Alpha First Look: Video 3 - The Black Shroud

[Umo]

Only thing I'm slightly miffed about is how much of the map is revealed when you enter a unexplored area. Gives me a feeling we wont actually need to explore the map to reveal it, they are rather small compared to what we have now.

Same feeling here :/

[Dragonheart]

http://youtu.be/TnFLSH2jkjw?t=1h14m9s

If you've played World of Warcraft, you'll know that holding the left mouse button results in just the camera moving, and holding the right mouse button results in the player turning in the direction you want to go. The newer footage is clearly using "right mouse button" movement, because in the link above, the camera rotates but the player does not.

hmm you're right. I hope that the camera animation are work in progress, it looks really bland right now.

As i said before even characters in WoW have animation when you hold the right mouse button to move the character 360°.

Meh.

[Endigiont]

Is anyone else depressed it seems like they only video's we've gotten to see any gameplay / walking through of is around Gridania.... ? ; ; Heck I'd go crazy to see a new zone or even something not next to the Cities.

[KiriA500]

Is anyone else depressed it seems like they only video's we've gotten to see any gameplay / walking through of is around Gridania.... ? ; ; Heck I'd go crazy to see a new zone or even something not next to the Cities.

The Alpha is only in Gridania/Black Shroud, so it's all we're going to see. The beta might add more, but I doubt it until it's much later in the test.

[Endigiont]

See that's the only thing that makes me uneasy about ARR.... How quickly they can push out new maps... Although from what we've seen of Gridania / Black Shroud at least what they're doing is high quality.

[KiriA500]

See that's the only thing that makes me uneasy about ARR.... How quickly they can push out new maps... Although from what we've seen of Gridania / Black Shroud at least what they're doing is high quality.

Well, the test isn't really for looking at the zones. It's testing out mechanics that work everywhere.

The 1.0 Alpha and most of the Beta were in La Noscea/Limsa Lominsa. Given, the game was awful then, it wasn't because of the lack of zones, it was the bad mechanics.

[Endigiont]

I just mean for myself one of the major let downs of XIV was it was basically only 5 zones, 5 huge barren copy pasta zones...

Yah I get that it's only the Black shroud in the Alpha, but I'd like to see some screenshots or something to know how the rest of the world is coming along, and I hope some places don't exude a lot more polish and redesigns than others.

[Aion]

I just mean for myself one of the major let downs of XIV was it was basically only 5 zones, 5 huge barren copy pasta zones...

Yah I get that it's only the Black shroud in the Alpha, but I'd like to see some screenshots or something to know how the rest of the world is coming along, and I hope some places don't exude a lot more polish and redesigns than others.

[Sartori]

See that's the only thing that makes me uneasy about ARR.... How quickly they can push out new maps... Although from what we've seen of Gridania / Black Shroud at least what they're doing is high quality.

I don't know about High Quality, it looks pretty bland and washed out to me, maybe they are playing on a PS3?

[Endigiont]

I don't know about High Quality, it looks pretty bland and washed out to me, maybe they are playing on a PS3?

I mean the last video of the Black shroud all the little buildings and such, you know stuff in the zone.