Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Springbok_sl said:

Boom bitches! Just dropped off the girlfriend at the airport - Convinced the gals at the office I was in Colorado - and the keg gets here at noon. For a minute there I felt like the kids in Dazed and Confused waiting for their keg to arrive BEFORE their parents went on holiday. I've officially lied to my family, and my employees to play a video game. Have off until Wednesday....

I'm 30 years old, this is normal right? RIGHT? God damn man, I thought these days were behind me.

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Jelly man. Wish I was in your shoes.

I'll have to purchase a 4 pack of redbull and I'm thinking of just getting a large pizza and putting it next to me while I play. should last me Saturday-Sunday

swayze22_sl said:

This is oh so sad and oh so true. :/

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Gamers: people who know min/maxing is not about the content on farm status.

So. What time am I getting up tomorrow morning for this?




FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/23/2013 7:51:47 AM
Score:18548FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/23/2013 7:58:01 AM
Score:9627
Average Framerate:84.916
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1680x1050
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : High
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality : High
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Display
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Disabled
-Shadow Resolution : High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading : Best
-Shadow Softening : Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering : x16
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Full
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Strong
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
16326.738MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti(VRAM 4095 MB) 9.18.0013.2049

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

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2AM PST, 4AM CST, 5AM EST from what I've heard and has been said in this thread.

Krassus_sl said:

I cancelled a weekend beach trip with my GF's family for this game, felt kind of bad a few minutes ago but im starting to get excited. Going to go to the store to get energy drinks, shitty food, and green tea so I can push a 2 day stretch.

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you are my bro

Springbok_sl said:

Boom bitches! Just dropped off the girlfriend at the airport - Convinced the gals at the office I was in Colorado - and the keg gets here at noon. For a minute there I felt like the kids in Dazed and Confused waiting for their keg to arrive BEFORE their parents went on holiday. I've officially lied to my family, and my employees to play a video game. Have off until Wednesday....

I'm 30 years old, this is normal right? RIGHT? God damn man, I thought these days were behind me.

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Hah! Im 30 also and completely in the same mindset for this game.

My chick just went on the rag so I was super stoked to ditch her all weekend guiltlessly. Unfortunately my roomate just caught his best friend hooking up with his girl last night so now I gotta be a bro and get shithammered all weekend. Couldnt that slut wait one more week!? Fuck!

StoiCynic_sl said:

Hah! Im 30 also and completely in the same mindset for this game.

My chick just went on the rag so I was super stoked to ditch her all weekend guiltlessly. Unfortunately my roomate just caught his best friend hooking up with his girl last night so now I gotta be a bro and get shithammered all weekend. Couldnt that slut wait one more week!? Fuck!

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Be a bro and get that dude on the PS3 version and play together. Teamwork.

Vinyard_sl said:

I'll have to purchase a 4 pack of redbull and I'm thinking of just getting a large pizza and putting it next to me while I play. should last me Saturday-Sunday

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Thats totally the wrong strategy for marathon sessions, unless you are in your teenage years you will crash after a few hours from the blood sugar level spikes of pizza and red bulls. What you want to do is actually eat as little as possible, the hunger will keep you very alert. When it becomes unbearable eat things like steak, burgers, fish, etc. Every hour get up and take a 5 minute walk/stretch/pee, snacking on nuts and cheese if you need to. You should be drinking mostly water, once you start chugging coffee and energy drinks (try to use zero sugar ones) you've started the countdown to crashing and will need more and more to stay awake. At some point you will hit a second wind where you feel like Neo in the matrix and everything is euphoric, but pretty much 3-5 hours after that you will be unable to avoid falling asleep.

If you wanna get really crazy you can try some of the new drugs like modafinil/provigil that provide 40+ hour intense, no sleep sessions or I guess the old standby, meth/speed.

spronk_sl said:

Thats totally the wrong strategy for marathon sessions, unless you are in your teenage years you will crash after a few hours from the blood sugar level spikes of pizza and red bulls. What you want to do is actually eat as little as possible, the hunger will keep you very alert. When it becomes unbearable eat things like steak, burgers, fish, etc. Every hour get up and take a 5 minute walk/stretch/pee, snacking on nuts and cheese if you need to. You should be drinking mostly water, once you start chugging coffee and energy drinks (try to use zero sugar ones) you've started the countdown to crashing and will need more and more to stay awake. At some point you will hit a second wind where you feel like Neo in the matrix and everything is euphoric, but pretty much 3-5 hours after that you will be unable to avoid falling asleep.

If you wanna get really crazy you can try some of the new drugs like modafinil/provigil that provide 40+ hour intense, no sleep sessions or I guess the old standby, meth/speed.

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lol. I'll pass on the drugs, thanks tho I've done plenty of marathon sessions with redbull and pizza (also hot tea. that stuff is legend). Recent one was Mists of Pandaria release.

i preordered and got the email within 15 min with the early access code. entered it in the ps3 and started downloading. i was expecting to go through about 3-4 hours of bullshit juding by the previous threads. i have no idea why people had so many problems. is there another step that is the issue?

BruuceWarduck_sl said:

you are my bro

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Saw you and other bros on the signup, lets do this.

Springbok_sl said:

Boom bitches! Just dropped off the girlfriend at the airport - Convinced the gals at the office I was in Colorado - and the keg gets here at noon. For a minute there I felt like the kids in Dazed and Confused waiting for their keg to arrive BEFORE their parents went on holiday. I've officially lied to my family, and my employees to play a video game. Have off until Wednesday....

I'm 30 years old, this is normal right? RIGHT? God damn man, I thought these days were behind me.

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Hahah, glad I'm not the only one. I basically am doing a texas twister smoke bomb and have the office think i'm in one place and corporate think I am in the other. I can run my department remotely so i'll still be doing things but that is what a 3rd monitor is for. Only bad thing is i am missing dinner and an important meeting with our CEO which is hard to get face time with ($9 billion a year company) but fuck it I can conference call in! I just bought 500 dollars worth of every god damn thing I've been craving for the last 6 months and I am locking myself in for 9 days straight of moogle slewing. I've been on a 6 month MMO sabbatical and been really focused on lifting and eating healthy this whole time so I am ready to go hog wild. 4 different types of Captain Morgan lined up and more cans of easy cheese then i've ate in a life time baby!

Going to go play my last game of basketball for a while since i'm sure my ass won't be leaving the seat for 9 days other then to empty the piss bag and walk half way to the shower before deciding "i can go one more day" ! Its so funny when you see spoofs on TV about this shit like on Big Bang and Penny playing MMO's on how much of a slobs they become because its so fucking true. I have a very professional career, I'm very social and well rounded for todays standards and probably 3 people in the world that i currently deal with at all in my life even know I play games but when it comes to an MMO release.....its god damn game on Donkey Kong! Luckily after the rush to 50 is over and epenis erection has been sustained long enough then I get to go back to a balanced life of work > lifting/bball > slew moogles but for this one week its 20+ hours every day and usually 40-50 hours straight the first few days.

We are an interesting breed of people aren't we my friends.

(ps..i decided to go old school favorite and bought 25 totino's pizzas....i literally am going to destory 6 months of hard lifting and boxing in 1 week, its going to be fucking epic.

Vinyard_sl said:

lol. I'll pass on the drugs, thanks tho

I've done plenty of marathon sessions with redbull and pizza (also hot tea. that stuff is legend). Recent one was Mists of Pandaria release.

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Make sure you drink plenty of garlic sauce.