24 man content DOA

[Tupsi]

how will you not be able to do it with FC? pls explain , can you only play it with randoms?

Yep, you can potentially go in with 8 people, but the other 16 are complete strangers unless you try to manipulate the system.

[Arriverderci]

how will you not be able to do it with FC? pls explain , can you only play it with randoms?

You can only do CT with 7 other people from your FC.
The rest is DF only.
But I do agree this is pretty much a silly move.

I'm more worried about how my group of 8 is gonna carry 16 others who are probably AFK (i've read some horror stories about the raidfinder in WoW, scary stuff)

We are getting the kick system too.

[Randalthor]

Please don't call them Square. When I hear Square, I think of the legendary Squaresoft. These guys are a formal shell of a shell of a tenth of those guys.

[Anonydort]

I'm more worried about how my group of 8 is gonna carry 16 others who are probably AFK (i've read some horror stories about the raidfinder in WoW, scary stuff)

[Sakasa]

I'm more worried about how my group of 8 is gonna carry 16 others who are probably AFK (i've read some horror stories about the raidfinder in WoW, scary stuff)

Well Yoshi P did say that some mechanics allow other parties to assist but some will force each party to operate on their own un assisted. So individual players of each party might be able to get carried but another party carrying another wont insure a completion and since no save points its all or nothing for each floor.

[OrionInerghem]

I think the DEVS should get a few weeks off work, nice vacation somewhere.


Because clearly they've worked themselves into complete madness.

[Ryios]

Why:

Because the game is not structured to allow more than 8 people in a party locally. You cannot be in a party with more than 8 people. To make it so you can they would have to do one of the following:

1. Allow an alliance with up to two 8 person parties: Which would require adding alt/ctrl support for targeting people in the 2nd and 3rd groups. Significant coding effort that would push the patch back even further. Because they didn't plan on this out of the gate. Or they were working on it and the patch got pushed back and they cut this out to get it launched.

2. Redo the Duty Finder entirely so that we don't have to be in a party to use it. I favor this idea. They should make the duty finder like a match selector from League Of Legends. E.g. Let's say you want to go to Crystal tower and you want to organize your own run so you go into the Duty Finder and select Crystal Tower. Then in there you click "Create Group" instead of "Join Group" where you get a new screen. At the top it would say "Crystal Tower" and at the bottom would be 3 sections, 1 for each group of 8. You would then invite a leader to group 2 and group 3. They would join you in the duty finder window. You would then invite your 7 people from the FC and they would invite their 7 people "All in the same FC" until all 24 people are in the Raid Creation Screen.

Then you would click Start and everyone is qued into crystal tower and zones in for the raid.

I really wish they would work on #2 for Everything.

[Faelandaea]

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[AmnesiaHaze]

i really dont understand what technical limitation is preventing them to allow "private" 24 FC instances, the only reason i can think of would be wanting everyone to have a equal chance of getting into the game regardless of their FC status