Funny how these guys some how managed to slip past, not even on FF14 fanous streamer has been screwed?
Not that I have anything against happy, love his content, though he should probably have named himself Mr. Sleepy. Guy always looks dead tired.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Funny how these guys some how managed to slip past, not even on FF14 fanous streamer has been screwed?
Not that I have anything against happy, love his content, though he should probably have named himself Mr. Sleepy. Guy always looks dead tired.
Like ... almost all the day 1 streams that had hype for the game got stopped.
SuperStiltzkin
Member
You bastard undercutters robbing greedy gatherers like me of our easy profit. Though I should probably have more sympathy for the consumer cause one of my friends is like pinky toe deep in 15k gil.
I finally made it to the top after like a good hour or so of trying the puzzle.. jesus.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
It needs to be queueable like a dungeon.
Stone Ocean
Member
Yes, because having a dungeon before this would naturally funnel people with all the DPS players going around
And this isn't even the worst problem of this: people who rolled the new jobs should be reaching the bottleneck now so by the time these people reach the first dungeon, DPS queues will become a nightmare
SomeRandomWeirdGuy
Member
To my understanding, the voice acting was done super late, and was very rushed. And there were tons of complaints about 1.0's barebones as shit story, so they loaded up on MSQ quests even if a ton are just basic delivery stuff.
I think the writing still carries it, there's lots of good world building and a number of cool moments (mostly the primal fights and the build up to them). But I can definitely see why someone might complain. It's slow paced.
Meanwhile, the patches have a lot more cool shit happening a lot faster because all the setup has already been done. At the same time, the voice actors get better and better (I'd say better direction probably), and the writing gets better and better too. If you're not hype as fuck for Heavensward by the end of 2.5 then you're probably not human.
Heavensward's writing, meanwhile, blows away ARR's. Better on pretty much every front. The one annoying thing is that they swapped the entire voice cast (except one character) and literally didn't tell ANYONE. We only found out the day the game launched. The voice acting is definitely way better with the new cast, but it's a shame considering the old cast was finally getting good.
But yeah. There's lots of great story stuff and plot threads incoming. There's a fair bit of patch story left, but I think it's awesome setup for HW.
i fail to see how that would make a difference really .
Either you are spamming the NPC for hours to get in or you spend hours in a queue for it .
You can do a lot more wandering around or semi-afk irl then manually spamming an npc
HelloNewman
Member
I've gotten Samurai to 59 but I might just take a break until Rabauhn Savage has been fixed.
There were two ways to handle this.
- Rework the MSQ to flow in a different way, allowing more to happen before the events of the first two solo instances. Ideally, you have the first mandatory dungeon beforehand, because the dungeon in and of itself will inevitably stagger player progression in the first couple of hours in a way go-from-A-to-B fetch quests and cutscenes cannot. Also, probably, give jobs meaningful entry level 60 quests that do not require a solo instance. Basically, the goal is to have everyone spread out as much as possible as soon as possible.
Additionally, from a personal perspective, the first solo instance didn't need to happen. It felt a lot like something we'd seen and done before. I get the importance of the second one (although making it a soloable instance with flexible group size would have been better/less stress for the system maybe), but the first one is alright but not really elevated. Those events don't become super memorable from being interactive, and pretty much every solo quest after at least tries to stand out.
My preferred version though is:
- figure out how to implement solo instance queues. This way no matter what content you design, the server has a way to give people ordering for it. The massive lines show people would have been fine waiting hours to get in, if there was an actual sense of progress to it. If people could queue for Cold Steel, be told a four hour estimated wait, and go screw around doing other things for a while, it works out. Launches are busy, and we have to accept that.
But instead there's no progress. Clicking for 20,000 times on the first day doesn't make your 20,001st click any more likely to succeed than some guy's first who just started today. Players can't meaningfully impact it, help each other, or have any real influence over it. That's awful.
I'm usually not super attached to the story, but if XIV wants to be able to prioritize the single player instances, their best solution is to come up with something repeatable to handle if things get bad, instead of trying to rearrange everything around a known issue.
And this is a thing--I got past the NPC early but ended up spending a lot of the day mostly afk, checking in periodically to see if more people had gotten through to start doing more. That was a whole lot less personally annoying than most people who couldn't leave the freaking NPC for 10 hours.
Im looking forward to it then, sounds like huge improvements. And shame about the voice cast getting swapped like that. I was begging for them to stop talking in 2.0 for what little voiced scenes there were, but in 2.1-2.2 so far they seriously improved by a wide margin that I actually enjoyed what I've seen and heard so far.
It's almost as if all of 2.0 voiced acted lines were done with a single cut from the actors reading off the script without rehearsing them or given any direction.
2.1 and forward so far they actually sound like they're enjoying themselves giving these characters life and personality.
Like 2 diff games so far.
Stone Ocean
Member
1) It puts people in a line so whoever queued first is gonna get in first
2) Queues tell you which position you are in a line so you can have an idea of when its gonna be your turn instead of getting frustrated at a failed loading over and over
3) No need to keep clicking an NPC and skipping a cutscene constantly
4) It would fucking work
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Been stuck on Raubahn since 1 hour after launch. Shit sucks haha
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
nope... still broken here since 7pm last night.
Xux
Member
Aw, I was just gonna ask if Sargatanas was working.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
You can do other things while you wait. Fates. Level gathering/crafting. Difference is huge.
I'd love to wait in a 2 hour line and do other things instead of spam a box for 2 hours.
Yep. Give me a queue that can go in the background while I work on other things.
Nice!
Crazy, huh? Maybe they figure people traveling abroad are going to be carrying their phones everywhere, so phones come up as "probably not an account-hijacker"?
No idea, but we're in and that's what counts!
I've been on for 30 minutes and have basically been tweaking the UI the entire time -- now that we can zoom everything 1.5x by default, I'm switching from "mostly 140%" to "default 150% system-wide then 100% or 120% for each thing". A long-awaited QOL improvement!
I hadn't even heard this was happening--you're not just stuck on the first trial, you're locked out of your character completely. If you only have one character, the game is literally unplayable, not just "can't progress".
Good freaking lord.
SomeRandomWeirdGuy
Member
Anyone got that table showing the leveling speed with POTD for 50-60?
Is this happening to everyone who completes that trial? So like, I shouldn't do it if I get there before they implement a fix?
HelloNewman
Member
So how bad are the DPS queues while leveling to 60? Duty Roulette leveling and low level are both 30-minute wait for me as a DPS.
Chie Satonaka
Member
Did they fix the MSQ issue for people?
It sucks being able to play when others can't. It legit makes me feel guilty.
It sucks being able to play when others can't. It legit makes me feel guilty.
I can't even do the fight for the level 60 ninja quest. I don't even want to do the new Stormblood quests yet but I can't even complete other stuff in the game. This sucks. I can't believe games like this just become broken when a bunch of people are playing it. Makes me hesitant to jump into any future expansions at release.
Not everyone, no, but enough people (as you can see in that thread). I haven't reached that part, but I heard people saying that changing to dx9 mode prevents you from getting stuck, and that skipping the related cutscenes also helps.
Does anyone have any good tips or tweaks for gamepad users? Whether it's targeting or UI?
For instance I find that changing the map setting to close open with a single button press is way better. And also the setting that makes the map active window or not depending on if youre moving or not. These two settings made the big map easier and more predictable to control for me on gamepad.
For instance I find that changing the map setting to close open with a single button press is way better. And also the setting that makes the map active window or not depending on if youre moving or not. These two settings made the big map easier and more predictable to control for me on gamepad.
You might as well not even do the story because it is literally right at the beginning.
Queues are fucking terrible because everyone that would be doing random stuff like roulettes to fill the gap are playing msq and stuck at the roadblocks and anyone doing the new jobs for 50-60 stuff are DPS only. I started 6 months ago so I'm used to fast queues and this totally sucks. Felt like running Void Ark last night and 24-man raid is impossible to get currently. At least dungeons/trials if you put up a party finder you should find people quick.
I'm just working on crafting & fishing since I can't progress the SB MSQ past Rauban and queue times for MP are nuts.
Not really. It's hard to find tanks and healers.
HelloNewman
Member
This is terrible and SE is saying there's nothing to fix right? Is spear fishing fun at least?
His Majesty
Banned
no more bloodbath and flash =(
back to insecure tank mode
back to insecure tank mode
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is a different issue from the Rauhban one, it's happening after the first primal. After beating it, people get stuck in the instance and can't access their characters. Maybe for several days(!!)
Mister_Ruck
Member
You will probably never, ever run Void Ark again unless they either add some kind of roulette for 24 man raids or they put relic content in them like they did with the Anima weapons.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
There more chance of them fixing the MSQ today than there is of them not making void ark part of anima quest.
TheMrPliskin
Member
Yup that's right. It's a different and far worse issue since you're just locked out of your character entirely.
Pyros_Eien
Member
You can get the old 24mans to run every now and then even before there was a relic step, just not anytime soon cause atm everyone's leveling. In 2months or whatever, people will go hunt glamours and shit in various places. Still expect 30mins-1hour queues until relic stuff.
Found a use for One Ilm Punch today, was nice. There's this large FATE boss(the ones that last 30mins and have orchestrion rewards) and it has a super large "unavoidable" aoe he casts every 20secs or so. With the right timing I had One Ilm Punch ready for most of them and it still stuns even when the monster is basically permanently stun immune due to ppl spamming stun moves for damage. Pretty neat. The aoe wasn't crazy or anything, like any healer could easily top off everyone in one cast, but nice if you're soloing on a fate or hunt or something and need an interupt. Just annoying to get on the right stance for it unless you know the timing of the ability to interupt.
Found a use for One Ilm Punch today, was nice. There's this large FATE boss(the ones that last 30mins and have orchestrion rewards) and it has a super large "unavoidable" aoe he casts every 20secs or so. With the right timing I had One Ilm Punch ready for most of them and it still stuns even when the monster is basically permanently stun immune due to ppl spamming stun moves for damage. Pretty neat. The aoe wasn't crazy or anything, like any healer could easily top off everyone in one cast, but nice if you're soloing on a fate or hunt or something and need an interupt. Just annoying to get on the right stance for it unless you know the timing of the ability to interupt.