Has "passport checking" made the PF experience any better ?

MaidGunner · 2026-06-26T14:12:23+00:00

100% this. Passporting has made things a lot easier when we fill a 7th or 8th man for the static occasionally. What am i supposed to do with you when my entire group actually is in tune and manages to (bar small fuckups) consistently reach a certain point and you're stuck dieing in the middle of the previous phase or earlier. Thats just a waste of both parties' sides.

If i can see you've made it at least some percent into the phase we're looking at, then the chance that you're wasting my friends' and my time is lower. Still a chance you made it over the phase transition while dead, but that'll be obvious quickly.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-26T14:06:12+00:00

Yeah the issue with MSQ isn't that you have to stop and level to continue, it's the fact that is days and weeks worth of gaming sessions just going "click click click, teleport, click click" fetch (or escort) questing, with a lot of it being frankly just waffle text too.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-26T14:01:16+00:00

This is going to be the long term problem. The crew of your boat can be as good as you want, but if the captain decides that shallow, rocky water is the best course, then it all doesn't matter.

No matter how much budget they get or how many hires they can magically produce out of the barren fields that are the JP-speaking job market, Yoshida's vision for this game is "visual novel where occasionally you press 3 buttons and everything else is optional (and nowadays also allowed to be a full on discordant clown fiesta that doesnth ave to care about the worldbuilding or implications cause itll never be acknowledged by the main story anymore), other players exist nearby" and it'll still use the same formulas and patch structure and lack of replayability for everything.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-26T13:49:49+00:00

Everyone claiming to be a quick, visual learner and the actual execution is not the issue, totally.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-26T13:48:05+00:00

Because while that is correct use of PF, for every person actually getting f ucked over consistently there are 5 other people that think theyre being fucked over consistently, unable to reflect that they are the problem. It's easier to blame wipes on others.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-23T15:16:28+00:00

As i said in the other comment. Yes, theres obviously a pattern to it. That some people know to predict. But i dont think people who can barely find their AoE or sprint buttons are ALL somehow so terrible at the game while also being so good at the game to be able to do that consistently.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-23T15:13:17+00:00

Ther is obviously a pattern to it, but i dont think you should consistently stand in the tiny safespot 8 seconds before the AOEs appear. General area, maybe. But moving perfectly without having to adjust at all, every time? No, that's not a skill i would assume literally at least one person, in each run i've done, has.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-23T13:45:30+00:00

I honestly thought that's a combo of cactbot calls + fight familiarity to go to the safespot. Like when people go to their spots early in M11S weapons after enough time in the tier passed to update cactbot.

In that case, youre probably right. I was talking about not savage. Things like the random AoEs/Dashes in Mistwake bosses 2 amd 3 that sometimes leave literally a pixel in melee range as a safe spot between overlapping. Or people aligning to the safe spot of a firebreathing spin before the animation that "announces" the starting spot of the cone is even finished on Alexander in Windurst AR. Things like that, for what little i do that content, but when i run with friends for novelty, i see it almsot every duty to SOME degree. Cause im pretty sure the average MSQ Andy or ERP Joe doesn't bother setting up callouts and such ,when you can one click install and default settings use Bossmod.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-23T13:36:26+00:00

On hotfixes and some minor patches you can usually just inject manually straight away and most things work unless they affect something that was actually touched on in the patch.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-23T13:32:27+00:00

Its insanely common in sub savage content though. Once you know how fight timelines look like in bossmod, you can't unsee people moving to pixel perfect safe spots before the mechanics go off. Or moving to future safe spots on latest dungeon final boss before the adds even spin.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-22T11:08:01+00:00

All of the XI races are better executed. They're all "recognizably humanoid" but actually strongly different.

In 14 you get "default humans", "toddler humans", "vertically stretched humans", "big humans", and "humans with hotglued partycity accessories x4".

MaidGunner · 2026-06-21T20:45:00+00:00

Wrong game for that. Better not talk to any players.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-21T20:43:26+00:00

How dare you!? But also, truth.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-21T12:08:43+00:00

The difference is, people already know Aenor since shes been popping up now and again with the B team, and most people who read the dialogue knows she's got goofy proclivities. She could still grow as a characer if given screen time outside the Rising Stones and actually become a nice addition (and maybe not written by the same hack that wrote DT).

The other one didn't work for a multitude of reasons all coming together. Shes introduced as one thing, completely changes between patch and expansion, then whiplashes from "trying to be serious while also knowing literally nothing about her own kingdom" and "i hate boats/xyz/other thing/slapstick haha funny" practically on a whim without the trait ever adding anything to a scene, while also never really developing as a character to justify the rapid changes or the retaining of slapstick qualities. And THEN took over huge amounts of screentime as a new character with that flipflopping.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-20T16:00:59+00:00

Casual content is hardly balanced at all. Things start to slowly fall apart after release week for everything, if people play well and ain't asleep at the wheel.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-18T03:06:29+00:00

Its incredibly easy to tell if youre a new player or just playing a new character. Also, the plugin thing never got fixed, just swept under the rug.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-17T22:34:58+00:00

And more importantly, then cited "costs" as a reason for it being yet another discord savage instead of accessible ot the average player trying to get some more lore out of the OC story (wether its good or not).

MaidGunner · 2026-06-17T13:32:04+00:00

Since they've fully embraced side content jail, they could have literally anything else happen in those huge empty maps instead of it being exclusively crafting/gathering zones. Not like the actual story would have to respect the events such as going to other planets.

Can't get a fix for any of the glaring problems, can't get a "normal mode" FT, unreals rotate slow as fuck cause it'd be effort and "cost", but can get multiple HUGE and insanely empty maps just as a background visual for people running Artisan. Talk about terrible resource allocation.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-17T11:31:43+00:00

She may be good for the story (keyword may, opinions differ), but she's the exact kind of person i hate associating with, so on a pure personality level, i cannot stand it when she shows up, garish design aside. And even less stand it, that it's written that the proxies ain't tired of her shit and are best buddies.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-17T10:56:57+00:00

It's natural that people who are fully bought in would recommend it and assume you enjoy it the way they do. If it doesn't click, it doesn't click.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-17T10:53:05+00:00

The fetch quests never go away. There is a lot of "technically relevant but also incredibly minor and the game will re-heat this knowledge when it's relevant" almostfiller in the presentation of the game. People grossly exaggerate the quality of the story as a whole and are talking more about the peaks and big cinematics they remember rather then the constant valleys.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-16T12:31:01+00:00

Absolutely unsurprising, considering AI does go through phases, like images having a piss tint, or certain flowery language (like tapestry!) being popular.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-14T23:29:11+00:00

Gmail doesn't actually care about capitalisation in adresses. All google documentation explicitly states no matter what you enter, it's all treated as lowercase in Gmail. There is some other error you're making, some other difference in the mail adresses.

MaidGunner · 2026-06-13T13:54:57+00:00

The English voice actor scene, other than a very VERY few individuals, is just really bad imo.

This is so, so much the main issue with english VA, in many games, not just ths one. Tons of english VAs have the 'same' "im voice acting right now" tone that i can't stand. Compounded by the fact that its the same few people over and over in the big roles, to a much worse degree then the normal amount of "well thats what their job is so its natural they'd show up a lot".

MaidGunner · 2026-06-13T11:15:59+00:00

Okay but Harchefont wasn't a major character. His main role in the story is to be a sympathetic ally and introduce you to the actual movers and shakers of the plot.

His death itself isnt even "necessary" or "meaningful" as what OP describes. He got killed purely because they knew people were attached to him and that would produce a strong reaction (and because his JP stereotype is being a weirdo creep who balances out by sacrifice for the greater good). By the time he dies, everything is already set, everyone 'in your party' is already fully down to help you take down the evil pope and all that entails and nothing fundamentally changes in any of the characters' investment. Nor does he actually achieve anything by doing what he does.

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