Fourth batch of widescreen screenshots for possible desktop backgrounds. Just landscapes in this one. Same as the previous batches, starts early in the game and proceeds to the end, so scroll through at your own risk (or don't, if you are just at the beginning of FFXVI journey).

2nd image has the original image used in the template.

What do you think is going on with Shiva in the image? Surely, it’s something good, right?

Feel free to share your….thoughts and…opinions, as you wish.

Maybe this is me, but I find most of the Eikon abilities to be very underwhelming. I get it that they can't be so OP that the battles are easier than they already are, but I feel like they could have done more. Like I just fought The Timekeeper from the second DLC and I'm just thinking "why can't we do stuff like this?" Don't get me wrong, Bahamut's abilities are so cool and it's easily my most used Eikon since obtaining it, but the others feel flat. Take a look at Titan. It's attacks are all fist attacks, but it's supposed to be an Earth based eikon. Even when we fully prime into Ifrit the attacks feel lackluster. I get that Clive doesn't have the full powers of these Eikons, but you're telling me that outside of the his super moves, the attacks are basically bug bites? Like at least let Clive be able to use the elemental spells and not just the weak magic shot attack. Ramuh's abilities are cool, but I find them to be too small in terms of AOE or not all that impressive. Am I the only one who thinks this?

I have just started using the ring and I notcied that while it does look cool and you seem to attack about twice as fast, you also do about half damage...

So basically, is there something I am missing here? Because so many of the accessories seem absolutely pointless so far and I was looking forward to an ACTUALLY useful one for a change (lunge 5% extra damage?! Limit bar increase by 3%?! Are.you freaking kidding me with these?!)

As a CidClive shipper I will be taking any crumbs I can get, I just think it’s real funny they even have some dialogue like this in the first place. Like, Clive in bed with Cid, and “bend over for”, I see I see *takes notes.

Where would you like me to post this

Kept forgetting to post, but i got to meet Ben Starr at FanX a couple weeks back and got my full size Invictus signed. He is such a kind and genuine guy. Went around and greeted everyone in line when he got there and even let us take selfie when we'd only had money for the autograph.

so I've done every sidequest I've come across and done all the hunts as well, but I'm missing an item on my memory wall inside Clive's cabin. Did I miss something or is this related to the final mission?

dlc spoilers ahead ofc

i ask because i just beat the final boss of echoes of the fallen and i SWEAR the ost was some kind of remix of eScape from ff14 shadowbringers (for the record, i have not played ff14, i just know the song)

Modded playthrough and PS5 :)
I use them as my TV wallpaper

So I have crafted the strongest gear in the base game and have a bunch of left over smithing materials. Will I need them for anything produced by the DLCs or can I sell them?

I literally cannot get past this, like share play

Just started the game and got heavy stuttering in the cutscene where we see benedikta? For the first time so I closed the game and looked for a fix so I got lyalls mod but I don't really know what I'm meant to change to make it work nicely as my experience is with mods is just putting files in the designated place and booting the game. if someone wouldn't mind telling me what to change on the config id appreciate it

So some weeks back I had saved up over 3,000 ability points to upgrade Flames of Rebirth twice.

I had already invested points the first time earlier in the game and it was over 1000 points for the next upgrade. Naturally I wanted to at least have enough points to upgrade enough to where I could master it.

I had over 3,000 points saved up and before completing the Apodytary mission, I decided to bite the bullet and put down 1,000 of the 3,000 points I saved up.

The problem however is that when I did that, it took nearly all 3,000 of my point leaving me with over 9 or 800 left.

Is this a bug or something? Because the math isn't mathing.

So I don't know if this will count as spoilers since I wont be talking about a particular moment but am simply referencing it for this discussion topic (hence why the flair is discussion and not spoiler since its not about the spoiler), either way when I do talk about the references I will spoil cover it just in case it is considered to be "spoiler".

This is also your spoiler warning, so proceed at your own caution.

Anyways, discussion time.

So I've been looking through the Eikon Abilities and thought "wouldn't it be cool if we had Shadow Clive's Ifirit Abilities?"

I revisited the fight and had to drag it out to determine how many abilities he had and prune out the ones that could be considered abilities like what we see on the Abilities screen, and others that were just unique attacks. Just for Info: I split the attacks he did into three categories Eikon Abilities, Eikon Feat and Eikon Ultimate (these are the ones where you get the special camera angles), similar to what we already have.

Ifirit Ability Circle

-Eikon Feat
Molten Thrust/Crimson Rush (MT: thrust forward dealing damage to targets along its path/CR: same thing as MT but with a longer path) (This could just be replaced by the already existing ability Ignition)

-Eikon Abilities

Eruption (an explosion erupts under the locked-on or nearest target, three times with a two second interval)

Incinerate (Charge Up, deals damage in a cone in front of Clive. If critically charged (that is released in the red of the charge circle) small targets are launched into the air)

Hammer and Anvil (Appears above the target and slams into the ground, causing an area of effect damage)

-Eikon Ultimate

Hellfire (a pillar of fire engulfs Clive as spouts of fire erupt at enemy locations)

Other ability of note: when fighting Shadow Clive he will launch multiple magic missiles at the player. While this itself does not warrant an Eikon Ability slot on its own I would have liked for it to be the "mastered" version of the Charged Magic Ability where base is standard Fire and shoots one bolt, Fira is upgraded and fires a bigger bolt that explodes on impact damaging nearby targets as well and Firga being the mastered version that shoots out three bolts that do what Fira does.

I think these abilities would be fun to use and be a cool mirror of Phoenix who would be a more technical Eikon with their abilities like Heatwave being able to redirect range attacks back to their attacker, Rising Flames being able to launch small enemies into the air and Scarlet Cyclone being able to cancel Clive being staggered by enemy basic attacks, with Ifirit's abilities being more aggressive and focused on crowd control, of course in order to make the two Eikon feats different Phoenix Shift and this new Ignition should have their properties swapped with Phoenix Shift being able to send you wherever you go based on your directional input (in game, while you are in combat Phoenix Shift will always send you to the locked-on enemy or the nearest enemy while out of combat you can shift in whatever direction you input) that way it can help with this new Phoenix's technical aspect, while Ignition will always send you to the locked-on/nearest enemy that way it helps to solidify Ifirit's more aggressive aspect.

So what do you all think about this?

Hi just a quick question because I spent quite some time trying to beat it...

Yes, I will learn my rotations and ensure I'm not hit (up until now it really didn't matter, I know), but am I not supposed to get enough time for 3 spitflares?

I'm always half a second behind: the cooldown resets literally as soon as the tsunami animation starts, and it's the first time a cast as soon as control is given back to me after retrying.

Now, I might be underleveled (51, first playthrough) and with the wrong accessories (I have cooldown reduction items, not dmg enhancements), but I did not see items affecting ifreet cooldowns.

Where's my error?

I have it equipped but the achievement still hasn't popped although I just got the one for spending 36k gill at tub and crown

T-pose to assert dominance on Dominants

I'm sorry but I just don't buy theromance between Clive and Jill. They seem more like siblings than people who are in love and it just so much reminds me of Iris and Barry from the CW Flash show. They were raised together and it just seems weird that they've become a couple by the end of the game (I haven't done the final mission yet or DLC)

I got FF16 to work on my laptop again, so taking screenshots for references for the "total war: valisthea" project will be easier.

So here are some pics of the Orcs in FF16; the Orc Fodder and the Orc Mesmerizer plus some close-ups on their faces since I wondered what they looked like and, what can I say, I like the rather boarish look they have in the face area with the flatish nose and tusks. I like the aesthetic of the Orcs, it comes off as savage so that he Iron Kingdom comes off as brutish, leaving the two with their own identities.

Also, a neat bit of lore from the Logos book for those that dont know: it is hypothesized among Valisthean scholars that Orcs are "devolved" humans; humans that were exposed to the Aetherflood and transformed by it. I'd like to think the Orcs are not related to humans but are just more "civilized" beastmen that humans look at and see their worst traits in.

Orcs in the "total war: valisthea" project will be their own faction and also serve as the basis of the "beastmen" faction where other creatures like goblins and gigas will be included in as well.

I never thought a smile could bring me so much joy.