#shadowbringers — Public Fediverse posts

I’m halfway through #Shadowbringers with my #ffxiv alt, it continues to be my favorite of the expansions. The story in all of them, from ARR onwards is fantastic so it’s hard to pick a favorite sometimes, but I love the story in this one and getting to go from here to #Endwalker is always a treat. At the rate I’m going. I should complete the Dawntrail content again just in time for the new expansion to drop.

Final Fantasy XIV Free Trial Now Includes Shadowbringers

https://fullcleared.com/news/final-fantasy-xiv-free-trial-now-includes-shadowbringers/

#gaming #gamingnews #videogames #ffxiv #shadowbringers

「シュウ ウエムラ × ファイナルファンタジーXIV」メイクアップアイテム発売決定！
https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/ff5e9445f83dfdafade55c638b6e5a164040d323
#finalfantasyxiv_lodestone #FF14 #FFXIV #Final_Fantasy_XIV #Final_Fantasy_14 #Lodestone #Players_site #プレイヤーズサイト #ロードストーン #新生エオルゼア #ARealm_Reborn #蒼天のイシュガルド #Heavensward #紅蓮のリベレーター #Stormblood #漆黒のヴィランズ #Shadowbringers #暁月のフィナーレ #Endwalker #黄金のレガシー #Dawntrail #MMORPG #オンラインゲーム

「第85回 FFXIV PLL」2月7日（金）放送決定！
https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/5adb52f22c28017d45a47de2b945deed3682c084
#finalfantasyxiv_lodestone #FF14 #FFXIV #Final_Fantasy_XIV #Final_Fantasy_14 #Lodestone #Players_site #プレイヤーズサイト #ロードストーン #新生エオルゼア #ARealm_Reborn #蒼天のイシュガルド #Heavensward #紅蓮のリベレーター #Stormblood #漆黒のヴィランズ #Shadowbringers #暁月のフィナーレ #Endwalker #黄金のレガシー #Dawntrail #MMORPG #オンラインゲーム

Random Soldier: "Tell the Exarch... don't give up. Don't give in."

Thancred: "We'll tell him."

WoL: *stoic nod*

Me: *bawl, bawl, bawl*

#FFXIV #Shadowbringers

I've been saying for a few years now that #FFXIV #Shadowbringers feels like the sequel to a game we never got to play, and I just realized #Dawntrail feels the same.

Shadowbringers is the sequel to Ardbert's adventures, and if I had to compare it to anything I'd go with Lunar 2, which I enjoyed far more than the original; or at least Pokemon BW2, which I liked about the same as the original.

Dawntrail is the sequel to Gulool Ja Ja's adventure, but in terms of comparison... it's more like FFIV: The After Years. Did some interesting things, had some bits I really liked, but all in all just made me wish I was playing the original.

Currently have To The Edge stuck in my mind #ffxiv #shadowbringers https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6IiG4vo9k9U

#FFXIV #Shadowbringers related

Rak'tika and Gangos vocals were actually samples. Someone found them and uploaded them on their own:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e30WxfF_KRM

It's been 0 days since I last cried over how good #Shadowbringers is.

(last two pics are minor spoilers for ShB end cards)

Caius had a busy day today: went to a venue for the first time in mooooooonths (thank you to @avaelin !) and then finally lost his sprout 😅 I'm not kidding when I say my playstyle is 90% dillydallying and 10% msq. Playtime was 1,120 hours and 2 min to complete Shadowbringers :neocat_laugh: Three classes at 90, one at 81, and a wide variety from level 0 to 79 for the others.

#FFXIV
#CasualGaming
#ShadowBringers

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And I found that really interesting! So I share 😊 ♥

So yeah, y’all, that clock ticking sound in the background of FF14’s “Neath Dark Waters”: each tick of the clock is actually multiple ticks!
Sound design is pretty neat 😀 😊
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(15 of 16)
I dunno about y’all, but to me the version of that tick group where all the ticks have roughly-equal-amplitude peaks makes the fact the tick group consists of multiple ticks very obvious… but at their original amplitudes relative to each other, we get a nice cohesive sound that sounds like a single tick of a clock.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(14 of 16)
… yep, some of those definitely sound like different pitches to me, and some of them could be an echo of a previous tick.

But also, why would varying the amplitudes of each individual tick in a tick group matter? Well, here’s a contrast of what the first tick group sounds like where all the ticks roughly peak at the same amplitude, followed by the tick group where all the ticks are at their original relative amplitudes to each other. #ff14 #FFXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(13 of 16)
But just listening to those individual ticks as is won’t due, let’s give a listen at what they sound like when all of them are amplified to have peaks at roughly the same amplitude…
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(12 of 16)
It’s entirely possible that the sound designers of FF14’s dev team, if the sound is synthetic and not a recording of a physical clock, may have taken a series of single clicking sounds at different pitches, assigned one to each tick group and just varied the pitch and speed of the clicking withing that tick group, but I have no way of confirming that for sure.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(11 of 16)
… some of those definitely sound like distinctly different pitches to me; I wasn’t able to graphically confirm that with Audacity’s spectrum analysis tool, the time selections were all too short, so determining them to be different pitches came down to my own hearing and the quality of my more-than-decade-old Sennheiser headphones.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(10 of 16)
Granted, each of those individual ticks in each tick group could just be the same tick varied in amplitude, so I decided to zoom in on the first tick group and listen to each individual tick within it (well, roughly, you’ll see in the video that I still ended up accidentally lumping together two or three ticks into a single selection)…
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(9 of 16)
The resulting sample then looks like this, and even amplified like this without zooming in on a single tick group (I’m calling what sounds like a single tick at normal play speed a “tick group” from now on), it’s clear that each tick group is composed of individual ticks.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(8 of 16)
… what I found that I did not expect is that each “tick” isn’t just one burst of sound, isn’t just one “tick”, it’s a composite of at least three or four different ticks, three or four different bursts.
To start, I made things easier on myself when it came to staring at the waveform by amplifying the sample as a whole so that the peak amplitude went no higher than -4 decibels from my volume limit.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(7 of 16)
What is important, at least what motivates my posting about it because I got excited, is zooming in on the waveform of a specific “tick” of the clock, to discover something I did not expect (but may be obvious to some of you reading this; I haven’t checked but I’m about 100% confident I’m not doing ground-breaking research here)…
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

(6 of 16)
This thread is about a ticking clock sample that comes from the very beginning of a song from Final Fantasy 14, “Neath Dark Waters”. I have no idea if the ticking clock used in the song comes from a recording of a physical clock or is itself synthetic, but that’s not what’s important right now!
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

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Trying to recreate realistic sounds got me started on my current sound synthesis experimentation saga, trying to figure out what combination of individual frequencies and amplitudes of a bunch of sine waves could be used to recreate sounds that are synthetic but don’t sound synthetic…

… I have intently learned how incredibly difficult this is, but I still enjoy it a bunch.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy14 #finalfantasyXIV #music #sound #shadowbringers

Well I now understand why people call the 4th #FinalFantasyXIV expansion "Feelsbringers" holy shit! I was a wreck last night.

This game truly is amazing, and apparently I've still only just got started.

I really can't wait until next Thursday's stream to have my emotions destroyed even more. Fucking hell!

#ShadowBringers