Overtuned MSQ 4-mans and subpar story ends 12-year journey

[AlienDiplomat]

Can you please provide an example here? Like genuinely. “Unimaginative, unintuitive insta-death mechanics”

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 2: "Lost Hope"
Four random players need to rely on their ping and spatial relationship ability to line up the spinning hand in multiple directions to navigate through zig zag paths to the outside of the room or they are 1-shot.

Everyone I talk to hates the spinning hand mechanic, but they keep using it. Re: unimaginative + 1-shot.

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 3: AOE Spirals
Absolute cluster of visually confusing animation effects. Very large AOE spirals fill up whole room rather than alternating rows as implied by the pre-AOE visuals (and every other similar mechanic in the game). Must locate the 1 or 2 small safe spaces instead. Very short duration between AOE circles appearing and damage vs. any MSQ-required 4-man prior to DT.

Could also point to the jump to Raging Claw on Boss 3 during the hole phase where you need to sprint to the tiny area behind him in time to avoid being killed, while avoiding falling in the insta-death hole, WHILE spread markers are dropped on you.

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/516111-Yuweyawata-Field-Station-is-so-wrong

youtube.com/watch?v=D0mGNw_Ps6Q

Like I said I'm sure raiders and people that enjoy more challenging roulettes love this stuff, but it has no place locking people out of progressing the base game MSQ.

[Supersnow845]

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 2: "Lost Hope"
Four random players need to rely on their ping and spatial relationship ability to line up the spinning hand in multiple directions to navigate through zig zag paths to the outside of the room or they are 1-shot.

Everyone I talk to hates the spinning hand mechanic, but they keep using it. Re: unimaginative + 1-shot.

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 3: AOE Spirals
Absolute cluster of visually confusing animation effects. Very large AOE spirals fill up whole room rather than alternating rows as implied by the pre-AOE visuals (and every other similar mechanic in the game). Must locate the 1 or 2 small safe spaces instead. Very short duration between AOE circles appearing and damage vs. any MSQ-required 4-man prior to DT.

Could also point to the jump to Raging Claw on Boss 3 during the hole phase where you need to sprint to the tiny area behind him in time to avoid being killed, while avoiding falling in the insta-death hole, WHILE spread markers are dropped on you.

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/516111-Yuweyawata-Field-Station-is-so-wrong

youtube.com/watch?v=D0mGNw_Ps6Q

Like I said I'm sure raiders and people that enjoy more challenging roulettes love this stuff, but it has no place locking people out of progressing the base game MSQ.

The AOE spirals are exactly the same mechanic we the last boss of the lunar subterene, like that isn’t even a unique mechanic. Hell lunar subterrane combines it with personal AOE’s while field station combines the personal AOE’s with the land worms which is a much easier mechanic

Lost hope is fair, you can argue that mechanic is overtuned but that’s also one mechanic, not the entirety of DT

[Eluvyel]

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 2: "Lost Hope"
Four random players need to rely on their ping and spatial relationship ability to line up the spinning hand in multiple directions to navigate through zig zag paths to the outside of the room or they are 1-shot.

Everyone I talk to hates the spinning hand mechanic, but they keep using it. Re: unimaginative + 1-shot.

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 3: AOE Spirals
Absolute cluster of visually confusing animation effects. Very large AOE spirals fill up whole room rather than alternating rows as implied by the pre-AOE visuals (and every other similar mechanic in the game). Must locate the 1 or 2 small safe spaces instead. Very short duration between AOE circles appearing and damage vs. any MSQ-required 4-man prior to DT.

Could also point to the jump to Raging Claw on Boss 3 during the hole phase where you need to sprint to the tiny area behind him in time to avoid being killed, while avoiding falling in the insta-death hole, WHILE spread markers are dropped on you.

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/516111-Yuweyawata-Field-Station-is-so-wrong

youtube.com/watch?v=D0mGNw_Ps6Q

Like I said I'm sure raiders and people that enjoy more challenging roulettes love this stuff, but it has no place locking people out of progressing the base game MSQ.

These are some really confusing examples. The spinning hands are quite literally solved by pointing the camera where you want to go and then just holding both mouse buttons when the hand aligns with the camera direction. There is no skill involved here.

The AoE spirals at boss 3 play the same every time and are solved with standing at the very edge of the spiral and the grueling task of...walking forward into the middle blindly once the mechanic starts resolving. You can even get hit twice and not die.

[Powercow]

Yuweyawata Field Station Boss 2: "Lost Hope"
Four random players need to rely on their ping and spatial relationship ability to line up the spinning hand in multiple directions to navigate through zig zag paths to the outside of the room or they are 1-shot.

If you're a Ninja, Reaper, Dancer, Pictomancer or White Mage you have 0 reason to ever die to this mechanic. Those jobs all have "hey I need to get to the safe spot" buttons that completely ignore the spinning hand. Anyone else, also 0 reason because you can literally hit Sprint, press W, and no matter where you were in the field beforehand you'll make it to the wall before the explosion hits. Sure you'll take a little bleed and a damage down, but the bleed is easily healed through with self-defensives (or just heals), and let's face it you getting a damage down isn't going to affect anything.