[Suggestion] Easier duty validation when in cutscene / NPC dialog

I'd like to be able to enter in duty more easily when it pops.

For example, I'm in a cutscene or dalog with NPC for a quest. I could then validate my duty inscription and the quest would then automatically rollback to the state it was before I started the dialog. Quite like when you have to exchange an item but you don't.

At the moment, if the situation arises, I need either to pass cutscene / dialog, or miss my chance to enter the duty. Which means either I have to wait again (sometimes a very long time depending on the duty), or I miss the pleasure of the content I had to rush through.

I think this is the most frustrating case, others being less serious.

...Isn't this already implemented? Or am I missing something here?

Hey Lelane !
I don't think so, but I'll check again asap ^^

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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

...Isn't this already implemented? Or am I missing something here?

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Nope it isn't. When a duty pops you have to get out of the cutscene/dialog to commence before it expires. The cutscene/dialog screen hides the duty finder window so you cannot accept it while occupied that way.

Huh, I'm pretty sure I've had duty windows pop over the top of cutscenes. I seem to remember it being a fairly recent change, though.

I've absolutely had Duty Finder interrupt my cutscene time. Though last time I checked, because the quest flag is at the end of the cutscene you'll be able to re-enjoy that same cutscene after your dungeon/trial/whatever as the game hasn't flagged you for passing that part of the quest yet.

Hmm maybe it depends on the cutscene / quests, because last time, I did "pass" the dialog and I couldn't see it anymore :(
Maybe it's only on real cutscenes and not on dialogs ?

I had to abandon quest, which is a pain and not always available ^^'

You can accept duty in the middle of a cutscene sequence. When you return, that part of the quest is reset. You can accept the quest again and get the entire cut scene.

Most of the time this is OK. It can be frustrating though for some of the very long sequences to have to sit through almost the entire thing to get to where you left off.

Oh so they did implement this already, my bad... in fact I might never have tried it again by fear of losing CS time ^^'
Does it include non cutscene dialogs ? Because this is also frustrating to have to pass in-game dialogs and never see it again !

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Originally Posted by Sento-Frost

Hmm maybe it depends on the cutscene / quests, because last time, I did "pass" the dialog and I couldn't see it anymore :(
Maybe it's only on real cutscenes and not on dialogs ?

I had to abandon quest, which is a pain and not always available ^^'

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I think it differs depending on which kind it is, yeah. If it's a cutscene that ends the quest, then it only counts as finished when the cutscene is done and you get the "finish quest?" popup. And if it's a 'hand this item to NPC' cutscene, it only counts as finished when you've handed said item to the NPC.
But then there are those random cutscenes when the current quest goal (mid-quest, not the end of quest) is 'talk to NPC', in which case that quest step is considered done when you've started talking to the NPC =/

Yes this is the one, thanks Noxifer !

It's a shame to skip content, even if it's just some in-game dialogs (might be important dialogs), and it's also a pain to cancel and redo the whole previous steps to compensate.
Or you refuse the duty and it's a pain to wait again... even more considering there is now penalty for refusing a ready duty 3 times in a day (and then every time until reset)...

Edit: in fact this seems to have been solved.

No problem =)

And yeah, I'm sure some would say "just watch the missed cutscene through 'the Unending Journey' if it's that important to you", but... cutscenes aren't available through that book until you've finished the quest =/ So if you miss, say, a cutscene in step #2 out of 6 quest steps, you'll have to do all of them before you can watch that cutscene, and... meh.

I wish there'd be three options when you hit escape during a cutscene. "Skip cutscene", "Cancel cutscene" and "Keep watching". Where skip works the same way it does now, but 'cancel' would interrupt the cutscene and reset the quest to not count that quest step. (And 'keep watching' would serve the same function as 'no' does today, since it's currently a yes/no question.)

Well, it seems this issue has been fixed even for this case, sorry for the useless post.
But yes cancel cutscene option would be interesting, with the same behavior as when we go on duty, reset quest to before talking to the NPC ^^