Endwalker? More like Escort Walker

[Sililos]

I really enjoy it, it adds too the immersion a certain other game doesn't have, and i have no problem with the speedrunners who later complain they dont know whats going on and call the game boring or whatever else feeling upset.

That said, I wish it was a little more forgiving in certain aspects such as the stalking quests. Going back to the start of those can be a real pain.
But hey, Its new, they will likely, hopefully tweak it with time to feel better.

[Skivvy]

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.

This sums up my thoughts as well. I actually quite liked some of the walk-arounds with NPCs....but the stalking ones I am NOT a fan of.

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

It's Error Walker for me. I'd friggin love to be able to escort right about now.

[Lunafreya]

And I actually love the new change of pace. Cry some more please

[Arius69]

I understand people like different things... but this seems like such a small thing to complain about that just makes those people seem idk... ungrateful?

Mofos lucky yall even playing with those login queues

I agree. At least you got in. If the quest supports the storyline I am all for it. If it is like making fried rice and adding lots of celery because you cant afford other vegetables then I am disappointed. That is one of the reasons I left WOW for FFXIV because it actually feels like SE cares about not wasting my time on pointless fillers.

[Jarlent]

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.

I just canceled my sub over the one at the end of shadowbringers

[DragonStryk72]

Yeah, I love MOST of EW, but, man, there are too many escort quests. Likely something they'll fix in future patches with enough feedback (I'd suggest allowing escort to use local Aethernet with you for city stuff/Teleport within zone. It really would make things substantially less agitating). But yeah, pressed that button too many times

[Azazel_Grim]

What story am I missing by using the aetheryte to get around the city as opposed to walking?

Immersion is why. Physically walking and searching for something with the characters has a completely different feel than just teleporting to it alone. It suddenly changed from "I", into "we". It heavily increased the immersion of the quests it was in. Especially the one in the Final area. I loved going around with them and seeing what they had to say. I absolutely loved the feature!

[Izar_Chillen]

Oddly there is no good reason they created these companion objectives to cause them to fail when moving too far away from them seeing as the Chocobo companion will follow you anywhere at any walk/run/sprint speed , and re-appear by your side after you get off a mount , or come out of a duty.


SWTOR has had fully functioning and far superior companion "ai" since 2011 , how did SqE make their version so inferior?

[Eraden]

I really don't understand how anyone likes this mechanic. I mean I guess walking with people around town is okay but this red light/green light stay hidden BS is really getting old and is starting to adversely affect my enjoyment of this expansion despite how strong the story is. Surely I'm not the only one that feels this way.

I LOVED those parts. It's a fun puzzle for me. Figuring out where to hide while staying nearby.