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Beta NDA Temporarily Dropped
simsalabim77
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Everything from phase 2 is open for discussion. Videos, images, sound. etc is not allowed to be posted. I've tested since the start of phase 1.
If you have questions, post em' and I will try and answer them to the best of my ability. Please do understand that we only have access to one area of the game, so plenty of things can, and likely will change, but I figured for those that are interested, I can give you a general idea of where the game is headed.
edit: Turns out I should have read the announcement a little closer. I can talk about character creation, and the starter area. So, no specifics on dungeons or combat later in the game it seems.
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On these forums all games are wow clones.
Hrm. Character creation . . .
How are the options on the male miqote? (probably spelling that wrong, the new version of the mithra)
If you've played WoW, it will feel very familiar. It is certainly a modern theme park MMO. If youre the type of person who thinks rift and swtor are wow clones, then you will think ARR is one as well.
Pretty standard fare at this point. No sliders or anything to create a unique look, but there are plenty of options to fiddle with. There are two tribes, one having darker skin and one lighter. You can control height, weight, muscularity, jaw shap, eyebrows, scars... Etc pretty good. Not great, but not bad.
Go to important notices on the forums. It's the first thread.
You keep posting about this game and you clearly haven't fully done your research, also NDA was lifted for a press release not for all players.
Furthermore this game is not a WoW clone unless every themepark is a WoW clone. Nothing like SWTOR either, both of those games its 1 class = 1 character having access to all 18 specializations on 1 character and being able to draw from different abilitiies to utilize different builds is a huge variation in itself.
Beta phase 1-2 is up to level 35.... I know your used to blizzard and NA games but in a game from a japanese company like SE having even 1 level 50 thats the equivalant of like level 20... Which is why most people who follow your logic quit and continue hopping from game to game building poor communities because you complain its easy mindless yet you also call it a eastern grindfest when people say you need to level multiple classes to 50. Can't have it both ways but in dungeons in FFXIV I wouldn't even run with someone who didn't have at least a 2nd 50, because it was too inefficient and 2.0 has been designed the same for later content. So you either group up and get some classes up to 50 or you solo to 50 and than quit because you wanted WoW and its not. Much more deeper than SWTOR i can't believe you even made that claim i got 50 in 3 days in SWTOR took me 3 months in 1.0.
You've seen the entry level content they stated is very casual for new players and have yet to see any aspects of the majority of the game yet judge like you know anything at all.
P.S this is coming from a beta tester since alpha and a beta tester since 1.0
So it has finally begun
Just to provide extra verification and clarification:
For the duration of the Nico event, the NDA has been dropped for content pertaining to character creation, Old Gridania and New Gridania. From what I've been reading, it DOES NOT include areas outside of these points.
Old Gridania and New Gridania are just the town sections of Gridania, and thus fighting and quests/fates are highly likely to still be off limits. If you're in beta, please look at the forum topic that outlines the above, and if you don't know if something is still under NDA then play it safe and don't post it.
As the OP said, Images and videos are still under NDA.
Just remember, if a game uses a hotbar UI and has quests, it is a WoW clone.
Right?
I'm fairly sure the exclaimation points above quest givers heads makes said game a wow clone, do not pass go, not not collect 200 dollars.
ummm reread my edit first off, 2nd having 1 character with in-depth crafting and multiple lvl 50's and being able to utilize their abilities for your own builds when solo'ing or jobs that utilize 3 lvl 50's abilities is nothing like WoW. Thats a pretty simple concept WoW, SWTOR, etc 1 class 1 job a lot less versatility.
What im saying is iffy? Im basing it off of developers notes and statements to their fanbase for the last 2 years of development + experience in their previous MMOS while YOUR basing what the content will be like on a reduced beta phase of an already designed casual grind to your FIRST lvl 50? Again i was saying 1 35 in FF= to like a lvl 15-20 in a game like WoW because I know its a hard concept to get if you've never played it but 1 lvl 50 in FF games doesn't really mean a ton, now you have access to more of the game but its nothing like reaching level caps in WoW or SWTOR where its just a loot grind. You still have an immense amount of character building to do, drastically different you see?
Oh and if you want to claim that getting more jobs to 50 is more content and more end game, its exactly the same as leveling Alts in other games. Since Classes restrict your ability selection (very much so) what is the difference between rerolling a toon and switching to a lvl 1 White mage? There isn't one.
More than you would expect and probably need, but not as much as say Champions Online or other games with sliders. Each section of the body pretty much has a choice of size, then multiple ways to change appearance (size/length/look) and the color thereof (sometimes multiple colors). This includes hair, tattoos, tail, busts (for females), eyes (able to have one eye a color and the other a different), etc.
16 skin tones and 12 voices to pick... obviously quite a bit of faces and features, scars and the like. Pretty much everything is customizable and has a sizable lot to pick from (but again, no sliders to speak of).
You also have the ability to choose from very small, small, normal, tall and very tall in terms of picking their overall height.
It probably won't leave you for lacking, and I've yet to see anyone who looks like the characters I've made.
Also, they haven't put in all of the options yet.
There are a lot of NDA violations in this thread.
THE NDA FOR THINGS OUTSIDE OF GRIDANIA IS STILL IN EFFECT. It is New Gridania and Old Gridania that are free game. The towns. You can't talk about adventuring outside of the non-combat towns.
So you can't talk about things that Yoshi P says in his videos?
Cus i'm pretty sure you can.
Oh please. Did you bother to read my post whatsoever. Try re-reading it and thinking about what I actually said. I am pretty tired of the FFXIV defense force.
Furthermore this game is not a WoW clone unless every themepark is a WoW clone.
That's basically what I said, but you saw something "negative" being said about your precious and just couldn't stand it.
I didn't call the game an eastern grindfest anywhere. Level 50 in 1.0 could be grinded in a single day by the way. Anyways, I'm going to utilize this forum's ignore feature because I really do not have the patience for this type of thing.
edit: I even stated that all of this is subject to change and some of it very likely will. I know I'm posting information from the starting phase. So do the people in this thread because I told them that. I thought I had my bases covered against the, "It's only beta" excuse, but I guess I was wrong.
I meant to put on these (outside) forums. Though yes, people are perverting what was said and casually referring to things that do not pertain to the town areas of both Old and New Gridania (or the character creation system). Facts do not need fiction to make them true. In addition, nobody outside the beta should know the specifics of a beta test and what is available (even the current level cap in non-press beta).
So you can't discuss anything but New and Old Gridania? Not even other unclassified things that also relate to the game? Like, oh, info that we all know about because they've spoken about said info letters to the producer or video letters? I mean that can't be classified...
Edit: I read your edit, I agree now, that specfic detail might not be public knowlege, but I'm not sure on that... he might have said the level cap in a video for instance. He does walk a fine line on a lot of them heh.
Isn't it showing whats available by telling them what they can talk about? I mean if even a little? It seems a bit silly to lift the NDA at all IMO.
I'm level 1 in New Gridania, but I can open my spell book and see that I stop getting spells at level 35, so that must mean the cap is level 35. Also, I can look at a spell tooltip at level 1 while in New Gridania and tell you that it is a 2.5 second wait between using abilities.
Honestly, temporarily dropping the NDA for everyone for 2 days without being very specific on the details is just opening themselves up to this type of thing. Should not have happened at all IMO.