Thread: So that 7.1 msq...

Yeah, it was pretty bad. Dungeon was the most interesting part, but sadly couldn't lead to anything because it was going over "missing" stuff from 7.0. Using Carbuncle Savage with mud powers for the final boss. It's nice to have more punishing bosses in dungeons.

After the dungeon, the fluff of going to the Miqotes that wanna insist on having a different racial name, and saving their buffalo all felt contrived and bullshitty(shit for flavoring food, really?). Especially the whistle. It will mimic the predator's roar which will guarantee they get away from the tracks! But like wouldn't it disturb all the other wildlife too, and also cause them to roam on their paths in the wrong way? Nah, don't worry about it. It's time for magical thinking, Sharlayan style.

Also thought there was an obvious conflict in how Alexandria was presented with death. They got fused with the Yyasulani population, which consists of a lot of long lived Viera. That population explicitly has people in it who remember what it's like when someone dies and isn't sent to, "The Cloud." They even got sidequests about that one dude who wants to maintain the cemetery. They got sidequests of that one dude who wants to remember his friend etc.

I could see some Alexandrians being upset about having to remember the departed, but the way they had a breakdown about having to remember that Sphene was dead and be like little whiny kids about it... Just really rang hollow to me. And the cliffhanger for Sphene 2 is weak and disinteresting. Cause there's only so many ways it can go. Either she's another Sphene simulacra spit out by an emergency backup system, an Ascian, or some twat with electrope making a power grab. Only the Ascian possibility is remotely interesting, and only because of storylines laid down prior to Dawntrail.

All in all, Gulool Ja got the best writing this patch with regards to the MSQ. Wookiee Lamar is still Wookieeing, nothing unexpected there. Emotional angry yelling about Sphene 2, when she knew Sphene 1 for all of an afternoon.

Dawntrail continues to be Yawnfail. At least the alliance raid was good. A shame that good feeling won't last/save the game for the lull between now and next big patch.

On a sidenote: Saw a lot of people say the voiceover and certain CSes from 7.0 got re-recorded, and there was a big positive spin on Wuk Lamat's voiceover when she interrupts the Sphene fight to put the spotlight back on herself... I watched someone's clipping of it, and... It wasn't noticeably better to me at all, and didn't change the fact that the interruption/break in was shitty.

Whatever they're smoking on the dev team, it must be really good stuff. There's no way they're drafting this story and its direction sober.

Originally Posted by Erzaa

The second part is what I enjoyed the most, because this is what I wanted out of DT as a whole. Small, self contained and personal adventures in a new land, helping people along the way, fighting beasts, on my way to discovering the City of Gold. An Indiana Jones meets Kwai Chang Kane would be the best way of putting it. I don't care that the whole Koana moment was badly written, I'm fine with it, because I'd expect ranchers and herders to want to protect their flock from predators. That's a realistic situation.

When i stop to think about it..Rak'tika Greatwood had more 'Indiana Jones' moments then the whole DT.

Reading these comments made me glad that I skipped the cutscenes for 7.1.
I paid full attention for 7.0 and felt like I was punished for it. They repeated themselves so often; it felt like not even the writers believed that anyone would actually be paying attention. And the payoff was nonexistent. I felt nothing through 95% of the 7.0 MSQ. When Wuk said "I think I know you, all of you," I burst out laughing because Sphene had been on screen for like, an hour. I gave 7.1 a chance to do something, but once we hit the funeral part I just started skipping because it felt like the writers were trying to pat themselves on the back for a character they didn't even write very well. You can't force me to feel sad for the death of a character you barely characterized.

With the story out the window, I'm left wondering why I stay subbed. The only thing that pushes me to try harder content are the weapon/armor glams, and I haven't liked any of them this time around. Valigarmanda stuff looked stylish, but it just didn't fit anything I wear so I never felt compelled to go and run it. Lizardman EX didn't drop weapons so I didn't care about his fight either. The sphene weapons look terrible, I'm sorry. Everyone I know who got one glammed over it asap though, so I don't think I'm alone in feeling this way. They look appropriate for the boss, but totally divorced from any other glam set that exists in the game that I'd ever wear. And the armor from the Chaotic raid looks like some gaudy cash shop outfit from a f2p Korean MMO. In a way, it's a relief. Like, thank god, I won't feel compelled to "prog" a scripted fight with in/out/stack/spread/lightparty/meteor mechanics, and I won't feel pissed when the loot never drops and I have to do it again, and I won't have to deal with PF greeding and keeping us stuck on some mario party mechanic that an 8 year old could do. But it also sucks because the difficult content is clearly where a lot of the developers' love goes. If you're not interested in it, then you're missing a large chunk of the game. Even if you just do the EX content once, just to see it, what else is there? The new hairstyles have all been ass. The glams have been so hit or miss. The dungeons are kind of a one-and-done affair. Anyone who wants to cosplay a mall teenybopper or an android is eating good this patch, I guess, but that's about it. So much of the chilled out "not-raiding" stuff is backloaded to later patches, and the time between patches is 4 months at best; it's insane because guaranteeing a lackluster .1 patch loses them huge chunks of players every time but they refuse to change the formula. Housing, relic, foray, variants, deep dungeon, all pushed up to some unknown future patch date. But savage? Oh boy, get that out asap. Ultimates that only like 5% of the population even cares about? Get that out in 7.1 lmao. Actual replayable stuff that most people will sink their teeth into and keep busy with for weeks/months? Ah, let it wait until mid to late 2025. Dumb as hell. I genuinely don't know why I'm still subbed. I don't even like my house anymore. Been thinking about redecorating but eh, maybe not. Maybe this is it. idk.

I will say, at least the alliance raid didn't disappoint. But that's one enjoyable thing, and it's not like I'm gonna run it 300 times or something. It is difficult to justify the subscription as someone who isn't interested in "progging in a square arena."