Besieged lock up - Xbox 360 ver.?

[Dymlos]

This is a question for those who are on the Xbox 360 version platform. During Besieged (during the higher levels), does your Xbox 360 freezes up? Mine has been freezing up and it's really pissing me off to the point where I will refuse to go into Besieged due to fear of my console freezes up. I noticed it only freezes up during the higher levels. I'm guessing it's due to the sheer load of character data that's coming in all at once and the system can't handle it; causing it to lock up.

This has caused me to waste precious time and experience that I worked hard. Last night I did my usual spam 2hr and when it locked up and I was forced to reboot, I was only able to get 420 experience points! I literally wasted my time as I can get a hell of a lot more in Campaign!

The only reason I do Besieged is for the Imperial Standing. So, has anyone else experienced constant lock ups? I send Square-Enix an email about this concern. I just hope they look into this, but I doubt they will unless more people report this problem. Next time I go in Besieged, I'm going to turn the names off, as my friend told me that will help the load. If my 360 still freezes up, then I am quitting Besieged for good.

[Amberly]

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Im right there with you man. I just dont do besieged anymore but it is also starting to do it with the C.B.

[Tsikuro]

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Does the 360 version experience framerate issues, just like the PS2 one?

For PS2, in some of the Dynamis runs (Beaucedine, for example), the game will literally run at 4fps any time you're engaged in combat, and it's simply unplayable.

I've actually been thinking about buying the 360 version.

[Menelaus]

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Yeah this crap happened to me after a halfhour of Besieged. I was like ok wtf did it end? It seemed like I was in there forever. I am pretty ticked about it.
Are the IS points good for besieged? I hadnt noticed.

[Callisto]

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This happens to me about every other time I try to do Besieged, and usually if I do 2-3 Campaign Battles in a row. Eventually the lag knocks me down to about 4 FPS for about a minute, then the 360 asplodes, and I lose the macros I remade earlier that day(this happened to me about 6 straight times when I redid my BRD macros, every time I tried to shut down to save the macros the system froze.)

Best advice I can give, when it gets really laggy and you start getting the huge FPS slowdown, run away from the mob you're fighting and go try to find a relatively dead corner to hang out in for a few minutes until things cool down. It seems to me that the system over-exerts itself trying to run the game in too much lag. I personally don't touch Besieged anymore because I'm sick of doing it for an hour then having the 360 die 3 minutes until the end and losing all of the XP/IS I built up.

My 360 also freezes relatively often for no reason, when I'm not even lagging, honestly it's just a piece of shit system. It pisses me off to no end that my NES has run just fine for 20 years, but with all their advanced technology MS couldn't piece together a system that didn't shit itself after 2 years(the AV cables that came with it also died after a year). When my 360 finally dies and it's time to mail it in for a new one, I'm attaching a picture of my NES that says "THIS IS HOW YOU BUILD A FUCKNIG SYSTEM!!!".

[Menelaus]

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Haha thats awesome. I would love to be the guy that opened that up.
The other thing that pisses me off if you do like a hour or so in a merit party the fricken sound goes out which is BS. I get tired of being like uh... hey guys i need to log real quick sound out on 360 ><. PS2 sucks balls for graphics but atleast it never booted me due to hardware problems.

[Kittyneko]

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I've never played on PS2, but I can safely say my Xbox360 runs FFXI perfectly smooth. During any situation, it worked great for days straight, same with the music. Even in Dynamis and what not, the only place I ever notice a framerate issue, is at the Auction House in Aht Urhgan Whitegate. However I do not have a HD TV, thus the quality stays low for me. Also, I have other problems with my 360. Mainly that it slowly scratches up every single game CD I put it in it. It ruined 2 CD's so far, now i'm scared to play games on it. :p

[Kevi]

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I have completely given up doing besieged on Xbox360. When I do campaign, I get an evaluation periodically, because it is not possible to get through a 30 minute plus campaign without the system locking up.

I have played on Xbox360 for about 18 months and have not had this problem in an xp pt or Dynamis, Einherjar, etc.

I am on my second Xbox360, the hard drive went out the month after the warranty expired.

If I wasn't so stubborn ( I love the xbox360 grapics ), I would go back to playing on PS2. The PS2, my preferred platform since the NA release of the game on it, has never, in over a year of gametime, kicked me from the game.

So for my 2cents, SquareEnix needs to fix the besieged/campaign problem, and Microsoft needs to stop selling junk hardware.

If I had it to do over, I would never have gotten the Xbox 360. If you like good graphics on a large screen, play on a PC with good video card with output to big screen HDTV.

[Deeke]

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I'm one of the people who has never noticed any persistant issue from playing on xbox. In all of two years playing, I can count my random freeze-boots on one hand (only one of those happened in Besieged). Annoying when it happens, but I get normal D/Cs far more often.

That said, this is certainly an issue. One which I hear many players getting pissed off at. SE are aware of this, I'm sure they are. If they thought it's realistically fixable then I imagine they're working on it right at this moment and will release a statement when they think they've cracked it.

I do have a suspicion though that the xbox's boot-freezes are subject to the same principle as crappy-droprate NMs.. Like, numerous players go 1/4ish on something like VE. But you never hear about them. It's always the 1/50 stories that get mentioned. So whilst I have no illusion as to this being a genuine problem, I wonder how widespread it actually is amongst the xbox-playing community as a whole.

[Sirenna]

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Yeah, same problem here. Not everytime I do besieged but once every while. In fact it froze on my last bs right after they gave me mi score, lucky me. And I can even think on zone after it ends. But my bf and my friend, both have an awful rate of freezing on bs. I´ll try turning on some chat filters to see if it works better.

[TheGrandMom]

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I have two 360's, one is from release day and the other has the Falcon chip and I've done events on both. (Though recently I've been too lazy to reinstall FFXI on my new hd.) I've never had a single issue on either system and I don't consider myself a lucky person....I guess I should. LOL I'll have to ask my lsmates if they have any issues, quite a few of them use the 360 too.