The Patch 5.2 Discussion Thread! (Spoilers)

[JeanneOrnitier]

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.

Clearly Garuda is combined with XV's Garuds from the Noctis event

[RicaRuin]

Thanks MrThinker and Moose! Really interesting, will see whether I can find the mention for ARR players and look up the 1.0 stuff on YouTube, as that sounds really relevant now.

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.

The six wings remind me of Storge, the Lightwarden.
And for Ramuh, I think that there also are a lot of obvious Zurvan similarities as well.

[Daemius]

The six wings remind me of Storge, the Lightwarden.
And for Ramuh, I think that there also are a lot of obvious Zurvan similarities as well.

Zurvan having some influence on Ramuh makes a lot of sense looking at him now, hadn't thought of that before, but yeah, that's clearly where the wings on him are coming from.

Garuda gonna continue to elude me. I'm gonna just bank on Garuda + Cloud of Darkness + idk, Echidna for now. I can see the Storge influence in the wings as well but I feel like there's gotta be more to this one than Garuda + Storge.

[Lord_Umbra]

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.

I would wager we remember Chirada & Surparna & combined them into Garuda.

[Keever]

The voice at the end of the trailer sounds like Elidibus, even in English. I think the confusion may come from the fact that the more recent voiced lines from Elidibus-possessing-Zenos were actually spoken by Zenos's voice actor giving a more sedated line delivery.

Here is the one scene where Elidibus's Heavensward-and-onwards voice actor has been heard, back in 3.0:
Video

Compare the trailer (timestamped).

Sounds definitively the same to me, just as in the Japanese version.

[MrThinker]

The voice at the end of the trailer sounds like Elidibus, even in English. I think the confusion may come from the fact that the more recent voiced lines from Elidibus-possessing-Zenos were actually spoken by Zenos's voice actor giving a more sedated line delivery.

Here is the one scene where Elidibus's Heavensward-and-onwards voice actor has been heard, back in 3.0:
Video

Compare the trailer (timestamped).

Sounds definitively the same to me, just as in the Japanese version.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt that Heavensward stinger scene currently the only scene he had a voice in?

[Lieha]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt that Heavensward stinger scene currently the only scene he had a voice in?

From what I remember it is the only scene where he speaks with his real voice. The other scenes he seaks with Zenos's voice to, probably, maintain the illusion it was the real Zenos speaking.

However, despite this unique scene, I can confirm it is Elidibus speaking in the French version as well.

[Crushnight]

Wonder if the female pilot of Ruby will be one of the two royal guards.

Also think the story will start us going to ala mhigo learn about the weapons, side quest then opens up, but msq have us go back to the First.

Think our mystery trial will either be Cid's malformed father or Gabranth I lean more on Gabranth but the former would interest me more.

Seeing Cid in a pld/DoH/L battle pose has me wondering what he is doing and whether he becomes a future trust(Which then has me hoping Nero gets jealous and wants to help us later :P).

[zuzu-bq]

I don't think Zurvan made any inffluence over Ramuh's design besides using its rig, XIV is really smart with reusing model rigs to ease animation production.

[Cilia]

I would wager Eden's recreation of Ramuh is a conflation of the original and Ixion, another noteworthy enemy fond of lightning attacks.