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

[royox]

Threads like this is why Dawntrail MSQ is an absolute borefest full of "talk to Wuk Lamat" quests and "Follow this person without getting caught". We had at least 2 BIG moments in the MSQ that should have been playable:

The TRAIN Scene, using the turrets or fighting enemies trying to board. And the first Tuliyolal Invasion, we should have been able to roam around the city fighting enemies and protecting the people

Instead we only got 144 "Speak to Wuk Lamat" quests because Visual Novel players cannot conceive pressing more than 2 buttons during the MSQ and cry every time the dev team creates something interesting like this solo duty, or the Thancread one.

[Rueby]

Threads like this is why Dawntrail MSQ is an absolute borefest full of "talk to Wuk Lamat" quests and "Follow this person without getting caught". We had at least 2 BIG moments in the MSQ that should have been playable:

The TRAIN Scene, using the turrets or fighting enemies trying to board. And the first Tuliyolal Invasion, we should have been able to roam around the city fighting enemies and protecting the people

Instead we only got 144 "Speak to Wuk Lamat" quests because Visual Novel players cannot conceive pressing more than 2 buttons during the MSQ and cry every time the dev team creates something interesting like this solo duty, or the Thancread one.

Have to make any kind of effort to finish a solo duty? Nooo let the duty automatically finish itself please I hate it.

In from the Cold was my favorite solo duty but they gutted it apparently cause too hard, not enough handholding. Please Yoshi P.

I'm not surprised that DT has more of the sleeper objectives, EW had alot of 'escort this' 'walk there', truly putting the walk in Endwalker...

[ConantSivrha]

Threads like this is why Dawntrail MSQ is an absolute borefest full of "talk to Wuk Lamat" quests and "Follow this person without getting caught".

I doubt that Dawntrail’s low number of solo duties is the result of this thread, especially since one of the four solo duties we did get was still one that didn’t let us play our character’s job. Endwalker’s MSQ without patch content has five solo duties—only one more than we got in Dawntrail—so this problem isn’t even new. To me, Dawntrail and Endwalker feel similarly dead in terms of gameplay. But Dawntrail is longer than Endwalker, so the combat segments have longer stretches of cutscene/dialogue/walking time in-between them, and Dawntrail’s story is less well-liked than Endwalker’s, so people are noticing the lackluster gameplay experience more because they’re not engrossed in the story.

In any case “almost all gameplay outside of walking and clicking through dialogue should be cut from future expansions’ MSQ” would not have been a reasonable takeaway from reading a thread in which people are saying “I didn’t enjoy this one specific solo duty (which has a misleading objective, three buttons for your character, no automatic HP regen, ‘stealth’ in a game that generally isn’t built with stealth gameplay in mind, and a very slow gameplay experience overall)”.