Solo Duties

[Tlamila]

I wanted to comment on this myself, after having finished the solo instance inside Cid's memories this morning. I'm not sure I like that the dev team is seemingly incorporating more and more solo instances to this game, especially since the multiplayer aspect is why I enjoy it so much. Plus there really aren't any rewards for doing these, minus progression and the rewards you would have received from completing the quest anyway. Also you can only do them once per playthrough.

I'm not sure I was interpreting this right, but apparently the next patch won't have a Trial because they're incorporating their resources into creating a solo duty instead. Regardless of how amazing this solo duty might be, I heavily disagree with this decision for the reasons listed above. However I could very well be misinterpreting something so please correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't remember anything about what you said from the live letter, but I might have missed it?

As for the rest, that one is actually one solo instance I loved. Because for a change it wasn't a "fight your enemy in a place identical to open world but instanced and just a long boring battle" but more "explore a dream and enjoy the crazy awesome scenery, as well as witness various cutscenes, ending with some fights to close it." Played as group content it would have ended to run quickly past the actual cool stuff and hurry to fight and get out. And we already have the trial of it, for that, tbh. I see the solo instance more as: take your time to live through the story.

[Wilford111]

I don't remember anything about what you said from the live letter, but I might have missed it?

As for the rest, that one is actually one solo instance I loved. Because for a change it wasn't a "fight your enemy in a place identical to open world but instanced and just a long boring battle" but more "explore a dream and enjoy the crazy awesome scenery, as well as witness various cutscenes, ending with some fights to close it." Played as group content it would have ended to run quickly past the actual cool stuff and hurry to fight and get out. And we already have the trial of it, for that, tbh. I see the solo instance more as: take your time to live through the story.

"Recently our solo instanced battles have been quite elaborate, and this one is no exception! There won’t be a new trial this time, as the resources for that were allocated into the main scenario."
This is what I was referring to.

Also, the dream sequence was cool but I felt I'd seen it before in Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep

[Elladie]

I enjoy the solo duties and very much hope they stay in the game. Anything that gives me more story and more lore, more insights into NPCs and more to fire my imagination is great. The Thancred fight was hard work, exhausting even, but it was fascinating too. I do wish people wouldn't start playing the game and then asked for it to be changed into a different game because they don't like X. There are Xs I don't like here either, and I've been playing for ten years, but they are not big enough Xs to drive me away. If they were, I'd go play something else.

I wish this game had something more like TESO's housing for example. But it doesn't. So if I need a housing experience, I go play TESO for a week. But TESO's story is bad, and the voiced everythings are really annoying so I only stay a week. I don't jump on the TESO forums and demand they change how they do the story, cutscenes, quests etc however because I know very well there are lots of folks who love those aspects of it.

[Mholito]

"Recently our solo instanced battles have been quite elaborate, and this one is no exception! There won’t be a new trial this time, as the resources for that were allocated into the main scenario."
This is what I was referring to.

Also, the dream sequence was cool but I felt I'd seen it before in Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep

That was refering to the Sorrow of Werlyt questline specifically, stating that there would be no new trial in that. Our trial for the patch will be a part of the main scenario, just like in 3.3 and 4.3.

[Frizze]

Yeah, theres for sure a trial in the next patch. A secret one they dont want to spoil just yet, along with a minstrels ballad/ex version too. From the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVIII Digest(05/012020)..

New Trial / Extreme Trial
(00:40:07)
Who you’ll be facing off against is still a secret. Please look forward to it!

And it has an image of a slide with any actual information hidden.

[Tlamila]

Yeah, theres for sure a trial in the next patch. A secret one they dont want to spoil just yet, along with a minstrels ballad/ex version too. From the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVIII Digest(05/012020)..

And it has an image of a slide with any actual information hidden.

Right, the one they said don't even try to guess because there's no way you can guess that right. I'm so curious.

[Frizze]

Yup, thats the one. Im guessing that we'll fight Tataru. Shes one of the last people we'd suspect.

[Tlamila]

Yup, thats the one. Im guessing that we'll fight Tataru. Shes one of the last people we'd suspect.

Well, now not anymore thanks to you, and they'll have to change it again! :P

[Frizze]

We fight the firsts version of Jandelaine. We go looking for him, because we figure that getting Elidibus a new hairstyle will lead to a new attitude. First-delaine refuses, so we attempt to convince him with a proposal drafted by the exarch and chai nuzz. Sadly, paper fails to convince the scissor man. So we smash him with a rock until he agrees. Elidibus looks so fabulous afterwards that all further calamities are cancelled. With the ascian problem now solved, we move toward solving the garlean/zenos problem in 6.0. Look forward to it!