So I got Invited to the Dawntrail Media Tour...

[@kiiturii]

bro unironically the best mediatour video, with how heavily edited down all the other ones I've seen have been, I thought something more casual like this wasn't allowed to be made and it had to be purely informational showing off new features

[@ExileTwilight]

They were allowed 40 minutes of footage I think? So that's probably why most are so heavily edited.

[@kiiturii]

@@ExileTwilight woops uploaded about 1 hour 5 minutes of footage at least

[@fancymustache3793]

​@@ExileTwilight somebody spent several hours for the dyes and clothing so 40 minutes is not all they had actually

[@puraasneira]

I didn't even know they could explore the zones and kill the marks

[@ExileTwilight]

@@fancymustache3793 40 minutes of footage they could show* is what I meant.

[@xXellasaurusXx]

seeing your lalafell without the big eyebrows at 1:00 feels so jarring, she's like a cryptid

[@OmenOfStorms]

because of watching cider spider I have toto put on the caterpillar eyebrows or it just looks weird

[@hazardyoutube1121]

i forgot it was eye paint because of cider lol

[@chibiwibi]

it looks horrifying

[@epiceric9]

The Wesk Alber x Cider Spider crossover I've been waiting for

[@CiderSpider]

Finally, some media tour content! I had a prior engagement which prevented me from preparing videos ahead of time. Hope you all haven't burned out on media tour footage yet! >:D What are you looking forward to the most?

[@kitt8132]

Wait, didn’t you upload this earlier today? I swear I watched this video like 4 hours ago.

[@SmurfRockRune]

@@kitt8132 He did, very briefly. I was gonna get to it after I finished what I was already doing and it was gone by the time I was ready to watch it.

[@Maria_Erias]

I'm looking forward to new glams, new furniture, a new deep dungeon, and whatever Bozja-like thing they've got planned. I'm sure the story's going to be great, but we all know that real end game is looking good in a good-looking house.

[@EllieBerryPie]

This will be my first expansion and I’m very much looking forward to learning all the job changes

[@cj_skywalker]

Looking forward to joining the Clan of #guyswhoplayfemmelalasbecausetheyareuglyinreallife (I've seen your streaming with full body camera, don't deny it. Don't worry, I have the face of a troll so we can both be female doll girls trying to hide our ugly. ;p And yes, I've played mostly Lalafells of both genders so I recognized your dance as that of the female Lala. [The booty shaking is female Lala dancing while the male Lala does an Irish jig.]) But seriously, I am kicking myself for not spending more time in FFXIV catching up on stuff. I'll probably just binge play a marathon of nothing but for the rest of the week to get all those raids, alliance raids and trials cleared so I can play as Pictomancer in Endwalker MSQ. XD)

[@sinom]

I really love that you basically just made your normal type of video but in dawntrail

[@reprogremTTV]

Memes or not, I'm glad you got to do this! Honestly, I think just seeing you dink around is much better than someone mapping out optimal rotation A, B, or C, because it's almost certainly what the average player is going to be doing once this releases. Full on 'oh what's that over there? okay what can I do here? hey what's that!' and so on. You did a lil bit of everything and had fun with it, that's the important part.

[@jgswweet]

Hey dude! It was a great time playing with ya, it's a shame I wasn't able to get you some footage of the S-rank in the other zone - it would've been really cool to have that cataloged before launch.

[@CiderSpider]

it shall remain a mystery

[@GhostAeonWolf]

was it S rank or A rank? that wasp looked more like A rank.

[@TrueChaoSclx]

Here lies Cider Spider's street cred. Gone but not forgotten, dead at the hands of a cruel games journalist.

[@Crane-u6p]

and now that same journalist has caused a bunch of healers to boycott healing until changes happen

[@TrueChaoSclx]

@@Crane-u6p not sure what you're referring to, but I'm a healer who's been pretty unhappy with the state of healers for years, so.. based.

[@Crane-u6p]

@@TrueChaoSclx there was an article that posted and some Reddit posts saying some healers are boycotting healing until tanks either get less healing or healers gain a bigger dps rotation

[@rustyjones7908]

​@@Crane-u6p translation: a games "journalist" saw some unpleasant nerd complaining and used it as an ai prompt.

[@AkaAkoVT]

@@rustyjones7908 What bugs me is how accurate that might well be. I used to be a journalist... but got laid off after the site started using more and more AI "assistance". Not especially happy about that :P

[@MrGoofyGooberson]

James will be remembered for his heroic acts in the media tour

[@thomasm.2360]

Good that the game journalist helped those mentors with the boss

[@Val_Grnnx]

That sounded like a biblically accurate Wesk Alber

[@OilFreeFeathers]

Sounded more like a hormone drug addict.

[@andilus]

Mizzteq at 5:07! Name matches her media tour character name. Honestly, this video gives me a really good sense of what experiencing the expansion will be like, a really nice complement to all the info videos out there.

[@Nazuiko]

Fem highlander on Paladin with white hair? Thats definitely the Mizz herself

[@miraihibino1277]

This is unironically the only video from the DT media tour that I know of that actually shows of the FATEs and shows of some changes. Bicolor gemstones confirmed, the exp bonus now also seems to boost the amount of bicolor gemstones you get AND it seems stackable. 16 gemstones is the norm, but you got a boost first up tp 20 at 23:08 and then the FATE immedietly after with it rewarding 24 so yeah something is going on here and whatever it is I'm loving it. Looking forward to max out my shared FATE level again!

[@SoraShadowdancer]

I think that different FATE types give different amounts of gemstones. I don't think it's related to the maiden at all. But. I might be completely wrong!

[@miraihibino1277]

@@SoraShadowdancer Oh that's also an interesting theory! I'm more inclined to belive it's the buff personally since we see the little arrow next to the bicolour gemstones on the "fate complete" and reward prompt, since that is how it works for the exp buff curenttly. But yeah, guess we'll just have to wait and see!

[@mocmeo4425]

I love how different your contents always are from every other creators for this game, keep it up

[@lukethefluke7]

9:00 shout out to the chad who replied to you "THEN WE DIE LIKE MEN"

[@droppedcombofiend2707]

Videos like this are why you're my favorite FFXIV creator. Everyone else's videos are very informative, but this is so much more genuine. It gave us something the others didnt. More like what the game is actually like, rather than just stats.

[@Decode04]

No one else seems to have noticed that you're getting 16 Bicolor Gemstones, and in previous expansions we were only getting 12, so you did bring new information that I didn't see anywhere else

[@Phaxallion]

I love that it looks like killing a forlorn maiden increases the amount of bicolor gemstones you get (one he got 20, so a bonus of 4) and the next one he killed with the buff gave him 24 so a bonus of 8. That's a huge boon for bicolor gemstone farming.

[@SapphireDragon357]

ShB gave 12, EW is 14. Makes sense DT will be 16.

[@koopa_kicker]

Gemstone cap raised from 1000 to 1500 too

[@SoraShadowdancer]

He got 24 for one of them. I think they might be scaling them based on FATE type. Big bosses being 24, helper quests being 16, and bunch of little mobs being 14. Would encourage people to do the helper quests, which tend to be ignored.

[@Phaxallion]

@@SoraShadowdancer I don’t think so cause he did a couple of boss fates and only got 16 for those. Only the ones with forlorn maiden and the following one while having the buff gave a bonus in bicolor gemstones.

[@wavypavy4059]

Finally, an angry baby to answer the big questions like what lalafel bedsheets look like

[@ねこ男の子]

Bit weird that's your first question.

[@thaliauliasz6479]

Sooo true! No one else could answer this question. The fact he did it just for kicks was really funny 😆

[@FelixSunblade]

This media tour video made me even more excited to play Dawntrail because it showed someone actually just having fun with what they enjoy about the game. I can't wait to get in and spend hours walking around zones and finding new stuff, not analyzing my job's rotation.

[@SoraShadowdancer]

That "HE'S WEARING PAJAMAS" party chat during the first dungeon boss, lmao. Adorable. I have no idea who typed that, but, adorable.

[@MsSjofn]

The Ironheart lady is the sightseeing NPC this time around, all of the not-ShB sightseeing log NPCs are members of the Ironheart family.

[@Blubbii88]

From all the media tour videos, this got me the most excited for dawntrail. It was simply like playing yourself and exploring the world.

[@TuftyTaltan]

I really like that "having the worst hotbars" is such a universal feeling. Everyone deserves the chance to make their screen scuffed as hell

[@Zero-ELEC]

Elsebee Ironheart is definitely the sightseeing log NPC! In the Source, all of the sightseeing logs are handled by members of the Ironheart family! Ironheat is the person who made the maps.

[@JDiduhDee]

0:51 that was arthars' catgirl lmao

[@FreshLexo]

He was there day 1. Cider was there day 2.

[@kayomarsali]

he says it was LlamaTodd's near the end, so still one of the people who did the no healer run.

[@AngelMercury]

Really loved your relaxed meme version of the media tour. It feels like a player perspective, very fun and relatable. I hope they have you back next time.

[@goodsherbear]

Hey a Wesk Alber cameo!

[@Myrtneough]

Do I hear potential collab?

[@CassiusKent]

I actually really appreciate you for just screwing around. Everyone was just so locked in on numbers and rotations it’s nice seeing people get bodied by an overworld mob lol.

[@mulefatelluri]

22:08 oh hey it's the Grinding Gear boys!

[@Author_Gamer]

Podcast invite incoming???😏

[@TheVivi13]

Really says something that even though there's so much media tour information out there, you reading FATE dialogue from the new zone is still interesting and entertaining to me

[@NiveusMilitis]

Welcome to Tural! I like swords. Welcome to Tural! I like swords.

[@ShakalDraconis]

.... you just sent me back 20 years, well done.

[@hentaidude666]

.....8 bit theatre?

[@rabid_si]

@@ShakalDraconis HADOKEN!

[@TrexelCat]

@@rabid_si Fighterdoken!

[@Zelkiiro]

I hope it involves keeping your pants on.

[@SynodicScribe]

I'm so incredibly jealous. lol

[@Caktoz]

A crime that they didnt invite you as well

[@normalmighty]

I hope they invite you next year. I feel like we got a mostly good spread of everything, but were left kind of light on environmental lore insights.

[@dragonboyexz]

Probably to prevent leak from you manage to figure the plot.

[@Tom-Pendragon]

The fact they didn't invited you is a disgrace D:

[@Soyboythoughts]

Im pretty sure i saw you in a mentor roulette

[@rune_prism]

the zones are downright gorgeous. despite being similar to thavnair, they still manage to feel wholly unique whilst still retaining some of that jungle-esque/heavy foliage beauty. i'm very much looking forward to being able to explore them :D yours is the first (and only) media tour video i've watched, so i wasn't sure what to expect from it either, but the stuff available is pretty cool! getting to mess around in the zones and look around to your heart's content is pretty damn fun, even if you weren't able to find more marks within the 10h limit

[@MalzraAirwynn]

I can't believe nobody but a dungeon boss would dance with you.

[@brokenQuins]

Hands down the best media tour coverage out there. This smol baby is such a gem to have within ff community. Thank you 🥺 (With streams also being S+ tier “background noise” material)

[@ShakalDraconis]

0:39 - Lil' JC immediately spotted.

[@stevenscearce]

If you're at all concerned - the "look I'm just going to explore the new stuff" videos are actually kinda rare - this was a joy to watch Very little of the youtube stuff over the last week was someone just going "what's actually out here to mess with" no knock against rotation theorycraft, but I enjoyed the change of focus

[@hamado8587]

Charity Ninehart looking mighty dapper in that new getup. Kinda hyped for the new content now. Hope they go easy on you regarding the achievements.

[@Veishan]

I'm so glad you and Wesk got invited. You guys are definitely at the forefront of 2020s FFXIV content creation!

[@KadeFaolan]

this was actually super cool. Even though i watched the videos that other content creators made about the actions and abilities, which were also very good btw, i didn't get that same feel that I got from this one. Obviously the memes are always appreciated but seeing you go with the other creators and be like "we're killing this bug, get in here!" was just awesome. Love the video, definitely loved this kind of approach to the media tour.

[@SoraShadowdancer]

Congrats on being invited to the media tour! How exciting! And you got to meet Yoshi-P! Did he remark on your voice at all? I feel like that's one of your most distinctive features. Don't feel bad about memeing around. I think you did exactly what they were expecting you to do and I think they approve!

[@justinphan3976]

This is best way to present an mmo... play and explore the world

[@freikugel663]

The only media tour I've seen so far (and trust). Appreciate the tour, Angy baby.

[@Kitty-Cat]

Looking at the new race ingame: Cider Spider: *I sleep* Grinding achievements: Cider Spider: *real sh!t*

[@SirVyre]

Bad Days to be Warrior: 2.0 and 4.0 Bad Days that actually bothered Warriors: File Not Found

[@gothicshark]

honestly, so far, my favorite Media tour video, as you actually looked around, most video are people showing rotations, ability changes, and maybe the dungeon. You actually looked and fought random mobs... first look at the bird fish and that weird Croc.

[@nospoiler]

Oh don't worry, your hotbars at least still go left to right in the proper way. My HUD is setup with vertical 2x6 bars to put a wider gap every other skill, meaning that my hotbars keybinds on the technical side are like... hotbar 1: 1, 2, shift1, shift2, ctrl1, ctrl2 etc, and then hotbar 2 is: 3, 4, shift3, shift4 etc. It certainly took a lot of rebinding when originally setting up, haha. But it looks nice so worth!

[@Lulink013]

I think mine might be worse because they represent my actual keyboard except the right side of each hotbar is a second copy for alt+key binds. The result looks atrocious even though it's super comfy for my hand that doesn't have to move much from the movement keys.

[@emperorpancake]

Drowsie is also now my favorite thing in the world.

[@FuyuYuki92]

I'm just shocked that you recorded yourself doing fates and somehow still made it super entertaining. That's such a skill.

[@trinioler]

Genuinely one of the better forms of MT videos I've seen. This covers a lot more of the actual player experience in dawntrail, and I love it.

[@GMMisha]

"com goes to the Viper for being a Lalafell" FINALLY! embrace Laladom!

[@Kriselia]

12:45 Never underestimate A ranks... remember the twerking instakill minotaur?

[@slayeroffrog]

its a great video, while I apreciate the folks who did guides, its also great to get a taste of what actual gameplay in the expansion is gonna look like

[@clymacs9241]

For some reasons you're the person who finally got me curious enough to check a media tour! Glad for what you covered, Cider!

[@LazeeUnicorn]

I love the commitment of you dancing with every living soul (players AND monsters) without discrimination

[@SirVyre]

Float like a butterfly, get stung by a bee!

[@nayoppi]

one of, if not the best, best videos i've seen from media tour! NOW I'M SO EXCITED FOR DAWNTRAIL!!!

[@Aybrix]

I've been watching the job adjustment info pages but it was amusing and refreshing to just see some silly sight seeing too. I'm dummy excited for how PRETTY it's all gonna be!

[@LuckyRyo9989]

There’s something oddly wholesome about probably all these content creators practicing with the new jobs for videos but coming out to do a hunt. Feels like how the game is intended haha

[@EllieBerryPie]

Seeing this was the key to me finally understanding your hot bar set up.

[@SarahJaneTTV]

Amazing job Cider!!

[@EmilyTempest81]

This was a great video. Your reaction to the jobs would be fun to watch.

[@rowboatcop4451]

Cider you fool thats a manatee, a mammal, not a fish. Loved the vid, and would love to see your class opinions, even if its not thorough, your style is just fun!

[@SoraShadowdancer]

Took me a minute to recognize it, but yes, can confirm. Is manatee. There is also a manatee minion that I very much must have. It's shown after you get your score in the benchmark.

[@Tolly7249]

Honestly I had more fun watching you meme around and explore than I have with any of the other media tour content. I'm so glad you had a good time and got to meet Yoshi-P! That's so cool!

[@sageata_verde]

Unironically the best media tour video i've seen so far!

[@mattwo7]

I like how the legally required watermark says "final" adjustment/changes as though they won't get patched after release.

[@mikechua9560]

Thank you for bringing quality content Cider ... loved the video and the content. It's nice to see just daily life in Tuliyolal even if alot is omitted cuz of Square.

[@The_TylrG]

I like that, when you spawned as a catgirl, you were right next to Jesse Cox. He would have /dance'd with you for sure.

[@Sygness]

Jesse was day 1 iirc. So that was the person who got that account for day 2 and hadn't used their fanta yet. If they'd have danced remains a mystery 😅

[@miklymick5]

cider spider doing real god work, learning S rank monster mech to make hunt train easier.

[@hjordan2814]

30:47 The Ironhearts are the family that gives you the sightseeing log in ARR, and then also add to your log every expansion

[@markup6394]

30:52 --- I think you'll unlock your sight seeing log with that NPC... I guess if I had the chance to go to such an event... I'd just run around, too XD Havent watch any of the job-related videos, I'll try and learn the new jobs when they release :) Cant wait for all those quests ^.^

[@ArtForSwans]

Once again Cider Spider releases a video teaching me things that others didn't, except this time it's unreleased stuff. Nobody even mentioned that the new tomestones are called Aesthetic or even tried to fight a hunt mob lmao

[@salemfae]

Oooo yay for s sneak peak at a hunt mark! I can't wait to figure out S spawn conditions with the group :D and the chaotic trains oml

[@Narrendor]

This was a delightful change of pace what with all the guides and such - more of the casual experience :D

[@matthewhostetter8974]

Still very cool that you got to be part of the Media Tour. Thank you for sharing.

[@margravetech1462]

Everybody else is checking out lvl100 rotations and graphics updates, but this goober is grinding hunts and fates. Love it.

[@Leon-he1yd]

"All I did was meme" like a true Lala

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

I KNEW YOU GOT INVITED when you posted about getting back from vacation!! Congrats and deserved!

[@RitzyBusiness]

I just saw something i like, the mobs mechanic text was bright red and center. Which is actually really cool. Now if only they could implement that into UCOB 😂

[@SoraShadowdancer]

I noticed that as well. Wonder how that will work for those who are colorblind?

[@aaronsound]

I very much enjoyed seeing you do something else than achievement and mentor videos. Thanks a lot i really liked this :}

[@Ramotttholl]

Lastname Ironheart is the name of the NPC infront of the Waking Sands. and im pretty sure that family is in other places too. so that family spreads far and wide.

[@kizu00]

thanks for showing something different than viper and picto ^^

[@t-wrecksthenerdasaur7468]

Good on you man, you're moving up in the world ;) I hope Yoshi P continues to shine upon you. While I will probably never actually play FF14 (despite being a long time FF fan) I will live vicariously through your adventures.

[@Xbob42]

This is the quality media tour content I've been wanting, glad *someone* made it!

[@UltimegaSeven]

Im happy that the graphics update makes cities feel like cities again. The forests of the Shroud is what i miss the most and to see it back is awesome

[@Kazagari]

Like others have said, so awesome you got to be a part of this and show us how to really play the game. Fun seeing a few other recognizable creators there. (Fellow lalafel enjoyer Lil JC while you were momentarily someone's catgirl) Neat Scholar got some similar stuff to Astro, being given a dps thing to do after doing a thing like Strategem/Divination. (not looking forward to what they did to our cards this time though)

[@Sephalia]

I appreciate that you went in and just played the game. Refreshing after just hearing all about the new job skills which I frankly don't care about all that much. Certainly not as much as TWENTY PLUS BICOLOR GEMSTONES are you kidding? Now THAT'S a game changer.

[@red5robb1]

that city looks so big that it would take forever to get anywhere without mounts....or unlimited sprint

[@meriwidget3474]

Definitely a unique look at the media tour! I'm so glad you got to go and meet Yoshi-P! Well earned!

[@Jaciekakes]

Other media tour videos: rotations, interesting new features of classes. Angry Baby: lets get started on the achievements I guess

[@DameonStarflame]

Guessing something got missed in the original upload? Went to send it to my FC and the link was dead. Welp, off to the FC this link goes!

[@Armongorest]

There was a typo that was noticed five seconds after he launched the first video. He couldn't edit it via KZbin so he had to do an entire rerender and reupload.

[@DameonStarflame]

@@Armongorest Oof. Huzzah for fixes though! Thanks for the info!

[@reespawnoftruth6784]

I have Keratoconus, with no periferical vision I have to put the hotbars in the middle of the screen so I can notice the cooldown time. Cider hotbar positioning look very clean for me

[@KrystinaTheAlien]

I really like how you didn't focus on the job changes and showed some more overworld things. Good to know I can continue farming bicolor gems in preparation

[@hockey1973]

9:47. The crossover we didn't know we needed. "When all hope was lost, he descended from the heavens"

[@zxzx24th]

I would be delighted to see your video about job changes!

[@brendaalmeida7575]

i’m so happy that you got this opportunity. you deserve it cider!!!! hope you know that ❤

[@ilitsa]

26:02 2.0 ARR was a bad time to be a Warrior... Pepperidge Farms remembers

[@kindlessthing]

I'm so happy for you, and proud of you! Keep on keeping on!

[@ddsubvato]

4:00 that was Sarah Key's catgirl from watching other media tour videos

[@lilyabrams3547]

Definitely interested in seeing your reaction to the job changes