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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| The Midas Touch
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EndcatOmega
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Eh, I thought it was better than the 2.1-> 2.5 stuff at least. At least SOMETHING happened in them, and it might not even immediately be retconned!!
hahahahahaaa.
I will admit at one point there was a point where I thought Shit Was Getting Real in the plot line I wasn't currently participating in but then three cutscenes later
Aymeric is walking around totally fine because it was just a flesh wound.
It did make me wonder a lot about the behind the scenes of the game, though. I'm really surprised HW didn't steal the scale of open world instancing WoW started doing around Cataclysm, I think, since it would have been incredibly useful for actually portraying a Foundation
actually in chaos and on fire. Instead I was running around the dead gaem city that pretty much seemed fine.
High point:
Matoya's general attitude towards our shenanigans.
Low point:
The cutscene framing of Yda as a headless torso with exposed bra.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
The most phasing they seem to be able to manage is a couple of npc models. Sometimes a fallen over cart.
Leveling DRK as my second class (first class I actually wanna play, thx for locking it so far away SE!) and yea with the lack of quests I've been FATE grinding and doing dungeons and I kinda want to kill myself. If I didn't have a second monitor to watch stuff on I would definitely have already quit the game.
Among other things, they need to figure out how to have more NPC's on screen for cinematic scenes at a given time. A lot of the scenes that're supposed to feel more dramatic end up feeling kinda hollow because there's so few people involved.
Case in point, that priest guy preaching to that REALLY TINY CROWD! Kinda hard to get the sense that he's misleading a ton of people when so few people are involved!
And yes it would be nice if they could figure out how to do environmental effects for things, like fire, if only for cutscenes and such. I mean the only downside there is that everything would be all repaired once you got out. I dunno, maybe they could set it so you see a re skinned model of the same area until the end of the immediate storyline, or something. *shrug*
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
This really happens in a ton of games. Same when you go to some place that's supposed to be a city but it's more like a small town.
I'm a fan of the method where they show a ton of the city in the background even if you can only traverse a small portion of it.
At least then I can see the actual city part even if I can't get to it due to various limitations.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
PS3 limitations.
The removal of the PS3 will add phasing, increase the model count, make Diadem good, buff Paladin, invent villains who last longer than a single patch cycle, add Hildy and give Fracture to all.
The removal of the PS3 will add phasing, increase the model count, make Diadem good, buff Paladin, invent villains who last longer than a single patch cycle, add Hildy and give Fracture to all.
irfaanator
Banned
the holy grail
FTFY.
We were lucky to get Minfilia despite PS3 limitations.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
SliceSabre
Banned
The Goddess can overcome PS3 limitations.
I mean... open world instancing. It's how you can tell a big and crazy story with stuff happening to the otherwise static world around you. The most that the 14 team seems to do is update some textures and cosmetics every patch like with Dalamud/Mor Dhona/The Warring Triad, but yeah. It would be nice to see some lasting ramifications for the story to maybe make it a little bit more... believable and immediate.
HylianScribe
Member
Patch 3.2 The Gears of Change Main Scenario Preview is up.
Better quality 3.2 scenario preview images.
Better quality 3.2 scenario preview images.
irfaanator
Banned
even these mugs think I'm dumb 
I think what you're really saying is we need a new FF MMO built on UE4...
Just reading between the lines.
At this point I have no idea where the entrance to the anti tower is going to be. It's supposed to be Sharlayan, but the architecture almost looks like ancient Dravanian. Then you have those frogs which would suggest the entrance is somewhere around the marshy area in the Hinterlands, but there isn't much in the way of structures there that could be a sensible entrance.
So, yeah I guess I'll find out where this big ole structure's been hiding in a few weeks. XD
Rule of thumb is basically melees can use it either on boss 1 or 2, then save for LB 2 for the final boss of a dungeon. Casters get second priority if there's no melee. Coordination isn't super important as long as it isn't silly like melee lb on trash mobs.
At 3+ mobs caster/ranger doing LB is already a superior option over melee saving it for the boss. Basically if you're not using it as soon as it's up, you're wasting time. This "save it for melee" design is a myth, especially considering most DF melee don't even realize they have this Limit Break command half the time. The only exception is if there's some kinda mechanic you want it saved for specifically but that comes up rarely in a dungeon.
Lately I've been getting some crazy use out of rangers' linear LB nuking multiple adds in bosses like Primogenitor, Belladonna or The Curator. Massive style points.
Of course all that I've just wrote is nonsense and you should be saving it for when the final boss is at 2% health because there's no kill like overkill.
Lately I've been getting some crazy use out of rangers' linear LB nuking multiple adds in bosses like Primogenitor, Belladonna or The Curator. Massive style points.
Of course all that I've just wrote is nonsense and you should be saving it for when the final boss is at 2% health because there's no kill like overkill.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Finishing the boss is cooler than your dumb un-turnoffable blind spell!
GB and WM take getting used to.
According to a lot of people with backlogged bard salt around HW launch, yes it is. A lower damage cap baked into weapons via lower WD, requiring a Dragoon for the piercing debuff of suffering another damage loss, and suffering a further damage penalty whenever performing regen functions weren't enough payment for mobility. Caster stance was the only fair solution or something.
That said, I don't have a huge issue with GB. Ammo, procs, and Rapid Fire are a pretty serviceable mobility kit and I manage to still run around like an idiot a lot. MCH becomes about how you maximize the instant casts you can have access to, and after a while it doesn't really feel that restrictive.
It's underground I think and wouldn't have much in the way of an above ground structure.
It wasn't fair, or something.
My guess is Matoya's cave or near it. All the prorogo mobs are found near there and it would certainly be an easy place to hide a tower underground. There is also that sealed cave/ruin in Dravanian Forelands near the chocobo forest in the far northeast (Can only get to it by flying) but I assumed if that were to become anything it would be a dungeon/trial more suited to the Ishgard content.
How much more resources would it take for SE to implement a raid that's non-linear? If they're at the point of trying to limit movement to increase susceptibility to mechanics, maybe it's time they rethink their approach to raids. Learning new dances can only carry the game so far.
Maybe create a raid that requires each party to go their own separate path out of sight of each other and force communication via auto-texts or /a chat. The current raids, both savage and Void Ark are lifeless theme park treks. They're a relic of ARR and don't mesh with the open nature HW.
Maybe create a raid that requires each party to go their own separate path out of sight of each other and force communication via auto-texts or /a chat. The current raids, both savage and Void Ark are lifeless theme park treks. They're a relic of ARR and don't mesh with the open nature HW.
Yeah I figured it was probably underground. None of the structures near there really look like an entrance though. Guess we'll see soon enough.
Zero resources, because they won't do it. They want the 24 man raids to be easier content but designed to be handled with larger amount of people. The raids are designed with multiple groups as a gauntlet to boss fights, they are not designed to be an actual 'dungeon' nor is just about any content in this game due to the duty finder and wanting to have content be telegraphed/lacking need for constant communication due to the fact that multiple groups play this game from many different languages.
One of my chief complaints with the instanced nature of the game. They build cathedrals with linear hallways, but can never just visit it when the danger appears to be over and enjoy what they helped create. Thankfully this expansion they have started using dungeons and trial locations as a place for story content. I enjoyed both story sequences through the Vault and Halatli and would love to see more of that and perhaps find a way to let us visit those places in proper at certain points.
I'm super salty the sky pirates hideout didn't become something like that, it looked really cool and I wanted to visit it!
Man, I really hate the weird proportions Elezen have.
That's unfortunate. One of the bigger reasons people are burning out is lack of variation in encounters and dungeons. I'd think regardless of language barrier auto-text could still serve as a good communication tool. Dungeons lack a feeling of excitement currently.
It's downright irritating, made me quit BRD.
Yeah. Destiny has a good example in The Taken King as well as it has you go through the first raid in that expansion.
Yeah, Sky Pirates hideout is super cool.
It's irritating because they destroyed the big unique aspect of the class.
Leave our necks alone.
shut up cast your spells on your dumb harp bow you love it
What? Impossible. Next you're going to tell me there's learning curves to new things.