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

[Hiragawa]

I would like to think it was incomplete, taking into account that when he attempted it our soul rebelled. I was always hoping they'd expand on this in some way, shape or form, but in the end nothing.

Now this also highlights another issue I take with the whole thing. Regardless of their intent with it. It ended up being completely inconsequential. That whole sequence of events could have been left out entirely and would likely have only made the story better, to be honest.

I'm gonna copy paste my response from the other thread over here as well, since some of this was touched on during the cutscene itself: But it happens in the first couple of lines when you wake up in the other body, so I think a lot of folks missed it.

'When you're pulled into the body in the first place, Fandaniel says "The experiment was a success, but I fear our time is short."

He follows this a bit later with "I took the liberty of making some improvements - and selecting you as my esteemed test subject" while taking about Aulus' research.||

IE: He makes it very clear that you're a test of the process, and it didn't exactly last long. Plus, you know, crazy boy did it for his own behind the scenes reasons as revealed through the rest of the story, and he's kinda gone now. So it's a one off that didn't exactly work out all that great.'

[AldricBranchais]

I hope they do more solo duties like it. For those complaining, there's only a handful of mobs you actually *have* to kill. The rest can easily be ignored if you have even a rudimentary understanding of how mob aggro in FFXIV works. (Trust me you can walk right by some of them and they will not aggro by a good distance) and they also leash. You don't have to fight.

Pls god just learn the game I beg of you.

[Okieeomi]

Greetings and salutations,

Thank you for the feedback on this topic. I wanted to let you know that we're planning to make adjustments to the "In from the Cold" main scenario quest in Patch 6.01.

* The adjustments will only affect the Easy / Very Easy difficulties available after failing the duty, and will not affect the Normal difficulty.

[Yzphet]

Now fix the first trial. this is leveling story content, it should not be stupid like it is.

[Shougun]

Greetings and salutations,

Thank you for the feedback on this topic. I wanted to let you know that we're planning to make adjustments to the "In from the Cold" main scenario quest in Patch 6.01.

* The adjustments will only affect the Easy / Very Easy difficulties available after failing the duty, and will not affect the Normal difficulty.

Nice solution, also want to give feedback that I think the difficulty thing is a cool system. I don't think I said that before but when it was added I was like "oh, that's neat!" and went on my day but didn't say it lol. So, thumbs up for that idea.

I remember the ARR class quests were a bit challenging (not crazy hard, just not super easy) in the beta phase, but they were quickly made more accessible to not bottleneck players. . With this system more players could 'win' (very much a fan of when possible making content accessible yet also importantly fun for that large accessible group).

"get to Camp Broken Glass.

This actually threw me off because I was like "oh okay" and made the crow fly's direct path to location, full intending to scale objects to do it (some rubble wouldn't stop me!!!--- but an invisible wall will. . . ). Agreed there was some elements purposefully added to give a sense of desperation.

Honestly if SE was into making a hard mode, on their normal, easy system, I'd be for that... I had like 23 minutes left on the clock and 5 potions. . Once I got the hang of what they were expecting of me it was easy, also the monsters don't chase forever so I was able to run through a few places haphazardly and just de-aggro them lol. Maybe it would do to have less monsters, with larger cones of vision, that can dash to you and slow your movement and such. Not that it's needed, it was still fun (once I got over that I needed to do what the 'game' wanted me to do, and not what the quest objective wanted which was what I was fixated on originally-- STRAIGHT TO BROKEN GLASS, THIS TRAIN STOPS FOR NOTHING ).

[Loonies]

Greetings and salutations,

Thank you for the feedback on this topic. I wanted to let you know that we're planning to make adjustments to the "In from the Cold" main scenario quest in Patch 6.01.

* The adjustments will only affect the Easy / Very Easy difficulties available after failing the duty, and will not affect the Normal difficulty.

That is a very good idea, so everyone can choose to go the easy way or continue the more difficult way. Thumbs up for fast response, another fact why FF 14 is that good.

[kejakalope]

Greetings and salutations,

Thank you for the feedback on this topic. I wanted to let you know that we're planning to make adjustments to the "In from the Cold" main scenario quest in Patch 6.01.

* The adjustments will only affect the Easy / Very Easy difficulties available after failing the duty, and will not affect the Normal difficulty.

That seems like a good way to go about it. Cheers!

[OranKells]

The entire point was to put you in the shoes of a lowly solider that was little more than cannon fodder for the WoL.

If you felt angry or powerless or despondent then it achieved it's goal.

[Wildsprite]

The entire point was to put you in the shoes of a lowly solider that was little more than cannon fodder for the WoL.

If you felt angry or powerless or despondent then it achieved it's goal.

except it didn't make me feel those things toward the character of Fandaniel like it was supposed to. I thought it was an awful quest that was meant to show how much of a madman Fandaniel had become.
I despised it and I hope they do not consider making more like it. no I did not find it difficult, I found it infuriating and annoying that the devs would even consider it. oh and

the fact he tries to use your body to attack your friends at the end of it made me even more angry at the devs.

[Jojoya]

I thought it was an awful quest that was meant to show how much of a madman Fandaniel had become.
I despised it and I hope they do not consider making more like it. no I did not find it difficult, I found it infuriating and annoying that the devs would even consider it. oh and

the fact he tries to use your body to attack your friends at the end of it made me even more upset at the devs.

So it sounds like they did an excellent job in your case. It's obvious that it was intended to generate intense feelings of anger and frustration that our body would be getting used to trick our friends.

I'd rather have quests like these where we have a good reason why we're not playing our chosen character than the "Hi, WoL, you're now randomly Thancred" duties.