Please add a small audio feedback to positional attacks on melee

[velswen]

Sometimes it is hard to know whether you have hit a positional or not because the boss can rapidly change the direction they're facing for mechanics or if the tank is spinning them around. There are also times where you may find yourself riiiight on the edge between a flank and rear positional, and it would be great if there was a small bit of audio feedback letting us know so that if we missed one, we could adjust in the future.

It would be great if there was a setting for this so that it could be disabled if desired.

Thanks!

[Valence]

I'm actually amazed that positional feedback which has been asked for since literally the early days, isn't here yet in 2024.

[LynxDubh]

Are you asking for a volume slider for the feedback? That might be nice. Both the audio and visual feedback for positionals can get drowned out.

[Carighan]

I'm not especially looking for audio feedback, but any feedback in the first place.

In particular I'd argue the best thing wold be if you saw a different animation when you fail the positional, akin to how Ninjas get the failure for then Ten Chi Jin or Monks get the failure for Perfect Form. Make it part of the game's normal systems.

[LynxDubh]

I'm not especially looking for audio feedback, but any feedback in the first place.

In particular I'd argue the best thing wold be if you saw a different animation when you fail the positional, akin to how Ninjas get the failure for then Ten Chi Jin or Monks get the failure for Perfect Form. Make it part of the game's normal systems.

That's a mighty big ask. You're asking them to make new failure animations for all the positionals in the game. That's roughly 20 skills that would need to be reworked to each have a bunny effect.

[Carighan]

That's a mighty big ask. You're asking them to make new failure animations for all the positionals in the game. That's roughly 20 skills that would need to be reworked to each have a bunny effect.

Sure. They could stop adding 20 new animations each expansion that just end up as solutions in search for a problem. /shrug

But even if not, SQEX is not a 3-man indie studio. Asking for 20 small variations of existing animations (many of which are 2-step, so you can just abort after the first step + add an audio queue on top) is not a big thing for a large company, or should not be if not massively mismanaged and misorganized.

[LynxDubh]

Sure. They could stop adding 20 new animations each expansion that just end up as solutions in search for a problem. /shrug

But even if not, SQEX is not a 3-man indie studio. Asking for 20 small variations of existing animations (many of which are 2-step, so you can just abort after the first step + add an audio queue on top) is not a big thing for a large company, or should not be if not massively mismanaged and misorganized.

They didn't even make 20 animations for *NEW* abilities for the whole healer role for DT's expac. What makes you think they would devote animation and coding resources for failure animations that you should not be seeing a majority of the time?

Unless they are minor animation tweeks where you lose your flashy effects, and not different failure animations like the two examples you gave, It's absolutely not worth their time. And even still, a new universal failure que would be preferable to reworking everything.

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

In particular I'd argue the best thing wold be if you saw a different animation when you fail the positional

Funny you mention that, because this was how Dragoon worked back in Shadowbringers. So normally, you see True Thrust as the start of the combo, but if you correctly hit the positional before True Thrust, it would proc Raiden Thrust. This was removed in Endwalker and you get Raiden Thrust regardless, which is a shame, I thought this was a very effective way to encourage hitting positionals, clearly, the devs didn't agree.

[mallleable]

I'm not especially looking for audio feedback, but any feedback in the first place.

In particular I'd argue the best thing wold be if you saw a different animation when you fail the positional, akin to how Ninjas get the failure for then Ten Chi Jin or Monks get the failure for Perfect Form. Make it part of the game's normal systems.

I think positive reinforcement works better than punishment.

I too want better feedback on positionals, and I'm not even a fan of them.

[Aco505]

I think positive reinforcement works better than punishment.

If the feedback is audio based, it has to happen when you fail it, as otherwise it could get annoying really quickly. Another solution would be an option that lets you choose to have the sound when either landing or missing them.