Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

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[[ "Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker expansion has been delayed to December 7, 2021.

Greetings FINAL FANTASY XIV players. This is Producer & Director, Naoki Yoshida. First and foremost, I would like to extend my thanks to everyone playing FINAL FANTASY XIV and looking forward to our upcoming expansion pack, Endwalker. However, it is with great regret that I must inform you of some unfortunate news just before our scheduled launch date, and I would like you to read the following in full.

Postponing the Release of Endwalker: I am incredibly sorry to share this so close to launch, but I have decided to postpone the release of Endwalker. The original release date was scheduled for Tuesday, November 23, 2021, but I have decided to delay the release by two weeks. As such, the expansion pack will now be released on Tuesday, December 7, 2021.

There are several reasons for the postponement, but as I’m the one overseeing all aspects of the title as the head of the project, the responsibility falls solely on me. Allow me to convey my sincerest apologies to our players, our Warriors of Light around the world who have been looking so forward to the release of Endwalker. I am truly sorry. The new schedule, including Early Access, is outlined below.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker
Official Release: Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Start of Early Access: Friday, December 3, 2021
Patch 6.01 Scheduled Release: Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Patch 6.05 Scheduled Release: Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Reasons for the Schedule Change: The biggest factor behind the release date change was my own selfishness as the game’s director. Ever since I was placed in charge of the original FFXIV, I’ve continued the development and operations for FFXIV over the past 11 years while always endeavoring to balance my position as the producer overseeing the project and the director in charge of development. It was my intention to work in this same manner as we approached the final stages of Endwalker’s development.

As I have mentioned previously in interviews and during live streams, Endwalker will be the largest expansion pack in the history of FFXIV. It has been a huge undertaking, but we proceeded with development following plans that would allow us to make it in time for the originally scheduled release date, although admittedly everything would be down right to the wire.

However, as we neared the end of development and I played through everything—from quests to battle content and the like—I just couldn’t contain my desire to further improve Endwalker’s quality, specifically because this expansion pack marks the first major culmination of events in FFXIV so far. Even as we look beyond Endwalker, the FFXIV story will continue for a long time and we hope to deliver many more enjoyable experiences in the game. However, it was precisely because Endwalker concludes the first major saga that I felt our team needed to push ourselves to the “limits” that I envisioned.

As a result, we remained firmly resolved to adjust down to the smallest nuances and ensure our writing covers even the finest points of the vast and intricate story that has spanned these past 11 years since the original FFXIV to ensure that everyone can fully enjoy their adventure in Endwalker. Unfortunately, the consequence of this was that we ended up in a situation where we cut into the time required for final quality assurance checks due to this time spent on additional improvements.

At this rate, there was a bigger risk of us reaching the release date without ensuring “stability” as one form of quality, and for that reason, I have decided to postpone the release at this time. As we also anticipate large amounts of congestion across all game Worlds, I felt that even in this respect it wouldn’t be right for us to release the expansion while lacking adequate “stability.” I am truly sorry.

When I look at my own career, up until now I have never postponed a previously announced release date (although I did once shift a release from Spring to early Summer…) and, when I also considered that many players had already made arrangements such as taking days off work in preparation for the original release date, I was incredibly torn between whether or not we should cut down the expansion pack’s volume or even release content in installments. As such, I humbly ask you all to forgive me for the decision I’ve made.

Final Remarks and Looking Toward the Future: While we have postponed the release date by two weeks, I believe we have been able to successfully depict Endwalker’s story because we set forth on this long journey developing and operating FFXIV together with the players. While we will require a little longer until the expansion pack’s release, please rest assured that we will continue investing every ounce of our strength into development and operations in order to deliver an immersive adventure to our players.

Once more I would like to convey my sincerest apologies for the inconvenience caused to our players and colleagues due to my own shortcomings. I sincerely apologize for this decision. We will continue to do our utmost to bring you the best experience not only in Endwalker but also through further updates and content that will follow, restoring your trust one step at a time.

Naoki Yoshida,
FINAL FANTASY XIV Producer & Director." ]]

[magnuskn]

All the same. The comedy of what's to come will ease the pain, a little.

I feel a bit bad for my characters, who I left standing wherever. Should really have sat them down in a nice inn somewhere before logging off forever.

I also am a bit sad about not following some character stories anymore, especially Jaina. But as for the rest, let it all burn, as far as I am concerned.

[Vol]

Given I've been carting around thousands of screenshots of my many characters, across...first PC, first gaming laptop, second laptop, second PC, third PC, fourth PC...across the game's life, it does seem a little sad to let my time-investments not be properly set off. So many grinds I never got to do, such as nearly soloing the Scepter of the Shifting Sand (as much as I could) on my DK before the last server, in _Wrath_ no less, opened thee gate. Lots of removed items too.

[magnuskn]

Given I've been carting around thousands of screenshots of my many characters, across...first PC, first gaming laptop, second laptop, second PC, third PC, fourth PC...across the game's life, it does seem a little sad to let my time-investments not be properly set off. So many grinds I never got to do, such as nearly soloing the Scepter of the Shifting Sand (as much as I could) on my DK before the last server, in _Wrath_ no less, opened thee gate. Lots of removed items too.

Yeah, that were the times when we had such amount of free time to contemplate doing such stuff. Ah, well. Even without any MMO to tie me down I find myself wanting to do three different things each day with my free time.

[Deano]

I'm not even a big Souls fans but after watching the gameplay I ended up picking this up. The main gal's design always looked cool to me and the game looks real fun.

Has anyone watched Arcane that dropped on Netflix yesterday? It's a series in the League of Legends universe so I was interested in it regardless but now I've watched it it seems look something anyone could follow. Definitely recommend it, the production is top tier.

[Vol]

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Interesting to compare GUIs across the same IP over time (barring one). The impression I get from the newer ones is "textbook." Someone, somewhere has a book on design elements, ergonomics, and minimalism, and it must be very popular. The older ones have a touch of that, by necessity, but a greater sense of ad hoc design. Why is the OoT menu a rotating inside cube? Because POLYGONS were the hot new thing and 3D was cool. Why does Kratos need to slowly fill a meter with blood? Because he's a monster who's collecting the blood of other monsters for power. I can picture teams, if not one guy, sitting around sketching it out and thinking of cool ideas. The newer stuff is professional, planned, and easy to work with across games, because you'll always have a standard sense of how it works.

Has anyone watched Arcane that dropped on Netflix yesterday? It's a series in the League of Legends universe so I was interested in it regardless but now I've watched it it seems look something anyone could follow. Definitely recommend it, the production is top tier.

The sum total of my knowledge of LoL's story is a Korean animated music video of fox girls dancing and posing, on a subway at some point. I assume with the gajillion dollars that game makes they'd be putting out some amazing animation.

[SciFlyBoy]

Dancing fox girls? I'm all for that.

[Deano]

The sum total of my knowledge of LoL's story is a Korean animated music video of fox girls dancing and posing, on a subway at some point. I assume with the gajillion dollars that game makes they'd be putting out some amazing animation.

Hah, maybe it's time to introduce yourself to some more then.

And yes that was the in game kpop band they made, song was pretty on point even as someone who can't really stand how manufactured kpop is.

[Dragaros]

But as for the rest, let it all burn, as far as I am concerned.

Someone should make a "Sargeras was right" T-Shirt.

Has anyone watched Arcane that dropped on Netflix yesterday? It's a series in the League of Legends universe so I was interested in it regardless but now I've watched it it seems look something anyone could follow. Definitely recommend it, the production is top tier.

Not yet but its on my to-watch list. I'll get around to it sometime this month; just got a lot of movies and tv shows on my backlog I need to get through first. I'm not familiar with LoL's lore/setting/characters, but the trailer looked fun.

[Dragaros]

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[Vol]

Reading the experiences of expats, in this case Japan but in general too, makes me envious. I cannot imagine being so full of confidence as to take a job I don't know how to do, in a country I've never been to, not knowing the language or culture, and simply bumbling around until I figure it out. I've felt like an alien in my homeland since I was a teen, much less throwing myself into a completely foreign one. It must be a fun mindset they have, and probably a very good intuitive sense of "reading" rules and protocols from their environment. Never got the hang of that.

"Public baths? Sure! Can't read the signs, or understand the staff, so I'll just do whatever, and hopefully someone will mime out directions if I do it wrong."

"Well, I have a bachelor's in marketing, but I can teach English in Malaysia, sure. No, I don't know anything about the visa process or where I'll live."

"Oh, yeah, I worked as a nanny in Peru for 4 years. I couldn't speak to the locals, but they gave me food and gifts and were super nice!"

[Dragaros]

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/11/08 ... dden-west/

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[Dragaros]

"GAMEPLAY - Ogres Vs Cathay - Minor Settlement Battle - Total War Warhammer 3"

"OGRE KINGDOMS vs. KHORNE Minor Settlement Battle Gameplay - New Unit Stats - Total War Warhammer 3"

"Warhammer 3 Battle Gameplay. Tzeentch vs Ogres"

"SIEGE REWORK Gameplay! | Ogres vs Cathay - Warhammer 3"

"GAMEPLAY - Khorne Vs Cathay - Siege Battle - Total War Warhammer 3"

"FIRST LOOK at Total War Warhammer III Cathay Unit Cards and Land Battle vs Tzeentch"

"TZEENTCH VS OGRES Minor Settlement Battle - Total War: Warhammer 3"

"Total War: Warhammer 3 - Minor/Major Settlement Siege Gameplay"

"KHORNE Vs OGRE KINGDOMS || Minor Settlement Battle || Total War: WARHAMMER III"

"First Look! Minor Siege Battle and more! Total War Warhammer 3"

"OGRES vs CATHAY | Siege Gameplay for Total War: Warhammer III"

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xj30Wm0YDQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8EEFT_nm94

[Ragabul]

Sorry for hunting post spam that most people probably don't care about. I just feel like something really clicked this year. It occurred to me today I may have accidentally taught myself a meditation technique because you really do go into this like Zen heightened focus state sometimes. It's very addictive and makes me kinda curious about actual meditation.

[Dragaros]

Sorry for hunting post spam that most people probably don't care about. I just feel like something really clicked this year. It occurred to me today I may have accidentally taught myself a meditation technique because you really do go into this like Zen heightened focus state sometimes. It's very addictive and makes me kinda curious about actual meditation.

You found something you're passionate about; wanting to share that feeling with others is how we all we all ended up here, after all.

[Dragaros]

""Project Sabbath", a canceled Damian Wayne Batman game at WB Games Montreal, apparently has another wave of concept art revealed - this time by concept artist Goran Bukvic. The images match how the game was first described years ago. Credit to Reddit user thebananapeeler2."

[Dragaros]

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[Dragaros]

"Marvel's Avengers Caves To Backlash, Removes P2W XP Boosters After 26 Days Of Community Protests"

"Square Enix Say Crystal Dynamics Was Bad Fit For Marvel's Avengers. No, The Live Service Model Was"

[Vol]

Sorry for hunting post spam that most people probably don't care about. I just feel like something really clicked this year. It occurred to me today I may have accidentally taught myself a meditation technique because you really do go into this like Zen heightened focus state sometimes. It's very addictive and makes me kinda curious about actual meditation.

A man climbed Everest in nothing but shorts using a meditation technique. If hunting brings reality into some sort of special focus, I would pursue that like a dog with a bone.

You found something you're passionate about; wanting to share that feeling with others is how we all we all ended up here, after all.

And that too!

TW3: Really dig the siege/small settlement reworks. Still should be reeeeelatively simple for a veteran, but it looks like it'll feel way better than endless field battles and cheesing sieges. Being able to clog an attack avenue alone is a major step up from hoping I don't get the bad field maps, or having to corner camp. Firebelchers seem overburdened with abilities tho. Bunch of unit abilities + lore of Fire is a lot of micro to remember in a pitched battle.

[Ragabul]

A man climbed Everest in nothing but shorts using a meditation technique. If hunting brings reality into some sort of special focus, I would pursue that like a dog with a bone.

From what little I know about meditation most techniques seem to involve hyperfocus on one thing such as the breath and ignoring everything else. Depending on what you are hunting you are usually hyperfocused on looking for little flashes of motion in your field of vision or a certain type of sound. You will either be stationary or moving very slowly focusing on one or both of those things and ignoring everything else. Sometimes my mind just wonders and I lose focus but other times I really do enter into this weird state where I will notice like little bugs crawling on branches multiple yards away and and such. It's usually accompanied by a euphoric sort of out of body feeling which seems to match the descriptions of meditation I have heard of.

[magnuskn]

TW3: Really dig the siege/small settlement reworks. Still should be reeeeelatively simple for a veteran, but it looks like it'll feel way better than endless field battles and cheesing sieges. Being able to clog an attack avenue alone is a major step up from hoping I don't get the bad field maps, or having to corner camp. Firebelchers seem overburdened with abilities tho. Bunch of unit abilities + lore of Fire is a lot of micro to remember in a pitched battle.

On the one hand I like the field battles. On the other hands, siege battles without walls is dope, too. ^^

[Dragaros]

"The Game Awards 2021 teases “biggest lineup yet of world premieres and announcements” with 40 to 50 games; "There’ll be a lot of content for 2022 and 2023"."

"Metal Gear Solid games pulled from sale over historical footage licenses"

"Ubisoft Devs Diss CEO In Protest, Execs Grow Desperate & Give Pay Raises To Stop Devs From Leaving"

"Killer Instinct Arcade Revealed by Arcade1Up (Includes KI2, & Battletoads too!)"

"Elden Ring fans are spending hundreds of dollars for Network Test codes on eBay"

"Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker will reset your mid-level progress, so level up before it launches"

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[Vol]

From what little I know about meditation most techniques seem to involve hyperfocus on one thing such as the breath and ignoring everything else. Depending on what you are hunting you are usually hyperfocused on looking for little flashes of motion in your field of vision or a certain type of sound. You will either be stationary or moving very slowly focusing on one or both of those things and ignoring everything else. Sometimes my mind just wonders and I lose focus but other times I really do enter into this weird state where I will notice like little bugs crawling on branches multiple yards away and and such. It's usually accompanied by a euphoric sort of out of body feeling which seems to match the descriptions of meditation I have heard of.

That, or there's a strong survival bias for being able to focus and enjoy hunting, or so they say. It's one of my nebulous, "one day" long term goals to take up hunting->cooking. Just for the sake of it. But I would hope that kind of meditative trance would entail. The times I've tried to focus and clear my mind, the cliches, my mind goes into overdrive on nonsense. The blank, peaceful feelings only ever accompany physical exhaustion, like watching a sunset during a long work week after having several vodka & lemonades.

TW3

To be fair, if you don't post at least a chaff unit to tangle up flankers on your artillery, you deserve what happens. Because the AI will hammer that like a freshman sorority girl at <something funny about frats>. On my last VampCoast campaign, I pretty much had to set up the anti-large gunners facing my cannons solely because the AI would divebomb flying monsters onto them. _Git gid, CA_.

[Vol]

Apparently Lowtax has died. Gonna miss that irreverent smartass. The old internet was something brief and special.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQDWKBSw5o

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf85YbdJB9I

[Dragaros]

https://www.totalwar.com/blog/who-is-gr ... rhammer-3/





Rule of Acquisition #35: Peace is good for business.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRWIW2VxgGs

So that's how they want to play it.

[Vol]

"Yo dawg, we put yo' character in the afterlife, but now we gonna put yo' character in the afterlife of the afterlife!"

It's a bold move. Cotton. But it's also the _exact same premise_ as the initial state of Azeroth, with the titans and their ruins, but now recursively used for a third time. Also the last major content patch. So that's new too.

Re: TW3: Yeah, a shame that animating an entire tide of gnoblar helpers would've quite literally broken the memory budget, but hopefully he can get a better mount than a wooden cart as he levels. He looks cool, but cheap wood does not fit the aesthetic.