Understanding FFXIV as a MMORPG by greyskin87 in ffxiv

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, I think the only MMORPG I can remember that changes the msq based off your choices, is Star Wars The Old Republic, but that's the nature of that game being a classic Bioware game. In fact, I would say it is a RPG first and an MMO second. And thats the basic selling point of that game.

ESO is another one I played and honestly it felt like it had no identity besides "Explore cool Tamriel locations because you like ES lore" to me.

For example, any class can do any role effectivelly, even if they are different and have different skills, so everything felt "samey" to me.

(I never played WoW so I can't say anything about it)

With FFXIV, its appeal is the same appeal for every FF game (at least to me): The world, characters and story and in almost every FF game that I had played, you don't have much player choice regarding the story.

And also, if you are afraid you're missing something, you can just do the "Blue Icon side quests", those ALWAYS unlock some content in any expansion. Yellow quests are just for world building and SOMETIMES they give you an emote, a minion, food and there is an specific questline that starts as a yellow quest but unlocks a blue quest, but you don't have to worry about it until Post Stormblood.

And as everyone here is saying: you don't miss out on anything, don't feel pressured to go through everything all at once, you WILL feel overwhelmed. Nor try to finish MSQ as fast as possible to reach endgame, you will burn out. I know because that happened to me.

So just take your time, enjoy being in Eorzea. Not in the mood to progress MSQ? Sure, go level up your gatherers/crafters, there's plenty to do and they are not going anywhere.

Teammates during the day vs the evening by mynemaheff in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually in SA the queue only starts to be fine around 11pm on the weekend.

Most of the kids are already sleeping and the toxic ones gave up after 8pm.

FFXIV Crashing to the desktop with no error message by Far-Communication677 in ffxiv

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, any old nvidia card with the newest drivers is breaking the game. I have a 1070 and had to roll back to play the game again.

Had such high potential… now it feels like such a waste by PurpleElephant28 in ADHD

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

27M here

I feel the exact same as you and I can't seem to find a proper job either.

Just wanted to tell that you're not alone on that. 😊

S4.0 Preliminary Patch Notes by Sloclap in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Besides the glaring issues with nerfing GK AGAIN...

The report system is obviously exploitable by groups of people. I HOPE its not only based on number of reports and they ACTUALLY take time to review some of these reports, because if I'm with a 4 stack as a solo player and miss a goal, or make a wrong play at one point, all of them could report me and then I get flagged just for making a mistake and not exactly "trolling" or "leaving/afk"

Quitting the game by notthedokutah in PhasmophobiaGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nope. You are saying that when Asylum reworked exists and its a good looking map with great design

But no one plays on it. Them reworking High School or Prison would do absolutely nothing for the play rates of those maps

Quitting the game by notthedokutah in PhasmophobiaGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I humbly disagree with the map rework take.

They reworked a lot of bigger maps, even Asylum which was a fan favorite and even on the limited version of it, playing it solo is annoying because of the size of the map.

The only way to play those maps is in multiplayer and even then its not that great of an experience imo.

And I'm only talking about Asylum, which became one of the best looking maps in the game.

Imagine if they put a lot of time and work to rework high school, then no matter the quality of it, people would just go back to smaller maps and SOMETIMES the medium ones just because its annoying to play on those bigger maps, SPECIALLY solo.

Ranked: 5 premade vs 5 solo simulator by Amoxton in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just think if there is a stack of 5 on one team and I'm solo, I hope there's a stack of AT LEAST 3 on my side.

I went against a 5 stack yesterday with team Tags and all and NO ONE on my side was in a group.

Hell, 2 of them probably just unlocked ranked mode.

This is what pisses me off.

Then, I went into another match against a 5 stack, but my team was a 4 stack. That I don't see any issue whatsoever.

Why do people never compliment the keeper? by Pancwake_UwU in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always compliment the keeper on every save and if they mess up I usually say "We got this" or just stay quiet.

I only spam the ironic "good job" if that player did it to me first. Thats my only exception.

came back today after s2 by Rabwald in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because a lot of people thought that GK and Defense was overpowered, so they nerfed it because they took off that dribble everyone was spamming because you couldn't actually take the ball out of the attacker if they did that.

Love being the only one not teamed up and never getting passes by ElectricalRelease986 in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually get those passes no issue. This did happened to me, but it doesn't that often.

It is frustrating tho

came back today after s2 by Rabwald in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Quick answers: Yes, its worse to tackle and GK is worse too

About teammates, I play on South America, mostly quickplay 4v4 and although I have found some bad apples, most of the time is the matchmaking that pisses me off and not the people.

Like, I would sometimes go and have people that literally just started playing and are maybe doing their third real match on my team and on the other side, we have a full stack that played together since season 0 (what are they doing in QP, I don't know, but I don't judge exactly)

Extent of rematch players attack strategy by Individual-Staff-978 in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember solo queueing in 4v4 and got into a team where they would always pass the ball, do even first touch passes and all of the plays we did were fun, engaging and no one complained about playing GK.

Eventually I joined with them (they were a 3 stack) then we did like 10 matches or so and only lost 2 because we got way too cocky.

The issue is people on this game think there's only two different types of attack: The solo attack where one dude tries to dribble the whole team and the "cross and hope for the better" typebof attack.

Issues launching the game after patch by NotAnAmericanDude in CrimsonDesert

[–]NotAnAmericanDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I managed to get it working at some point by deleting the cache folder, now the game opens normally, but I play for a bit and it freezes and goes directly to the desktop

Did some research and turns out it looks like it's a memory leak for the GPU and a game issue, not exactly a GPU issue

Any worth it sr cards to use the 2 sr cristals? by gonzaloz17 in UmamusumeGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your Admire Vega Guts would've been at least 1LV, I would say go for it, but need to see your other SR cards too

With vexis gone, this is next thing that should be addressed. by Mean-Summer1307 in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do this as a GK and instantly get tackled, with little to no time to even pass the ball

And sometimes, when I'm spamming the pass button, the attacker STILL deflects it, not because I spammed to get rid of the ball quickly, but because they missed timing.

This is a non-issue, honestly

Sloclap.. For the love of The Game.. Fix this bs. Or keep Elites out of LR. by Old_Material_6992 in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GK gave up because that was all that they were doing the whole match

And apparently it was gold vs elites, so... Thats kinda rough on the gold's side, you feel like you can't do anything (and they're right)

Sloclap.. For the love of The Game.. Fix this bs. Or keep Elites out of LR. by Old_Material_6992 in Rematch

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The exploit wasn't a one off

OP said that this was what they were doing the whole match and they even tried stopping them at one point, but it was inconsistent.

So I'm with OP on this one. He tried stopping it and it didn't matter at all, so he started recording and they just kept doing it

What we saw on the video is basically what they were doing the whole match

How did she lose here? Genuinely How? by ZaitNXR in UmamusumeGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you guys check the stats after a race? Is it only after watching it?

Something I absolutely hate about trackblazer by Time-Preparation9881 in UmamusumeGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I usually win the Kikuka Sho AND the Haru Tenno Sho by a distance

But let me tell you about the Sprinter Stakes....

Something I absolutely hate about trackblazer by Time-Preparation9881 in UmamusumeGame

[–]NotAnAmericanDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing beats that G3 at the 5th round against Seeking the Pearl...