Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Herr Flick]

This nigger is insufferable and needs to shut the fuck up.

He represents everything I cannot stand in FFXIV right now, AND he plays a lalafell. I have nothing against lalafell; rather, I am repulsed by the very concept of a creature so vile and unwholesome as a troon choosing a lalafell, specifically, to stare at for this game's 500+ hour playtime.

Total tranny death.

 

[ChromaQuack]

Tataru revealing her plan for world damnation

There is no such plan, do not spread misinformation or you will be facing being devoured to further power up the Tataru proto-eikonic world dominion device a sternly worded letter.

Spoiler

 

[Gravemind]

A final conclusion to the dragon arc with their continent. Perhaps a return of Bahamuth.

Do you mean Meracydia? Also, the only way they're bringing back Bahamut in any capacity is in some knockoff form like Lunar Bahamut or unless he's worshipped into becoming another Primal. This isn't likely to happen as I'm sure most dragons know what happened with that the first time.

Garlemald remnants attempting to have a resurgence under an admiral thrawn like character.

God no, I absolutely do not want this. I do not want the retards, trannies, and fags to have some justification to go "SEE? GARLEMALD BAD, WE NEVER SHOULD'VE HELPED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE."

Think of all the shitstirring and sperging it would cause on here alone.

 

[Local Degenerate]

Do you mean Meracydia? Also, the only way they're bringing back Bahamut in any capacity is in some knockoff form like Lunar Bahamut or unless he's worshipped into becoming another Primal. This isn't likely to happen as I'm sure most dragons know what happened with that the first time.

God no, I absolutely do not want this. I do not want the retards, trannies, and fags to have some justification to go "SEE? GARLEMALD BAD, WE NEVER SHOULD'VE HELPED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE."

Think of all the shitstirring and sperging it would cause on here alone.

Beyond that, we already kicked the shit out of Zenos, caused someone to blow his brains out, and basically solo'd their army, twice.

The buds off that rose.

Now running into a new evil empire, fine. Hell, Tedeji's top half in a jar, Dio style, leading a new faction of crystal braves would be more fun and interesting

Edit: Honestly, if anything, I want a real dark doppleganger story. None of this two second Zenos body snatching or tragic hero from another world. Just us, or something at our level, causing havoc because, honestly, if there was no evil to fight, the kind of lunatic the WoL is portrayed as would start burning down Eorza just for something fun to fight. If it's going to be cliche, let's at least have some fun with it.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

God no, I absolutely do not want this. I do not want the retards, trannies, and fags to have some justification to go "SEE? GARLEMALD BAD, WE NEVER SHOULD'VE HELPED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE."

Think of all the shitstirring and sperging it would cause on here alone.

But it would be funny though. I'm always up for chuckling at a manic malding episode here.

 

[Gravemind]

But it would be funny though. I'm always up for chuckling at a manic malding episode here.

I mean, what you'd get out of it is another few pages worth of people writing novel-length posts about how much XIV's writing sucks and has always sucked.

Beyond that, we already kicked the shit out of Zenos, caused someone to blow his brains out, and basically solo'd their army, twice.

The buds off that rose.

Now running into a new evil empire, fine. Hell, Tedeji's top half in a jar, Dio style, leading a new faction of crystal braves would be more fun and interesting

That would infinitely be better than Garlemald en masse suddenly turning New Order.

 

[00R-Gundam]

This nigger is insufferable and needs to shut the fuck up.

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He represents everything I cannot stand in FFXIV right now, AND he plays a lalafell. I have nothing against lalafell; rather, I am repulsed by the very concept of a creature so vile and unwholesome as a troon choosing a lalafell, specifically, to stare at for this game's 500+ hour playtime.

Total tranny death.

As a representative of the kiwi lalas, we do not claim him nor we accept him as a lalafell. In fact we declare Protocol:TTD

 

[Übertroon]

God no, I absolutely do not want this. I do not want the retards, trannies, and fags to have some justification to go "SEE? GARLEMALD BAD, WE NEVER SHOULD'VE HELPED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE."

Think of all the shitstirring and sperging it would cause on here alalone.

Why would the opinion of lunatics matter? There's a reason why stories of nazis having secret bases and last battalion storylines remain popular, one last hurrah to terrify the people who spend their free time hating on fictional empires

 

[Gravemind]

Why would the opinion of lunatics matter? There's a reason why stories of nazis having secret bases and last battalion storylines remain popular, one last hurrah to terrify the people who spend their free time hating on fictional empires

Because I have seen and continue to see a near decade's worth of people being absolutely illiterate when it comes to XIV's story, throwing shitfits en masse, and mobbing other people for daring to disagree with them and this particular brand of that bullshit from this specific following is no longer entertaining for me and hasn't been for a long time. I just want them to shut up.

This is how we wound up with the mob of troons and retards loud enough to get Susan Calloway into some bullshit, among many other things.

 

[Well Intentioned]

I'm curious what the more weeby folks in this thread might have to say on this.

To me, it really seems that the localization for EW isn't great. I'm not sure if they're adopting some esoteric speaking/writing styles (eg, the pseudo-medieval/GoT 'needs must' type stuff) but it comes off like there were some pretty egregious mistakes made.

I know 99% of the folks skip through quest text, but I was bored and skimmed through some of the tribe quest stuff and it just didn't read properly.

Wondering if other folks might've noticed this. It definitely seems like a step down.

 

[ZMOT]

so I somehow had the itch to maybe sub for a month again to see the current state of things.. do I read that right and you really still have to buy all the expansion as a returning player?

 

[Hammr2]

I'm curious what the more weeby folks in this thread might have to say on this.

To me, it really seems that the localization for EW isn't great. I'm not sure if they're adopting some esoteric speaking/writing styles (eg, the pseudo-medieval/GoT 'needs must' type stuff) but it comes off like there were some pretty egregious mistakes made.

I know 99% of the folks skip through quest text, but I was bored and skimmed through some of the tribe quest stuff and it just didn't read properly.

Wondering if other folks might've noticed this. It definitely seems like a step down.

I'd say it's because Koji Fox doesn't really work on Endwalker, he was a lot more busy with FF16.
Lead localization for EW is Kathryn (Kate) Cwynar. You can read an interview having her here and FF14 forum thread complaining about English localization. She had been discussed in this thread before, with Koji becomes supervisor.

The interview mentions how the team would figuring out old-school speaking manner to fit appropriately for characters. First post of the forum thread talks about omitting some details or just flowery more stuffs that isn't in other languages. Of course, you can expect people defending localization because "it can't be 1 on 1 translation" and "memes". Just skim through like 10 pages, no need to read them all.

 

[King Of Braves]

For me the story pf ff14 ended in endwalker. You went against a being capable of snuffing out life at will and won through the power of friendship and then you retire. That was for me, then Dawntrail was announced and it feels like the weird beach episode that anime series have. Sure you can argue this is just a vacation for the WoL and he/she cant stay still and just wants to venture forth, but there's objectively no more stakes that could surpass endsinger unless we do multiverse shit(God no)

Personally im thinking of just finishing leveling the classes that im interested and just fucking off until danwtrail drops. Maybe ill get to play FF11 since the heavensturn event made me curious of the game and it would be a nice change of pace.

As someone who played FF11 for a decade, don't. It's not worth the monumental effort to get to the "good" content. The story is not even about you as the player for the most part, at least until you get to Aht Urghan content. And, even though there's been a *lot* of QoL improvements over a 20 year span, there's nothing compared to the convenience of things you get in 14. Plus, I don't know what they've done to enable the player to access content that pretty specifically requires a lot of other people to participate.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

So I ran ACT for the first time and HOLY FUCK is it useful. Did 2nd worst in overall DPS, but still, it's nice to have a way to tell you where you went wrong

 

[Well Intentioned]

I'd say it's because Koji Fox doesn't really work on Endwalker, he was a lot more busy with FF16.
Lead localization for EW is Kathryn (Kate) Cwynar. You can read an interview having her here and FF14 forum thread complaining about English localization. She had been discussed in this thread before, with Koji becomes supervisor.

The interview mentions how the team would figuring out old-school speaking manner to fit appropriately for characters. First post of the forum thread talks about omitting some details or just flowery more stuffs that isn't in other languages. Of course, you can expect people defending localization because "it can't be 1 on 1 translation" and "memes". Just skim through like 10 pages, no need to read them all.

Yeah, it's not so much finding the right dialect (ie, Edwardian English for Urianger, the pseudo-GoT stuff or whatever) but what just looks like really bad literal translations you'd see in like 90s bootleg fandubs of anime.

I'm not some gobshite purist who believes everything has to be translated word for word. The two important things to keep in mind when adapting a work from one language to another is readability (ie, is it authentic to the text) and basic fucking grammar (which is where I'm raising my eyebrow.) There's a great website, Legends of Localization, which talks about the nuances of translating JP to EN and outlines a lot of the rationale behind translating works and why some approaches do/don't work and when/where they do.

There's a beast tribe quest where the sentence structure seems to be flipped around. Not quite approaching 'Yoda speak', but close. Once I noticed that, I saw it creep up elsewhere, too.

I'm not sure about syntax/sentence structure for Japanese, but I know that some Romance languages (eg, French, Spanish, Italian) things like adverbs and verbs are flipped around. I'm not sure if Japanese has similar rules, but that I'm noticing these are minor quest stuff (ie, not MSQ) makes me wonder if it's a rookie translator fucking things up (or if Square was using AI or something.)

If it comes up again, I'll post some examples.

EDIT: And this interview is revealing:

I also like characters that are a little bit ridiculous, which puts Giott up near the top of my list. Gyoshin and Seigetsu the Enlightened from the Namazu crafting quests are personal favorites too, though if I’ve done my job right, they’re more than a “little bit” ridiculous.

I'm really curious if this sentiment is utilized elsewhere. "If a pinch is good, then a pound is better!" thinking.

EDIT Again: And that thread...jump to the last page.

Haurchefant discussion. I am so utterly sick of this dipshit.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

so I somehow had the itch to maybe sub for a month again to see the current state of things.. do I read that right and you really still have to buy all the expansion as a returning player?

Once you buy the current expansion, all other expansions come along with the game. If you buy endwalker now, you'll still have to shell out money for dawntrail. Or you could wait until dawntrails comes out, buy that and then get endwalker for free.

So I ran ACT for the first time and HOLY FUCK is it useful. Did 2nd worst in overall DPS, but still, it's nice to have a way to tell you where you went wrong

I can't run ACT myself but I have a friend who does and it never stops being satisfying whenever he tells me I was the highest dps in a raid. I remember one time that I went into a Nier Tower run as white mage and the whole alliance was so garbage that I, by myself had raised 127 times collectively throughout the whole thing so the point where I basically hard carried because not only did I have to raise people from other groups, I had to keep their tanks healed while their own healers were busy trying to raise others themselves.

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

In the last stretch of Dragonsong's Reprise Ultimate now. Officially I'm on Wroth Flames prog in P6 but with how much I've been trying to research the mechs beforehand it's closer to P6 cleanup.

The real issue is that P6 is 11 minutes into the pull and it's pretty precise in a lot of ways. You got tight positioning in wb1, tight timings on the dodge in wroth flames, a hand-of-pain mech repeated twice (keep bosses within 3% of eachother or you wipe), a debuff that must be very carefully passed cause clipping additional people will reduce their max HP and not passing enrages the boss, and if anyone dies to any attacks done by one of the bosses, they instantly enrage and will wipe the group.

And that phase comes after Death of the Heavens. Probably one of the most difficult mechanics in the game that finishes with a DPS check on meteors so you can't really afford to have any deaths at all.

Fight is fantastic but don't run it as your first ever ultimate, cause holy shit does it feel like a step up when going from UCOB/UWU to DSR. It just feels like DSR demands very close to perfection in executing mechanics, and the few times recovering is possible you need to do it very quickly and cleanly.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Based on what a lot of people have told me, the difficulty of the ultimates are as follows from easiest to most difficult:

UWU < UCOB < TEA < DSR < TOP

General consensus is that DSR is a favorite of a lot of people. TOP is considered most difficult, but not as fun as DSR. From the way my contacts tell it, TOP is frustrating and just an annoying fight in general. UWU is generally considered to be baby's first ultimate.

DSR is so well loved that people I know to have already cleared it continue to do the fight because they find it so enjoyable.

I have a lot of respect for people who put in the work, time and effort into clearing ultimate level content. But with that being said....their weapons are still ugly as sin and I will stand by that belief until the end of my days.

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

I can attest to UWU being baby's first ultimate. It doesn't really ramp up to ultimate difficulty until Ultima phase. Titan is actually pretty easy outside of gaols. It's quite an easy ultimate. That said, still an Ult so that still means it's a demanding fight.

As for TOP. The bugs and P1 being so demanding probably hurt perception a bit, but phase 5 making automarkers basically essential in PF (even after SE said they made the fight to be doable without mods) hurt it a lot. The phase is just a lot of full random mechanics and you need to resolve it in such a way so that everyone finishes the phase with 3 stacks of a buff.

 

[Gravemind]

The phase is just a lot of full random mechanics and you need to resolve it in such a way so that everyone finishes the phase with 3 stacks of a buff.

Peanut gallery here, but I thought random mechanics that make a fight more difficult were exactly what some people wanted in this game?

Do you mean to say it doesn't quite work in execution, or at least the way it was handled in this case? Honest and for true?