Live Letter (Started 10 minutes early)

So we have these 'Fog of War' maps, and we have to explore zones to uncover the whole map. But landmarks show through the fog? What's the point of the fog, then?

haha the jumping alphas on the tent make it look like all their energy is catching the tent on fire XD!!!!

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Originally Posted by alexhatesmil

So we have these 'Fog of War' maps, and we have to explore zones to uncover the whole map. But landmarks show through the fog? What's the point of the fog, then?

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because most times people know of locations from hearsay but never been there just know general area and don't know the layout to those areas?

them jumping of the side of that cliff made me think of all those zombies in the World War Z trailer lolol.

Edit: sorry about the post spam I honestly thought more people would of posted in between them XD

do you guys have any idea what those numbers counting down on the right side of the gaming screen during the live letter are about?

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Originally Posted by Cecwhite

do you guys have any idea what those numbers counting down on the right side of the gaming screen during the live letter are about?

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It looks like distance

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Originally Posted by alexhatesmil

So we have these 'Fog of War' maps, and we have to explore zones to uncover the whole map. But landmarks show through the fog? What's the point of the fog, then?

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you would think the tester would point that out. guess its gonna be up to the NA testers to get these simple things taken care of.

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Originally Posted by Cecwhite

do you guys have any idea what those numbers counting down on the right side of the gaming screen during the live letter are about?

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I just got a close up view and I think the top one says "Friends" and the bottom one says "Party". Don't know what the kanji says though >.<

Looks like Alpha opens up to global players around the 26th. :)

Hmm, I don't really like how characters pop out of nowhere in the alpha. Reminds me of 1.0

here they go answering the number countdown lol, apparently it does have something to do with friends and party.

talkin about gay marriage and boob animation....still nothing on whether or not they intend to improve or change the movement animations.

If the bottom number has something to do with party. HOLY COW that's a lot of people in a party. Maybe they're in an alliance, but his screen doesn't show anything to reflect that.

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Originally Posted by Genjuro

If the bottom number has something to do with party. HOLY COW that's a lot of people in a party. Maybe they're in an alliance, but his screen doesn't show anything to reflect that.

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It's party invites and friend invites, Yoshi-P has 130 party and 30 friend invites. (And rapidly climbing):p

lol that would be scary to filter through XD 130 party invites XD!!!

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Originally Posted by AniseTatlin

It's party invites and friend invites, Yoshi-P has 130 party and 30 friend invites. (And rapidly climbing):p

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AH those darned kanji and their meanings! Thank you.

:O look at that south shroud zone in :D!!!! thats awesome looking XD!!!

oooh maybe global alpha on the 26th.. I'm almost excited :)

whoa. That areas not what I expected

LOLOL Yoshi noticed the same thing I saw about one of those Miqote "pantsu janai" No pantsu XD!!!!!

Wow I am a bit shocked just how much better the world design is. I'm really excited to see more exotic areas now as the 'standard environments' like forests already look fantastic.

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Originally Posted by AniseTatlin

It's party invites and friend invites, Yoshi-P has 130 party and 30 friend invites. (And rapidly climbing):p

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I'm pretty sure the party one is a timer. You have a certain amount of time to accept a party invite before the invite expires.

lol Yoshi almost died XD!!! Was that an Eigo (english) question about a mentorship program like XI?

that new battle or area music right now is sweet.

These pictures all say [CONFIDENTIAL] :D


Arcanist weapons? They look great. Now where's my ifrit(on fire) book, and moogle (pop out moogle!) book..

what were those delicious photo's? I didn't understand any of it >.<!

what are those drawings supposed to be?

Books books and more books. Summoner weapon

Arcanist weapons.

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Originally Posted by DethEcrof

what are those drawings supposed to be?

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Summoner weapons (books).

seems beta starts in Janruary?

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Originally Posted by Xmbei

seems beta starts in Janruary?

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End of January or beginning of February is what he said.
That seems so far away. ;;

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Originally Posted by Xmbei

seems beta starts in Janruary?

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A27: The first phase of the Alpha Test has been completed, and we have managed to solve almost all of the issues when player numbers increase. We've made it possible to safely run the game with 800 people in a single area, but once it the area exceeds 800 people we've seen some heavy lag. Next week will not have an Alpha Test and we'll be focusing on fixing this. The week after if we are able to hold five days of tests with no issues, we will open Alpha globally on 11/26.

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Which to me says, this is the final test for Alpha seeing if it can handle globally well, If all goes well and smoothly, beta should be in december sometime (open beta should hopefully be Jan-Feb-March area

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Originally Posted by Mikita

End of January or beginning of February is what he said.
That seems so far away. ;;

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thanks ^^ thats what I thought I heard, but wasn't fully sure if it was that or an announcement about it.

were those those new jobs they just showed?

that was good stuff. I want to play it now lol

I like this option.

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A33: We apologize, but it will be necessary to purchase a separate PS3 registration code. It's possible for a PC version character to play on PS3, so it will be possible to alternate.

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Well that's that.. now it's 7 AM, time for bed. ._.;

Rusty one of those looked like buccaneer to me. The AF in the red.

I want to say that was buccaneer/corsair, blue mage, dark knight or samurai, and beastmaster.