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New Stormy Weather (Video)
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11-02-2012, 04:42 AMCrevoxNew Stormy Weather (Video)
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11-02-2012, 04:45 AMSodRansom
Lol, thanks Crevox. You've successfully made me even MORE anxious and ready to be done with work today. I wasn't able to get on yesterday at all, and I haven't been able to get online because of work today. That looks really eerie and cool!
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11-02-2012, 05:09 AMDenmo
WHO IS CRAFTING AND WHY
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11-02-2012, 05:15 AMAbriael
Is it me or the lightning intensified since yesterday?
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11-02-2012, 06:39 AMCrevoxI honestly don't think some people got the memo... more so the people in Ul'dah shouting for Ifrit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Denmo
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11-02-2012, 07:34 AMZantetsukenQueue up the morons complaining in ARR that SE (somehow) lost the stuff they acquired this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crevox
On Nov. 12th, queue up the bigger morons complaining about how they can't log on. -
11-02-2012, 07:41 AMJynx
I wonder if anyone knows that thunder weather isn't really "New" per-se.
I guess not many people have seen it though considering the ferry is ignored with the advent of unlimited Anima and two homepoints...shame. -
11-02-2012, 07:57 AMCrevoxI've been on the ferry a few times and I don't remember seeing this weather. :\Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
That's not to say it doesn't exist, but you can't hate on people that haven't seen it even though they've been on the ferry. ;p -
11-02-2012, 08:04 AMAbriaelI'm not sure what your point is. Applied to the general world it is new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
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11-02-2012, 08:14 AMZumi
You know only a small minority of the people read the site forums so odds are there are people who don't know that what they do now won't get saved.
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11-02-2012, 08:18 AMJynxBut it's not "New" not in any way/shape/form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abriael
It's a existing feature applied to other zones, but nothing "New" is happening for the end of the world. Does it matter? No, and nor do I care. I just can't say it's something new when it's not new. -
11-02-2012, 11:06 AMCrevoxIt's probably at least modified in some way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
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11-02-2012, 12:19 PMAbriaelIt has never appeared in the areas where it's appearing now, so yeah, it's new. And you seem to care enough to post about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
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11-02-2012, 01:08 PMJynx...So your saying it's not new right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abriael
Just because it doesn't usually rain in the desert doesn't mean it's "new"
The meteor showers? New.
The moon slowly descending to the earth? New
Thunder happening somewhere it didn't before? Not new.
Again it's not a matter of caring if it's new or not, it should just be pointed out that it's nothing that has been added to the game for people who are still expecting some kind of world altering change to occur. Many of us had expected something big to happen for the last character save, monsters spawning outside of their instanced dungeons doesn't make it something new.
It's pretty cool for sure, but it's not new. I'm not sure why you seem to be taking it as a insult to call the weather not new, it's just the truth it's not knocking it I'm actually glad we get to see it outside of the never ridden ferry. Might as well make that awesome weather effect appear somewhere people might notice it. Again, I'm not suprised people think it's new because the game made it next to invisible.
Hell we have people posting all the time about the hedge trees and things like Amerscale rock thinking it's new all the time. -
11-02-2012, 01:17 PMRuisuOr, you know. A ferry ride with absolutely nothing to do for ten minutes or nothing to look at with the same repetitive song was enough for people to not bother anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
Maybe if there was a fishing shop on board, and some enemies that attacked, it wouldn't be such a worthless waste of time. -
11-02-2012, 01:45 PMAbriaelNo, I'm saying it's new, since that effect was never applied to the rest of Eorzea. You know, applying an effect to a completely different environment isn't just a matter of flipping a switch, especially when you have to create a soundtrack for it and merge it with other effects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
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11-02-2012, 01:50 PMJynx
The music is new yes. (technically it is from a old update) but the weather is not. It is not "Merged" with the other effects it happens just as the boat. We would have needed a update to actually add "new" weather ala comet showers, and dalamud weather.
So I'll say it again the weather isn't new. Nothing new was added to the game for the final update aside from the music.
I should also point out if turning weather effects on or off is not as easy as flipping a switch (changing a few lines of code to enable or disable) then something is terribly wrong with the games code. -
11-02-2012, 01:58 PMAbriaelActually not really. The storm weather has been created way before the dalamud weather was even in the minds of the developers. To merge the two as well as we can see now definitely took some tweaking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
The lightning weather is definitely different in its frequency and intensity from what you see on the ferry. As a matter of fact, it's variable in intensity, as it's much more intense today than it was yesterday, and we can probably expect it to grow further.
The fact that there hasn't been a patch has nothing to do with it, as they probably introduced the necessary code together with the music in a previous patch. -
11-02-2012, 02:00 PMChardrizard
what a pointless arguments..
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11-02-2012, 02:05 PMJynx
You are right it is pointless I got my point across so I will leave it at that.
PS: If the weather tweaks were added prior then it was hidden damn well, nary a change has been made without .dat miners catching it in advance. or you know white flashes of lightning play on the skyboxes top layer and don't need to be edited to play anywhere in any weather...you know logic and all. -
11-02-2012, 02:16 PMAbriaelSo much for "leaving it at that". If only making different effects work together was that easy in the real world of game development. You know that even if you don't have to change the actual visual asset, you still have to code it and tweak it to work with other elements? Not to mention change it's frequency, transparency, and so forth. Just food for thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
Oh, and .dat miners don't usually go look at weather effects. -
11-02-2012, 03:44 PMAniseTatlin
Regardless if it's "new" or not, it's still a really cool effect we should all just calm down and enjoy. :)
I wish i had an MP3 of the song, with the thunder effects included, it's so mysterious. -
11-03-2012, 02:07 AMCrevoxIt sounds really good in-game. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by AniseTatlin