Future .5 MSQ

[InkstainedGwyn]

There's also the chance that something in the latter half is a class/race/etc spoiler they're not ready to show yet.

[Hestzhyen]

Have patience and let the Devs pace the story as they see fit... they already have enough on their hands trying to deliver great cutscenes to warp up Stormblood while also working feverishly to get 5.0 completed. If splitting the patches into two parts is what it takes so as to maintain curiosity and interest until this summer, then so be it.

Have some patience.

I don't think OP is being impatient. I had the same feeling of "wait, we're stopping here?" going through the MSQ too. It abruptly comes to a screeching halt as if they only released exactly enough to fulfill the dungeon quota for the patch. I don't feel teased or excited, just slightly confused that they didn't even try to make it less noticeable. Like, okay, I guess I'll twiddle my thumbs until March then... got work to do, other games to play, etc. I remember feeling a lot more amped up around this time in HW.

[Mansion]

The 4.5 part 1 MSQ is awkward, it's just a fact. The pacing since 4.4 is questionable to say the least, although the story behind is good.

I would actually prefer them to swap whatever is coming later, and have no MSQ on .5 in the first part. Then deliver the whole MSQ later in the patch, so at least the feeble immersion is kept whole. I won't go into too much details cuz I'm idiot and don't know how to use spoiler hide on the forum, but I'm not happy with 4.5.

It's not about being impatient to get the second part, it's more a feeling of "... wait what? all this for that?"

[Maero]

Because we know how fast the content just added will last for many players. Which i think is part of the reason they split it up

[DarthSanguine]

expansion is too far away for them not to split it.

Then they should just start making x.6 patches instead in future.

[Alleo]

I would also love to have at least the story in one patch and not splitted that much. We have enough other content that will come out in other smaller patches so why was the story necessary too, especially since this one really ended quite strange.

[SamsaraLotusx]

Because we know how fast the content just added will last for many players. Which i think is part of the reason they split it up

For a weak or 2. Split will not make it longer. People that dont want to play will not. Split will not make them stay

[SannaR]

Like this has been the first awkward story stop. Also how does both sides are taking a breather a bad place to stop?

[Iscah]

For reference, story covered in the previous X.5 patches:

2.50:
- Crystal Braves operation at Highbridge that makes them seems suspicious
- Keeper of the Lake dungeon
- Midgardsormr seals Hydaelyn's blessing
- Nabriales invades the Rising Stones
- The Chrysalis trial
- Moenbryda's death

2.55:
- defending Ishgard
- Steps of Faith trial
- Tataru's failed arcanist training
- accompanying a scholar taking aether readings
(interestingly "there has been a widespread decrease in ambient aether concentrations following the Calamity"...)
- discovery of Wilred's murder
- invitation and leadup to the banquet
- everything goes horribly wrong
- seeking refuge at Dragonhead


3.50
- M'naago arrives with warnings about The Griffin
- Baelsar's Wall dungeon
- summoning of Shinryu
- Papalymo's sacrifice to bind it

3.56
- Nero returns
- proposal to use Omega
- Gosetsu arrives with news from Doma
- Omega vs Shinryu
- Lyse reveals the truth of her identity
- preparations for war
- first brief appearance of Zenos

[Mansion]

- Tataru's failed arcanist training

That's what you call peak performance.