New Areas

[syntaxlies]

Notice the bottom pic is labeled warp gate. Seems similar to ff11.

With small maps I have a feeling that anima may be nixed in the world changing events.

[AlexNiculaie]

IIRC it was stated that the warp gate had to do with some kind of event against the Garleans.

[Elexia]

That's a matter of personal perspective, I found Skryrims environment to be rather dull and repetitive; snow, trees, dirt, rocks... meh.

But..but...PERFECT GAME! GAME OF THE YEAR AFTER A MONTH! SKYRIM IS HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE AN MMORPG! THE DULL, BLAND, BORING ENVIRONMENTS FIT THE GAMES ATMOSPHERE! etc.

I agree, seamless is fine but it tends to be either overly cartoony or overly bland because given that it has to be seamless...it has to flow well and therefore be low quality in many ways, like Tera's environments are bland, but the bright colors distract you from that fact.

[syntaxlies]

IIRC it was stated that the warp gate had to do with some kind of event against the Garleans.

Thanks for info, don't remember it myself

[Chrees]

Thanks for info, don't remember it myself

In another one of Reinheart's pictures, it's labelled as being a warp gate that decomposes and then reassembles you, to and from the big Garlean structure behind it.

EDIT: Found it!

[Zahak]

Can we get blown up pics of the rest of the maps please?

[Zahak]

In another one of Reinheart's pictures, it's labelled as being a warp gate that decomposes and then reassembles you, to and from the big Garlean structure behind it.

EDIT: Found it!

Did he do this to the rest of the 2.0 pics? If so, where?

[Dragon]

"Seamless zones are being eliminated in Version 2.0."

FF XIV isn't seamless now, there are still loading screens separating each zone so 2.0 really isn't going to be all that different, expect loading will likely happen more often. I don't have a problem with it myself.

False. There are various seamless zones right now, North/East/West/South of each major region (Thanalan, La Noscea, The Black Shroud, & Coerthas; Mor Dhona probably too) is its own zone with seamless entry/exit, then you also have the seamless zone entries from the cities into the region and vice versa. Also other seemless zone entries, but all of which are easily noticeable by looking at your mini-map.

This is one of the things that scares me about the future of this game. Yoshi-P and his new team have no doubt helped turn around Final Fantasy XIV so far, and I commend them for that effort. However he comes off with this attitude that seemingly doesn't give a rats ass about people who want to adventure, and experience their character to the fullest.

Rather we get massive exp boosts to hit 50 in a few short days, no effort to reach any of the primals, extremely easy content, and poorly implemented solo quests. Everything screeches of unoriginality. It's like they don't care about people who like that sense of adventure. Want to do the content? Here's a teleport. Want to hit 50? Here do it in a few short days. Want to do this quest? Ok spend 5 minutes solo and your done.

I'm really hoping that his stance on this changes. Sure maybe the adventure to the top of the mountain should be shortened AFTER you walk that 30 minutes and unlock it.

I've the same thought about him too, I just hope it is just for the pre-2.0 era myself.

In another one of Reinheart's pictures, it's labelled as being a warp gate that decomposes and then reassembles you, to and from the big Garlean structure behind it.

EDIT: Found it!

[Edited pic out]

That's awesome.

[Chrees]

Did he do this to the rest of the 2.0 pics? If so, where?

Yeah, he did! The translated map pictures posted by Felis are by Reinheart as well.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post393706

[Picoman]

Arghhh! Can't wait for E3, i sooooo hope we get a live letter with more 2.0 stuff.
1.21 is great but geeeze cannot wait to explore those areas.