Glaring issues that were NOT addressed in 2.1

**Mhaeric** · 01-11-2014 05:31 AM

I, personally, am completely fine with not being shown exact effects of stats. But then I was weaned for fourteen years on a game that's entire design philosophy was immersion so numbers were highly obscured, except where necessary to the interface. E.g. you could see your strength statistic and train it by spending points you earned by levelling up skills, but you couldn't see any numbers for things that you did with that strength or even know for sure that strength was being used in a given calculation. Even things like experience were obscured. You could see your percent to the next rank in a skill, but not how much experience was actually needed or how much you earned for doing things. Think of levelling Skyrim's skills for a similar concept.

I can certainly understand why people want to see everything in this age of instant gratification, but I don't feel it is necessary.

**ForteXX** · 01-11-2014 05:37 AM

I have no problem with crit chance not being shown. While it's nice to know, (for most games at least) enemies have a resistance to Crits due to their stats, causing a visible crit chance to never actually be right.

There's also a few mechanics still broken that haven't been mentioned by Devs, despite being reported at least at launch (Esuna curing Leaden from deepcroft, being able to avoid doom)

**ExiaQuanta** · 01-11-2014 06:33 AM

Allow me to Talk to NPC while on Chocobo please >D!

Its nice going up and down from NPC to NPC XDD

**Jubez187** · 01-11-2014 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by Hvinire

Hey all,

We brought up some of the issues raised in this thread and wanted to share the responses with you now:

In regards to showing the chance for critical hits, the team remarked that there are currently no plans to display this in the UI. Players can assume simply that as the stats that affect this grow larger, the effect will become greater.

Sigh, this just feels so archaic. This is the same thing as taking away the HP bar and replacing it with a text box that reads either :Great, good, poor. Just give us the numbers in black and white. I don't see how giving us some random number increases the funness of your game at all.

**Tupsi** · 01-11-2014 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Dhex

Hvinire can you relay to the team precisely how insulting this sort of response is to the player base?

It's....really not insulting at all, it's basically saying: "Use common sense, the larger the number the greater the %." Having it shown is more of a convenience than necessity.

**Imapooonu** · 01-11-2014 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by Hvinire

.....snip.......In regards to showing the chance for critical hits, the team remarked that there are currently no plans to display this in the UI. Players can assume simply that as the stats that affect this grow larger, the effect will become greater....snip.......

I appreciate you asking and mentioning this to the developmental team, BUT...this is one of the most robotic rebuttals to a question I've heard in a long time. They might as well have said, "well guys, stuff goes up and stuff goes down".

Anything would've been better. ie "problems with pvp" "busy working on new classes" "trying to combat RTMs" "we have no plans to do this".....anything.
This is bad public relations. A lot of this community has overlooked some of the glaring problems with this game because we are adults that have an understanding of what it means to give someone/something a chance. Don't make the mistake of assuming most of your player base is 12 with no real life experience of understanding when someone is blowing smoke.

**Naunet** · 01-11-2014 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by Nica

nothing about the music? at this point I've heard the battle theme so many times that I actively despise that piece of music now.

I have to agree. I didn't really like it when I first heard it and now it's become a rather horrendous, special kind of torture. Thank the Twelve that Coil and primal music at least gives some reprieve, but damnit, I want to hear the Pharos Sirius music MORE. It's so beautiful, and then... it's gone.

Originally Posted by Hvinire

In regards to showing the chance for critical hits, the team remarked that there are currently no plans to display this in the UI. Players can assume simply that as the stats that affect this grow larger, the effect will become greater.

I'm with others in saying this is quite possibly the worst answer you could have given.

Originally Posted by Jubez187

Sigh, this just feels so archaic. This is the same thing as taking away the HP bar and replacing it with a text box that reads either :Great, good, poor.

Heh, funny/sad thing is, they've almost done that with how you can't see health % of mobs/bosses (something that seriously needs to change).

**Gesser** · 01-11-2014 07:09 AM

This makes the Devs sound reaaaally lazy... that one addition is a simple line of code that could take no more than 3 minutes in an expert's hands.

**Mook_Mook** · 01-11-2014 07:16 AM

as you get more stats you become stronger mind blown

**mylam** · 01-11-2014 08:05 AM

Man I agree with everything. Just such simple crap and for some reason it's overlooked.

The repair thing drives me bonkers.

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