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

[DiaDeem]

[Duskane]

that trooper do be thicc tho

[Canadane]

I really enjoyed this one and look forward to more like it.

[Raim]

Out of curiosity, couldn't you just steamroll it on Very Easy mode after failing it once? Or is it still somewhat difficult?

[Mirhd]

I didn't mind the action portion. I think it was a good stab at thinking outside the box, even if it was annoying to have to figure out everything in the fly. There really is no prep for this quest (no indicators or even vague "go this way" directions) any time beforehand to help players. There was no escalation to this style of quest. BUT I did figure it out-grumbling and growling the entire time-so it's far from impossible.

My real problem is the GAPING PLOT HOLE presented by our absurdly casual kidnapping followed by an apparently effortless relocation of our supposedly powerful and ancient spirit.

Well...at least next playthrough I can respond to this ridiculous treatment of our ostensibly semi-divine character by immediately KO'ing myself, setting difficulty to "lol just click this button and you're done," followed by pretending this quest never happened (which is easy since it's never even brought up again) and moving on with the actually meaningful, and less personally offensive, epic storyline.

I've expressed my thoughts on this quest in another thread, so short version: I liked it and it made sense.

As for this quote: I'm not seeing the issue here. The WoL has been forcibly sent places before.

Furthermore, considering Fandaniel is an Ascian (a group notorious for body swapping), and was once Amon, an ancient Allagan scientist who resurrected Xande by forcibly putting his soul back into his body...

I don't get how this is a plot hole. :P

[Doozer]

I saw vague mention of this quest as I cautiously browsed the forums while in queues and expected something a lot worse. I enjoyed this one (more than the previous one, but that one was still okay too), especially the last bit. I didn't find it hard at all, though I did accidentally run by the fuel tank at the start when I went the wrong way, but I didn't have any problems completing it on my first try.

Every expansion people come running here saying instanced fights are too hard or annoying, but want us to believe they're hardcore raiders when playing the rest of the game. It's like how people hate the Rathalos trial because so few attacks are telegraphed. It really shows how much people rely on hand-holding in this game, and as soon as it doesn't have a huge sign pointing you where to go, it's stupid and unnecessary. Interesting.

[Jijifli]

Out of curiosity, couldn't you just steamroll it on Very Easy mode after failing it once? Or is it still somewhat difficult?

Very easy makes you have double health and deal double damage. This basically means where 1 guy could almost kill you, it raises the bar up to 4. On top of the health kits you can find, my assumption is you could probably kill every non-magitek enemy easily on very easy (those guys might still kill you though).

So, unless there's something I'm missing or people just really really wanna fight the thing the mission screams at you not to fight, it's pretty easy if you remove a huge chunk of the point in very easy mode.

[Ayuhra]

By the third time I was really over it and just wanted a "no, this is dumb, skip" button. But of course you can't skip it. Then I got to a QTE that I didn't expect, was drinking something, and failed it before I got my hands free.

Doing it AGAIN, I keyboard mashed as usual and somehow managed to bring up the settings menu, which you can't do in any other QTE in the game.

This quest didn't bother me much but that QTE is probably too tight for where it is. By that point you are worn out, it's a very mash-heavy QTE and if you lose you start over AFAIK. That's not great.

[Pavise]

I loved every minute of it, the portrayal of an overwhelming sense of dread and helplessness was fantastically done. It took me two attempts to clear it out on it's original difficulty.

It was nice to have some sort of a challenge to play through that was unexpected. I can see why some might not have had the same experience, but it really was a great storytelling moment.

[Enkidoh]

I've expressed my thoughts on this quest in another thread, so short version: I liked it and it made sense.

As for this quote: I'm not seeing the issue here. The WoL has been forcibly sent places before.

Furthermore, considering Fandaniel is an Ascian (a group notorious for body swapping), and was once Amon, an ancient Allagan scientist who resurrected Xande by forcibly putting his soul back into his body...

I don't get how this is a plot hole. :P

Indeed, Fandaniel even explains to you how he did it -

he recovered Aulus's mindjack technology that was used against the WoL during the battle for Ala Mhigo back in Stormblood (you know, that mechanic of the second boss in the dungeon where your soul was kicked out of your body and you had to wander back to your body quickly before the timer expired and it wiped you.). It was another call back to everything that has happened in the game up to this point.

As Fandangle gleefully tells you, he made some 'adjustments' to it which allowed your soul to be transferred into another body (Zenos just used his Resonant power and hopped into your vacant premises easily). At least Fandaniel at the end basically forces Zenos to vacate your body once the effect ends, sparing your soul being lost to wander without a body Ardbert style.

Either way, how it occurred was explained readily and was lore correct.