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I can't sleep due to a new mystery noise courtesy of my upstairs neighbours that makes my ceilings and walls... growl???... for lack of a better descriptor. It's been going on for weeks and has now become every night. I can't climb the stairs, but even if i could, it's not something you can go deadeye your neighbours about during the night...

( I keep automatically trying to type Everfrost )

Ashe also got lore. Ongoing, happening right now lore. Actual lore that's progressive and not for the new heroes but the old ones, two weeks after we got nothing for her heist and I had almost given up on her getting anything at all. Instead, something!!! Family is the most important thing in the world to her and Cole Cassidy is a projecting dumbass!!!! I need to further devour it, but Fanfest meant two days of being whelmed with information about things important to me and another silly thing about ME is I have to be careful with excitement and positive emotions or else I will experience PEM from that too 😔😭 I have recently realised this is why I am emotionally dead much of the time. It's fineTM. Anyway, I want to rewatch and reread the comic again and reassemble my thoughts for it, but Evercold's first impressions first so I can safely put it aside.

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So today I had to do an emergency load of washing, because Sushi decided to pee on my clothes. I just. Why. Cats!!!

Other than that, not a huge amount really. Did some painting! SO CLOSE TO DONE but the purple's so thin I need to do more coats on stuff. But mostly just kinda blaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Well, it's fine! It's Saturday, I'm allowed to not do much, probably.

But for now, back to bed! >:

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One other show I'm watching this anime season: Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun. It's set in a future Japan which, for various reasons that should not be thought too hard about, has regressed to a feudal-ish society but with early 20th century technology. The first episode leaned hard into feudal-level corruption and cruelty, so despite the excellent production values I did not plan to watch any more of it, but another viewer at my favorite anime Discord server assured me that episode 2 was a lot less like that.

There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.

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You may or may not be interested, but I just bought a bundle of 511 (tt)rpgs in support of trans people in Idaho off itch.io for $5 (~£3.87 at the time of writing).

You may remember that I bought a bundle like this last year? It's the same person that has organised this one (I thought I recognised the username, and I was right!)

Anyway, there's six days or so left on it, and I only found it by chance this time - I've kept meaning to log back into itch for updates on games I already own, and I only just remembered today.

...I may need to buy more ink and paper for my printer, lol. [ETA: or actually buy an e-reader instead of whining to myself about not needing one /edit]

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I'm going to try to put this under category spoilers, so those that don't want to read about a certain thing won't have to. I'm also going to TRY not to use the name of the expansion except for in the first spoiler, but I profusely apologize if I miss editing it out elsewhere.

First: the last announcement which is also a big one: the game will be coming to Switch 2. There's still testing to be done, but it sounds like the anticipated launch date is August of this year.

Second: The free trial is being upgraded to include the entirety of the Shadowbringers expansion. I am SO EXCITED for all my Free Trial friends, because Shadowbringers is +chef's kiss+.

Now, onto the spoilers:

New Expansion name and its theme, plus anticipated release date

Let's start with the Teaser Trailer for the next expansion of the game. Version 8.0 has been named Evercold, and will be bringing us to the 4th reflection come January 2027. Here's the teaser:

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We've been told that the Fourth is a world ravaged by ice, but many of the screenshots and concept art we saw suspiciously lacked any such ice--something Producer Naoki Yoshida and his translator Christopher Koji Fox were eager to point out.

Dawntrail was the start of a new story arc for Final Fantasy XIV, and it firmly takes root with Evercold. This arc's theme has now been revealed as the "Godless Realms Saga".

New (non-playable, I think) race

Also teased was a look at one of the new races, a bipedal, short-statured cat-like race. Definitely more cat-like than the existing Mi'qote and Hrothgar. I am pretty sure these are NOT playable at this time, but I was busy taking notes... pretty sure it's just a race we'll meet.

Upgrades to gear progression system

The main theme going forward is "Bringing the game to the next level". They talked about the stagnation of doing the same thing over and over, such as farming tomestones, along with accounting for player feedback and the shifting gameplay styles of today's players and current lifestyes. Their aim is the build on systems they already have, but evolve them into something fresh and exciting.

One of the biggest changes will be to the tomestone system. Currently, it features daily rewards and encourages players to log in daily for max benefit. Going forward, the game will be shifting to a weekly reward system, along with two completely new user interfaces.

In the first interface, you'll get a list of weekly missions to accomplish. These can be duties or other activities in game. Some will only be allowed to run once during that week, such as Main Scenario Quests; other activities will be repeatable. Succeeding in a mission gets you activity points.

The second interface is a new gear upgrade system. Although it wasn't entirely clear from the images and explanations, it sounds like you'll be able to use your activity points in this new interface to upgrade your gear.

There's been feedback from the players over the current tomestone system and feeling left out if a player could not reach the 450 tomestone weekly cap. The developers are taking this into consideration, and may implement the ability to return to the previous week's missions in this new system--provided all missions for the current week have been cleared.

Shift in update release schedule

Also announced: the move to a "Season" system of upgrades. Before anyone panics, this is NOT a new subscription fee, but rather just a way of grouping like content to be released, with the aim of having more frequent updates so there is less of a lull between patches.

Job Leveling & iLevel changes

The job system will also be getting some changes. While there will still be the ability to level all jobs separately (up to the new level 110 cap), there will now be a system where you can "reflect" your highest iLevel gear onto a different job. This means that if want to join a Savage raid but do not have the job you need leveled yet, you'll still be able to go provided you have at least one job at the iLevel requirements. Additionally, this will lessen the need to gear out several jobs, although those options will still be available for players who enjoy doing so.

Action glam, perhaps?

There's also a new "character action skins" system, that sounds like players will be able to choose between different stylized actions for certain abilities. Unfortunately, we have to wait for Berlin's Fan Fest for more info on this. It sounded to me like... glamming your abilities so you can be more flashy, but they really didn't say much about it.

Character Creation Customizations upgrades

Additionally--and to much cheering--upgrades to the character creation customizations were announced, including color pickers for eye color, hair color, and skin tone, as well as shadowing around the eyes and layering of facial paint. There will also be an option to toggle on/off pieces of gear-not the entire piece but a subset of it. An example was shown of heavy armor that had its pauldrons, sash, and skirt removed. Another example showed the Isle Explorer's gear without its backpack.

NEW JOBS!

As expected, two new jobs are coming with this expansion. These will be a tank and a physical ranged DPS, and both are unique to Final Fantasy XIV. No hints of what the DPS might be, but as for the tank: producer Yoshi-P showed off his t-shirt which featured Rhitahtyn, the former enemy who uses two shields.

Battle system changes

Along with the new jobs is an overhaul of the job system in its entirety. They are introducing two new "modes". The 21 non-limited battle jobs available through Dawntrail will have access to the Reborn Mode, which is pretty much the actions and rotations we're used to but with some tweaks. Along with Reborn Mode, they are introducing Evolved Mode, which will simplify button press combinations while featuring the individuality of each job. Reborn and Evolved Mode will be available for the 21 jobs that exist today, and you'll be able to freely switch between modes outside of combat. Starting with this expansion, all new jobs released will only feature Evolved Mode. It was stressed that this mode is NOT to be considered an "easy mode", but will still be challenging to play. Care will be taken so that both modes can freely clear all content, but some content might be easier with one mode or the other.

Quality of Life and other shorter updates

Next, they announced some quality-of-life updates. One goal is to improve player experience in field areas, like more dynamic content so you can truly master those areas - while also working on making sure areas remain stable, aka no issues with too many debuffs crashing the servers. They're also going to add even more guidance to questing, with more info on this coming in Berlin.

Some quicker updates include:

Treasure Hunts, FATEs, and the Hunt are all sticking around with new updates - looking to evolve though to make them more interesting. An example was less FATEs popping in a zone but with more dynamic content for completion.

Instanced Dungeons will number about the same as in past expansions. They showed concept art for four currently in development.

There will be new gear and crafting recipes, as expected.

New threats - some vague concept art was shown, but they stressed they couldn't show us too much because of spoilers.

Theme for the 8-player raid to be released in Berlin

There will be PVP Updates, but not detailed

Duty Support System will be updated in 8.0. People are asking for option to enter dungeons in pairs - more details coming in Berlin

Normal Raid Tiers announcement

Other bigger announcements include a new tier of the 8-person raids. Currently, players clear Normal raids about 85% of the time, and Savage about 20%. The developers feel this is too big a discrepancy, so they will be introducing a third tier falling between Normal and Savage. The goal is to allow more players access to gear progression but still keep the challenge for the hard-core players.

Alliance Raid Theme Announcement

The theme for the Alliance Raids has been announced - it's a crossover with Evangelion, tentatively titled "Ghosts of Desire". Unfortunately I had to go pee during this so I missed most of the info on it. Hey, it was a LONG keynote!

System Requirements

The only system requirements update announced is the phasing out of PlayStation 4 around patch 8.3. We were told we still have two years to save up for a PlayStation 5. The developers worked hard with Sony to make Evercold playable on PS4 at launch, but they are running out of hard disk space for the game, so going forward PlayStation players will need a PS5.

Changes to queueing system and Party Finder

Players will now be matched REGION-WIDE, so folks will no longer be limited to matching on their logical data centers only. So all of North America can be matched with each other. This applies to Party Finder as well.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I think that's everything!

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Should be done with the orange! :D Still got some left from the stupid spill, but I'm sure there'll be SOMETHING I can do with it. Maybe. Probably. Well, we'll see I guess...

Tomorrow will try and get the purple touchups done, though given the sheer number of coats that shit needs it might end up needing more than one day's worth. Gonna try though!!! >: >: >: SO close to done with this painting job, I can almost taste it! Then I can start on the blinds next week! :D

Nothing much other than that, really. Just reading, hahaha.

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I wanted to make something aesthetically pleasing with my Overwatch gold weapons for the skins I'm presently wearing, which led to me painstakingly cropping each weapon out by hand to incorporate onto pastel backgrounds. I did this in one sitting last weekend when I couldn't sleep, and I'm posting them after my body woke me up after one hour of sleep to inform me it was nauseous (I've been in bed for 9 hours and only slept 1, help).

These are the order I acquired them in, and there's 25 total (plus 6 galactic repeats not seen here), or, half the roster. I did not succeed at golds for all women at the end of the competitive year because they went and added four more women right off the bat and Mizuki became the third male character to win me over LMAO. Golds for women will happen, eventually; I'm holding points right now for crimson wolf weapons.

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