Less scripted fights more online engagement

[Raven2014]

The reason fights in FF14 is structured is not only because the fight is structured, it's because the whole system is structure. The strict and long rotation, combo breaker, melee positional, 2 minutes burst window and DPS check that requires certain level of optimization ... none of that lend itself to a random fight even with zero ping. You'll need a much more nonrestrictive and free flow combat system to allow freestyling fight.

In short: they will need to change not only the fight design, but the whole system of the game. In another word: not gonna happen.

[Tunda]

The reason fights in FF14 is structured is not only because the fight is structured, it's because the whole system is structure. The strict and long rotation, combo breaker, melee positional, 2 minutes burst window and DPS check that requires certain level of optimization ... none of that lend itself to a random fight even with zero ping. You'll need a much more nonrestrictive and free flow combat system to allow freestyling fight.

In short: they will need to change not only the fight design, but the whole system of the game. In another word: not gonna happen.

we didn't request hard changes in the game..

we ask for baby steps.. just make things have life.. let bosses have decision making.. everything feels scripted dull and unplayable for more than few times

[Raven2014]

we didn't request hard changes in the game..

we ask for baby steps.. just make things have life.. let bosses have decision making.. everything feels scripted dull and unplayable for more than few times

You already have baby steps, fights are no longer 100% exactly the same but have some random element like phase order in them now, and even THAT isn't always popular when it mess up things like 2 minutes window.

What you are asking for is not baby steps just because you're thinking it's baby steps. That kind of change is not minor and will require large structural change no matter how much you wish otherwise.

[Tunda]

You already have baby steps, fights are no longer 100% exactly the same but have some random element like phase order in them now, and even THAT isn't always popular when it mess up things like 2 minutes window.

What you are asking for is not baby steps just because you're thinking it's baby steps. That kind of change is not minor and will require large structural change no matter how much you wish otherwise.

not my issue if it requires 1 million dollar I am a customer I say what I want

i dont care how billions this will cost.. I care about game being fun nothing else

[Raven2014]

not my issue if it requires 1 million dollar I am a customer I say what I want

i dont care how billions this will cost.. I care about game being fun nothing else

Nobody said you can't or care. Just informing you how unreasonable your request is. And if you don't care about that ... well, sometime shouting pointlessly into the void does make people feel better. So have fun.

[BunnyQueen]

Less scripted fights more online engagement

Playing through trails and fights more than once is a wasted time and boring

What about stopping scripted fights at least 50% just let us have online moments that can be unique each fight

I agree with this, also upping auto attack damage to force more healer engagement.

[KillaKilala]

I like raids how they are, but I would love to see this implemented to the new field operation instead of having another FATE farming zone

[NanaWiloh]

Boss fights in just about every mmo is scripted. Its more noticable in FF14 cause of telegraphs, bosses taking a stationary position and obivous animations.

[Espon]

I find that people that people that ask for "less scripted fights" don't understand what it means. Everything is scripted, even RNG follows a script as it's just a branching path. A difficult Elden Ring boss is entirely scripted. A Goomba walking in one direction until it falls off the edge or hits a wall is following a script. What it really comes down to is how well that script designed. Some bosses in FF14 can be a little too predictable due to their script, I'll give you that.

Now do you want things to be more random? How random is enough and how much is too much? It's nice having things being not too predictable as that makes the fight kind of boring once you solved it, but too random can sometimes give you situations that are either extremely easy to deal with or nearly impossible.

[lolnotacat]

I feel like this was something they were experimenting a little with variants. I would love to see fights with more mechanics that were randomized a bit.

Instead of fights that were just:

A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F -> G (repeat)

I'd love it if the mechs swapped places a bit or branched off into other mechs. So A could move onto B, but maybe could also move onto F. When F fires, it could be D or G. This allows for fights to be mostly scripted in regards to the mechanics themselves, but when they pop up changes the fight almost entirely.