look at when someone logs in/off and notice how long it tends to take the interface to reflect that change.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It's not, but shitty server software and hardware can make things problematic

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It must be a REALLY shitty software if they can't remove an if-check before kicking someone from the shell. The rest of the functionality is already there.

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Originally Posted by SniperRifle

I remember watching the leaked vids of the Aurum Vale way back when. I wonder what kind of monsters will be there.

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I'll be surprised if we see any new mob types, apart from the NM's.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

It must be a REALLY shitty software if they can't remove an if-check before kicking someone from the shell. The rest of the functionality is already there.

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Trust me..they've admitted it was pretty bad lol.

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Originally Posted by ApplePie

I'm gonna let you finish, but each time SE delays the patch, and then after the patch is released, we are spammed from whiteknights and "SE NEVER DELAYS PATCHES!!!! EVERYTHING IS ON TIME!!!!" I don't mind the delays; I just mind the spamming defense of "no delays everrrrrrrr" mentality some people on this board have.

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CHALLENGE!

Find posts of someone saying SE never delays patches.

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Originally Posted by Radav

Can someone explain what the ability to toggle sub targeting will do for us?

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from what I gather that is if it is off and you have someone targeted and you hit cure it will cure them instead of getting the purple reticule and then selecting the target and then confirming.

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Originally Posted by Krausus

CHALLENGE!

Find posts of someone saying SE never delays patches.

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I don't think anyone ever really said that SE never delays patches... though I could be wrong and someone might of actually stated such without knowing. What you can find very very easy is where if the patch is not going to be released within the first day of a month its scheduled to be release people will scream it is being delayed and SE lied to them...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

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Originally Posted by Mug

I'll be surprised if we see any new mob types, apart from the NM's.

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From what I've remembered since release; diremites, golems, treants, etc. have been introduced over the course of the game. I bet we see new mob types not only in the new raids, but elsewhere too.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

From what I've remembered since release; diremites, golems, treants, etc. have been introduced over the course of the game. I bet we see new mob types not only in the new raids, but elsewhere too.

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I don't see anything in the patch overview about them adding new mob types, but who knows.

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Originally Posted by Krausus

from what I gather that is if it is off and you have someone targeted and you hit cure it will cure them instead of getting the purple reticule and then selecting the target and then confirming.

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Actually I'm pretty sure it just removes the need to confirm your targeting selection. You kinda need to be able to choose your spell targets independent of your auto-attack targets after all, and.. I don't think that'll be changing.

But while gamepad (and arrow key) users do need to be able to flick the cursor around before confirming what it's on as their active target, mouse users don't - the mouse is their 'cursor to flick around'. What they click will generally be their primary selection and they do not need to confirm that by clicking a second time as they currently have to.

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Originally Posted by NadienKirisame

What you can find very very easy is where if the patch is not going to be released within the first day of a month its scheduled to be release people will scream it is being delayed and SE lied to them...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

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I don't remember any incident where this actually happened.

The midget is bemused <(-.-)>

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Originally Posted by neorei

CYBER TIME

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Oh hope its not like the cyber in [Moon Guard W.O.W]

I am looking forward to housing, though I am confused about how to get it, always something to do with me not being at a high enough level to use the content yet.

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Originally Posted by MStowastiqVahlshdeh

Oh hope its not like the cyber in [Moon Guard W.O.W]

I am looking forward to housing, though I am confused about how to get it, always something to do with me not being at a high enough level to use the content yet.

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\o/ I know the feeling

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Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang

Not til we get our own personal housing.

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In 1.22 or one of the following they are adding more recipes. Possibly furnishings could be among these, but agreed that's probably wishful thinking on my part. I won't expect player made furnishings with 1.21 though.

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Originally Posted by MStowastiqVahlshdeh

Oh hope its not like the cyber in [Moon Guard W.O.W]

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Oh god. Pornshire.

/fetal position
/cry

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Originally Posted by YuriSan

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Done.

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Originally Posted by Scherwiz

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http://www.ffcompendium.com/jobimage...ooningus-a.jpg
http://26.media.tumblr.com/KWIjyqRIf...BHFso1_400.jpg
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http://www.roeszler.org/akaitsuki/Gr...ny_Dragoon.jpg
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http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...ar_Concept.jpg

Done.

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CHEEZUS!!

Kimahri was a Blue Mage tho no?
I remember him doing "Jump" but also i remember him absorbing Mobs' skills too.

I always said khimari was a drg sub blu, he mainly uses a lance, and only some mobs can he absorb things from, his overdrive is a breath, but really most of the time he's poking stuff so drg sub blu lol

How I truly felt when I saw the awesomeness of this patch.

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t...1328007296.jpg

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Originally Posted by YuriSan

CHEEZUS!!

Kimahri was a Blue Mage tho no?
I remember him doing "Jump" but also i remember him absorbing Mobs' skills too.

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Khimari was a Dragoon with a Blue Mage overdrive, basically.

Sorry to bump the thread, but any clue as to where Cutter's Cry would be? Found the entrance to Aurum Vale (that YouTube link gave it away lol), but can't seem to locate the other one.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Sorry to bump the thread, but any clue as to where Cutter's Cry would be? Found the entrance to Aurum Vale (that YouTube link gave it away lol), but can't seem to locate the other one.

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Good question! It's worth bumping the thread again to see if anyone has any insight in regard to this.

Cutter's Pass IS close to those buildings that look like mako reactors. Others on this forum have said that they are supposed to be extracting energy that is used to power Ul'dah, but I don't know who the official source of that lore is. In any event, it would be really interesting if Cutter's Cry had something to do with the reactors. I'd love it if there was some kind of underground facility that the raid took place in, but I think that completely new environments are probably too much to ask for before 2.0.

/end wild speculation

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the new raids. :)

mmmm....bombing mission from ff7 comes to mind

that would be awesome!!!