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

[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.

[Zensho]

I thought I had it beat, then I had to crawl to Broken Glass like a wounded animal with like 30 seconds left, was freaking out hardcore hahahaha "like omg I'm not gonna make it and have to restart this shit again lmao.... what a troll ride!

[ShadySuspect]

You need to get the item that increases your damage. Blow your wad on the outliers that are directly blocking chokepoints.

The second try, after I died the first time, I had every single item before I engaged a single enemy.

Also, never fight more than 1v1.

I absolutely love that they add such variety to a game like this. It's refreshing. If it's too hard for you turn down the difficulty to get past it so you can continue your story, and come back to it once you feel like you really want to tackle it and figure it out.

[Wildsprite]

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.

actually no, they didn't. the point of the quest in the first place was to make you angry at Fandaniel, it was lost on me as the only feelings I had toward him at any point was pity(I found him pitiful from the start),the quest only made me angry at the devs not Fandaniel. I for one would rather not have the role play quests like these be part of the main scenario at all. I don't mind them being in side quests where I can choose to play them or not. but alas I'm vastly outnumbered in this it seems.

TL: DR: I was never angry at Fandaniel at any point in any of the story(which was the whole point of this quest, to get you angry at him). only anger I had was toward the devs for some of their choices.

[Kolsykol]

Some of y'all are so overly dramatic.

No wonder Western game devs take such few risks and games are so repetitive.

[Comrade_uri]

Loved it. Your power was taken away, add a bit of urgency and throw in some challenge. Did it first time but it came right down to the wire. The rest of the game, before and after was easy but that’s not a complaint. This challenge though had me sit up and I am thankful for it.

[Zfz]

I found the difficulty fine, just part of the character-swap gimmick they're experimenting.

Personally I dislike every single one of the MSQ duties that had us playing as one of the story characters. Specifically, I hated using those skills. Just give us a cut-scene of the fights, tell the story like you always do.

I had no difficulties doing "In from the cold" the first time so I just dislike it just for the same reason as any other "character-swap" duties, even though it technically was my own character.

I'm fine with seeing these duties once over the MSQ.

But I will aboslutely hate it if it becomes part of our daily/weekly grind. Please no. I leveled up my character in the jobs I chose because I like that combat. I didn't level them up to 90 just to have the game force me to use a complete set of differnet skills that was just 11111, 22222, 11111, 22222. Don't do it, devs. Please. Not even for 5 minutes a day. Keep that abomination clamped down inside the MSQs.

[TitaniaZero]

I found it to be annoying yes. But I one shot the thing. So I guess I can't understand all of this hate and frustration.

In fact reading through this thing I learned there were other items other than the regen and the medipacks! I kinda want to try it again just to find those, kinda.

[Larirawiel]

This scenario has been nerfed with 6.01. Read the patchnotes.

The effects of the Indomitable Spirit status effect have been increased.
The initial number of uses of the duty action has been increased.
To more easily locate certain items required to progress in this duty, the amount of fuel-concealing wreckage in the area has been increased.

Cheers

[Chrisnetika]

Seems enough complaints got to them to change it, against the wishes of the naysayers cackling about people having issues with that duty