7th Alpha video "Levequests and Party Combat"

[Bittereye]

Greetings!

In regards to all of the comments about how the enemies visibly react to player attacks, we'll be adjusting these animations around the time the Beta Test begins.

Specifically we are looking into addressing it in the following ways:

• Vary the damage animation according to the amount of damage inflicted.
• Tone down the damage animation for large monsters.

Very Very nice, Camate!! Tyvm!!

[Alerith]

Nice to hear, but there is any info on why the fights looks so static? ... 5 mins of spamming ws vs tank & spank mobs..
This look pretty boring to people used to the "new" games...

Combo system isn't in place? CNJ doesn't need to move? ARC doesn't need to move unless you're combo'ing...which isn't in place yet? Alpha? Bad players? Simplistic showcase?

[Kirito]

thanks... I didn't mind the fliching so much... but whatever makes everyone happy ^^

[MizoreShirayuki]

Hopefully the beta shows a revamped battle system because the system in the video looks boring.

[Alerith]

Hopefully the beta shows a revamped battle system because one in video looks boring.

Hopefully the battle system in the beta changes very little, because the one in the video looks fun and entertaining.

[MizoreShirayuki]

Skill spam isn't fun. Steam rolling content and getting bored after a month means people won't stick around. Hopefully these thing's still aren't present in 2.0 from 1.0 But I'll beat my drum come beta. Alpha is bare bones as can be.

[Jennika]

Nice to hear, but there is any info on why the fights looks so static? ... 5 mins of spamming ws vs tank & spank mobs..
This look pretty boring to people used to the "new" games...

I'm not trying to beat a dead horse, but this is just the alpha phase so I'm not too worried about the combat.

Take the turtle fight for instance:

1. Yes, the combat might look a tad fast for alot of us who played (only) FFXI, but as long as it is challenging and fun most of us will adjust quite easily. There are no gear swaps to worry about and I think I read that there will be no haste. We will have to wait and see what they do with "store tp".

2. The party appears to consist solely of WHM, DRG, and BRD. So at any point in the fight one of those classes is tanking and nobody is taking much damage. Personally I could easily watch a 5 min wipe-fest of this fight and be entertained but it probably wouldn't make for a very interesting video to most people, or alpha test for that matter. Most likely the mobs are weak and players are buffed pretty well and this is a battle system and ability demo, not a real fight.

If come Beta fights look like this all we will need is a post that says "fights are boring and too easy, please add challenge" with 5,000 likes and it will get fixed but I doubt that that will be necessary.

3. The mob hit animation has already been commented on by SE.

tl;dr: Comments and constructive criticism are good, but wait til beta before you freak out. Just my $.02.

[Alerith]

Skill spam isn't fun.

How do you intend to defeat the enemy without using any skills? Or would you prefer....Parley?

[Hanabira]

even in 1.0 it was a bit of a skill spam. being forced to use skills in a specific order doesnt change that. But i hope conditional and directional skills make a return.

but notice that the 2 battles we saw seem to be normal battles vs mobs with very high HP. I assume the event and primal battles will still have several "events" inside of them. IE, break the machines to lower the shield while kiting the robot and killing the mobs

[Zehira]

Greetings!

In regards to all of the comments about how the enemies visibly react to player attacks, we'll be adjusting these animations around the time the Beta Test begins.

Specifically we are looking into addressing it in the following ways:

• Vary the damage animation according to the amount of damage inflicted.
• Tone down the damage animation for large monsters.

Whew, thank you!

How do you intend to defeat the enemy without using any skills? Or would you prefer....Parley?

Oh, I want to see more of Yoshi-P pics like that!