"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[ConantSivrha]

Having replayed Endwalker during the cloud data center stress test, I became aware that (for me) most of this duty's "difficulty" came from its misleading objective. I hated it the first time, largely because I initially assumed "reach Camp Broken Glass" meant "walk towards Camp Broken Glass" not "wander around the ruined city and click on things, because there's a wall of magic red dots between you and Camp Broken Glass".

The second time around, I only hated it because it was functionally identical to (and about as engaging as) an unskippable cutscene.

The people in this thread saying this duty "makes you feel something" are right. In many cases, the "something" seems to be frustration and disappointment.

You will now witness an off-topic screenshot of my Cloudtest02 character.

[Dogempire]

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Yeah, that's the one thing I dislike about this battle quest, the objective is "Reach Camp Broken Glass" yet there's a barrier preventing you from getting there and a time limit

I literally had to open an online guide to figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do because even though I've literally solo'd HoH before and have no problem whatsoever in sneaking past mobs and picking my fights, you can't just give us a quest objective but the actual objective is entirely unrelated to what's stated on screen because you're supposed to interact with a bunch of BS hidden in the middle of a ton of mobs to generate a hidden McGuffin and then team up with a bunch of NPCs to beat up the bad guys.

None of that is related to reaching camp broken glass, and it makes no sense why I can't simply run in that direction.

Hell if I ever replay through EW I'm probably gonna have to consult a guide again that shows me where the magical McGuffins I have to interact with are, assuming they didn't tweak the quest