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The toilet is where they made the Chrono Cross remake

Vanilla it's trash, but with Special-K and some mods it works really well. Basically they didn't remake anything, they bought / wrote a PSX emulator, touched up some textures and shipped that as a product. If you look inside the data folder you literally see cdrom.dat and cdrom2.dat which are just zip files of the original PSX cdroms. There is also hd.dat which is the zip file that holds the upscaled HD assets.

That emulator sucks like really really sucks hardcore, Bleem would of done a better job. Once I loaded Special-K with DXVK all the graphics issues instantly got fixed and the game runs super smooth.

That's where the ffxi crew works these days (the basement).

Is a 5 hour stream normal for the xi crew? Just saw some headline about them doing one on the 20th anni.

No not normal, they don't really do s lot of those

Still no campaign announcements. Hope they aren't ***

Dyna and Omen are going to be terrible.

Surprised the Dyna+ is back on considering it just ended.

One interesting thing to me... This appears to include every possible currently existing monthly campaign, which likely means anything NOT showing up is gone from the possible list.

Wanted Dial (the one that gives unity coffers) hasn't appeared in a very long time, and not showing up here seems to indicate it is gone for good. Too bad, that was a useful one to me. Particularly in that mules could get coffers and send UNM drops to same-account characters, so I built up a decent stash of UNM drops/upgrade items from previous appearances of that campaign. Kinda weird that they get rid of stuff like this and the Abyssea NM trophy items from login points, which actually provide a decent incentive for people to pay more money for mules, but it is what it is.

Are there any other past campaigns that aren't on for May, and perhaps gone forever?

The Meeble Burrows Campaign hasn't been around for years, so I assume it's gone forever. Mundus Shield popped up in a login campaign recently (and I missed it ><) and the table is available from the NNI campaigns.

Maybe not cause Hyper Chocobo Digging Campaign not showing up but still exists.

Aww, sorry ya missed it. At least now there's precedence for it being in login again someday!

There's no great thread worth bumping to say;

The STF numbers for 2022 are really something.

Month Banned Accounts
April 1,073
March 1,823
Feb 2,172
Jan 3,222

I can tell you the bots haven't gone anywhere but that's a significant drop in enforcement month over month.

(I suppose the threat of the 4006 scared the living ***out everyone and they stopped speedhacking)

wtf is this ***.

Loud thud and thud and one item in pool...



I had 3 ppl in party and one is a mule without any significant items, so there is no way it was some rare ***that is in inventory of all 3 chars.

This past month I ran 12 venus orbs that I had been banking for a bit, the thing I ascertained was loud thuds mean nothing anymore. You're better going venus orb and trying to reach the rainbow chest. The sound notification system is quite helpful in avoiding the single mimic. Out of 12 orbs, I got to the rainbow 4 times, died 3 times, quit early the other 5 times thinking loud thud meant anything.

The loud thud treasure pool is so diluted now with dynamis shards, cards, and htbf gear, it's very difficult to yield anything off a single loud thud.

Of my runs, it yielded an O. Sash. The rest of the loud thuds were cards/shards and severely hurt my feelings.

Edit: This was one of my favorites that I shared to my shell. Serica cloth and only serica cloth. I had 3 characters in party with all the options for unique gear to drop.

was curious if we'd see the Microcosmic Orb campaign make a return at some point but looks like that's gone for good, haven't seen it for quite some time. thought it would be nice to put those orbs from deeds to better use

especially because apparently we get 5 of them now

Well this is alarming as hell. I'm not sure what happened here. I've never seen this.

With the new campaign, I won't be selling my orbs this month. Instead I'll be popping and listening for these noises that I've yet to attempt doing.

Did all 3 people enter the orb bc? Being in party isn't enough. You have to enter the bc.

First time hearing this. Unless you mean the area, not bc itself. All 3 were in the area. You dont need to be in the bc. In the past I got Rare items that only someone from party was missing. Even then, the character inside bc was mule with almost no items, especially tagged as "rare".

Define "almost".

So Trove is bugged now?

We got several thuds/loud thuds tonight and got junk. Multiple times it was Shards/Void pieces. Super frustrating.

Loud Thuds are mostly now junk. But they also occur much more frequently.

~ish. They're more frequent because of the auxiliary utilities they've added. I.E. Rainbow chest if you get to the last 3, log cues for when you have a loud thud nearby.

You're hitting them more, they're not occurring more. They're definitely junk though, the loot pool is far too diluted to be good now.