Can we please have tips during loading screen?

[reality_check]

It's very easy to miss even the most basic functions or utilities in video games now a days. Even as someone who has been playing MMORPGs for over a decade, I often miss the most elementary features in a game that make life SO much easier.

I've noticed that a lot of video games offer "tips" during loading screens. And while at first thought they may seem incredibly basic and elementary, sometimes I read a tip and I'm like WHOA WHAT REALLY? I CAN DO THAT?

I think it would also be very helpful for new players.

The list could go on and on but I do think that some of these features remain hidden to new players and sometimes even veteran players for quite a long time.


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EDIT: Since apparently this feature might be in development, let's compile a list of helpful tips for adventurers of Eorzea. Perhaps they'll include them in the list!


COMBAT
-The spell Virus reduces the target's DEX and STR by 15%. If used with Enhanced Virus, it will also decrease the target's MND and INT by 15%. (Credit: melflomil)

-It can be difficult to spot an enemy's back or flank if it doesn't look like a human or animal! Look at the ground arrow on its target indicator to see which way the enemy is currently facing.

-FFXIV features two different movement systems using a keyboard. You can toggle between legacy and standard in the character preferences. Try both and decide which best suits your playstyle.


QUALITY OF LIFE
-You can set up to 3 favourite Aetheryte destinations. These destinations can be traveled to at a reduced fee.

-You can type <pos> in chat to show your party members where you are.

-Clicking on a posted position in chat brings up the map for that zone, as well as marking where that location is.

-You can type <flag> in chat to link the currently flag on your map in chat, even if you are not at that location!

-You can click on an Aetheryte on a map to travel to that location.

[Kiara1]

Yeah would be nice!
Once in satasha I taught a white mage who was farming coil (before coil 2) and he didn't know Shroud of Saints gives higher mana regen.

Stuff like that would be nice. Maybe tank tips for new tanks

[Evangela]

better make the game load faster.

[Canadane]

My SSD wouldn't ever show me the tips. :\

[Sove92]

better make the game load faster.

If the game is only loading text, it would have pretty much no effect on load times. The zone name takes more computing power to load up (being an image) than a text-only tip.

[HakuroDK]

I like this suggestion very much, actually! There are a lot of nuggets of wisdom that a lot of players don't pick up on. Not because they're bad players, but because they may just not know something that is actually not that shoved-in-your-face.

+1 to this suggestion. I'd give +2 or more, but that'd be against the rules.

[Purplenum]

I'm going to pretend like I know anything about computer graphics.

They'd both be images. When it comes to rendering text in a game that uses OpenGL, Direct3D, or another 3D graphics API, text is drawn onto a bitmap and then used as a texture. I couldn't say for certain which one would actually take longer to do, but I'd imagine the drawing of the text onto the bitmap would take longer than loading an image since the zone name image doesn't have an obscene resolution.

The addition of tips, regardless of how absolutely pointless it'd be since the game already sorta has one, would make no noticeable difference to the games loading time.

[MrSmiley]

Yeah would be nice!
Once in satasha I taught a white mage who was farming coil (before coil 2) and he didn't know Shroud of Saints gives higher mana regen.

Stuff like that would be nice. Maybe tank tips for new tanks

O.o That's...on the skill description, and doesn't it only drop aggro after a trait?

[Mykll]

- An S rank is dying while you are looking at this screen.

As a dev I would have all kinds of fun "tips".

[HakuroDK]

The addition of tips, regardless of how absolutely pointless it'd be since the game already sorta has one, would make no noticeable difference to the games loading time.

Bullcrap. Who wants to wait around for 0.00265 seconds when Odin is in the Black Shroud!?!