The Letter is up

[Jynx]

Still good. I know a lot of people where unimpressed with the standard animations and it seems Square is listening.

Chaos thrust is now hardcore.

[LateReg]

I love the new Rage of Halone and the new Chaos Thrust, but why on earth would they not preview Archer's auto-attack?

[Richard]

I love the new Rage of Halone and the new Chaos Thrust, but why on earth would they not preview Archer's auto-attack?

Pretty sure ARC is going to work just like XI. The only class that really isn't affected by auto attack.

[LateReg]

Pretty sure ARC is going to work just like XI. The only class that really isn't affected by auto attack.

In the letter it specifically says that the /only/ classes not being affected are THM/CON (DoM) + Gathering classes, I presume. So, unless they misspoke, Archer should have a new auto-attack.

Also, like the new (albeit basic) PUG armor design.

[Adol]

In the letter it specifically says that the /only/ classes not being affected are THM/CON (DoM) + Gathering classes, I presume. So, unless they misspoke, Archer should have a new auto-attack.

Also, like the new (albeit basic) PUG armor design.

Actually I'm pretty sure it will affect magic classes too. The letter does not specify DoW or DoM so I think it's safe to assume that by "battle", it means all classes which were made for combat, which includes melee and magic.

[Richard]

In the letter it specifically says that the /only/ classes not being affected are THM/CON (DoM) + Gathering classes, I presume. So, unless they misspoke, Archer should have a new auto-attack.

Also, like the new (albeit basic) PUG armor design.

quote it for me. The letter says only BATTLE classes will get auto-attack. This would include the DoM classes. ARCs would burn through way too many arrows if they wouldn't control auto attack on shoot. Worked the same way in XI which is why they weren't given auto attack. Unless they somehow tie it into the new passive/active mechanic, I don't see ARC getting a "true" auto attack.

[Akuun]

The 2 week delay is a real bummer. I was looking forward to this patch way back in the mid spring.
Now it seems the delay is going to be nearly 3 months.
I seem to recall Yoshi saying the updates would be every 2 weeks for small patches and 2-3 months for the larger ones.

So all in all we are looking at 5-6 months since work on this patch started.
Is it just me, or does it seem like this game is going to take more time to fix, than it would to start from scratch? Well the new animations and changes to that attack system look promising, still mixed feelings about the speed of the auto attacks especially on pug.

[Delmontyb]

The 2 week delay is a real bummer. I was looking forward to this patch way back in the mid spring.
Now it seems the delay is going to be nearly 3 months.
I seem to recall Yoshi saying the updates would be every 2 weeks for small patches and 2-3 months for the larger ones.

So all in all we are looking at 5-6 months since work on this patch started.
Is it just me, or does it seem like this game is going to take more time to fix, than it would to start from scratch? Well the new animations and changes to that attack system look promising, still mixed feelings about the speed of the auto attacks especially on pug.

It's just you.

Sadly many people think that 5 - 6 months of game design is a long time, when really it isn't. I'm not defending SE here, just trying to put game development in perspective... It takes a lot of time... Start over from scratch (my definition is not using any assets already created) would push development 5 years out on an MMO, typically 3 years on a AAA title.

Right now 1.18 is in that critical stage, testing, and fixing bugs, it sounds like it's going to be a big update, so that means more can go wrong, and sometimes finding bugs is a pain, because they might spend weeks testing and not find a bug that we find in a few minutes. It's just the way things work, changing one thing can have effects in other areas that you didn't see coming.

It's just the nature of game development.

[Chronic]

And the glad was Rage of Halone i believe

[Ennvy]

That cool. A couple nice WS moves and buh bye stamia bar XD

EDIT: oh well. the new animation for the ws looks cool still.