Shame on you, you failed us with Hamlet Defense

[Toxsik]

OP should change the topic to "you failed ME with Hamlet Defense" I get what star was saying as I personally like it as well. Sure there's some things that may need tweaking and stuff they could add to improve upon but isn't it that way with all new things... and hasn't SE done that so much already. Just wait Hamlet will be uber awesome before you can delete this thread.

[indira]

Wait, so SE is at fault because nobody is doing Hamlet Defense in your server?

yeah it is SE fault , its a hell of bad design its just a over done instance with strict access. #1 in design in anything is to keep it simple. and i dont mean skill level just to play.

[Lurex]

OP should change the topic to "you failed ME with Hamlet Defense" I get what star was saying as I personally like it as well. Sure there's some things that may need tweaking and stuff they could add to improve upon but isn't it that way with all new things... and hasn't SE done that so much already. Just wait Hamlet will be uber awesome before you can delete this thread.

I sure hope so ^^

[elreed]

imho the hamlet defense is fine, i can understand having this kind of events shrinked to their lesser form because of game engine and server troubles, just remember the garleans invasions we had a few weeks back before the patch was release everyone was laggy some others crashed everytime,

i hope when we get a better engine to have a massive hamlet defense events, i would love to see those in open fields, like if you're guarding something you should be outside the walls, not letting the enemy enter, that could help in making wider areas for battle, it doesnt matter if it isnt open world, i hope they add a repair feature for the times when hamlet fights are on cooldown, like fixing gates, buildings, make the traps more visible, make obstacles, etc.

I hope i can get to see up to 50 players (just a round number) at the same time, fighting big waves of enemies, make the first ones easier so we can bash em and feel like gods lol and keep making every wave harder until we get the boss, i would love to see a big bad ass primal (ifrit, garuda atm) fighting with their respective tribe at some points of the battle but not all the time so we get the surprise now and then, or if the attackers are garleans some big machines like the ones that we saw at the main story CS and some of those cool machines that they showed on limsa quest in this patch.

One more thing, i know we should learn to walk before running but i would love to see an assault event, where you go to an outpost or enemy village, you get some CS and focus on rescue missions, like NPC sellers with rare stuff, like some of you can remeber the chocobo guy at Ahrt Ugah or whatever is written, NPC's that can help a lot in certains ways to every ppl, well no matter whats the objective get a boss fight at the end, make different bosses for every area so we can have a fresh event, making those bosses random and some of them have good items on them like gear, and make them just run away when defeated so we can get more lore about them and more stories with key enemy characters, i dont get it why if we kill a boss he keeps returning, they should just call retreat and reappear when theyre recovered lol.

Well those are my 2 cents, and it doesnt matter if someone isnt a veteran ideas are equally good Lurex

[Chardrizard]

I really like how hamlet concept is and how it incorporate all disciplines, but the needs to grind and hoping for RNG to side with you is just a major turnoff.

[Corrderio]

It's not too bad, though the 8 man requirement is a major turn off for me.

[Alhanelem]

What a complete let down for me. I was excited about this, but not anymore. I'd like to get some constructive feedback to make Hamlet Defense better.

I suppose my original post was during rage, and I should have calmed down, and composed myself, I'm sorry. Let's hear your thoughts.

You want constructive feeback, yet you're not being constructive yourself?

Shame on them? Other than the difficulty and the drop rates, It's hard for me to find problems with it. The battle was a lot of fun and i like how it involves DoH/Ls.

[indira]

hopefully when 2.0 comes out its world wide and not limited to 8 man and let you be in a world group when you talk to the npc, they really need to add conquest tally during the 50 hours so you have something to challenge then the blood shead during the 25 hour fighting in all the areas like campaign from ffxi.

dol & doh should be able to continue to repair npc & gather resources while in battle.

[UmJammerSully]

I think Hamlet is pretty fun, but I was super disappointed when I found out it was more 8-man instanced content. Hoping 2.0 will deliver some open-world stuff in the style of hamlet.

[Jinko]

And why are the NPC front line guards archers...?

This.

I guess SE are just trolling us.

FFXI did have a character draw limit which seems to be the case in XIV as well right now; it's something Yoshi's mentioned wanting to address for 2.0. Although I have to say I dont recall ever being hit by a mob in Besieged or Campaign that I couldn't see on-screen. I also don't recall it being a major complaint among the players. Not saying it didn't happen, just that I don't recall it really being a major issue.

As far as being instanced or not being the issue, I think it can be fun or lousy whether it's instanced or non-instanced. My thing is mostly about them not (ab)using instancing to the point that activities that could (and arguably, should) be more about bringing players together in a community sense being instead separated into individual "bubbles". Something like Besieged or CB would not have been as fun as it was, on the scale that it was, if those events had been instanced and split up among smaller groups.

I agree, however both ofthem had their limits I believe Campaign was limited to 64 people (signing up to the NPC) and Beseiged was an instance similar on scale to Dynamis I suppose.

I do agree that the lack of large scale fights is disappointing but the instanced aspect of it isn't the issue really, if 6 full parties could enter the same hamlet fight it would be much better, I guess we can only hope they plan this for 2.0.