Request for Eternally Bonded partner to be included in cutscenes

[Mercury_Grey]

It sounds interesting, and I mean this in the nicest way. Thats a coding, and very time consuming nightmare in order to make every model. PLus in the story i believe our characters are their own MC. Adding another person when its suppose to be your own story kind of sounds eh. Once again i don't want to sound rude but with my 1 year of coding that sounds liek a nightmare. Especially making the files for each cutscene, or if they do it make it so it only shows up after ARR into HW.

[Exmo]

It sounds interesting, and I mean this in the nicest way. Thats a coding, and very time consuming nightmare in order to make every model. PLus in the story i believe our characters are their own MC. Adding another person when its suppose to be your own story kind of sounds eh. Once again i don't want to sound rude but with my 1 year of coding that sounds liek a nightmare. Especially making the files for each cutscene, or if they do it make it so it only shows up after ARR into HW.

The character models pre-exist, there's no additional coding involved in making them.

I don't know what tools the developers use for creating cutscenes but I doubt it's programmatic. So while there's undoubtedly development work involved, it's probably not a matter of coding beyond initial support of the feature.

[Alice_Rivers]

I have to agree with the majority here, it would be a nice little touch but it doesn't work in the mechanics of the story, the player character is the WoL singular and even if they did find a way to bend the story mechanics to make it work, they'd then have to make two of every cutscene and that's just never going to happen.

[Exmo]

I have to agree with the majority here, it would be a nice little touch but it doesn't work in the mechanics of the story, the player character is the WoL singular and even if they did find a way to bend the story mechanics to make it work, they'd then have to make two of every cutscene and that's just never going to happen.

I'm not so worried about that personally. That incongruity is already present in the game and is overlooked by literally everyone. For example, when other players' WoLs are teleported in at the start of a trial, in each players' experience they're the one who was there originally.

[BigCheez]

Too much dev time for something that would be seen by 0.001% of the playerbase.

I picture the following criteria should be met:
- you are Eternally Bonded
- you are the only two members in a party together.
- you are in the same zone and instance.

The number of people who play through the MSQ while fulfilling this criteria is astronomically small. I'd rather the dev time was used on literally anything else.

[Exmo]

Bumping this to mention another thread where people express they'd like party members to join in quests and duty instances. It's a great idea. It's like to include that in this request too

[Feronar]

I imagine from a technical perspective it could be possible. They would first have to create the framework do detect if the couple is grouped together to fulfill the required conditions. Then in a given cutscene, add the EB partner, even if he/she is just standing there, maybe add some navigation nodes to have him/her walk around. If the player is solo or in a non-EB group, these extra scripts/nodes will do nothing. I imagine the initial framework might not be too difficult to implement, it would be fairly easy to add the EB partner to any individual cutscene. But the game has an enormous amount of cutscenes, probably in the thousands. A fairly simple addition to a cutscene multiplied by thousands of cutscenes would mean a massive amount of work (Potentially several thousand man-hours). And let's be honest, the percentage of people who would actually make use of this and benefit from it would be tiny. Those man-hours would be far better spent on something that benefits everyone, like bringing old-world areas up to modern standards of graphical fidelity.

From a technical perspective, this idea makes sense, but from a cost/benefit perspective, absolutely not.

I could see it being feasible for future content going forward, where marginal added work when inserting the EB partner in a newly created cutscene would be very small as opposed to going back and retroactively updating thousands of old cutscenes. But then doing so could be perceived as a half-assed job, and risk creating the expectation that the old cutscenes should be converted, which would take a huge amount of work that could be better spent elsewhere.

[Purrnauskis]

Who keeps bumping these terminally online threads from last decade