Gamerescape Interview: Summons, Chocobos, Train Tracks and Rocks

[Croy]

I'm curious, will calling chocobos be limited to soloing? Because in the early concept screen, they were shown being used in a party setting. Will every 8 man party have an additional 8 chocobos? Seems kind of ridiculous if so

Yoshida mentioned in the past that chocobos would act like party members so they would fit into the slot of an 8 person party. Meanwhile the actual classes that use pets (Summoner, Beastmaster whatever else) the pets would not take up a party slot. This was flung out by Yoshida during one of the 2.0 interviews back when it was announced.

[Scratches]

No he was pretty clear, it's there for the people who want to see themselves jump. That's it.

Works for me. Gives me something to do while I wait for other people... :P

Some nice information. But...

The textures on the ground is fixed, that's pretty much what it's going to look like.

So those are the textures that will be used for release? For shame, Yoshi.

How dare I feed the troll, I know, but...really...how often do you find yourself staring at the ground? Does it really matter that much?

Smoother performance for some slightly blurrier textures that I hardly pay attention to anyway sounds like a great trade-off to me. Now, if he had said (or shown) that the character or clothing/armor textures would be getting a similar "downgrade" instead, I might agree with you.

Might...maybe...if I was really depressed and had nothing else going on in my life...

[Mudd]

"The optimization right now for the client is about 15% and they’ll be spending time over the next few months working on that. There will be two benchmarks for 2.0. One should be up in time for the alpha test and there are also talks to have one up before the launch.

What we saw was also running on “high” settings, however there is still a lot of brushing up that needs to be done so it will look even better when it’s finished."

That other article I saw said that the quality would improve by 15% by release, this one says that the optimization for the client is at about 15%..
Which is right?

[Mudd]

But that doesn't mean we won't be able to use it to jump over a small fence instead of going around, or jump down a cliff instead of awkwardly falling off of it.

I hope that its good for even those things.. If things are as they are now, in 2.0, then you will already be able to walk up 90 degree cliffs, and fences and plants will be noclip, so jump would be 100% aesthetic at that point.

[gahoo]

That other article I saw said that the quality would improve by 15% by release, this one says that the optimization for the client is at about 15%..
Which is right?

We are. 10chr

[Chain]

That took an hour?

[gahoo]

That took an hour?

Uh oh. You've uncovered our big time conspiracy...

It was one hour exactly. 4.3 minute welcome. 41.4 minutes of questions. 11.1 minutes with the client. 3.2 minutes for the photo since an unnamed community rep had to try three times to get one in focus.

[gahoo]

That took an hour?

Sorry that was rude. Need sleep. Yes it did take an hour (and more or less the breakdown above is correct), but you have to realize our questions need to get translated to Japanese, then an answer, then laughter by those in the room who understand the answer, then a translation back to English. So each question takes a while actually.

[neorei]

I think not showing a trailer is a extremely smart move.

[RoyalSibby]

My Goal: Get an Mansion then raise Chocobos of each kind. <3