Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Fawkes]

The blue zone looks more like Beaucedine Glacier to me, but the spire looks more like Delkfutt's Tower than one of the Pso'Xja towers so maybe it's supposed to be Qufim.

[BigCheez]

The blue zone looks more like Beaucedine Glacier to me, but the spire looks more like Delkfutt's Tower than one of the Pso'Xja towers so maybe it's supposed to be Qufim.

I don't like how many creative liberties they've taken with this. The first alliance raid was super faithful to the original FFXI aesthetic. This is barely recognizable.

[Daralii]

I don't like how many creative liberties they've taken with this. The first alliance raid was super faithful to the original FFXI aesthetic. This is barely recognizable.

The castle's redesign makes it look more like Dun Scaith.

[Fawkes]

The blue zone looks more like Beaucedine Glacier to me, but the spire looks more like Delkfutt's Tower than one of the Pso'Xja towers so maybe it's supposed to be Qufim.

I took some comparison photos. They really spruced up that castle.

[CidHeiral]

I took some comparison photos. They really spruced up that castle.

San d'Oria is my favorite city in FFXI and I love what they've done. If you look at the images side by side the geometry is almost identical. Other than little details here and there they've mainly just added those statues in the plaza and a few spires to Chateau d'Oraguille so it looks more befitting the home of royalty in a society that thinks very highly of themselves. The front of the structure is still spot on to the original, all the way down to the placement of the windows and where the flags are hanging.







Keep in mind that they're working with the current FFXI team on this and many of the former team members are on the FFXIV team. It's very possible that this design for Chateau d'Oraguille was people from the original team fulfilling their original vision.

[Calysto]

The blue zone looks more like Beaucedine Glacier to me, but the spire looks more like Delkfutt's Tower than one of the Pso'Xja towers so maybe it's supposed to be Qufim.

Just nitpicking but that would be Fey'yin, not Pso'xja. now I can't really tell which. (tower would suggest Qufim, but maybe just a design thing)
Both have a Dynamis.
For Beaucedine :
-If Eureka monsters are on the table Cassie is is up.
-The boss of dynamis teleporting everywhere
-would make sense if we start from San d'oria (not that the first walk made sense)
For Qufim :
-Behemot is close
-Zilart fight is up the tower
-access to Misareaux so we get closer to Prishe's home ?

Edit : I'll be mad if Tavnazia is available in this game before XI

[Fawkes]

Just nitpicking but that would be Fey'yin, not Pso'xja.

I was thinking Pso'Xja, at first glance I didn't notice the bottom part looking like the entry to delkfutt/fei'yin, as I remember those being gigantic imposing entryways and the perspective of the screenshot makes it look tiny.

I think I just assumed they did a big redesign on the Pso'Xja towers. But it's probably definitely not that.


And Fei'Yin doesn't have a tower, and has a lot of rubble in front of it.



So it's probably just a very blue Qufim.

San d'Oria is my favorite city in FFXI and I love what they've done. If you look at the images side by side the geometry is almost identical. Other than little details here and there they've mainly just added those statues in the plaza and a few spires to Chateau d'Oraguille so it looks more befitting the home of royalty in a society that thinks very highly of themselves. The front of the structure is still spot on to the original, all the way down to the placement of the windows and where the flags are hanging.







Keep in mind that they're working with the current FFXI team on this and many of the former team members are on the FFXIV team. It's very possible that this design for Chateau d'Oraguille was people from the original team fulfilling their original vision.

There are some pointy spires on the gate between North and South Sandy. I think the XIV version still fits with the architectural look of the city.

[CidHeiral]

There are some pointy spires on the gate between North and South Sandy. I think the XIV version still fits with the architectural look of the city.

Good catch. Totally agree.