QoL update for being locked in Cutscenes MAJORLY needed

[Packetdancer]

I'm not seeing anything for them to fix. If you could change your job and accept into the duty, then you're just going to get cut off when you get pulled in anyway. And now you have to deal with your chat screens being visible so you lose immersion.

If you're already on the job in question and click accept, it cancels the cutscene without marking that step of questing done; when you come back out of whatever you queued into, you can restart the cutscene. If you hit Escape to cancel the cutscene and skip it, however, it marks it as done/watched and you have to go find it in the inn journal to watch it afterwards.

There is no way to manually do the first behavior (cancel cutscene) as opposed to the second (skip cutscene), which I suspect is the complaint.

Either adding a 'cancel/back out' so you can bounce and change job without losing the cutscene, or giving an 'Accept and Change Job' button while in the cutscene would address the issue.

[Mykll]

This problem is why, when I can, do a cutscene on the job that I queue up as. So I can accept it, and come back to do the cutscene from the beginning again, not missing anything. Yes there are times where you can't do it, due to level/job requirements and such. So I have been able to limit that problem a little, but, yes, it would be nice if there was a real solution.

[LisSquid]

I also want to put it out there: Canceling dialogue should take one click. I have been killed in Bozja over being locked in the turn in fate quest dialogue and could do nothing but watch, furiously smashing escape, as I was nuked by four aoes.

[Goji1639]

I've had the same problem and I agree it should be fixed. While sitting in a long queue you might want to do something like play through a little story content on a different class, but if the queue pops in the middle of dialogue you have 2 options: let the dialogue finish and miss the queue, or skip the dialogue and lose it forever. There's absolutely no reason you shouldn't be able to just cancel out of dialogue and start it over; it's one of those basic things that pretty much every story driven game lets you do that's conspicuously missing from this game.

Pretty much every extremely basic feature this game is missing usually boils down to spaghetti code.

[kidalutz]

I think they're just saying hey let us click commence no matter the cut scene I'm in. And just have it reset the conversation.

[Wyssahtyn]

Wouldn't mind them figuring out a way to do it like SWTOR does. Just hit escape in a cutscene and it'll be like you haven't talked to the NPC yet. Engine's probably not built for it though or something.

[VirusChris]

My suggestion would be if I'm in a cutscene, the que "shifts" my spot for the next person available until I'm out of the cutscene. Like "waiting in line and I suddenly need to take a call and allow the person behind me to go next until I'm done" sort of thing.

I'm of the same opinion. I want to do my Dailies and que, but I got stuck in a CS (one I'm wasn't aware of was going to happen) and don't want to skip it as some CS are not in the Inn's book to rewatch cutscenes. I like reading up on the story and characters so I avoid them.

Heck even when I'm waiting on my party members and they que while I'm in the cutscene and it pops instantly. I wish for another option to help.

Though if I accept while in the cutscene it CANCELS the progress so when I'm done I return to the NPC to re-start the cutscene. It's there, just not well-known.

[Packetdancer]

Wouldn't mind them figuring out a way to do it like SWTOR does. Just hit escape in a cutscene and it'll be like you haven't talked to the NPC yet. Engine's probably not built for it though or something.

No, in this case, the engine's demonstrably able to handle it (since it does exactly that behind the scenes when you're on the correct job already and just click accept). It's just that Escape is used to skip cutscenes, and we evidently don't have any user-triggerable input bound to the 'cancel out' function.

[Iscah]

If you're already on the job in question and click accept, it cancels the cutscene without marking that step of questing done; when you come back out of whatever you queued into, you can restart the cutscene. If you hit Escape to cancel the cutscene and skip it, however, it marks it as done/watched and you have to go find it in the inn journal to watch it afterwards.

I've been having trouble with the "accept without skipping" approach to cutscenes lately. Half the time it gives some kind of error when you try to accept the duty - something about being occupied, I think - and it will not let you do it without skipping the cutscene (or cancelling the duty queue). I'm keeping track as I come across them and might try filing it as a bug report if I get enough data about which ones do and don't let you skip.

If it's technically possible, a good solution might be to pause your place in the queue (or let you climb to #1 and then pause) while you're watching cutscenes.

[TheSpooks]

I have to admit that im pretty flabbergasted that some people would be oppose to a QoL change that effects no one but themselves (in a good way...)

Being told "Stay your lvl 60 rdm if you want to queue" oppose to being able to level up say my monk at 45 while I wait... Love the community but cmon...