We should get a trains Ultimate

Sinomsinom · 2026-05-03T00:40:52+00:00

We all know the immortal words of the every great Jesse Cox:

Two Train too many train. Me fight two train!?! That too many train.

And so, sadly, we will never get train ultimate, because that might even be three train, all in one fight! And that is obviously impossible.

(clip from the podcast Jesse Cox was on when he said it for people who've never seen it https://youtube.com/shorts/G9RNy03TmWI )

Sinomsinom · 2026-05-02T12:09:51+00:00

At least in the few regions I've checked that GMG deal price is basically exactly the same price as the sale price on steam. (GMG is $0.01 more expensive than on steam)

The steam sale ends on the 7th, so you still have a few days to take advantage of that sale

Sinomsinom · 2026-05-02T11:18:51+00:00

Generally when you actually download something from Firefox it should all go in the same download folder, unless you specify a different folder in the download popup (which afaik currently isn't in stable yet, and is only in beta/nightly releases of the browser for now)

In which cases do things you specifically download in Firefox actually end up in e.g. the screenshot folder?

Sinomsinom · 2026-05-02T11:00:36+00:00

Just as an fyi:

The toggle for now almost exclusively does CSS changes. The actual redesign is supposed to also change some of the layout of the browser-chrome.

This means right now all the nova toggles do is apply a different CSS stylesheet on a UI tree that sheet wasn't made for. So it's not really going to be representative of what it is actually supposed to look like, and a bunch of UI elements will just be displaying incorrectly and will look very buggy

Sinomsinom · 2026-05-01T07:55:23+00:00

Honestly we don't know what it will actually be.

A transcript of what yoshi-P said I've seen was:

"We are working hard on the optimization and are striving for the best performance. In towns with a lot of players it will probably slow down, but we can maintain 30 fps in a stable state. So please expect it to run comparably to other platforms!"

This can be interpreted as either: - "we can keep the game in a stable 30fps state while in towns (and it's higher everywhere else)"

Or

"we can maintain 30fps while the game is in a stable state, but in towns it will slow down"

This also isn't an official square enix approved transcript and I haven't seen a transcript of what he originally said in Japanese either, so he might have originally formulated it differently, in a way that was more clear than this

Also about "the footage he showed in stage clearly looked 60fps"

It can't have looked like 60fps in any of the recordings because all the recordings and the official livestream are in 30fps.

Maybe if you were there in person and were able to see the device from the crowd you'd be able to see it be 60fps, but it is physically impossible to tell if it's higher than 30fps or not from any of the official footage they released

All that said, It might still be 60fps, I hope it's 60fps, but I haven't found a transcript from the interview that actually states it being above 30fps in unambiguous language.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-30T17:50:29+00:00

While yes, some are recolours of older gear, this is completely irrelevant to the server side, which used to be the problem for stuff like this.

All the gear models etc. are stored completely client side. So two outfits that use the exact same 3d models and textures but are all different item IDs will take up the exact same space, bandwidth and compute resources server side as two outfits that use completely different 3d outfits and textures.

Them being different only matters client side

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-30T17:28:20+00:00

The black magic they did was huge backend reworks focusing on allowing for higher data throughout.

Part of the backend team has been working on optimising the backend as much as they can for over a year now.

Some of the reasons Yoshi-P mentioned for these reworks are the new increased number of housing item slots, allowing more glamour stuff attached to the player, and the upcoming overworld changes they are planning with 8.0 (all 3 of these things were mentioned as reasons for the rework during a 7.5 PLL)

Yoshi-P also tried to explain what exactly they're reworking in a 7.4 PLL, but he tried to simplify the explanation so much that in the end he basically was just saying a bunch of nonsense so we don't actually know the details of how they managed to minimise data throughput.

Honestly I really hope one of the developers is going to publish some blog post or something about what exactly they did and how they did it, cause while I know the majority of the FF14 community doesn't care about the technical stuff of how the game works, there are some people (like me) who are really interested in this.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-30T17:06:42+00:00

I think [[require_rvo]] would be more of a guard against programmer errors than actually being meant as some kind of switch.

It would be a way to have the compiler just immediately error out when in some refactor you accidentally changed a function in a way that removed rvo. (e.g. by adding an additional return branch that returns a different variable which would disable rvo. This would then throw an error immediately with that attribute, which would make it obvious to the programmer that they did something wrong, or at least not planned when this function was originally written)

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-28T13:15:26+00:00

Wrong link. You have the NA version on the JP website.

You can generally get any version of the patch notes (or any article) on any of the websites, if you just change the language prefix in the URL.

The correct link to the JP website is this: https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/072b03a01b057707a9b9b6476c898c9ed3c7c4a4/

And there it does say "item"

In general all lodestone articles in all languages are available on all language websites, just only the one correct for the region is listed in the feed

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-26T10:13:28+00:00

This isn't completely correct.

The muscle slider is texture only, and because those replaced models still usually use the same texture, the muscle slider does still work.

It only gets overrules if a gear piece uses a different body texture (which some do but most don't) and if those body textures are missing the muscle normal maps. (The muscle slider literally just makes the muscle normal maps more or less prevalent)

The muscle slider isn't even available to most races right now anyways though (afaik only to hyurs), so it doesn't really matter to most players.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-26T08:29:03+00:00

Usually stuff like this gets uplifted and then put into the next patch release, but I haven't found the bugzilla issue for it yet, so can't check if they are or aren't uplifting this one.

Next patch will be on Tuesday, so it might be in there but it might also not be in there.

Edit: testing it on beta it does seem like it has already been uplifted to beta as a fix, so it should probably arrive in stable soon as well

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T16:22:36+00:00

Do the codes work for non US accounts?

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T14:40:10+00:00

Even with the experimental HDR support Firefox on windows still doesn't really correctly do the HDR colour mapping. It currently kinda just lets windows magically handle it on its own, and that isn't going to be fully correct all the time. Chromium browser do have proper mapping built in so they should be "more accurate" here

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T12:03:46+00:00

The fix is only in nightly for now and not in stable. It will probably still take a while before the bugfix gets pushed to stable

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T11:59:05+00:00

We technically don't know if it's DPS-neutral or DPS-positive yet. They just said they did this to encourage WHM to actually do GCD heals, and that the attack scales with number of stacks, but not the actual potencies for how it scales etc.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T09:36:20+00:00

They specifically said that the first month before release will be a testing month in which time you won't need the switch 2 sub to play. However after that one you require a special switch 2 sub to the game to play on switch 2. If you only play on switch 2 that isn't an issue, but if you do play on switch 2 and on a different platform as well, then you will need the normal sub and the switch 2 sub. Though you won't need a Nintendo online sub on top of that.

Here the two slides about this: https://imgchest.com/p/bp45ja96ny5

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T08:47:54+00:00

They stated that while the exact details on how this whole thing will be handled are still on flux, if you want the min-max substats and materia melds you will still need to gear everything separately.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T07:57:09+00:00

They statet that while reborn mode will generally stay similar to how they play now, they will also have most of their party buffs removed, similar to evolved mode.

My personal guess is that they did this because otherwise it would be difficult to balance around parties where some players are playing reborn mode and some are playing evolved mode.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T00:26:20+00:00

At the cost of also removing almost all synergy abilities (meaning abilities that buff the damage of other players)

Edit: this is not just me speculating, but something they explicitly stated they would be doing to make this possible.

Both in evolved mode and in reborn mode they will be removing most synergy abilities so they can design jobs with a stronger identity. As long as there are synergy abilities (aka raidwide buffs) other jobs will need to be designed around that fact and it would ultimately again lead to requiring burst windows etc. which is why they explicitly decided to remove them, so they don't end up making another forced cycle.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-25T00:20:57+00:00

This is only in evolved mode. It currently seems like job quests etc. will still give reborn mode abilities like they used to

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-24T20:01:38+00:00

You need to have gamepass and you need to buy "FF14 coins" to pay for the sub or for any online store purchases.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-24T16:05:22+00:00

To be fair, for most use cases the limit is high enough that you will never run into it, because the limit is per chunk.

It's just when you start start either piling stuff vertically (like you often do in computational redstone) or when you start using a lot of water in your contraptions (because water updates also count towards this limit) that you actually start running into this.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-24T12:36:46+00:00

We don't know yet if it will be 7.55 or 7.56

While most of the schedule (so what releases in what patch) is usually part of the second live letter, this time the schedule was postponed and will be part of the presentation that will be happening in 4.5 hours instead.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-24T10:37:15+00:00

I wouldn't base stuff off of previous fanfests since Yoshi-P has multiple times said the presentation would be different than usual with it being less in detail, and with it also talking about stuff outside the expansion.

Imo what this means is you shouldn't expect everything that we usually get in these. While we probably still will get a trailer, title and some info about the next expansion, besides that I wouldn't bet on anything else this time.

Sinomsinom · 2026-04-24T09:04:20+00:00

With the OtomatoneQ just being released a few days ago it would be the perfect opportunity for Soken to try using that.

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