"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[Psytic]

Kind of grew on me once I figured out where everything was. Hated it at first but once you know where to find the stuff its a refreshing change. Actually im burning out more on all these cut scenes. I'd rather they be in game and playable and interactive then sitting watching 10 hours of movies.

[lulunami]

I beat this quest on my first try. It was a pretty good instance imho. Almost made me feel like Solid Snake.

Some tips:
- Avoid any inorganic enemies at any cost. They are really annoying if you get detected by them.
- Always use stealth to take out humanoids.
- Use the stun grenade on the beasts.
- Save defensive and offensive cooldown in case you get detected (by hopefully only one enemy).

[Melorie]

So far I've not had much problems with it. I actually feel that it is a very creative duty, and I'm glad they're trying different things... However, after going through the stealth part and getting into the "activate time manauver", I failed - because right now I have a bad keyboard that often make these events kinda difficult.

When I came back, it started right from the beginning. I kinda wish we had at least a checkpoint after the stealth part is over, since this really killed the mood.

[RyuDragnier]

I think this duty was the strongest solo instance they've ever done, you really felt the horror, powerlessness and desperation. It had such emotional impact until I died and had to start over

Strong enough to where I got an anxiety attack doing it and was shaking for a good 40 minutes afterwards. Which meant the instance did its job well. What caused the anxiety attack was less of the instance and more of the storytelling making me scream irl "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM!" Meaning I'm way too attached to the NPCs in this game, I've shed tears multiple times this expansion so far, and I'm only at the end of the 85 quests.

[Canddi]

I beat this quest on my first try. It was a pretty good instance imho. Almost made me feel like Solid Snake.

Some tips:
- Avoid any inorganic enemies at any cost. They are really annoying if you get detected by them.
- Always use stealth to take out humanoids.
- Use the stun grenade on the beasts.
- Save defensive and offensive cooldown in case you get detected (by hopefully only one enemy).

You're thinking of a previous quest where you control Thancred. This one is a bit later on.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

Seriously considering quitting the game over this one.

Ye it's a really bad quest line over all. How it's even make logic? Just think of it, ascians all this time can just teleport me to where the fuck they want and did not killed me like this , because? And it show how poorly the villains this time are. Boring to the root. This is the most lame ascian so far. A Wana be joker? Then there zenos. Easy the most boring character in mmo history. And he used to be so good in SB. Why they made him so boring.

[Dogempire]

I will be blunt and frank at the amount of whining I’m seeing here about this duty in particular. For anyone who has an inkling of memory if you were here in ARR: DO YOU REMEMBER THE STEPS OF FAITH?

That was nerfed into the ground and basically lost its experience once people could simply DPS the dragon senseless. I do not want another duty to be watered down so much again because of the player base crying about this when it’s very well done from what it is trying to evoke; especially now. (Second post coming since Mobile)

Well, yes and no, you could easily achieve a similar if not greater effect by putting us in a cramped maze full of monsters/tempered and forcing us to scavenge supplies and dodge patrols, but still make us control the same imperial character and apply the same skills/lack of auto regen, and it would probably have a much better effect because you'd effectively have tangible walls instead of random orange barriers blocking you, just add the magitek armor at the end in front of a room full of enemies so that it's obvious you need to repair it to get through, and then add 2 branching rooms on either side that contain the 2 materials you need

Honestly I like the idea and I was having a blast navigating around all the enemies and picking my fights, that is, until the arbitrary objectives came into play and there was no indication of how to get out because there were barriers everywhere that you could only see when you got close to them, nevermind the fact that it would make a lot more sense to remove the barriers and just put enemies everywhere and trigger a cutscene as soon as you left the city area instead of what we got

Nothing wrong with complaining when something is legitimately bad, and literally all this solo duty needs to go from bad to good/bearable is just some darn markers

[LisSquid]

At least they didn't make you actual crawl for the remainder of the timer..

[Shougun]

At least they didn't make you actual crawl for the remainder of the timer..

Wait... you didn't....?





I was thinking they'd make me slowly break the crawl debuff and then run the rest of the way, perhaps with a buff building back up for mega sprint (like "fastest the WoL has ever ran" lol). Though I've got an over active imagination, hence I can post endlessly XD. So when it broke away at the end of the crawl buff I was like "oh! I won already? I won!".

Another take on that instance, I felt potions were honestly quite generous. One thought, maybe rather than potions is you can rest, but it cuts your time each time you rest. Especially perhaps this is how it works on normal (rest + potions on easy and very easy). As I had like 15+ minutes at the end, I didn't really feel pressed for time. Plus I had spare potions.

Just really think the layout / 'level design' getting some tweaks would help players out enormously. Besides the internal layout but also the external walls, like the red dots being my hint I shouldn't go the way I think I should go to get to glass town the fastest is rather.. "oh..kay.., solve the problem but dont solve it that way I guess". I still thought it was fun, but I think the problem largely revolves around how that section was built (colors, placement, etc, which I don't say as a insult just I think those are the main reasons people are ultimately struggling). Though if it's made more logically (with visual cue stuff) then it'll be finished even faster, so they may have to keep that in mind as they adjust else it'll lose some of the desperation feeling.

[Rannie]

I enjoyed that solo duty though I will admit it took me a couple of tries and after I found the gas... I got lost. I never realized until I was quite literally going "Oh shit oh shit oh shit I'm lost I'm lost" that I realized I could have marked the position of the Reaper on the map to help find my way back to it. Soooo for those or you reading this and have the direction sense of Ryoga Hibiki when panicked... please do that it will save your time...

Finished it with around 7 minutes or less but can't wait to play it again with ng+.