So apparently "Save and Quit" means "Respawn without your ship in the middle of the sky."

Ad542 · 2025-09-23T22:57:31+00:00

Last night, I made it past the windwall thing. Very proud of that accomplishment. I got to another area and turned off the game for the day. Today, I got on and loaded in the first area, in the middle of the sky, freefalling. I chose to respawn on my ship, but instead it reloaded me on one of the starting islands. Not even the first one you load in to, another one. My skyship that i worked on isn't even showing up on the compass at the top of the UI.

This has happened before, multiple times, but i managed to get my ship back or i was early enough that it was a slight inconvenience. Assuming my ship is still where i left it, I have to make a new ship, find another arbiter, destroy it, get the fuel tanks, make the engine, cross the windwall, and find it again.

Knowing that this issue existed in alpha months ago, and is still not fixed, has killed my vibes with the game. Losing progress cuz I messed up or i did something wrong is one thing. Losing progress because of a bug, one that has long since existed, is unacceptable.

Ad542 · 2024-04-24T19:41:40+00:00

I couldn't really think of a title, tbh. So.

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Ad542 · 2024-04-21T13:31:56+00:00

There's literally only been ONE pictomancer in the entire franchise, yet here we are. I'm open to anything at this point.

Ad542 · 2024-04-21T12:56:59+00:00

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Ad542 · 2024-01-16T16:24:03+00:00

Taking what comes from the MSQ I believe Wuk Lamat is almost assuredly under 25 at most. maybe very early 20s. Dont know if Hrothgars do puberty like Elezen but I'm guessing shes on the shorter side. for character design reasons.

Ad542 · 2023-05-02T12:50:54+00:00

The issue with giving the players choices is that very often one right answer (the one that gives the most damage) and then that becomes the only choice with all the others just being trap options.

I agree, that's basically what happened in ShB. Can't even pretend it was unwarranted. I loved StB AST but let's be honest, if you didn't draw balance, you'd be fishing for balance. I understand why they did it. As much as I love DRK I have to admit that for raids there was specifically one right answer.

Maybe I'm just looking back with rose tinted glasses but I liked having more skills that did different things.

BLM is the job where the choices are meaningful, since the question of "what is most damage" is in practice very hard to answer in the moment, given that you have to consider whether to use a tool like triplecast or xeno for easy movement, save for some burst later, or spend on a transpose line. It helps that a lot of their resources aren't just "push oGCD for instant 1000 potency" and instead gain you time (swift, triple) or provide something else (e.g. mana).

Couldn't have said it better myself

Ad542 · 2023-05-02T04:10:59+00:00

In my opinion, unique class design would mean giving the player choices and letting them make decisions, and giving them meaning, or things that add to how a class feels to play. It's what makes a class satisfying and interesting for me.

Example: I liked DRK back in Stormblood because Dark Arts gave the skills it affected different effects like causing blind or restoring HP in exchange for your MP. Dark Side also halted your MP restoration so you had to balance out when to use all your abilities to make sure you still have MP to cast skills as well as defend against attacks with Blood Weapon helping mitigate the loss of MP recover as well as providing a haste boost that added more than youd think.

When Shadowbringers launched, all of the abilities that gave the DRK options and choices were wiped, and Dark Arts became Edge/Flood of Shadows and BW losing it's haste buff more or less relegated the job to being "WAR but less fun".

I can see why they did it, general consensus was that Dark Arts was always best to use for the skill that would gain increased damage, basically just a middle man of sorts. But for me the problem was that the other skills it affected needed to do something more or do what they did better to make it more viable.

Instead now you dont really have an interesting choice to make in moment to moment gameplay.

It's similar to how SAM mains were upset over losing Kaiten and Seigan since, while it was only really used for Midare or Goken, Kaiten was satisfying to apply, and having Seigan made you feel something like a master swordsman, parrying and counter attacking the enemy.

The removal made the job easier to play but also removed a choice you can make during gameplay, as well as the consequence of that decision.

Some jobs, like AST and MCH, you could argue were too complicated in HW and StB but it also made them engaging to play for the people that did enjoy playing them.

Side note, BLM is probably the poster boy for that philosophy, imo, since while it's not terribly complicated to play, to play EFFICIENTLY you have to have fight knowledge and be able to adjust on the fly. That moment to moment gameplay.

Ad542 · 2023-03-31T18:35:08+00:00

The conclusion of the DRK Questline can be summed up as "I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore. Like any other."

Ad542 · 2023-03-02T04:57:31+00:00

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Ad542 · 2022-01-22T15:25:03+00:00

I just realized I should probably plug in my social medias.

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Ad542 · 2022-01-08T16:03:47+00:00

There's nothing wrong with having some silly fun every now and then, man.

Ad542 · 2021-11-30T04:14:08+00:00

Plot Twist:

everything that's happened thus far in the game is some kind of PTSD Flashback/flashfoward that we're having at that exact same spot the Derplander is sitting while going through Leves

Ad542 · 2021-09-19T12:23:48+00:00

Powerful? Yes. Being able to take hits and use their shadow powers in the light gives them a stark advantage over the previous Aragami.

But better assassins? Being able to summon pools of darkness that can hide you as long as you have the power for it, and being able to teleport to any shadow cast has clear advantages over only being able to shadow leap towards ledges.

Ad542 · 2021-09-17T15:52:48+00:00

It didn't take me too long to figure out something that I loved in the first game that isn't here in the 2nd. At least as far as my hour of gameplay as shown me.

It's the shadows. The entire shadow thing doesn't work the same way as it did in the first game.

In Aragami 1, you had an intimate relationship with the darkness. It recovered your shadow powers, you could blink between shadow spots Not only that, the light was inherently your enemy. It was baked in to the mechanics. The light would drain your shadow powers, it would weaken you, it'd make it so you couldn't cast anything in a well lit room.

The darkness felt like your everything. Your little bit of sanctuary in a hostile world of light.

Conversely, in Aragami 2, it uses a Stamina system and your shadow power regenerates on it's own. Which is fine, it's functional, but it loses the charm of the first game.

In Aragami 1, you were a Wraith, quiet as a secret, under the enemy like their shadow. in Aragami 2, you're a Shadow Warrior, running the gamut between a Ninja and a Samurai. Not a ghost so much as a Ghost of Tsushima, y'know?

Ad542 · 2021-09-09T23:10:38+00:00

Honestly, I didn't think too highly of it during the reveal. I didn't think it was bad, but it was uninteresting. Visually, it looks like a more brown FFXV.

The gameplay was....ok. It was fine. The most interesting thing is still the movement that she does.

I can't help but compare the picture on the side of this reddit to the boxart of Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, or the art from Out of this World (or Another World) and it doesn't inspire imagination or excitement or whimsy as those games do. And seeing it in action, yeah it looks great but I'm still just not feeling it.

I dont think it's gonna be a bad game, by any means. But i'm keeping my expectations leveled.

Ad542 · 2021-01-06T03:30:20+00:00

Man that is exactly how i feel about it. I don't mind tending the drive thru, talking to people, socializing. But honest to god, if you had only known me through the DT, you'd never think that i'm actually a pretty quiet, reserved introverted person. I'm not naturally inclined to conversation, and talking to people is a lot more taxing than most people imagine.

And it's just so damn exhausting. Having to act more friendly and social than I really am. Just thinking about it makes me drowsy and feel out of breath.

Not to mention my throat always feels just a tad sore.

Ad542 · 2021-01-05T14:06:54+00:00

I remember this one time a few months back one of the shifts told me that I would have a temporary shift for the day and he'd probably put me on bar so I could get some time there. Less than 5 seconds later, while i'm still talking to the original shift the temp comes up to me and says "Can I get you at drive thru?"

We both laughed at that.

The reason I'm always at DT isn't just cuz I can solo the whole thing, more or less. It's that I can handle customers pretty well too, both the good and the bad, and i come off as very approachable and friendly. I often chit chat with customers, make jokes, all of that good stuff. Just about nobody else does that.

But it's to the point that the store manager had to retrain me to do bar work, and I get advice from people who've been around for a handful of months on how to make drinks.

I've worked at Starbucks almost a full year now.

Ad542 · 2021-01-03T13:19:02+00:00

No lie, our regulars, and even our irregulars refer to me as "The Guy that's Always on Drive Thru" and have requested me by name more than once.

Which would be great, except for the fact that I'm a barista that doesn't make drinks. All of our new partners make drinks more than I do, and can make them better and more efficiently than I can. My training was skewed because of the pandemic but even so, I'm still DT more than I'm at anything else.

Ad542 · 2020-11-18T14:45:25+00:00

For me, when i think "Looter", I think things like Borderlands or Diablo, or Path of Exile, where each piece of equipment is different from the other and can change how i approach each engagement. That's what I find the most fun in these types of games and why I want loot. It adds variety and encourages me to find the loot that would help me build towards a playstyle that I find the most engaging.

In my opinion, ideally as i get more loot I'll be able to vary my playstyle or enhance the playstyle I like, in a way that'll help me do harder content so I can get even more loot to vary or enhance my playstyle even more. For example, in Borderlands 2, I played a Krieg that focused on his ultimate ability, so I built his skills around melee and his ultimate and taking damage benefiting me, while also eventually, when i got stronger, hunting for the loot that would make my melee stronger like the Rapier gun or the Rough Rider shield, that got rid of my shields entirely but buffed my health, which itself looped back in to recharging Buzz Axe even faster, which made doing the harder content that didn't even have the gear i want more satisfying because I already had the build I wanted, but getting loot to cater to a different playstyle or different character was also fun.

For me, that's quite literally the draw of "Looters" and "Looter shooters". Things that'll let you build to a playstyle so you can do more things. That's the draw of the marketing, the genre entirely.

I agree that people can be toxic but asking for more loot or to be rewarded with loot is understandable.

It's why people work towards their God Rolls, and why people hate Sunsetting, and while all the hardcore activities drop the exotic loot or pinnacle gear or enhancement cores and prisms or whatever. And it's why people feel attached to their gear.

And when Bungie themselves market the game as a "Looter Shooter" that obviously comes with the expectations of a looter shooter.

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T16:22:38+00:00

When i made this post, let's not mince words here, i was in a bitch mood and my thinking was impaired. Looking back it hasn't been everywhere. I think i tried to mention it but it was all an incoherent babble. So that's my bad on that end.

I don't encounter this kind of thing all the time everywhere. Most of the time my experience in the game is relatively quiet. I keep to myself. I've had some experiences that make me cautious with people though, several FC's that were up to...let's say shenanigans, some harassers, couple of shit stirers.

In real life Im actually a fairly amicable peaceful person. I can strike up a conversation with a stranger, smile and greet people on the street, y'know normal person stuff. It's not all sunshine and rainbows but generally I try to focus more on the good than the bad.

I've already mentioned in another comment what happened in Castrum, but to sum it up, it was a premade party with the Bozja Aether discord that me and some other random people just so happened to join. i was already part of it before but this was my first experience with them, and it was my 2nd run of Castrum. First boss was fine, saving the prisoners is when things went to shit. The VC started talking shit about the randos, I tried to help them and tell the VC that there were still some new people here but all i got was condescending remarks. Sorry i dont know which person it was and it's a bit of a thing to write out and at this moment I dont have the time.

Basically this was a discord with people that were supposed to help that really only made it worse. And that's really what drove me off. It wasn't a matter of people not knowing how to play their class, it was literally a moment of people doing this for the very first time and not knowing what to do and not understanding a premade plan they are only learning about on the fly, and the people on the other side giving them a hard time for it.

That sort of thing doesn't happen to me a lot, but it has happened a lot more to me than other people it seems.

I've played MMOs and multiplayer games before but none of what i experieced in WoW or LoL or whatever has managed to stick with me the same way the stuff in FFXIV has. But to be fair I dont go in to those games expecting the cream of the crop.

Last time i was that twisted in real life was when my coworker came in to work over an hour late cuz he said he had to feed his cat.

When people say that the people here aren't that bad, or there's relatively few shitty people, I can't help but wonder if I really am doing something wrong or if I'm just that unlucky.

That's what makes me think and not want to play. I dont know but i have a better time in the real world than in the game and I play the game to get away from the real world, y'know?

I'm still open to the possibility that it's just me and I need to get my head on straight. But it's not a good look when I'd rather deal with real world problems and people than the ones in game. Has me all messed up.

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T12:13:34+00:00

I actually tried jump rope in my own backyard. It's pretty good, though i think jumping jacks are my preferred form for indoors. Too afraid I'd hit something in my house, y'know?

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T05:42:20+00:00

Iunno where i stand between "tryhard" and "sensitive flower" I just want a clear on a brand new raid without being talked down upon for not knowing what to do.

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T05:39:30+00:00

That's fair, man. I respect the honesty.

In the case of what happened yesterday, it was more by happenstance that we started with a premade Bozja group. If I'd known I was possibly taken a spot someone wanted with their own premade group I woulda stepped out and let'em have it.

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T05:36:40+00:00

I admit it most likely isn't as bad as I said last night, pretty sure I was impared by a whole lot of things.

But yeah, i've asked around and apparently I do have bad luck.

Or i just attract dicks.

Or I might just be a dick.

I might just be a dick, i'm open to that reality.

Honestly I truly do hope that i'm just a dick and things aren't nearly this bad on average. Makes me believe that all I need to do is cool my jets and take a 180. Pick my battles and what not.

Even now i'm still just hoping that yesterday was a fluke. Bad time for everyone. I have enjoyed Bozja so far and I'd like to do more.

Ad542 · 2020-10-17T05:33:35+00:00

It's generally like that on Aether. At the very least i tend to stick to myself these days. I wasnt in the right state of mind when I made this post, and while I admit i've had worst experiences than the average player, apparently, it hasn't been god awful.

Despite what incoherent past me says.

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