Dekken

Dekken

@dekken.bsky.social

(He/They) my FFXIV modding and art account. I love DnD, Sci Fi, FFXIV, and Vampires Commissions open! 🏳️‍⚧️ rights! BLM! Free 🇵🇸! @DekkenArt on twitter

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Wanted to celebrate my first slaying of the Compiler a bit back with an idea that's been buzzing around in my head. Every death in Cryo made me think of Vivec's "Reach heaven by violence." #MarathonGame #MarathonART @marathonteam.bungie.net Eat The Path

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You venture into the unknown. The dark side of the moon. Yet, nothing waits for you there. There are no ruins to explore, nor grand beasts to slay. You know you should leave. This place does not welcome you. For the first time in your life, you experience true silence.

The Ace Combat bug hasn't left me yet. Small mashup that modifies the Star Pilot helm to be a little more modern feeling instead of sci-fi. Compatible with all races and genders, and it contains any racial permutation that the original had, like cat or bunny ears! heliosphere.app/mod/6y22c2gp...

= Operator 1.2 = The LB3 has been adjusted to utilize a variant of @bevral2.bsky.social 's FAFNIR, the ADFX-36 WREN. Choose between the honorable Prydwen squadron or Morgan Flight of the Calmann Contingency, a unit designed to rebel against Palisade if they ever stray from their ideals.

You may see the Fafnir in Operator before long if I can manage it... Check it out for cool gposes in the meantime! The emblem of Flight Prydwen, the squadron responsible for your LB3 strafe runs :)

Bev@bevral2.bsky.social

The Fafnir has been updated with 2 new colors and the ability to put emblems on the tail fins, many AC ones are included :D Link here: heliosphere.app/mod/5m6gkvvk...

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These Alexandrian Superweapons are getting out of hand, why is the sky speaking latin? (Ace Combat 8 fun so wanted to take a plane pic, squadron taking on the Thalassa Supercarrier and its two escort Remora :D ) #GPOSERS #Bpose

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Aerial Operation: Aether Current VII Garlean Ultranationalists disillusioned with the reformation gather elements of the scattered legions to form a neo-imperialist military force. Their crown jewel is the Kelpie, a submarine carrying an experimental Alexandrian railcannon. (pls work this time)

Ask a gamer about the ethics of paid mods and they'll draw a line thick as can be, but using a gameplay altering mod on live? Depends how much the playerbase is annoyed at the devs lol.

SUNRISE - Vanilla Mashup And with joyous timing, it crosses the finish line! A Destiny themed mashup compatible with standard midlander based races. Make your own fate. ko-fi.com/s/6657917f9f heliosphere.app/mod/eyh3nj1h...

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Blazing Shot Textools currently has an issue with colorset right now, so have to wait until that gets addressed before I can continue working on the armor. Good excuse for gposing though.

Send me home in a cloak of compiler skin I would post a pic with the cryo look for Sentinel but alas its not ready yet. Still glad to have finally done the compiler for real after the VB one. #marathon

Pretty bummed about the Pokemon Bank announcement. Lots of things I grew up with being sunset, for no other reason than some corporation decided it wasn't worth it. I thought I talked about it on here but I guess not? I did the ribbon master challenge, I cherish my Palisade ways hard to express.

This was right after Hemomancer in 2022. Its a proper butterfly effect, I was ready to hunt him for months. He showed up in 201 encounters, letting me go back to modding. The donations from Necromancer helped me salvage my old 2ds and and bring forward childhood shinies. Theres nothing else like it

I still use all these guys. I have a shiny deerling thats like ten years old. So many foundational experiences vanishing, not just in pokemon. Its nice to have a rock in your life, something unchanging that always gives that feeling of comfort and familiarity. Its a bummer.

Wasnt able to fit it into Operator 1.1 but since a friend asked about it, I do actually already have plans to eventually do a "Full XIV SFX" toggle, where every sound effect from a different game instead uses an XIV counterpart. More viable than youd expect just would need to be an update on its own

Blazing Shot Textools currently has an issue with colorset right now, so have to wait until that gets addressed before I can continue working on the armor. Good excuse for gposing though.

Many mixed thoughts on the sudden death of D2. For a long time it was my home, even well into my time with XIV. Lots of things that could be said, but instead I'm going to focus on what it meant to me. Mashup WIP - The Man with a Blazing Gun

I saw Gundam Hathaway 2 last night (Very good and gorgeous on the big screen) and after my $15 ticket and $30 popcorn drink candy combo, I'd check the price of the Xi. My live reaction:

This isnt from anything Ive seen in XIV recently, though I have gotten comments in the vein If there is a labor of love in modding, comments using it to bash the original game makers isnt going to go well for 99% of them. You dont pour 100s of hours into a free interpretation of a concept you hate

Now that the spoiler embargo is over, Loporrits: "If only we further developed our voidsent slaughter bots!" The humble Palisade Arsenal, the lunar-based machinist forge who made weaponry specifically for incursions into the void: Might be the most fitting event for a headcanon I've had lol

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A Distant Hell The Palisade Arsenals first operation was investigating a strange signal coming from the dark side of the moon. A light party was dispatched to investigate the anomaly. Upon contact, a surge of darkness claimed three lives as circumstance threw [NULL] into the first void-dive.

Eternally trapped between "1.1, just a week away!" and "I'm gonna be old and grey before this is done" but racial support is coming along. Some animations still need revision, but its mostly just implementation and vfx adjustment now.

I have a type, and they're giant robots with a white unicorn motif that are more noble than their morally questionable technology and are piloted by lynx/links

- Added support for current DT Chocobo armor - Blanked out all new animations with basic idles to restore a basic level of functionality* *I would like to add custom animations at some point, but that will take time. This is just to restore the mod to evergreen status Avatar Chocobo is updated!

Like DT changing the facebones, its hard to say how much work I'll need to do in Evercold to update the overhauls across the two modes and what not. Could be a lot, could be a little. I'll almost certainly be very busy IRL in January, so just setting expectations I might only do one/it takes awhile

I saw an ozma-as-ramiel joke and I'm way ahead of the curve on that IG lmaoooo I have a channel in a private server where I post gpose concepts for me to circle around to when I get the posing bug and uh, a few of them were evangelion inspired lol

WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?!

Nova Crystallis@novacrystallis.com

A new feature, "Character Action Skins" these new rewards will allow you to customize the actions - leaning into the design philosophy to make characters more unique from one another. More to come in Berlin Fan Festival

After feeling confident enough, I got around to building the kit of my favorite Mecha design, Line Ark's White Glint. I'll want to paint it one day but I'll need way more practice.

I've put up a kofi poll about how in the weeds we wanna get in terms of accuracy, it has a video showing the slower rate of fire that matches the animation, or if we want to keep up the high firerate vibes. Alas they are mutually exclusive. ko-fi.com/polls/Operat...

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Continuing to chip away at 1.1, still got a lot of bugs to fix but nearly all the animations are ready, only like 2ish more to go. The elemental gun skills are also getting a polish pass to pretty up their casing ejection and have relevant exhaust smoke.

Continuing to chip away at 1.1, still got a lot of bugs to fix but nearly all the animations are ready, only like 2ish more to go. The elemental gun skills are also getting a polish pass to pretty up their casing ejection and have relevant exhaust smoke.

Ez8 and Re-GZ HG, the humble king and the champion of grunts. I made the Re-GZ first and just assumed HGs were bigger than the EG Gramps. Nope, Amuro just likes tall girls. Same, buddy.

A "nobody asked" thing that gets in my head Operator, especially lately, is that military aesthetics unsurprisingly have a major role in propaganda, and the 360 era of FPSs that partially inspired it are especially egregious. Luckily XIV is relatively free of chuds so it hasnt been much of an issue.

If it was a video game, book, etc, I'd be able to convey how I feel about these things far more, even if I indulge in their aesthetics. Like how metal gear despises war but loves action movies. Its why I want fantasy stuff like cryo bullets, even if the project is a ultimately a grunt fantasy.

Happy Friday the 13th, my black cat has come to absorb your bad luck. Built baby's first gunplay, the easy grade gramps. I broke the horn (nothing gorilla glue couldn't fix) but it was otherwise very approachable. It'd be a steal if it wasn't for tariffs on shipping.

Oh my goodness they actually did necromancer. VERY curious to see how their rendition will look.

Nova Crystallis@novacrystallis.com

The Knowledge Level cap will increase to 40 and new phantom jobs will be added.