Beta over, come back for early access if you have it, otherwise next Tuesday.
Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Woolygimp
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What. the. fuck? Two day beta test? Wasn't it supposed to be two weeks.
So is there any way I can play now, including buying the game?
Chysamere
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Nope. If you haven't bought the game yet you will have to wait for the 27th. If you pre-ordered you can start playing on the 24th. None of us can play until then.
Open Beta was 3 days and 6 hours.
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Really? No truth at all?
I had that global cooldown on every ability shit for archer constantly. There's a 2.5 second GCD, but there's also a smaller internal cooldown for all abilities. I couldn't execute Venomous Bite and then immediately hit Bloodletter, and I ran into that constantly. I'd run into not being able to stack "instants" as well: hit heavy shot, wait then hit bloodletter, wait then hit Misery's End, but I should be able to fire those off as fast as I could hit my keys (but couldn't).
As far as Sutekh's/your other points, whatever. But don't brush off the whole fucking post with "nothing truthful, derp!".
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There's abilities off the GCD, however you still need to wait for the animations for them so there's a disconnect between what the UI shows(you can cast) and what you can actually do.
To take a concrete example, Arcanists have an off the GCD nuke called Energy Drain. Now in wow for example, that'd mean you could cast Ruin(normal 2.5sec cast nuke), then right as it finishes, Drain instantly and start casting another Ruin right after. However it's not the case, instead it'll prevent you from casting ruin for like a second while the animation of Energy Drain plays. However on the other hand, say you cast Bio instead of Ruin. Bio is an instant cast dot but it's on the GCD, so you instant cast it then you sit there doing nothing for 2.5secs due to GCD. Well you can Energy Drain during that time, and it won't waste any time, at least most of the time(sometimes it seems it won't fire right away). It's kinda weird.
Sutekh
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You missed that part where the abilities I was talking about aren't on the GCD I mentioned in the sentence before. Obviously you didn't play archer (which is why I listed those specific abilities).
Utnayan
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/\/\ I played Archer so I can attest.
So...
I just opened my account to check to see if my early access code was still applied. That registration has now vanished and I can no longer input the data. Also, my account now is mysteriously a European account - (What the fuck?) and the registered early access code is no longer on either.
I'll tell you this much. I will be giving it a shot if this is all ironed out by Saturday for early access, but if I am jumping through hoops and 3102 errors, this company can kiss my ass. No matter how much good will they bought by saying they have made progress. The game is another mediocre wow clone that I was willing to give a month too, but if they cannot get any of this shit straight, I'll just cancel my preorder.
So...
I just opened my account to check to see if my early access code was still applied. That registration has now vanished and I can no longer input the data. Also, my account now is mysteriously a European account - (What the fuck?) and the registered early access code is no longer on either.
I'll tell you this much. I will be giving it a shot if this is all ironed out by Saturday for early access, but if I am jumping through hoops and 3102 errors, this company can kiss my ass. No matter how much good will they bought by saying they have made progress. The game is another mediocre wow clone that I was willing to give a month too, but if they cannot get any of this shit straight, I'll just cancel my preorder.
There are abilities that are "off" of the GCD. But they're not useable immediately- you have to wait for the previous GCD-locked ability's animation to finish. You end up having to spam the hell out of buttons because you need to make sure you hit the non-gcd button as soon as the GCD ability comes off animation or else the non-gcd button will animation-lock your next GCD ability. A short ability-queue would solve a lot of the problems of it feeling messy.
Utnayan
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Or, having some of these folks quit locking animations to GCD. This ruined SWTOR for months.
I noticed this a lot on my Marauder when I would have spam the button for one of my defensive buffs if I tried to use it right after an attack. Never realized that the animations were preventing me from using another skill.
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It's shitty because not all ability-animations are the same length, and I don't honestly see where those are listed anywhere. So in order to keep all of the GCD locked abilities constantly running, I can't use my instants unless it won't go through that time frame. If the heavy animation is .8 seconds, bloodletter is .8 second, and Misery's end is 1.2 seconds, then I'm past the GCD. So I end up having to do heavy shot, wait, bloodletter, wait, heavy shot, wait, misery's end.
Somehow instant isn't really instant.
This, exactly. I love the animations, but if I want to clip them, then let me fucking clip them for gameplay reasons.
tower
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This is my largest issue with the gameplay at the moment. I tried to explain to some FF fanboys/anime retards how much the "instant" weaving is going to suck end game if they dont fix it and of course they don't get it because they don't have the same experience with this bullshit. You'll have to use a GCD skill, then an "instant." then a GCD skill, as your rotation. It's going to fucking suck.
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Holy shit thanks man. I just got all the way through from Error 3 to complete registration.