Alpha First Look: Video 7 – Levequests and Party Combat

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

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Exactly.

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Looks awesome!

I'm not sure I like the Levequest mobs just spawning right in front of you and attacking automatically. Makes it hard to pace yourself and heal up if they constantly spawn and aggro you immeadiately. However I do like how it's completely streamlined. All the running around is pretty much gone! It's just run out to the Leve location and kill, warp to Leve NPC and pickup reward!

I do admit the animations looked a little jerky, but it was nice to see the mob reacting to all the hits it was taking! I suppose it needs to be toned down just a tad. I was looking like the mob was having a seizure. :P However, if you was getting whacked from all sides like that you would probably look like that too!

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

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I resent that remark! I definitely used Meditate occasionally between those Tachi:Yukikaze (some literary license was taken with this comment).

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Originally Posted by Hulan

I resent that remark! I definitely used Meditate occasionally between those Tachi:Yukikaze (some literary license was taken with this comment).

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^_^

But y'know, that's why I played THF and PUP. There was a little something extra to those jobs besides spamming weapon skills and spells.

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

Looks awesome!

I'm not sure I like the Levequest mobs just spawning right in front of you and attacking automatically. Makes it hard to pace yourself and heal up if they constantly spawn and aggro you immeadiately.

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You may be misinterpreting some things based on the way this video was edited.

That's all I have to say about that.

I'm liking how levequest "counters" are now an NPC on the field. No longer will you waste anima (or w/e they're replacing Anima with if they are going to) to do leves (mostly for gathering leves)

Also: Will mobs like Adamantoise and Iron Giant be part of F.A.T.E.?

This looks amazing. Great job.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

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It didn't look like mindless ws spam every 3 seconds, though. Heck, the ARC doing that leve near the beginning barely landed a couple of autoattacks between all of that ws spam.

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Originally Posted by Klefth

It didn't look like mindless ws spam every 3 seconds, though. Heck, the ARC doing that leve near the beginning barely landed a couple of autoattacks between all of that ws spam.

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I don't know about you, but when I played XI I got a lot more excited about the weapon skills I used than the auto attacks. By that logic, combat should be a lot more exciting if the player is able to execute weapon skills more rapidly. It isn't like we'll be able to spam weapon skills infinitely. We only get 1000 TP after all, and it looks like it doesn't regen all that quickly in combat.

Surprised no one's mentioned it, but hey! Did you notice the ARC has a ranged auto-attack?

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

You may be misinterpreting some things based on the way this video was edited.

That's all I have to say about that.

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There's no misinterpretations, mobs do aggro you know lol.