It needs to be said... Garlond Ironworks studied the Crystal Tower, Alexander, and Omega, like everyone knows... But they actually accomplished something that even an ASCIAN didn't know how to do. That's the whole reason Emet kidnapped the Exarch... That's... really impressive when you think about it. The Ironworks surpassed Ascian knowledge... if only in this one limited area.
Krescentwolf There's an earlier conversation about halfway through MSQ where Emet-Selch is saying basically "I helped build this tower, and I *know* what it can do. And it can't do this. Explain yourself." And the Crystal Exarch replies basically "Not tellin'."
The so-called 'pieces' of the 'real' people managed to surpass the Ascian all-knowing technology does bring smiles to my face. Right at your face Emet. (I still love you though)
@@mallowhoney The mobs are "Mark CXLIV(144) Thermocoil Boilbusters," Tataru's coffeepot is the "Mark XIV(14) Thermocoil Boilmaster." Same line of creation I assume... but I agree that I think Nero did some upgrades, creating the Boilbuster line. And maybe decedents of Wedge took it further.
Thinking again about how wild it is that a subplot in A Realm Reborn about preparing cheese in Eastern La Noscea eventually took us into an entire raid series in Heavensward about traveling through time and eventually ended with Cid reverse-engineering a god so that some red haired cat boy trapped in the Crystal Tower could go back in time and stop a calamity. Final Fantasy 14 is a game that exists.
It's when we were tracking down Titan. Brayflox needed help making cheese for a banquet for the Company of Heroes to tell us where the primal is and how to kill it.
A Tycoon is also an extremely rich/successful Businessman, and usually used to refer to industrial industries (Like oil drilling or... wait for it.... Iron works...) so it's also referencing the Garlond Ironworks... It's a really apropos name... XD
So they used everything Garlond ironworks ever investigated to save the world. Crystal Tower with Omega's interdimensional travel and Alexander's time travel Nice one Cid
Unfortunately CID did not live to see all of his work be combined to save the world. Instead his will was passed on to his descendants who saw his wish through.
Cid doesn't live to see this work completed, Biggs is the one to take up the mantle be responsible for completing the work in his stead alongside Jessie and Wedge.
Reading the passages you find out that the Ironworks reverse-engineered a **primal** (Alexander), and used Omega's rift hopping abilities to fling the Crystal Tower into the future and that the message you see once the quest is complete was Biggs' last recording for a brighter future where the 8th umbral calamity doesn't come to pass. Talk about making all the raids be that more meaningful!
@@JackgarPrime This seems to be par for the cause for Shadowbringers. The four role quests pack alot of info about the world of Novrandt and Ardbert's adventures, but the true amazing bit is what happens if you do all 4 role quests, which unlocks a whole new questline focused on the idenitity of the mysterious Shadowkeeper that Ardbert's group fought, their motivation and where they came from. As of 5.4 even more quests have been added to this, tying up the role quests in a small event and further tying the Shadowkeeper into past events, including stuff that happened way back in Heavensward.
I’m gonna be real with you, THIS one got me more than A Long Fall, because this was the one thing in ShB I was NOT spoiled on. I still remember the high I felt when I heard “Seeking the peace of reason” for the first time here.
Nice! I ran it a couple months ago for the first time since it rotated out of the expert duty roulette and while I clearly remembered A Long Fall, I completely forgot about this version of Locus (It was a good surprise too, I really like Locus).
I knew about The Twinning for the memes on the absolute BANGER of the dungeon, but THIS at the end was unknown to me. What's even better is that I LOVE Alexander raids. The music ALWAYS slaps and this is probably the best OST of them all.
LITERALLY SAME HOLY SHIT like, i like to peruse the soundtracks wheb they release and, I did see Locus (Duality) but I just assumed "Oh must be like the Eden raid series or something" I DID NOT EXPECT US TO HVE TO FIGHT ALEXANDER AGAIN!!!
@@oldmanartist4655 No one not even alexander knows where he came from, he only knows he is, The Sharylans built alexanders mecha suit then the gobbos built it more, the xaela summoned it
Seeking the peace of reason Sheep in a peaceless season Reason to keep believing Waken the beast who's sleeping Let go this destiny, you're caught in a trance Ever marking time inside a dream, no sign of advance, You see, the mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring Step back! Two-step, two-step, two-step, one two three Our world's a fantasy, no more than a test Ever feeding off the fallacy creating this mess Deep down inside this bleak machine with all of the rest Break free! Two-phase, two-phase electricity Time turning up the volume Time turning on us always No time enough tomorrow For turning back to where we began Twenty-two sectors tested Fragments in one direction Celestial noise detected Delirium unsuspected Static tuned in to reason Time in the aether deepens Transmissions blink uncompleted Seven two three two three... Arrested destiny, alone in a trance No escaping from this waking dream, no hope of advance, You see, the mortal coil we serve is naught but a spring Unwind! Too slow, too quick, too much to believe Your world's a fantasy, you've failed the test Ever forging all new fallacies creating more mess Directly through this bleak machine, with all of the rest DC! Dying, dying electricity Falling back right into the system of Falling back on all that's erased When fighting back right out of this system Means falling back right into this space Yes, falling back right in with the system Who'll see you falling back to the end When falling back is better than simply Falling back into pieces again Silent steel breathing, breathing Memory writing, reading Error! Repeat deleting Radicals flowing free and Energy slowly seeping Suspending all disbelief in Synergy with our being Synapses fire in three, then...
Anyone got any idea what the "seven two three two three " lyrics mean ? I mean there are a bunch of other cryptic things I'm curious about (like what are the "twenty-two sectors tested" or stuff like that) but somehow I feel this one does hide something... is it some sort of code ?
@@123hopsy Oh... well I mean they're not wrong on that I guess x) That's amusing at least, I bet many people must have racked their brains trying to find hidden significance and some sort of code in their before Koji made this announcement x) Well thanks for saving me a pointless obsession ^^
Me: Leading up to this fight? More Iron Works logos? Me: That's odd wait why are there Alexander mobs in here.... Hears Song, sees boss. Me: CIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDD WHAT DID YOU DO!!!
Technically Cid just figured out the math for it. It was Biggs' grandkid and the Ironworks he was President of that built the damn thing. And somehow, someway, I still believe it's all Ilberd's fault.
@@cooljoe500 They don't explain anything about Alexander though, the Exarch just mentions that the Ironworks figured out the ins and outs of the Tower in order to time travel through the rift.
@@AlterRaigo Guessing they studied Alexander and Omega's places after we finished the raids and they figured out how to time/dimension travel and build this sweet thing.
@@kaungsi5613 alexander's not mentioned in the instance -- but omega is. they studied it to figure out what was necessary to be able to safely traverse the rift. the Alexander we know isn't a working machine, but a primal summoned by the Illuminati, based upon some cultural legend of a winged machine-god that could perfect the future and erase the sins of the past. Now i think we have some idea of where they got that idea from.
I don't know how to feel about the fact that the first time I went through this dungeon, I thought "It would be funny if locus started playing" then this happened
@@S3Cs4uN8 cept I believe in those fights it's the normal version and in this one its the primals version. Which is why you don't see the primals version on any official osts
If you think about HOW Alexander works, and the means by which it controls space-time, then you get a hint to what exactly became of that dark future when they sent the crystal tower to The First in the past. To put it bluntly, it's a lifeless husk. The Tycoon consumed all of the aether on that version of etheirys to do what it did. They made the ultimate sacrifice to stop the rejoinings.
Even worse is that Black Rose was successfully deployed, so even when he left the timeline, there would be no way to recover the lost aether naturally because of how the bioweapon suppresses it to a standstill
This isn't true, it drew on the power of the crystal tower, which gains it's power through funneling energy from the thirteenth (void world) Black rose devastated the source leaving nothing to draw energy from, even if it did work that way.
@@Grimnoire The world was in ruins yeah, but it wasn't DEAD. It still endured, even if just barely. You need to remember that all of the aether stored in the tower would still be inadequate to properly feed even an artificial Alexander. The artificial enigma, The Tycoon would have needed as much aether as the real Alexander to time travel even as they teleport the ENTIRE tower at the same time to The First of the past. The tower still had massive stores of aether to spare, so it can only be surmised that such prodigious amounts of aether to perform this impossible feat would have been gathered from the post-8th Umbral Calamity Source itself, leaving the star a lifeless husk in the process.
@@VioletNightmare it's stated that they used the crystal tower as a source of power several times. Graha tia even uses it to sustain his body for hundreds of years.
@@VioletNightmare fun fact most people in the 8uc timeline were against the ironworks' plan and wanted to save the world they had rather than use the power of a god to undo the calamity. remember, the ironworks thought that this would erase their timeline, so they wanted to bring back the past at the expense of all who live now, just like the ascians, the warrior of light is their zodiark.
Alexander created by Garlond Ironworks, fighting us inside the Crystal Tower in a room that has Omega mounted on the wall. And this is the first level 80 dungeon post-story? What the hell are they gonna do to top this? I am almost terrified imagining what could be next.
Meanwhile, in Heroes Gauntlet: "Yeah, your multi-track blend of prior tracks is good for dancing... but is it good for FEELS?" The journal of Biggs III in the Eight Umbral Calamity timeline was good for feels though...
Endwalker spoilers I just realised that in that original timeline, the ascians will most likely manage to restore their world eventually, but the endsinger is still out there and there's nothing they can do about it.
@@crowdemon_archives Emet Selch even acknowledges that, regardless of whether the Ascians are successful in their goal or not, their methods wouldn't have gotten them as far as the original timeline's people would have and that's even if they knew the Endsinger was coming for them - again.
@@TiaCosm my memory on the lore exactly is fuzzy, but the only reason zodiark worked in the first place was because they fed half or 3/4ths of their people to it. that's not exactly sustainable long term
@@Sivrn-Val Biggs III "I know you like fighting Alexander Prime inside Alexander when it summons Alexander and crystal tower, so we built an Alexander in crystal tower based on the Alexander Prime that summoned Alexander inside Alexander.
Indeed. I am presently unclear as to whether this boss is helping facilitate what the tower and exarch did, or if this was just a research dead end that didn't pan out left in the tower. Either way, the Ironworks helped take down the original, and it really speaks to how hopeless and grim that their situation is that they resort to building their own version.
I absolutely lost my shit when this started playing, this whole dungeon was like a nostalgia bomb for people that've been around since the early days of XIV/ARR
When I first heard the theme during the boss cutscene, I lost my shit thinking no way they brought Alexander back. I lost it again with just how much fun the fight itself was. It is definitely my favorite this expansion for dungeon bosses. I also needed new pants by the end of it
I love how The Tycoon remix uses more instruments played by humans since it was created by humans unlike The regular Alexander bosses with The Locus that uses more stiff, non-conventional instruments
I wouldn't mind this boss becoming an extreme trial. Combining all the good stuff from all the big raids from previous expansions into one boss fight is epic.
It made me feel so proud of the boys at the Ironworks...the culmination of everything they learned from every Raid they were involved in with us. The inner workings of the Crystal Tower, Alexander's time travel and Omega's dimensional crossing powers, all that experience came together in this dungeon
@@SuguSugux After clearing Orbonne, we get a side cut to one of the Legati leading an expedition into Ridorana and recovering tech from there - and they seem particularly interested in Construct 8. Somehow I doubt it was because of its sweet dance moves.
Mhach and Ivalice seem like a simple mix considering they both revolve around sky pirates That and there's the whole "everything from the void is just people corrupted by dark/astral aspected auracite" Coil kind of deserves to stay a standalone story though
Given that Maker's Ruin always plays when we encounter a literally impossible to succeed scenario and we just... decide to succeed anyway, I imagine that it must have been playing when the Ironworks reverse engineered a god to break the flow of reality
I nearly cried when met this boss, because I started FFXIV when Alexander Raid launched at Korea(I’m KR user), and made my first clear with it. Several years passed but I remember the feelings and awes of Alexander. Thx Square Enix
I wish I'd taken the time to read all the research notes to understand if this entity is managing the Crystal Tower in its current functionality, or if it was just a discarded dead end research path taken by the Ironworks to try to achieve what the tower later did. Either way, it is super cool at doing a good job of "show, not tell" with respect to how bad the situation had gotten that Cid or others in the Ironworks would outright risk building their own version of something so dangerous, just to avert an even worse outcome. And that recorded message you get afterwards really takes it home. This was their last hope to try to save what they could after losing everything.
the notes explain that sunglasses!biggs's predecessor drew up the plans based on cid's data on alexander and what got salvaged from omega, but wanted to leave it up to the generation after him whether or not to build and fire it because it makes a huge mess on the way out, iirc
They didnt think this far ahead because the CT was supposed to poof out of existence. Putting it down here is a necessity, for many reasons. First, it isnt a viable means of going back, because the actual methods, calculations, etc was left behind on the post-8UC Source. Second, this knowledge is WAY too risky to let past. Third, it was going haywire already, hence why G’raha Tia needed it dead in the first place.
Thing is though, we do see the jump pads from Coil earlier in the dungeon. They don't monitor the coils 'cause they're probably smoking ruins by that point, and because Cid wasn't there like you said, but their influence is felt :D
@@EchoOddity That may be true, but it might also not be, and I think I prefer to think that they were installed by Cid because he could. It makes no difference really, but the one way makes me smile to think about :)
@@EchoOddity the jump pads are arguably pretty common Allagan technology, it's likely Azys Lla was also scrapped and studied to produce the required modifications to the Crystal Tower as well
I was saying through out the expac that I felt they used Alexander too soon. I was like "Man! Wish Alexander was here!" I about fell outta my chair at this boss. Shadowbringers is amazing.
@@craigfunk3453 im sure we will see a ultimate what mix both the old alexander mechanics whit the new ones alongside of other new time based mechanics!
@Unicornlord This is the primals version though, so it sounds sharper, more treble, less bass than the original, which many songs in FFXIV share sadly (Byakko, for example, is unplayable in my car because of that imbalance). Obviously this song has a nice, loud bass guitar but it's not an all-encompassing buzz.
@@AvelinFF You know, I could tell something was different about a few pieces in the soundtrack compared to the rest of the soundtrack, and that those pieces shared that fact with a few other soundtracks, like NieR's. Thanks for letting me know what it was!
I am so glad all the Twinning memes and videos I saw before getting to the dungeon in game let me have the surprise of this... my jaw dropped when this song appeared again
Ooooh didn't realise this was the Primals version. I thought I was just imagining things when I thought it sounded a bit different but now it makes sense
I did this place about 2-3 weeks ago and the shock of seeing a combination of Alexander and Omega had me freaking out. Didn’t get to read the terminals since I didn’t want to slow down the dungeon, but still. It’s such a big shock to see a fusion of these world ending threats.
Probably my favorite thing about Locus in both versions is the piano, it has such relaxing and almost hypnotic rhythm to it and if i ever wanted to learn how to play i would have to thank this song.
The group I did this with went in blind, and I will never forget how the usual go go go as fast as you can group got to this room, the music started, and we just stopped and stared. "Is that ALEXANDER?" As much as I loved Heroes Gauntlet, because I am a sucker for narratives where you go back through the story and interact with everyone you met, The Twinning is my favorite FFXIV dungeon. Just for the sheer audacity of combining so many raids into one dungeon.
I legit did this a few days ago in 80 roulette, got a first timer running the dungeons and my advice was, "don't stand in bad, hit stuff and turn your volume as high as you can tolerate. You'll thank me at the end of the dungeon." The sprout was not dissapointed
Entity of literal perfection, designed to identify the perfect outcome and make that outcome come into being with mastery over time and space……. Proceeds to be routinely destroyed over and over and over by the WoL until it admits defeat in the face of the strength of the WoL and deems you more important than even this omniscient ruler over time.
This is one of the most fascinating stories in Shadowbringers. The fact that there's another timeline, completely fucked up and lost in spacetime is both crazy and sad.
Casting off your own timeline as a dead one to save a new timeline with a better future is an insane thing for sure. If only my WoL could reach across the rift to tell them they succeeded
@@louthinator That's not true. There's a side story on the Lodestone set after the Crystal Tower is sent to the First and the alternate timeline wasn't erased, but started rebuilding alongside Midgardsormr.
@@debleb166 those stories are usually considered speculative at best or "what if" scenarios. That timeline would be screwed anyway because the warrior of light wouldn't be there to destroy the endsinger, which means Hermes is going to destroy Zodiark with Zenos, everyone gets turned into blasphemies, every star dies, no life can be reborn due to the dynamis degrading the aether to dust, so it might as well be done.
@@louthinator How does that neccesarily mean it would happen? Not even Garleans were spared the effects of Black Rose so for all we know Zenos could have fallen to it, and the only reason Zenos went along with it was to get his fight with the WOL, a motiviation which he would not have in the other timeline. Plus Zodiark being destroyed relied on the Warrior being there to destroy him, Fandaniel couldn't have done it alone. It's probably inevitable that the final days will one day destroy the Eight Umbral Era timeline too, but much further in the future than in ours. Also, Emet-Selch and Elidibus who would still be alive and active in this timeline would absolutely not have let the sundered Fandaniel destroy Zodiark who is central to their plans to cause the Great Rejoining. And where does it say that the side-stories aren't canon? As far as I'm aware none of them actually contradict the canon.
He managed to create time travel without summoning a primal, and mastered the crystal tower. It's frankly an amazing feat of engineering they managed to accomplish.
@@beefytaquitos for all we know this is actually Cid's fail safe, the Crystal Tower is a giant Antennae if it detects that the world is no longer in danger, it's probably set to unleash monsters in the assumption that the WoL would respond to destroy the Time Travel engine to avoid it's misuse.
@@velvetbluez9823 that's actually kind of a genius idea, though if Biggs the 3rd was the 14th president of Garlond Ironworks, it was likely a very long time removed from Cid's original ideas.
I really love the little detail at 0:59 There are no crazy drums here. Because that crazy drums sounded like goblins' explosions. This one is not made by goblins, so no crazy explosions.
This Dungeon Managed to recapture the feeling that was experiencing the Alexander Raid for the first time blind. escape Remix, Fun references, Lore that I wanted read, and a Final Boss that was out of left field with the main Theme of the Alexander Raid plying WITH time manipulation mechanics! This is my favorite Dungeon this Expansion. I think it will be hard for the developers to out do it, but I am eager to see them try and Hope that they succeed!
It's kinda funny to me how drastically different the gameplay for AST, SMN, and NIN are almost a year later...HOLY SHIT IT'S ALMOST BEEN A YEAR SINCE SHADOWBRINGERS WAS RELEASED!
Lyrics: Seeking the peace of reason Sheep in a peaceless season Reason to keep believing Waken the beast who's sleeping Let go this destiny, you're caught in a trance Ever marking time inside a dream, no sign of advance, You see, the mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring Step back! Two-step, two-step, two-step, one two three Our world's a fantasy, no more than a test Ever feeding off the fallacy creating this mess Deep down inside this bleak machine with all of the rest Break free! Two-phase, two-phase electricity Time turning up the volume Time turning on us always No time enough tomorrow For turning back to where we began Twenty-two sectors tested Fragments in one direction Celestial noise detected Delirium unsuspected Static tuned in to reason Time in the aether deepens Transmissions blink uncompleted Seven two three two three... Arrested destiny, alone in a trance No escaping from this waking dream, no hope of advance, You see, the mortal coil we serve is naught but a spring Unwind! Too slow, too quick, too much to believe Your world's a fantasy, you've failed the test Ever forging all new fallacies creating more mess Directly through this bleak machine, with all of the rest DC! Dying, dying electricity Falling back right into the system of Falling back on all that's erased When fighting back right out of this system Means falling back right into this space Yes, falling back right in with the system Who'll see you falling back to the end When falling back is better than simply Falling back into pieces again Silent steel breathing, breathing Memory writing, reading Error! Repeat deleting Radicals flowing free and Energy slowly seeping Suspending all disbelief in Synergy with our being Synapses fire in three, then...
OMG, did they made some kind of a rememberance of past raid bosses? I stopped on Heavensward, and still have Stormblood before Shadowbringers to progress through. But knowing that Locus theme (My favourite Boss theme, just like Answers) still lives, i'm happy to see that and pretend to get Shadowbringers asap
This boss and its music could be considered as such, but there is a clear lore purpose involved with the MSQ. It isn't a throwback for the sake of a throwback, this throwback is exposition on actual story elements.
I legit want Yoshida to let Bandai make model kits of the Mecha in FFXIV Perfect Grade Cruise Chaser, Final Brute Justice, Alexander Prime, and this dude for real
When I first did this dungeon I was with my friends, and we did a full tank party (gnb, war, drk, pal). When this theme started playing after A Long Fall I was so happy. Hand down one of the best dungeon.
Tycoon is another FF5 reference in an expansion with a lot of them already. ** Spoilers below ** When Exdeath tears open a hole to the Rift, Tycoon Castle is the entry point for the party. I guess they figured it was appropriate for the Post-8th Calamity Crew's entrance to the Rift as well.
@@Sllandre If Ultimecia's castle had a name that wasn't just "Ultimecia's Castle" then maybe that would have worked too, cause it's very timey-wimey and full of mechanical stuff.
First time I went through this was with some of my fc mates last week and I absolutely lost my shit at this part. I told them after "good thing we weren't on voice chat because I didn't want to subject you to my screaming over that" XD
![FF14 - The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden - BGM Only | FFXIV OST [HD Audio]](/img/1.gif)
It needs to be said... Garlond Ironworks studied the Crystal Tower, Alexander, and Omega, like everyone knows... But they actually accomplished something that even an ASCIAN didn't know how to do. That's the whole reason Emet kidnapped the Exarch... That's... really impressive when you think about it. The Ironworks surpassed Ascian knowledge... if only in this one limited area.
Krescentwolf There's an earlier conversation about halfway through MSQ where Emet-Selch is saying basically "I helped build this tower, and I *know* what it can do. And it can't do this. Explain yourself." And the Crystal Exarch replies basically "Not tellin'."
The so-called 'pieces' of the 'real' people managed to surpass the Ascian all-knowing technology does bring smiles to my face. Right at your face Emet. (I still love you though)
he would probably find that spectacularly ironic given that's how his homeland fell to begin with
@@mithiwithi n.
Unu.nuu
I knew that coffee machine tataru mentioned was evil
Lol
You just know Nero "upgraded" it at some point.
Okay but literally the mobs right before this ARE the coffee machine
@@mallowhoney The mobs are "Mark CXLIV(144) Thermocoil Boilbusters," Tataru's coffeepot is the "Mark XIV(14) Thermocoil Boilmaster." Same line of creation I assume... but I agree that I think Nero did some upgrades, creating the Boilbuster line. And maybe decedents of Wedge took it further.
If I had to spend all my time listening to her I'd either run or turn evil. Just look at her carbuncle.
Thinking again about how wild it is that a subplot in A Realm Reborn about preparing cheese in Eastern La Noscea eventually took us into an entire raid series in Heavensward about traveling through time and eventually ended with Cid reverse-engineering a god so that some red haired cat boy trapped in the Crystal Tower could go back in time and stop a calamity.
Final Fantasy 14 is a game that exists.
"Wait, you reverse-engineered a GOD?"
"Naw"
"Phew..."
"... We reverse-engineered two or three of 'em, and mashed 'em together."
It's been a hot minute, remind me about the whole 'preparing cheese in Eastern La Noscea' part is again?
It's when we were tracking down Titan. Brayflox needed help making cheese for a banquet for the Company of Heroes to tell us where the primal is and how to kill it.
@@AToasterOven Ah right, aka why Brayflox Longstop Hard happens, cus how dare they share the secrets of gobbie cheese and all that.
"SEEKING THE PEACE OF REASON"
Me: ohshit.
*Beat drops*
Me: oH SHIT-
There's something so godly about that buildup that I love so much...
I heard that initial 5 seconds and was so confused on my playthrough haha. "WAIT...WHAT DID I JUST WALK INTO??"
That line is more hype than any other line of any song in this game.
The name of the boss (Tycoon) seems to be a reference to FF5. The king of Tycoon in that game was named Alexander Highwind Tycoon.
Yo I loved FFV and had no idea.
Ooooh. Thats pretty smart!
Well that explains the resemblance!
A Tycoon is also an extremely rich/successful Businessman, and usually used to refer to industrial industries (Like oil drilling or... wait for it.... Iron works...) so it's also referencing the Garlond Ironworks... It's a really apropos name... XD
For some reason i remembered Cid have the last name Highwind at one game, i forgot which tho
They reverse engineered a god.
They reverse. Engineered. A god.
actually they reversed engineer two gods and a machine that basically was a god.
It's her!!!
...
meh.
Yet not entirely. Alexander still had one more trick up his mechanical sleeve.
And I still beat the shit out of it
So they used everything Garlond ironworks ever investigated to save the world.
Crystal Tower with Omega's interdimensional travel and Alexander's time travel
Nice one Cid
Unfortunately CID did not live to see all of his work be combined to save the world. Instead his will was passed on to his descendants who saw his wish through.
Cid's will was placed inside the tycoon. You kill cybercid
Cid doesn't live to see this work completed, Biggs is the one to take up the mantle be responsible for completing the work in his stead alongside Jessie and Wedge.
@@emeraldflask8865 Yup. But like the Exarch said, it was all thanks to Cid's studies and theories that Biggs and his line based their work on ^_^
@@taco_sensei It's sad knowing the 8th umbral era happened somewhere tbh.
;w;
Reading the passages you find out that the Ironworks reverse-engineered a **primal** (Alexander), and used Omega's rift hopping abilities to fling the Crystal Tower into the future and that the message you see once the quest is complete was Biggs' last recording for a brighter future where the 8th umbral calamity doesn't come to pass.
Talk about making all the raids be that more meaningful!
The log numbers used as journal entries to describe what happened are also given the same Patch number that the relevant data appeared in.
It's crazy because this isn't even a raid! It's an optional post-MSQ dungeon! And yet it gets all that worldbuilding.
@@JackgarPrime This seems to be par for the cause for Shadowbringers. The four role quests pack alot of info about the world of Novrandt and Ardbert's adventures, but the true amazing bit is what happens if you do all 4 role quests, which unlocks a whole new questline focused on the idenitity of the mysterious Shadowkeeper that Ardbert's group fought, their motivation and where they came from.
As of 5.4 even more quests have been added to this, tying up the role quests in a small event and further tying the Shadowkeeper into past events, including stuff that happened way back in Heavensward.
Bigg's decendant* named after him
@@jojojiva234 Specifically the third Biggs, who's also the _18th_ President of Garlond Ironworks.
This project took a long time to reach completion.
I’m gonna be real with you, THIS one got me more than A Long Fall, because this was the one thing in ShB I was NOT spoiled on. I still remember the high I felt when I heard “Seeking the peace of reason” for the first time here.
Nice! I ran it a couple months ago for the first time since it rotated out of the expert duty roulette and while I clearly remembered A Long Fall, I completely forgot about this version of Locus (It was a good surprise too, I really like Locus).
I knew about The Twinning for the memes on the absolute BANGER of the dungeon, but THIS at the end was unknown to me. What's even better is that I LOVE Alexander raids. The music ALWAYS slaps and this is probably the best OST of them all.
As someone who just completed it, I was totally caught off guard! I was expecting Insatiable and then BOOM! I got super into fighting the boss!
Alexander is one of my favorite Eikons so this was a _very_ welcome surprise. Was sitting with a big smile on my face through it.
LITERALLY SAME HOLY SHIT
like, i like to peruse the soundtracks wheb they release and, I did see Locus (Duality) but I just assumed "Oh must be like the Eden raid series or something"
I DID NOT EXPECT US TO HVE TO FIGHT ALEXANDER AGAIN!!!
WEAPONIZED
KETTLES
Science has gone too far
but monk already has that at their disposal lol
After beating the main story and doing the dungeon for the first time, it was like cherry ontop of a delicious sundae
...I eat the cherries first though.
Amen.
same just recently finished shadowbringers msq this song is awesome
@@Durahan13 doesnt matter. The whole damned cake is the best shit youve ever tasted anyways
@@scrwd4568 where'd the cake come from we were talkin' bout sundaes
ironworks looking at alexander
"I made this"
You made this?
.... I made this.
No Michael J Caboose made this
Technically due to time fuckery, they actually might of
@@commandervulkan nah, according to the actual story, alexander kinda made himself. dude lives outside time and space, after all.
@@oldmanartist4655 No one not even alexander knows where he came from, he only knows he is, The Sharylans built alexanders mecha suit then the gobbos built it more, the xaela summoned it
I always did love the live version of this song. This is the Primals concert version, hence why you hear the guitar more clearly/louder.
Agreed, I think the electric thumping is nice but the guitar riff hits harder.
He protec...
He atacc,
But most importantly, he bacc
zolli21 oh yes ultimate is coming.
@@paladinoflight5413 It came!
@@KawaiiNeko333 So did I
*Protect *Attack *Back
@@Person1................68 Clearly you don't know the meme. The spelling was correct.
Seeking the peace of reason
Sheep in a peaceless season
Reason to keep believing
Waken the beast who's sleeping
Let go this destiny, you're caught in a trance
Ever marking time inside a dream, no sign of advance,
You see, the mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring
Step back! Two-step, two-step, two-step, one two three
Our world's a fantasy, no more than a test
Ever feeding off the fallacy creating this mess
Deep down inside this bleak machine with all of the rest
Break free! Two-phase, two-phase electricity
Time turning up the volume
Time turning on us always
No time enough tomorrow
For turning back to where we began
Twenty-two sectors tested
Fragments in one direction
Celestial noise detected
Delirium unsuspected
Static tuned in to reason
Time in the aether deepens
Transmissions blink uncompleted
Seven two three two three...
Arrested destiny, alone in a trance
No escaping from this waking dream, no hope of advance,
You see, the mortal coil we serve is naught but a spring
Unwind! Too slow, too quick, too much to believe
Your world's a fantasy, you've failed the test
Ever forging all new fallacies creating more mess
Directly through this bleak machine, with all of the rest
DC! Dying, dying electricity
Falling back right into the system of
Falling back on all that's erased
When fighting back right out of this system
Means falling back right into this space
Yes, falling back right in with the system
Who'll see you falling back to the end
When falling back is better than simply
Falling back into pieces again
Silent steel breathing, breathing
Memory writing, reading
Error! Repeat deleting
Radicals flowing free and
Energy slowly seeping
Suspending all disbelief in
Synergy with our being
Synapses fire in three, then...
Thanks for the text - I appreciate it! :3 This song is amazingly catchy!
Pin this!!
Anyone got any idea what the "seven two three two three " lyrics mean ? I mean there are a bunch of other cryptic things I'm curious about (like what are the "twenty-two sectors tested" or stuff like that) but somehow I feel this one does hide something... is it some sort of code ?
@@diosilos according to localization team (Koji Fox) it has no deeper meaning, it simply rimed well
@@123hopsy Oh... well I mean they're not wrong on that I guess x) That's amusing at least, I bet many people must have racked their brains trying to find hidden significance and some sort of code in their before Koji made this announcement x) Well thanks for saving me a pointless obsession ^^
Me: Leading up to this fight? More Iron Works logos?
Me: That's odd wait why are there Alexander mobs in here....
Hears Song, sees boss.
Me: CIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDD WHAT DID YOU DO!!!
This was already explained in the story before.
Technically Cid just figured out the math for it. It was Biggs' grandkid and the Ironworks he was President of that built the damn thing.
And somehow, someway, I still believe it's all Ilberd's fault.
@@cooljoe500 They don't explain anything about Alexander though, the Exarch just mentions that the Ironworks figured out the ins and outs of the Tower in order to time travel through the rift.
@@AlterRaigo Guessing they studied Alexander and Omega's places after we finished the raids and they figured out how to time/dimension travel and build this sweet thing.
@@kaungsi5613 alexander's not mentioned in the instance -- but omega is. they studied it to figure out what was necessary to be able to safely traverse the rift.
the Alexander we know isn't a working machine, but a primal summoned by the Illuminati, based upon some cultural legend of a winged machine-god that could perfect the future and erase the sins of the past. Now i think we have some idea of where they got that idea from.
I don't know how to feel about the fact that the first time I went through this dungeon, I thought "It would be funny if locus started playing" then this happened
Where is it from?
@@xXJLNINJAXx Locus?, The Alexander Raid from Heavensward. It's the 'default' theme for a bunch of bosses in it.
@@S3Cs4uN8 cept I believe in those fights it's the normal version and in this one its the primals version. Which is why you don't see the primals version on any official osts
Science isn't about why, it's about why not.
How... how have we not had a portal reference yet?
Oi, whatcha doing here nerd!
Should have known Cave Johnson had his fingers in this!
I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!
"your scientists where so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
If you think about HOW Alexander works, and the means by which it controls space-time, then you get a hint to what exactly became of that dark future when they sent the crystal tower to The First in the past. To put it bluntly, it's a lifeless husk. The Tycoon consumed all of the aether on that version of etheirys to do what it did. They made the ultimate sacrifice to stop the rejoinings.
Even worse is that Black Rose was successfully deployed, so even when he left the timeline, there would be no way to recover the lost aether naturally because of how the bioweapon suppresses it to a standstill
This isn't true, it drew on the power of the crystal tower, which gains it's power through funneling energy from the thirteenth (void world)
Black rose devastated the source leaving nothing to draw energy from, even if it did work that way.
@@Grimnoire The world was in ruins yeah, but it wasn't DEAD. It still endured, even if just barely. You need to remember that all of the aether stored in the tower would still be inadequate to properly feed even an artificial Alexander. The artificial enigma, The Tycoon would have needed as much aether as the real Alexander to time travel even as they teleport the ENTIRE tower at the same time to The First of the past. The tower still had massive stores of aether to spare, so it can only be surmised that such prodigious amounts of aether to perform this impossible feat would have been gathered from the post-8th Umbral Calamity Source itself, leaving the star a lifeless husk in the process.
@@VioletNightmare it's stated that they used the crystal tower as a source of power several times. Graha tia even uses it to sustain his body for hundreds of years.
@@VioletNightmare fun fact most people in the 8uc timeline were against the ironworks' plan and wanted to save the world they had rather than use the power of a god to undo the calamity. remember, the ironworks thought that this would erase their timeline, so they wanted to bring back the past at the expense of all who live now, just like the ascians, the warrior of light is their zodiark.
Alexander created by Garlond Ironworks, fighting us inside the Crystal Tower in a room that has Omega mounted on the wall.
And this is the first level 80 dungeon post-story? What the hell are they gonna do to top this? I am almost terrified imagining what could be next.
They bring in more 'weapons'. Emerald and Ruby weapon!
@@Superscope64 did you just predicted the future? Lol
YoRHa its here.....
Meanwhile, in Heroes Gauntlet: "Yeah, your multi-track blend of prior tracks is good for dancing... but is it good for FEELS?"
The journal of Biggs III in the Eight Umbral Calamity timeline was good for feels though...
Meanwhile in Eden: did ramuh have the lower half of a horse also did Titan ride a go kart?
Endwalker spoilers
I just realised that in that original timeline, the ascians will most likely manage to restore their world eventually, but the endsinger is still out there and there's nothing they can do about it.
In that timeline, it is likely that eventually Etheirys will fall unfortunately.
@@crowdemon_archives Emet Selch even acknowledges that, regardless of whether the Ascians are successful in their goal or not, their methods wouldn't have gotten them as far as the original timeline's people would have and that's even if they knew the Endsinger was coming for them - again.
@@crowdemon_archives why? They’d still have Zodiark.
@@TiaCosm my memory on the lore exactly is fuzzy, but the only reason zodiark worked in the first place was because they fed half or 3/4ths of their people to it. that's not exactly sustainable long term
And here come the WoL , destroying 200 hundred years worth of research :D
We're warriors of darkness now my friend also screw their research
Um Darkness 😒
OH LAWD WE COMIN
I think both titles apply depending on where you are.
“We’re villains right?”
WoL probably be like, "Aw shite, here we go again..."
lol same reaction.
More like "Cid what the hell did you do?"
@@Sivrn-Val Biggs III "I know you like fighting Alexander Prime inside Alexander when it summons Alexander and crystal tower, so we built an Alexander in crystal tower based on the Alexander Prime that summoned Alexander inside Alexander.
@@bigfoxki lmfao so true
@@bigfoxki Yo dawg! I heard you like Alexander
I was so happy not to be spoilered for this whole Duty. When this boss rolled up I was like, so that's what Cid and co have been up to!
It explains A LOT of how the E***** got to travel time
Oh shit. I didn't put that together.
That's a bad Cid! No making Pseudo Primals!
Indeed. I am presently unclear as to whether this boss is helping facilitate what the tower and exarch did, or if this was just a research dead end that didn't pan out left in the tower. Either way, the Ironworks helped take down the original, and it really speaks to how hopeless and grim that their situation is that they resort to building their own version.
Me and my friend started screaming when we saw Alexander.
I absolutely lost my shit when this started playing, this whole dungeon was like a nostalgia bomb for people that've been around since the early days of XIV/ARR
Im surprised no one mentioned the background of this stage.
Bro, the twinning's main theme, then the boss "insatiable" rock remix, then this theme for the final boss. Twinning is an absolute banger
When I first heard the theme during the boss cutscene, I lost my shit thinking no way they brought Alexander back. I lost it again with just how much fun the fight itself was. It is definitely my favorite this expansion for dungeon bosses. I also needed new pants by the end of it
All the time freeze stuff was insanely cool. This is might be my favorite dungeon boss in the entire game.
Is that... is that a freaking ARTIFICIAL ALEXANDER!?
it's actually Ironworks Alexander + Ironworks Omega
it answers some time travel questions that the game throws at ya.
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Yeah. Im honestly impressed Cid's disciples were able to craft this thing
@@dragonfable66 but all in all, what the heck Biggs?!
I love how The Tycoon remix uses more instruments played by humans since it was created by humans unlike The regular Alexander bosses with The Locus that uses more stiff, non-conventional instruments
I wouldn't mind this boss becoming an extreme trial. Combining all the good stuff from all the big raids from previous expansions into one boss fight is epic.
I mean original Alexander is going to become an Ultimate Raid, can't wait to see the remixes and fights that come out of that lol.
Combining three Raids into one dungeon, the absolute madmen. If they combine Bahamut, Mhach, and Ivalice, I'm gonna lose it.
It made me feel so proud of the boys at the Ironworks...the culmination of everything they learned from every Raid they were involved in with us. The inner workings of the Crystal Tower, Alexander's time travel and Omega's dimensional crossing powers, all that experience came together in this dungeon
@@armakerdx wait whaf ability about tataru?
@@SuguSugux After clearing Orbonne, we get a side cut to one of the Legati leading an expedition into Ridorana and recovering tech from there - and they seem particularly interested in Construct 8. Somehow I doubt it was because of its sweet dance moves.
Mhach and Ivalice seem like a simple mix considering they both revolve around sky pirates
That and there's the whole "everything from the void is just people corrupted by dark/astral aspected auracite"
Coil kind of deserves to stay a standalone story though
This is honestly one of my favorite dungeons in the entire game. They really topped themselves with this and Amarout.
Given that Maker's Ruin always plays when we encounter a literally impossible to succeed scenario and we just... decide to succeed anyway, I imagine that it must have been playing when the Ironworks reverse engineered a god to break the flow of reality
I nearly cried when met this boss, because I started FFXIV when Alexander Raid launched at Korea(I’m KR user), and made my first clear with it. Several years passed but I remember the feelings and awes of Alexander. Thx Square Enix
i love seeing people's first reactions to this boss it's always baffled amazement
Me walking to the Tycoon, hearing Locus from Alexander: Ah shit, here we go again.
I wish I'd taken the time to read all the research notes to understand if this entity is managing the Crystal Tower in its current functionality, or if it was just a discarded dead end research path taken by the Ironworks to try to achieve what the tower later did. Either way, it is super cool at doing a good job of "show, not tell" with respect to how bad the situation had gotten that Cid or others in the Ironworks would outright risk building their own version of something so dangerous, just to avert an even worse outcome. And that recorded message you get afterwards really takes it home. This was their last hope to try to save what they could after losing everything.
the notes explain that sunglasses!biggs's predecessor drew up the plans based on cid's data on alexander and what got salvaged from omega, but wanted to leave it up to the generation after him whether or not to build and fire it because it makes a huge mess on the way out, iirc
yeah hope it not bad that we smashed it to pieces.
@@Gamemaster-64 I'm guessing it just means that the Crystal Tower now can't go back to the Alternate-timeline it came from.
They didnt think this far ahead because the CT was supposed to poof out of existence. Putting it down here is a necessity, for many reasons.
First, it isnt a viable means of going back, because the actual methods, calculations, etc was left behind on the post-8UC Source.
Second, this knowledge is WAY too risky to let past. Third, it was going haywire already, hence why G’raha Tia needed it dead in the first place.
I'm glad they used my favorite Alexander theme for...Alexandroid.
If you look in the background, it shows all the 8 man raids you been on minus the Coil; probably because Cid wasn't a part of that one.
Thing is though, we do see the jump pads from Coil earlier in the dungeon. They don't monitor the coils 'cause they're probably smoking ruins by that point, and because Cid wasn't there like you said, but their influence is felt :D
@@darkrai6543 the jump pads were probably always in the tower, since the tower and dalamud are both allegan
@@EchoOddity That may be true, but it might also not be, and I think I prefer to think that they were installed by Cid because he could. It makes no difference really, but the one way makes me smile to think about :)
Actually it shows Crystal tower, Alexander and Omega
@@EchoOddity the jump pads are arguably pretty common Allagan technology, it's likely Azys Lla was also scrapped and studied to produce the required modifications to the Crystal Tower as well
I marked out huge when this song kicked in. I actually shouted "WAIT WHAT?! WHY IS THIS PLAYING?!" here out loud.
I was saying through out the expac that I felt they used Alexander too soon. I was like "Man! Wish Alexander was here!" I about fell outta my chair at this boss. Shadowbringers is amazing.
Alexander, got to love him. He can be anywhere whenever he wants.
Not sure we'll see an ultimate version of Alex with this bad boi here
@@craigfunk3453 im sure we will see a ultimate what mix both the old alexander mechanics whit the new ones alongside of other new time based mechanics!
Craig Funk Oh crap, if the Tycoon turns up in Alexander Ultimate...
The headcanon that this is Mide and Dayan singing makes me want to CRY
With all of the FFXIII models in that dungeon, I was half expecting an incarnation of Barthandelus.
That was the final dungeon boss
Wouldn't put it past them, seeing how mechanical that thing looks...
**Spoilers**
Emet-Selch was Barthandalus all along!
@@chanceoneal2010 more or less. FF13 is my fav in the series (well right after 14) and I need more FF13 mobs and easter eggs and such
Isnt the final boss of the ascian city bartandeleus?
they made the theme EVEN BETTER
(i love all the music from the Alexander raids)
@Unicornlord This is the primals version though, so it sounds sharper, more treble, less bass than the original, which many songs in FFXIV share sadly (Byakko, for example, is unplayable in my car because of that imbalance). Obviously this song has a nice, loud bass guitar but it's not an all-encompassing buzz.
@Unicornlord This is a live cover of Locus.
@@AvelinFF You know, I could tell something was different about a few pieces in the soundtrack compared to the rest of the soundtrack, and that those pieces shared that fact with a few other soundtracks, like NieR's. Thanks for letting me know what it was!
Not shown; The song doesn't start right away.
Even after the doors open they give you just enough time to go
"Wait! That looks like-" 0:00
I initially went into this dungeon COMPLETELY BLIND a couple weeks ago. holy crap this was a TRIP
I love this whole dungeon! My first time experiencing it was yesterday! The Twinning is the best!!!
What a bloody sick tune for a dungeon boss to have in any game ever, jesus christ...
Me:
*sees a familiar model*
Also me:
“How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”
I love the young people
@@Geek_soulless "[The Warrior of Light]'s going to kick my butt!"
The time stop lasers really had me on edge for this fight, but god damn the alexander music making such a good return.
I am so glad all the Twinning memes and videos I saw before getting to the dungeon in game let me have the surprise of this... my jaw dropped when this song appeared again
Never been so hyped coming into a dungeon before. Its the gift that kept on giving right to the end!
Ooooh didn't realise this was the Primals version. I thought I was just imagining things when I thought it sounded a bit different but now it makes sense
Someone in my party called him "Omegalexander"... lol
And he's right
Alexander + Omega = Alexa
You can't change my mind
OmgAlexander
Someone called it Ironworks Alexander
@@heheheiamapokeymanmastahjo2250 how about Alexga?
The first time I went into that dungeon and saw that thing I was like: "My god... What have you *done*?! You absolute madmen!"
Before doing TEA:
"holy shit this song is so hype"
After doing TEA:
"MAKE IT STOP"
*laughs*No.
Lmao.
Ez fix: Don't do TEA, simple!
I did this place about 2-3 weeks ago and the shock of seeing a combination of Alexander and Omega had me freaking out. Didn’t get to read the terminals since I didn’t want to slow down the dungeon, but still. It’s such a big shock to see a fusion of these world ending threats.
The Twinning was just back-to-back hits with its OSTs.
Probably my favorite thing about Locus in both versions is the piano, it has such relaxing and almost hypnotic rhythm to it and if i ever wanted to learn how to play i would have to thank this song.
Me: "This isn't too bad. I mean, the time stop things are quite predictable this time around, at least."
Artificial Gravity:
Me: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*
Did the fight earlier in the day and I immediately yelled "YO WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HERE WHAT"
The group I did this with went in blind, and I will never forget how the usual go go go as fast as you can group got to this room, the music started, and we just stopped and stared. "Is that ALEXANDER?" As much as I loved Heroes Gauntlet, because I am a sucker for narratives where you go back through the story and interact with everyone you met, The Twinning is my favorite FFXIV dungeon. Just for the sheer audacity of combining so many raids into one dungeon.
I WANNA THANK MY FRIEND FOR MAKING ME DO ALEXANDER SO BADLY BUT SHE HASN'T PLAYED THE TWINNING YET
Please be the one to show your friend on her first time :D She will be floored. SUCH A GREAT DUNGEON!
"First time here. Any advice?"
Me: Turn up the volume.
I legit did this a few days ago in 80 roulette, got a first timer running the dungeons and my advice was, "don't stand in bad, hit stuff and turn your volume as high as you can tolerate. You'll thank me at the end of the dungeon."
The sprout was not dissapointed
Really glad they used this version instead of the Alexander one. No out-of-place drum machine, cleaner guitar channels.
ur an out of place drum machine
Mixing technology from Alexander and Omega. The Ironworks has outdone themselves.
Entity of literal perfection, designed to identify the perfect outcome and make that outcome come into being with mastery over time and space…….
Proceeds to be routinely destroyed over and over and over by the WoL until it admits defeat in the face of the strength of the WoL and deems you more important than even this omniscient ruler over time.
I had the third biggest squeal this expansion when I got to this boss. This was such a huge surprise.
Truly says a lot about the xpac that this was only your third aha
@@shaetane This expac was so good, I wanna replay it all
First time i saw this i legit went "WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
when i first saw this boss i legit yelled GARLOND WTF MAN lol
When the music kicked in, I typed "wat" in party chat.
when I first ran it I literally fucking screamed at this part mainly because Alexander was (and still is, honestly) my favorite raid series
"Oh, that explains a lot."
This is one of the most fascinating stories in Shadowbringers. The fact that there's another timeline, completely fucked up and lost in spacetime is both crazy and sad.
Casting off your own timeline as a dead one to save a new timeline with a better future is an insane thing for sure. If only my WoL could reach across the rift to tell them they succeeded
@@charliemcmillan4561 you wouldn't have to, as the Exarch said, when we saved our timeline the doomed one was erased, it never happened.
@@louthinator That's not true. There's a side story on the Lodestone set after the Crystal Tower is sent to the First and the alternate timeline wasn't erased, but started rebuilding alongside Midgardsormr.
@@debleb166 those stories are usually considered speculative at best or "what if" scenarios. That timeline would be screwed anyway because the warrior of light wouldn't be there to destroy the endsinger, which means Hermes is going to destroy Zodiark with Zenos, everyone gets turned into blasphemies, every star dies, no life can be reborn due to the dynamis degrading the aether to dust, so it might as well be done.
@@louthinator How does that neccesarily mean it would happen? Not even Garleans were spared the effects of Black Rose so for all we know Zenos could have fallen to it, and the only reason Zenos went along with it was to get his fight with the WOL, a motiviation which he would not have in the other timeline. Plus Zodiark being destroyed relied on the Warrior being there to destroy him, Fandaniel couldn't have done it alone. It's probably inevitable that the final days will one day destroy the Eight Umbral Era timeline too, but much further in the future than in ours. Also, Emet-Selch and Elidibus who would still be alive and active in this timeline would absolutely not have let the sundered Fandaniel destroy Zodiark who is central to their plans to cause the Great Rejoining.
And where does it say that the side-stories aren't canon? As far as I'm aware none of them actually contradict the canon.
Biggs wtf did you do
Bigs lll
Cid probably drew up the blueprints
He managed to create time travel without summoning a primal, and mastered the crystal tower. It's frankly an amazing feat of engineering they managed to accomplish.
@@beefytaquitos for all we know this is actually Cid's fail safe, the Crystal Tower is a giant Antennae if it detects that the world is no longer in danger, it's probably set to unleash monsters in the assumption that the WoL would respond to destroy the Time Travel engine to avoid it's misuse.
@@velvetbluez9823 that's actually kind of a genius idea, though if Biggs the 3rd was the 14th president of Garlond Ironworks, it was likely a very long time removed from Cid's original ideas.
I really love the little detail at 0:59 There are no crazy drums here. Because that crazy drums sounded like goblins' explosions. This one is not made by goblins, so no crazy explosions.
you are genius
This version of the song's existed for a long time before it was used for this boss, so you might be reading too much into it.
No need to summon a time traveling god when you can just build one!
I can't get enough of this songs, even after years
This Dungeon Managed to recapture the feeling that was experiencing the Alexander Raid for the first time blind. escape Remix, Fun references, Lore that I wanted read, and a Final Boss that was out of left field with the main Theme of the Alexander Raid plying WITH time manipulation mechanics! This is my favorite Dungeon this Expansion. I think it will be hard for the developers to out do it, but I am eager to see them try and Hope that they succeed!
I've never been so happy to not look at a dungeon preview when I got here.
It's kinda funny to me how drastically different the gameplay for AST, SMN, and NIN are almost a year later...HOLY SHIT IT'S ALMOST BEEN A YEAR SINCE SHADOWBRINGERS WAS RELEASED!
Feel even older yet ?
Feel even more older yet?
I wish I could get this dungeon in expert roulette but no, it's always the final story dungeon.
I know your feel.
huh weird I keep getting the jazzy sharks
@@Ickypumpkin "jazzy sharks" rofl
Emet Selch: Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down.
Curious, I'm always getting Twinning. Or Grand Cosmos, now :D
Edit: probably jinxed it now
I just did this dungeon with a friend and I absolutely was SHOCKED to see fucking Alexander here again
Lyrics:
Seeking the peace of reason
Sheep in a peaceless season
Reason to keep believing
Waken the beast who's sleeping
Let go this destiny, you're caught in a trance
Ever marking time inside a dream, no sign of advance,
You see, the mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring
Step back! Two-step, two-step, two-step, one two three
Our world's a fantasy, no more than a test
Ever feeding off the fallacy creating this mess
Deep down inside this bleak machine with all of the rest
Break free! Two-phase, two-phase electricity
Time turning up the volume
Time turning on us always
No time enough tomorrow
For turning back to where we began
Twenty-two sectors tested
Fragments in one direction
Celestial noise detected
Delirium unsuspected
Static tuned in to reason
Time in the aether deepens
Transmissions blink uncompleted
Seven two three two three...
Arrested destiny, alone in a trance
No escaping from this waking dream, no hope of advance,
You see, the mortal coil we serve is naught but a spring
Unwind! Too slow, too quick, too much to believe
Your world's a fantasy, you've failed the test
Ever forging all new fallacies creating more mess
Directly through this bleak machine, with all of the rest
DC! Dying, dying electricity
Falling back right into the system of
Falling back on all that's erased
When fighting back right out of this system
Means falling back right into this space
Yes, falling back right in with the system
Who'll see you falling back to the end
When falling back is better than simply
Falling back into pieces again
Silent steel breathing, breathing
Memory writing, reading
Error! Repeat deleting
Radicals flowing free and
Energy slowly seeping
Suspending all disbelief in
Synergy with our being
Synapses fire in three, then...
When I heard this start the first time I was like "No goddamn way" So great.
As an AST main, I cannot watch the video. But I keep coming back to rock out!
STICKIN' THE PEAS IN THE FREEZER
SHAKIN' THE PEAS THEN SEASON
PEAS AND THE CHEESE BE MY FAVORITE
BAKIN' THE PEAS TILL I'M SLEEPIN
I know we have the original Locus song roll, but I kinda wish we also got this one too cause it’s a good song lol.
Best primal round 2, now with killer kettles
Wish there was an orchestrion roll specifically for this boss fight
I love Alexander's opening to introduce himself lol
Beef and the cheese with seasonin'
OMG, did they made some kind of a rememberance of past raid bosses? I stopped on Heavensward, and still have Stormblood before Shadowbringers to progress through. But knowing that Locus theme (My favourite Boss theme, just like Answers) still lives, i'm happy to see that and pretend to get Shadowbringers asap
This boss and its music could be considered as such, but there is a clear lore purpose involved with the MSQ. It isn't a throwback for the sake of a throwback, this throwback is exposition on actual story elements.
I legit want Yoshida to let Bandai make model kits of the Mecha in FFXIV
Perfect Grade Cruise Chaser, Final Brute Justice, Alexander Prime, and this dude for real
He master entertainment, it's yoo strong to beat him.
I genuinely want a FFXIV-2 that follows Graha in the fallen timeline. I wanna meet the heroes that managed such an incredible feat
Maybe even as a mainline FF
Well, you know what this means.
More mecha primals, please!
Definitely not what I was expecting at the end of this dungeon when I did it the other week... I love it!
This boss gave me the hugest smile, since I love the Alexander raid and its concept in this setting.
When I got there I was like "OH YEAH, LET'S GO!!!!!"
Ah. So this is why people were saying to do the raids before finishing Shadowbringers.
When I first did this dungeon I was with my friends, and we did a full tank party (gnb, war, drk, pal). When this theme started playing after A Long Fall I was so happy. Hand down one of the best dungeon.
This is godlike lol. Never heard music like this in my life
Tycoon is another FF5 reference in an expansion with a lot of them already.
** Spoilers below **
When Exdeath tears open a hole to the Rift, Tycoon Castle is the entry point for the party. I guess they figured it was appropriate for the Post-8th Calamity Crew's entrance to the Rift as well.
Especially since Alexander is historically in the series a mechanical castle.
@@Sllandre If Ultimecia's castle had a name that wasn't just "Ultimecia's Castle" then maybe that would have worked too, cause it's very timey-wimey and full of mechanical stuff.
First time I went through this was with some of my fc mates last week and I absolutely lost my shit at this part. I told them after "good thing we weren't on voice chat because I didn't want to subject you to my screaming over that" XD