Whats this in the Chocobo trailer?

Something caught my eye numerous times in the video. At first, I thought it was just an aetheryte, but you can't see aetherytes so far away with this games draw distance, especially one rising to the sky. I'm assuming something will happen with this sometime, but I just found it interesting and thought I'd share.

First Picture @ 21 seconds

Second Picture @ 1:01 seconds

I reckon it's one of those garlean tower things in certain locations of Thanalan, they have some kind of green glowing gas that is released from them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN11Efp5lFM <- these.

Near camp 'Blue Fog' I think.

You must be near camp bluefog to see the towers. But the chocobo trailer is in central Thanalan, directly near Ul'dah.

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Originally Posted by Felis

You must be near camp bluefog to see the towers. But the chocobo trailer is in central Thanalan, directly near Ul'dah.

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Nah, the footage is all cut up and there are bits from all over the place, theres a bit where the camera rotates around the guy on the chocobo actually outside Ul'dah and you can't see any sign of that light there. I'd say it's a Mako thingy.

To me it looks like it is north east of camp dry bone.

Its obviously the Empire invading gridinia, what else did you expect, theyve been talking about it for half a year

weather effects! Telling you now!~LIGHTNING~ But I really hope its those ummmmmm "WORLD CHANGES" that they have been kinda nibbling at.

It's hard to tell exactly where the Chocobos are in the video, you know since everywhere looks the same.

Either a beast tribe stronghold campfire smoke plume, or some new disturbance that has to do with the upcoming calamity.

sorry i was cooking some chocobo kabobs....

Looks like a little smoke to me, as well. No smoke from Black Brush, right? I forget, honestly.

Those factories dont throw off a big smoke and there is also no open areas with them close, the one with the Taru is very close, you can tell by scale from the previous one. Also non are near open areas if I remember, and they all have high lv mobs around such as piestes and giant goats.

My assumption too is the beast-man strong hold fire, it is the only explanation as we don't know how that is right now where as we know how all current things work.

And that guess is much better than guesses on things they've not yet announced to be in 1.19

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

Either a beast tribe stronghold campfire smoke plume, or some new disturbance that has to do with the upcoming calamity.

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This

I'd imagine since the trailer would have been made on their test server that other new impliments would also be in somewhere, so yeah, I agree with the beastman thing.

Only other possibility... the apaches have invaded Thanalan!

You can see the Blu-fog smoke from rather far away with your draw distance cranked I'm still gonna say it's them.

We'd probably be able to go to the place pictured to tell for sure if it weren't for the fact that everything in any given area looks the same. :P

http://media.photobucket.com/image/f...actories02.jpg

Or go to the official site and then look through the screenshots. Couple you can see in there. They were in screenshots from before the alpha was out I believe.

Curious if everyone who thinks they're the reactors are color blind. Those are clearly green plumes, the one in the chocobo video are not.

Its Mako Reactors :D

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Originally Posted by Keftenk

Curious if everyone who thinks they're the reactors are color blind. Those are clearly green plumes, the one in the chocobo video are not.

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It's not called Camp Greenfog, you know.

Those are actually Ceruleum Harvesters and/or generators. Ceruleum is the power source for Magitek technology, and it's likely the generators up at the Ceruleum Fields (the name of the area near bluefog) belong to the Garlond Ironworks.

Also, they're a mix of greenish and blueish hues - http://i.imgur.com/tPdF0.jpg


...Secondly, it's most likely a steam / smoke plume as others have stated. Took this screenshot awhile ago - http://i.imgur.com/55Lta.jpg

Obviously not the same location, but it's the same concept.

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Originally Posted by Keftenk

Something caught my eye numerous times in the video. At first, I thought it was just an aetheryte, but you can't see aetherytes so far away with this games draw distance, especially one rising to the sky. I'm assuming something will happen with this sometime, but I just found it interesting and thought I'd share.

First Picture @ 21 seconds

Second Picture @ 1:01 seconds

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Very observant!

It looks to me like that's coming from the direction of Camp Bluefog.
Not sure what it is or why it's visible, though.

The anticipation builds. ^^