Perykos and Thalaos

[NoloeTazier]

The Thalaos skeleton is very far from where Cassiopeia Hallow and Camp Bloodshore would be. It'd be one heck of a geological movement.

http://www.xivdb.com/?maps/34/s1f5-0...pper-La-Noscea

So the Thalaos skeleton is to the west of the actual Bronze Lake. That's a huge distance for it to have migrated underground and end up resting up on a ledge. While the area of Camp Bronze Lake in 1.0 was very hilly, so it'd be reasonable enough for a layer of the hill to be removed and a skeleton to protrude. But I don't think it'd be likely to move from underground in Cassiopeia Hallow across very hilly and rocky land to end up resting well above where it had been.

[Catapult]

Geese, these guys are getting to know me...

TBH, I'm more worried about the gemstones than this. It's the little things that are the big giveaways.
The mineralogy of the deeper Copperbell Mines is currently bugging the hell out of me.

[Mjollnir]

Geese, these guys are getting to know me...

TBH, I'm more worried about the gemstones than this. It's the little things that are the big giveaways.
The mineralogy of the deeper Copperbell Mines is currently bugging the hell out of me.

If the geology's bugging you, you're lucky you're not into flora. You'd throw the whole game out the window!

[Catapult]

If the geology's bugging you, you're lucky you're not into flora. You'd throw the whole game out the window!

True, dat. I'd go insane.

[Akujin]

Heeeey..I have an idea. Random, derailing, sorry. But still!

Could someone who is possibly a little more photo-editing inclined than myself take the new maps and superimpose them over the old map/region areas, so we can infact see if things are still in the same geographical areas, if things were shifted massively one way or another, or if they just completely lifted and resat some locations to somewhere else they would otherwise prefer? Just by roaming the areas and going by memory of the former maps things appear to be somewhat still in the general same directions. Just an idea anyways.

As for the serpent discussion - I saw that thing while exploring. Didn't realize what it was at first, I saw what appeared to be bone fins or something and dropped down, did a 180 and came face to face with this massive skull..sat back going..wtf. lol

[Anonymoose]

Could someone who is possibly a little more photo-editing inclined than myself take the new maps and superimpose them over the old map/region areas, so we can infact see if things are still in the same geographical areas, if things were shifted massively one way or another, or if they just completely lifted and resat some locations to somewhere else they would otherwise prefer?

It started out as one and turned into the other, as far as I can tell. The concept art maps can be laid right over the previous maps and, even though they look very different, they can be lined up perfectly. The maps that were designed based on those concepts, not so much (again, as far as I can tell).

[Catapult]

Yeah... I wouldn't want to try photoshopping the old and new in-game maps together.

The whole point of re-doing the scenery was because of the messed up copy-pasta landscape in the first place. I say let sleeping dogs lie.