Final Fantasy 14 Beta is out!

[NinkobEi]

Well yeah but it was logical to assume you were talking about a plain 360 and not a controller the game isn't made for .

I have no answers myself to the xp cap but it's probably reasonable to assume it's the same for every class and you could PROBABLY level other characters.

I think it's pretty unreasonable to put an experience cap up like that though, especially when I play a new game I spend lots of time on it and I'm not really looking forward to not playing a number of days because I can't progress any further

Well what if the cap is 30 hours per week? I mean that doesnt seem unreasonable.. would certainly balance out the guys who get to level 200 the first 3 days. And might give people who are just plain addicted to the game a chance to get out and do something else.

Just trying to think of some reasons why they would do this, not necessarily saying that I agree/disagree.

 

[Sreimund]

Well what if the cap is 30 hours per week? I mean that doesnt seem unreasonable.. would certainly balance out the guys who get to level 200 the first 3 days. And might give people who are just plain addicted to the game a chance to get out and do something else.

Just trying to think of some reasons why they would do this, not necessarily saying that I agree/disagree.

I just rechecked and it seems it's as follows:

8 hours at normal experience followed by 7 hours of reduces experience followed by no experience and lots of angry gamers

 

[INSTG8R]

Well I have hit a wall with quests anyway. I did most of the quests from Gridania except a few of the Lvl 10 ones then went down to Ul'dah and did ALL the quests available to me then teleported back to Gridania to try to finish up the higher level quests I missed but I can't accept anymore because it won't allow me to exchange any of the quests. So my Lancer is pretty much stuck at level 11 now unless I just want to go around grinding and attacking random things.

I am not really keen on the way they make you use spells as a Conjurer it's very difficult having to click your targets to cast. Weapon based combat is much simpler and effective.

 

[KainXS]

i wonder how well a 360 controller would work with this game..hmm

I play it with a 360 controller, play's pretty good with one too

 

[alexsubri]

Grrr..I've been trying for over a week now..Still suspended beta!? Will it be open again or am I beat?

 

[NinkobEi]

I play it with a 360 controller, play's pretty good with one too

yep got mine hooked up finally and running. plays better with it than keyboard. really. plus you can relax a bit more.. yet another thing PC has over console - the option to become a console just like consoles are trying to become PCs

 

[bogmali]

yep got mine hooked up finally and running. plays better with it than keyboard. really. plus you can relax a bit more.. yet another thing PC has over console - the option to become a console just like consoles are trying to become PCs

Anything special you had to do cause I plugged mine and the game does not recognize it

 

[NinkobEi]

Anything special you had to do cause I plugged mine and the game does not recognize it

Run the FF 12 config (should be under start menu, square enix). You'll need to set it up but its not difficult

 

[Apocolypse007]

I am having trouble with the "sticking to the task" alchemy levequest in gridania. Does anyone know where the guy is that gives you the required materials?

http://www.ffxivcore.com/wiki/Sticking_to_the_Task

edit:

Found it. the person is near the archer's guild.

 

[copenhagen69]

how is the game so far? fun? good weapons armor and that type of stuff? fun characters?



boooo i get accepted to the beta then I get this

New user registrations are not being accepted at this time.

while im trying to go DL the game

 

[NinkobEi]

how is the game so far? fun? good weapons armor and that type of stuff? fun characters?



boooo i get accepted to the beta then I get this



while im trying to go DL the game

hard to say. i have about 3 hours played time and I've only fought 4 mobs. Lots of questing/running around at the beginning and i lost patience. If nothing else it is a somewhat refreshing take on a stagnant MMORPG genre. It has its own flavor which is great, and its not just another WoW clone. It does need some work but there's plenty of potential.

 

[Apocolypse007]

It has potential indeed. I wish the quests were more straightforward though. It can be hard to find objectives. Also, there aren't many tutorials in the beta.

 

[TechPowerDown]

how do you manually patch this?

 

[NinkobEi]

how do you manually patch this?

I googled the file name and downloaded it, then put in in the corresponding folder: something like

Libraries: Documents: mygames > FFXIV beta version > downloads > ffxivbeta >bunch of freaking letters.

 

[bogmali]

how do you manually patch this?

Let the client download the initial file which will be a torrent file. Cancel the download and go to the folder where it was initially downloaded, launch the file on utorrent and restart the game client after torrent file is finished downloading.

 

[Apocolypse007]

while the initial download is best done manually, the patcher does a decent job with most of the latest updates.

 

[bpgt64]

I re-entered my code with Sqaure Enix and it allowed me in!!! Got to move around before my game crashed...6 try's later....

 

[WhiteNoise]

I was able to get accepted last night, (I already downloaded the game last week via torrent) and once logged in I created my character, watched 20 minutes of cutscenes, and then landed on the dock at some city. I managed to get to the first instance which is a bar/lounge area but I have not managed to get any further in the game.

So far the game has ran perfect for me. Not a single crash and according to fraps I'm getting 47-55 fps.

I'm running the game at default settings: 1920x1080 everything enabled 'on', 2x AA, shadows 'standard', and Ambient Occlusion, & Depth of Field by default are unchecked. Texture quality and texture filtering are both maxed out. (I did check both Ambient Occlusion, & Depth of Field at first as well as cranking up shadows to 'high' but I was then averaging 17 fps lol) So I reverted back.

the game is very fluid so far but I really have not played enough to properly judge it.

 

[TechPowerDown]

Any one else have the error? help?

 

[Sreimund]

http://img.techpowerup.org/100910/Fail700.jpg

Any one else have the error? help?

Usually I just press cancel or ok and then re-do the process. after that it works. Once I got that error and I pressed cancel and afterwards the game actually worked. If it repeats just assume the beta is broken again

 

[TechPowerDown]

Usually I just press cancel or ok and then re-do the process. after that it works. Once I got that error and I pressed cancel and afterwards the game actually worked. If it repeats just assume the beta is broken again

this is why i do not like beta's.....

 

[NinkobEi]

that error is because your virus protection blocked the beta installer. you gotta give it permission then run it again

 

[TechPowerDown]

that error is because your virus protection blocked the beta installer. you gotta give it permission then run it again

Thanks much man, i woulda never guessed.

Edit-how do you give it permission

 

[TechPowerDown]

Please help, i got the error again and don't know how to fix it

 

[NinkobEi]

I assume that you are running MSSE. Did you open the panel and allow the FFXIV beta thing?