Mods and cheat engine

[Sarnai]

Cactbot is cheating, and has created a generation of useless players that sandbag extremely hard on patch days.

You know it is normal to fail mechs you see for the first time on patch day? I don't ever use cactbot, yet I still need some time for a mech to click for me and may "sandbag extremely hard" when I need more time to understand what just happened. Hell, even not on patch day and with guides released we still can go "why did I die" in savage ver just because sometimes game itself can blurp and one shot fully mitigated tank because of server lag.

So cactbot isn't at fault that people fail content they see for the first time lmao

[LittleImp]

You know it is normal to fail mechs you see for the first time on patch day? I don't ever use cactbot, yet I still need some time for a mech to click for me and may "sandbag extremely hard" when I need more time to understand what just happened. Hell, even not on patch day and with guides released we still can go "why did I die" in savage ver just because sometimes game itself can blurp and one shot fully mitigated tank because of server lag.

So cactbot isn't at fault that people fail content they see for the first time lmao

You don't actually understand what I'm saying.

SE makes alterations to the game during even minor patches, which causes the FFXIV parsing plugin to break. It then has to be manually updated by its maintainer, and tested by the community before being released. This process has accelerated over the past few years, but can take anywhere from like 4 to 12 hours.

During this time, Cactbot does not work, including in content that has already been available for months. I've literally been in a static that would cancel Tuesday raids if there was maintenance, because some of the members were not confident enough to get reclears while Cactbot wasn't working

[Melorie]

I'm impressed by how much energy people waste by hating on things that hardly impact on their gameplay and going into a fantasy witch-hunt against people using it. That paranoia is impressive, really. Don't you have, like, literally anything better to do?

However, yeah, I also feel like cactbot is kinda cheating. But is cheating in a game with zero competitive aspect even relevant?