Alpha First Look: Video 8 – Instanced Dungeons

[Zehira]

You missed this part "BUT I have faith that this could/may change with beta or could be fixed completely upon final release. " :P

Haha, yeah that's true. I told them over and over to wait for beta because I want to see everyone to be happy equally. lol

[HoneyBoy]

Jesus christ these forums have gone to shit since the alpha came out.

Yea, well, the forums have been shit since they launched. You think these forums are bad? You should see the......"other" one.

All I will say is the A LOT of people are not happy with the combat system in its current, ALPHA, form. Beta will add missing elements so I would just recommend people waiting for BETA. If you are unhappy about something in Beta be vocal about it. Constructive criticism is going to be what makes this game amazing. What will NOT help make ARR amazing is letting every small upgrade from 1.0 blind you from really fixing problems or even making something that works so much better.

Oh and here is some loving advice to all the lovely testers for Beta. If you are unhappy about something and wish to make it better please avoid this kinda post.....

"Game is garbage, EVERYTHING sucks! Battle system is like......its like bad man! Quest are like the same shit over and over, like WoW or some shit! F2P! Grass! Lich King! I hate everything you love!"

That isnt as super helpful as you might think. I know right?

"Game looks like a lot of hard work went into it. Battle system is lackluster but I have these ideas to make it better *ideas here*. Quest are.......quest. They work well and can be a tad boring but maybe *idea* could make them more enjoyable Grass is green as effff! F2P is stupid and I hate everyone who wants it out the door(SORRY haha). I really enjoyed the Lich King(No you didnt) in WoW and hope that Bahamut bring me fond memories. I LOVE everything you hate."

I honestly prefer to see post that are giving constructive criticism over a rant of praise because its obvious this game is not going to be perfect unless all of the testers really dig hard into Beta even after that "perfect" is unrealistic but it can be fricken amazing!

Oh and before I go to wait for some forum hate that is ABSOLUTELY necessary because I hurt someones feelings with my gentle post.........I will just say remember when you see someone just tearing into things about Alpha/Beta about everything they hate or think is bad. It is because they are afraid 1.0 will happen again. Like most of us they prob did Alpha/Beta before and assumed shit would get fixed just to find out how wrong they were. They wouldnt post unless deep down inside they really cared about ARR success, to us and for SE. They are just angry over something that should not have happened and they know the new team is trying to make it all better for us. So try and cut them a break, give em a cuddle

Sorry for bad grammar and sentence structure. I am playing Demons Souls as I typed this up so some of you know whats up!

[Velhart]

The timer is for the puzzle only

Ohh I see, interesting. Thanks for letting me know.

[Picchu]

That said, as a person who played 1.0 everyday since dec 2010, I don't like the pace of ARR's battle speed, nor do I think the animations are long enough to really enjoy the eye candy of the detail the devs put into ws animations/spells . BUT I have faith that this could/may change with beta or could be fixed completely upon final release.

What don't you like about the pace? From the videos, it seems perfectly acceptable. If anything, 1.0 was a bit too slow in terms of combat.

[VoltaAsura]

Maybe I'm just used to 1.0's pace? /shrug

At the same time, it's one thing to watch it and another to play it. I have faith it'll be awesome in the end and I'm sure I'll play regardless :P

[HoneyBoy]

What don't you like about the pace? From the videos, it seems perfectly acceptable. If anything, 1.0 was a bit too slow in terms of combat.

It seems faster because so far the weaponskills only have the Global Cooldown of 3 seconds so combat would seem faster instead of WS having specific CDs to stop spamming them.

Again, its Alpha right now and is missing some combat elements that will be introduced in Beta. So as of right now there isnt too much reason to not spam the same WS but I am sure with more abilities and combos playing more importance that will change.

I guess to sum it up ARR is a wow clone in a lot of categories such as ui layout, combat speed and such. You dont even need to play Alpha to see the resemblances in the videos. So combat is obviously VERY diff from how it was end of 1.0 but again Beta will have more of the combat revisions in place plus 15 more lvls of abilities. Having one combo and 3-4 attacks doesnt give much to go on, obviously

Again, WoW mechanics is the rough draft of what ARR is being built upon but that doesn't need to be negative. Take whats good, what really screams WoW universe can stay in WoW and we flood ARR with all kinds of FF story, settings, classes, jobs, summons, etc.

I can promise you I will be there in Beta complaining on Simian Thrash crappy graphic if its still the same! Dragon Kick forever!

[PinkamenaDiane]

Can someone please explain to me why FFXIV 1.0's slow battle system with long cooldowns on almost every ability was so appealing to you people who hate the new faster paced battle system?

Honestly I hated the battle system in 1.0 it was too slow and it felt like a lot of sitting around waiting for auto attack to fill TP.

[Aravix]

I see nothing wrong with the pace... I always thought the battle system would be better with an slight increase in pace.

But, the dungeon. I like how it's designed, can't wait to try it out. I hope there will be some catchy song in the background though. Really liked that one song that plays in 1.0.

[alexhatesmil]

You guys are so busy arguing about the battle system that nobody noticed Cthulu is the boss of that dungeon.

[Sakasa]

SOULFLAYER!!!

Actually Antanias already stated it with correct number of ! i might add