Final Fantasy 14 Beta is out!

[W1zzard]

every time i enter the lobby

 

[W1zzard]

works now after switching from windowed to fullscreen

 

[W1zzard]

lol character bugged .. it's standing at the start of the "escort to lighthouse" mission and the quest text says "after arriving at the lighthouse". can't redo the mission, it's the only mission i have ..

bye bye final fantasy 14 ..

north america beta code if anyone needs: FDWU-C6TK-6SZ5-SLK6-EFB6

 

[human_error]

grr I've created my character but get a hidden error window when entering the game about unable to find dx9 device :shadedshu

yeah no hardware cursor = BAD - Square needs to change that...

**edit**

in-game now.

8fps...nice... rubbish in-game AA is rubbish and inefficient...

**edit 2**

I think a cut-scene just tried to play. Saw 1 frame in the middle then it went black again

Oh and no alt-tabbing. Alt+tab = game closes. Even the natural selection 2 alpha supports alt+tabbing...

Graphics are very nice when they load though, just wish there was some AA to see...

 

[WhiteLotus]

So this game sounds buggier than the Amazonian rainforest.

 

[INSTG8R]

So this game sounds buggier than the Amazonian rainforest.

Sounds like.
Dunno yet, it keeps locking up trying to update the last few files. But it sounds like I'm not missing anything...:shadedshu

 

[human_error]

OH GOD THE MOUSE LAG. I'm finding it a challenge using the menus because the cursor is about 2 seconds behind me

Still awful framerates - disabling crossfire to see if that's it.. - NOPE.

**edit**

protip - the "home" key opens the main menu. Took me a while to find that out...

 

[digibucc]

see im using kb for most everything ... may just get it for the ps3 but still seeing if i like the game itself or not ...

j and l rotate the camera

 

[ERazer]

this beta is killing me :shadedshu

 

[digibucc]

working well for me - lag is not bad, started download fresh at about 8 this morning, was ready by 10 - servers back up around 2 and i've been screwing around since - no problems yet.

 

[human_error]

I'm not liking how all the other players stop and perv at my character when they see it...

OTOH turning most the graphics down is really helping with the framerate issues...but i bought this graphics card so i wouldn't have to turn things down/off

 

[ShiBDiB]

I tried playing and jus kept getting CTD's.... this game is nowhere near ready for release.

 

[Cold Storm]

There is a reason why they beta test.. mind you that a lot of it should of been fixed before the beta was started. I'll try it out, then if the paid version sucks... I'll be mad then.

 

[digibucc]

I tried playing and jus kept getting CTD's.... this game is nowhere near ready for release.

i've been playing hours no issue - not saying that means it is ready for release - but I believe it means it is somewhere near ready for release


I will be getting it for PS3 though... it's just easier to put so many hours into a game when you can vegitate.

 

[human_error]

i've been playing hours no issue - not saying that means it is ready for release - but I believe it means it is somewhere near ready for release

not from my perspective (yes i know others may not get these issues but my machine isn't exactly weak and you shouldn't be getting this many issues so soon before release - they have what 20 days to fix everything?):-
- massive fps issues
- incredibly laggy cursor
- laggy interface (even witha keyboard it is always a second behind keypresses)
- easy to get lost
- clicking on interface options sometimes works
- i was given about 3 pages worth of quest text at once which i had to scroll up through and then down again to see what had been said
- the map sucks really badly (no zoom or panning?)
- minimap is laggy - takes a second or two to change the direction the arrow is facing
- help system is not helpful. At all. It doesn't tell you anything useful - eg ("when you complete a mission approach teh glowy thing" - i walked upto it. Then into it. Nothing happened.
- combat - i tried attacking a rat which was the name of a creature i was meant to kill. It would not let me attack it at all. Then after looking for more rats i find rats which have icons over them - i assume only the mission owner can kill quest creatures - it would have been nice if the game told me that first. Now this is something i'd expect to see early on in an open beta, but there's just soo many other issues i wonder if it will get fixed for release.
- i have skillpoints to assign but there is no hovertext saying what the different attributes actually do
- choppy animations - maybe because of my iffy framerate but the animations although well designed playback in a very choppy fashion
- load times - loading times are rediculous - i can load crysis levels off my slowest hard drive faster than this game loads small instances
- interface - i went from fullscreen to windowed mode to try and fix some issues and found my whole interface was still rendered off-screen as the window was smaller than the original full-screen size. So if i get a new lower-res monitor i can't play?
- It's quiet. Very quiet. Now i'm not asking for voice acting all the way through but you'd have thought there would be some basic voice acting for the beginner questlines - the mouthes move but no sound comes out. All the new MMO's i've played have at least some voice acting for quests (at least beginner ones). This late in the day i'd expect at least placeholder voice acting if there was going to be any.
- The damn thing crashes as soon as it loses focus - in fullscreen alt+tab and boom! in windowed mode if you highlight a different screen for more than 10 seconds the game crashes and closes.
- The in-game menu - it takes up 1/3 of the screen to give you what? 10 options? It doesn't need all that space. In fact it doesn't use that space - most of it is blank space which just covers up the pretty scenes behind.

I know it is a beta. I know how betas usually play (and a couple of alphas too) - i've been in a LOT of alphas and betas in my time, and this is the worst MMO beta i've been in by a looooong way. Instead of me finding issues with missing quest items, or massive inbalances in skills/classes or exploits or holes in the terrain I'm not even able to properly test that as there is soo much wrong with the interface and the whole UI experience. It is just about playable with a keyboard, and impossible with a mouse - these are basics which should have been fixed before the beta.

My feeling is that this game needs 2-3 months of serious polish on the entire UI and on the graphics performance and animations before this is ready. The ambient sounds are very poor at this stage as all i hear is music. That's it. I'm in a busy area and there's no wind, no background npc chatter, just some quiet music.

I have no idea how the latency to the server is because everything is so laggy on the client side i could have 1500ms ping and wouldn't know.

Saying all that the game looks pretty - a lot of work has gone into the environments and characters, which isn't bad but it seems everything else has suffered (UI, basic performance, user experience).

So far i give this game a 3/10 - if they completely re-did the UI to be as responsive and easy to use as every other MMO out there ever, fixed the terrible client-side performance, re-designed the help menu system (no more options embedded through 3-5 sub-menus you must navigate with up/down arrows, enter and escape on the keyboard which takes about 1 second to register input) and added more sounds (background sounds, key mission vocalisation) then i'd be looking at an 8 or 9 out of 10. This game is not ready, nor will it be up to scratch in 20 days when it releases.

/rant off.

 

[Solaris17]

how do you request a key? I cant find it anyware. iv looked all over my main enix account and then in account managment. I found were to enter my key. but not were to request one. You guys make it seem like its a massive button thats stupid easy to find but i dont see it.

 

[human_error]

how do you request a key? I cant find it anyware. iv looked all over my main enix account and then in account managment. I found were to enter my key. but not were to request one. You guys make it seem like its a massive button thats stupid easy to find but i dont see it.

http://entry.ffxiv.com/ < there (select region, scroll to bottom of page).

 

[W1zzard]

So far i give this game a 3/10 - if they completely re-did the UI to be as responsive and easy to use as every other MMO out there ever, fixed the terrible client-side performance, re-designed the help menu system (no more options embedded through 3-5 sub-menus you must navigate with up/down arrows, enter and escape on the keyboard which takes about 1 second to register input) and added more sounds (background sounds, key mission vocalisation) then i'd be looking at an 8 or 9 out of 10. This game is not ready, nor will it be up to scratch in 20 days when it releases.

/rant off.

agree. i'm usually VERY patient when it comes to testing mmorpgs but so far i'm done with ff14

 

[The Witcher]

Man, finally I logged in the damn site and it seems like there is a bug, because it shows me that I've logged in with a different account, my nickname in this different account is.....AssHole, I'm not joking xD. I always get the worst things in the world.

 

[human_error]

Man, finally I logged in the damn site and it seems like there is a bug, because it shows me that I've logged in with a different account, my nickname in this different account is.....AssHole, I'm not joking xD. I always get the worst things in the world.

It's because the site has too much traffic to handle. Don't worry about it - you only need that site to get the download for the game client - once it is downloaded and the game installed then your username and password will work fine when logging into the game.

 

[INSTG8R]

Well I am starting to wrap my head around it(With my 2nd created character anyway, I made a mess of my first one with quests)
But man the performance is horrid, doesn't seem to matter if you turn off all the bells and whistles it still runs like crap.
I haven't given up on it but they have got to do something about the performance especially considering human error is running a 5970 and he has performance issues.
It seems to me like this is already a port but being tested on the PC

 

[digibucc]

It seems to me like this is already a port but being tested on the PC

my thoughts.

only - I am not having all the issues everyone else is and am beginning to wonder why. It did crash once, and the mouse is slow, but not laggy . I also barely use the mouse.

obviously there are issues, but I am wondering where they are coming from as I am not experiencing them myself...

regardless, as said - I will be getting it for PS3

 

[INSTG8R]

my thoughts.

only - I am not having all the issues everyone else is and am beginning to wonder why. It did crash once, and the mouse is slow, but not laggy . I also barely use the mouse.

obviously there are issues, but I am wondering where they are coming from as I am not experiencing them myself...

regardless, as said - I will be getting it for PS3

Yeah I'm kinda thinking the same seeing the last on I played was on Playstation (FF7) But then I just can't see myself paying a monthly fee on this for what it is.

 

[Solaris17]

request page is live for those who missed out.

 

[Jaffakeik]

strange i want to register but it says email already registred,but when i use my login and password nothing heppens.