My thoughs about game after one month of playing. (in short what i didn't liked)

Hello guys,
most of you probably won't care what i think about the game, especially if i plan to post some rants :mad:

Quests
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I don't mind doing everything that also other MMORPG games have in regards to quests.
But tell me, if i'm nearly hitting next level and i take a quest, why same quests when done need a level higher to finish it? it doesn't make sense and i needed to look then elsewhere to finish the level so i could level up. This is the only game which does that.

At level 45 i started to do dragoon chain quest to get black dragon armor.
Ok, i got four pieces (or three), expecting that last part will be chest armor.
Which indeed it is, but for some reason chest armor is for level 50, why? now i'm standing with nearly complete set but with my current shirt - like green armor.
I would rather have one piece per level, then four at once and last piece five levels later.

Last thing, if i'm on mount, why can't i accept or finish quest?
One thing that come to my mind is that it could block NPC quest giver if were too many people at him, so you could not target it. Why not just add option to demount when you want to finish / start the quest?

Crafting
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If i'm doing crafting quests, can't just game automatically switch to profession on which i need to craft a item?

Latency
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This is not rant, but how server client works, i can't imagine doing some tough raids, as on my side i'm moving in time, but in reality i'm not at all. As i read somewhere on forum, it's nothing i can fix on my side.

Longer game loading
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I didn't exactly counted it, but if i set the game to 30fps then it load everything slower then when i set it to 60fps. I have seen that also in some other game, but i remember it was later fixed. So basically if i disable vertical sync, it should load everything faster.
Don't have it confirmed, so don't take it as rant. (i'm running game on SSD by the way)

I understand that PS3 have low RAM, so they need to split maps in smaller parts, but can't they change it for PC version, that more of maps would be loaded at once? Seeing that game mostly take only 650MB of RAM.

Invisible walls
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Alot of places have invisible walls, so sometimes even if you want to take shortcut, you just can't.

Summary = no serious issues, except for that latency.http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...es/biggrin.png

Will come back later, most probably when Wildstar free month expire.

I don't really understand the first issue. Could you please clarify?

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Originally Posted by Kvasimil

If i'm doing crafting quests, can't just game automatically switch to profession on which i need to craft a item?

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When turning in Supply/Provision missions for your GC, it does automatically apply the experience to the corresponding crafting/gathering class for the turn-in item, regardless of which class you are when you turn it in, and I think (though I'm not positive) that crafting and fishing leve turn-ins work the same way.

If you need to actually be a certain class for a quest, it can't change your class automatically because changing class is a matter of what gear you have equipped (specifically your weapon/tool, and where applicable, job stone), and it wouldn't know which gear you want to equip if you don't tell it. A person can have more than one tool and more than one gear set for a given class.

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Originally Posted by Kvasimil

I understand that PS3 have low RAM, so they need to split maps in smaller parts, but can't they change it for PC version, that more of maps would be loaded at once? Seeing that game mostly take only 650MB of RAM.

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They also want the PC version to be compatible with low-end PCs (which are roughly on-par with PS3 anyway).


Oh, I agree with you, though, about quests that let you start them when you're not at the level needed to finish them. Those are annoying.

I absolutely adore this game, but I will agree on his first point. I don't believe it is universal, but there are areas in the game like Aleport and Camp Drybone where you can get a quest below the level it is intended, complete it, but cannot turn it in until you are of the level of the quest. It makes sense. But you should not be able to obtain a quest that you cannot turn in to complete until the appropriate level. It's been like that for as long as I can remember, but doesn't mean I like it. :)

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

If you need to actually be a certain class for a quest, it can't change your class automatically because changing class is a matter of what gear you have equipped (specifically your weapon/tool, and where applicable, job stone), and it wouldn't know which gear you want to equip if you don't tell it. A person can have more than one tool and more than one gear set for a given class.

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That would make sense if i didn't had saved all classes with equipped gear, which i did. (none of stuff is missing, i have it all)

Problem is though, what does it do if you have two item sets for a class, like one for serious play and one for spiritbinding?

I like this game so far. (Only been playing for a few days)
Only problems I have with it:
1)Invisible walls are annoying
2)GCD feels way too long
3)Targeting is awkward
4) Whispers every 10 seconds from gold sellers

#1 is SE's poor design choice. It's in place because you can only do quests your level or under. I'm guessing they didn't want you to accept and complete a quest on a higher level class, then switch to your low level and hand it in for massive exp. But essentially it ends up working more like, my low level sees a quests, accepts and completes it, only to find out I can't hand it in for another 3 levels. Annoying as hell when you're leveling.

#2 They only want to give quests every 5 levels and seem to kick and scream against anything in between. As the game is now it's almost pointless getting your class gear at level 50 unless you're brand new and this is your first class. If you have a higher level class, chances are you already have a better set of gear crafted or bought with tomes before your other character even hits 50. But at least we have Vanity now.

#3 Oh you're just starting to know the frustrations of the Chocobo system. You can't talk to NPC's while mounted. You couldn't go into a new zone while mounted, but they changed it so it auto-dismounts you. Why you can't just zone through without dismounting, then appear on the other side walking if its in a town, or still on your chocobo, I have no idea. If you summon your chocobo it counts as a party member, so you can't do quests with one out, or queue for a dungeon with one out. Even if the timer expires, it somehow still counts as being in your party and you have to un-summon it before you can do anything. There's more, these are just some of the more common chocobo problems

#4 I'm not sure the issue you're having with crafting, but I'm assuming you're having trouble changing classes. Did you know after you save a gear set you can put it on a hotbar so you can just press the button and switch? No messing around with the character menu, this is as easy as you'll ever need it.

#5 The latency issue is because of SE's weird obsession to have everything, and I mean EVERYTHING synced up to the server. Most MMOs calculate all avoidable AoE damage, movement, etc on your own computer so even if you have a slower connection or lag, if you dodge it on your computer you'll end up dodging it in the game, unless you have VERY bad latency. How it works in this game is when the enemy does a cast time, it starts on the server first. If you have latency, you'll see it later than it actually registers in the server. Even if you dodge it, on the server it's shown to have already gone off before you even saw it. To make it worse, your movement isn't registered until the information reaches the server, making it two times as bad.

For a better explanation on the problem, check this out

#6 I was gonna say it'd load faster on a SSD but you're running it off that, so I got nothing for ya there. I run it off a PS4 and it's actually faster loading (by a bit) than my PC was. Sadly I doubt they'll ever remove the loading points between maps. As easy as it seems, it's not all one large map, they have to make a new map and import all the current ones, the fill in the space between, or something, idk. I think they did this so they could have the game looking as good as it does without requiring way higher specs. And of course, I'm sure the PS3 limitations were part of it.

#7 Back in 1.0, the game didn't even have jumping so I guess invisible walls weren't even an issue then, except maybe if you wanted to try falling off a ledge or something and couldn't. I don't think they're adding any flying mounts ever, so they won't get rid of most of these. But there's no reason they can't remove some of the minor annoying ones, where you could use a spot as a shortcut or something. I came across one absolutely absurd invisible wall. I jumped up to a rock and was able to walk across the entire thing, but there was a small rock wall beside me. I tried to walk up to it, but halfway across this flat rock and the rock wall, there was an invisible wall for absolutely no reason. Messed up lol.

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