So that 7.1 msq...

[IvoryHawk]

simply put, we have B team while whatever SE has forced yoshida to shit out as the next FF game has the A team working on it, FF16 was the beginning of the end for quality control

[Fatch38]

that 7.1 just felt like a filler, nothing interesting was said for 90% of it

[Daralii]

I wasn't nearly as annoyed with the patch story in comparison to 7.0.

I'm in the same camp as everyone else who is wondering why they placed the focus on specific characters. I'm very lukewarm on the 'twist' at the end. I don't have much faith in the writing team for MSQ at this point so my expectations are in the ground.

Overall the writing was very mediocre. I had a lot of fun with the dungeon at least.

The big question is if it was more tolerable because it was better or because there was less of it.

[DynnDiablos]

I hated the 6.X patch series and it looks like I am going to hate the 7.X series too. I think the new writing team is completely unsure of what new story arch they are setting up because DT and now 7.1 don't feel the like start or foundation of anything new.

[Kisshu]

7.1 was basically three short stories and a prologue for 7.2. Lets have a funeral and reminds the players that Alexandrians have no idea about deaths (nor emotions), lets help the gecko find out something about his mom, lets retread all the miqo'te native lore because Koana is here now and we love cows.

What are the odds that the fake queen is one of the remaining ascians (if the writers can even remember that some are unaccounted for).

I hated the 6.X patch series and it looks like I am going to hate the 7.X series too. I think the new writing team is completely unsure of what new story arch they are setting up because DT and now 7.1 don't feel the like start or foundation of anything new.

They're setting up more rift travel, it's the only real plothook they got left that can carry the story. What happens to the Alexandrians really don't move the story unless they all go evil, and finding out more of the lizard mom won't do much to set up a new story.

[arstoka]

The big question is if it was more tolerable because it was better or because there was less of it.

It certainly wasn't better, in my opinion lol
There were only two parts that intrigued me and one was resolved by Wuk Lamat at the beginning of the patch. The other was the dungeon notes themselves hinting at a more interesting plot that we aren't likely to see.

[St0rmy]

Just finished it, the stuff with Gulool Ja was alright I guess. I was interested in it but it seems they already resolved that plotline.

The stuff with Koana genuinely feels like the biggest MacGuffin they've ever done. They took one of the cool things about Koana and just wrote it off. Because Tural can't have flaws, it has to be 100% perfect where nothing bad happens with no bad people, everyone has to get along just fine.

The random hunter showing up that just so happened to be at the village when Koana's parents were killed and explained away as "I heard them say "Protect our son!!!"" just took me out of it. That whole portion of the MSQ was so awful. It just perfectly solved every issue they had within a single day. The issue with the train tracks scaring the animals, solved perfectly. The conflict between the train operators (if you can call it a conflict) and the nomadic tribe, solved perfectly. All it took was the death of a single monster and it just fixed every single issue.

I seriously don't know what they're doing or expecting out of this. I enjoyed DT's story for the most part. It had flaws but it's no where near as bad as people make it out to be. But this is something entirely different. This genuinely is probably the lowest MSQ has ever been. Unvoiced Side quest content is more interesting than this.

I'd rather go back to Post Patch ARR.

That said the fight content is great. Newest dungeon is my favorite dungeon now. I wish I could be as positive about the story content.

[Elissar]

Bad writing is SE big plan to expose fake streamers, change my mind

[Amh_Wilzuun]

How did some of y'all survive the 5.1 MSQ lmao, that one was like 90% about the Eulmore mayor election.

I would say 7.1 has been better than the 6.1 MSQ since it directly addresses loose ends left from the main MSQ.

[Astronema]

You got to fight a chupracobra that uses the bottomless pit trap card with hovering rocks that look like testicles and then sperm when they overlap with the other mobs and the tail sticks out.
You got to explore Baxter stockmans lab before he gets turned into a fly mutant after he gets approval from lizard shredder to begin human mutagen trials.
The person we killed comes back to life in multiple versions. Yeah we get to run in a circle story wise until we hit a pole and knock ourseleves out.