Game-watch interview with Yoshi-P

[Kuwagami]

just reposting this here :

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...27_731237.html

The majority of this interview is about the Korean version, Diadem/LoVM feedback, etc but there are a couple of points regarding future content:

• 3.15 will be released mid-to-late December.
• The "Beginner's Hall" will contain challenges for players to try to beat, e.g. rather than just having a dummy with a parser, DPS jobs will have to defeat an enemy. The idea is that implementing it in the form of challenges will encourage casual players (who don't care about parses) to try them (and get better). He wants there to be training for healers and tanks as well.
• In regards to a player-made image of a possible Beginner's Hall screen hosted by "Faust-sensei", Yoshi-P says he wants to use Faust-sensei somewhere else(!?)
• Yoshi-P promises that patch 3.2 won't have the delay that 3.1 did, and will be released in the same timeframe that 2.x patches were (so 3-3.5 months).

Some other points:

• There are big plot developments planned for the Void Ark story.
• 24-man raids will never see any significant difficulty increases.
• 4-man dungeons won't increase in difficulty because they're designed for people who don't have much time to play. It's expected that first-time clearers will take 35-40 minutes to clear (including 1 wipe), after knowing the mechanics it'll take 20 minutes to clear, and after overgearing it'll take 16 minutes.
• However, if there is a lot of demand, they will create separate 4-man raids.

as for me, I'll just say this :

However, if there is a lot of demand, they will create separate 4-man raids.

(Yes Please)

[abzoluut]

I'm way more interested in that beginner hall example! First step to that ingame parser. xD

[CyrilLucifer]

Faust-sensei is hilarious.

[Kuwagami]

Faust-sensei is hilarious.

"Let me show you how bad you are, then allow me to lead you on your path to the top"

[Serilda]

4-man raids would be absolutely wonderful. My puny 5-man FC loves doing things together (we're real-life friends who came from FFXI with its smaller party sizes) and we always have to play with strangers, which is great in its own way but not the same as doing hard content in our own group and laughing together on Skype. We've constructed our own challenges by doing things undersized and undergeared but if we can get actual difficult content designed for smaller groups one day it would be a wonderful, wonderful thing.

[silentwindfr]

+1 for the 4 man raid, it will be a good way to create a midcore-hardcore content that will offer more diversity to the game and is really needed!

[Nekotee]

Faust-sensei is perfect !

And if the player fail, he will be punished... And faust-sensei will... Slay the player
"Here let me show you what cleave is..."

...

More 4man content... Yes please
And maybe 8man dungeon like the old ARR story !

[Theodric]

If they're not going to increase the difficulty of 24 man raids - which is understandable - then they should make the 4 man raids as difficult as some of the Primal fights on EX mode. If they don't then they'll just be no different to regular dungeons - aside from being a little longer perhaps. The Beginner's Hall is promising - especially if it teaches players how to move effectively and deal with multiple mechanics at the same time. Add an achievement and a minion to succeeding and quite a lot of players will actively tackle it. I'm looking forward to more Void Ark - I like it a lot more than Alexander in terms of atmosphere and design. Both are good though.

[Zephrey]

Yes to 4 man raids. For sure.
And I am soooo stoked for 3.15 after reading this.