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The White Dragon posted:The thing is, I don't actually like getting ferried through dungeons by people who blast through them in thirty seconds. Like, it has a high utility for progress, but I just want to play the dungeon I don't want people to carry me while I sit in the corner with my thumb up my rear end So like, what are you expecting to do in dungeons beside DPS monsters as a DPS role (I'm assuming cause you're complaining about long queues) because beside just fighting the mobs 1 at a time there isnt' much different between slow or fast for most low level dungeons. Level sync means they're effectively level 22 just like you so they're not really...super blasting through the content faster than intended. Hell the first dungeons with really optional areas are the level 22 one which can take up to an hour if oyu wanna slow crawl it (And people don't cause it's boring) and then maybe the level 35 one? I think there's 1 tunnel that's optional.
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All I know is the last time I did dungeons, I loaded in and three other high level players ran out way ahead, and as I was trying to catch up, it gave me a prompt to roll for loot and then it kicked me out to the world map and the quest was marked as ready to turn in. I'm not looking for a grueling experience, I just don't even know what you're even supposed to do in a dungeon because nobody wants to level sync, everyone just wants to blow through it at a high level at max speed so they can get their merit and hosed if the new player is lost.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:16
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It sounds like you're playing with randoms in an mmo
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Sep 3, 2018 23:17
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The White Dragon posted:I'm not looking for a grueling experience, I just don't even know what you're even supposed to do in a dungeon because nobody wants to level sync, everyone just wants to blow through it at a high level at max speed so they can get their merit and hosed if the new player is lost. If you enter a dungeon through Duty Finder, Level Sync is enforced. The only way you can disable it is with a premade party.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:18
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The White Dragon posted:All I know is the last time I did dungeons, I loaded in and three other high level players ran out way ahead, and as I was trying to catch up, it gave me a prompt to roll for loot and then it kicked me out to the world map and the quest was marked as ready to turn in. I'm not looking for a grueling experience, I just don't even know what you're even supposed to do in a dungeon because nobody wants to level sync, everyone just wants to blow through it at a high level at max speed so they can get their merit and hosed if the new player is lost. If you queued for a dungeon with the default options and were put into a dungeon with randoms they weren't high level cause they get symced down to Dungeon level +1 (or 2 in some instances!) and their stats get reduced to equivilent caps. Like the default option is level sync it's just not the "Stat Minimum" option. You're supposed to move forward in the dungeon, fighting monsters and bosses as a group til you get to the end. Like what were you even doing as they walked forward fighting the mobs that spawn every 10 steps? Just walking around?
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The White Dragon posted:All I know is the last time I did dungeons, I loaded in and three other high level players ran out way ahead, and as I was trying to catch up, it gave me a prompt to roll for loot and then it kicked me out to the world map and the quest was marked as ready to turn in. I'm not looking for a grueling experience, I just don't even know what you're even supposed to do in a dungeon because nobody wants to level sync, everyone just wants to blow through it at a high level at max speed so they can get their merit and hosed if the new player is lost. You have to literally choose to unsync with a pre-made party. What you're stating could not have happened unless you chose it. Edit: Even in an unsync'd party there are a minimum of three boss fights in every dungeon and short of using walk to go ahead you're going to catch up to the party quickly.
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I guess I must've been in a party, then, but seriously I don't know what you gain by saying I'm exaggerating or something. The last time I played, probably about 10mos ago, my dungeon queues were all >1hr and I'm not willing to sit around for that. I'm not even willing to sit around for a 15min queue, honestly. I'm just highly incompatible with the MMO strucutre, it seems.ZenMasterBullshit posted:Like what were you even doing as they walked forward fighting the mobs that spawn every 10 steps? Just walking around? The mobs might've spawned every ten steps but these guys were so powerful that they were literally wiping them out before they even drew in on my screen.
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The White Dragon posted:I guess I must've been in a party, then, but seriously I don't know what you gain by saying I'm exaggerating or something. Because what you're saying doesn't make any sense? Like we said you'd have to join a pre-made party then specifically choose the run it un-synced and then you're complaining that that's all anyone ever wants to do which is...patently untrue. The game has Roulette dungeon queues that give out rewards specifically to max level players to get them to run old content.It sounds like you asked for help with a notoriously long and boring dungeon (The Thousand Miles of Toto-rak is the level 22 dungeon) and someone figured they'd help you at least get the quest to move on instead of having to do it and you didn't understand anything they were saying. The White Dragon posted:
yes because you were doing it Unsynced which is a special option you literally have to open 2 menus deep into the duty finder to even access and have a pre-made party for it.
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The White Dragon posted:All I know is the last time I did dungeons, I loaded in and three other high level players ran out way ahead, and as I was trying to catch up, it gave me a prompt to roll for loot and then it kicked me out to the world map and the quest was marked as ready to turn in. I'm not looking for a grueling experience, I just don't even know what you're even supposed to do in a dungeon because nobody wants to level sync, everyone just wants to blow through it at a high level at max speed so they can get their merit and hosed if the new player is lost. Queues are a different problem entirely and its going to suck to do normal content any time a patch hasn't just came out 2 weeks ago to get the roullette populated.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:26
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The dungeon we ran wasn't the 22 dungeon, it was the very first one. Sahagins or something, with what a 20 minute time limit? Like even activating sprint I couldn't keep up with this. Anyway my experience with it is that as a low level player, I had tremendously long estimated wait times for mandatory dungeon runs. It wasn't fun, I couldn't progress, and I didn't want a similar experience to that first time where I learned nothing about how dungeons are run, so now I'm dead weight to any pug group I'd try to do a run with because I didn't even get a tutorial on this game mode.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:28
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FF14 is good for the story that comes with each patch every 3 months, and the boss fights are really good too, but beyond that they've completely dropped the ball on any kind of interesting or fun endgame content. It's so bad right now that I let my sub lapse for the first time since I started playing.
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The White Dragon posted:The dungeon we ran wasn't the 22 dungeon, it was the very first one. Sahagins or something, with what a 20 minute time limit? Like even activating sprint I couldn't keep up with this. So like there's no real skills you get from leveling up that make you faster, especially at that level, so you could only really not catch up if you stood still for like, 4 mins at the start cause even at max stats for synced it takes a good 30 seconds or so for most of the mob groups to die.
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Sep 3, 2018 23:30
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Make a single-player version of FF14 where you play as the "Tidus"/"Leviabeetus" guy.
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Mega64 posted:Make a single-player version of FF14 where you play as the "Tidus"/"Leviabeetus" guy. Okay but only if Brayflox is your partner in game.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Okay but only if Brayflox is your partner in game. I'll allow it.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:So like there's no real skills you get from leveling up that make you faster, especially at that level, so you could only really not catch up if you stood still for like, 4 mins at the start cause even at max stats for synced it takes a good 30 seconds or so for most of the mob groups to die. I dunno what to tell you man, maybe dungeon was the wrong word and it was a mandatory guildhest? Whatever it was, my overall progress since then had been stymied by queues, travel times, and weird exp gaps. Like I have an ACN 23, literally the only character I ever played as, I'm sorry if I'm using the wrong word to describe whatever the gently caress it was called that I participated in
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Mega64 posted:Make a single-player version of FF14 where you play as the "Tidus"/"Leviabeetus" guy.
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The White Dragon posted:If you aren't already max level, the required story dungeons are completely dead. The last time I played, the ~lv22 story quest had an estimated wait time of over 1 hour. And you absolutely cannot even start them without a full party of very specific roles. This only happens when you play at a dead time on your datacenter or for a piece of content that's not story-required. Matchmaking is datacenter-wide, and while there are queues for dps, no MSQ-mandatory queue should be dead during peak hours.
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Hour+ queue and dead before you even loaded in sounds like a guildhest, which are like 5 minute chunks of dead simple content that are literally never relevant, they're basically incredibly simple tutorials for people who have never played a video game before on things like "sometimes you want to accomplish a side objective rather than just mindlessly dps down a thing" or "prioritize targets based on what they are doing." Even the level 15 dungeon (which is full of sahagins which sounds like what you're describing) will have short queues due to leveling roulette, and will take probably 20 minutes even with a fast group because dungeons in FFXIV are hard to speedrun.
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I'm a page late, but by far the best part of FFXV fishing is that the bros have all of three lines they say so you get to hear NOCT THE LINE over and over until you can hear it in your nightmares.
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PULL THE ROD TOWARDS THE FISH! Bitch, I am, calm the gently caress down drat.
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I hate fishing minigames but I tried the one in FF15 just to see what it was like and the only thing I can say is that the music is hilarious and owns. Pretty much the polar opposite of what you would expect. I laughed pretty harf.
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Guys I've finally made it to XV in my run of the games. Is the HDR option basically a choice of 60fps vs better looks or is there a best choice?
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Kingtheninja posted:Guys I've finally made it to XV in my run of the games. Is the HDR option basically a choice of 60fps vs better looks or is there a best choice? i don't know the specifics about the graphical settings but i will tell you that you should probably increase the size of your HD's virutal memory page file while you play it, or you might encounter out-of-memory bsods
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Sep 5, 2018 02:06
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Just beat the Soul Shrine in FFVI and I wanted to upload my save to the Cloud. I downloaded instead a save from the World of Balance. 
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Kingtheninja posted:Guys I've finally made it to XV in my run of the games. Is the HDR option basically a choice of 60fps vs better looks or is there a best choice? HDR shouldn't really have much of a performance impact.
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Ah my mistake. HDR is on but I guess I was thinking of the performance option, high/lite/steady.
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Kingtheninja posted:Ah my mistake. HDR is on but I guess I was thinking of the performance option, high/lite/steady. Go with steady. Didn't enjoy playing with the other modes.
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Dragonatrix posted:FFXIV has Triple Triad but somehow made it even better. It managed this by adding more rules. ...Can I become super overpowered by only playing Triple Triad and changing all the cards into the best equipment in the game
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:...Can I become super overpowered by only playing Triple Triad and changing all the cards into the best equipment in the game You can turn excess cards into casino funny money and buy glamours, which makes you the most powerful by virtue of dressup being the true endgame. ...otherwise no.
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Renoistic posted:Go with steady. Didn't enjoy playing with the other modes. Is Steady new? My friend showed me FF15 on his Pro and the high mode ran like garbage. Made for nice screenshots I guess. I did try the PC demo and seeing the game both look amazing and run at 60FPS was cool
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Is Steady new? My friend showed me FF15 on his Pro and the high mode ran like garbage. Made for nice screenshots I guess. They had a couple goes at fixing the frame rate issues and finally patched in steady.
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I started playing 14 like 5 days ago and on a dps class (which have notoriously long queue times) i get into the low level dungeons usually within 10 minutes, and if you queue as a tank you have a solid chance of just getting in immediately. Guildhests take a similar amount of time, usually a minute or two longer. I'm in one of the worlds with an experience boost (presumably because it has a low population) and it's pretty active, even though the game is in a between patch lull.
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Charlie Bobson posted:I started playing 14 like 5 days ago and on a dps class (which have notoriously long queue times) i get into the low level dungeons usually within 10 minutes, and if you queue as a tank you have a solid chance of just getting in immediately. Guildhests take a similar amount of time, usually a minute or two longer. I'm in one of the worlds with an experience boost (presumably because it has a low population) and it's pretty active, even though the game is in a between patch lull. (although you have to pay to transfer, so I'd just recreate next time Excal is open)
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If you're a eurogoon we're on Omega.
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Everyone should definitely play XIV, my casual static needs a healer 
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How do you level up the various skills in 15? Aside from fishing, that seems pretty straightforward. Does ignis only get it from making stuff? Or does it go up when he learns recipes too?
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Kingtheninja posted:How do you level up the various skills in 15? Aside from fishing, that seems pretty straightforward. Does ignis only get it from making stuff? Or does it go up when he learns recipes too? Ignis is by cooking, Prompto is by taking pictures, and Gladio is by walking around (I believe chocobos count). if you do hunts and stuff, you'll probably get everything but Gladio's incidentally.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lDoLe6OwIg Well that's one way to get XV on the Switch (and PS4 and Xbox One too  )
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It has a slightly different story, doesnt it? Like not major but some tweaks to Ardyn with unused dialog from main XV?
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