Can we get more Jumping Puzzles please ?

[ehbiwtf]

Didn't there used to be one in costa del sol for the event? Last year it wasn't there, so never got to do that one.

Anyway ya can't please everyone obviously, but I'm not sure why anyone would be against adding more puzzles. If you don't like them, don't do them? When I first started doing kugane it took me like 2 hours to get to the top, and after practicing here and there, now I can do it in 1 minute from the bridge w/just pelo.

[Floortank]

Didn't there used to be one in costa del sol for the event? Last year it wasn't there, so never got to do that one.

I wish they'd add an instanced version of that to the Gold Saucer.

[Batbrat]

The worst part of the jump puzzles is having to abuse the invisible platforms to position for the start of your jump while simultaneously having to avoid hitting your head or shoulder on an invisible box in the middle of your jump. Our jump puzzles are not designed well.

I actually have a solution for this! For some reason, I'm never where I seem to be on screen! So I can never do these right, but I DID still need the sightseeing logs, so what I did was!! Marry someone who's great at them, and then when they get to the top, I used the Eternity Ring to teleport right there too and get the log. Remember everyone, marry wisely. Both in real life and in game!

[Tlamila]

I actually have a solution for this! For some reason, I'm never where I seem to be on screen! So I can never do these right, but I DID still need the sightseeing logs, so what I did was!! Marry someone who's great at them, and then when they get to the top, I used the Eternity Ring to teleport right there too and get the log. Remember everyone, marry wisely. Both in real life and in game!

That's what i did, actually xD But not before getting very frustrated trying to do it for hours and never being able to get past the first two jumps and giving up for several months after.
And for the ones not as far up, you can self-destruct with BLU and the ressed up there. Like, to get on the balcony of the blacksmith house.

Oh, OP, apart from the mentioned Leap of Faith at the Golden Saucer, another jumping puzzle you can always do if you have an house with garden is the mini-Heaven on High. Or in general with a garden you can set up items in a way to build jumping puzzles. They always did it at my old fc.

[Jin-]

That's exactly why I hate jumping puzzles in XIV. GW2 was build for it, here it isn't. Kugane Tower was horrible and I hope it does in a fire.

Either way jumping is more realistic here. We cannot move in the air while in GW2 you can.
I do agree it's more fun in GW2. Breaking boundaries?

[Bsrking5]

uh, hard to fly when you don't have the currents, don't you think? Also if you're telling me all the jumps required to get to some, like the infamous one in The Lochs, weren't jumping puzzles, idk what you're on.

Uh, what? The lochs one? Where, which one? Even back then there was 2 seater mounts so you get it without jumping. Are you sure your not talking about a vista?

[Chronotrigger]

While I love jumping puzzles, especially from GW2, the jumping engine/bounding boxes in FFXIV are not built for them. They need to severely overhaul how jumping even works. You can see what I mean in Kugane, or especially after clearing the 2.0 sightseeing log.

So, while I agree, I also caution to keep in mind what this would mean and what would be needed to make actual enjoyable content. As is, the jumping engine (and to an extent their racing engine) are just not well designed.

It's like trying to host a Lan Party at your house using janky wi-fi. It's not that the game itself is bad, it's that the hardware to support play needs work to make it enjoyable/playable.

In my opinion part of the fun is to figure out how to do the jumping puzzle with the possibilties that are available to you.
The Engine is part of this and while you can complain that there are other games with more suitable Engines, it will not change the fact that more jumping puzzles in FF14 would provide a lot of fun.

I also agree that jumping puzzles should be purely optional.

hat's exactly why I hate jumping puzzles in XIV. GW2 was build for it, here it isn't. Kugane Tower was horrible and I hope it does in a fire.

OT: If you find KT horrible than you have probably never tried some of the more challenging GW2 jumping puzzles XD

[TaleraRistain]

Can we get some better physics for them first? Having to figure out which platforms let you stand two feet off the edge, which ones require pixel-perfect landings, which overhangs you can jump through vs which ones will push you away, and whatever other odd quirks are in the way, isn't much fun to me.

All of this. It's not much of a puzzle if you never know when the engine is going to function correctly and when it arbitrarily won't.

[Satarn]

uh, hard to fly when you don't have the currents, don't you think? Also if you're telling me all the jumps required to get to some, like the infamous one in The Lochs, weren't jumping puzzles, idk what you're on. Not all jumping puzzles are of the magniture of Kugane Tower one, you know? Something that needs a series of calculated and precise jumps to reach IS a jumping puzzles.

And sure, if you hate them don't do them, easy to say. In that case, they would have to make them not tied to absolutely any current or vista. And then people would complain they went crazy to do some awful jump puzzle and got nothing out of it (except for those very few who actually enjoy them).

1) Two-sitter mounts exist, people use them to speed-up unlocking aether currents all the time.

2) Can't be all that "infamous" because I have literally no clue what you are talking about. Sounds like you've just got some personal hangup about it and just assumed everyone else must've felt the same. Even if there was something that required a couple jumps, that's hardly some big deal. There's always bound to be a couple quests or whatever in the MSQ you dislike and you have to do them all the same. As long as it's not actually taking a lot of your time you're just being dramatic.

3) Why can't vistas be tied to them? The entire point of vistas is that they're in some odd spots, often somewhat difficult to reach. You don't need vistas for anything other than getting the vistas, even the paintings which they unlock you can just buy from somebody else. It's like saying you don't like that you need to clear savage to get the savage clearing achievement. It's just hella entitled.
And why would people complain about them if they truly didn't even give anything at all, not even vistas? Is it you? Are you just projecting because you would be somehow bothered by it?

[Abelisk]

Jumping in GW2 felt a lot more fluid and physical, in FFXIV if you jump you can't adjust your trajectory making jumping puzzles not feel as good.