Cosmic

[Anonemoose]

I mean it’s just a different challenge. Rather than balancing quality and progress they have offered some all or nothings, expert crafts without normal status or normal crafts without good status

Just a lot of changes to the normal crafting formula

Hmm, fair enough. I actually like the sound of that. It makes crafting dynamic. That is a positive. I haven't really done any crafting in Cosmic yet, just lots of botany. I really wish GP was restored after each mission like CP is after each craft. I'd appreciate the challenge more if I didn't have to sit around waiting for GP in between attempts.

[Sol_Seppy]

I'm going to be real, I don't think this content is great.

I had already tempered my expectations based on prior content thoroughly disappointing me, but I just feel like this wasn't well thought out.

- My biggest gripe is that aspects of the content don't have a cap (the moon base phases), thus have already been completed on certain servers, and so if you wanted to get involved in that you now can't. I was lucky enough to play earlier than most, but I feel sad for those that won't get the chance to participate in the larger scale community activities.

- The Cosmoliner... while (marginally) better than running around the entire map by foot, I would have just much rathered be allowed to ride my mount. Traversal is annoying and not being allowed to ride your mount there is actually mind boggling to me.

- The FATES are subpar, uncreative and don't take you out of the monotony of the regular gameplay at all (which is what I consider FATES purpose to be).

- Gathering massively suffers due to the traversal issues stated above and the fact GP does not restore after each mission.

- The gameplay itself is fine, I do like grindy gameplay, it's something that you would just flick youtube on the side and do, but that's all it is, just a glorified leve grind, that can be quite difficult without sinking a ton of money into gear (I'm still using 7.0 penta gear and having a hard time passing A rank missions) without anything noteworthy at the end to make up for it, besides cosmetic items which will reduce in price very quickly.

[Supersnow845]

I'm going to be real, I don't think this content is great.

I had already tempered my expectations based on prior content thoroughly disappointing me, but I just feel like this wasn't well thought out.

- My biggest gripe is that aspects of the content don't have a cap (the moon base phases), thus have already been completed on certain servers, and so if you wanted to get involved in that you now can't. I was lucky enough to play earlier than most, but I feel sad for those that won't get the chance to participate in the larger scale community activities.

- The Cosmoliner... while (marginally) better than running around the entire map by foot, I would have just much rathered be allowed to ride my mount. Traversal is annoying and not being allowed to ride your mount there is actually mind boggling to me.

- The FATES are subpar, uncreative and don't take you out of the monotony of the regular gameplay at all (which is what I consider FATES purpose to be).

- Gathering massively suffers due to the traversal issues stated above and the fact GP does not restore after each mission.

- The gameplay itself is fine, I do like grindy gameplay, it's something that you would just flick youtube on the side and do, but that's all it is, just a glorified leve grind, that can be quite difficult without sinking a ton of money into gear (I'm still using 7.0 penta gear and having a hard time passing A rank missions) without anything noteworthy at the end to make up for it, besides cosmetic items which will reduce in price very quickly.

One thing to note the game doesn’t tell you very clearly is that often you can cheese a rank requirements by crafting more than the game actually wants you to craft. This ups your score if you can’t cap in the “suggested” amount of crafts

[Wolwosh]

I hate it. I felt depressed after going there. Life draining stuff

[missTori]

Idk this whole thing feels very tone deaf to me. Plus, the rewards are not my thing( don't want to walk around as an astronaut in this game). I hate that people who work or don't have a lot of time to play can't fully contribute to the event.
I feel like they don't know how to make "midcore" content worthwhile.
I suspect there's some kind of issues with yoshi p being the elder at the studio who saved the game, and no new blood developers are going to go against what their superiors want in Japan.

[CCheshire]

Came to realize none of the rewards interested me so I'll just be sitting it out.

Same. I actually dislike gathering a lot over crafting, so I can't bring myself to click 100x on items on the floor like this, which is why I dropped IS too.

[OliverQ]

WAIT. are you telling me i already missed out stages just because i cant take off for an patch right after easter???

As far as I can tell, yes. The base progresses through different stages based on people doing tasks in the zone. Once the the next stage is built, it stays that way for everyone.

[xbahax92]

The gameplay is tedious.

But I don't want them to abandon this project like any other in the past. FFXIV lacks casual content and this one could be one, if done right. I really hope they won't take the criticism to negative. They should rather figure out a proper gameplay loop, that is both fun and engaging.

[Kaurhz]

Honestly as someone who likes to craft for the sake of crafting cosmic have so far been fantastic at offering alot of weird combinations of durability, progress and quality, like only 700 quality but 23k progress needed and the item only has like 30 durability

It’s interesting from that perspective as a crafter but I agree they didn’t need the entire exploration aspect to play around with some crafted stats

These are the best recipes they've actually done in this regard, and you have a lot of options to pick from, so it's actually really diverse, and in a friendly way for anyone looking to actually craft and not slam their head on a keyboard wandering why the 7th Rapid Synth failed.

[Raim]

You guys were told this was gathering and crafting content. What exactly were you expecting in terms of action?