Thread: Prelude to Violet Patch 4.4 Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by amdportland

Sep. 17, 2018 3:00 a.m. to Sep. 18, 2018 3:00 a.m. (PDT) whoa really a day to patch smdh

Yes it is quite long time. But i think it is not only readying servers for the patch itself.
WoW did the weekly maintenance, now, wow continue to reboot the servers each week. Sometime, for some servers we can see the 5-10 classical minutes to reboot are not enough to go back on the servers... have to way like 30-45 minutes. So they do speed maintenance on specific servers.

FFXIV get servers which runs more than 7 days. even if they dont drink coffee waiting the next maintenance, they cant do all the servers need for years of work.

End of my speculation so : they uses those big patch maintenance to add / remove components (to, later adds instance for pyros or anything that would need this for minor patches, or even this major patch). Or simply do a big maintenance on all server.



Personnally i prefer a weekly maintenance with good timings (from 3 AM to 8-9 AM for example) but this system get a big matter : some people due to their work plays the morning (even early). I can perfectly understand the "big maintenance" FFXIV see, not what i prefer but also another good way to do it.

For the 24 hours, i think they dont need all those hours most of time. But better be sure to do all the work done in time you did announce to your customers, than being short, and unexpected issue makes you being late... really late. WoW did also have those "patch day no play" but was the bad way to have it (heh, patch will end at 1PM... oh no finally wait two more hours, and then 6 PM, not possible to log in... ... rhaaaaaaaa)



Yes, we will maybe have like so much previous patches other matters in servers the tuesday because all people will be on same spot, because they are unable to do a patch that sread people enough (or marshmallow server maybe). Yes we will probably have an emergency maintenance on thursday. YES it is illogical to do 24h maintenance to correct issues 2 days after. But maybe all i said earlier is false, and i am not engeneer or server technician.

Originally Posted by amdportland

Sep. 17, 2018 3:00 a.m. to Sep. 18, 2018 3:00 a.m. (PDT) whoa really a day to patch smdh

This is not the first time they have had this long of a maintenance, nor will it be the last.

I'd much prefer them taking the entire day to ensure nothing major breaks the moment patch goes live than to stuff all the content we're getting in within a 5 hour window in the dead of night.

Originally Posted by KageTokage

It's basically them realizing people didn't like having to adjust their actions for specific fights.

And to be honest, in many case, you dont have to change... there is some role action mandatory, and others nearly useless you take only on specific fight... and even in those, they dont become mandatory...


And... the funniest, some jobs doesnt even have 10 role action avaible

Originally Posted by Ameela

On another note, I'm incredibly disappointed in the Unending Journey changes, even if it sounds petty. I thought we were finally going to get the other half of the cutscenes that are missing from it or an option to replay story instances, but I guess something that effects maybe 6 cutscenes at most works too.

I may be wrong but I don't think there are any "cutscenes" missing from it - there's a lot of story missing, but that's because a lot of the story isn't told in cutscenes.

Any conversation that just takes place with textboxes and emotes in 'normal gameplay' mode, with your UI and other players visible, isn't a cutscene even if it's important story progression.

It's only when you cut to a more cinematic presentation (leaving your character idling with a 'filmstrip' icon to any other players) that it counts as a cutscene.

Also any scenes that take place within dungeons (eg. if you were trying to go back and watch scenes from the ARR finale dungeons, back when new players were often forced to skip them to keep up) aren't included in chronological order in the MSQ section, but in a separate 'dungeons' tab - so some people overlooked that and didn't know where to access them.



For revisiting non-cutscene dialogue I've been using the Garland Tools website, which has a text record of all quest dialogue except voiced cutscenes.