[Finalheaven]

Well Scan in some cases goes hand in hand with blue mages in past FF games and a friend of mine used to mess around with .dats came across this one which was obviously of a "scan ability" which haden't been implemented into the game yet. Now with blue mage looming I figured I'd share this with everyone.

http://www.pabaah.com/images/temp/Scan.avi

Enjoy

[Tahome]

um.

nothings happening.

D:

[Faus]

I'm thinking "Scan" or whatever they use will just look like BST gauge... SE is known for being lazy. I mean new ninja armor at 30 looks like a fishing tunic... yay.

[Danny]

this could also be called "Libra", like in FFX-2. My guess is that Scan will be used to see what abilities can be learned from the monster, and only maybe show hp/mp numbers.

[Mewten]

BLU uses Scan.
The Yagudo Acolyte appears to have [hp%?,][mp%] and [tp%].

probably something like that.. or being vague, something like "doesn't have much mp," "has alot of mp," "is ready to use a skill," etc.

I have always wanted to see a scan skill in FFXI.. but it probably will closely look like BST's Gauge.

The video only gives audio, which is some sort of techno >.>

[Finalheaven]

Yeah I agree Its probably gonna have something to do with seeing which skill if any you could learn from any given mob.

Also the video works fine for me ^^;; I'm guessing you need some new codecs to watch it. I'll see if I can find out which dat it is exactly and make some screen shots of it

[Shubaltz]

I see video, it looks nifty. You probably need the correct Codek.

[blackassasin]

how do you get said codek?

[FlameRaven]

Saw it, looks pretty cool.

For people who can't see it, download VLC player at www.videolan.org. The video ran fine when i used it.

[Finalheaven]

Thanks for the site flame

[Sidoh]

Interesting. . . . .

[Handir]

I found a "Unable to Scan" message in the text strings

[Delequiox]

probably scans for abilities, or at least i hope, archbell will tell the rest soon enough

[Iniin]

hmm.. notorious monsters Strenght is Possible to gauge! =P

[Dilly]

Yes, it would be called LIBRA as it was in the oldest games, in Japanese... it was supposed to be Libra in english, but they decided to name it scan so Americans would understand it's purpose easier at first glance ,I guess. Scan certainly doesn't sound magical to me.

[Artek]

hmm.. notorious monsters Strenght is Possible to gauge! =P

lmao >>;

[Djinn]

COPYSAVEAS
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[LD]

Why was it called Libra in the first place?

[spira]

I think BLU will definitely get back Libra.

while maybe they won't get the most specific info, the following would still be pretty useful

Libra will help to detect

Specific Mob Lv (no one can figure this out easily yet)
Mobs elemental weakness (which would be affected by threnody and associated spells)
Mob HP and
Mob
Status effects on Mob currently: blind, silence, sleep, berserk, haste, etc.

It would rock

I think mobs have unlimited MP or something, so i'll leave that out

If its possible even, depending on how mobs TP moves are determined, tell you the mobs next TP move. That would be uber.