Final Fantasy general

In record keeper news, Vanille will be the next new character. Her event is a survival event, like Celes's, but this time you have to finish the dungeon in order to collect your points. Since her event and Lenna's are going on at the same time, your going to have to decide which one to focus on, since they both have pretty good rewards.

Sources say thunder or water spells will be the most effective. In addition, the big reward for this event is a Thundaja spell. But unless you can clear heroic efficiently, you probably won't want to go for it.

One more thing, the boss is the fal cie anima, who not only comes along with three of his hands for backup, he counter both physical and magical attacks. It seems they just keep trying to force teams to rely on retaliate strategies.

Vanille? I was expecting Lightning.

No, it seems we're not going to get one of the characters on the games icon for a while. It's Vanille, then Locke, then who knows. Speaking of Locke, get some good water spells now. His main boss is the red dragon, and it is brutal. The reward is good though, the Phoenix summon orb.

When did the Japanese version get Lightning?

Is Red XIII available in the western versions yet? And if he is is he any good.

These were some of the character releases in Japan from what I can find. There were more but no one seems to know what dates they were added:

1. Terra (VI) - October 31, 2014
2. Celes (VI) - November 12, 2014
3. Lenna (II) - November 19, 2014
4. Rinoa (VIII) - November 30, 2014
5. Vanille (XIII) - December 9, 2014
6. Locke (VI) - December 16, 2014
7. Tidus (X) - December 24, 2014
8. Squall (VIII) - January 3, 2015
9. Garnet (IX) - January 9, 2015
10. Cecil - DK (IV) - January 14, 2015 *Repeat*
11. Cecil - Pal (IV) - January 14, 2015 *Repeat*
12. Balthier (XII) - January 16, 2015
13. Yuna (X) - January 31, 2015
14. Edgar (VI) - February 17, 2015
15. Sabin (VI) - February 17, 2015
16. Lightning(XIII) - February 28, 2015
17. Aerith (VII) - March 9, 2015 *Repeat*
18. Eiko(IX) - March 13, 2015
19. Steiner (IX) - March 13, 2015
20. Golbez (IV) - March 23, 2015
21. Zack (VII) - April 4, 2015
22. Auron (X) - April 10, 2015
23. Vaan (IX) - April 17, 2015

Edit: This thread seems to have most of the info.

edited 26th May '15 10:02:02 AM by LordofLore

No he is not available.

The 7 characters that are available now are

• Cloud
• Sephiroth
• Aeris
• Tifa

Seeing how the next set of story missions will be VII, IX and XII someone else from VII might be coming soon.

So, I can no longer play Record Kepper because I got a Windows Phone. It's not really fair, really. I mean, why can that game be played on a toaster but not on my shiny new phone?

Life is so hard when it's not hard.

edited 26th May '15 4:58:52 PM by Lorsty

The event is up, and it seems they changed a few things for the better. For one, you can retreat and keep your memory shards, so no worries there. Second, they seem to have lowered the amount needed to get everything, so it should be easier to get almost everything, even if you can only run hard missions.

A word of advice to anyone who hasn't played a survival event yet: the first enemy is the most important. Make sure that they have a high multiplier, preferably greater than 1.4. This will help you out in the long run, and will get you more bang for your buck.

edited 26th May '15 9:20:41 PM by mosses76

Looks like another Distant Worlds album is on the way.

Agito is coming to Windows 10 in Japan.

edited 26th May '15 11:22:29 PM by LordofLore

Yes.

edited 27th May '15 1:43:22 AM by lycropath

Ishimoto uploaded the Dissidia Arcade theme to his Soundcloud.

Is that the only music from XII that they'll ever play? I'd love to hear Esper Battle or Theme if the Empire live.

Mobius◊ in Famitsu◊.

edited 27th May '15 11:09:19 PM by LordofLore

I's Mobius different from Mevious or is it the same game under a new name?

Unrelated to that though I have a question. How do the Steam versions of XIII and its sequels compare to the console versions?

edited 28th May '15 12:28:16 AM by Chariot

Mobius is just Mevius translated better. I think like literally they realized Mevius isn't how Mobius is pronounced and spelled in English and changed it.

edited 28th May '15 12:34:26 AM by lycropath

Yeah, that's just the quirks of Japanese transliteration cropping up. There's lots of loanwords in Japanese, but the highly syllabic nature of the language almost always changes the way it's written and said.

Mevius changed name to Mobius because it had the same name as a brand of cigarettes in Japan.

Trailer got subtitled.

Why FF got named FF.

(Sorry for the Kotaku links)

edited 28th May '15 4:05:58 AM by LordofLore

Ongoing Dissidia stream.

• Cloud is the most played character thus far on the location tests. Onion Knight is the least played.
• Bartz got revealed for real(46:35).
• Squall(52:20)!

edited 28th May '15 7:38:41 AM by LordofLore

Full stream:

Edit: Oh and they revealed some tech info on Agni. Her model is made of 17 million polygons(To give an example on how many that actually is, the character models in XV are around 100000 polygons, XIII!Lightning was 8488 polygons and Nathan Drake in Uncharted 3 was around 22000 polygons.).

edited 28th May '15 6:28:44 AM by LordofLore

Yow.

How she looks under the hood.◊ SE are going to do amazing things with Direct X 12.

edited 28th May '15 7:28:02 AM by LordofLore

Someone needs to tell SE when enough is enough.

POLYGAAAAHHHHNNNZZZZZ! UNLIMITED POLYGAAAAAAHHHHHHNNNZZZZ!

edited 28th May '15 7:26:19 AM by TheAirman