Well I don't live in Ghettoville and took about 2 hours to dl (not even sure as I went shopping and to dinner and when back was done).
Patch is smooth. Game looks far better now (colours really picked up ... had to reduce my digital vibrance a bit even) . New animations are sweet and make a big difference. FPS even smoothened out a bit. Didn't play long to see much more or if bugs did appear.
If you want a special treat, start a new alt and run the delves in the first zone. They didn't just make them bigger, they added all kinds of new stuff. I especially like the new bat swarms that swoop down from the ceiling at you
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I can't wait to just get into the game...I just purchased it last night....so yay for the new patch too! Great news and great timing for me to grab the game! Love the news of the no subscription coming up too! ~*~ Thank you Elder Scrolls...been waiting so long to finally play!!
@Iselin I was one of the tester and boy did it show tonight. Straight beast mode.
Built a new set of armor and weapons this past weekend and finalized my build late lastnight. Cost me about 130k.
I bought a coupe hundred boxes from the v14 pvp vendor and got the rings and neck I needed. I had 3 extra necks, and two good rings. I sold one ring for 40k in the guild store, the. Gave one neck to a friend and sold him the ring for 20k.
I had one scary moment though for about 15 mins I couldn't see any enemy icons. I couldn't tell who was who! I rode up to the enemy like "hey guys what's up?" Twice and the slaughtered me. I had to relog like 4 times to fix it. All in all pretty awesome day.
To the guy talking about "blobs" the Zerg crews were scratching their heads tonight. I saw a crew try to huddle in a corner. They promptly got wrecked.
Who knows they may find some cheese mode tactic, but they sure as hell didn't tonight.
Hey, you might want to start by reading the patch notes. This patch affected a huge amount of itemization for the entire world as well as a ton of NPC locations and behavior, animations, etc. the amount of files to be replaced are massive. Don't you have anything better to complain about? Really..patch is too big?
just wow.
There are only two things that could legitimately bloat this patch to its current size. A metric ton shitload of poorly encoded audio/video files, or a shitload of graphic textures. Neither of those things apply here. Scripts and text ( which covers every item mentioned in the patch notes ) do not 13gbs+ make. However, having to redownload the same crap you already have because some text files were changed and Zenimax doesn't have the ability to patch ONLY the files that need patching ( like every professional software developer other than Zenimax is able to do ) explains the ridiculously oversized patch quite easily.
So yes, needlessly bloated downloads eating away at bandwidth caps due to nothing more than one developers inability to achieve even the minimal efforts toward file optimization is "too big".
It's quite possible that they patched in the files for their cash shop such as the new mount models and skins, costumes, ect. Also some people are claiming they are getting better performance so they might have also replaced some (or a lot) of textures which by themselves quickly add up in the realm of megabytes and gigabytes. New animations also take up space. Specially if they added more keys and frames (<-animation mumbo jumbo) .
I love the patch I am unkillable 1vx unless you get 10 focusing me down. All hail your new DK tank overlords. Remember shield bash from launch? Its baaaaack
Any graphical, audio, or gameplay restrictions not seen in other mmos but found in FFXIV can be blamed on one thing. PS3
Originally posted by Ehllfhire I love the patch I am unkillable 1vx unless you get 10 focusing me down. All hail your new DK tank overlords. Remember shield bash from launch? Its baaaaack
Maaaam please. Who you fighting? You better hope I'm not in you "1vX" group. Shield bash? Me? One Surprise Attack will eat through your entire Green Dragons blood. Don't try to hold block and while you do it either. Fear FTW as you block drops. Dude, if anything DKs are like normal people now.
Originally posted by Ehllfhire I love the patch I am unkillable 1vx unless you get 10 focusing me down. All hail your new DK tank overlords. Remember shield bash from launch? Its baaaaack
Maaaam please. Who you fighting? You better hope I'm not in you "1vX" group. Shield bash? Me? One Surprise Attack will eat through your entire Green Dragons blood. Don't try to hold block and while you do it either. Fear FTW as you block drops. Dude, if anything DKs are like normal people now.
Shield bash, ok sure, I would love to see you try
tryh to ambush me when ive got 40k hp shield up bwahahahahahahaha, and if you do get through it, ill just ferocious leap pop my bubbles and still be undamaged
Any graphical, audio, or gameplay restrictions not seen in other mmos but found in FFXIV can be blamed on one thing. PS3
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If you want a special treat, start a new alt and run the delves in the first zone. They didn't just make them bigger, they added all kinds of new stuff. I especially like the new bat swarms that swoop down from the ceiling at you
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Built a new set of armor and weapons this past weekend and finalized my build late lastnight. Cost me about 130k.
I bought a coupe hundred boxes from the v14 pvp vendor and got the rings and neck I needed. I had 3 extra necks, and two good rings. I sold one ring for 40k in the guild store, the. Gave one neck to a friend and sold him the ring for 20k.
I had one scary moment though for about 15 mins I couldn't see any enemy icons. I couldn't tell who was who! I rode up to the enemy like "hey guys what's up?" Twice and the slaughtered me. I had to relog like 4 times to fix it. All in all pretty awesome day.
Who knows they may find some cheese mode tactic, but they sure as hell didn't tonight.
It's quite possible that they patched in the files for their cash shop such as the new mount models and skins, costumes, ect. Also some people are claiming they are getting better performance so they might have also replaced some (or a lot) of textures which by themselves quickly add up in the realm of megabytes and gigabytes. New animations also take up space. Specially if they added more keys and frames (<-animation mumbo jumbo) .
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Any graphical, audio, or gameplay restrictions not seen in other mmos but found in FFXIV can be blamed on one thing.
PS3
Maaaam please. Who you fighting? You better hope I'm not in you "1vX" group. Shield bash? Me? One Surprise Attack will eat through your entire Green Dragons blood. Don't try to hold block and while you do it either. Fear FTW as you block drops. Dude, if anything DKs are like normal people now.
Shield bash, ok sure, I would love to see you try
tryh to ambush me when ive got 40k hp shield up bwahahahahahahaha, and if you do get through it, ill just ferocious leap pop my bubbles and still be undamaged
Any graphical, audio, or gameplay restrictions not seen in other mmos but found in FFXIV can be blamed on one thing.
PS3