Square Enix needs to make a add-on detector!

[Shibi]

HOW would people know that arenas have markers on themself sometimes and know from those where aoes go, too??? Woaaah....

I admit, it took me too long to understand that those random pretty floor patterns are actually not just random pretty patterns. Most certainly people with skill should know about those hints and be able to use them for prior pixel perfect placement.

(I recall the light switch coming on when I did notice that there were safezones, mechanic range hints, add-rez spots, cardinals, and more built into the floor graphics in those ornate arenas. My mind was blown.)

[Iyrnthota]

This fight in particular has an element of randomness which makes early pre-positionning impossible.

Wouldn't be the first time I've taken a coin flip.

Like, I'm not saying there's no-one using those kind of add ons, but the whole "you can tell cause of the way they do" is a bit much.

[LittleImp]

So...pre-positioning? That thing you can do when you know the fight?

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

[Iyrnthota]

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

Please refer to my previous email in which I....etc etc

[caffe_macchiato]

I already know I'm going to get vitriol for this post, but I don't care because I will speak facts. If you use add-ons, Square Enix needs to implement a detector for those add-ons and you need to be penalized for cheating because that's exactly what you're doing.

Sadly, your prediction was correct. Because Square looks the other way, it’s up to the community to self-moderate, and it seems like more and more players embrace and deeply appreciate the value that plugins and addons bring to the game. And because raiding is run almost entirely by community pressure, there’s nothing we can do but yield to those who have more power and influence than us console/vanilla players. Anything that has a competitive advantage will be propagated quickly over the internet and any attempt to downgrade it, other than bySquare Enix itself, will fail to work.

We also need to realize that FFXIV is nine years old. This is no longer a new game where the code has yet to be explored and people find the vanilla experience refreshing. FFXIV is aging and addons are the most significant upgrade to the game’s backend since patch 2.0. Square Enix has deliberately refused to upgrade the backend or add significant QOL features. Whenever there’s a development void, players will fill it with third-party tools.

It happens to all aging games on PC. It’s sad that our favorite game has fallen by the wayside, but SE has put the power in our own hands to fix it. Maybe it’s time to be like WoW and pick up the slack. After all, with the three(!) new farm simulators that SE just announced for the Switch, they’ve got their hands full and don’t have time to maintain QOL for an old game like this.

[Raoabolic]

Meanwhile SE is using Windower to showcase FFXI, lmao.

[Saraide]

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

Aaaaaand it's irrelevant. This would only matter if you hadnt enough time based on the legit tells any attack has. Is cactbot cringe? Yes. Does it warrant infecting the game with anti cheat? No. Anticheat doesnt prevent cheating, no game dev is winning that arm's race. More competent people have tried and failed. Anti cheat however will cause tons of problems for people who arent cheating, always have.

[zabu]

Cheating add on is really minority. Additionally, Having add on does not mean a clear man. Look at p7s way mark. People still cant clear it. If you cant do your rotation, even god tier's add on cant give you a clear

[TheRealMadruck]

The amount of people I have literally seen justifying using add-ons on this thread during initial fights when they first appear during a patch drop and intentionally conflating this with knowing a fight because you've done it a hundred times for example is absolutely incredible to me.

They will intentionally defend by every metric what is cheating by knowing the mechanics ahead of time during their initial first time doing a fight and yet somehow they consider it not cheating. Just wow!

[Bukachu]

get a life LOL

man really trying to win bozo awards