Cake Walk World needs to be Spiced Up

[Nakiamiie]

Hi!

I believe than most of the player base will agree on this: once you've reach level 50, the open world feel like a walk in the park on a sunny afternoon.

While it is beautiful and contains tons of interesting NPCS, there is nothing to worry about and everything is too easy.

I believe that adding open world puzzles with variable solutions would help make things more interesting. Since most people follow the roads, use the airships or just teleport, there would be no harm to add puzzles or danger elements at key locations.


- For example, players wanting to access the Castrum around the Eorzea should get the front door combination off guard instead of just walking in. The combination would change once in a while, but there would be various ways of obtaining them: killing guards to get numbers, gathering around the Castrum to find lost combination, stalking guards to infiltrate the Castrum, etc.

[In the story, I always find disappointing that I could walk through Castrum Centri before I even gained access to it with the salute and everything...]

- Another example, how about having bounty hunters from Garlemald show up unexpectedly once in a while? You would have the option of fighting them or running away (if you're caught as a DoL or DoH in the wild for example). It would be like a personal FATE.

- There should be open world traps (at fixed locations as not to be annoying, but still a surprise for first timers)! Either ones that inflict damage or ones that immobilize your characters (then you play a mini-game to get out).

- and more!

Please share your ideas and opinions in here.

[Yukiko]

[Santherelle]

Where is this from?

I think I want to read more.

Because that rage is true..

[Yukiko]

Where is this from?

www.xivnomnom.com

All are well made and you even see Sephirot

[Santherelle]

www.xivnomnom.com

All are well made and you even see Sephirot

Thanks! I'll start reading on it!

[Noshpan]

www.xivnomnom.com

All are well made and you even see Sephirot

I'm going to bookmark that and read all the archives right meow!

[Dragoon4life]

I think the addition of personal ambush FATES in the open world would be cool. Maybe give the player 10 sec delay to shout for help. Only if you were in a sanctuary would you be safe from ambush.

it certainly looks like Gaius Van Baelsar might be an issue in the next CT

Don't forget about the citizens of Ishgaurd (Hope I'm spelling that right) looks like there geared for war against us maybe.

[Deusteele]

We have gathered our allies and together we laid an entire legion to waste.
We have face primals in personal combat and emerged victorious.
We slain millennia old voidsent.
We have rebuilt weapons that were worn by heroes of legends.
We have the knowledge and wisdom lost to time at our fingers.
We slay terror's born of nightmare on daily basis. For books and boxes of scraps!
We. Are. Gods. Amongst. Men


How is some press-ganged Garlemaldean grunt going to be threat to us?

[Nakiamiie]

We have gathered our allies and together we laid an entire legion to waste.
We have face primals in personal combat and emerged victorious.
We slain millennia old voidsent.
We have rebuilt weapons that were worn by heroes of legends.
We have the knowledge and wisdom lost to time at our fingers.
We slay terror's born of nightmare on daily basis. For books and boxes of scraps!
We. Are. Gods. Amongst. Men


How is some press-ganged Garlemaldean grunt going to be threat to us?

Because you didn't accomplish all that with your strength alone?

Exactly because we are powerful could others feel the need to defeat us.
That's what we're doing to them, why couldn't they do the same to us?

[Rbstr]

Even the story, especially in 2.3, acknowledges that you're just OP compared to basically everything.

But I have always found it funny that the Castum just lets you in the front door to their base so you can kill their dudes.