Strife Vest Feedback

I was excited to get this based on the picture on the veteran rewards page. Getting it today, however, I am disappointed. I don't like the holsters on the back when stationary, and it only gets worse when I move and my arm clips through them. I'd love a version that simply has the holsters deleted, though. =)

The fact that it's the Advent Children design is disappointment enough.

They don't clip for me; that's just a byproduct of how midlander girls (I assume?) run. It's true enough to the original design.

Personally I like the costume a lot, the attention to detail is very high and the texture quality as well (take a close look at the Fenrir doorknocker, it's beautiful). It dyes very simply though, so you can't really tell if the jaggy edges and blur everything else has are there.

Can someone post pics?

How is it possible to be up to 720 days subscribed already? I'm at 660 and I can't add any more yet due to the 180-day future limit.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Can someone post pics?

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I only snagged one from the front before I left for work.
http://i1.minus.com/iHBnazXdZeLj2.jpg

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...015-114728.png

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Can someone post pics?

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You can get the veteran rewards preemptively by applying time to your accounts through something like time cards. You don't necessarily have to dily-daly-shily-shaly around in game for 720 days to get that veteran reward.

http://i.imgur.com/bWOnq3O.jpg

Sorry about the terrible montage but it works.
Skirt is part of the chest, the leather bits (including the skirt) and ribbon don't dye. Everything else is separately dyeable into a single color. The arm ribbon is removed if you use long gloves.

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Originally Posted by Ryuukishi

How is it possible to be up to 720 days subscribed already? I'm at 660 and I can't add any more yet due to the 180-day future limit.

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Sub from day 1 and, as others have mentioned, subscribe for 6 months in advance.

I've got the sub part covered, but I pay the minimal sub which doesn't let me pay more than a month at a time. Though honestly, even if I did... I'm patient enough to wait for 720 to roll around on its own XD

Do I have any chance of getting to 720 anytime soon? I'm at 360 days right now and my sub renews in May. :(

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Originally Posted by ReddAxel

Do I have any chance of getting to 720 anytime soon? I'm at 360 days right now and my sub renews in May. :(

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You could get it in 6 months. You'll need to accumulate 6 months more time (so basically just wait, no getting around this), and then pay for 6 months in advance, and you will have it.

Alternatively, just wait a year.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

as others have mentioned, subscribe for 6 months in advance.

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Right, but I am already doing that, and I have been subbed since day 1, but the 180 days into the future that the Mog Station will allow me to go is still not enough. Right now I'm like 169 days into the future or something. I can't add any more time. I'm not sure what other people who have been subscribed since day 1 are doing that I am not.

ETA: Edited my post because the way I said it was confusing

I decided it wasn't worth paying 6 months early for the moment I saw it didn't have the long sleeve. I'll get it when I'll get it.

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Originally Posted by Ryuukishi

Right, but I am already doing that, and I have been subbed since day 1, but the 180 days into the future that the Mog Station will allow me to go is still not enough. Right now I'm like 169 days into the future or something. I can't add any more time. I'm not sure what other people who have been subscribed since day 1 are doing that I am not.

ETA: Edited my post because the way I said it was confusing

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Have you accumulated extra free time on your account somehow? For example, an extra free 30 days from having both a PC and PS3/PS4 license on your account, or perhaps an extra 60 days from all three? Or has support ever credited your account with free time?

If you haven't missed a single month... That's the only way I can think of this happening. I just verified my subscribed days and if I payed up 6 months in advance, I would have the set.

I've been on a 6-month sub cycle since day 1, and I just got the set today.. Never added extra time through time cards or anything either. Might have something to do with the free month?

As for the set, I quite like it, looks nice on a female Elezen, but the holster thing on the back does look a but weird without the swords in it ;)

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I only snagged one from the front before I left for work.
http://i1.minus.com/iHBnazXdZeLj2.jpg

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The head totally makes it. :D

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

http://i.imgur.com/bWOnq3O.jpg

Sorry about the terrible montage but it works.
Skirt is part of the chest, the leather bits (including the skirt) and ribbon don't dye. Everything else is separately dyeable into a single color. The arm ribbon is removed if you use long gloves.

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I was jealous at first since Ive been subscribed since day 1 and still have 6 more months to go, but then i saw it from the back. WTF is that jumbled up mess? Thats supposed to be a holster? It looks terrible. And it clips your tail like there was no thought put into how it would fit a miquote.

Though I still think these veterans rewards should be locked until the game has actually been out for the amount of days required for the reward. And not allowing people to get them 6 months early.

Thanks to those that posted pics and info! :)

I like it from the front, but I'm not fond of the holster thingies on the back either. And is it just me, or do they clip with Miqo'te tails? >.< Well, the shoes are pretty neat at least, and those are some nice sleek looking gloves.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

Have you accumulated extra free time on your account somehow? For example, an extra free 30 days from having both a PC and PS3/PS4 license on your account, or perhaps an extra 60 days from all three? Or has support ever credited your account with free time?

If you haven't missed a single month... That's the only way I can think of this happening. I just verified my subscribed days and if I payed up 6 months in advance, I would have the set.

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Ah, gotcha. I didn't realize that the 30 days with purchase counted 'against' your subscription. So that explains 30 days of it since I own both the PS3 and Windows versions. That still only gets me to 690 though, and I've been paid up as far as possible since day 1. Oh well.

Those holsters are hideous! Why the heck are they even included when your weapon(s) can't be put into them? What's the point? It just looks dumb and clips through things.

Please, either remove the holster or allow us to store our weps in it? And if you do not want to do any of that, then give us the option to hide it.

It's funny, all the FF outfits they are releasing have something missing that I liked.

Lightning's is missing the gunblade holster on the back.
Warrior of Light's missing the cape.
Cloud's missing the long sleeve.

They'll remove anything that requires some effort in terms of animations, it's annoying.

I love the outfit. I think the holsters are pretty badass, and there's 5 of them. Looks pretty great on an Elezen.

Didn't take any screenshots though, will have to change that.

Do they test things before adding it to the game?

I really like the vest on my char but these holsters are useless and ruin the rest.

When you are paladin, the shield go through it, bow too, axe, everything.

Please just remove it, ty.

I'm sorry but what the hell is that crap on the back? Was that for his sword?
Looks weird...it's awful.
Also didn't he have a long sleeve?

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

Cloud's missing the long sleeve..

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I can't remember the movie much
but they either error'd or purposely
not have him have a sleeve somewhere cos look here:
http://www.cetraconnection.net/wp-co...eife_cloud.jpg

I think he has the long sleeve to hide the Geostigma marks initially, but towards the end he doesn't have the sleeve anymore (I guess after he's cured, but I can't really remember ;))

I'll post pictures once I'm off work this afternoon (female midlander), but as someone mentioned before the holsters on the back are terrible. I mean, I get that they wanted to recreate the FF7 advent design but CLIPPING SUCKS! Even if you had DRK already and a greatsword it wouldn't "sheathe" corrrectly. I know they said "We don't want to limit our designs by concerning ourselves with clipping." but don't purposely add something clips badly then make it unsightly if you have your weapon on your back.

What's the point of having all the sword slots if they are always empty?

They need to implement a patch and get rid of the back holster or give us another version where we don't have that. (Tradable at calamity salvager.)

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

I'm sorry but what the hell is that crap on the back? Was that for his sword?
Looks weird...it's awful.
Also didn't he have a long sleeve?


I can't remember the movie much
but they either error'd or purposely
not have him have a sleeve somewhere cos look here:
http://www.cetraconnection.net/wp-co...eife_cloud.jpg

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Yeah, it's not a mistake. Cloud tears the sleeve away after Kadaj cuts through it near the end of the movie. Still, it was the best part of the outfit to me, and he had it through most of the movie (also throughout Kingom Hearts 2)

I think they opted to remove the sleeve so we can see the ribbon that all of the members wear to remember Aerith.

The holster seems pointless when we can't store our own weapons in it. Especially as it is made to store several swords. The Lightning one doesn't have her holster does it? Wonder why they chose to keep Cloud's. Meh. Kinda disappointed the skirt is part of the chest too, I would have liked to use the top separately maybe.