Cannot get cutscene to finish optional objective in Voracious Resurgence 7-4

Platform: Windows 7

ISP: Medicom

Type of Internet Connection: cable

Internet Connection Speed: 50+ megabits down, 5 megabits up

Date & Time: May 23, 2023 at around 14:00 CST

Frequency:Always

Character Name: Teraphim

Race: Hume

World: Leviathan

Main Job: Thf 99 or Blm 99

Support Job: Dnc or Sch

Area and Coordinates: Rabao

Party or Solo: Solo

NPC Name: Dancing Wolf

Monster Name: N/A

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1. I have not been able to get the cutscene from Dancing Wolf to retrieve all the stolen memories from Voracious Resurgence mission 7-4. I still have the Key Item: "Memorian, the Magicked Doll" and not the "Depleted Memorian". I logged out of my laptop in front of Dancing Wolf without speaking to him. Then logged in on my desktop and spoke to him, but he only says "I've been sent here on business. A nice place this Rabao is."

2. I have gotten the correct cutscenes from Rahi Fohlatti, Palborough Mines, Honoi-Gomoi, and Ghatsad. I visited them all twice to make sure I hadn't missed any of them.

3. Additionally I have completed VR 7-4 and gotten the Elite Royal Collar along with a cutscene with the Memorian stating there were still stolen memories.

4. I have also spoken to Rahal and to Shantotto to no effect.

5. I have attempted logging out and back in.

You need to use the template in the forum thread and fill out all fields otherwise this will get placed in insufficient information or not a bug report.

But it should probably be in tech support instead, it's a virtual guarantee you're overlooking something as has been the case with virtually all "I can't progress this quest" threads that get posted here.

Ummm, Tech Support sent me over here.

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Originally Posted by Teraphim

Ummm, Tech Support sent me over here.

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The tech support forum section not the tech support site. And they always send people here when it's a gameplay question, like yours. Doesn't mean it's a bug, they simply are not allowed to answer gameplay questions. SE has always had a hands off approach to anything that isn't a straight up technical issue.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

The tech support forum section not the tech support site. And they always send people here when it's a gameplay question, like yours. Doesn't mean it's a bug, they simply are not allowed to answer gameplay questions. SE has always had a hands off approach to anything that isn't a straight up technical issue.

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https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/t...Resurgence-7-4

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Greetings Adventurer!

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced. The issues you are describing would be more suited for the bug report forums. Please create a new thread entry in the In-Game Bugs > In-Game Bugs section with the required information as shown in the main thread sticky. Additionally, this thread will be moved to the 'Separate Support Required' sub forum.

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ah somehow I missed it. But yes, it's essentially a cop out.

Them saying "go to the bug report forums" doesn't mean it's necessairly a bug, only that they have no idea or can't say.

And as I said before virtually all cases of someone saying "I cant complete this quest" something was overlooked. I'll review the details, as I myself haven't done it yet, and we can work through to determine where exactly the issue is. Basically: Unless you did something that was a super duper crazy edge case, if the quest was bugged, we'd have tons of people complaining about it here. Since there isn't, the odds are high that somewhere, you're missing something.

(They don't normally move threads that fast o.O)

I hope I am missing something, but my ls and I are out of ideas. I even checked other quests/missions the npc could be involved with, but I've already completed the only one I could find, Bastok 9-1.

If they move this thread before I (or anyone else) get(s) back to you, make a thread in another section where it won't get moved by staff.

if it is a bug, I'm guessing I didn't wait long enough for the game to load everything in before speaking to Dancing Wolf and it somehow skipped the cutscene. I'm pretty sure the "cutscene" from Rahi Fohlatti in Rabao is also messed up because it just has her repeat that she didn't see anything, rather than a cutscene of her memory being stolen.

I suggest try asking this over reddit and/or their discord as well, they have more in depth fixes, along with those that is wise not to discuss over OF.

Disregard BobbinT, there's no speical magic fix using external tools that aren't allowed which is why hes saying not to discuss it here.

Also, please disregard whomever that says already putting me on their ignore list, but still bother to check & didn't even understand what they're saying & outright pointing toward external tools while my post never even mention such a thing. It is never wrong to seek alternative social medias for answers, & it's not always about external stuff. In fact, my own suggest would be disable things used outside game that might affect the issue, though I won't go into detail here. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/i...ies/tongue.png


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as if that wasn't clear enough...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...200&height=362
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/d...AASUVORK5CYII=

Try moving on to the next mission. See if that works.

Also, try talking to the Minstrel of Melodies NPC in Rabao to replay the cutscene there. A lot of the times, certain variables are set inside a cutscene, which is why you can only replay a cutscene within the zone where the cutscene happened. Maybe you can retrigger what was supposed to happen by replaying the cutscene.

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Originally Posted by Tarmarkvar

Try moving on to the next mission. See if that works.

Also, try talking to the Minstrel of Melodies NPC in Rabao to replay the cutscene there. A lot of the times, certain variables are set inside a cutscene, which is why you can only replay a cutscene within the zone where the cutscene happened. Maybe you can retrigger what was supposed to happen by replaying the cutscene.

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I've gotten VR 9-4 finished (yay forging Prime Weapons), still no luck. I checked the Minstrel NPC but they didn't have either of the stolen memory cutscenes, they did have the initial cutscene from VR 7-1.

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Also, please disregard whomever that says already putting me on their ignore list,

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I did look at it, which is why I said what I said.

You should not be encouraging people to seek external tools to solve gameplay problems, for obvious reasons. Beating around the bush doesn't make it less obvious what you're saying.

For me, the ignore list is mainly a warning system that says "CAUTION: Potential Troll Risk." If it doesn't seem like that should be possible I'll read it. Turns out I was disappointed though.

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Originally Posted by Teraphim

I've gotten VR 9-4 finished (yay forging Prime Weapons), still no luck. I checked the Minstrel NPC but they didn't have either of the stolen memory cutscenes, they did have the initial cutscene from VR 7-1.

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I think I misread your original post. If you're talking about scenes that are optional, you're probably SOL. It isn't always possible to do these after the quest/mission is done. Now I'm not claiming to be an expert here as I haven't gotten to this mission yet, but your only option to see the scenes might be a youtube video / friend who's done it. Initially, I thought you were actually stuck and unable to progress because I fail at reading sometimes.

I tried before finishing 7-4 mission, that why I think it's a bug.

I'm confused. If you were able to proceed, then what is the problem? What are you trying to accomplish?

Sometimes a "cutscene" will just be a few lines of dialogue. Those cannot be replayed but they're also really minor. A true cutscene does certain things, such as make all the status icons (like signet, protect, shell, commitment, emporox's gift etc.,) disappear for the duration of a cutscene.

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Originally Posted by Teraphim

I tried before finishing 7-4 mission, that why I think it's a bug.

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Often the window of oppertunity to see optional dialogues and events is less than the full length of the quest. There are many quests like this where once you move on to the next step, you miss the oppertunity to talk to some optional people.

But you don't get anything out of it- it's not like there's a reward for seeing every line of text in the game or anything, in fact that's impossible.

I am having the same issue. I don't want to move forward because I like the side stories so much and I don't want to get locked out of story content. Has anyone found a fix for this?

Platform: Windows 11 Pro

ISP: Spectrum/Charter

Type of Internet Connection: cable

Internet Connection Speed: 500 megabits down, 20 megabits up

Date & Time: ongoing

Frequency:Always

Character Name: Zarquon

Race: Hume

World: Asura

Main Job: DRG 99

Support Job: WAR

Area and Coordinates: Rabao

Party or Solo: Solo

NPC Name: Dancing Wolf

Monster Name: N/A

Steps:
1. I have not been able to get the cutscene from Dancing Wolf to retrieve all the stolen memories from Voracious Resurgence mission 7-4. I still have the Key Item: "Memorian, the Magicked Doll" and not the "Depleted Memorian". I logged out of my laptop in front of Dancing Wolf without speaking to him. Then logged in on my desktop and spoke to him, but he only says "I've been sent here on business. A nice place this Rabao is."

2. I have gotten the correct cutscenes from Rahi Fohlatti, Palborough Mines, Honoi-Gomoi, and Ghatsad. I visited them all twice to make sure I hadn't missed any of them.

3. Additionally I have completed VR 7-4 and gotten the Elite Royal Collar along with a cutscene with the Memorian stating there were still stolen memories.

4. I have also spoken to Rahal and to Shantotto to no effect.

5. I have attempted logging out and back in.

6. I have attempted to complete the cutscene on three different PC's.

The only real fix is youtube. There isn't really a side story here. Just a coujple blurbs from some NPCs. You've undoubtedly already missed hundreds if not thousands of such one-time lines.

The most likely explanation for being unable to finish this, since it is supposed to be doable after completing the mission, is that you mis-remembered which NPCs you talked to and didn't. The only suggestion I can offer is to talk to ALL of them again and see if you end up with the depleted memorian again. Also click on each NPC multiple times, in case they may talk to you about other things. This is also very common and sometimes you need to speak to the same NPC multiple times to get the desired event.

I am having the same issue both of the npc cut scenes

Cannot get cutscene to finish optional objective in Voracious Resurgence 7-4
Platform: Windows 10

ISP: Spectrum

Type of Internet Connection: cable

Frequency: Always

Character Name: Akpan and Jakpan
Race: Tarutaru

World: Quezacoatl


Area and Coordinates: Rabao

Party or Solo: Party

NPC Name: Dancing Wolf / Rahi Fohlatti

Monster Name: N/A

I have gotten the correct cutscenes from , Palborough Mines, Honoi-Gomoi, and Ghatsad. I visited them all twice to make sure I hadn't missed any of them.

I have completed VR 7-4 and gotten the Elite Royal Collar along with a cutscene with the Memorian stating there were still stolen memories.

I have also spoken to Rahal and to Shantotto to no effect.

I have attempted logging out and back in and did a file check of ffxi and playonline

If you've completed the mission, you very likely can no longer get the cutscenes for that mission.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

If you've completed the mission, you very likely can no longer get the cutscenes for that mission.

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It's specifically noted on the wiki that these optional steps can still be done after the mission is completed.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

It's specifically noted on the wiki that these optional steps can still be done after the mission is completed.

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Perhaps the wikis are wrong.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Perhaps the wikis are wrong.

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If it's wrong, then a lot of very specific info was completely made up. Errors are not uncommon but I find this hard to believe in this case.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

If it's wrong, then a lot of very specific info was completely made up. Errors are not uncommon but I find this hard to believe in this case.

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Yet there are three people in this thread claiming that they can't get the cutscenes. Wikis can be and are wrong, sometimes for years.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Yet there are three people in this thread claiming that they can't get the cutscenes. Wikis can be and are wrong, sometimes for years.

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People not being able to do it doesn't necessairly mean that the wiki is wrong though. I'm not asserting 100% that it is wrong, but it's not the only explanation. And the nature of this sort of situation is such that if it is wrong, it's just something someone made up entirely without playing the game, and it is way too clear and specific to simply be made up. Perhaps you can still do it after finishing the mission but it becomes unavailable at some point after that. I don't know, I haven't done the mission yet. Once I do I can corroborate or refute this.

I am having the same issue, Dancing Wolf does not progress as he should and Rahi Fohlatti also wigged out and it seemed like it was going to start the CS but then just went into old dialog.

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Originally Posted by Boomslang

I am having the same issue, Dancing Wolf does not progress as he should and Rahi Fohlatti also wigged out and it seemed like it was going to start the CS but then just went into old dialog.

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Have you also completed the mission? And you read the wiki pages stating that you could do these things after the mission was completed?
With more people saying this, it may very well be that it's not a bug and that the information that has been going around is wrong. I was skeptical, but with your confirmation the mission is complete, it would be more evidence to the contrary.