The tonedeaf Live Letter LXXXVI 86

[User202503201232]

This is really what they have decided to showcase?



A right cleave...

Then right right right left....



So is this the improved encounter design they promised? Just slightly harder LEFT RIGHT CHARIOT DYNAMO PYRETIC FREEZE SPREAD STACK for 10 more years? They are so creatively bankrupt they really cannot make anything other than ultra scripted dance dance revolution raids now huh.

Oh but they're hoping you have conveniently forgotten the "improved encounter design" they promised that will come in 7.2. So far, they have not said a SINGLE thing about it lmfao.

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Also, don't you just love how they spent three times the amount of time talking about the revamped Shatter over PvE?



Why would they not show off the improved encounter design?? Clearly they are willing to show off the good stuff, like the revamped Shatter, when they actually have the goods...

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LOL how much you wanna bet they'll screw up the Hrothgar and Viera space helmets too?





And they definitely don't care about thematic cohesion anymore lmfao



And as for cosmic exploration itself... it's a glorified guild leve in Yoshi P's own words. LOL





We finally see something cool for two minutes...



...and then Square Enix immediately reminds us that they will recycle mechanics to death and you will enjoy it.



And of course, Cosmic Exploration deserves 5x the screen time as the raids lmfao.

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Is it just me or is the new zone so much blander than Anemos... with reused assets from La Noscea as well lol





Compare this to Pagos. Even the worst zone in terms of traversal still had so much more personality and style than this new zone lol...



And well, don't forget the gauntlet of recycled mechanics...

Logos Actions 3.0 aka Lost Actions 2.0 aka Phantom Jobs...

Light chaining 2.0

Bozjan Field notes 2.0



...bunnies 2.0...



...no longer even pretending that they can't do anything but copy pasting FATEs over and over again until the end of this game's life...



And of course Baldesion Arsenal 2.0.... ALTHOUGH, BA/DR is good content and has only been done twice so another iteration is at least welcome.



Once again, FF14 does not innovate in any way in its content. And of course...

NO MENTION OF IMPROVED ENCOUNTER DESIGN, DESPITE THE PROMISE THAT IT WILL COME IN 7.2

gg no re, see you in Death Stranding 2 (a better game)

Oh, and have fun waiting for ONE WHOLE YEAR AND A MONTH for the next zone

[Heavenchild]

Please look forward to it!

[Kaurhz]

This game ain't ever getting an improved encounter design.

It was just a cute little buzz phrase to throw around at the time, and people fell into it with big hopes and dreams after 7.0, because they forget just how exactly new expansions always play out on the first few days.

[CNitsah]

Haa, the LL rage thread that will be erased at one point.

That said, the little jokes about not feeling pressured to play the game really rubbed the wrong way...

Disappointed by the fact cosmic exploration will only be one month after 7.2 and beast tribe quest won't even be on 7.2 but 7.25. They're gonna make us wait until the end.

[User202503201232]

This game ain't ever getting an improved encounter design.

It was just a cute little buzz phrase to throw around at the time, and people fell into it with big hopes and dreams after 7.0, because they forget just how exactly new expansions always play out on the first few days.

You say that, but how many people kept their subs and kept their faith because they threw that term out?

At what point does it become deceptive advertising?

Haa, the LL rage thread that will be erased at one point.

That said, the little jokes about not feeling pressured to play the game really rubbed the wrong way...

Disappointed by the fact cosmic exploration will only be one month after 7.2 and beast tribe quest won't even be on 7.2 but 7.25. They're gonna make us wait until the end.

If it happens twice in a row, we will all know what SE really thinks about feedback

[Arrius]

Isn't that guy a dancer/performer and this battle is sort of a choreography, which would make sense to be somewhat DDR-related?

[ovIm]

At what point does it become deceptive advertising?

Promise, the posts in the forums will change to "the encounter design will happen in Occult Crescent, for realsies now!"

Not gonna lie, this is super disappointing. I've been holding out for that promise, hoping that a change in combat design paradigms could revitalize a lot of the game for me and bring it back to where it was before all became super on rails, but it seems like as per usual, CS3 underdelivers.

[User202503201232]

Promise, the posts in the forums will change to "the encounter design will happen in Occult Crescent, for realsies now!"

Not gonna lie, this is super disappointing. I've been holding out for that promise, hoping that a change in combat design paradigms could revitalize a lot of the game for me and bring it back to where it was before all became super on rails, but it seems like as per usual, CS3 underdelivers.

They've been doing this for a decade now. They will always throw out a vague, nice sounding term like "improved encounter design" and then underdeliver and hope you forget about it.

The whole point of the interviews is not to deliver information. It's to keep you hooked with copium.

[CNitsah]

If it happens twice in a row, we will all know what SE really thinks about feedback

Honestly, it probably has more to do with the fact the first post from 7.1 was insulting ragebait, and the forum probably doesn't have any moderation function to moderate the first post without removing the thread.

[YukioKobayashi]

TBF. This was probably NM. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt that Savage has at least something going on while dodging left and right.
We have seen what happens when they overlap mechanics in Normalraids or Dungeons with the start of DT.
Ended up in People complaining that the Honey Bee and the funfair expertdungeon are to hard for them.
SE wants that game to be playable for everyone sadly. Which is partially the communitys fault for crying every time something needs brain.