Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta begins...

[ZeroHour]

I am on your server "Zero Hour"

[CAM]

Kyna Black here. And if anyone works put how to send a quick reply then tell us!

Oh and this game does not support keyboard and mouse. I have found you get considerably better performance from a controller and it makes the game much more fun to play plus K+M completely breaks some things like the map. Unfortunately, for a PC game this is pretty poor!

[tarquel]

@ZH: Okey dokey... will add ya tomorrow (just signed off it hehe).

@CAM: Hmmm... that sounds strange. Cant see why K+M wouldnt be fully supported. I'd wager some hard core folk would be religiously of that ilk and SE would be accomodating accordingly hehe

I would suspect that any GUI based glitches they might not bother to implement on the open beta environment, as they've probably got them fixed in the retail environment thats apparently running parallel to the open beta.

Will likely be on again at some point tomorrow night so give me a /tell if you notice im online as i'd like to see what things breaks. If you notice anything, theres a Bug Submission on the main menu somewhere

tbh, i've been working out the controls as i go along, but I have got me PS3 controller hooked up and working with it

Its strange they dont let us chat about issues on their "dev" forums tbh, but guess they just think everyone will fill them with rubbish etc hehe

Cheers
Nath.

[tarquel]

Sorry CAM, I didnt see your other post on page one. Yes, both parties have to add each other to truely "see" each other in their lists

Additional info:

The patcher and SE download servers have been sorted a few days ago, so downloading through the normal patcher should work much better now [u may need to get it updated first to sort it tho]

Also, the Beta finishes on the 19th so if your thinking of trying it... get your skates on

Updated OP with the info and a bit of a clean up too.

Nath

[GrumbleDook]

I've tried to get it on my machine, but ran out of space and don't have time to rebuild the partitions, etc ... I'll have to pass on this one

[tarquel]

Space wouldnt have been your only problem i think GD

I cant wait for the 22nd..... should be fun dayz.... providing i have any energy left from the start of the Win7 Refresh with us....

Nath

[GrumbleDook]

The baselining app played quite well once I had killed a few background apps. I was really looking forward to it. Oh well ... I'll wait 9-12 months until (and if) it is ported. In the meantime I can wait for WoW:Cataclysm.

[tarquel]

aww thats too bad hehe

Ported?

Cant see that happening later on down the line - but then again, anything's possible these days hehe.

Nath