Verbal NDA lifted - Discussion thread

As Steven just announced he released testers from their verbal NDA (still no images)

Feel free to post your verbal descriptions of things and general impressions of the core systems

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Tyranthraxus

IT'S A TRAP!

Vhaeyne

Great game. The core is there! I had a blast all weekend.

Played mage and cleric. I flagged a lot AOE farming.
Spear is the best!

Asgerr

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Great game. The core is there! I had a blast all weekend.

Played mage and cleric. I flagged a lot AOE farming.
Spear is the best!

Please tell me more about the SPEAR!!

As a wannabe Dragoon I need to know how it plays

Shoelid

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Great game. The core is there! I had a blast all weekend.

Played mage and cleric. I flagged a lot AOE farming.
Spear is the best!

I agree! Had tons of fun. The core is definitely there. I can see their vision and I'm excited.
I played cleric and tank, also tons of AOE farming, but didn't PvP as much as I would have liked.
Spear is the best!

Sathrago

Bro yall speaking my language with this spear business.

Can you explain how weapons function? Like are they just auto attackers or can you skill it up and use more abilities in addition to your class kit?

Vhaeyne

Asgerr wrote: »

Please tell me more about the SPEAR!!

As a wannabe Dragoon I need to know how it plays

Spear is a beat stick with a few feet of range and a wide arc so far. Reminds me of lineage 2 spear, but you click to swing instead of auto attack. That is about it so far. I tried all of the weapons on my cleric and I liked spear the most.

No crazy dragoon stuff yet. It just felt good to pick up whatever weapon I want and try it in a game again.

Shoelid

Sathrago wrote: »

Bro yall speaking my language with this spear business.

Can you explain how weapons function? Like are they just auto attackers or can you skill it up and use more abilities in addition to your class kit?

As of now they're just stat-stick auto attackers. The only 'skill ups' present this weekend were for class abilities.

TheHiddenDaggerInn

Great to be able to talk about this now, the game is visually beautiful and as stated above many core elements are in and functioning, this weekend our guild [Stormborn] Leveled up a node too village and got to, buy different mounts. Water mount is awesome btw. The classes have been the same for a bit as they're were focused previously on getting the networking taken care of, which they have done a wonderful job of and have exceeded my expectations.

Overall was a awesome testing experience this past weekend, and previously we've a great group of testers that care about this project very deeply and are very excited to share it with the public.

JamesSunderland

Quite interested on people's experience in this May test!

Dygz

@Vhaeyne (Typo: Tired = Tried)

Weapons are press Q each time for basic attack, rather than auto-attack.
We had three skill trees for attack:
Passive | Active | Weapon

Only the Active skill tree was available. That has the Archetype abilities.
The other two skill trees are work in progress and were disabled.
I am curious to see if the Weapon skill tree changes based on the weapon that's equipped.

neuroguy

@Santanico Cool! Can you tell us a bit about how the world 'felt'? Was the minimap/world map detailed? Did the leveling of the node really feel like the area around it changed (in terms of mobs etc?) were you excited to see the ramifications of the node lvling up in the world? Or was the focus more the node (village/town) itself?? Ahhh I can't wait for alpha2 where I can test too.

TheHiddenDaggerInn

neuroguy wrote: »

@Santanico Cool! Can you tell us a bit about how the world 'felt'? Was the minimap/world map detailed? Did the leveling of the node really feel like the area around it changed (in terms of mobs etc?) were you excited to see the ramifications of the node lvling up in the world? Or was the focus more the node (village/town) itself?? Ahhh I can't wait for alpha2 where I can test too.

The world feels great, they're on a Alpha 1 map that is basically 1/5 I think of the size the world will actually be, that being said it still takes some time to get to 1 end of the map to the other. They've some teleporters to make it easier at some locations.

The Node leveling was very exicitng, seeing nothing, and then going to where you can sell some of your essences and materials, to when you finanally pop it and go to village, and then caravan merchant, Freehold housing, Alchemy merchant, stable master all appear. There was many mounts you could by some for 80g, most were 550g for the good ones.

You need a freehold to become a citizen which cost 1500g, we had 4 people who were citizens and we had a Mayoral vote and everyone voted for themself so I believe it then randomly chose him. To my knowledge he had the ability to constuct some buildings which required stone, lumber and so on.

Our carvan system was having some issues Steven had already mentioned so we will try that another day, but seeing a Mayor was super cool. Very excited to see the future upgrades.

Sathrago

How far along is the crafting? Which artisans are available?

Dygz

I don't like the mini-map. I also don't like the main map.
But, it's early days, so those should both improve.

Right now, the mini-map is mostly cluttered with mobs. There are icons on the mini-map intended to show flagged quest targets but they are too difficult to see in the sea of mob markers and distance is misleading - like you kinda see the edge of a quest target marker at the edge of the mini-map - which kinda gives an idea of direction (when it doesn't disappear for some reason), but you have no clue of distance. And opening the main map generally had no associated marker to cross-check.
Again, I expect that will improve significantly by Beta.

George_Black

I couldnt test this time around.
Was there dual wielding?

hiro

Asgerr wrote: »

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Great game. The core is there! I had a blast all weekend.

Played mage and cleric. I flagged a lot AOE farming.
Spear is the best!

Please tell me more about the SPEAR!!

As a wannabe Dragoon I need to know how it plays

Nice Love FFXIV Players! Hope you enjoy this new world when the NDA is lifted.

hiro

Here is a question guys, Is there a way to turn down battle effects of other yet and see if it effects performance? How did you all feel about the performance in general?

Dygz

George Black wrote: »

I couldn't test this time around.
Was there dual wielding?

I think there was no dual wielding.
No Rangers or Rogues, so, I'm not surprised.
Also, Alpha, so very basic combat.

Dygz

hiro wrote: »

Here is a question guys, Is there a way to turn down battle effects of other yet and see if it effects performance? How did you all feel about the performance in general?

Battle effects seemed fairly low key for Cleric and Tank.
Other than rubberbanding in crowded areas, I think performance was generally OK.

Wandering Mist

Hmm what to say....

The thing that stood out to me the most is the node progression and the dynamic world that is already present. Nodes can be levelled up to level 3 and the world does visually change from it, with new roads and bridges appearing once the nodes are levelled.

Yes the system is still in its infancy right now but the core concept is there and it's great.

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