Patch 5.0 Notes

Preliminary

EDIT: Complete Version

Job Guide

EDIT 2: Patch 5.01 Notes

Nothing on Battle, but I'm liking a lot of the QoL changes I'm seeing. From this early glance, everything looks good...but we know the full patch notes with the battle listing will make/break it.

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I'm going to see lots of Sephiroth.

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Originally Posted by Alucard135

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I'm going to see lots of Sephiroth.

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The last long hair we're gonna get in the EP.

The names of some of those DoL/H ability names sound promising.

Pick Clean sounds like it might do multiple gathering attempts at once, and Surface Slap sounds as though it might be the Veteran Trade for rod fishing.

Oh crap, I just noticed...the dragon mount is glowing. The new primal/trial mounts may be dragons!

What happens to the Relic from ARR?
Cause the materias are being removed

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Originally Posted by NekoNova

What happens to the Relic from ARR?
Cause the materias are being removed

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Materia is not removed, main stat materias are.

I like the additional "role" quest that's unlocked after completing all four role quests, and the same for all five facets of crafting/gathering.
I've always wanted some kind of incentive for leveling multiple jobs/classes and this seems like a fair way to do it.

So, with most bait being removed and condensed into two types for ARR zones...

...that's going to make big fish a lot harder to acquire.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

So, with most bait being removed and condensed into two types for ARR zones...

...that's going to make big fish a lot harder to acquire.

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I feel like the new fishing skills are going to mitigate that somehow.

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Originally Posted by Alucard135

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I'm going to see lots of Sephiroth.

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You mean you don't already :P

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Originally Posted by Theodric

So, with most bait being removed and condensed into two types for ARR zones...

...that's going to make big fish a lot harder to acquire.

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Existing bait isn't being removed. These new ones are just an option.

"Hair style and face paint obtained as rewards can now be applied to retainers during customization."

... Face paint, huh? That's new. Hrothgar/Viera equivalent of new hairstyles maybe.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

Materia is not removed, main stat materias are.

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Oh, so the ones we need like Savage Aim etc still exists.
Never mind then :D

I can already hear the PC user outcry over the 90fps max setting...

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Originally Posted by Alucard135

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YESSS
this is all i will ever need

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The "Unlimited" setting under Frame Rate Limit in the Display Settings section of System Configuration has been replaced with a "Maximum (90 fps)" setting.

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Why? Did 144 fps upset anyone?

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Originally Posted by JediFirefly

I can already hear the PC user outcry over the 90fps max setting...

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Originally Posted by Tyrn

Why? Did 144 fps upset anyone?

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and there they are lol.

I love what I'm reading ! Everything seems nice.

Can't wait to see the rest and test it out :)

EDIT : Also, as someone pointed out, that white dragon is glowing a little... Primal mount ? I hope so !

OH JOY! I wasn't expecting this till tomorrow night. :D :D :D

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Originally Posted by JediFirefly

and there they are lol.

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*Cries in Glorious PC Master Race*

:p

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Originally Posted by Tyrn

Why? Did 144 fps upset anyone?

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I'm going to assume there's a new option for 144 fps. Otherwise this change doesn't make any sense.

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Originally Posted by JediFirefly

and there they are lol.

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I think it's less about outcry and more of the fact some people reported having issues using SE's artificial FPS limiter. Some people had issues trying to cap it at 60 and had to run it uncapped, while other happen to have a 120 or 144hz monitors that would benefit more from uncapped FPS. This might negatively affect some people, even though they are far from being the majority of the players.

I am biased towards having uncapped FPS though, but I am more concerned about the reports about capping your FPS on XIV causing people some issues.

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Originally Posted by Vurtney

I'm going to assume there's a new option for 144 fps. Otherwise this change doesn't make any sense.

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From what I understood they are just replacing the Unlimited FPS with the 90 FPS max without adding anything else to the options menu.

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

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Originally Posted by DevilsDontFly

"Hair style and face paint obtained as rewards can now be applied to retainers during customization."

... Face paint, huh? That's new. Hrothgar/Viera equivalent of new hairstyles maybe.

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There's one unlockable face paint style from a seasonal event a few years ago. (Spiderweb for All Saints' Wake if I remember correctly.)

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Originally Posted by MaethusXion

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

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To be honest they're probably going to kill off regular linkshells completely. As they increase the CWL cap there's no reason for server only LS to exist.

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Originally Posted by MaethusXion

Apparently Crossworld Linkshells are more important than normal ones. Players have been asking for the ability to reorder them since 2.x

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I think they're planning to replace linkshells with cross-world ones entirely in the long term. It's possible the underlying system is different despite the UI being the same, so maybe they either can't or don't want to alter it for the originals at this point if they're on their way to being obsolete.

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

To be honest they\'re probably going to kill off regular linkshells completely. As they increase the CWL cap there\'s no reason for server only LS to exist.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I think they\'re planning to replace linkshells with cross-world ones entirely in the long term. It\'s possible the underlying system is different despite the UI being the same, so maybe they either can\'t or don\'t want to alter it for the originals at this point if they\'re on their way to being obsolete.

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Maybe, but if they replace a system that remains until the LS is deleted with a system that deletes a CWLS when no one is online it... well that\'s just a mess. Unless they changed the CWLS to not delete when everyone is offline in a previous patch that I missed?

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Originally Posted by MaethusXion

Maybe, but if they replace a system that remains until the LS is deleted with a system that deletes a CWLS when no one is in it... well that's just a mess. Unless they changed the CWLS to not delete when everyone is offline in a previous patch that I missed?

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They only delete if there's fewer than a certain number of people in them. Like 1 or 2, I don't remember off the top of my head. So long as there are 3+ in there they don't auto delete?

The weekly restriction on receiving Cracked Clusters upon clearing the Orbonne Monastery has been removed.

So does this mean my weekly restriction applies to all items or just the crack clusters, in other words will there still be a weekly restriction for all but the clusters?

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Originally Posted by Krokov

The weekly restriction on receiving Cracked Clusters upon clearing the Orbonne Monastery has been removed.

So does this mean my weekly restriction applies to all items or just the crack clusters, in other words will there still be a weekly restriction for all but the clusters?

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They remove the weekly restriction for regular items long ago.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

They remove the weekly restriction for regular items long ago.

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Ahh indeed

"Characters on accounts with active subscriptions will be prioritized in login queues."

Free Trials are disabled for the next week or so then.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

The weekly restriction on receiving Cracked Clusters upon clearing the Orbonne Monastery has been removed.

So does this mean my weekly restriction applies to all items or just the crack clusters, in other words will there still be a weekly restriction for all but the clusters?

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Everything else in Orbonne is already uncapped. Clusters are the only thing still capped.

Apparently having uncapped framerate has to do with how bots zip around maps? I'm not 100% sure, that's just what I heard.

But honestly, with a 120hz monitor, I hardly see any visual difference after the fps goes above 60. I'm not upset at all if it gets capped at 90.

0,1% wipes incoming soon. Look forward to it!

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

"Characters on accounts with active subscriptions will be prioritized in login queues."

Free Trials are disabled for the next week or so then.

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I feel like this should also exclude players on the free month for purchasing the game for the sake of preventing the gil farm bots from clogging the queues.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I feel like this should also exclude players on the free month for purchasing the game for the sake of preventing the gil farm bots from clogging the queues.

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That would work but there are probably going to be a lot of new players with the amount of publicity and hype this expansion has been getting. I'm pretty sure SE isn't going to want to alienate or anger thousands of new subscribers right out of the gate.

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Originally Posted by DevilsDontFly

I think it's less about outcry and more of the fact some people reported having issues using SE's artificial FPS limiter. Some people had issues trying to cap it at 60 and had to run it uncapped, while other happen to have a 120 or 144hz monitors that would benefit more from uncapped FPS. This might negatively affect some people, even though they are far from being the majority of the players.

I am biased towards having uncapped FPS though, but I am more concerned about the reports about capping your FPS on XIV causing people some issues.



From what I understood they are just replacing the Unlimited FPS with the 90 FPS max without adding anything else to the options menu.

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Whenever I tried to use the frame limiter it would always perform worse than unlimited, like I ususally hover around 90-120 on uncapped with occasional dips down to 60, but if I put the 60 cap on it dips down to 40.