Thread: Things from 1.0 era that could return

Originally Posted by _Pigzig

How bad was it really

As bad as purported until you got used to or circumvented certain issues (e.g., learned to mouse wheel and keybind its UI interactions, fixed its fps issues, etc., many of which were fairly easily circumvented), at which point it could be a calming but very limited experience, a bit like a less polished and much less expansive WoW Classic... before any of its patches.

Originally Posted by _Pigzig

How bad was it really

You couldn't jump. That's enough for the explanation

Originally Posted by Endariel

You couldn't jump. That's enough for the explanation

...I will never understand MMO communities' fascination with needlessly jumping.

There's a perfectly viable chat function; we don't need to communicate in concussed Portal-speak.

But I suppose the original lack of auto-attack (never mind that you could attack more frequently and choicefully before its implementation) was also a "fatal flaw"...

Originally Posted by R041

Yeah, well when you're melee and doing a timed Leve and the godamn mole is on the opposite side of a 1ft cliff you have to spend a whole minute just to walk ALL the way around?

Shit sucked ass. God I hated Thanalan. lol


Edit: Jfc this is a necro..

Thanalan? La Noscea was even worse IIRC. You see the destination right in front of you but for some unholy reason there were invisible walls everywhere just because of some miserable small elevations scattered around.

Originally Posted by ReynTime

Thanalan? La Noscea was even worse IIRC. You see the destination right in front of you but for some unholy reason there were invisible walls everywhere just because of some miserable small elevations scattered around.

And to say nothing of the goddessawful 1.0 Black Shroud.... Not for no reason was the original 1.0 Black Shroud BGM called Emerald Labyrinth, it really was a horrible arboreal maze with a few small clearings scattered around. Urrghhh...

Fear of the elementals? 1.0 Gridanian players feared just having to navigate that whole damn forest.....

From what I can read of 1.0, the story elements actually had an impact on the world which is something I would like to see again. The world right now is just so static, even having finished Endwalker I feel like my character and the Scions have had no impact on the world. It's probably a hard sell to change things since you have to account for new players and how they will interact with the environment and progress through the story but it has been done in MMOs before.

I want the return of motion capture during cutscenes.

Examples from the original Gridania questline.

https://youtu.be/wGUHqEpVxGY?t=320

https://youtu.be/wGUHqEpVxGY?t=454

Mind boggling how the animation was way better back then compared to what we have now.

Originally Posted by Pratini

I want the return of motion capture during cutscenes.

Examples from the original Gridania questline.

https://youtu.be/wGUHqEpVxGY?t=320

https://youtu.be/wGUHqEpVxGY?t=454

Mind boggling how the animation was way better back then compared to what we have now.

They did start using mocap more often in Shadowbringers onward and in some few cutscenes in past expansions. I really miss the momentum animation when stopping after walking or running though, and don't believe for a second they would need to lock or slow us down in place for them to happen because I remember vividly doing a 180 turn wasn't any slower than it is now.