Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW FF14 Episode 853 - A New Year A New FC

Ctrl Alt WoW FF14 Episode 853 - A New Year A New FC

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

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Final Fantasy XIV

YoshiP did a sort of Q&A for New Years when he visited JP servers with his character.

Here are a few of the questions I thought were interesting to highlight:


Q: Do you have plans to add more character skin colors? 

A: Regarding that, we do have several plans for that so please wait for a bit.


GN: More character customization is always welcome, more skin colors, more face choices, things like that. Although the easiest thing would be to make a completely new character creation experience.

Q: Please add more glamour slots (T/N: Glamour plate slots I think?)

A: We plan to deal with the glamour slots after dealing with the housing and furniture.


GN: Always more Glamour slots and plates!!


Q: Will we have a Switch version [of FFXIV]? 

A: Please look forward to the Switch version.


GN: Amazing to see that the game will come to more platforms.


Q: Can you please implement that flying unit that appears in NieR raids as a mount?

A: Noted on various items and mount requests, I'm going to screenshot them and let the team know 


GN: NieR is one of my favorite games, getting more things from it would be so cool. The mount we got so far from the NieR universe is sold in the GS and you can buy it once you finish the story questline of the NieR Raid.

Q: I'd love it if we could change the house's orientation based for our housing's appearance...! 

A: Got it about the housing! Can't see the words formed by you players though lol.


GN: I’ve been thinking about this myself. But it will be an issue, because the value of a plot is partly calculated by the orientation of the house in relation to the land around it and the streets and stairs and so forth. The entrances to the plots are another issue when it comes to medium and large plots and their value.

Q: It would be great if you could implement a feature where you can store all color dyes in some sort of a palette (Like the Quick Panel that is implemented for this patch), by doing so will smooth out items slots in inventory!

A: Color dye wise we are currently considering something, so we'd like you to wait for a moment.


GN: YES PLEASE!!


Started the FC on JP. It’s got the tag <<KAGE>> Danish for cake.


We got a few members in our little group, one of them being Rigarmorty!


We needed signatures for the FC charter, so I asked him if he wouldn’t mind making a toon with us. Here is a screenshot of our merry band:

My character on Ramuh METEOR Data Center is called Æble Kage, Danish for Apple Cake. Her chocobo’s name is Pebernød (pepper nut), a Danish Christmas cookie.

I made a copy of Jaffa, basically, and her first general glam, since we all need to have one, is this:

 

 

Jaffa Cake progress:

 

 

 

 

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Greetings AprilPVD & Grand Nagas!

Happy New Year! Attached is my audio for the FF14 episode this week. I'd hoped to get time in NMS to have some content and a short audio for that but it's been a bit of a hectic start to the new year.

Below are a couple of FF14 Screenshots!


Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 852 - Forgive Me Atlas For I Have Duped

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 852 - Forgive Me Atlas For I Have Duped

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Wednesday

The New Secret Way To Get Best Upgrades Quickly in No Man's Sky


I was setting up Sebastian for the expedition. He had a multitool and the ship that we both a class and I needed 100000 Nanites to get it to S class when I found this YouTube channel which is crazy. I know it’s almost like cheating but it’s No Man’s Sky so it’s how you play and how you figure out stuff that matters. The original. Is about how to duplicate technology in your personal refiner by using the auto saved method, but you can also pay anything including stacks of 50 suspicious packets, which is what I did. This allowed me to upgrade both the multitool and the cute little Sentinel ship. But then I decided to find the best tech modules and duplicate them as well.

I was originally on Aprillian and we went through the first phase of the expedition, but the second phase where we needed black, pearl, and other things for the deep dive, caught me unprepared here so that’s when I thought I’ll bring in Sebastian after loading him up with oh and by the way, this expedition you can tech modules there’s no people or NPC’s around. So I had to fall back bringing in runway mode, which is good because first few steps you end up building a Corvette, which means you can easily refine runaway mold

Thursday

I went down a rabbit hole. After watching on YouTube about an interesting way to get unlimited tech modules. It involves putting your tech in your refiner and then making us save by getting in and out of vehicle and then taking the tap out of the refiner waiting for your auto sign to kick in on your auto save once it kicks in after a minute and then reloading it and then opening up your refiner and now the ingredients are there and still in your inventory. It’s a lot like the refiner glitch where you stack a bunch of refiners and then destroy them but it’s a lot easier if not a little bit of time consuming. But it intrigued me so I started trying other things I could do with the “trick“ and it turned out that anything you put in there be fine or is duplicated, including full stacks of suspicious packets, storage augments EXO Su augments whatever.

It was at this time that I realized that Aprillian who had went into the expedition had somehow forgotten her radiant shards so I went to get Sebastian ready and had Sebastian bring her radiant shards, but then I got Sebastian in and realized he forgot those green crystals you need from the water so I got a brilliant to go in and get those to bring to Sebastian.

Friday


But while I was preparing a brilliant to go in, I watched another video and this guy was really taking some what I thought were liberty’s. He was creating stuff and creative mode, and then switching the difficulty to normal mode and then breaking down that stuff. But of course No Man’s Sky is set up so that you could play whatever way you want to really know that such thing as cheating but when he was going into the expedition, one of the things he was bringing with him was tainted metal now I had gotten to the point where I was bringing lava core which a stack of 10 gives you 500 of the things but tainted metal a stack can give you up to 6000. Then my mind said OK well if I’m gonna do that then why don’t I just duplicate a bunch of stacks of tainted metal and bring that into the expedition so I did that.

By the end of Friday, I had three characters in the expedition. Epril was the first, so I decided to focus on her and she got everything she needed from Sebastian but they had to meet up in the anomaly which worked out fine. Although a couple of times they couldn’t see each other, but they could still see their ships and drop things transfer things.

People got up to the Nautilus quest which when I did it the first time on April Pvd, it was nerve-racking. I actually almost died at one point and I’ve gotten a lot better at driving underwater. In fact, April did the milestone without having to go on the flatscreen.

One console at the anomaly now says “return to primary save“ instead of in expedition. Maybe an offer always said that it will say in expedition once you’ve done all the milestones but I just noticed this and I’ve never noticed it before. I brought over this cute ship for Epril.


Saturday



Sunday

Did some flat screen No Man’s Sky today. I had gotten to the point in the expedition where you got your first Corvette. I decided to take out all the tech modules from my S class starship that I brought over from my main save and then sell it and then bring over another one because I had nine nights. That also gave me some extra units to use. But before I did that I’ve removed all the tech. then I made my Corvette and move that tech over to the Corvette. Of course, when you make your first Corvette, there’s a limited number of tech slots so I use the install apart move the part and then to get more tech slots. It’s time-consuming, but it’s easier to do on flatscreen and it was challenging and I enjoyed it. So I was able to bring over my favorite weapons and some hyperdrive upgrades. My plan is to do all the debris Finder missions one right after the other. I am doing this on a Aprillian who just started the expedition, but she’s been jumping around getting all the rendezvous point. I did the Nautilus milestone, which was so hard for me in VR in the beginning and now I was able to do it without even using extra fuel although I brought over 40 units. I did use the auto save trick to make more black pearls. But I’m having fun and that’s what the game is all about. And for me, No Man’s Sky is more than just a game to “win“ or advance in, it’s a place to exist and try things to visit and to build. I’m so immersed in the content of. No Man’s Sky that it feels like place and I have dreams about it.

I was in the expedition on one of my characters. I found this delightful pet. It’s a cute glass column. I took down the glyphs for the planet and then visited it on my other character in her main save. There was no pet on the planet. I’m hoping maybe something will change so I built the base and I’ll go back and visit but has this ever happened to anyone else. Every time I’ve gone to a planet that I found in the expedition it has been basically the same in my main save. I want this cute little pet!


Monday

I want experiment with building on my Corvette


Tuesday

So caught up with trying to get the stained glass pet. 

Gave Aprillian Polished stone from Epril

Trying to finish expedition with Epril to bring back egg

 

Looks like the probe from Star Trek Inner Probe


 

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Good day all..  Kep here! 


So it’s been a very busy last couple of weeks (as expected with Christmas and work). 

I have been in game, but like the last several weeks I have only been playing Legion Remix! 

Which is sadly coming to an end soon.. 


I have been levelling alts like crazy! The more Alts you level, the faster it becomes! (I have finally reached +400% XP bonus). I am on approximately one quest or world quest equals one level. Add LFR into the mix and it’s crazy fast!!

I have levelled up another 10 level 80’s! [one of us! One of us!].

I have been levelling 10 to 80 in just over four hours.. I think I can get it lower and more streamlined?
 

I have unlocked Sargerei Commander’s Voidscarred Regalia by completing 100 World Quests in the Heroic World Tier. Also the Sagerei Commander’s Lightbound Regalia set by completing all raids on Mythic level. Both are very cool looking sets [screen shots attached].


I have also unlocked the Corrupted Ashbringer (very easy to do with Remix). Definitely one of the coolest versions of the Artifact weapon!

I am working on collecting some of the other colours and variations..


Sorry, to disappoint you again, but I still have not started any Housing yet..? I’ve just been too busy IRL and on Remix!

I have however, been collecting more housing pieces ready for when do start my housing adventures!
 

Since I last wrote in, I have collected over 30 new mounts! I won’t name them all, but I have attached some screen shots of a select few..

Hope you are all well and enjoying your gaming time.. 


Take care.. 

Kep