What are these Machines in this Compound?

[Cairdeas]

If they are really materia reactors (which is what people were suggesting as far back as alpha) then that means SE always planned to introduce the materia system.

[Maxi_Irving]

If they are really materia reactors (which is what people were suggesting as far back as alpha) then that means SE always planned to introduce the materia system.

How were people seeing these in alpha? We only had La Noscea up until Open Beta.

[AlexiaKidd]

How were people seeing these in alpha? We only had La Noscea up until Open Beta.

Very true, they have been in the game from release though as I saw them a long time ago but this is the first time I have actually bothered to go up close and investigate.

Now a new question, IF they are indeed Mako reactors and were put there from the start then the Materia System was not a new idea and was something that had been planned all along.

If the Materia System was planned from the start then what else are they not telling us? We know a lot of stuff got pulled from the game before release was this one of the things or was it just not complete. If so then are they really making all these new changes or are they just finally getting around to implementing and finishing content they had planned from the start as they released to early.

I have been around the whole area now and you can't get close to the Reactors as every possible path is blocked off with temporary fences, like the ones in the Cities that stop you from getting into area's your not supposed to yet.

North of Camp Blue Frog, good luck getting there. They added diremites and that patch that increased the mob population makes it one interesting trip You can see them in the distance from the camp, to get closer you gotta sneak around a pack of bloodthirsty mongrels

And they are the easy mobs later you have to dodge Headrip Ogres, Inferno Drakes, Widowmakers and some R90+ Beastmen are floating about too lol. I got one shotted at R50 with 395 DEF by a Smolenkos that hit me for 2325 DMG ; ;

New Shots from above and some building in the compounds:

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1305413589.jpg

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1305413751.jpg

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1305414065.jpg

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1305412599.jpg

[Nuru]

How were people seeing these in alpha? We only had La Noscea up until Open Beta.

There were pre-release pictures of these mechanisms before alpha began. I think that is what Cair meant.

[Cairdeas]

How were people seeing these in alpha? We only had La Noscea up until Open Beta.

To all the people asking how we knew about these in alpha. They released a screen shot of those towers BEFORE alpha.

[Aizm]

If they are really materia reactors (which is what people were suggesting as far back as alpha) then that means SE always planned to introduce the materia system.

There was no Thanalan in the alpha >.>