Yeah the R46 mission saved the story for me, it's not that the story is bad just the delivery. Silly things like for example in that very cut scene (R46):


*SPOILERS*


When they are walking along and they don't notice all the dead people around them until they are stood in the middle of them. It would have been better if they could make them out lying on the ground from a distance away and then ran over to them and then let the epicness that follows carry on.


Another example is one of the new quests added which you gather 5/6 stones for someone in the CON guild so that they can communicate with the elementals or something. You get the stones hand them over (this is all done in a text box) and then they say they stones broke when they tried to use them and that is a bad sign. It would have been better to have a little CS where you hand them over and you saw the person try to use them and stones shatter instead of just standing there and reading about it. Doesn't have to be some huge extravagant CS just a little something to show what is happening and help the story along.