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Final Fantasy XIV Information Thread | PC Open Beta... yeah it's not really open.
- Thread starter Kagari
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Conceited said:
it doesn't
SE said that, i believe?
makes sense really, since they can't really implement it without a way to get around it
unlike SP fatigue that allows you to change job and have it stopped and revert
iono why you got less points though
the xp/sp reward system in this game make no sense to me
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
You seriously can't install this to a second hard drive? It doesn't even give me a choice to install to anything but my C: drive. So dumb. Will the final game be like this?
Edit: How odd, it will let you install but you have to have enough to install to your C: drive before it even gives you a choice to install to a different drive instead.
Edit: How odd, it will let you install but you have to have enough to install to your C: drive before it even gives you a choice to install to a different drive instead.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
I just cut and paste my documents folder to my d drive haha
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
QisTopTier said:
Wait, that seriously works to trick it? :lol Why do companies still make stupid things like this for installs.
Ugh, I'm stuck at this stupid thing checking for updates. It prepares to download and reaches a 100% but then when it says downloading it doesn't actually do anything. There are no times and download speed is 0.0. Very disappointing so far.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
go inside the folder, and go into the meta folder there will be torrents there, use those. The first patch is like 4gigs
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
QisTopTier said:
I don't see a meta folder. Data and Client are the only two folders I see.
Edit: I see it now, was looking in the wrong place. Hopefully this turns out faster. I'm assuming they're just .exes?
Conceited said:
Combat skill ups are pretty random. You can kill two of the same mob and get zero skill up points from one and 200 from another. It's a completely separate issue from fatigue and something else which should be adjusted. Harvesting skill ups have always been consistent and crafting skill ups were wildly inconsistent in previous beta phases but were fixed in open beta, but unfortunately combat skill ups weren't touched.
You will know if you're fatigued because you will get messages in the chat log saying you are getting surplus skill points and your current rank points on the progress bar on the main menu will be in orange numbers. In phase 3 it took taking a class from rank 1 to rank 14 in a single week to start getting fatigued. It sounds like you're not suffering fatigue but just got bad luck not getting many skill ups on some mobs.
DrForester
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jiggle said:woh oh look what struck besaid
dude was spamming it every 3 seconds nonstop XD
Same thing, same message on Rabinastre
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
jiggle said:woh oh look what struck besaid
dude was spamming it every 3 seconds nonstop XD
Aren't they wiping all characters and stuff when the game comes out?
Wonder what business is like for these guys right now :lol
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
No after you dl the patch you gotta run the dler again and it will patch it after that :lol
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
QisTopTier said:
Do I just put it in the folder where the torrent links were or where do they go? I don't mind the updating, it's just that the downloading was projecting close to a week to finish downloading since it was doing so at 13.3kb/s roughly. I hope it's not this bad with the final game. This whole process just feels so painful.
QisTopTier
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Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Yeah you put them in the same folder, well there is a folder called patch in that same area that's where they go.
there should be two folders one with a b near the start and one with a d.
Grab the torrents and drop the patches where they go when it comes up
Sounds more complicated than it is
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I dont remember ff11 having a ton of quest to level off of.... you kinda just killed monsters in that. hey why dont you do that here!
anyone know how to mind? i've very clueless on how to successfully excavate material.
first theres this bar thing that says material expose, what exactly does this do?
second there's the circle that probably indicates how hard you strike with your pick, but it seems you can only strike 3 times at most, no matter how small or how big it is.
then there's the information after each strike, you get something like "you are getting closer" "you don't find anything interesting"...etc, how should i react to these messages ? strike harder? strike softer?
first theres this bar thing that says material expose, what exactly does this do?
second there's the circle that probably indicates how hard you strike with your pick, but it seems you can only strike 3 times at most, no matter how small or how big it is.
then there's the information after each strike, you get something like "you are getting closer" "you don't find anything interesting"...etc, how should i react to these messages ? strike harder? strike softer?
blitz64
Member
jiggle said:
How long does that take? 30 minutes?
Is it safe or will there be some monsters that will aggro and 1 hit you?
How do I attack the monster that is attacking me? I hit tab and sometimes it takes forever to tab to that monster or I hit tab too many times. Mouse clicking seems slow but maybe I'll have to use it.
blitz64 said:
20 minutes from gridania to uldha?
20 more to get from uldha to boat? (boat ride takes time, but u just sit around)
just guessing though
i killed helpless bunnies along the way
Ant Diggers will aggro kill you
but there's only 1 place where you actually need to avoid them
which is on your way to uldha
just remember to activate all the camps on your way
FFXI didn't have xp chains for ages. And for years they had a max chain of 5 or 6 too.Conceited said:
Man, this sounds like it's taking the game right back to the beginning, which is kind of nice for me. I just can't decide whether to try out the beta or have a totally clean slate when the retail version comes out.
Dreamwriter
Member
I believe you can still participate in other people's leves, you just can't start your own.blitz64 said:
After putting a good number of hours into the open beta I think I won't be buying this game day one. I may get it sometime down the road , but the performance of this is just awful. The menu lag + the game running in <15FPS in towns makes this game unplayable for me. Lots of small problems ruin the game for me.
Really?Conceited said:
The MMO has to be really carefully controlled at the start of its lifetime. In the case of FFXI, chains and significantly easier EXP were added to the game so that it became easier to level new jobs up. There's no point in enabling a subset of players to sprint their way to the level cap within the first week. Stall them, make them enjoy the other aspects of the game first. That's kind of key at this stage.
TheFatOne said:
may i know what are you PC's specs? I'm having the exact issues, i even get <10 FPS at the market place. Limsa seems to be worst out of all the towns, Uldah was alright.
then again, i'm on a Core 2 Duo, so the CPU has been choking like hell trying to process everything.
TheFatOne said:
so much better spec than mine, man i feel hopeless
335m overclocked
4 Gig
SU7400 overclocked to 1.73
i've squeezed pretty much everything out of my laptop. Is this the most demanding MMO in the market or what? Im somewhat regret getting this laptop early without thinking arg..