Anemos wins round 1... Bozja Southern Front is so much worse

I didn't expect a regression but here we are. There are so many things wrong with Bozja that I don't even know what to say.

1. Anemos looked far prettier than BSF. In Anemos there is a huge variety of landscapes - forests, hidden ravines, murky caves, freshwater everywhere... In BSF the landscape is just ruined cities and WW1 trenches... At least the Rank 10 critical engagement looks nice enough. Everything else though... URGH.. murky brown

2. For some reason it's not even optimal to do the relic within BSF. So what is the point of doing BSF if it's faster to do the relic outside? Please MASSIVELY increase the drop rate of the relic items because in Anemos every single NM gave you crystals.

3. Cutscenes, cutscenes... Everywhere. Why the heck are there so many cutscenes? It completely disrupts the flow of BSF and I have to spend so much time watching cutscenes that I missed so many critical engagements. Make the cutscenes shorter!! No one cares about the story.

4. Red Chocobo and Castrum is too damn difficult! Have you ever seen a wipe in Eureka because I sure haven't. How did these two fights pass QA?

5. 1v1 fights. You usually see around 20 people queueing for the 1v1 and only one person gets selected. So you only have a 5% chance to do the 1v1 challenge? Why are we adding RNG on top of RNG?

6. Purple Hrothgars. Why do NPC Hrothgars look like Joker clowns? Give them normal brown/dark skin please. Who the heck thought purple Hrothgars or green Hrothgars looked attractive?

7. BSF takes 4 hours to complete. Anemos took 2 days. We're getting far, far less content...

8. You have to do Castrum Lacus Litore 165 times to get a full set of relic armor. Is Square Enix crazy?

https://i.imgur.com/OeAICm6.png

Rating:

Anemos: 7/10
Bozja Southern Front: 5/10

Let's see if Square Enix can improve next round.

No one cares about the story? Honestly this doesn't sound like the MMORPG for you then.

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Originally Posted by Kaliesto

No one cares about the story? Honestly this doesn't sound like the MMORPG for you then.

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He's a troll. He's just poking proverbial bee's nests to see which one incites enough anger to suit his trolling purposes. If he gets a topic successfully off the ground he'll go back to his corner, satiated for the next week before doing it all over again.

His comments on story aside, he makes very good points.

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Originally Posted by Raltar

His comments on story aside, he makes very good points.

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Not so sure about that. I only touched it so far as I needed to go do the weapon upgrade questline (60 FATEs in one sitting is a bit excessive, and getting a Mt. Gulg run with all greenhorns took forever, so I'll finish it up tomorrow), but...

-Anemos was meant to be a mysterious wilderness. That it would be "prettier" than BSF is to be expected, given the latter is literally a warzone.
-I agree it's silly to make the weapon easier to do outside the new content, but at least that means the people who want to actually do BSF are there to do it instead of people who DON'T want to do it being forced to slog through hours and hours of gameplay they don't like for their glowy weapon. (Instead they just have to slog through hours of gameplay! So much better.)
-Considering the story was written by Yasumi Matsuno, you should be expecting lots of cutscenes. He did the Return to Ivalice alliance raids too, and those similarly had lots and lots of cutscenes compared to the others (or at least the cutscenes were longer). Given this game's niche among MMORPGs is that it's one of if not the most story-driven one out there, expect story heavy content... with long cutscenes if Matsuno is involved, apparently. (The devs are Matsuno's fanboys, y'know...)
-Haven't barely set foot on the battlefield so I can't comment on Red Comet or the Castrum... whatever it's called. Just remember Piccolo's advice and DODGE!
-I fail to see a problem with the 1v1 fights and not always getting it. Like housing it's a luxury, not a right.
-Hrothgar could always be those funny colors; whether you find them aesthetically pleasing or not is irrelevant. I don't care for them myself, but that's not a ding against the experience in BSF.

Well known troll, I should have the discipline to ignore it but here I am.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Not so sure about that. I only touched it so far as I needed to go do the weapon upgrade questline (60 FATEs in one sitting is a bit excessive, and getting a Mt. Gulg run with all greenhorns took forever, so I'll finish it up tomorrow), but...

-Anemos was meant to be a mysterious wilderness. That it would be "prettier" than BSF is to be expected, given the latter is literally a warzone.

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You make it sound like Square had no choice but to make that decision and that it has to be ugly as a result. Go play Battlefield V and tell me warzones have to be ugly.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

-Haven't barely set foot on the battlefield so I can't comment on Red Comet or the Castrum... whatever it's called. Just remember Piccolo's advice and DODGE!

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I can't believe you're commenting without having done the content.

His points don't even really scratch the surface of the problems. Anemos had a ton of new and interesting mob designs. It required you to play differently. The critical engagements in Bozja are just trials you could find anywhere else in the game (and quite often are largely copied from other pieces of content). On the whole, Bozja is immensely uninspired.

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Originally Posted by Enla

He's a troll. He's just poking proverbial bee's nests to see which one incites enough anger to suit his trolling purposes. If he gets a topic successfully off the ground he'll go back to his corner, satiated for the next week before doing it all over again.

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Could you be more specific as to what part of his post was trolling? Someone saying critical things about content you enjoy doesn't make them a troll; if you disagree, articulate it. If it just makes you upset to hear negative things, I'd say that's more on you than him.

I happen to agree with his points.

1. The pacing is deceptive. The faster pace feels good at first, but that also means you burn through the same handful of skirmishes that pop up in your current zone very, very quickly in a short period of time. The repetition really starts to set in fast.
2. The map is small and very starkly gated, which makes it feel even smaller. And because the pacing is faster, there's also no reason to dip into lower-level zones generally since you don't have much time to kill, meaning you're running the same short loop for hours.
3. The visuals ARE ugly. It's visually samey and monotonous to look at. The physical geography and landscape is uninteresting, there's not much to see or wonder at. The mobs populating the land are all recycled from other areas of the game. Look, The Last of Us (both of them) was set in an apocalyptic wasteland and still managed visually arresting and interesting environments. Check out fields from WWII. It is very much possible to make something dramatic, war-torn, and also fascinating to explore.
4. There are some very strange choices made that feel needlessly cumbersome and don't seem to add much to the experience: needing to speak to an NPC to rank up, the RNG on top of RNG that is duels, the loss of mettle when you die regardless of whether or not you get raised, the I-V monster ranking system??, the difficulty of CEs...

The cost he points out for gear is ground we've tread before in the past. This is not the first time they've pulled these pricing shenanigans that require an unreasonable amount of time input for middling results (Unreal trials and their milquetoast rewards come to mind). The relic is billed as content you can do for fun/for people who don't want to do hardcore raiding to get top-level gear...but if you're actually going to go to the trouble of grinding Bozja to 10+ and THEN run Castrum 165 times, you'd probably save yourself a lot of time just learning to raid instead. Why spend dev time on rewards that players ultimately look at and decide is cool, but not worth the time?

All in all, I'd say this was C+ content. I understand their hesitance to repeat the same mistakes of Eureka, since its reputation never really improved in spite of the fixes they made, but I don't think this was it.

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Originally Posted by RTX3080

I didn't expect a regression but here we are. There are so many things wrong with Bozja that I don't even know what to say.
2. For some reason it's not even optimal to do the relic within BSF. So what is the point of doing BSF if it's faster to do the relic outside? Please MASSIVELY increase the drop rate of the relic items because in Anemos every single NM gave you crystals.

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The point is, playing Bozja will get you one relic weapon, more of less. You're playing new content and getting your relic weapon while you're at it.
You're not going to want to do this again for any subsequent weapons though are you...

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Originally Posted by RTX3080

7. BSF takes 4 hours to complete. Anemos took 2 days. We're getting far, far less content...

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BSF is definitely way more content than Anemos. You're confusing grinding for content.

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Originally Posted by RTX3080

8. You have to do Castrum Lacus Litore 165 times to get a full set of relic armor. Is Square Enix crazy?
https://i.imgur.com/OeAICm6.png

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This is accurate or is he trolling?

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Originally Posted by RTX3080

1. Anemos looked far prettier than BSF. In Anemos there is a huge variety of landscapes - forests, hidden ravines, murky caves, freshwater everywhere... In BSF the landscape is just ruined cities and WW1 trenches... At least the Rank 10 critical engagement looks nice enough. Everything else though... URGH.. murky brown

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It's a no man's land between Garlemald and Eorzea, what else does it look like?

You've skip all the dialogue and cutscene admit it.

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Originally Posted by Naoki34

It's a no man's land between Garlemald and Eorzea, what else does it look like?

You've skip all the dialogue and cutscene admit it.

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Technically, it's between Garlemald and Othard.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

This is accurate or is he trolling?

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He's either trolling or wrong.

https://i.imgur.com/0IczglA.png

This is what you need to get the gear. What he posted is what you need to upgrade it.

I will agree that with how difficult the solo fights are, there needs to be some kind of system in place to ensure individuals who are performing well enough to attempt to queue will eventually get a chance to try the fight.

I've been a candidate four times now, but wasn't picked once...though I likely would've died anyways as some of them seem to require skills that are gated behind rank 15.

Honestly... Id much rather go back to Eureka than do anything in Bozja.

- The story hasnt been interesting since the first stages of the relic (about the most interesting thing was the memory trip). (I didnt care about the Eureka story either. Dont even know what it was. Dont really care).
- The Southern Front looks ugly. (Yes you can have battlefields and warzones that look visually interesting, instead of just browns with more shades of browns and some explosions). (Eureka was visually impressive, on top of being pretty. Bozja is neither).
- The music is awful (I greatly preferred Eureka's field theme).
- I feel super underpowered, hitting enemies with the equivalent of a wet pool noodle, while they hit me with a metal 2x4. (Do ranks improve my power?)
- The Critical Engagement system is a bad system, and SE should feel bad about implementing it. Its a pure downgrade over Eureka's NM system.
- Im not gonna make judgements on the Lost Actions system except to say it looks like one of the few actual upgrades over Eureka. (The other upgrade being the inability to level down when dying). That being said the Elemental Affinity system in Eureka was interesting and its disappointing that there isnt some analogue for that as well.
- And to top it off, the relic is far far easier to get by just grinding HW fates and level 60 dungeons. (Look Im ok with people having a second way to get the relics if they dont want to Bozja, but it shouldnt also be quicker. 3 hours outside of Bozja for a fully upgraded relic is just silly).

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Originally Posted by JohnSpawnVFX

He's either trolling or wrong.

https://i.imgur.com/0IczglA.png

This is what you need to get the gear. What he posted is what you need to upgrade it.

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Yes and you need to run 150+ times to fully upgrade one set so who's the real troll here?

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Originally Posted by RTX3080

Yes and you need to run 150+ times to fully upgrade one set so who's the real troll here?

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It's the one who keeps necroing threads.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

This is accurate or is he trolling?

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Accurate

You spend 28 coins on chest then 999 coins to upgrade the chest piece to gain the Bozja stat of Haste +2, that is it, the only difference between the non upgrade chest and the the upgrade one.

Or you could get lucky with a 3% drop rate in Castrum for it.

Yes I find 999 coins an absurdity number for bad rng buffer especially when a full clear of Castrum is 20-26 coins, enjoy that padding for just a bonus to speed in Bozja only. >_>

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Originally Posted by Sforze

Could you be more specific as to what part of his post was trolling? Someone saying critical things about content you enjoy doesn't make them a troll; if you disagree, articulate it. If it just makes you upset to hear negative things, I'd say that's more on you than him.

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Stick around the forum for awhile and you'll see precisely what I mean about them being a troll. This is just one of five linked accounts the op posts on to stir controversy and debate. Occasionally they post something insightful but I'd argue it often is akin to a broken clock being right twice in a day rather than by design. When you've seen this same person constantly revive old posts and flood the front page with them, post gay-baiting threads they stole from reddit that actively foster an air of hostility towards people of the LGBTQIA+, get banned more times than you can count before coming back shortly thereafter, and generally foster a presence on the forums that has done far more harm than good, then yes it gets VERY hard to take them seriously.

Also I never stated my views on the content itself or how I perceived his criticism. So I have no idea where you're getting that I'm mad about him criticizing the content from?

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Originally Posted by Sforze

Warzones can be pretty, look at these not currently active areas where WWI +WWII battles were fought.

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Bozja is not meant to be pretty. It's an active warzone where high explosives akin to nukes have gone off. Look at the way the buildings are melted just past the Rank 5 aethereyte. It's supposed to be gritty, that's their aim. If they'd wanted to do beautiful high fantasy warzone, then they could have, but they're sticking with more brutal visuals for a reason.

The map is relatively small because the rate at which Skirmishes and CEs spawn is very fast when there are a lot of active participants in the zone. You literally won't be able to keep up with all of them, but you don't need to worry about keeping up with all of them, because the rewards across them are mostly universal. Once you know which ones are tied to CEs that are tied to duels, you can focus on those in particular to try and get into the duels. The CE fights and the duel fights are highly engaging because they are deadly, so it's not a snorefest either.

They reuse enemies everywhere in this game. Eureka used and reused enemies across every single zone, and only introduced a few new monsters here and there. Bozja has introduced the fox liger, among other things, and has introduced some palette swapped raid bosses as CE bosses ( The Patriot).

As for the insane tedium/grind/wait for the haste gear... it's really no different than having the completely randomized ultra rare drops from Eureka. None of them were required to clear even the Baldesion Arsenal. Never needed the 6th or 7th magicite stuff neither. It was all just bonus stuff, so if this is your favorite content ever, you can have the statistical edge on everyone else for your time investment.

The other stuff you label as odd choices has to do with Bozja's theme over other stuff. Its theme is war and military service. The threat of constant mettle loss is to make you want to improve and not die. Even then, it's not much of a loss for a single death. You can't rank down.

I don't think it's perfect. The joke that skirmishes are just another Fates rehash is spot on, but I view Bozja as leaps and bounds beyond Eureka in terms of engagement and fun. And I liked Eureka too. Enough to do it all the way to Hydatos on three separate characters. The gameplay for Bozja is much improved over it, particularly Lost actions vs. Mnemes. I love being able to sport around 3 or 4 phoenix downs on top of my buff/extra actions buttons. I love that I don't have to go back to the base camp to rearrange them for use every single time either.

I give Bozja an A-. B+ at worst. 87/100 easy The only things really holding it back are things like... taking 200k damage from a single DOT tic in a duel. I think that's a little much personally, but it may be rank dependent.

Sorry Mister troll. "Cutscenes and Story" are the only reason I might *ever* consider setting foot in there.

The whole point is to clear CLL the right way - save as many prisoners as you can and there's a good chance of getting the upgrade materials.

If not, no big loss, the haste is good but it's not critical unless you're a minmaxer. And if you are, well, this is just the sort of challenge minmaxers rise to!

if you put half as much effort into playing as you do trolling, might make things easier

OP's never been to BSF, he basically just copy pasted a bunch of common BSF complaints from here, reddit, streamers. He's complaining about it being too hard today so he can ruffle all the people who want hard content- in a week he'll post another thread complaining about it being way too easy so he can ruffle all the people who are finding it too hard.

You are the one who should improve your troll posts. At least try to be funny next time

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Originally Posted by Darker_Midnight

The whole point is to clear CLL the right way - save as many prisoners as you can and there's a good chance of getting the upgrade materials.

If not, no big loss, the haste is good but it's not critical unless you're a minmaxer. And if you are, well, this is just the sort of challenge minmaxers rise to!

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Even in 2020 some people still believe that RNG is fair and does not exist to troll you and give you a drop until you buy the item with 999 tokens.

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I'm combining a few responses here for brevity:

1. Shooters have been portraying active battlefields for a long time now, so we're not reinventing the wheel here. The textures, color, contrast, topography -- it's not good. Nier raids take place in rusted-out factories and still manage to make it look worth exploring. I'm not asking for a high fantasy battlefield, what I'd prefer is better art direction/execution on the current concept. I can appreciate that you're assuming the best that the choices here are for thematic consistency, but the landscape is nonsensical in its own right. There are trenches that nobody is seen fighting in that carve through sparse land. Why are they there? There aren't even NPCs in them to make it feel like they have some kind of immersive point. You see wild animal mobs chilling next to a bunch of warmachina out in the field -- isn't that a little weird? Even losing mettle for dying doesn't really serve the theme under the right light; if soldiers die in war IRL, they're granted highest honors and called heroes, not considered cowards or people who just needed to get good.

Ultimately, the things I pointed out were not the *only* choices available to them if their intent was, in fact, to stick to the theme. There are many ways to solve narrative and design problems, and I question the solutions they landed on.

2. Duels aren't what I'd call 'highly engaging' considering most players won't be doing them, there's no way to consistently see/enter them to gain experience with mechanics, and you have to have a particular set of actions to survive at least some of them on the off-chance you DO get in. Maybe we're using different definitions of 'engaging' here, but you can basically ignore duels entirely since it's two layers of lottery to see who gets to lose mettle in front of an audience. The concept is interesting, but not like this.

3. I don't think there is any advantage to grinding out haste gear for the amount of time they're asking in return, and that's the problem. I *loved* Eureka, but once I've grinded enough to be wearing Asodes/Cassie earrings/whatever else, I'm pretty much done with the content, there's no real incentive to go back and revisit, and none of it carries forward to anything else. My general complaint was that they routinely seem to overtax items with time/price points that simply do not match the benefits they give at the time they give them. They devalue much of their own content and many of their own rewards, with Unreal trials being an example, as I said earlier. You can grind and grind Restoration and...they give you a title for your efforts. I expect them to pad some of their content to hit certain playtime benchmarks, but it feels more than ever that they're doing it in a way that is just plainly onerous.

You like the content and I'm not trying to change that opinion, but I'm not sure there's much that will sway me, either.

"Bozja isn't supposed to be pretty, it's gritty therefore your argument is invalid."

So true. I would argue an AI can't even tell the difference between these two screenshots.

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_t...S2fNtDshFK.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...ruKTjTavTXpTf0

BTW, the second image is from a game that was released more than a decade ago.

(Psst: the difference is effort)

spending all your time botting must give you a lot of time to plan out your next big shitpost huh

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Originally Posted by Snowborn

"Bozja isn't supposed to be pretty, it's gritty therefore your argument is invalid."

So true. I would argue an AI can't even tell the difference between these two screenshots.

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_t...S2fNtDshFK.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...ruKTjTavTXpTf0

BTW, the second image is from a game that was released more than a decade ago.

(Psst: the difference is effort)

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It could also be argued that the meteor called down caused a lot of damage. I'll give you a picture for example after a volcanic eruption of a highly forested area to compare as I feel they would be similar in destruction levels. This is by Spirit Lake in Washington

https://www.sciencesource.com/Doc/TR...g?d63642101728

I think a meteor coming down would have a similar effect, especially as it is believed one killed off the dinosaurs.

I'm sad that I might never get to the end of this story, because I will get tired of the endless grindfest first, but it seems that this is how it was intended. Thanks for another opportunity to grind 500's weapons before having to change them again in December.

sadly i also find eureka more enjoyable atm, hope something change my mind in the future

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Originally Posted by Sforze

I'm combining a few responses

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1. Shooters use and reuse the same maps across different installments of the same series over and over again. Graphics improve over the years, yes, and sometimes the bigger maps are really wondrous, but that's the entire game. They work under different constraints in a different setting. The Nier raids are also reused assets ported over to 14 with some of the bosses being new designs, but the maps themselves are just right outta Nier. And most of the interesting look in those is in the sky box, and once you're beyond that, it's all high sci-fi high sheen sorts of stuff lol

It's not that the landscape is nonsensical, it's that they don't use it in a sensible way for players or exposit any meaning for it for NPCs. To me it would seem the trenches are used to get across the battlefield without agroing things, but no player would care to use them for that, because it wouldn't be the fastest way to get around. As far as soldiers dying in war bringing shame... well our character can't really die, so it's always considered a retreat. Retreating or surrender are considered very shameful, especially by the Japanese.

2. There are 3 duels, as far as I know. You need Dispel for one, and Lost Manawall for the others. You can learn the mechanics by watching other people do them, either directly in the instance(though if the duelists are new or aren't serious they won't make it far), or now on Youtube as with every other fight in the game. Imo, it gives us a reason to actually need the Lost Actions, because you can pretty much ignore Lost Actions if you want to, at least if you're going to ignore Duels and Castrum. Each Duel also grants a title. They're the most complex solo fights that are actually at current level.

3. We largely agree here, but the idea is that no reward in this game really matters too much other than getting BIS for Ultimate. Like I said before, the extra stat increases that are for this specific content are for the people who cherish it, and want to do it over everything else the game has to offer. I was not one of those people for Eureka, as I'm not too keen myself on just titles as rewards nor trophy weapons for so much time investment, but that's how they grant rewards out to offer just enough for those who want to show they completed something in game, without upsetting the people who feel like they have to have everything available. Most people don't care about titles and such, in terms of completionism.

I'm not really trying to sway you. I just think your criticisms are weak.

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Originally Posted by Sforze

Check out fields from WWII. It is very much possible to make something dramatic, war-torn, and also fascinating to explore.

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I don't think you understand what those pictures are showing - or if you do, you're not phrasing it very well.

Those are "battlefields", but the battle was a hundred years ago. Woods have regrown over the fields. Fortifications and destroyed villages have turned to pretty moss-covered ruins. They haven't been preserved as they were.

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Originally Posted by Sforze

Even losing mettle for dying doesn't really serve the theme under the right light; if soldiers die in war IRL, they're granted highest honors and called heroes, not considered cowards or people who just needed to get good.

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"Mettle" is courage or fighting spirit; the commander asks for "proof of your mettle" and you apparently relay stories of the battle to him. You get recognised for that.

You took serious injury, your internal fighting spirit went down, but your recognised rank can't be reduced. That sounds reasonably logical to me.

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Originally Posted by Rosa_Frandlia

It could also be argued that the meteor called down caused a lot of damage. I'll give you a picture for example after a volcanic eruption of a highly forested area to compare as I feel they would be similar in destruction levels. This is by Spirit Lake in Washington

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It doesn't sound like a meteor, but a massive energy blast, and you can see exactly what it did. The giant crater to the south of the map is where it hit, and the buildings in the middle zone are melted and blown outwards. The scout at the first checkpoint tells you about it.

1. True. Even if it's a battlefield it feels empty.
2. I agree here as well, the goal is to guive different options but not something that is better.
3. Dude there's a skip button, use it if you don't care lol. You are not the only player here, a lot of other play this game for the story and nothing else.
4. It's not that hard come on... And if everything is too easy where is the fun? Trying to get better is more funny than pushing buttons and waiting the end of a fight imo.
5. I can't really comment on that i didnt even try to get in one (at least not seriously).
6. I don't care so i wont say anything.
7. Yeah but we have more quality ... Right?
8. It's waaaaaaay too much. If SE wants more farming they need to make more content and less "do this 10000 times to get 1 part of your gear".

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Originally Posted by Iscah

"Mettle" is courage or fighting spirit; the commander asks for "proof of your mettle" and you apparently relay stories of the battle to him. You get recognised for that.

You took serious injury, your internal fighting spirit went down, but your recognised rank can't be reduced. That sounds reasonably logical to me.

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I'm not objecting to the concept of losing mettle for dying - I'm objecting (albeit lightly, it's not really the worst feature by any stretch) to the notion of losing mettle regardless of whether or not you're resurrected. You could just as easily spin it as having an amazing tale of mettle where you got back up and kept fighting. If you don't get resurrected, that's another story.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I don't think you understand what those pictures are showing - or if you do, you're not phrasing it very well.

Those are "battlefields", but the battle was a hundred years ago. Woods have regrown over the fields. Fortifications and destroyed villages have turned to pretty moss-covered ruins. They haven't been preserved as they were.

It doesn't sound like a meteor, but a massive energy blast, and you can see exactly what it did. The giant crater to the south of the map is where it hit, and the buildings in the middle zone are melted and blown outwards. The scout at the first checkpoint tells you about it.

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I'm well aware that land does not stay the same after 100 years and that time does indeed move forward. However the land formations, before overgrown, were still divoted sharply and could provide interesting geological formations on the landscape. They were just a few examples, I trust that the professionals at Square have an imagination that could extrapolate on a basic visual concept like that if so chosen. They have complete control over the setting, and this isn't a real-life 1:1 recreation of anywhere that exists in the world. There are a number of creative liberties that could be taken. If they had treated ARR areas the way they treated Bozja, Mor Dhona would be incredibly unremarkable -- but it remains one of the most visually alien and interesting terrains in the game. We wouldn't have Pharos looking like it does, which remains one of my favorite landmarks.

Anyway, I think I've made my points exhaustively on the thread. Their art direction, among others, is suprrisingly underwhelming to me and I wish it was better. That's pretty much the long and short of it. If you (general 'you') find them weak or unpersuasive, that's fine. I'm not going to beat them into the ground ad nauseum.

Homeboy does make a lot of threads though.......Most of them get a ton of heat (Maybe folks are playing into is hands muahahaha). Even if people do think he is trolling, you are giving him what he wants by continuing to reply.

Even if he does multiple forum account, I aint the one to call him out on that...... I have two accounts by mistake actually. The give away are the corny sigs. I bought FFXIV when it was on sale, but it was the EU version. So, I hastily purchased the US version while the sale was ongoing only to discover the only difference was currency....but it runs you the same price.....
https://buikitty.files.wordpress.com...202-094434.jpg

You gotta admit though.....RTX3080 is the best at what he does.....
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/of8AA...8oG/s-l400.jpg

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Originally Posted by Juzjuzz

1. True. Even if it's a battlefield it feels empty.
2. I agree here as well, the goal is to guive different options but not something that is better.
3. Dude there's a skip button, use it if you don't care lol. You are not the only player here, a lot of other play this game for the story and nothing else.
4. It's not that hard come on... And if everything is too easy where is the fun? Trying to get better is more funny than pushing buttons and waiting the end of a fight imo.
5. I can't really comment on that i didnt even try to get in one (at least not seriously).
6. I don't care so i wont say anything.
7. Yeah but we have more quality ... Right?
8. It's waaaaaaay too much. If SE wants more farming they need to make more content and less "do this 10000 times to get 1 part of your gear".

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Skipping cutscenes is a no-no in FF14 unless you want people telling you you're evil for not respecting the story :/

I preferred Eureka. The sense of progression and danger was better designed imo.

Higher level mobs were an actual threat in Eureka. In Bozja mobs are just...annoying, and cluster fodder. Leveling up in Eureka meant something. It doesn't mean anything in Bozja past unlocking a few logos actions, castrum and a couple areas. The mob rank system I feel is a complete downgrade too.

The landscapes can't even be compared. Eureka was gorgeous. Bozja is depressing xD.

Fate mechanics were too a lot more interesting in Eureka, regular Bozja fates are literally normal fates from the open world, they seriously can't be any more boring, and there doesn't seem to be any middle ground, you either fall asleep collecting items in fates or get decimated in a critical engagement by a red chocobo with anger issues.

Eureka on release was full of people and it kept being active for a very long time (it was actually active until a couple weeks ago, like literally).
Bozja? I was alone doing fates on the third area yesterday because there were 15 people in the instance.