I heard they were adding a new race at some point

Has there been any hint what it might be? I saw it in another thread here a day or two ago (can't remember which one), someone said they were planning on releasing a new race when they released more jobs. I think adding the Padjal would be awesome. It's the only other human-like (not counting beast tribes) race I've seen that isn't available to us.

I would hope it's Padjal....Pleaseeee Padjal.
But people keep going around saying Viera race from FFXI. Not sure anymore than that.

Edit: I meant FFXII. Sorry, sorry people who are about to drone force kill me.

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Originally Posted by Arriverderci

I would hope it's Padjal....Pleaseeee Padjal.

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They can't do Padjal. There aren't enough of them to justify the Padjal being a playable race.

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Originally Posted by Nahara

They can't do Padjal. There aren't enough of them to justify the Padjal being a playable race.

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Well I hope it's not Viera.
I'm on the fence with Viera.
Would like a new unique race that's unique and not borrowed from another game.

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Originally Posted by Arriverderci

Well I hope it's not Viera.
I'm on the fence with Viera.
Would like a new unique race that's unique and not borrowed from another game.

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On top of the fact the race is ugly as all hell.

The lore from the WHM quest line makes it so it can't be padjal.

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Originally Posted by Arriverderci

I would hope it's Padjal....Pleaseeee Padjal.
But people keep going around saying Viera race from FFXI. Not sure anymore than that.

Edit: I meant FFXII. Sorry, sorry people who are about to drone force kill me.

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they were in original in-engine screenshots from way before 1.0 when it was just a test sandbox

people are clinging on to nothing

Go back to Deve's Blog. They have posted Viera long time ago, but it is still not confirmed.

male viera please

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Originally Posted by Arriverderci

Well I hope it's not Viera.
I'm on the fence with Viera.
Would like a new unique race that's unique and not borrowed from another game.

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every race so far has been adapted from 11 so I'd say that expecting a lack of adaptation from previous setup is unlikely


I am kind of hoping for Gria myself though.

Viera was in final fantasy tactics its been a long time race in the final fantasy franchise. You say you don't want stuff borrowed from other games, yet the main races for this game are direct rip offs of FFXI different names and additional gender options but thats it. Not to mention FF13 2 lightning returns or whatever events coming, not to mention dragon quest events coming so meh.

Personally I would love a viera dragoon or a vierra thief/assassin/ninja if they ever released those classes. Just my 2 cents

I personally would rather they not add Viera. Not that I hate the race or anything. My preference is because we already have one slender pretty race with some animal parts for flavor. I personally would like to see something a bit more bestial. The Qsiti or Yama from Last Remnant would be cool. Or if we want to stick with just FF series games the Bangaa and Nu Mou.

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Originally Posted by Synikal

Or if we want to stick with just FF series games the Bangaa and Nu Mou.

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It might be a bit too close to the cat-themed Miqo'te, but the Ronso would be a nice previous FF race to add. They might be too big though, even a large Roegadyn would be about the size of Kimahri, who was considered small for a Ronso.

If they wanted to draw from past games there are over 100 races to choose from http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Races . Personally I would love to see Ronso in this game. Not only are they badass in every way, they look cool too. There are already female versions of them too so no struggling with character design for both sexes.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...psd7271aa7.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...ps4c60aa68.jpg

Bangaa or Gira would be interesting from the Ivalice setting (FFXII, Tactics series, Vagrant Story)

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Originally Posted by Liger

Go back to Deve's Blog. They have posted Viera long time ago, but it is still not confirmed.

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I hope you aren't referring to the April fool's joke, which has been the only mention of Viera on there.

Yoshi has stated about wanting to add some sort of dragon/lizard race. I'd really like to see playable goblins or SOMETHING with a less humanoid body type.

Personally I'd like to see players being able to play Qirqin or rogue beastmen (Kobolds are just fantastic).
Qirqin would make more sense though, since they're already there and would make quite good adventurers if you just gave them... the Thief job!

Tonberries!

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Originally Posted by Estellios

I hope you aren't referring to the April fool's joke, which has been the only mention of Viera on there.

Yoshi has stated about wanting to add some sort of dragon/lizard race. I'd really like to see playable goblins or SOMETHING with a less humanoid body type.

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lol viangaa

You heard wrong, there wont be any new playable race.

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Originally Posted by Nahara

They can't do Padjal. There aren't enough of them to justify the Padjal being a playable race.

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Yet there is enough last dragoons to justify thousands and thousands of dragoon soul stones?

it's was told about viera when they have done some poll while the end of the V1

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...806-04-2012%29

check all of it ^^

I did notice at the end of that poll that they didn't specifically say whether or not we'd be able to "play" a new race, just what we'd like to see added.

I also think he was right when he said the results were probably skewed because he used Viera as an example of the Mammalian demi-beastmen (Bad choice as an example really).

If they ever do add a new race, and if it turns out to be unplayable like the Padjal, I'd rather they went with the second most popular vote on that Poll (the mixed races).
They've had mixed race experience in their previous MMO, FFXI, anyways with Lilisette.

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Originally Posted by Kittra

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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/02/22...baby-behemoth/

Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

it's from 22 feb 2013, but like i did say, you don't plan to add new races like this, it take a looooot of time!

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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/02/22...baby-behemoth/

Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

it's from 22 feb 2013, but like i did say, you don't plan to add new races like this, it take a looooot of time!

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I had forgotten about that interview...

I don't see how they went from adding a Male Miqo'te as a partner to it's Female counterpart to, "Oh, it would be weird to have a male counterpart for a predominantly female race." ...lol
What are they talking about?! The only reason the Male Miqo'te was added was because of popular demand anyways!

Why are we going back to the Mithra/Galka standard? :confused:
Because the lore in FFXII says the Viera are a female only race?
What does Ivalice have to do with Eorzea?

They repurposed FFXI's races, added a gender, and removed a tail for some of them, but they're not thinking of doing the same for FFXII's Viera if they do add them?

Sometimes this development team confuses the crap out of me.

Forum Troll is the new race.

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Originally Posted by Powderkeg

Forum Troll is the new race.

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Impossible! They removed all of the bridges with 1.0!

I mean... I'm not against Viera, though I think I would much rather have Ronso. Viera while they have their obvious differences, just feel like another variation of miqo'te with bunny ears. Ronso are unique, badass looking and from a developer standpoint, not that much harder to design gear for as opposed to some other possible races they could choose from (Looking at you Seeqs, you fatasses).

I want Burmecians like Freya from FFIX

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I mean... I'm not against Viera, though I think I would much rather have Ronso. Viera while they have their obvious differences, just feel like another variation of miqo'te with bunny ears, Ronso are unique, badass and from a developer standpoint, not that much harder to design gear for as opposed to some other possible races they could choose from.

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Hmmm. I'm not sure if they'd go for another race based off of felines.


I definitely couldn't see something like Banga in Eorzea, simply because that sounds like a nightmare to configure all the current armor for.
Just going on their responses to things like the "Butt Thread" I find it incredibly difficult to believe they'd ever add a race that isn't mostly humanoid in appearance, so most likely we'll see Viera or something incredibly similar.

Viera are extremely different of the Miqo'te...
other point the male mithra was existing, simply extremely rare and hidden. for the miqo'te it was never clear, since they are not the mithra.

about possible link with ivalice, i recall perfectly lahabrea saying something about "dimensional rift are open now". without forget we don't know what are the race on the other continent of isalbar and the third one!