Fall Guys event feedback

[TomsYoungerBro]

As far as I know, big games cooperate with other games so that players try new games. Now I ask myself the question. Was a Jump & Run Game like Fall Guys really the right choice for Final Fantasy XIV? Wouldn't another game have been more suitable? Nintendo and Playstation have countless other games. So why Fall Guys? I mean who of you will Pay to Play Fall Guys after this cooperation? Me 100% not.

Looking forward to FFXIV Fortnite collab next year.

[Gemina]

I haven't posted in a very long time, but felt compelled to chime in on this discussion. What I want to say is I do love this event. It is equal parts fun, frustrating, and addicting to play. I've managed only a handful of wins, a couple of those being when there was less than 8 players in the final round. I don't care about getting the 100 win achievement. I was happy getting just one, especially under the current conditions.

I've had the same issues as anyone else when it comes to the snapshotting. I find it no more severe than anything I've encountered in PvE. I don't deny that it is a crappy thing to deal with in both PvE and PvP scenarios, but it is what it is. We have to deal with it, or just not play. Those are our choices. However, there are at least a couple of things I feel we shouldn't be dealing with.

The first are the absolutely disgusting set of players who will camp out by the goal line during the race courses in the first round until they are the last ones required to finish. This only grieves the other contenders, and gives them false hope to win. It also delays the progression of the instance. It never ceases to amaze me at the poor conduct exhibited by some players in the community. This is what's called "Unsportsmanlike conduct" and is heavily frowned upon. There is an easy fix to this though, and it is simply to move the goal line up to be adjacent with the last obstacle in the course. Once you clear the obstacle, you finish the race.

The second is Manderville Mountain should not be the final round. It should be an elimination round, and the first eight players to the top should proceed to the final. The entire event should be played out like this.

Preliminary round: Manderville Can Parade, Gentlebean's Fever
Divisional round: Saucery Siege, Manderville Mountain
*All four of these shows are technically races.
Final round: The Gold Swiveller

The Gold Swiveller is not a race, and it is pure survival. Though if all contenders are 'just that good', then the player in the lead will eventually win. But this would force players to make very risky maneuvers in order to take the lead. Typhon should never be able to spin faster than top player speed, and it should be the increased difficulty of the obstacles that slows them down enough to catch his blast. This really should be the final round, and the last player standing is crowned the champion.

Another suggestion I do have is that for the race courses, there is additional MGF rewarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placers. The higher the standing, the higher the reward. It would also be nice to see how everyone placed.

Other than that, I would love for this to be fleshed out into an entire game. I never PvP'd in this game until now. I know there is the actual Fall Guys, but every time I enter this thing, I can't help but envision all the wipeouts being caught and shown on instant replay, increased reactionary physics to the obstacles crashing into players, and two Japanese commentators giving the play by play and laughing their arses off at all the spills. This is just my imagination running wild, but I would LOVE it. lol.

Stay true friends.

[Swordsman]

This and the servers do an abysmal job at updating player position, citizen.

It's easy in retrospect to say "skill issue" and "this is where you got snapshot" but it's infuriating because FFXIV is the only game that I experience networking issues with.

Yeah, it's the shoddy player position update rate at work here. The server will always register your position as being 1-2 seconds (sometimes more) behind where you (the player) see yourself on your PC at home, which makes it easier to get snapshotted in AOE, etc. It all feels very sluggish and difficult to play sometimes.

Also, anybody remember the time when SE had to increase FFXIV's player position update rate to make Titan playable? I certainly do. Good ol' patch 2.1.



Source for Patch 2.1 notes if anyone's curious: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...c43828a#system

Sometimes I wonder if SE can increase it again without having the servers implode. It would probably make the game much more enjoyable, but they'll need more funding to roll out those server upgrades, and SE is infamous for penny-pinching.

[WeebPolice]

Also, anybody remember the time when SE had to increase FFXIV's player position update rate to make Titan playable? I certainly do. Good ol' patch 2.1.

I was not there for that, citizen. What was it like? I can't believe there was a time when it was worse than it already is.




The strongest spirits will always triumph.

[Hyperia]

I was not there for that, citizen. What was it like? I can't believe there was a time when it was worse than it already is.




The strongest spirits will always triumph.

Before the fix, it felt like the fight was designed to kill you without mercy. No matter what you did, you almost always died but on the rare moments where you live, you thought you were going to die.

Jokingly, it’s like you kill the boss and die after you get the kill credit because the game thought you were in the bad.

In all honestly, they really need to switch to client collision verification and not do it on the server side. Will people cheat, probably but eventually somebody will brag and it will get to the GMs or the court of public opinion.

Those who want to cheat will do it one way or another. Their time will come but trying to fight cheaters makes things miserable for the rest of us.

[mana-burner]

I think this is one of the best collabs we've had. I only wish there were more maps for the third stage.
I'm not sure why people are stressing so much about the title since they've already said the event will be run again regularly. Even if you have to have it now, 2 months is a reasonable time-frame to get 100 wins.

[Lufir]

Looking forward to FFXIV Fortnite collab next year.

It's actually funny how real of a possibility this is lol

[Holtadipolta]

The very first time I did the event I was furious on how shitty it played. The netcode is awful at handling the effects. The crystal delivery is BY FAR the worst offender. My character is clearly out of AOE and still gets hit. Unfair and frustrating.
Feels like QA had either nothing to say or was not involved at all.

[Deceptus]

There's now literally a cheat mod that shows radius, duration, and recommends the best paths. (Taken from elsewhere, not mine)

There's nothing CBU3 can do about it since it's on our end (they're not using sniffing programs).

If you're not using it, and someone else is, there's very little change of you winning.

[Luluna]

I am rubbish at it but would never lower myself to cheating..I am pretty old and remember watching the games guru for tips lol . I could not hold my head up with the shame I would feel cheating. I am not the greatest player but I would rather get good than not cheat. I am slower these days due to health issues and this does cause me problems but no way could I use a programme.