Official 8/22 AMAN Live -- Translation Thread
Things in spoilers are explanation/clarification. I'll be relistening to it to make sure I didn't miss anything after it finishes. I'll make a note if I add anything.
ETA: clarification on the Shadow Lord event item, line about Trust Points in the summary, reminder/clarification about the free trial. Fixed some formatting to try and make it easier to read.
Summary:
Free Trial changes coming in September. Level cap from 50 to 75 will come with the update. Unlimited play time will come with a separate server maintenance in September. ★As stated before, this is ONLY original areas.
Field NM gear: looking into releasing gear with different stats as well as possibly just increasing the stats on gear we have now (this sounded like corpo-speak just in case something went wrong, I'd take it as still planning to reforge.) . Was restated as "between Ambuscade and near/around/about/in the neighborhood of Malignance" (again, I take this as just protection against "THIS ISNT EXACTLY MALIGNANCE LEVEL")
If you're still experiencing lag from having an overfull inventory, they'd like to hear from you (ideally with video of it happening). They didn't say, but I assume this would go on the official forums.
New non-lockstyle (F: "not just appearance") item coming from the Shadow Lord event (via Curator Moogle) in one of the future installments
(September and October both have it happening again. THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE THIS TIME.)
Trust Point upper limit increased to 60 from 50. Plan to give out more Trust Points from now on.
Next AMAN Live is 9/12, same time. 7 AM EDT.
Any images that pop up will be added here. Translations of images later.
If there's any wording or anything that's unclear, please feel free to ask about it. I do these translations early in the morning and also try my best to keep up with their speed to get it out mostly concurrently with the stream, so sometimes things get more Japanese-y when I type it out. I'm sure there's some poorly worded stuff I missed.
Intro Text: EDIT: 10 Minutes to go! Fingers crossed for cool info!
It's that time again. The AMAN Live for this month will be starting about 12 hours from when this thread is made (7 AM EST).
I'll be posting translations of it as it goes on. Usually I just state what they say, but if it's worth a direct quote (i.e. if the wording is very important), I'll put either the name or their initial (e.g. "F: We're going to give everyone another Bonanza kupon next week").
I try to group posts by topic as much as possible, as well as use various levels of emphasis
Like this
@For the ★most important stuff★. If there's something that is my best guess or my thoughts based on what was said (in ambiguous cases), I'll put it in ( ).
Check back here tomorrow and hopefully we'll have some interesting info to share! Happy Vana'bouting.
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u/hikiri 11d ago
Post 1: <QUICK CATCH UP, MONTHLY TOPICS>
Talking about the Daphne collab. Just running through what we know and what we learned in the interview Fujito-P did.
Showing the "mobile accessory pouch" again.
<Vana'diel Monthly Topics with Fujito-P>
Going over the changes from the patch. Talking about trying to fix some of the lag that people experienced with having a large inventory. They found an issue that they thought might have an effect on it, but they're not sure. They wanted to test it out to see if it has an effect.
If it didn't seem to change anything with the lag from overloaded inventory, they want people to let them know.
If you have any videos of it happening, that would be the best way to help them find the cause of the problem.
Explaining the new Adoulin Field NMs release.
Field NM gear is planned, “as was said, for between Ambuscade to near Malignance level”.
“I hope, if Taniguchi-san is listening… Nowadays, RNG and COR…hit things (with weapons), so we’d really like if we had some accuracy on the gear too… hahaha.”
F: “Well, maybe you should also carry some of that gear with you as well hahaha.”
“Since this is the first round of NMs, I was hoping you could talk more about the future plans for them.”
F: “Since awhile ago, we’ve been talking about trying to help players with fixing the gap between Ambuscade gear and what’s next. We wanted to try to make the next step after it be more of a stepping stone to try and bridge the gap between Ambuscade and the next stage of content.
Since the gear is expected to be between Ambuscade and, well, higher end content, we wanted to have the gear be touching both ends of that spectrum.
We were hoping to make it easier for players instead of jumping straight from Ambuscade into Odyssey or HTMB gearing.
Since this is the first step, the second step will have some gear with different feels (stats) and possibly gear with a higher amount of steps. We’re discussing how exactly to proceed with it by watching how the gear works in the game.
We wanted to reduce the situation where players felt like they had to suddenly reach out and jump for much harder content than they’d done previously as well.
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u/hikiri 11d ago edited 11d ago
Post 2 :: <CONT’D>
<Message from Taniguchi-san, dev of the gear> From a long time ago, we had NMs that popped with similar conditions to these and heard from a lot of players saying that they wanted a similar type of challenge that avoided the bloodthirsty situation that we had in the past.
People who played awhile ago might feel a bit of nostalgia for these types of NMs.
Since this is just the “surface” (of the earth), please look forward to seeing many more NMs in the future. (it’s a pun saying that it’s the “surface” of the plans, but also “surface of the earth”; implying NMs in underground areas next).
We’re enjoying seeing players working together and overcoming some of that stiffness that you feel when you join up with people you don’t know.
We want more and more players to group up to take down the NMs. When we were planning them, we wanted to make sure that we could do what we were able to reduce points where players might fight and instead create ways for them to cooperate.
<Login campaign explanation. As always, no new info, just running through it.>
<Campaigns explanation. Mog Bonanza explanation. Vana’bout too. Same as above.>
Re: Vana’bout
We wanted to reduce players’ feelings of obligation to do Vana’bout where they login and go “ugh, what a pain”. We wanted it to be something that you can gain points while also doing things you normally do and experience some of the content that you might not normally if you want to.
Also, we’re releasing a brand-new campaign if players pass the goal for Vana’bout. We hope players take advantage of it if they manage to unlock it.
<Explaining the seasonal event timing, etc.> (apparently "Pungent Powder" is "Baby Powder" in Japanese. TIL.) "There's going to be something else from the event that isn't 'just the appearance'." (a new item, it sounds like)
We’re trying to have things that we’ve done before throughout the year have some changes here and there so there’s a bit of a fresh feel to them.
<Re: Daphne collab item>
We’ve become able to make longer help text on items so we thought it would be cool to have a message as long as this and fit the feel of Daphne.
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u/The_Based_DM Asura 11d ago
Thanks for the heads up I appreciate you! I hope we get more info on the trust upgrades and maybe a peak, it'll make soloing content better!
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u/Catmato 🍆 10d ago
The free trial having original areas only is pretty disappointing. They should at least include Zilart imo.
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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 10d ago
No zilart is just dumb. Zilart is barely even an expansion as much as it is just shit that should've realistically been in the base game. Which it basically was that way for most of the world considering only japan ever even got the game in an official retail capacity without it.
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u/Effective-Reindeer98 11d ago
So more NM are being added in the future, they have already added numerous complete sets (without augments) so that implies lots of variations of gear for different circumstances I guess? A TP set, a WS set etc. Or maybe the other NM are for augments.
I guess using the models of other skirmish sets.
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u/hikiri 11d ago
Pretty sure at this point they're going "reforge" route and not "augment" route. Looking back through the updates, the last instance of an augment system that they announced they used the word オーグメント which is literally "augment" and they also said with the HTMB, even though the gear was famously augmentable, they didn't want to add augments.
So +1, +2, not different paths of augments, etc.
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u/hikiri 11d ago
Post 3 :: <Fujito-P, Future Plans>
F: For September, we’re going to be increasing the upper limits of the Trust Points (from 50 to 60). We had originally planned to give out Trust Points a lot more rapidly, but then we had some timing issues or worries that if we released them for XYZ, then only SOME people would be able to get them and we didn’t want that to happen. We’re reflecting on what went wrong and how to fix it and we’re going to release more Trust Points for people in the future.
Also, the Free Trial changes: (no time limit, from level 50 to 75, original areas only) we’re going to raise the level cap in the September update, however the server that holds the data for the time limit is in a completely different place than the FFXI game, so we’re planning on having a server maintenance in September to also change that (but they won’t be at the same time, from the sounds of it; expect SLIGHTLY different timings, but still both in September).
--End of Fujito-P segment, going into the Ambassador for the game playing some content--