Ruining game experience

[Niwashi]

I was not only talking about the dungeons but the MAIN QUEST, how as a new player am I supposed to learn the necessary attacks to kill monsters, gain experience, get items from drop, and watch cut scenes if a bunch of level 50 players takes it away and does all the work.

Except for the dungeons, you do the rest of the main scenario solo, so there is nobody to take over, and you can take all the time you want.

In the dungeons, where you have a party of other players, they'll usually slow down and give you a chance to see everything if you let them know that you're new. They may give you some pointers as well, letting you know what's coming up in the next boss fight, and so on. If, even knowing that it's your first time there, the level 50 players you were grouped with still take over and leave you behind, then you unfortunately got stuck with a rude bunch of jerks. That happens sometimes when you're playing with other people, especially if you get matched up randomly with those other people. Forming a group yourself by finding like-minded players to join you can improve your odds significantly.

[Assassin01]

I am not being selfish, as it's my FIRST time playing, there may be something in the cut scenes that may be important. If the others run off and leave me, I'm left standing twiddling my thumbs for half an hour, doing nothing, not gaining experience or knowledge of how to defeat monsters because they do all the work.

[Assassin01]

You can't do the last two story missions in solo, you need help. How in the dungeons etc are you supposed to let them know your a newbie, surely they would guess that from the amount of health you have and then play to compensate for that especially when your on the PS4

[Eye_Gore]

You have to talk to your team. Most of the people who play this game are very helpful and understanding, but you have to say something. Yes there are going to be those donkey players but in low level stuff it is rare to get one, or atleast I thought. Every time I have asked for help and to go slow, everyone was very nice about, they remember that they were new once too.

There is the party finder too where you can set terms and people from your server can help you. Again I have done this too, and it always turns out good and we all have fun.

[JimboTCB]

You're not being selfish, you just want seven other players to sit around twiddling their thumbs while you watch cutscenes? Okay. The game is designed to incentivise people to run "old" content for the benefit of people who need to do those places for storyline progression, without that there'd be almost no interest in doing them and you'd probably not be able to complete the main scenario at all.

If you want to make a non-duty finder group to go at a level-appropriate pace and watch all the exposition, make a group manually via Party Finder and specify that it's not a speedrun and you won't be skipping cutscenes. Good luck with that.

[Assassin01]

Is this how you treat new players, you would rather me do nothing for half an hour than have a level 50 player wait for TWO mins when you have two hours to complete the quest.

[Reimia]

Is this how you treat new players, you would rather me do nothing for half an hour than have a level 50 player wait for TWO mins when you have two hours to complete the quest.

If it was only 2 mins, no one would care.

[Tiqa]

Better one person to be spoiled than 7. You can't ask seven ppl to wait tenth of minutes for you and not calling it selfishness.

You know you can watch all cut scenes in your room in any inn. This way you can still enjoy the run and learn mechanics, without making anyone waiting insanely , THEN go seeing CS and close the gap in scenariis.

That said, most of time, old players are rather comprehensives and agree to wait a little bit, and to explain the fight. Only in castrum meridianum and preatorium I've seen ppl becoming impatient, but you have to understand that cutscenes in these two runs are insanely long, that they are many of them, and that you can complete the mission without necessarily watching them.

[Assassin01]

Thank you so much, I didn't know that you could re-watch the cut scenes, nobody's actually mentioned it before, you're the first person to give me hints/advice on this game.

[Assassin01]

But by skipping the cut scenes anywhere means that you don't know what's going on by watching them at the time the other players disappear and leave you behind, I thought that doing the missions and seeing the cutscenes you are following the story as it's meant to be seen. But for some main mission battles with other players the cut scene is only available if you re-do the mission, so if you skip it, you won't know what happens.