FFXIV

The Live letter can be watched on YouTube.

Everything Announced:

• Patch 7.1 named Crossroads
• Releasing mid-November
• MSQ will dive deeper into Zoraal Ja’s character
• Pelupelu Society Quests
• Additional Wachumeqimeqi Quests
• Manderville/Hildibrand quests are back!
  • More of a short introduction, and will be expanded on later
• NewGame+ for 7.0
  • MSQ
  • Job Quests
  • Role Quests
• Duty Support
  • non-MSQ dungeons implemented moving forward.
  • Halatali added in 7.1
• Updates to Hall of Novice
  • Training for specific mechanics to be added
    • Unlocked at lv.49
    • Stack markers
    • Tank Busters
• PVP Updates
  • Action execution and hit detection updates
  • Job actions additions and adjustments
    • Except for Viper and Pictomancer
  • Red Sands and Cloud Nine arena improvements
  • Frontline and Rival Wings balance adjustments
  • Series 7 starts with 7.1
• New Dungeon: Yuweyawata Field Station
• Alliance Raid: Echos of Vana’diel
  • Final Fantasy XI for those who don’t know.
  • Part 1 - Jeuno: The First Walk
  • Staff from XI helped work on it
• New Trial: The Minstrel’s Ballad - Sphene’s Burden
• New Unreal Trial: The Jade Stoa
  • Setup for lv.100 and future Unreal Trials will aim for this.
• New Battle Content
  • Chaotic Alliance Raid
    • “Savage” difficulty 24-man Raid
    • Only one planned so far.
    • The Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) - she appears on the key art.
    • Has new mechanics
    • No trash mobs so may only be the last boss.
    • Offers unique rewards for completing
    • Uses new reward system to encourage replay and help others
  • New Ultimate Raid: Futures Rewritten
    • Possibly to be released shortly after 7.1 release date, cannot confirm right now
• Doman Mahjong Updates
  • Voiced reactions and commentary from Scions
• Housing Updates
  • Interior renovation - various different designs to choose.
  • Removing pillars and changing staircases for example.
  • Free as often as you want to change
  • Would like to offer interior size changes in the future (make Small house a Large inside)
• Dawntrail OST to be release.
• The Primals latest concert (Sept. 21) available to stream.
• New Merch (already announced throughout TGS)
• This is part one of the PLL, part two will be later and include updates on graphic changes, characters, etc

• Sunday, 29 September 2024 at 5:50 (GMT) / 6:50 (BST) / 15:50 (AEST)
• Will be showing 7.1

All as usual fairly pricey, but the desk mat in particular is pretty cool!

Few highlights that I found interesting:

• Alliance Raid is coming in the first patch.

“In patch 7.1, we will be having the [FF11 crossover] alliance raid Echoes of Vana’diel, and we are also creating a 24-person savage which is shaping up to be really good.”

• They built it with expected wipes in mind.

“When a player goes through on their first playthrough they will probably wipe three times – this was what we felt was a good line to draw.”

• “24-man Savage” will be different content from normal.

“On the other hand, the 24-person savage – this is going to be a completely different boss. So it is going to be completely different content”

We do plan to continue working on expanding functionality for people who love their fashion. And with regards to the two dye channel system, we still haven't updated all of our previous assets for the system, so we are working on that, and we should be able to finish all of the existing assets by patch 7.3. That is our first goal right now. But after we get through that, then we will be thinking about what to do next.

Nothing big, but the notable parts are:

• European AWS data center closed.
• Tuli and S9 no longer instanced.
• 30 minute logout system disabled.
• Bunch of bugfixes.

Lastnight the game came under DDOS attack yet again. I’ve not been able to log in this morning to see if this has been resolved yet but they’ve not reported the recovery on The Lodestone so I’m assuming it’s still ongoing.

Reading through her credits, wow did she voice a lot. The biggest one for me personally is probably Bayonetta. Would have never guessed that the same woman also voices Merlwyb.

o7

This is largely a silly post, but I'm curious if anyone has any fun conspiracy theories. Like why does Tataru need that knife on her belt? Is it because she's got some NEFARIOUS dealings going on to get all that money?

More so, I just wanted to see if anyone else believes that the Random Mount button isn't fully "random." I swear I see the same handful of mounts summoned more than others. If I see the Manacutter or Yol summoned ONE MORE TIME, I swear...