Patch 6.4 Notes

**ForteNightshade** · 05-20-2023 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by Hyperia

Maybe it’s just me but I feel a significant lack of desire to rush out and do this patch like I used to. In the past, I would take off the day or two for patch days for almost every patch but now… I don’t know… maybe it’s just the lack of draw in for the current MSQ, I don’t know…

Do any of you feel like this?

Been that way for a long while now. In my friend circle, we used to make a big deal about Live Letters and plan to hop on zero hour. None of us even bother with the LLs any more, partly because of how... dull Endwalker has felt but also due to how often they talk about seemingly nothing for so long. Belts anyone? Patch wise, a friend of mine still likes to zero hour odd patches for 24 man shenanigans and I want to jump on the gil machine for day one crafting but otherwise, I wouldn't really care. I'll do the EX for Savage prep but I'm not "excited" the way I used to be.

This whole expansion has felt really meh for me.

Originally Posted by Hyperia

I have a strong feeling that the Hrothgar were not intended to be a playable race but switched at the last moment. That would explain why hair and faces are locked together as they would with NPCs.

Actually, it was Viera that were originally intended. Hrothgar were always planned in an effort to attract players who prefer beastial races. According to Yoshida, it was a very often made request from players coming in from other games. They pivoted to Viera because the fanbase wouldn't stop asking for them. Hence why we had the gender slip. It was their attempt to cater towards both sides. Which... didn't work out nearly to the extent they likely hoped.

As for the face design. The dev team admitted both Hrothgar and Viera use a different model entirely. It was supposedly to give Hrothgar better features or something to that effect. They didn't account for how difficult porting existing gear and hairstyles would actually be nor the demand from players for it.

**Hazama999** · 05-20-2023 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Hyperia

Maybe it’s just me but I feel a significant lack of desire to rush out and do this patch like I used to. In the past, I would take off the day or two for patch days for almost every patch but now… I don’t know… maybe it’s just the lack of draw in for the current MSQ, I don’t know…

Do any of you feel like this?

I only ever feel like "rushing out and doing the patch" with expansions.

Don't think I've felt like that about .X patches since like... the 2.X series.

**caffe_macchiato** · 05-20-2023 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Hyperia

Maybe it’s just me but I feel a significant lack of desire to rush out and do this patch like I used to. In the past, I would take off the day or two for patch days for almost every patch but now… I don’t know… maybe it’s just the lack of draw in for the current MSQ, I don’t know…

Do any of you feel like this?

Previous patches had gameplay other than the latest story and raid, which can all be finished in a weekend. Now we only have Microsoft Outlook simulator, aka Island “Sanctuary”. And that’s not to mention that the core game itself has been dumbed down so much.

At this point, it’s best to stick to a free-to-play weekend that they usually have. You can do all the patch content in those four days, including the new V&C whenever it comes out.

Until then, go have fun with some actual video games that don’t try to replicate your work software.

**IDontPetLalas** · 05-20-2023 01:56 AM

"After a ready check is completed, a sound effect dependent on the result will now play."

That won't be abused, no, of course not.

**MaxCarnage** · 05-20-2023 02:21 AM

Added some new QoL stuff, which is nice. As for the rest of the patch, it's all the same. But then again, I can't say I have ever felt super excited to play a patch. Definitely not to the extent that I book off work. Not even for EW. So I don't feel any more or less than I usually do for a patch.

New iLVL is nice. I always do like getting stronger.

I will say, I am slightly disappointed that we didn't get any new hair. But c'est la vie, I suppose.

**Absurdity** · 05-20-2023 02:56 AM

Can we please stop adding capes to everything and ruining perfectly good armor designs?
They move like jank, look like jank, clip into tails like jank and we have them on both the tomestone and raid gear this time...

**Shinkuno** · 05-20-2023 03:08 AM

That "modern legend" on hrothgar has to be a joke. Who approved that? It looks so unfinished from behind.

**Hyperia** · 05-20-2023 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by Shinkuno

That "modern legend" on hrothgar has to be a joke. Who approved that? It looks so unfinished from behind.

I have a strong feeling that the Hrothgar were not intended to be a playable race but switched at the last moment. That would explain why hair and faces are locked together as they would with NPCs.

**Iscah** · 05-20-2023 03:38 AM

Originally Posted by Shinkuno

That "modern legend" on hrothgar has to be a joke. Who approved that? It looks so unfinished from behind.

They're just not built to suit some human hairstyles. The devs didn't intend to make them compatible with standard hairstyles, and this sort of fitting issue is probably why – but if they skipped over it because they know it doesn't fit well, people would complain that they were dodging work and neglecting Hrothgar again.

**Moonlite** · 05-20-2023 03:42 AM

So last PvP mount was recolour. New PvP mount is almost identical to a mount in game already. I would have to look but bed mount looks close to old bed. That is just stuff I noticed. Sure they have other reused assets I am missing.

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