2.0 Excitement thread

[Zahak]

NEW LAND! Behemoth's Dominion can I have it?

Hm, judging by this notice on the dev. roadmap "The roadmap below contains both completed and pending items. All changes to this chart will be posted on the Lodestone or another official venue such as the FINAL FANTASY XIV Forums." I would say all is going according to plan? :P Which means...
There things should be finished by now: Some being finished by end of the month
Character System
Chat System
Party System
Items
Enemy Distribution
Enemies
NPC's
Phasing System
Instancing System
Collision
Battle System
Camera
PC's
Retainers
Targeting System
Friend List
Black List
Linkshell System
PC Search Function
Character Motion
AI
Quest Systems
In-game delivery system
parley
non-instanced dungeons
markets
levequests and behests
login and patch procedure
crafting and gathering
server load test client
GRAPHICS ENGINE
Tool Design
Tool Production

[Rydin]

NEW LAND! Behemoth's Dominion can I have it?

I actually was thinking about this the other day....
Behemoth as an NM... pretty cool....

But what about Behemoths as regular MOBs and named Behemoths (Like King Behemoth) as NMs

Imagine a Super Mario Bros 3 Big Islands type zone

where EVERYTHING is huge
And Behemoths and Iron giants were regular MOBs

You know what I'm most excited for currently?

E3 Promotional Trailer!!

only like 2.5 months to wait... I feel you on this

[Starlord]

I actually was thinking about this the other day....
Behemoth as an NM... pretty cool....

But what about Behemoths as regular MOBs and named Behemoths (Like King Behemoth) as NMs

Imagine a Super Mario Bros 3 Big Islands type zone
http://www.modojo.com/media/features/486/big.jpg
where EVERYTHING is huge
And Behemoths and Iron giants were regular MOBs



only like 2.5 months to wait... I feel you on this

Yeah its around the Corner, I am sure SE is Nervous and a little scared on how People are going to take it in the Sony Press Conference, I hope people keep and open mind, and give this game a second chance.. I have faith this game is going to turn into something wonderful, under Yoshi-P's Helm =)

[Coldfire]

The only thing im really looking forward to is the new netcode. They will hopefully magically fix the lag issues. The graphical engine will look the same and use DX9 as well so it won't be much of an improvement. All the other interesting stuff seems to be coming after the release of 2.0

[Rydin]

The only thing im really looking forward to is the new netcode. They will hopefully magically fix the lag issues. The graphical engine will look the same and use DX9 as well so it won't be much of an improvement. All the other interesting stuff seems to be coming after the release of 2.0

2 different graphics engine can both use DX9 and still look drastically different... I don't know that this will happen here, I'm just sayin...

i am also looking forward to the complete rebuilding of the server structure. I wouldn't facetiously call it a "magical fix" though. That's like saying a construction crew working 12 hours a day for a month "Magically built me a new house"
I think it's a legitimate, reasonable fix
My only concern is that Yoshi and co. have acknowledged but aren't completely aware of how bad the server lag is when coupled with the internet latency of being halfway around the world
He can indeed reduce the server latency but he can't make the internet faster. Fortunately, he doesn't have to... 300ms round trip is still adequate for having a great gaming experience (Not on an FPS, mind you, but in an MMO, yea)

[Colino]

The only thing im really looking forward to is the new netcode. They will hopefully magically fix the lag issues. The graphical engine will look the same and use DX9 as well so it won't be much of an improvement. All the other interesting stuff seems to be coming after the release of 2.0

Yeah but at least it will perform better on lower spec machines and use less resources on your current system... I can't be the only one worrying my videocard will someday walk out of the case and tell me to fuck off.