Treasure Hunting dungeons

They talked about Treasure Hunting dungeons in the latest Live Letter and also provided a preview picture:

http://i.imgur.com/ZiHChTW.png

Does anyone know why the official translation thread did not mention a single thing about this?

Because it wasn't part of the Q&A, just something they teased afaik. We also got very little information about it, so it's possible they're saving the translation for the next live letter.

They usually release a digest that talks about all the stuff that isn't in the Q&A, but it often takes them awhile to get it up.

Hello Zeno_McDohl,

Nice catch!

During the stream, Yoshida showed off an image (the one you pointed out) of a new dungeon-like content which is currently planned for release in Patch 3.3. It's being referred to internally as the Treasure Hunter dungeon.

Uncovering treasure maps, such as a timeworn dragonskin map, may sometimes reveal an entrance to the dungeon instead of the usual treasure chest. Once revealed, players have the option to challenge it or not, and by entering, players would need to clear out the monsters within this dungeon in order to unlock chests. The difficulty isn't set too high and they can be cleared without any practice. The image shown was just an example of the final room players can reach, which is filled with treasures. Players would need to do something to levers located in the rooms; however, the full details will be shrouded in mystery for now!

Oh I think they should add variety of more difficulty to this, also make it free company content focus as well. If these are treasure dungeons I would welcome random chance of a boss fight might start here to hope for this feature...

Please make this have some sort of random/branching aspect to it square!

I'm hoping it's at least as interactive or rewarding as WoW's version, back during Mists lol. That was interesting while it lasted, as it utilized jump mechanics and player attention/cleverness if you wanted to have a good chance at the best yield in the short time limit you had. Along with being able to output a decent amount of DPS, should you have made it to the boss at the end of the solo run. Even if not, you'd still walk away with something (like a nice amount of currency), as chests were abundant throughout the whole instance.

Very cool and unexpected feature, looking forward to seeing it.

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I'm hoping it's at least as interactive or rewarding as WoW's version, back during Mists lol. That was interesting while it lasted, as it utilized jump mechanics and player attention/cleverness if you wanted to have a good chance at the best yield in the short time limit you had. Along with being able to output a decent amount of DPS, should you have made it to the boss at the end of the solo run. Even if not, you'd still walk away with something (like a nice amount of currency), as chests were abundant throughout the whole instance.

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I loved the Throne of Thunder treasure dungeon! I don't think I actually ever got the end chest even although I do remember getting close at least once. It was a lot of fun and I really hope it has some similarities to that!

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Originally Posted by hobostew

I loved the Throne of Thunder treasure dungeon! I don't think I actually ever got the end chest even although I do remember getting close at least once. It was a lot of fun and I really hope it has some similarities to that!

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If I recall right, you had to really haul ass and ignore pretty much everything if you wanted to get to the boss to kill it before the time limit was up. I think I only attempted that like once... and the boss wasn't really a push over at the time. Don't remember if I beat it though.

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Originally Posted by Khadroth

Please make this have some sort of random/branching aspect to it square!

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Please give us something fun and challenging like this, even if it's something seperate to these maps!

I hope our Chocobo's can join us in this Mysterious Dungeon

After seeing a more clear synopsis of this feature I am excited for it. I know it won't be game changing, but it's a nice addition to the treasure hunting feature.

This actually sounds good, please don't ruin it like you did with diadem.

Strangely enough, this kinda stuff is what I've been asking for but I'm REALLY hoping the dungeons are randomly generated and not the same thing over and over.

Yea I hate when you say don't worry it won't be to hard. Why can't it be hard. All this means is the treasure will be Garbo

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Originally Posted by Mooserocka33

Yea I hate when you say don't worry it won't be to hard. Why can't it be hard. All this means is the treasure will be Garbo

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that doesnt mean the stuff will be rubbish o.O

this sounds fun wonder if its only for the unhidden leather maps or will they add new maps that spawn dungeons?

Would be nice to see more stuff like that, that gets the community together. Also, we need more open world stuff to do, so it's a nice start.

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Originally Posted by Mooserocka33

Yea I hate when you say don't worry it won't be to hard. Why can't it be hard. All this means is the treasure will be Garbo

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Even if it was hard, it'll become garbage anyway once everyone outgears the challenge.

Thanks for the info! I'd love it if this system had some procedural generation in it.

idk why but this reminds me of the dungeon game from ehirgeiz. I like the idea but I really hope they dont make it a super rare drop to get into the dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Marxam

idk why but this reminds me of the dungeon game from ehirgeiz.

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I look at the concept drawing and all I see is Wall Market. Anyone else get that vibe?

This looks like the vault in diablo 3 treasure goblin.

But if this will be easy I am not seeing any good gear come from it and will be another thing to go to oblivion. Only thing may save it is in case some mats dropped there are exclusive like diadem.

Tbh, they should spend their time in doing something more useful, we have a lot of casual play and barely endgame options every patch.

Still praying to them release the 8-man dungeons like 1.0 were and being endgame instead faceroll content. My hopes are in 4.0 :(

My only gripe is that you need gatherers to obtain maps (unless I am mistaken, please correct me if I am).

Otherwise, I am pretty excited for this content =D

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

This looks like the vault in diablo 3 treasure goblin.

But if this will be easy I am not seeing any good gear come from it and will be another thing to go to oblivion. Only thing may save it is in case some mats dropped there are exclusive like diadem.

Tbh, they should spend their time in doing something more useful, we have a lot of casual play and barely endgame options every patch.

Still praying to them release the 8-man dungeons like 1.0 were and being endgame instead faceroll content. My hopes are in 4.0 :(

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You've literallly never done any of the savage raids, how can you say we have faceroll content when you haven't completed any of it?
People complain that SE is always doing the same thing yet when they want to put something new in some people will already be against it.

I'm not getting my hopes up.

My prediction is for face roll easy dungeon for yet MORE mounts and minions.

I guess one can hope tho ...

i swear some people are never happy.. gotta whinge about everything.. they scream for new content different from usual linear dungeons so we get treasure dungeons and people are salty cause its said not to be to difficult... ffs... go design your own game so we can all complain about that lol

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Originally Posted by Doudousteve

You've literallly never done any of the savage raids, how can you say we have faceroll content when you haven't completed any of it?
People complain that SE is always doing the same thing yet when they want to put something new in some people will already be against it.

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Talk the dude that didn't clear any coil and any alexander and didn't do any primals... Plus I did gordias savage until a3s and started late because no static at start. I just didn't clear and I didn't clear because gordias sucked and not fun unlike midas.
And you weren't here in 1.0 to talk back to me without knowing what i meant by those 8-man dungeons so please, shut up.

Having more variety and more to do is better than just 1 raid each 6 months.

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

Talk the dude that didn't clear any coil and any alexander and didn't do any primals... Plus I did gordias savage until a3s and started late because no static at start. I just didn't clear and I didn't clear because gordias sucked and not fun unlike midas.
And you weren't here in 1.0 to talk back to me without knowing what i meant by those 8-man dungeons so please, shut up.

Having more variety and more to do is better than just 1 raid each 6 months.

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Oh no! You're right, I didn't complete it! Do you see me complaining tho? You are against a new type of content because you feel its not hardcore enough, how about you try it first?

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Originally Posted by Doudousteve

Oh no! You're right, I didn't complete it! Do you see me complaining tho? You are against a new type of content because you feel its not hardcore enough, how about you try it first?

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Who said I am against it? I just don't have high hopes for this. I was hyped for Diadem and what turned out? You know the answer, resources wasted. What I tried to say was to make a content that would last because what I see looking at this is being full in first month then will die like Diadem. Who do Diadem now is purely gatherers for mats and those that want free materia V. Beside that is not fun anymore because no one farm those S monsters anymore in those farms. So to them keep people going there will be the exclusivity of some mats that can obtained for sure.

I can be wrong too and being super fun but last year of SE everything failed after the initial hype. So much work of vermilion and almost no one does that too, list goes on sadly :\
And don't misunderstand me, I am not just after super hard content but want something that last and only thing last are raids.

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Uncovering treasure maps, such as a timeworn dragonskin map, may sometimes reveal an entrance to the dungeon instead of the usual treasure chest.

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So when I read that, what I'm hearing is "5%" or something like that figure-

I would look forward to it but RNG in this game has given me reason not to.

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Originally Posted by Cidel

So when I read that, what I'm hearing is "5%" or something like that figure-

I would look forward to it but RNG in this game has given me reason not to.

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I'd wager about as likely as getting a unhidden map. So uhh... probably around that 5% range. The game really needs to start getting out of the RNG mentality for almost everything pertaining to its side content, at least occasionally. True RNG, which is notorious for cluster effects, is seriously horrible with this game, given how the content surrounding it has other limiting factors in place with it. Example: Triple Triad with widespread Random rules on NPCs with cards that break the player restricted rules AND the RNG wall with winning a card. Maybe lay off the Random rule for a while.

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Originally Posted by Altanas

I hope our Chocobo's can join us in this Mysterious Dungeon

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Which brings up the party/role requirement, hope its not standard DF party.

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Originally Posted by Cidel

So when I read that, what I'm hearing is "5%" or something like that figure-

I would look forward to it but RNG in this game has given me reason not to.

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5%? I think that's a bit high don't you think? xD

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

My only gripe is that you need gatherers to obtain maps (unless I am mistaken, please correct me if I am).

Otherwise, I am pretty excited for this content =D

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You can buy them.

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Originally Posted by Cidel

So when I read that, what I'm hearing is "5%" or something like that figure-

I would look forward to it but RNG in this game has given me reason not to.

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i thought the same...

yay, awesome new content.... with an 18 hours lockout on the treasure maps and then low %-chance that such a dungeon will spawn? wow!

this is something nice for a mini patch like 3.35. but not a big one like 3.3. and: we are getting this instead of next diadem. and we are also getting this instead of a third ex-dungeon. so we are getting a mini dungeon wich we can not even enter when we want instead of a real dungeon...

it seems more and more the dev team can't handle this game's patch-policy anymore. has square stolen all people to work on FF15 / FF7 remake / Kingdom Hearts 3?

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Originally Posted by Tint

yay, awesome new content.... with an 18 hours lockout on the treasure maps and then low %-chance that such a dungeon will spawn? wow!

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There's no lockout timer on doing the maps, therefore on finding Treasure Dungeons, just on gathering them.

You have at least two months until the patch that brings Treasure Dungeons. Gather a bunch of maps, buy the cheaper ones off the MB, distribute them to FC/FCmates/Retainers, and use a million of them when the feature goes live.

I know I plan to.

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Originally Posted by Docent

Gather a bunch of maps, buy the cheaper ones off the MB, distribute them to FC/FCmates/Retainers, and use a million of them when the feature goes live.

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Good advice but for a different reason. People will be paying WAY more than value for maps when it launches. Kaching!

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Originally Posted by EZ5902

You can buy them.

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With what/ how?

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

The difficulty isn't set too high and they can be cleared without any practice.

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*rolls eyes*

However thank you for giving us some more info!