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

[Wyther]

"In from the Cold" Broke a bond with me. In all the time Ive played FFXIV, This is the first time I've hated the game.

Ive been annoyed at mechanics, sad at deaths in the story line etc. It wasnt mechanics in "Doing the quest" that made me mad, it was was done to your character. This quest destroyed the magic the game held. This quest broke a taboo between the story teller and the player. It made me disappointed that they would even consider doing something like this. What they did broke the trust I have with them. They did not need to do what they did they way they did it.

And from reading some of the posts, I'm not the only one who feels violated by it.

[Katie_Kitty]

"In from the Cold" Broke a bond with me. In all the time Ive played FFXIV, This is the first time I've hated the game.

Ive been annoyed at mechanics, sad at deaths in the story line etc. It wasnt mechanics in "Doing the quest" that made me mad, it was was done to your character. This quest destroyed the magic the game held. This quest broke a taboo between the story teller and the player. It made me disappointed that they would even consider doing something like this. What they did broke the trust I have with them. They did not need to do what they did they way they did it.

And from reading some of the posts, I'm not the only one who feels violated by it.

Oh please.. I wish you could see me rolling my eyes right now reading this.

[Thatusernameistaken]

"In from the Cold"This quest destroyed the magic

Well yeah, Garleans can't use magic. The whole entire point of this scenario was to force you to feel powerless. Ironically, I came to appreciate Magitek a lot more after this scenario and understand now why the Garleans went down the path they did as a nation. It also really drove home just how powerful and legendary our character must be portrayed in Garlean culture because we know we would have steamrolled that whole thing if we had our normal power available.

[HyperSMB]

This quest was garbage. All of the ones that take control away and force me to play as someone else are pretty terrible, this one however is particularly offensive.

- Stealth is FF14 is bad. There is no good way to know what will and will not aggro.
- You are so weak fights drag on and on and on.
> Before you tell me that is the point, Gameplay comes above story in my eyes.
- The minimap is worthless and you really do not know where to go, making this annoyance drag out longer.

I'm not going to quit over it, but it sure as hell left a bad taste in my mouth.

On a side note: The devs are REALLY REALLY proud they discovered escort quests this expac huh?

[Nothv13]

This quest was garbage. All of the ones that take control away and force me to play as someone else are pretty terrible, this one however is particularly offensive.

- Stealth is FF14 is bad. There is no good way to know what will and will not aggro.
- You are so weak fights drag on and on and on.
> Before you tell me that is the point, Gameplay comes above story in my eyes.
- The minimap is worthless and you really do not know where to go, making this annoyance drag out longer.

I'm not going to quit over it, but it sure as hell left a bad taste in my mouth.

On a side note: The devs are REALLY REALLY proud they discovered escort quests this expac huh?

Gameplay is not above story in this game, they are even if not story being higher as gameplay is arguable being less and less of a focus as classes get simpler and simpler. In fact this whole scenario is meant to meld story with gameplay. BTW, it is pretty easy to tell what will trigger the mobs. You can see which way they are looking. You can practically touch them from the back without triggering them. I didn't aggro a single mob in the duty

[Enjuden]

Damn, he was gate keeped.

Still, that's what very easy is for.

[Asari5]

just did that one... didnt like it at all. i kinda got angry. did it at the first try but i didnt enjoy not at all

[Dogempire]

I don't mind the stealth, but that mission is attrocious in making you do certain things in a certain order, and giving you no hints or markers so you're forced to guess what to do and if you don't figure it out fast enough you'll run out of time

At least with Thancred's mission it's more cut and dry what you need to do, here you would expect to be able to stealth all the way to the encampment but there's a random barrier blocking you

[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.

[Pathia]

I've got some sort of bug with this. I've tried 2 keyboards and 2 gamepads. In the sequence at the end, it does not register any inputs. I'm actually completely blocked by this quest now.