Thread: Patch 4.2 Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Bernkastelx

Anyone else notice the warsteeds from pvp being able to fly now? Like why focus on that first than the primal ponies this patch just has facepalm all over it.

I had a good laugh about that, but: I'm very happy about that change aswell. The reason why the warsteeds are going to fly, but the primal ponies arent is most likely: The primal ponies are extremly easy to obtain now. They're nothing special - the warsteeds are. I've always been dissapointed that my warsteed almost got no use.
It would be nice to see the primal ponies fly aswell and I dont really understand what would be so difficult about that... but I get why the PvP-horses are getting special treatment - yes, I want to show off my magnificent, flying warsteed!

Originally Posted by Vidu

... but I get why the PvP-horses are getting special treatment - yes, I want to show off my magnificent, flying warsteed!

But they are literally normal horses in full barding. The picture showed them just galloping in the air. Its ludicrous.

Originally Posted by ErryK

And you're a catgirl in a fantasy game, what's your point?

Suspension of disbelief needs to be justifiable. I can believe Kirin can fly because he has magic light wings, I can believe adamantoise can fly because of his rocket engine farts, I can believe Fenrir can fly because you literally see the ice magic holding him up.

I think the Devs are getting really lazy with this, the Christmas bear has no justification to be able to fly (it should have the same ice particle effects as Kirin) and neither do these horses

Eh they play the realm reborn primal themes so I do kinda want them to fly at this point. Don't see what is so hard about reusing the pegasus flights for the ponies they already have the elements around their feet so not that far from being reasonable.

All these people saying they'll never do MSQ Roulette now just proves how flawed the Roulette system is to begin with. The intent behind it was to get vets to help new players experience old content, but of course nobody actually cares about the new players, they just care about that sweet loot.

I care about not wasting my time, which is what clicking through the same (long) cutscenes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again would be. It honestly doesn't matter how good the rewards would be at this point, to me.

I don't even care if other people watch their cutscenes, but I should not be forced to. There's just no good reason for that.

Originally Posted by Fynlar

I care about not wasting my time, which is what clicking through the same (long) cutscenes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again would be. It honestly doesn't matter how good the rewards would be at this point, to me.

I don't even care if other people watch their cutscenes, but I should not be forced to. There's just no good reason for that.

You know, it occurs to me that a better solution would have simply been to prevent people from continuing until everyone was out of their cutscene (or after X minutes, in case someone's a REALLY slow reader and/or went AFK to troll). At least then we could get up, stretch, get a drink, use the restroom, whatever, and not have to spam-click through the cutscenes.

...of course, the best option would have been to shift these to solo instances with NPC companions, but clearly SE would prefer to make Pharos Sirius available to the NPC Squadrons. Incidentally, considering Squadrons really don't seem to have dungeon-specific AI routines, why in the hell can't we use them anywhere we want? There shouldn't be any implementation barriers in four-man content.

Considering it was Main Scenario Roulette, and not random non story roulette, I think in this case, the players have only themselves to blame. How many times have you run that roulette only to see new people lost, confused, and unhappy because players have left them in the dust and older players saying "just watch it on youtube or in the inn, stop making us wait." It was a roulette for story content. heavy story content.

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Considering it was Main Scenario Roulette, and not random non story roulette, I think in this case, the players have only themselves to blame. How many times have you run that roulette only to see new people lost, confused, and unhappy because players have left them in the dust and older players saying "just watch it on youtube or in the inn, stop making us wait." It was a roulette for story content. heavy story content.

That, ppl got what they deserved. If you dont like it, dont run it, its easy.

Originally Posted by Kuroka

If you dont like it, dont run it, its easy.

Well, that's precisely what people will do.

That is precisely the issue the entire ruckus on that topic is all about. If you haven't noticed from Diadem at the latest, there's a distinct connection between the amount of people running a piece of content and the time it takes to get into that content.

"Speedrunners" don't give a rats butt, this isn't a punishment for them. They'll just queue for something else for their rewards. There's no reason for them to be concerned about themselves - The only one to be concerned about are newbies who'll have to deal with the consequences of "Don't like it, don't run it.", i.e. queue times, mentors leaving at the start etc.