SoS Normal, why the mandatory active time event?

[Bukachu]

love how friendly community of critically aclaimed MMO goes on "hehe kick underperformers" rampage when it benefits them. LOL

[Equitable_Remedy]

Every single time I've run this fight and we fail more than one time in a row:

"Just fyi.. you can push ALL the buttons and they count. Controller or keyboard as long as it's not "chat""

next time: Pass.

This is the way.

[Jojoya]

If they don't know by SoS, and fail a second time after being told to just roll their entire face across the keyboard. Kick em, maybe report if you wanna feel spicy. That's just trolling at that point.

Why would they know by the time they get to SoS when failing it in the other duties with it doesn't wipe the party? Most trial parties I'm in shrug when the sprouts die, finish the trial and leave while the sprout is still watching the Duty Complete cutscene. Unless there was a wipe (extremely rare in other normal trials with the event), it's not likely anyone is going to stop to explain.

You can't assume someone is trolling just because they fail the same mechanic a couple of times in a row. What if the player is a non-English speaker and so can't understand the explanation given for the mechanic? How many party members would be willing to sort through the auto-translate trying to find phrases that would explain it sufficiently?

SoS QTE is rough in the case of 'if you don't break your keyboard you'll die'.

It's actually not that demanding on the player. The rapid drop at the start is a fake out to add a sense of panic and urgency. Tapping just as rapidly as you would in any other encounter is sufficient.

[NekoMataMata]

I mean, it's always the underperformers

Aaaah, right. So using the magic toolbox that Yoshi P says we're not supposed to have we kick out those with the lowest scores and then...

Oh my! It's still happening! You know why? Because people troll! Somehow the person dealing the most damage is failing. How could we have ever predicted this?


And for anyone wondering, yes I've been in runs where the first time everyone passed the QTE and then after an unfortunate wipe we suddenly ended up failing repeatedly, again and again. One specific run I remember was where both tanks were new and didn't pop LB3. People were very spiteful and we failed about 5-6 times before I left(after half the original party had already left as well).

[Liam_Harper]

Honestly I don't get why this is something the community defend. It's like they don't really care if it's a bad feature or not, they just see another opportunity to disagree with someone else and spout "git gud" and "kick the bads" (when they're probably quite bad at the game themselves anyway).

There is no point in the ATE. It's not a skill check. It's not a mechanic to figure out. It's not an interesting part of the fight. Just mash random buttons. There is zero reason failing it should result in a group wipe. Fairly simple.

Yet here we all are arguing about it anyway, just for the sake of arguing.

[NanaWiloh]

Sos ate event sucks period. I can do every other ate event in this game with just my space bar. Sos ate NOPE need to hit space bar and at least two other keys to avoid failing, and even that is barely enough.

[Themarvin]

press any key or faceroll keyboard... works in EX too.

[ICountFrom0]

Honestly I don't get why this is something the community defend.

I don't think anybody is actually defending the QTE as good. I've not seen a single person say that they LIKE it, and look forward to it.

[DevonEllwood]

A couple of weeks ago, I configured my keybinds and made R my reply key for chat. During the ATE, I randomly pressed keys in the center like I used to. I forgot about R. Chat box opened, became filled with gibberish, hit enter to close the box, everyone sees gibberish, we wipe.

I apologize profusely and we continue. And then I accidentally did it again.

I reset my PC and hid under my blanket for an hour. I’m 41 years old.

At least you realized you needed to do the event. At least you read the chat. I had an instance where, after the first wipe people asked in chat who didn't click. People were told EVERYONE needs to click. We wipe again. I'm pretty sure we wiped a third time, I'm not sure, I had blocked it from my memory until I saw your story but the person finally responded in chat that they didn't know everyone needed to do the event. Which brings up so many questions, were they just not doing all the active time events up until now or something?

These active time events are just silly.

The true test of the Warrior of Light is spamming the same button quickly for 10 seconds.

That proves something, I guess?

Extend 10 seconds to 5-15 minutes and sprinkle in a couple other buttons at random intervals and you'd be playing a healer.

[SassyAssassin]

Yeah it should be removed and lel at the edgy kids that want to kick people as soon as they make one mistake, I wish upon you the same treatment in any new online game you’ll play