Endwalker? More like Escort Walker

[Melorie]

I personally love the fluff walking-with-the-npc thing. This game expac is a single-player experience, and the more immersive they can make it, the better. The only thing I dislike is that I can't really make the npcs do emotes on g-pose, otherwise it's been fun trying to get selfies with the scions! It's fluffy, it's cringey, but it's very cute. <3

I never had an instance where they got lost nor that I felt they are holding me back tbh? I bet the system could be improved, but imo the idea is not bad. At all.

And if you're in a hurry and just skipping... honestly, you're already making your experience quite miserable by rushing through things (like, i can't really see how people feel fun by blasting esc hours and hours but ok), I doubt this little of boredom sprinkled on top of your experience is such a huge deal regardless. I hope this system is expanded in the future.

I gained almost the entirety over over two levels from doing quests where I run to someone and talk, then watch a cutscene, then run to the next guy and talk and watch a cutscene. I'm straight up bored right now.

That's how the game has always been though.

[Jennah]

The "Walk around with an NPC following you" is fine.
The "follow someone and don't fall behind" is okay, unless they decide to RP-walk everywhere.

The "follow someone and if they spot you, start all over" is getting OLD. Fast.

[Kazrah]

Escort missions aren't too bad, but it's the stalking missions that age like milk. Maybe they wouldn't be so bad if they automatically dropped you back at the starting point if/when you fail them.

[Shurrikhan]

I think it was a nice feature. At least I personally enjoyed it.

I'd enjoy it if the mobs could just go an extra 10 yalms before losing line of site and would just use (or, be teleported by) the aethernet when you do, and had their position persist regardless of going into duties or reappear at the latest step of the escort instead of the beginning only. Voila. Fixed.

[Unaki]

I don't have a problem with escort quests. I'd rather do twenty of those than one more forced NPC duty. No I don't want to play as Thancred. No I don't want to play as Scions. I want to play as MY character. I want to play my BLM, MCH or whatever I choose to level...That Ranjit fight in SHB really soured me big time on these things and no amount of forcing me into other character roles will ever fix it.

[Naychan]

Could be much worse, at least you don't have to beckon them.

[caffe_macchiato]

It seems that SE has finally figured out how to implement escort quests and is determined to have multiple ones in every single zone.

Especially during the MSQ.

NPC X has lost sight of you! Return to start over!

I think this is the general theme they were trying to go at with this expac. You wait in a queue watching a little number go down, then you click on some text boxes and walk around a bit. Wash, rinse, repeat. I think even ARR has this beat. A bit of a shame thus far. I'm sure the rest of the story is good, but we can't really play it, and when we can, it's just a walking simulator.

[vitamin_w]

Escort missions aren't too bad, but it's the stalking missions that age like milk. Maybe they wouldn't be so bad if they automatically dropped you back at the starting point if/when you fail them.

Yes, these are the ones I have a problem with by far. The shit where they're following you isn't all that bad. I don't think it's this big game changing revolutionary experience like some do but it doesn't detract from the experience necessarily. The follow/hide stuff can gtfo though.

[Blackcanary]

It's not that bad your kind of over reacting and being extra to be honest.

[Minato777]

crappy out of place stealth level, escorting stupid AI, all we need at this point is a crappy water level then we will have the shitty holy trinity of video games......