Moonlight Faire's "Answers" version

Nine times out of ten, crossing the Moonlight Faire Chaperones has let me hear normal, upbeat event music. Then, this tenth time, I hear a quiet choir singing a song that reminds me of The Binding Coil of Bahamut.
Intrigued, I sit down before the alter of bomb floats. Turns out it's "Answers", the song played behind our dear intro movie. Yet it's calm, quiet, without the obtrusion of sound effects or the need to feel intense. This version so very well fits the idea of a calm, reflective background song that's just... so damn wonderful.
I can't be the only person who would pay to have a loopable version of this quiet, well made choir version of Answers. Is it going to be a thing? Please?

That's actually a variation of the version of Answers that actually played in the last few weeks of version 1.0 (it replaced all zone background in the game at that stage). It was affectionately nicknamed as Dalamud Answers by the community, but sadly no official version for purchase of it was ever released by SE. This new rendition of it though sadly only repeats the first verse ad nausum, where as the version that played in 1.23c was the full song, not to mention it was heavily distorted and obscured by stormy sound effects.

OP you are not the only one. ~_~
Although I would really like the full song!

As an other poster mentioned. It's a soft and calmer take on the song that played during the original versions final weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUezOLsrqIg

This version is the original full version. Distorted and full of foreboding doom but a really good listen non the same.

I just wish they would make it spread out to all zones. Also it's not the moonfire faire. It's the Rising event BGM.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

That's actually a variation of the version of Answers that actually played in the last few weeks of version 1.0 (it replaced all zone background in the game at that stage). It was affectionately nicknamed as Dalamud Answers by the community, but sadly no official version for purchase of it was ever released by SE. This new rendition of it though sadly only repeats the first verse ad nausum, where as the version that played in 1.23c was the full song, not to mention it was heavily distorted and obscured by stormy sound effects.

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I never knew of this song... And now that I hear it, I wish so much more that I could have played 1.0. I am forever envious. D:

I believe that the new music playing is linked to the new event The Rising that just started which is a commemoration of the Calamity.

Edit: ah, just saw that someone already pointed this out in an above post.

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Originally Posted by KikoriL

Yet it's calm, quiet, without the obtrusion of sound effects or the need to feel intense. This version so very well fits the idea of a calm, reflective background song that's just... so damn wonderful.

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Now picture a giant spiky red moon looming in the sky, with the knowledge that if that thing touches down the whole world will end as we know it and you'll get the full effect.

Whats funny is literally just last night, I was saying in my ls 'I miss that version of answers that played when dalamud was crashing.'

This afternoon I get home from work, log in and its the first thing I heard. Made me freak out for a moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtyo2rCk-U

I understand it not the version mentioned above, simply a video of the full lyrics of the song.

That melody is so beautiful and so haunting. I can only imagine how the 1.0 guys felt when all that stuff was happening. That song is a really nice song to listen to.

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

That melody is so beautiful and so haunting. I can only imagine how the 1.0 guys felt when all that stuff was happening. That song is a really nice song to listen to.

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It was actually quite haunting really. What with the lightning bolts, sounds of small meteor fragments crashing off Dalamud, the red moon hovering above us. Atomos terrorizing camps with demon spawns. Imperials invading the cities, giant monsters rampaging at the gates... it was awesome.

Yup, I remember when I logged into 1.0 for the first time after the final save maintenance and first heard Dalamud Answers playing over all BGM, I thought "Oh goddess, that's it. Eorzea is gone." It was so spooky, also due to the fact that with all that cloud cover there was basically no longer any weather other than 'Dalamud storms', and even night and day disappeared - it was just a gloomy, oppressive twilight with that red ball of death hovering overhead like the Sword of Damocles:
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/s...3-50-small.jpg

It's something I'll never forget. :D

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Yup, I remember when I logged into 1.0 for the first time after the final save maintenance and first heard Dalamud Answers playing over all BGM, I thought "Oh goddess, that's it. Eorzea is gone."

It's something I'll never forget. :D

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Originally Posted by Virtuso

It was actually quite haunting really. What with the lightning bolts, sounds of small meteor fragments crashing off Dalamud, the red moon hovering above us. Atomos terrorizing camps with demon spawns. Imperials invading the cities, giant monsters rampaging at the gates... it was awesome.

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I wish I could have been apart of that. Everytime I hear about it I wish I could have been apart of 1.0. I wanted to try it out but there was no console release and my Pc was crap. I wonder if I would have liked it. I love hearing the stories on the forums though. The 1.0 players always have a story to tell.

Answers has started to play starting Yesterday morning.. Becuase as of Yesterday.. The Rising has started... whihcv marks the 1 year Anniversary of FFXIV ARR... so enjoy the music as it will disappear from us again after the 8th.. :(

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Originally Posted by KikoriL

Nine times out of ten, crossing the Moonlight Faire Chaperones has let me hear normal, upbeat event music. Then, this tenth time, I hear a quiet choir singing a song that reminds me of The Binding Coil of Bahamut.
Intrigued, I sit down before the alter of bomb floats. Turns out it's "Answers", the song played behind our dear intro movie. Yet it's calm, quiet, without the obtrusion of sound effects or the need to feel intense. This version so very well fits the idea of a calm, reflective background song that's just... so damn wonderful.
I can't be the only person who would pay to have a loopable version of this quiet, well made choir version of Answers. Is it going to be a thing? Please?

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Don't know if this counts, but listen. Recorded this back during the final days of 1.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aszwS0-PeE&hd=1

moonfire fairy ? dont you mean Rising ? the Answer song only begin to play when Rising start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLUASTdV5g

I remember the first day I noticed the red moon was slightly bigger than normal. At that point we didn't even know they where planning to do it.
At 1.20 we started to notice something was wrong.
At 1.21 we nearly shat ourselves.
http://i2.minus.com/iJKkH3LKwtWbH.png

And If you haven't seen and heard, here is the Distant Worlds live concert of Answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMhcyzQ7mKw

It would be amazing to see this live at Fan Fest.

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Originally Posted by Dijana

Whats funny is literally just last night, I was saying in my ls 'I miss that version of answers that played when dalamud was crashing.'

This afternoon I get home from work, log in and its the first thing I heard. Made me freak out for a moment

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The devs are listening. :P

I hope they give us another powerful went like this. I'd kill for something happening now yet no one can see it until we're thrown off guard. I too regret not being there for this.

There was an offhand comment made about doing something similar to the 1.0->2.0 transition for 2.0->3.0. If it were so, I would be extremely happy, since I absolutely loved the way that event played out in 1.x. That being said, they're kind of running out of time. The 1.0->2.0 transition worked so well because it was gradual, and went almost without notice from patch to patch. It took from 1.20 to 1.23(c) to fully complete the event. Meanwhile, it seems like a good estimate that 3.0 will occure after 2.5. This is due to the fact that we know that there will only be one more turn of Coil (2.4) and the World of Darkness is the last CT (2.5). Now, it's very possible they will surprise us with a Command Room of the Binding Coil or something like that and include a 2.6, but chances are low. That means if they are going to implement an epic story told over several patches that leads up to 3.0, they're kind of out of time. They could probably still pull it off by making changes in the 2.xx patches as well as the 2.x patches. That would give them up to 6 chances to move the story foreward.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I remember the first day I noticed the red moon was slightly bigger than normal. At that point we didn't even know they where planning to do it.
At 1.20 we started to notice something was wrong.
At 1.21 we nearly shat ourselves.
http://i2.minus.com/iJKkH3LKwtWbH.png

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I remember you originally posting that forever ago. I remember seeing Dalamud in 1.20 and freaking out over it, lol. I've never have and probably never will again feel that same feeling of impending doom. Such a damn good ending.

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Originally Posted by Hulan

There was an offhand comment made about doing something similar to the 1.0->2.0 transition for 2.0->3.0. If it were so, I would be extremely happy, since I absolutely loved the way that event played out in 1.x. That being said, they're kind of running out of time. The 1.0->2.0 transition worked so well because it was gradual, and went almost without notice from patch to patch. It took from 1.20 to 1.23(c) to fully complete the event. Meanwhile, it seems like a good estimate that 3.0 will occure after 2.5. This is due to the fact that we know that there will only be one more turn of Coil (2.4) and the World of Darkness is the last CT (2.5). Now, it's very possible they will surprise us with a Command Room of the Binding Coil or something like that and include a 2.6, but chances are low. That means if they are going to implement an epic story told over several patches that leads up to 3.0, they're kind of out of time. They could probably still pull it off by making changes in the 2.xx patches as well as the 2.x patches. That would give them up to 6 chances to move the story foreward.

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I'm sure it have something to do with Revenant's Toll, seeing how it also change with every update.

This song definitely has an effect on people, the current rendition of it anyways. Its the first time in I don't know how long I've seen so many people just simply sit in one zone and chatting with each other on my server. Looking back at it, we don't have much impacting music/areas that give different feelings in 2.0. Hell, even the Beastmen HQ's are all upbeat/fast-paced themes. While I couldn't play 1.0, even an example from XI would be Shadow Lord's castle, the final zone had some pretty good ambient music to fit the area. The Imperial encampments almost do it except for the fact we rarely have any reason to go to them after the main story.

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Originally Posted by KikoriL

Nine times out of ten, crossing the Moonlight Faire Chaperones has let me hear normal, upbeat event music. Then, this tenth time, I hear a quiet choir singing a song that reminds me of The Binding Coil of Bahamut.
Intrigued, I sit down before the alter of bomb floats. Turns out it's "Answers", the song played behind our dear intro movie. Yet it's calm, quiet, without the obtrusion of sound effects or the need to feel intense. This version so very well fits the idea of a calm, reflective background song that's just... so damn wonderful.
I can't be the only person who would pay to have a loopable version of this quiet, well made choir version of Answers. Is it going to be a thing? Please?

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

That's actually a variation of the version of Answers that actually played in the last few weeks of version 1.0 (it replaced all zone background in the game at that stage). It was affectionately nicknamed as Dalamud Answers by the community, but sadly no official version for purchase of it was ever released by SE. This new rendition of it though sadly only repeats the first verse ad nausum, where as the version that played in 1.23c was the full song, not to mention it was heavily distorted and obscured by stormy sound effects.

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^ On top of everything said here, Answers is the main theme of the game. This is no longer the Moonfire Faire by the way, it's called The Rising. It's like Eorzea's "Memorial Day" for the Calamity. And for us Legacy players, it's a nice blast of nostalgia for the memories of 1.0, and another way of SE thanking us for sticking with them the whole way. I'm glad they decided to play "Dalamud Answers"....because like Enkidoh said, it's a version of the song played in the final days of 1.0 before the moon fell. It had a huge effect on the players as we tried to defend the City States as they were attacked by dozens of Chimeras and Nael Deus Darnus (multiple Nael clones too..)

Here, one of the few things I was able to record...it's a little bit of Coerthas in the final days before the moon fell. Pay close attention to the music. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbOk...QmGieZpg4z6j9g

The only thing I wish they did during this event was play the song throughout all of Eorzea like they did at the end of 1.0.

The story behind it at the time was Hydaelyn's voice calling out to those of us with the power of the Echo to stand up against Darnus and Dalamud.

Now, for ARR and beyond, the lyrics are more for those who join now to look to us, the Legacy players - the Meteor Survivors, the Warriors of Light - for guidance. ;) "Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after."

But, you know. that's for Lore junkies who like to dive deep into these things.

I must admit I stayed in limsa a lot longer than normal last night, the music is so hauntingly beautiful that I just found myself chilling out there

I remember logging into 1.0 with the Dalamud countdown clock ticking down as you typed in your details. Made it feel damn real. The servera going dead and the opening ARR movie playing as the farewell to 1.0

I've spent literally all day sat in limsa just listening.

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Originally Posted by Lollerblades

I remember logging into 1.0 with the Dalamud countdown clock ticking down as you typed in your details. Made it feel damn real. The servera going dead and the opening ARR movie playing as the farewell to 1.0

I've spent literally all day sat in limsa just listening.

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I know exactly the feels you speak of

I still have a bunch of screenshots from that last day when that song was playing

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ps61b11815.png

A bunch of people just standing outside the main cities, watching the ships flying overhead, system messages going nuts about units that have lost contact, Hydalaen's mournful song filling everyone's ears as we all stood ready to face the end of the world side by side.

....And then the servers abruptly disconnected and everyone got mad as they redirected us to youtube to watch the video of dalamud falling and bahamut breaking out. I mean, I don't really know what we were all expecting, but we were expecting SOMETHING to happen just before the servers went down.

Haha...I also just realised I've had this bandana thing going on since the start of 1.0 seeing my old screenshots again.

I do wish I could have witnessed it myself, but like many others, I simply did not have and could not at the time afford a computer good enough to play it on.

I only vaguely remember doing much around the end, so I don't actually recall the music. At the time I was in too much shock over the idea of CoH closing that I was pretty much only on FFXIV because it was something to distract me. I was there for the last day, though I ended up stuck in Limsa, since my attempt at getting to the battle ended with me being killed on the way by something waaaaaaaaaaay stronger than my level 25 self.

I preordered Curtain Call a while back. I hope Answers in that game has no sound effects.

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Originally Posted by Dijana

....And then the servers abruptly disconnected and everyone got mad as they redirected us to youtube to watch the video of dalamud falling and bahamut breaking out. I mean, I don't really know what we were all expecting, but we were expecting SOMETHING to happen just before the servers went down.

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Ugh. I remember that. Still, I did get to participate in the battle in Mor Dhona. Makes me feel nice to have been in what the cutscene portrayed.

actually, the music currently playing is not a variation of Dalamud Answers. It is the version of Answers that could be heard in the opening sequence of Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU5N24_5VIk

And yes, for those that are interested, that is the entirety of version 1.0's main scenario cut scenes.

Also, for those of you that were actually worried about being vaporized when Dalamud touched down, I kindly point you in the direction of this video and while watching that video keep in mind that Dalamud is hollow.

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Originally Posted by Hulan

There was an offhand comment made about doing something similar to the 1.0->2.0 transition for 2.0->3.0. If it were so, I would be extremely happy, since I absolutely loved the way that event played out in 1.x. That being said, they're kind of running out of time. The 1.0->2.0 transition worked so well because it was gradual, and went almost without notice from patch to patch. It took from 1.20 to 1.23(c) to fully complete the event. Meanwhile, it seems like a good estimate that 3.0 will occure after 2.5. This is due to the fact that we know that there will only be one more turn of Coil (2.4) and the World of Darkness is the last CT (2.5). Now, it's very possible they will surprise us with a Command Room of the Binding Coil or something like that and include a 2.6, but chances are low. That means if they are going to implement an epic story told over several patches that leads up to 3.0, they're kind of out of time. They could probably still pull it off by making changes in the 2.xx patches as well as the 2.x patches. That would give them up to 6 chances to move the story foreward.

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They've already shown us at least one place the xpac is going. Still have at least 2 more major patches before 3.0 (3rd coil & 3rd ST) and all of the inbetween patches too.

Ah, the Dalamud Answers, i was overcome with joy when i hear this music in the rising event, i could not believe it. I play games for their history, and so i want to knew what happened in 1.0, so i eatched it all on youtube. The last days of patch 1.23b were wonderful, mysterious, ghastly. I wish i was there there with all the legacy plyer. I watched all footage on youtube of many ppl recording rhe last days. The whole community sounds so peacefull, so united. I wish we could be this way in ARR.