Why did Forked Tower reuse the BA entry system LOL

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They said that the developers made decisions based on precedent due to tight deadlines, rather than consulting with Yoshi-P or having a meeting to figure out the ideal entry system and how it would all come together.

They also said they didn't assign enough QA to it. We know they have over 100 QA but since you can solo Critical Engagements and do Forked Tower with 24 people, they most likely didn't assign as many as they could have.

The features are similar: bunny FATEs (NM icon, rarely spawn, pot instead of a bunny, and an Elixir to find the treasure), Critical Engagements (except they spawn constantly now), FATEs and gold farms. The CEs have faster paced mechanics and you're meant to get hit by them a lot at first, but to account for that you can survive a lot of vuln stacks, and people will only avoid getting hit if they really make an effort to (or in some cases follow others and hope). They have tried maths in the mechanics like picking up the right sets of money and delivering it or observing a lot of things, but some of them don't have a lot of RNG so you can get used to them. The FATEs have actual mechanics but you won't notice this unless you fight them solo in a dead instance.

Phantom Jobs are mostly sets of Lost Actions that are similar to the jobs we have already, such as mit and a heal for Phantom Knight, dashes, gap closers, but there are new ones like Cannoneer that have status effects or additional effects and it can be fun to combine them. I've been solo farming gold (basically like Bozja clusters) using Paladin, Cannoneer and 9 stacks of Phantom job mastery. There are some differences they've been willing to do; for example, Phantom Samurai's version of Third Eye is like Hallowed Ground. Berserker locks you into doing auto attacks but the challenge of that is you need to do it when a mechanic won't hit you. I recall someone saying they were abusing the increased cast speed of jobs for some of the Phantom jobs as well.

The new things are mainly treasure coffers all around the map and lootable carrots where you can find treasure.

I mean I'm alright with it. I wasn't expecting it to be functionally different to other Field Operations in any significant way though. I just like seeing other people around me, as opposed to things like Island Sanctuary and the Endwalker relics that felt like solo experiences.