Everything to know about 4.0 from the Fan Fest

The Tokyo Fan Fest has ended and here is the current status of info regarding stormblood.

JP Fan Fest


Budget
35 million USD compared to 12.6 million of HW (although this is a rumor at this point)

Title
- STORMBLOOD

Setting
- Ala Mhigo

Race
- None

Classes/jobs
- Red Mage confirmed
- pure dps
- looks fabulous
- melee and ranged hybrid
- starts at 50
- unlocked in ARR areas
- Next hint is spiderman shirt. Could be anything really.


Central theme
- 3.0 was going to be either about flying or swimming. Flying won, so swimming should come next.
- And it's confirmed with swimming and diving
- swimming is in ARR areas, diving is SB only
- you can interract underwater but no combat
- the MSQ will involve diving at some point
- flying mounts can dive
Characters
- Zenos Yae Galvus occupies Ala Mhigo and is the leader of the XIIth legion.
- he is the son of the Emperor

- The blonde chick from the trailer who will join us in 3.x

Locations

- New city is Rhaelgr's Reach
- Eureka is new exploratory mission area (Tied to the relic weapon questline)
- Deserts, ruins, lots of water and a misty forest. And a Wall!
- New Aetheryte shapes
- We are going to cross the wall from Black Shroud in 3.5
- Castrums are temporary bases but 4.0 will have actual Garlean architecture
- -It will mix with Ala Mhigan style

Features

- New level cap (70)
- New raids
- 8 man is Omega
- 24 man is Ivalice
- New dungeons
- New Primals
- Lakshmi the primal of the Ananta
- all female race of lamia like jewelcrafters from Allagan times
- revamped battle system
- - Additional skill system (role skills instead of job skills)
-- reassest unused/ineffective actions
--- Accuracy revorked
- Inventory expansion as much as possible (server upgrade) (Probably won't come with release to ensure a stable launch cause server upgrades are hard)
- New Residential area (Somewhere) (Will affect the main story)
- Flying in all new areas after finding aether currents (easier than finding moogles)
- Open World PVP might happen with positive feedback. On dedicated servers. Not at release.
- New upbeat theme by Uematsu

Story
- Story branches based on jobs are planned (ohboy, time to job change a lot).
- End boss will probably FFVII related, like the three before (not said anywhere just my idea).

Windows version
- Minimum specs raised
- really want a 64 bit operation system

PS3
- SAYOUNARA!!!!!!!!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA

Also, Derplander confirmed to be a total beefcake.

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35 million USD compared to 12.6 million of HW

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This almost seemed surprising, but then i remember they have a cash shop, with plenty of whales, Yea, i doubt this hurt in the slightest, but at least with that budget it looks to be much bigger then HW (hopefully)

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and not-cute races because japanese don't like em.

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And rightfully so! cute is where it's at, You never thought of the reason why Miq'ote was not a "full" furry? instead of just the tail and ears? They know what gets the attention.

Where did you find out what the budget was? I had heard rumors but I am assuming by the detail you know where it info came from?

I suspect Ala Mhigo will be the central focus at least to start with, but we will have to travel a bit beyond since Ala Mhigo actually takes up about half the space on the world map that the HW expansion occupied.

I'm trying to find a source for this budget report too. Not easy to google, getting nowhere.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n%21-4.0/page6

It's here. Even I only saw it today.

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Originally Posted by Balipu

Race
- No confirmation that we get one at all
- Viera almost became a playable race

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*sobs uncontrollably*

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Originally Posted by Balipu

The Lorebook comes with a Hummingway (also the codename of an Ala Mhigan spy)

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Namingway, not Hummingway.

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Originally Posted by Balipu

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n%21-4.0/page6

It's here. Even I only saw it today.

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Thanks. A financial report to shareholders makes sense.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

And rightfully so! cute is where it's at, You never thought of the reason why Miq'ote was not a "full" furry? instead of just the tail and ears? They know what gets the attention.

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Meanwhile, I picked miqo'te because it was the most bestial race there was^^'

#Thethingsdatadoesnotshow

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Meanwhile, I picked miqo'te because it was the most bestial race there was^^'

#Thethingsdatadoesnotshow

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If you have ever played skyrim and know of Kahjit, you will know what i mean, i mean completelty covered in fur, as you are a real walking humanoid cat, other then the tail and ears, the rest of the body is skin, as if they know. lol.