So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Lewtskie]

What did yall think about the NPC in the Rising Stones that speaks about the Doman Samurais?

Its small, but it definitely solidifies the existence of Samurais in the games lore. kind of like how Astrologians were already in the game before it became a job.

Here's the quote, but it DOES have a story spoiler in it soo..

SPOILER ALERT!

I don't think anyone's refuting that we'll get to play as SAMs at this point, now it's a tussle to be if it's now or later still. The foundation is laid out that it exists, nothing concrete saying it's right now.

NPC chatter is just lore fluff. A person reminiscing about their countrymen with war on the horizon.

[RaijinSupreme]

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It is just lore stuff I guess, but lore stuff is the essence of this game, and it's what primarily moves this game forward, even if lore isn't deemed important to much of the player base. The difference between this game and most other MMO's is that lore is held in the highest regard by the developers.

I don't think the developers would put this unrecognizable and unimportant NPC in the area where the MSQ ends for this patch, and give him such controversial & significantly relevant line when it wasn't even called for, and had nothing to really do with the MSQ. I especially don't think they would do it right now if nothing would come from it in the near future.

You're right that its not definite or concrete. In fact, no type of hints or clues about any job is definite or concrete. It will only be once its officially announced. But something that is put in the game by the dev team, mentioning a job that has been talked about for years now, AND was added right around the time that EVERYONE is fervently speculating what the new job will be....

Yeah, this is about the closest thing we will have to concrete.


I agree with you, though. I think it's unrefutable that SAM will be a job in this game.

[Lewtskie]

I don't think the developers would put this unrecognizable and unimportant NPC in the area where the MSQ ends for this patch, and give him such controversial & significantly relevant line when it wasn't even called for, and had nothing to really do with the MSQ. I especially don't think they would do it right now if nothing would come from it in the near future.

Previously people have only latched onto just the dialogue of that NPC and parading it as fact that SAM is the >next< job. But you make good points when you also think about the time and place with where it was mentioned. That's how hints should be looked at; don't just take anything bare-bones and look around for other details.

Last year if Yoshi only showed off the 007 shirt and nothing else, people would have been lost trying to figure out what he was referencing. People only picked up the idea that it was a gun job when he made a pose holding a gun.