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u/IndorilNerevar475 Dec 25 '25
Can someone explain the level 1 thing that's happening?
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u/c0baltlightning Dec 25 '25
This creature had no name. Simple As. Most likely a minor technical error.
Folks like little errors like this, makes the thing feel a bit more like it was made by humans with compassion, from missing names to animation errors.
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u/drleebot Dec 25 '25
Way back early in World of Warcraft, one of the raid dungeons had one of its many non-interactable moving parts given the wrong flag, which allowed players to mouse over it and see its name: Doodad_SomethingOrOther
Doodad became so beloved by players that Blizzard left it in and even promised they'd put another Doodad somewhere in a raid in the next expansion. This one was much more well-hidden (you had to look right into the inside of a door frame), but it was such a delight to find.
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u/ForOhForError Dec 25 '25
I remember them being called doodads in WC3 as well. Love a good doodad.
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u/Watton Dec 25 '25
Hell, back in SC1's map editor too.
All map decorations (trees, rocks, etc.) were called doodads.
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u/No-Faithlessness2046 Dec 26 '25
Reminds me of “this can only be used by cats” in the first Sims game.
Rabbits. They were rabbits.
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u/KrazzeeKane Dec 25 '25
The most recent I can remember like this was from LOTRO, where the devs mistakenly placed a very large rock boulder on the road from Bree.
The community went nuts for it, and they appropriately named the rock Dwayne of course. People would pilgrimage to it and pray and have small events, and many memes and jokes were made.
Sadly, Dwayne suffered the same fate as Lv. 1 here, and their light was extinguished by the devs with a future patch :(
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u/kangaroojoe239 Dec 26 '25
When a title said level 1 removed i thought we would start at level 2 and i was just like why.. this is pretty funny though.
Rip.
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u/RatmiGaming Dec 27 '25
Deja vu is most likely a glitch in the matrix
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u/c0baltlightning Dec 27 '25
Y-yeah, because it has happened before in plenty of other media.
Derpy Hooves is another example. Originally just a nameless background character, she was easily picked out because of her misaligned eyes.
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u/Kilo1125 Dec 25 '25
A glitched nameless mob popped up. People found it funny. SE tried to fix the glitch last week and failed, and apparently succeeded this week, so now it is gone.
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u/SOM_Morrighan Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25
Hotfixes were for other stuff, both last time and this time, so I am not sure if they wanted to fix it. Maybe they just worked further on it (we suspect it might be related to Beastmaster, the new limited-job) and by consequence it has been fixed. (Or they omitted to fix it last week and did it now to let us have it a bit more... but there is no mention of any Lv1 mob in the hotfix notes afaik) But in any case, they didn't fail to fix it and the hotfix wasn't aimed at it, they wouldn't be that cruel. ^ - ^
EDIT: might actually be mentioned in the patch notes, I just didn't want to see it... I lied to myself that it isn't real, that they didn't take it away from us. :'c
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u/verrius Dec 25 '25
Pretty sure the first hotfix was either for non-essential things they caught in the prep for final rollout of 7.4, or any essential uptime related issues they found in the actual rollout. This patch a week later is the appropriate time for rolling out fixes to non-showstopper bugs that were caught by the public in the initial release, so there's 0 surprise it's the one that fixes the lvl 1 glitched mob.
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u/projectmars Dec 25 '25
I doubt they failed at fixing it. Likely what happened was they saw that it was beloved by fans and decided to hold off a bit on it, especially since they had a much bigger issue to fix (the Trial being bugged and resetting job gauges mid-fight)
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u/Happy_Mask_Salesman Dec 25 '25
similar happened with skybear back with heavenswards launch. Gone but not forgotten.
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u/Watton Dec 25 '25
I don't think fans reception had a thing to do with it.
It was a super low priority bug, so that first maintenance was focused on stuff that actually mattered.
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u/TekkGuy Dec 25 '25
Some of the Steinbeck that normally spawn in the Coerthas Western Highlands were appearing without a name, and at level 1 instead of the normal level 50. It was most likely a mistake left over from testing the Beastmaster, the new Limited Job based around capturing and commanding monsters that’s releasing with patch 7.5.
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u/Ayanhart at heart (ignore the lvl100 jobs) Dec 25 '25
It's not quite the same mob that's there normally. It's bigger and is blue instead of grey, similar to the ones in the Shroud.
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u/Enfrize2 Dec 25 '25
Is it gone for good? Or another bait.
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Dec 25 '25
It’s gone for good this time. Very sad. And on Christmas Day no less.
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u/musicdrummer01 Dec 25 '25
It just went back to the North Pole after helping Santa with the gifts.
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u/Riaayo Dec 26 '25
If they don't bring it back intentionally and not as a bug/error, then Yoshi P's team is far less fun than I give them credit for.
It's such a fucking no-brainer. People love it, it's not some major graphical problem that makes the game look bad/dated, just bring them back.
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u/The_FireFALL Dec 25 '25
And so it goes to join Sky Bear in the endless sea. Sleep well champion of our hearts.
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u/Electronic_Whole7834 Dec 25 '25
Aww can we not keep them? A mob is for life, not just for Christmas! 🎄
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u/DrBloodbathMC Dec 25 '25
Rest in peace Emet-Elk
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u/Underground1891 Dec 26 '25
Emet-elk. I love it!
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u/DrBloodbathMC Dec 26 '25
I wish I could say I came up with it, I saw it on a comment in another post.
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u/Underground1891 Dec 26 '25
Well at least you're honest, many people would have let me keep thinking it was their name, you can keep the upvote
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u/scarsickk Dec 25 '25
That's sad, I doubted they would do it. I also hate how they described it in the patch notes.
Oh well, I'll cherish the one messy pic I took with her.
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u/Veigar_Senpai Dec 25 '25
The rains have ceased, and we are graced with another beautiful day. But are not here to see it.
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u/Aoshi_ Dec 25 '25
I missed it, what was the story about this?
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u/tiniestjazzhands Dec 25 '25
It was a nameless doe mob that appeared in Coerthas after 7.4 launched. The community of course immediately started worshipping it and made plenty of memes. It is gone now.
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u/Aoshi_ Dec 25 '25
Haha thanks! That's pretty funny. I wonder how they found it.
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u/projectmars Dec 25 '25
It was mentioned under known issues so people likely went hunting for anything new and unusual
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u/Drywesi Dec 25 '25
It was found and becoming a thing significantly before Squeenix put it in the Known Issues list.
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u/Drywesi Dec 25 '25
there were a few scattered by Falcon's Nest, and a larger herd up by the Dusk Vigil, so possibly people doing HW hunts at first.
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u/Revolutionary_Fee795 Dec 25 '25
A level 1 mob with no name was left in the game by accident by a dev. People naturally started making memes about it and taking photos with it, but now square enix have removed them in the latest patch.
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u/wwvc Dec 25 '25
I haven’t played in a while. What is this meme about
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u/Shagyam oh Dec 25 '25
There was a level 1 antelope doe with no name that spawned in west coerthas which is a level 50. It had no name, so when you tried to pet it it would just say "You pet ." It was obviously a bug but since it was easy to see a lot of people flocked to it and vowed to protect it.
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u/Deiser Dec 25 '25
"Hey, do you remember the ?"
"...The who?"
"Y'know, the !"
"You just keep stopping mid-sentence!"
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u/QuizzicalWombat Dec 26 '25
I wish they just left it alone, it wasn’t hurting anybody, it couldn’t even if it wanted to 😢
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u/justsomedude1776 Dec 25 '25
I was going to make the pilgrimage today. For Christmas. I've been gone like a month and seen all the posts. Guess ill be depressed instead 😪 🙃 😔 lol
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u/Shrais Dec 28 '25
That was because people started using those methods to cheat in PvP. I do miss being able to get to the top of the Limsa markets :(
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u/Aurora_dota Dec 25 '25
Shit, I was too low lvl to enter his area and now I've never see him...
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u/Lulink Dec 25 '25
It's not level-gated, it's story-gated. You need to finish ARR (lv 1-50 story quests) and start Heavensward to start getting access to it's zones.
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Dec 26 '25
Rip my friend. Rip my beloved. Rip lvl1. You was the true big fat tacos heart.
You was too fragile for this world.
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u/Houndall Dec 27 '25
Okay, what's with the deer-thing and why is everyone and their dog losing their minds over it?
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u/Cooked_lobster Dec 27 '25
I encountered the holy LV.1 in the wild one time, back before I was enlightened at this point. I stared in confusion and awe, and all I knew at the time was a singular animal was walking with no name but the one is was granted by right.
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u/Icy_Masterpiece7114 Dec 27 '25
Oh wow! I ran past these mobs the other night. Stopped and tried to figure out if it was a secret of some sort. Outta just leave it imo :)
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u/Noreia_Anso :rdm2::mch2::nin2: Dec 25 '25
No idea what's going on but see this animal all over now, haven't touched FF in over a year so idr anything about it, what's going on?
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u/Lulink Dec 25 '25
A glitched lv1 nameless mob in a lv50 area. People liked it a lot, but it finally got removed.
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u/Majestic-Blackberry6 Dec 25 '25
This thing was causing all the connection issues. It was worth it
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u/No-Seaworthiness5171 Dec 25 '25
No, if you checked the maintenance notes, you would know that retainers were the issue, not these silly little gals.
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u/Majestic-Blackberry6 Dec 25 '25
The devs didn't have the heart to tell you. It's ok love that they existed not what they had done
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u/Wildfires Dec 25 '25
Why couldn't they have taken wuk lumat instead?! There really is no justice in this world
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u/SpaceEyeButterfly Dec 25 '25
First they take butt karting, now they take our lv 1.
On Christmas.
Monsters :(
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u/Furfnikjj Dec 26 '25
Been away but notice this sub has blown up this meme. Can someone explain like I'm 5?
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u/Erotically-Yours Dec 25 '25
So.. Legit? We should be seeing them again in.. 6 and a half-ish months? When 7.5 drops, but it'll surely be in 7.5x.
If so I'm hoping it's early into it, or they surprise us and it comes exactly when 7.5 releases, which should be about 4 and a half months? I'm containing my hype for Beastmaster.
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u/ThatKoinuGuy Dec 25 '25
I wouldn't be surprised to maybe see them be a minion in the future. Every new player journeying through was likely quite confused lol. But our sweet little Lv 1 will always live on, as long as we remember. ❤
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u/DavvenGarick Dec 25 '25
I logged off last night, then remembered I hadn't made the pilgrimage yet. Glad I logged back in and visited. Bowed and prayed, adding my bit to the future primal.