Fixing Legacy Characters Story

[Ricky]

I never beat Darnus as I quit by the time he came around, yet got the Legacy (1.0) intro.

P.S. Dalamund Horn was hard mode only.

Please stop spreading misinformation, Dalamud Horn was from the "Once in a Lifetime" achieve and White Ravens were from HM Darnus. Choose to believe it don't, I don't care, but you had to beat Nael/get Dalamud Horn to see the 1.0 cutscene. Don't believe people spreading misinformation.

[ravndark]

Please stop spreading misinformation, Dalamud Horn was from the "Once in a Lifetime" achieve and White Ravens were from HM Darnus. Choose to believe it don't, I don't care, but you had to beat Nael/get Dalamud Horn to see the 1.0 cutscene. Don't believe people spreading misinformation.

Where did SE say that? Without them specifically saying that's what you had to do to get the cut scene, I don't see how you can say that's the only way to get it.

[KylePearlsand]

I've done a quick search on Dalamud's horn. On every site that it's featured as an item, there is nothing saying that it is required for the 1.0 legacy cutscene. In fact, there seems to be nothing special about it other than bragging rights that you completed the story from what I can see.

Edit: Also looked up "Do you need to defeat Nael Van Darnus for 2.0?" and the Once in a Lifetime achieve. Nothing again. So if the Devs said something, there would be something all over the internet about this. I'm not buying that we actually needed to defeat him to do so.

[Kenjinkirrin]

Where did SE say that? Without them specifically saying that's what you had to do to get the cut scene, I don't see how you can say that's the only way to get it.

I, too, would like some clarification on this.

1.0 Legacy, but didn't receive the cutscene or "slightly altered" storyline.

[Wobi]

Please stop spreading misinformation, Dalamud Horn was from the "Once in a Lifetime" achieve and White Ravens were from HM Darnus. Choose to believe it don't, I don't care, but you had to beat Nael/get Dalamud Horn to see the 1.0 cutscene. Don't believe people spreading misinformation.

Not quite correct there, my wife and I did not get the Dalamud Horn. Still got the intro, we did however beat Van Darnus. What I would like to know is, if someone didn't beat the story but was there for the final battle. Like the game somehow flagged you if you tagged at least one enemy at the final showdown in Mor Dhona.

We skipped checking all of the Stones of the 12, got tired of getting one shot by lvl 85 mobs lol. But we sure as hell were at the final battle.
As far as I am concerned that should be what gets you the CS, how can you be ported if you were not even trying to save the realm when it counted?

[KylePearlsand]

Not quite correct there, my wife and I did not get the Dalamud Horn. Still got the intro, we did however beat Van Darnus. What I would like to know is, if someone didn't beat the story but was there for the final battle. Like the game somehow flagged you if you tagged at least one enemy at the final showdown in Mor Dhona.

We skipped checking all of the Stones of the 12, got tired of getting one shot by lvl 85 mobs lol. But we sure as hell were at the final battle.
As far as I am concerned that should be what gets you the CS, how can you be ported if you were not even trying to save the realm when it counted?

There is a problem with that theory. If I recall, including Masamune, there was problems with the final battle that prevented multiple people from participating. I know quite a few members of Distant World had gotten this cutscene and never was able to even able to even touch a mob nor participate in the final battle.

[ArkhamNative]

What I would like to know is, if someone didn't beat the story but was there for the final battle. Like the game somehow flagged you if you tagged at least one enemy at the final showdown in Mor Dhona.

The problem with this was the game's last night happened almost 2 weeks after "final save" maintenance. Nothing that happened after that final save carried forward to 2.0. (And the Battle of Carteneau was only in a video released on YouTube. )

[SkyeWindbinder]

Wait, is there something wrong with Legacy's story?

[Ket]

I ran through the story during Phase 3 twice, once with a fresh character (on the first weekend) and then again with my "Legacy" character later. Only differences I remember are:

- New character starts on carriage/boat/whatever, asked a question, obtain a ring, ends up in town.
- 1.0 character teleports into the forest, like the New Beginning trailer. It lasts a couple seconds and then you immediately end up in town just like the normal cutscene. You are not asked a question nor obtain any ring. You get an additional few seconds of cutscene but miss out on the entire "going to town" sequence.

- The story is then completely identical.
- NPCs gave me the "Hmm you seem familiar"/"You remind me of them" stuff in both sets of story, completely identical.
- Until Minfillia, NPCs do not remember who you are, ever. You are always treated like a new adventurer.

- If you are "legacy", Minfillia will tell you that she remembers you (power of the echo or something I guess) but that she must pretend that she doesn't because of everybody else. This is about two lines of dialogue. Story was then once again completely identical. It's a bit of a cop out, but I imagine SE didn't want to have to create whole separate cutscenes and dialogue through the whole game.

I don't know what the exact trigger is, whether its just about being 1.0 or if you need Dalamud horn or whatever, but unfortunately, the differences in story are completely minor and near non-existant. Those saying "none of the NPCs remember me" -- this seems to be the case regardless.

Disclaimer: This was my experience. If there is truly a bug, I could be wrong, but it seems designed this way.

[Wobi]

The problem with this was the game's last night happened almost 2 weeks after "final save" maintenance. Nothing that happened after that final save carried forward to 2.0. (And the Battle of Carteneau was only in a video released on YouTube. )

Oh I know it was after the "Final Save" but you never know with SE lol.
From the thread over on the BlueGartr forums they narrowed down the CS to people who had and who had not beating Van Darnus in the main storyline. Accounts were not flagged, people had mains with CS and mule that did not do story no alternate CS.

It's just a nice easter egg that SE dropped in there for people who completed the story, nothing for anyone's jimmies to be rustled about that's for sure.