Gamerescape Interview: Summons, Chocobos, Train Tracks and Rocks

[Khazar]

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We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

i would like it to have an use not only aesthetic, maybe any content thing that needs some platforming, like datacrons in swtor... i would keep it out of combat system and use for combat only skills related to evade attacks other than using the jump button- if you would add something to evade attacks from monster add a roll button with cooldown or something like that.

[Anapingofness]

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We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

Personally, I'd like to see it used in combat as well as getting around obstacles. It'd add a pretty unique function to the jump ability that I really haven't seen in other MMO games that I've played. However, I'd like to be able to use it outside of those situations, more or less as I see fit.

It gets kind of annoying being grounded all the time. Restricting jump to specific situations would only frustrate me. "You mean I can't jump down this ledge that is half my height?D=" or some such thing.

On the other hand, any news from the dev team about the ability to swim? The potential for underwater levels and quests is quite strong, in my opinion.

[Churchill]

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We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

No jumping in combat, no punishment for falling too far, it's a feature to make running around less boring - not a feature that could potentially make getting somewhere take even longer.

[Elexia]

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Keep it out of combat for sure unless you're meaning adding more jumps to DRG. Implementing jump into combat does turn it into an action game which last I read Yoshi wants to actually avoid. If it has to have a purpose, keep it to jumping over fences, granted you guys are reintroducing collision detection in 2.0

Personally, I'd like to see it used in combat

Dragoon.

[LunaChild]

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We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

Let have jumping just for traveling, no for combat and in cities too if possible ( like unable to ride chocobo).

[vax]

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I really don't want to jump being added, but i think it's pretty much a fact that will be in FFXIV, so i hope it will be only to pass obstacles, don't want it to see on combat.

[Shurrikhan]

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We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

I'd like to see it as a sort of intuitive-conditional use, rather than the simple jumping (usually in place) found in other MMOs. However, this would best play off things like parts of the revamped Black Shroud outskirts having multiple layers of pathable terrain via fallen or crooked trees, smallish holes and tunnels, etc. Something like FF13, minus the huge L'Cie leaps and without being used automatically, perhaps with the player's movement or camera direction determining which jump is used when multiple--and there should, in most situations, be multiple possibilities rather than there being jump points mostly just for aesthetics. The use of Shift or Control paired with the jump can also add control.

I think this will serve to make the world a little more free-feeling. Obvious pairings would be the ability to move off smallish ledges, especially if a sort of sliding mechanic is added. It's always been awkward to me to have to move over to where the ledge is exactly only 4' ft or so, and then appear as if I've simply skipped the frames between the top and bottom. The quality of movement animations have always played a key part in the vividness and freedom that a game world will appear to have.
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In combat, I would really prefer to see jump as a dodge-closing mechanic more or less unique to its class. The way a Monk moves, in that sort of sliding motion, should be distinct from the way a Lancer might charge or a Dragoon leap, or a Gladiator dive and roll with his shield still held above him. Shift may apply here as well.

Just a quick note, I think this would probably appear smoothest if paired with the slight auto-movement during abilities, i.e. if out of range, rather than the ability being pressed repeatedly until in range, the character can take the few steps forward quickly and strike. Reduced animation locking would also serve to make the entire feel of combat smoother around those implementations.

[Meta]

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Jump would be great for getting around obstacles or deviations in topography. No need to implement falling damage - this isn't the Elder Scrolls. Limit jumps to a specific height, obviously, but if we can walk there, we should be able to jump to or fall/slide down to the same spot.

[Arcell]

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Not in combat please. I would like to see jump used for terrain navigation though, that would be a nice touch.

[Titochuk]

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-Bosses with simon says aspects(Run, jump, backs to boss)