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    Tiqa's Avatar
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    Gota'a Epocan
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    Moogle
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    Samurai Lv 70
    Better one person to be spoiled than 7. You can't ask seven ppl to wait tenth of minutes for you and not calling it selfishness.

    You know you can watch all cut scenes in your room in any inn. This way you can still enjoy the run and learn mechanics, without making anyone waiting insanely , THEN go seeing CS and close the gap in scenariis.

    That said, most of time, old players are rather comprehensives and agree to wait a little bit, and to explain the fight. Only in castrum meridianum and preatorium I've seen ppl becoming impatient, but you have to understand that cutscenes in these two runs are insanely long, that they are many of them, and that you can complete the mission without necessarily watching them.
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    Yuuki Cat
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    Thank you so much, I didn't know that you could re-watch the cut scenes, nobody's actually mentioned it before, you're the first person to give me hints/advice on this game.
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    But by skipping the cut scenes anywhere means that you don't know what's going on by watching them at the time the other players disappear and leave you behind, I thought that doing the missions and seeing the cutscenes you are following the story as it's meant to be seen. But for some main mission battles with other players the cut scene is only available if you re-do the mission, so if you skip it, you won't know what happens.
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    J'talhdi Belhi
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    Oh, your talking about the last two dungeons. Yes. They are sadly a problem. To get people to run them, they reward end game currency so people run them otherwise the queues for them would be very long. The problem is that their cutscenes are way too long for mid dungeon. Even getting compensation, which they do, people tend to be impatient in waiting. I personally did watch the cutscenes but was locked out of most of the fights my first time through.

    This is a design flaw that fortunately SE doesn't repeat. Its a problem and I found it frustrating too but the up side is SE seemed to learn from the issue and cutscenes tend to be far better arranged in latter content so you shouldn't find this as a problem going forward.

    All the cutscenes are in the inn. There is a dropdown menu at the top of the interface that allows you to access cutscenes from different things. Most of the cutscenes from those two dungeons are actually listed under Duties.
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    Now I can actually complete the mission and the game and hopefully get the relic item without missing anything. Thank you for the positive, helpful reply.
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    Enkidoh Roux
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    Balmung
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    Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
    Oh, your talking about the last two dungeons. Yes. They are sadly a problem. To get people to run them, they reward end game currency so people run them otherwise the queues for them would be very long. The problem is that their cutscenes are way too long for mid dungeon. Even getting compensation, which they do, people tend to be impatient in waiting. I personally did watch the cutscenes but was locked out of most of the fights my first time through.

    This is a design flaw that fortunately SE doesn't repeat. Its a problem and I found it frustrating too but the up side is SE seemed to learn from the issue and cutscenes tend to be far better arranged in latter content so you shouldn't find this as a problem going forward.

    All the cutscenes are in the inn. There is a dropdown menu at the top of the interface that allows you to access cutscenes from different things. Most of the cutscenes from those two dungeons are actually listed under Duties.
    Actually, not every cutscene appears in the Unending Journey, as players are now belatedly discovering (for instance, the scenes getting the passkey for Maggie and trooping through the Magitek Research Facility). Also the ones that do appear are often listed under differing titles (some under Duties and some under Quests), breaking up continuity. Not to mention you lose the consistency of the fact the Praetorium scenes especially are meant to show your party members there with you facing down your adversaries, which, if you're in the Undending Journey, it's just you there, and it looks... silly.

    Thus I now recommend to everyone regardless of whether you are just starting or not, don't skip cutscenes! As you never know if that scene will be watchable again or not, which if not, would be missed forever.

    To Assassin, I know it's tough dealing with inconsiderate players (who forget all too readily they were once new as well doing those dungeons for the first time), but the best thing to do, is, the first time around, don't feel guilty about watching the cutscenes and then just accept that you'll miss out on some of the battling (unless by talking to your party beforehand that you wish to view the cutscenes, and you never know, they might actually be happy to wait for you!). Once you've passed the final dungeon, then queue in Duty Finder for CM and the Praetorium again and this time skip the cutscenes and do the battles! That way you get the best of both worlds and everyone is happy. (Or at least, I hope that's what the result is ).
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    Last edited by Enkidoh; 03-26-2015 at 11:25 AM.

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    Drake Dragonscale
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    Mateus
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    Black Mage Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
    the best thing to do, is, the first time around, don't feel guilty about watching the cutscenes and then just accept that you'll miss out on some of the battling (unless by talking to your party beforehand that you wish to view the cutscenes, and you never know, they might actually be happy to wait for you!). Once you've passed the final dungeon, then queue in Duty Finder for CM and the Praetorium again and this time skip the cutscenes and do the battles! That way you get the best of both worlds and everyone is happy.
    However, looking back I don't think it's that different than watching them at the inn.
    My first time through I watched every cut-scene, I was locked out of every fight, there really are too many/too long scenes in this. I basically got back to back scenes through the whole run. As far as seeing the team included in the scenes it is not that big a deal, the story itself does not really acknowledge anyone with you, it pretends that you did this solo.

    I actually recommend to watch one scene, skip the rest, then run again and watch the next scene. You gain tomes anyways so you want to run it multiple times.
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    Last edited by ExiledOne; 03-26-2015 at 06:36 PM.

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    Y'kayah Tia
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    Coeurl
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    Ninja Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by ExiledOne View Post
    I actually recommend to watch one scene, skip the rest, then run again and watch the next scene.
    This works if you go only part way through, but you have to be sure to exit the dungeon before it completes. Sometimes cutscenes are tied to the dungeon itself and will play for everyone every time through. But other cutscenes are tied to the related quest and will appear only on that run that's part of the quest. If you actually complete the run, that advances the quest and you won't get another chance to see the quest cutscenes next time. That's why it's so important to watch them all on your first run. Because it's the only time you can.
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    Alder Falial
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    Ragnarok
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    Red Mage Lv 70
    in every mmo there is spoiled apples in a basket but if you see in it there are more good ones than bad ones just trow the bad away, so if you get to play whit jerks just leave can do other fun stuff waiting for a good team may take some time but it be worth it maybe even someone from your own server that you can play with again, can play some triple triad or some crafting, gathering, fishing, collect minions while waiting, this game have been out for some time now but is still a new game since it did become version 2.0 so they are still working to make it better, so turn that frown to a smile and let your adventure in erozea begin
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