woops' 7.1 MSQ + Dungeon Reaction Supercut! – FFXIV Highlights #45



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49 thoughts on “woops' 7.1 MSQ + Dungeon Reaction Supercut! – FFXIV Highlights #45”

  1. My take of the dungeon under the cut

    When I got the lab, my brain immediately went to Resident Evil. They even had the zombies and their own 'Itchy. Tasty' journal for Christ's sake

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  2. Spoilers:

    Me, having dealt with beings that body hop for the past decade, during the final patch cutscene: " I can end this before it becomes an issue. Right now. Knock out the civvies and take her down. Like i can do that right now. Come on, gurl. Lemme at her. I can stop this right now!"

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  3. Edit: Someone in Woops' chat points this out at 29:33, but to expand on it a little more.

    For those who might be wondering: "Where have I heard Atticus before?"

    The first google search that comes up when you search "Atticus FFXIV" is "Atticus the Primogentior", an S-rank hunt mob in Heritage Found.

    It's a 3-headed snake man, using the same model as the 2nd boss in Ktisis Hyperboreia.

    Based on that info, and the note in the dungeon, my guess would be Atticus was warped severely after being infused with a powerful monster's soul, turning into the triple-headed snake monster. He then escaped and made his way back to Heritage Found where he now roams as a monster.

    I've fought Atticus once before as well during a Hunt Train, and he does speak to telegraph his attacks. We've never seen any mob of that model speak before either, which implies to me that my theory is probably correct.

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  4. Crackpot theory: the original Sphene was being used as a blueprint to make copies and as a conduit for "prayer" in order to summon a primal, hence Sphene's devourer of worlds speech at the end of 7.0, the copies are just thralls made as copies of the original that obey the primal, whose only goal is likely the preservation (ha look at that! a pun) of Alexandria. I know I'll look a fool in like 4-5 months when patch 7.2 comes out but I feel like I'm not too far off.

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  5. oooooooo i cannot wait for the alliance raid vid, its so damn GOOOD,

    also i believe that since theres still a couple loose ends with the ascians, we havent seen the last of them, but i hope that they keep them to side stories, like the relic quest or a variant dungeon

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  6. I SAID THE EXACT SAME THING! It's the real Sphene from 500-1000 years ago… like they preserved her body somehow and that living memory pretty much healed her wounds that "killed" her, so now we have the real Sphene, the real queen of Alexandria alive, AHHHH!! WE GOTTA WAIT SO LONG X.X!

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  7. Seeing that the dungeon is all about soul transportation, I theorise that the Sphene is someone’s soul in the machine that once housed the original princess and pretended to be her and the original is the one in the Golden City, that why she was confused on why she is back.

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  8. I was thinking…what if this neo-Sphene is the "heart" of Solution Nine? Like…the embodiment of it, or something like that?
    But I'm also definitely on board with that "backup by Preservation" theory. If the fake is related to Solution Nine, then Preservation likely had their hands in it.

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  9. I figured it was some Preservation shenanigans that was causing the sphene imposter to appear and that the real sphene woke up at the end too but the prospect that maybe sphene didn't die in the first place and was preserved hadn't ever crossed my mind. But i'm completely ready to believe they just said the Queen died so that their A.I. recreation of her could run things freely.

    I mean its the same group that wanted to run experiments on an infant Krile to figure out more about her echo. What if the residents of Alexandria are just a pool of potential experiments for Preservation? It was already made clear in Arcadion that if people still remembered you they assumed you were still alive and not that your regulator was removed before death so that the system couldn't register it. But now that its clear your memories of other stuff could be altered, what else could have been done?!? What if they've snatched up folks and instead of you believing they were missing it was like, "oh my brother? Oh no he wasn't actually missing he just went on a trip or some such. Maybe I was just upset i hadn't been invited haha." I mean of course Preservation wouldn't want their test subjects to flee solution nine and escape their influence. At the end of this we better tear this whole system down.

    Good news though perhaps? An ascian probably wouldn't need to experiment to find out about the echo like Preservation did. Instead of Ascians coming back to the story so soon, perhaps Preseravtion is just the tale of the pursuit of science without the ethical checks most would hope be in place.

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  10. The way Metem described the Arcadion, and the way they introduce feral soul use in general, I thought they'd been using feral souls for a long time, but I guess it had started within the last 30 of their years. Huh.

    Koana took to the Rroneek really fast. It was kinda sweet.

    I am so interested in who or whatever that Sphene is and what they stand to gain from what they're doing.

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  11. Wont lie a lot of X.1 are usually slower and considered weaker, but MAAAAAN this one hit out of the park. Definitely excited to see where we go with the further patches. Also Koana just gets better and better everytime he shows up and I really enjoyed his mini arc this patch.

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  12. The ending of this patch was a great hook that I’m really looking forward to. A shame the most of the middle part (except the dungeon) felt very boring and unnecessary to me. Not the worst patch quest ever but I definitely did skip a cutscene or two out of lack-of-caring

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  13. Lil' Trivia: the first Boss in the dungeon is from FF9. You fight it as a boss during the Hunting Festival and it can be a massive bitch with Gore and its Thunder magic. Especially if you want a specific one of the 3 rewards from the Festival.

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  14. Theory incoming:

    I think the Sphene we saw throughout base DT was an impostor all along, the same one that came back to Solution 9. The real one is the one we see at the end. She got imprisoned by the scientists conducting the project because, in my opinion, she was agaisnt their plan. She lost her parents very young, whom I'm certain she loved deeply, then she was presented with a plan where all her people survive, but they forget everyone who has died. She probably wouldn't want them to forget her parents or anyone else who fought to protect her kingdom. The scientists imprison her, presumably inside the big terminal in Living Memory, and an impostor is put in her place. After we shut it all down, she woke up. And what is it she says? "Where am I?" She doens't know what Living Memory is, meaning the Sphene from the main story and the one Y'shtola is running up to aren't the same person. As for her hand, she's either confused she's alive, or something happened to her body in the past. It's highly likely we'll see her next patch, so we just have to wait!

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