Final Fantasy XIV

I really don't enjoy the wailing in the forest during the daytime. I actively avoided going there unless it was night or I could be bothered to put my own tunes on. Other than though, yes.

565 hours in and I've finally graduated from sprout status. Pretty sure that's the longest tutorial I've ever played.

Just finished the Nier Automata raids. As a massive fan of that game they were a real treat to play through, great to see 2B and 9S again and to hear that music... especially the Weight of the World/FF theme mash up.

Still playing this. Finished the base game and are working through the first expansion stuff now, cleared the second wing of the crystal tower raid.

Mostly just playing with a friend once week, but not really felt inclined to play more than that. Most of my enjoyment comes from making snarky comments to my friend about Alphi, the precocious twat.

It's perfectly fine, but can't say I've been hugely blown away either. I'll probably get a sub or whatever I need once I reach the end of the generous free trial, but can't see myself really bothering with the end game stuff once I've cleared the story.

Still chipping away at this, just starting the Heavensward story in earnest I think. I do like the story and characters, but I'm finding that the rotations starting to feel a bit bloated for my tastes. I'm get the feeling much of the FFXIV community would disagree but it's my personal preference. Might try making some rotation macros.

Perhaps related to that, but I'm not really sure I enjoy the duties that much generally. There have been a few of the larger ones - the crystal tower raids and a few of the hardmodes - where I just had no clear idea what was happening, just seems to be a lot of visual and audio clutter.

The whole scaling down to dungeons and losing abilities is still really throwing me off too.

So yeah, still want to complete the story line, but still don't think I'll bother sticking around at end game, and doubt I'll level many classes not currently on my pad (Dragoon and Red Mage now. Did try Black Mage but found the rotation too unforgiving of mistakes, and because I'm shit in duties I make lots of mistakes).

Both the classes I'm playing seem fully capable of jumping backwards off cliffs if not careful.

I really do need to sort out my keybinds though. If I can just stand there and turret it's fine, but as soon as moving is introduced I sometimes just can't reach keys very comfortably, and if I need to use and modifiers like alt or ctrl it takes me a moment to reorientate my fingers. The curse of small hands.

Currently use 1-6, A,D,R,F,Z,X,C,V. Even 6 is hard to press if I need to strafe left. Also have 3 mouse buttons bound. And even then there are some classes where I'm running out of easily reachable keys, especially when stuff like the non-class abilities come up, like sprint.

Pretty sure it's a *me* thing because most others seem fine with it, but yeah, I'd prefer fewer abilities.

I might actually try a controller at this point, might actually be easier for me.

This guide was a lot of help when I was switching from KB & M

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFHeZxJOgo

Re-subbed so I could play the expansions after finishing ARR a couple of years ago. Whilst trying to decide whether to continue as a bard or white mage, I did a dungeon run npcs and was really surprised at how well it worked. A great way of getting some practice in, but also to just skipping the mmo aspect all together.

I'm going to confuse everyone by bumping this thread up to near the FFXVI one.

Just picked this up from the Steam sale. Probably won't jump straight in whilst I'm still in the grip of Diablo 4, but wondering if there are any particular tips that a complete noob of these sort of games should know before starting? I know so little that I only just realised that I was going to have to pay a sub after 30-days (I assume that is 30-days after registering and not from now).

It's 30 days free, then sub, yeah.
If you've already made the account, it's too late to do this, but there is a free trial that gives you the base game and first expansion for free, and I think you'd be able to then apply your Steam version on top to unlokc full game. There's a bunch of restrictions like amount of gil, not being able to interact with the market boards - support.eu.square-enix.com/rule.php?id=5383&la=2&tag=freetrial - but nothing too onerous.

In terms of ingame tips. I guess follow the Main Scenario Quests (the icon looks like a golden burning meteor). There's been serious improvements to the base game (being able to run dungeons with NPCs, reworked several key story instances) but it can still feel like an old design. Doesn't really matter which class you start as. If you're not jiving with it after you reach MSQ level 10, you can unlock a new on and just try that instead.

I'm sure other would have plenty of other tips, so I'll leave it at that for now. It is a frankly enormous game.

Yep, no time limit.

The free trial is pretty generous. There is a Gil cap that you reach well before the trial runs out, which is when I subbed, but in terms of the other restrictions - market boards etc- I haven't really bothered with those since subbing as it's not really needed imo. Depending where your interests lie.

Free trial is really generous but there are quite a few restrictions with friends, partying and whispering people etc.

I've been subbed for nearly 3 years 😮

Surprisingly, as I had no idea this was anywhere near releasing, I’m currently downloading an open beta for this on Xbox.

Haven’t played a proper old skool style MMo in years, so quite up for this.