NaoyaShinota
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I remember a pre-registration for October. Guess it won’t happen till the very end? I have been keeping up with the Twitter and Discord but haven’t seen any news about it.
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier
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NaoyaShinota
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NaoyaShinota
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pre registration has begun
https://www.ffviifs.com/en/
https://www.ffviifs.com/en/
NaoyaShinota
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I think they could have done better with the pre-registration gifts. The eggs seems ok. But everything else after that is meh.
Shademp
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Digging the mage outfit.
Shademp
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Kazushige Nojima has joined FF7: The First Soldier.
EDIT: So it appears the mystery box simply contains fancy "Welcome to TFS" papers, a t-shirt, abstract battle map, Shinra Card ID, game renders and screenshots, etc. Among the renders is what looks like a thief/treasure-hunter class.
JP FF7 TFS twitter said:
Since the FF7:TFS Twitter is responding to Nojima in his "Mystery Shinra Box" thread, presumably the Shinra Box is indeed related to TFS.Kazushige Nojima reply said:
EDIT: So it appears the mystery box simply contains fancy "Welcome to TFS" papers, a t-shirt, abstract battle map, Shinra Card ID, game renders and screenshots, etc. Among the renders is what looks like a thief/treasure-hunter class.
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Makoeyes987
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- Smooth Criminal
Hmph. 
SOLDIERs may have their fancy feather hats, cool moogle costumes, chocobo masks, capes and all that...
But they'll never get to wear the futuristic neon blue stripes of the real deal SOLDIERs.
Back in my day, you maybe got a Moogle mask or Cactuar hat and could change the color of your stripes! And you played underground only!
SOLDIERs sure are spoiled now!
.... Ngl, I really want that box tho.
SOLDIERs may have their fancy feather hats, cool moogle costumes, chocobo masks, capes and all that...
But they'll never get to wear the futuristic neon blue stripes of the real deal SOLDIERs.
Back in my day, you maybe got a Moogle mask or Cactuar hat and could change the color of your stripes! And you played underground only!
SOLDIERs sure are spoiled now!
.... Ngl, I really want that box tho.
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Shademp
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NaoyaShinota
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Everybody gets a chocobo egg
cold_spirit
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Half a million pre-registrations. Not bad!
Kinda wild that a FFVII title is releasing this month and I'm not all over it. Guess my fandom isn't limitless! However, impressions from the beta were positive and I like that the developers already implemented player feedback and added controller support. I think this has a real good shot at being "alright I guess". Here's to hoping there's no server issues at launch!
Kinda wild that a FFVII title is releasing this month and I'm not all over it. Guess my fandom isn't limitless! However, impressions from the beta were positive and I like that the developers already implemented player feedback and added controller support. I think this has a real good shot at being "alright I guess". Here's to hoping there's no server issues at launch!
NaoyaShinota
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Deep Ground costume would have been better and cooler in my opinion. Also at least with server crashes it is a way of saying that people want to play the game. It would also be similar to when Before Crisis launched. Except we don’t have to pay monthly to play First Soldier.
NaoyaShinota
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It’s nice that as we get closer we get higher up. More registered users is good to see
Obsidian Fire
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@Makoeyes987 I keep hoping that there *will* be a DG Solider skin just for kicks for that exact reason.
NaoyaShinota
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I’m not familiar or completely knowledgeable with that are. Is it possible they existed during first Soldier timeline? I would love to see more of the compilation referenced in First Soldier.
Obsidian Fire
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- The Engineer
DG was a thing ever since Genesis was born... which was slightly before Sephiroth was born. So DG is *definetly* a thing by this point. We even have Rosso and Nero's birth years and both of them were born in DG. If anything... I"m more concerned with with being tied into DG somehow on the back-end... given how much of the experimentation going on in here has to do with mako and how far the human body can be pushed with it. Which was exactly the kind of experimentation DG *specialized* in.
Makoeyes987
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See, and that's when we circle back around to the core question.
Who's the first "SOLDIER?"
Originally, that distinction belonged unquestionably to Sephiroth. However, we know that Deepground existed before Sephiroth's birth and was a medical facility for wounded SOLDIERs.
So is Sephiroth the first SOLDIER? I'd say yes, because he's the first complete success of the modern procedure utilizing Jenova cells and Mako at the right ratio.
But there were other SOLDIERs who were created from other experiments. Like simply Mako infusion, or other less admirable things. So yeah. Deepground SOLDIERs exist, and they're a branch of SOLDIER hidden from the masses.
So the first person to ever pick up a weapon for Shinra and get super powers could be anyone. Maybe it's you!
Who's the first "SOLDIER?"
Originally, that distinction belonged unquestionably to Sephiroth. However, we know that Deepground existed before Sephiroth's birth and was a medical facility for wounded SOLDIERs.
So is Sephiroth the first SOLDIER? I'd say yes, because he's the first complete success of the modern procedure utilizing Jenova cells and Mako at the right ratio.
But there were other SOLDIERs who were created from other experiments. Like simply Mako infusion, or other less admirable things. So yeah. Deepground SOLDIERs exist, and they're a branch of SOLDIER hidden from the masses.
So the first person to ever pick up a weapon for Shinra and get super powers could be anyone. Maybe it's you!
Obsidian Fire
Ahk Morn!
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- The Engineer
I'd certainly say that by the era of the Compilation, Sephiroth was no longer seen as the "first" SOLDIER. Mako *had* been around as a a known substance for quite a few decades by the time he was born and I have a *really* hard time not seeing someone in the Science Deparment playing around with what it did to people.
Like oh... Gillian...
Either way, SE had *some* idea for what was going on in the early days of SOLDIER back in the CC development era and it would be interesting to see if anything from that era managed to stick around...
Like oh... Gillian...
Given that it was Project G that ended up causing Gillian to stop researching for Shinra all together... she would have been doing whatever the heck this was *before* Proejct G. Or this might even be Project G itself.
Either way, SE had *some* idea for what was going on in the early days of SOLDIER back in the CC development era and it would be interesting to see if anything from that era managed to stick around...
Makoeyes987
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"Alright, who's the smartass that decided to take a Type-0 Behemoth for a walk ABOVE GROUND? No, it looking cute and lonely is NOT a valid reason!!! Well I hope you're happy, now we gotta dispose of the evidence, including the dead and injured. That's *your* job!" -Deepground Scientists after that opening cutscene
I have to admit, I loved the addition of dates to the trailer, showcasing when each of those events happened. They line up with the timeline and make sense. I really love nerdy attention to detail like that
I have to admit, I loved the addition of dates to the trailer, showcasing when each of those events happened. They line up with the timeline and make sense. I really love nerdy attention to detail like that
Erotic Materia
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If they're gonna do the 7 thing, I don't understand why they wouldn't just fully lean into it and and set the threshold at 777,777
I've never looked too closely at the timeline...probably because I've never completed any FF7 spinoff games, but that's not the point.
FF7FS takes place in their 1988, 19 years before FF7 (the year 0007). Why the hell did the calendar roll back to 0000? Why not 2007? It seems unnecessary and confusing.
Suzaku
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I don't remember what all was shown in the TGS trailer, but here's the noticeable stuff I picked up on, starting with a concrete timeline:
The Security forces have different emblems on their pauldrons, perhaps indicating rank or combat role. SOLDIER Candidates have a red diamond emblem on their pauldrons. In the final shot of the trio leaping out of the helicopter, they have red SOLDIER emblems with the text "SOLDIER 1st" on their pauldrons.
- [ μ ] – εγλ 1977
- President Shinra approves the top secret SOLDIER Project, beginning with Project: 0.
- [ μ ] – εγλ 1977–1984
- Shinra scientists, including Hojo, Hollander, and Lucrecia, carry out the Jenova Project.
- [ μ ] – εγλ 1985
- Hojo murders Gast and captures Ifalna and Aerith.
- [ μ ] – εγλ 1988
- Distinguished members of Shinra's Public Security Division are recruited as SOLDIER candidates.
- [ μ ] – εγλ 1989
- SOLDIER candidates compete against each other in virtual battlefields.
The Security forces have different emblems on their pauldrons, perhaps indicating rank or combat role. SOLDIER Candidates have a red diamond emblem on their pauldrons. In the final shot of the trio leaping out of the helicopter, they have red SOLDIER emblems with the text "SOLDIER 1st" on their pauldrons.
Suzaku
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That's how the dates were always formatted, going all the way back to the timeline video included on the International bonus disc in 1997, which eventually became the inspiration for Before Crisis. Here's a thread I made about that timeline a while back.
They've never explained what the date formatting is supposed to mean, but especially in that original video, it's clear that they're meant to be pronounced "μ (Mu) Era" and "ν (Nu) Era."
As I discuss later in that thread, I think the most likely explanation is that Shinra instituted a Year One after winning the war with Wutai to commemorate becoming the world's sole superpower. The switch happens just after they declare victory. In such a case, they're probably meant to mean "New Era" and "無 (Mu) Era," literally "Null Era."
They could also be using the Greek characters to mean 12th Era and 13th Era, though that seems unlikely to me since it would imply tens of thousands of years of recorded history before Jenova arrived. But maybe the Cetra were around for a really long time and had some sort of 2000 year cyclical calendar that persists into the modern day.
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NaoyaShinota
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Can’t wait to play with you guys soon if you plan to play.