SHADOWBRINGERS

[Alleo]

My guess is that we will do those things to bring back the balance. Right now we have been very effective in pushing back the darkness, now we suddenly will have to push against the light to bring back balance.
If done right this could result in us having to choose side in 6.0, either you play as a WoL or as a WoD. Two sides needed to keep the balance from going out of control again.

I still wonder what actions we have to do to bring some kind of balance back. Because if we are doing the same thing we are doing now then are we truly a WoD? But if we do it differently wouldnt that mean that we have to do some bad stuff? Also seemingly 5.0 will be the end of the empire and the Ascians so maybe we will be done with the big bads in the next expansion already.

[Balipu]

That trailer was interesting. Not sure I understand all of it. Funny thing about the keynote. It was still not said that we go to Garlemald.

[Sorimachi87]

Game has it's own launcher and the 32-bit option will disappear from the launcher.


And what do you mean with Steam defaulting to 32 bit exactly? Modern games with 64 bit run just fine in 64 bit trough Steam, most of these don't even have 32 bit support so ... ?

I just heard that from someone ingame and i feared the game wouldn't work anymore.. If that would have been the case i'd be buying the whole game again outside steam. But thats fine now i guess.
Thanks for the info.

[Annah]

its actually kind of funny reading all the earlier replies about the title

[Lauront]

I liked most of what I heard. Very glad to hear they want to grow the game more.

I'd like (and realise it's too early for) more detail on the job changes. I still want to see if they'll announce reducing the GCD to something like 2 seconds. Big undertaking but it'd be worth it to speed the game up a bit.

New PVP modes/content, expanding on Frontlines/Rival Wings type content and spicing it up a bit would be great. PVP overhauls to make it more enticing would generally excite me. No suggestion of it yet, but I remain optimistic.

I had hoped for graphics enhancements, but Yoshi had said they'd be more fitting closer to the PS5's release - unless they're hiding them for one of the other fanfests, which I doubt. We'll probably just see piecemeal enhancements for now. Char creation could really use them, though, as well as more design options, like more faces and more sliders per race.

I don't think we'll be done with the Ascians or Zodiark for now, assuming they're the true big bads; I'm starting to have my doubts on that. Probably 6.0, that arc will wrap up and we'll move onto another antagonist, like the Void and its denizens, or something else.

We'll likely see the end of the Empire as an Ascian tool, though, in 5.0. My suspicion is we'll work with them in some capacity, probably after we've liberated Garlemald (maybe aiding an already fed up Emperor Varis) from their grasp and then come to understand what's really going on.

I'm keen to learn more about 1) where we're going 2) what other jobs there will be 3) will BLU ever get to 80 and be able to participate in proper content 4) what races are being added, playable or otherwise and 5) what new job actions there will be and how they will tie in with the light/dark theme, if at all.

Super interested to see more pieces of the trailer.

I hope one of the future expansions sees the WoL (or WoD as he may now be) change to a BLM or similar job. A Sharlayan themed one will be perfect for it.

[BillyKaplan]

Probably 6.0, that arc will wrap up and we'll move onto another antagonist, like the Void and its denizens, or something else.

I'm not sure how much that would work, given that the Void is supposedly the work of the Ascians in the first place. Like how the First was overrun with Light because the WoDs (then, that world's WoLs) were too powerful, the Void became so because the Ascian entrusted with it was too strong for their WoL and the balance shifted too heavily towards Darkness.

If there's another villain beyond the Ascians, or another arc at all, I wonder if it's not Sharylan based. We always saw them as a power for good because of the Scions and individuals like Matoya, but the fact remains that they all up and abandoned Eorzea in its time of need, hoard a mountain of knowledge and refuse to share. We also know from things like the AST questline that they're not actually good people, they're neck deep in politics and think they know better than the rest of the world. That's a recipe for disaster.