Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Tari]

Bozja's Duels are fun. They all absolutely melt if you know how to do the cheese flare star strat.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Sena isn't an employee of SE, so they can't really do anything (outside of ending their working relationship with her which....PleaseGodLetItHappen.jpg) and Kate locked her socials down as a result of Grummz shitting his pants and targeting her.

 

[Baguette Child]

We're a couple hours into Stormblood now and it's suddenly turned into a really weird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot upon reaching the first two underwater cities. Didn't have that on my bingo card for the expansion not gonna lie.

 

[Tari]

cheese flare star

Damage bonuses stack multiplicatively in this game and you can literally octuple your damage output with enough investment in bozja, gets them killed in around a minute each for like 250k gil a kill.
God bless FakeName, I know better than doxing my character here.

PleaseGodLetItHappen.jpg

Soonest that can happen is 7.1/7.2, short of Sena shitting his pants and breaking NDA.
Which I really want to happen. If that happens, the impact it'll have on the community plus both the French, German, and Japanese playerbases all seething at SE for having to quickly rewrite the story or delay several patches just because of one bad VA will singlehandedly make it so that SE never hires a troon ever again and may actually result in Kate being fired.

Didn't have that on my bingo card for the expansion not gonna lie.

Not sure if you've picked any of these up yet, but you can do daily "allied society" aka Beast Tribe dailies after you're done with that faction of beastmen. ARR ones have to be picked up in a major city.
The Kojin's one starts with "Heaven-Sent", the other two in Stormblood have lengthy prequest chains.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Well, I finished leveling GNB. I've decided to finish Sage next since that's 94 and I need an excuse to keep putting my RPR leveling off

 

[SuffahWhorse]

So some modder made an innocent little mod that removed Wuk Lamat from the game. This apparently was actually such a heinous act (according to the twitter XIV community) that it caused massive seethe, as this was apparently "massively disrespectful (to either Wuk Lamat, or Sena Bryer somehow)". They managed to rationalize that the modder was a transphobe and a racist.......for making a mod that removes an NPC from the game. The mod was shortly after removed, either because of mass reports by the GCBTW, or they modder got harassed by the GCBTW to take it down.

https://x.com/SmuggestSage/status/1830738323737858051

Only evidence of the mod being reported is this reply:


The Smuggestsage fag then proceeded to cry that he was being harassed by transphobes.

(And of course it's a troon):



Wanna know the punchline? The modder is apparently a tranny themself.

 

[Tari]

innocent little mod

This is one of two mods I know of that were taken down from that site and the other one could literally lead to your account being banned for incorrect movement packets being sent.
No-one's made a reupload of it.

Just use Hyperborea (Kawaii's repo from Punish) if you want to take GPoses in the Mordion Gaol, means you can do it on a burner trial account too and use Glamourer/Ktisis/Brio to make yourself look right.

The modder is apparently a tranny themself.

Sofie is the person who posted Hair, Faces, and Minions Defined (4K Vanilla Upscales, basically) and a few other things.
And also trans. Doesn't have a twitter and this fact isn't mentioned on Patreon, XIVMA, or Ko-Fi.
Unsure if Kylie, the "wife", is or isn't.

 

[reformed alert]

The mod was shortly after removed, either because of mass reports by the GCBTW, or they modder got harassed by the GCBTW to take it down.

He didn't want to deal with the backlash so just removed it himself. Might republish it though, after turning all hrothgar females into Wuk

 

[Kane Lives]

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He didn't want to deal with the backlash so just removed it himself. Might republish it though, after turning all hrothgar females into Wuk

Ngl that last one sounds like a recipe for laughing even more at troon tiger.

 

[King Of Braves]

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He didn't want to deal with the backlash so just removed it himself. Might republish it though, after turning all hrothgar females into Wuk

Troons are so fucking stupid, it's pretty incredible.

 

[ChromaQuack]

after turning all hrothgar females into Wuk

I know they probably don't read here, but IF it were to happen.

Why stop at hrothgars? turn everyone into Wuk Lamat. Replace the 'Final Fantasy' in the splash screen with 'Wuk Lamat' too.

And if this thing can be modded in the same way you can Dark Souls, replace every texture with Wuk Lamat.

 

[Flopper]

Dawntrail's story just wanted to be Shadowbringers again, down to having a melancholic finale, only with Shadowbringers, every area didn't end with everyone standing in a circle talking about how awesome friendship is and how working together is the way to go.
Finding the entrance to the golden city, only to pull out and do this Wild West bandit storyline that has fuck all to do with anything was an absolute slap to the face and completely killed the pacing and momentum of the story.

Zoraal Ja is a very uninteresting villain, he has so little lines, and he just ended up being wasted potential. His goal felt confused and half baked, and until the means to do so was handed to him at the half way point I did not buy for a second that he could have pulled his goals off. (In fact, he still loses to his 100+ year old father until he gets super sci fi soul tech.)
The emotional part of things is undermined too because he never had any scenes that showed any sort of warmth or connection to his father or siblings. So any tragedy of Wuk Lamat and Koana having to fight their brother, as well as Zoraal killing his father, just falls completely flat. Even the admittedly interesting idea of having a son just doesn't have time to go anywhere.

Bakool Ja Ja does heinous shit throughout the story, including unleashing an ancient monstrosity on the locals, and holding one of the examiners hostage and threatening his life. Yet he just gets a slap on the wrist and is never held accountable for his actions. He should have been DQ'd from the trial several times over. He then does a 180 out of nowhere with no buildup or foreshadowing, and just because he tells a sad story involving dead babies, WL does a full Naruto "You're pretty cool actually.", what the fuck?

Sphene is an Ascian in all but name, I don't really have much to say about her. Otis dying for her just felt completely flat to me because she wasn't in any danger, she can body swap away at any time. I know it was meant to be closure for Otis, being able to die protecting his queen, but for the players knowing what they know, it just doesn't work at all. It doesn't help that she immediately teleports away after that scene without a word about him.

I initially thought that Urianger and Thancred backing Koana would create an interesting internal conflict within the scions, to the point that they would straight up have a Civil War moment because each of the scions believed in candidates' beliefs that much. But no, the player team teams up with Koana for the cooking trial, and Koana is happy to throw in the towel and back WL up, immediately destroying any form of interesting dynamics and interactions between the characters.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Welcome to Dawntrail where the story is an underwhelming pile of dogshit.
On the other side of the fence, I hear 's story is getting better.

Edit:

I take it back. I just looked it up and it's just as dogshit. Kadghar in a fucking wheelchair? Uhh..hi Arenvald from WoW.

 

[Baguette Child]

I initially thought that Urianger and Thancred backing Koana would create an interesting internal conflict within the scions, to the point that they would straight up have a Civil War moment because each of the scions believed in candidates' beliefs that much.

This was sort of heartbreaking to read because I'd love there to be moments in the story where the scions actually have enough character to disagree with each other and not just immediately abandon their own opinions to support whatever WoL/Alphinaud want to do. What a load of wasted potential. That would have been really cool.

 

[SnowBall]

Does anyone know if we were ever promised an Ivalice style MMORPG out of this game? Some weird Garlean stan on RPGCodex awhile back was seething about how they only played the game because they were promised this and it was the reason they loved the Garleans so much and Yoshi P ruined the empire for them. I don’t recall ever seeing such a promise from Yoshi P. Also the FFXIV discussion on that site was one of the final straws causing me to cut off the community entirely, exact same stupid takes on the plot but from the other side of the political aisle.

 

[Flopper]

This was sort of heartbreaking to read because I'd love there to be moments in the story where the scions actually have enough character to disagree with each other and not just immediately abandon their own opinions to support whatever WoL/Alphinaud want to do. What a load of wasted potential. That would have been really cool.

That's pretty much the entire expansion summed up in two words: Wasted potential. I don't know if this is a case of Yoshi P being too much of a coward to have these beloved characters disagree with one another, and to just take the safest, blandest way possible with the story.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Does anyone know if we were ever promised an Ivalice style MMORPG out of this game? Some weird Garlean stan on RPGCodex awhile back was seething about how they only played the game because they were promised this and it was the reason they loved the Garleans so much and Yoshi P ruined the empire for them. I don’t recall ever seeing such a promise from Yoshi P. Also the FFXIV discussion on that site was one of the final straws causing me to cut off the community entirely, exact same stupid takes on the plot but from the other side of the political aisle.

The A Realm Reborn development team had veteran members of the Ivalice Alliance team. The original premise of branching classes, the artstyle being similar to Tactics A2, and target lines like Final Fantasy 12 is what lead many to believe XIV would be a fusion of 11 and 12. Shadowbringers may have had peak writing, but A Realm Reborn really had the most passionate group of programmers and artists from Square Enix. Patch 2.1 is effectively the leftover content that couldn't make it during 2.0 release, so imagine how much more was probably cut.

 

[Ravana]

Does anyone know if we were ever promised an Ivalice style MMORPG out of this game? Some weird Garlean stan on RPGCodex awhile back was seething about how they only played the game because they were promised this and it was the reason they loved the Garleans so much and Yoshi P ruined the empire for them. I don’t recall ever seeing such a promise from Yoshi P. Also the FFXIV discussion on that site was one of the final straws causing me to cut off the community entirely, exact same stupid takes on the plot but from the other side of the political aisle.

I don’t recall anything of the sort but the Ivalice raids and Bozja gave us a good little mini-ivalice mmo out of it.
P12S’s second half gives us more of that ivalice word salad too it’s great.

 

[Tari]

That's pretty much the entire expansion summed up in two words: Wasted potential. I don't know if this is a case of Yoshi P being too much of a coward to have these beloved characters disagree with one another, and to just take the safest, blandest way possible with the story.

Asian Todd Howard didn't have the time to play DT before it was released because he was too busy on FFXVI and the rest of CBU3 are working on other games and neglecting The only game they have that makes a profit.

Ivalice raids and Bozja

Bozja/"Save The Queen" is peak content in XIV, provided you know what tooltips and Lost Actions are.
Where else can you do things like the Infinite Fire IV/Despair rotation (Breathtaker + Ether Kits, add Chainspell to also have 100% mobility) or hit Afflatus Misery for over 1 million damage (This is not an exaggeration, Echo boosts and Lost Action cycling can do this.)?
I recommend going at non-peak hours (Or on Materia which is always a ghost town) so that there aren't as many retarded normies, and partying up with the resident Bloodsucker Tank/Templar Healer Chad so that you can farm Bozjan Clusters and spawn Critical Engagements when you aren't doing Skirmishes for some Mettle.
It's even better if someone's in the party reflect farming sprites while all of this is happening, and someone else is cheesing the Star Rank monsters with Ordained + Death for that heavily boosted chance to kill.

If someone's skilled enough to beat a Duel, you get a Double Mettle boost for an entire hour if you were watching it, so cheer on your resident non-BLM caster as they reaffirm that they're the Sword of the South.
When it's CLL time, the Reflect Tank puts their pants back on, gets out Blood Rage, and helps everyone kill Dawon before Lyon has the chance to taunt everyone else up onto the platform.

It's not like Eureka where there are penalties on both ends to be in a party with people below your level and the only other things to do other than spawning Notorious Monsters is waiting around for the next Bunny FATE to spawn or trying to farm Warped Lockboxes (And neither of those are possible in Anemos, fuck you), it's genuinely designed for party play.

 

[Ravana]

Bozja was so awesome. I loved the wartime setting. The big events would have people and there were multiple objectives