Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

[Seif]

Well that was worth months and months of waiting. You can pull out a weapon while running! Game changing cutting edge epic shit right there! It's like running with scissors but cooler. Here's the kicker: you can put scissors into your pocket WHILE running! AMAZING!

I've been auto-attacking for years in XI so that feature doesn't exactly blow my mind.

[Renshi]

So far, So good =)

[Gramul]

Looks like they need to find a way to animate the feet while moving and preparing your weapon at the same time.

Might be tricky depending on how they have the skeleton set up and how it receives the motion capture.

[Meridian]

The goblin tells me that he is angry he was the target of this video. He feels victimised. He was only minding his own business, picking onions, and this happened? Not once, not twice, but thrice.

You will be hearing from his lawyers, apparently.

[AlexiaKidd]

The goblin tells me that he is angry he was the target of this video. He feels victimised. He was only minding his own business, picking onions, and this happened? Not once, not twice, but thrice.

You will be hearing from his lawyers, apparently.

Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

From that vid it seems they didn't make to changes to mob difficulty as the LNC and PUG both make short work of the R60 Goblin. Seems stupid that they can easily down a mob that is 10 Ranks higher than them without any trouble.

[Meridian]

Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

Everyone knows the best quality onions are there this time of year... This is an outrage! You cannot discriminate against a goblin for wanting high quality goods, no matter the location.

He was caught off guard. Had he been prepared he would certainly have defeated the thugs that were picking on him.

[Cairdeas]

Maybe the R50-60 Gob shouldn't have been picking onions outside of Bearded Rock then ^^

From that vid it seems they didn't make to changes to mob difficulty as the LNC and PUG both make short work of the R60 Goblin. Seems stupid that they can easily down a mob that is 10 Ranks higher than them without any trouble.

Monster AI might have been off.

[charliesheen]

The video was good. Auto-attack looks good. Will they make the timers on abilities much higher though? Recall, they said they will need to make battles more difficult if they add auto-attack. There are only two ways for them to do that, longer ability times or all enemies have higher HP or defensive skills. Time will only telling if auto-attacking is a winner...

[Sephr]

The video was good. Auto-attack looks good. Will they make the timers on abilities much higher though? Recall, they said they will need to make battles more difficult if they add auto-attack. There are only two ways for them to do that, longer ability times or all enemies have higher HP or defensive skills. Time will only telling if auto-attacking is a winner...

They could add more interesting tp abilities etc that require more movement to keep the players attention more now they're not spamming button presses, too.

[charliesheen]

They could add more interesting tp abilities etc that require more movement to keep the players attention more now they're not spamming button presses, too.

This would be desirable, but what is the likelihood they will make the effort required to add a whole world of variety like this? My magic fingertips are typing... not likely!

We can all hope.

@Xeno: The video is simply for testing purposes. He also said in a previous letter when discussing auto-attack, that battles would need to be made more difficult with the arrival of auto-attack, otherwise people will be able to just afk while their character kills monsters. I'm thinking a distinct flavour of FFXI... coming soon to a battle near you!