by Filippo DinolfoOn this episode of the Day 0 Update: A look ahead at some of the system changes in Final Fantasy XIV. Grid is being rebooted. The PlayStation 5’s storage is really fast, and what that could mean for games. That, and much, more!
5/26/2019 Show Notes
- What Are We Playing?
- F: MK11, Emulators, Assetto Corsa.
- P: Stormblood, Metropolis Street Racing, Ultrawings, Wipeout Omega
- C: Minecraft, Rocket League, Dauntless
- SIGIL to release May 31st for Free. Premium available now for 6.66
- FFXIV Shadowbringers Live Letter (part 1) highlights
- PC Benchmark available now
- Job Action Trailer available now
- P: These are hardly full disclosure, but give you good clues about balance.
- Job questlines being replaced by Role questlines from L70 on.
- Story focus will be on Arbert’s party from Heavensward.
- There will be one Job-specific quest at L80.
- Completing a role questline will eventually be required to advance MSQ.
- New system: Charged Actions
- Some independent cooldown skills store extra stocks over time.
- Shoulder Tackle (MNK) and Kassatsu (NIN) cited as examples
- P: Gives me Bravely Default vibes, seems it’s an adapted WoW system?
- Some independent cooldown skills store extra stocks over time.
- MP effectively moving to a percentage system, TP removed altogether
- Abilities that expended TP will now be free actions.
- P: I have a Doom Spike in my pants.
- Abilities that expended TP will now be free actions.
- Pets (summons, fairies) no longer affected by enemy attacks/actions
- Pet actions homogenized into one-size-fits-all main hotbar actions by job
- As an example, new SMN action “Egi Assault I” indexes Ifrit’s Crimson Cyclone, Titan’s Earthen Armor, and Garuda’s Aerial Slash
- No word how transitional complications will be addressed (ie: Contagion)
- Chain-kill bonuses no longer applicable in dungeons (for EXP standardization)
- Damage limit increasing to seven figures (stat crunch likely coming in 6.0)
- Job Synergy being overhauled to reduce/abolish rigid party composition in PF.
- Tank stances only affect aggro now, with aggro combos being removed outright
- Damage reduction for tanks is now implemented through passive traits
- Protect is being abolished, healer balancing geared toward filling gaps in options
- MNK/DRG/SAM/NIN/RDM/BLM are going to remain fundamentally unchanged
- BRD/SMN/MCH are getting notable changes, with MCH being overhauled entirely
- There is still a ton of information under embargo until part 2 on Wednesday.
- Razer shuttering the Ouya store in June
- Nippon Ichi is reportedly unable to pay its employees after recent mobile Disgaea failure
- Codemasters is rebooting Grid for a September release
- Square Enix is bringing the first Star Ocean game to PS4/Switch
- GOG Galaxy 2.0 looks to bring all of your games and friends into one launcher
- Steam’s Spring Cleanup event reminds us we have too many games
- Panic announces tiny B&W Playdate Handheld
- PlayStation Productions will bring PlayStation’s properties to film & TV
- Sony demonstrated next-gen PlayStation storage performance
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