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ConanThe3rd posted:Didn't one of the recent high-end raids have a bunch of issues because the QA team had gotten too good? Yeah, there was a whole thing about how they were humble bragging about it, or so the joke went.
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More specifically, their explanation was that their usual method is to let the test team go at it, then tune it slightly harder than that, because they assume the public playerbase is better than the test team. The fight had a longer development time than usual, so the test team had more time to practice it, so it ended up tuned higher than usual.
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Tamba posted:I did the Amaurot part of Shadowbringers at like 3am and that sure was an interesting experience compared to the usual MSQ experience of a horde of players at every quest step. I was the only one in Amaurot both times I did it, and the first time through I didn't even consider that other players could have been around. Playing that on release seems like it would ruin the vibe of arguably the best part of the MSQ. Lonely and empty suits the area perfectly.
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May 15, 2023 15:18
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Also did some wacky things to the math such that certain team compositions, through no fault of their own, couldn't do enough damage before enrage.
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Vargs posted:I was the only one in Amaurot both times I did it, and the first time through I didn't even consider that other players could have been around. Playing that on release seems like it would ruin the vibe of arguably the best part of the MSQ. Lonely and empty suits the area perfectly. It is pretty funny to watch the fact that the game is an MMO clash with the specific narrative they're trying to tell, I recently finished 6.0 and arriving in Ultima Thule and seeing other players was a trip. Love to wander around the decaying remnants of the ancient alien civilization of the dragons while also watching a dude fly around on his FF7 motorcycle.
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May 15, 2023 15:21
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I know that at least the final walk you do near the end of UT is instanced so you are really alone -- I'm surprised that it doesn't extend to the entire zone the first time you go through. Same deal with Amaurot.
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May 15, 2023 15:35
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I do think one of the underappreciated benefits of hammering out a new expansion over a weekend is watching the number of players around you slowly fall off the further in you get. Like my clearest memory of Heavensward is when I stepped into Churning Mists and thought to myself "I wonder how many other people are here", and doing a /sea to yield like two other people in the zone. You get to take a peek at new hunts just minding their own business before trains inevitably start turning them into swiss cheese. And you maybe get to see a few normal mode bosses clown on dudes before they start becoming a trials roulette inconvenience. Truly a vibe.
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May 15, 2023 16:28
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EW was my first expansion i got to play through on release (started June 2019, had only finished post-HW before ShB release) and I got to be alone for most of Elpis and UT. I finished Sunday afternoon so I was behind the people really racing through the game but still in front of most other people.goblin week posted:i wonder if the QAs for XIV have to be like, actually good at it
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May 15, 2023 16:40
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I started EW on release date but it took me like a month to get to the end of the story so UT was empty for me.
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Vitamean posted:I do think one of the underappreciated benefits of hammering out a new expansion over a weekend is watching the number of players around you slowly fall off the further in you get. Like my clearest memory of Heavensward is when I stepped into Churning Mists and thought to myself "I wonder how many other people are here", and doing a /sea to yield like two other people in the zone. You get to take a peek at new hunts just minding their own business before trains inevitably start turning them into swiss cheese. And you maybe get to see a few normal mode bosses clown on dudes before they start becoming a trials roulette inconvenience. It is. I also mainlined early release weekend for every expansion (even sneaking past Raubahn Savage before the worst of the crowds arrived) and every end game zone really feels different when hardly anybody else is there as you approach the climax. The DF wait times on the final trials sucked though.
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May 15, 2023 16:51
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I'm happy to wait the days/weeks for my plugins to update because it means people already know how to do fights when I get there so I can have them explained 
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May 15, 2023 16:59
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Everybody getting exploded on day 1 because nobody knows how the fights work is part of the fun.
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I'm sad I took a break and missed the nier raids being new content. I can imagine the Square Enix building was a really fun moment for the community
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It's totally fine to not want to do new content until there's guides out. Do whatever is best for your brain. I'm with Thundarr in that I love the chaos of new content thoughTheWorldsaStage posted:I'm sad I took a break and missed the nier raids being new content. I can imagine the Square Enix building was a really fun moment for the community
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May 15, 2023 17:37
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The day 1 Tower run I did took out the last boss in one pull, but I'm pretty sure everybody in the raid died at least twice that fight and alliance chat was nuts.
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May 15, 2023 19:03
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Vargs posted:I was the only one in Amaurot both times I did it, and the first time through I didn't even consider that other players could have been around. Playing that on release seems like it would ruin the vibe of arguably the best part of the MSQ. Lonely and empty suits the area perfectly. I had to just stop completely for a few minutes during the final days sequence in Thavnair where you're running through the woods trying to save families from getting murdered by monsters because i kept leapfrogging the MSQ with some clown who would zig zag around me and setting off fireworks and poo poo. really ruined the mood to be clear i do appreciate that kind of goofing off from other players, just not during that specific sequence lol
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May 15, 2023 19:32
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Thundarr posted:The day 1 Tower run I did took out the last boss in one pull, but I'm pretty sure everybody in the raid died at least twice that fight and alliance chat was nuts. I loved the ring mechanic on the last boss cause the raid instantly turned into Those Who Know and Those Who Don't Know (unless they read the text box that appears in the middle of All That Junk)
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May 15, 2023 19:54
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The Nier raid story was offputting and felt out of place to me. The fights themselves were fine but I didn't want to suffer through the Drakengard series to understand all the references.
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Vitamean posted:I loved the ring mechanic on the last boss cause the raid instantly turned into Those Who Know and Those Who Don't Know (unless they read the text box that appears in the middle of All That Junk) I Could Hear A Sound so I got through that fine, but I got run over by the train because red means bad right?
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God Hole posted:I had to just stop completely for a few minutes during the final days sequence in Thavnair where you're running through the woods trying to save families from getting murdered by monsters because i kept leapfrogging the MSQ with some clown who would zig zag around me and setting off fireworks and poo poo. really ruined the mood He was just trying to help keep your spirits up gosh! For real though that's rude as heck 
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Chillgamesh posted:I Could Hear A Sound so I got through that fine, but I got run over by the train because red means bad right? It takes me at least a few seconds to remember this every time I go in there. The rings are a really fun mechanic to get right.
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The second set of rings come fast enough that it's really hard to maintain your gcd while also moving / turning enough to do it correctly, so that's kind of annoying. And to this day there's always that one guy that drops Lighter Note in the worst possible place, obliterating several people and forcing others to disengage.
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May 15, 2023 20:35
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I got to UT fairly early but there was still some idiot spamming 18+ "Dark" themed FC recruitment in shout. I made a joke shout back about how at least it was heartening to know that at the end of everything shout spam lives on, which got a few "this is our answer" laughs
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I filter shout during expac weekend lol worst thing was getting immersed on the level 90 msq and having a ff7 bike rev up from behind me
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I was too late to get in on Chi spam so I've all but missed out on the TV mount until they offer it as a moogle tome reward in like 2025 or something. I've also never seen the Thavnair world boss.
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HackensackBackpack posted:I was too late to get in on Chi spam so I've all but missed out on the TV mount until they offer it as a moogle tome reward in like 2025 or something. People still do them, I was in Thavnair the other day and saw shouts and was able to kill the FATE boss there for the elephant head. Most data centres will have a discord where people will ping out hunt trains and rare FATEs, and you get a surprisingly large number of people showing up.
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HackensackBackpack posted:I was too late to get in on Chi spam so I've all but missed out on the TV mount until they offer it as a moogle tome reward in like 2025 or something. I still go to ShB and EW super fates regularly because they're a quick way to get bicolor gemstones.
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I'll have to find a linkshell on Dynamis then!
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HackensackBackpack posted:I'll have to find a linkshell on Dynamis then! The Dynamis server is Starbird Hunts.
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Vitamean posted:I filter shout during expac weekend lol i turn off all chat whenever i'm doing MSQ. i swap my chat window over to the NPC-only tab. i trust NO ONE. i do get a mild amusement of being able to judge the length of cutscenes by the size of the crowd standing by a given npc.
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Kerrzhe posted:i turn off all chat whenever i'm doing MSQ. i swap my chat window over to the NPC-only tab. i trust NO ONE. Yeah, I also swap my chat panel to Event during MSQ stuff. it's worked pretty well to mitigate spoilers.
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I modified my event window to also include FC and party chat. Great way to filter out general chat but still get the important stuff/people
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Yoshi-P is insane. Lonely? Hell no! That's a dream come true!
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HackensackBackpack posted:I was too late to get in on Chi spam so I've all but missed out on the TV mount until they offer it as a moogle tome reward in like 2025 or something.  I meant to get 1 more round of the fate but then... I have no idea 2+ years passed and I still don't have enough tokens. I'll get it one day.
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Thundarr posted:The day 1 Tower run I did took out the last boss in one pull, but I'm pretty sure everybody in the raid died at least twice that fight and alliance chat was nuts. My day 1 run's chat fully aknowledged the handicap on people familiar with the source games due to trauma triggers. Including the bells was just mean.
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Kheldarn posted:Yoshi-P is insane. Lonely? Hell no! That's a dream come true! YoshiP gets to play FFXIV as the single player game it was meant to be
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My dumb hope is that whatever singleplayer-compatible version of FFXIV we eventually end up with a million years down the line either allows some kind of P2P setup or simulates enough players running around to make the world feel like it was in its heydey. I wanna be able to come back to Eorzea when I'm old and grey and not have it feel like a dead mall.
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