Massive Geological Anomaly in Patch 1.23?

Greetings!

Upon scouring the FF14 PDF files in order to refresh myself on the coming content for 1.23 I came across the following in the "FF14 Outline" PDF:

"One day, a massive geological anomaly suddenly appears from deep within the ground.
Current players will have the opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding this strange, new landmark in the coming months."

Considering this is the final patch before 2.0 and this information was posted 7 months ago, could we finally be seeing this geological anomaly in game?

Maybe, maybe not. Probably referring more to 2.0 Alpha/Beta if anything.

The speculation that I read says that geological anomaly is the reason why the Wandering Minstrel is disappearing in 1.23.

In the PDF it says something like world changes during 1.23

Im gonna take wild guess that a huge heavenly body is not geological anomaly

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

Im gonna take wild guess that a huge heavenly body is not geological anomaly

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It isn't. Since it's in the sky it's a celestial anomaly.

Geological means on or in the ground.

SCIENCE!

maybe gravity from the dalmund will bring forth something cool.

The 1.23 patch notes say "addition of new map objects," so on top of the fact that the PDFs explicitly say that "current" players (i.e. before 2.0) will be able to see these massive geographical changes, I'm going to guess yes.

And I'm super excited for it.

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to upskirt all female character

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to upskirt all female character

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Gravity already does this with subtle movements. Skirts go flying like you just got done from being in a wind tunnel.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to upskirt all female character

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As a Lalafell, I find this to be unnecessary. ^_^

ITs gonna be the tall structure that hold dalamud in the sky aka some tower looking thing

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Originally Posted by MizoreShirayuki

Greetings!

Upon scouring the FF14 PDF files in order to refresh myself on the coming content for 1.23 I came across the following in the "FF14 Outline" PDF:

"One day, a massive geological anomaly suddenly appears from deep within the ground.
Current players will have the opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding this strange, new landmark in the coming months."

Considering this is the final patch before 2.0 and this information was posted 7 months ago, could we finally be seeing this geological anomaly in game?

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To be honest, I think you're spot on. I believe that the geological anomaly is coming in 1.23.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

Enemies and Non-Instanced Areas

1.23 onwards: -NEW- Addition of map objects -NEW- Addition of Seventh Umbral Era-related objects

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This post by Yoshida is what makes me think that we're likely to see environmental changes related to the Seventh Umbral Era storyline in patch 1.23. And as you say, the 2.0 PDFs say that "current players" will get to discover the mysteries of the anomaly.

I could certainly be wrong: the geological anomaly might not be among the "map objects" we'll be getting. And to be honest, it is a little hard to believe that we'd get to see something so drastically different in the world prior to 2.0 and the new engine.

Still, I kind of think it's going to happen. :)

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to suck all lalafel character

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to suck all lalafel character

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This sounds like a hentai waiting to happen..

I have a feeling it wont immediately happen with 1.23. Probably with 1.23a or b. To spread the content out till the beta.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

I have a feeling it wont immediately happen with 1.23. Probably with 1.23a or b.

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With how much they like to "hype players by saying/doing nothing at all"..I'm betting 1.23h, just before Alpha.

in fact yeah it will probably happen @ 1.23a with what the "Got Gobbue" article tells us.

Maybe the anomaly is this
http://www.gamedynamo.com/images/gal...sy-xiv-2-0.jpg

Well okay I'll blow your mind...

Moonspore Grove go there...move the camera around...there's a large crystalline object there. Possible location for THE CRYSTAL TOWER...It'll get pulled out of the ground.

And the suspect anyways is that the gravitational pull caused by Dalamud's ever encroaching presence is will draw up past relics...Final Fantasy time portal paradox something that's been around since the hayday (Light Warriors, Esper Dimension what have you)...

Final Fantasy 7ish the lifestream renews the world...yadi yadi yah

I think it will finally be the start of aetheryte nodes being chained so that they don't gravitate towards Dalamud. Though there also has to be a reason the Minstel dissapears so it's possible that Dalamud makes an impact where he would normally be. There may be some odd mystery to him like he'll appear in one of the final umbral related storyline spewing out poetry while the big baddy obtains his power, being nothing more than a prophet who wishes to see the prophecy come true.

He may also be found somewhere else where perhaps he'll offer a line of missions that reward the player with "legendary weapons" used to quell the "ultima weapons" aka weapons that have insanely beefed up stats when used against Ultima but pretty much useless in any other situation, and they'll look badass to lol.

For me FF is all about those legendary weapons which help you beat the final bosses in a sense, aka they are kinda designed to defeat the final boss so it would be a pretty badass reward to have these badass looking weapons being rewarded to players that are used to beat the final boss and they can only be obtained during this time period lol.

Hmm wouldn't that be scary.. now that I think about it, what if Dalamud "circular craters" are actually magical circles used to summon meteors, perhaps the impacts will happen earlier then we think because the big bad empire will be able to use the magic circles on Dalamud to summon meteors to create impacts on Eorzea. That would be an intersting sight I think lol.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Maybe the anomaly is this
http://www.gamedynamo.com/images/gal...sy-xiv-2-0.jpg

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That's the pic associated with the OP's quote IIRC.

So yeah, that's it.

What I would like to see (and I think what makes some sense) would be some minor geological anomalies (i.e. graphics) with 1.23, followed by more slight changes with a few lettered patches (1.23a/b/c), then simultaneously with live servers being shut down, some ability to see a cutscene (can be short) showing Dalamud seemingly destroying Eorzea.

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Originally Posted by gahoo

What I would like to see (and I think what makes some sense) would be some minor geological anomalies (i.e. graphics) with 1.23, followed by more slight changes with a few lettered patches (1.23a/b/c), then simultaneously with live servers being shut down, some ability to see a cutscene (can be short) showing Dalamud seemingly destroying Eorzea.

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I've been thinking about how they're going to present the actual event. Thus far all we know anything about is the before and after. It's probably what I'm looking forward to most in regards to this whole transition.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I'd like the gravity from Dalamud to suck all lalafel character

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This sounds like a hentai waiting to happen..

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Hell yeah, a massive hentai geological anomaly (Can I have it?)

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

Geological means on or in the ground.

SCIENCE!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQR1r1KTjaE