4.4 Trailer!

[Alleo]

I really liked the trailer, even with all the death flags for Alphinaud. But I still hope that this is nothing but a red herring because killing him off would just be horrible for me.

Also got quite the death vibes for poor Alpha. Please dont kill him off SE. Maybe Alpha tries to stop Omega and we believe him to be death and this is a wake up call for Cid and he will finally do something? Because he is shown with shaking hands.

I also hope that they dont just throw some Magnai Sadu romance sub plot in there because I honestly feel like this would not fit the tone. If you have to solve it then please let it be more of a side quest. Maybe its just the scene of how those two met? Because they do say that Sadu burned down quite a bit of land afterwards? Or maybe they are fighting against us because seemingly Ysthola is in the place where certain NPCs go to permanently die.

[Pheryx]

I hope it is not Alphy who dies. He was just starting to get some proper developement.

[Ameela]

Alphinaud is safe, they wouldn't just spoil something like that in the trailer.
Last time something like this happened the character people thought was dead turned out to just be slightly injured.

I think this is also why we had the odd moment at the end of 4.3 MSQ where we actually played as Alphinaud. This was definitely a weird choice in the grander scope of the narrative... We've seen what other ppl were doing in the story in different parts of the world from a god's eye perspective plenty of times before, but this was the first time the narrative forced us to play as another character, to take on another role other than the one we chose/created for ourselves. Now I'm thinking the developer's did this to subliminally invoke a stronger sense of attachment to Alphinaud from the players. Since we got to play as him, we were him... however briefly, and thus we get more feels when he dies...

They did that because Alphinaud is the closest thing to a protagonist in the game, so it would make sense that he'd be the character used for the debut of a feature like that, since if this was a single player game he'd probably be the one we play as for the whole thing.

[Rowde]

Death Flags for Alphinaud

FF cover band name inc!

[Hazama999]

I'm... tired of this patch cycle. With the exception of a few pearls, I haven't enjoyed it nearly as much as HW and ARR. I'm patiently waiting for 5.0 and whichever jobs that brings. That ought to give me a jolt of excitement but for now, I can't bring myself to get hyped for 4.4. Hopefully the story will be interesting.

[Beckett]

I now think Alphinaud is the strongest contender for the chopping block.

Nah. He's got to become a Blue Mage first, so that we can complete the set.

[whiskeybravo]

Bahamut Prime? Alexander Prime? What are those?

I would say its very likely Midgard, although he kind of just went back to sleep after using all his strength to help us out of a jam, I am curious as to how he would be used in the story, a fight would be most interesting. I also can't see a random dragon popping up this far into the tier, at least Chaos has final boss cred to back his appearance up.

It doesn't seem far-fetched that it could simply be an "imaginary" version of Middy that Omega incarnated for the purpose of our "test". Didn't Middy also prevent Omega from nuking us earlier in the story line? From that, perhaps Omega was able to catch a glimpse of Middy's power and was able to use that to create the battle. It's hard to imagine we'd be fighting the real Middy, though I suppose there is also some rationale for Omega to think along the lines of "this being might be as strong as me so I'll make you take him down first" (to get him out of the way so he can't interrupt real fight against Omega)

IDK. I'm pretty psyched. More than I thought I would be!

[Aster_E]

I doubt it but I wonder if we'd get a new overworld area out of this. It'd feel a bit pointless to fly alllll the way over to The Burn and then come back after killing everything and pretend it never happened.

I mean, Xelphatol was supposed to be a region of its own, like The Black Shroud or Coerthas, but we just went there for a single dungeon and went back to everything else.

[Sentaryuu]

I am really worried for Alphinaud too. He is too young to die imo. And honestly if they killed him off, I will stop watching the story. I also don't know what people saw to think that he is going to die... There aren't very many NPCs that I like and Alphinaud is one of the ones that I do. Although great to see Aymeric again! And am excited for the new fights!

[Rufalus]

I mean, Xelphatol was supposed to be a region of its own, like The Black Shroud or Coerthas, but we just went there for a single dungeon and went back to everything else.

and coerthas eastern lowlands got made into a pvp instance (fields of glory) similar to what they did to the rest of mor dhona (carteneau flats, borderland ruins). I was looking forward to xelphatol as a field zone but I'm over it now, I accept this will never be an open world kind of sandbox game. as a field zone they wouldn't get much more use than they would as instanced dungeons. It's just fates and gathering nodes and still fairly small maps.