Challenging Crystal Tower on FFXIV: Mobile! (It's 8man)

[@SionArtwork]

They should make a pc version of this game. Looks pretty good to me.

[@NatiiixLP]

How is Arthars playing it? I thought he was playing through an emulator, based on the cursor and him mentioning that he'd like to see it on an actual phone.

[@Ghost200x]

@@NatiiixLP chinese server probably

[@ProMetty]

I guess you mean a PC port from this Mobile version? Cause ff14 is on PC, PS5, Ps4 ect. But like I said you mean this version of ff14.

[@NotExplicable]

Do you guys not have phones???

[@finnlauzer7416]

​@@NotExplicablebruh old diablo mobile meme 😭

[@redcatte5253]

Never thought I'd hear the words "Crystal Tower drops BiS gear" in my entire XIV career lmao.

[@BlackLight886]

This game went from "OMG this will suck, kill it with fire" to "OMG I really want to try it" faster than any game I remember.

[@jacobsiron6929]

Tbf, when we didn't have too much info a lot of what we _did_ know didn't bode well, but as more and more has come out it's been more and more reassuring

[@StormierNik]

I honestly expected it to be better than people were giving it credit for. People talk shit about mobile games like we're still in an era where mobile games are Candy Crush and Flappy bird and fuckin Raid Shadowlegends. Every single hoyoverse game is a triple A game beyond most triple A studios and produce content 4 times more frequently than FFXIV and with both quality and quantity matching. You might see those as an exception, but i see it as what any mobile game is actually capable of.

[@Carsu12]

​@StormierNik There is a bit of 🧢 in this statement. Hoyoverse games (in any other department than music) outshine only shitty AAA games at most. There is a lot more value to mobile games than most normies give credit for, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. And if we compare the content they release to FFXIV, it's on par at best

[@ArchieGamez]

Only thing we need to know is the monetization, did they reveal how they get revenue? If its good, then damn sign me up

[@Callestere]

Im happy this isn't just a 1:1 run of CT even if it's very similar. It'll be interesting to see how the influence of 11 years of FF14 will affect what's done with this game if they could "start over" now with the knowledge they currently have.

[@raventhorX]

im concerned about some design decisions that take away from some of the gameplay. so far i'm impressed but seeing this crystal tower content has me concerned that instead of making interesting design decisions that they are just going to remove certain features from fights. For example in the atomos fight typically the trick was that with 24 people you split into 3 groups and have at least 4 people on a platform that removes the barrier of another teams atomos so they could damage it. In this one that has been completely removed when it was reduced to an 8 man instance completely making the fight even more trivial than it already is. I feel they could have done something with the adds spawning or create some sort of rotating buff where only players with a certain buff can stand on the platform forcing players to switch out. Maybe something along the lines where the first four get a debuff, but they have to kill an add to change the debuff so it wears off, but after a time the debuff prevents them from being counted as on the platform unless it's dispelled. This way you kill the adds to the debuff begins its timer until it dissipates and in the meantime the other half of the group hop on the platform.

[@Zadamanim]

7:10 I noticed a visual bug where the water is being drawn in front of the magic effect surrounding the atmos, but it should be behind it. It's probably caused by both the water and the magic being semi-transparent. Game engines don't like it when you stack multiple semi-transparent things in front of each other, it can often cause visual bugs. The water doesn't look transparent but it's probably meant to be.

[@frank3le]

it seems like the mobile devs consider how quickly crystal tower bosses die now as the norm. cause bosses like behemoth die so quickly then they did back in ARR they skip mechanics. edit: i do know this is obviously a beta so maybe things will change in release if it becomes 24 man

[@LFRUIZ15]

Why does it look so good? 😭 I wanna play it

[@Arhman1991]

Same here

[@Zadamanim]

I tried to sign up but it seems you need a chinese phone number to register...

[@traceraxel8120]

@@Zadamanim where

[@Zadamanim]

@@traceraxel8120 I can't link things here, you'll have to find it on your own.

[@Near456]

I wonder how’s BRD and SMN. Deciding which one to main when this one gets released. I played the vanilla ARR and was a bard main but I noticed they reworked the SMN.

[@raventhorX]

kinda nuts that it seems like the whole ARR game is available in the beta. Makes me wonder if they removed the lock of your starting city being based on your starting class based on what I was seeing in a different video where a marauder started in Ul'Dah.

[@Moneymaker864]

All jobs start in the same city

[@raventhorX]

@Moneymaker864 sounds like they may have gutted some of the early storyline then. What about guild locations for job quests? Are they still in their respective cities? How would a marauder do their job quests if they can't even get to their guild until around level 15?

[@frank3le]

@@raventhorX all jobs started in Uldah during the beta for PC aswell. So I imagine itll be like the full release once it's ready.

[@raventhorX]

@@frank3le I played the pc beta and I admit while I don't remember if that's accurate I've been told by others that it's not. Also the beta iirc only went up to level 30 as well. I dont remember it reaching up to 50 let alone including an alliance raid.

[@Nutrafin-3D]

So the other 2 atomos platforms just do nothing?

[@exiaedges]

The Crystal Tower is required in order to progress in the MSQ. They said plan to the make MSQ soloable. Can they make trust work with 24 player raid or will they change Crystal Tower to a 8 player raid like what mobile version is doing right now?

[@petrus9067]

Changing it to trusts is more likely i believe

[@Just_agamerxiv]

I remember when so many people said this would look bad 😂

[@finnlauzer7416]

Normal people's expectations because most mobile mmo games nowadays are shit especially big IPs that are made into mobile versions. Shit features like auto battle, BP/CP points, gacha/micritransaction for equipment make people feel sick.

[@nilzero5686]

it does look bad

[@Kainery]

@@nilzero5686 this is more like "look bad feel good" , while pc version is "look good feel bad"

[@PareSM]

Everyone’s coping saying “oh yeah man this looks so much better than PC” Stop the cap, yall mfs know damn well you’re gonna play it once or twice then move right back to PC. Mark my words, the actual player count will not reflect this “hype.”

[@LanSen-bj3jj]

​Mobile is better than Pc in a lot of aspects​@@PareSM

[@DJThomas59]

Like the little path they give to tell you where to go. At the same time, kinda redundant since everything is usually one path in dungeons and stuff. I can't imagine anyone getting lost

[@petrus9067]

Interesting that there's already CT in the beta since that was 2.1. i wonder if there is coils of bahamut already?

[@RecklessCV]

The fire/ice rotation in the middle of the screen is extremely obnoxious lol

[@willSolos]

Should be on the side or on the button itself

[@raventhorX]

it appears to be a press and swipe type button interaction. press the associated button and while holding it a bigger circle appears and you swipe in the direction of the circle that the ability you want to use it on. From other interactions you could possibly just tap the smaller button in the bottom right for buttons that only have two abilities but seems for buttons that have more you have to use the swipe motion. This is just my observations however and may not be accurate to how the buttons actually work.

[@llNightRoudll]

he needs to manually click it because he's playing on emulator on pc, on a phone you just press the skill button and slide to either side

[@raventhorX]

@@llNightRoudll so slide controls are disabled on emulators? Figured they at least have a click and drag option lol

[@epic-grind3740]

Is there any like dps chart see how much dps you're doing in raid ?

[@FernandoMoraes-wi9os]

R.I.P my cellphone when this launch

[@fishmurse]

The microphone button under the party, what's that about?

[@raizusakamoto5465]

Built-in voice chat

[@Kiobao]

Why am I more hyped for this version of FF14 than I am PC FF14 since stormblood?

[@jamestan5105]

Don't forget the bosses mechanics. U do. It's all over.

[@578t7645uyb5]

how many languages does Arthars know

[@hamez877]

WOW chill my guy, its been out for 2 days

[@petrus9067]

Seriously how are people saying it looks better (graphically) than pc version? It looks fine imo but to that's delusion

[@DaSaiyanChick628]

@petrus9067 There are people saying that? Whaaat? After the graphical update, that's not true. But I will say that the UI, menus and systems are better than the PC version

[@l___Okada-IZŌ___l]

yeah the graphics isnt any better than pc, but then again i dont play games for their graphic

[@engelsein24]

I think what most people are referring to are the animation flares and some of the effects. Not graphical prowess

[@petrus9067]

@@engelsein24 yeah i probably should have specified "some" people. But personally i don't find the animations better at alll either but well indeed graphics don't matter that much

[@aoetp]

Man, I wish they at least made it a 12 man, with 3 light parties, but I understand that it may be too heavy for mobile devices

[@DaSaiyanChick628]

I wonder if this just 8-man for beta testing?

[@rivenoak]

seems so, the atomos on retail works with one party enabling another party to fight for example. Cerberus (the World of Darkness boss) with just 8man would be nuts unless you scrape off certain mechanics like no belly fight or no chains

[@mrcool9090]

it might also be tech restrictions

[@NatiiixLP]

@@rivenoak You could just have everyone go into the belly and then do the chains. If it's a complete reimplementation of the game, there's no reason to exactly mimic the vanilla mechanics and their overlaps.

[@DaSaiyanChick628]

@@rivenoak you bring up good points. Also it could be since time is limited for the Closed Beta Test, they wanted to be able to test the content but are doing it this way in case there aren’t enough lvl 50 players to form a 24 man alliance raid yet. The queue would be very long if people are taking their time to play the game and do story

[@DaSaiyanChick628]

@@mrcool9090 that could be true. We won’t know til we get updates/full version

[@Adama-s7u]

I agree with everything he said no matter what.

[@Arhman1991]

When the game will be released in English ?

[@korratargaryen]

Eventually. Its releasing in China first, then global later.

[@StormierNik]

The fact that Leylines is here as an ability at 50 and not at fucking 52 instead. Yknow, the ability that Black Mage is the MOST known for and part of its identity, isnt a core thing you unlock at 50. But instead 2 levels later. That should have been changed like 6 years ago.

[@Tyabann]

xiaohongshu

[@csrjjsmp]

wtf is that accent Singaporean or Malaysian?

[@myfyp2]

He is Singaporean.

[@ProMetty]

Should have done this with ff11. I guess they cancelled 11 mobile remake cause couldve over shadow ff14 😂 ff11 was looking good.

[@gamermaster16508]

The imcompency of SE giving their product away to a chinese team that ended up doing everything better.

[@Kairax]

Small indie company having high quality IP giving rights to make game to actually big and competent devs.