New Final Fantasy XIV Info Leaked

A new thread from FFXIVCore.com, one of the largest fansites dedicated to the highly-anticipated MMO, has posted a wealth of information regarding many different facets of the game, including job abilities and the battle system, as well as aspirations from the development team. Cellphone pictures were snapped from the latest issues of Dengeki and Famitsu. Here are some of the highlights covering more general game details:
- Everything done in battle in FFXIV increases TP, including casting
- Defense can happen both automatically and at the will of the user
- The PC version will be able to run on PCs from a few years ago, but the alpha version will only run on high-end PCs
- Can be run on 512MB of VRAM and above
- Alpha test starts soon
- Square wants to make it possible to play with your friends from FFXI
- Character customization won’t be fully available in beta (can’t change facial features)
- There’s a mode for restoring HP while moving
- The plan is the make the maximum number of members in a party between 6 and 8, and there will also be alliances
- The important things in battle are distance, range, and direction
- There will be magic you can use while moving
- There are screenshots in the magazine of the alpha version, and it looks like there have been a lot of small changes
- “Aggro/hate” has a different name in 14 (Translates to something like how much the enemy views you as a threat)
- Enemies will not be set in one area in order for people to pull them to camps; places that enemies will appear will be scattered around

So, not huge differences between XIV and XI, but it appears that they're exponentially improving upon the formula to better serve the game to players that have gone through more technically proficient games since XI was released almost 8 years ago.

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