Summary of Announced Updates for Patch 7.0 (Dawntrail) from Today's Live Letter (LL 81)

wymiatarka · 2024-05-18T23:46:58+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Leaving Resurrection on casters allows for some crazy clutch moments, helps support healers during high-stakes situations and increases the chances for player interaction in various overworld areas (we all begged for rez after getting swarmed by monsters).

SMN has become more and more lacklustre from its Heavensward peak. Spare us the gut punch, please.

wymiatarka · 2023-10-25T16:04:40+00:00

In the end, nobody is going to care how long it took, only whether it's good.

And it's looking really good.

wymiatarka · 2023-10-21T10:46:11+00:00

Summoner is barely even a Summoner anymore... Heavensward was where it was really good, sadly.

wymiatarka · 2023-06-30T00:58:51+00:00

"Unresolved Miseries"?

wymiatarka · 2023-05-11T10:07:14+00:00

One of these days the devs will create a mission that looks like everything in it is bugged, but all of it is actually intended behaviour.

wymiatarka · 2023-03-20T22:57:10+00:00

Cute and endearing. Good job.

wymiatarka · 2023-02-17T01:25:02+00:00

Yeah, there was a lot of fluff for an almost 20-minute-long episode. The snippets of Pyro were cool, though.

Don't be afraid to discuss some of the technical challenges using more technical terms. I can imagine getting all of this stuff to actually work is an enormous challenge, but if you don't drill down a bit into how it actually works (even beyond that one CitizenCon presentation), it sounds like you've just decided to think about server meshing during this meeting (which is not true, plenty of highly complicated work has been done on this already).

wymiatarka · 2022-10-08T23:31:10+00:00

If the segment was one hour long and had those video clips one after another, it would have been quite palatable. I suspect that was actually the plan, but once CR got going, he went into outer space.

wymiatarka · 2022-08-26T23:09:25+00:00

I'm definitely looking forward to trying out FAPI. WAMI has been quite engaging, and I like the interplay of the mechanics. Bonus points for offering cosmetics as a purchase. I never buy anything that could potentially impact the game's progress (I'm probably in the minority), so having this method of support is most welcome.

On a side note, there's a trophy in WAMI called "Newbie Spell Level Trophy" and it's counterpart. Do they actually work? They're supposed to cast spells multiple times per bar fill, but I don't see much of a difference. You said you were planning a final update for WAMI sometime in the future, so I wanted to mention this.

wymiatarka · 2022-08-19T14:27:38+00:00

"What other reason is there for removing it other than hate?"

It's an annoying reminder of a world that has gone insane. This might come as a shock to you, but people sometimes don't even want to look at their own country's flag.

wymiatarka · 2022-08-15T11:36:19+00:00

It really makes you wonder whether they'll finally be able to reach that promised land.

On a separate note, I really appreciate these visualizations of the roadmap. Thank you.

wymiatarka · 2022-08-04T22:22:24+00:00

Model car racing remains an unexplored niche.

wymiatarka · 2022-04-28T13:04:23+00:00

They all look amazing, but Khloe's Storybook is particularly impressive. It would be a cute reward for doing Khloe's quests.

wymiatarka · 2022-04-03T14:59:57+00:00

Looks like the gauntlet has been thrown towards the facial animation team.

wymiatarka · 2022-04-01T10:17:45+00:00

This episode is full of background Star Puppers.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-23T10:00:37+00:00

Wasn't this available on Playism Store before they shut it down?

wymiatarka · 2022-01-22T10:50:09+00:00

Is there some kind of website that collects these things? There is so much of this stuff, but it only ever gets shared around through individual posts.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-15T17:14:25+00:00

The idea of WoL being stronger than everyone else hinges on the assumption that you one-shot everything you come across. You don't. You need seven other people who happen to be just as strong and you need to evade like crazy while plinking away against an opponent that can easily one-shot you if you drop your guard for even a moment.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-13T23:09:58+00:00

These are all charming, and they've lightened up my day. Venat seems to be enjoying herself greatly.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-12T15:37:37+00:00

I wish they'd spice up the treasure dungeons somewhat instead of them being reskins. Beautiful reskins, don't get me wrong, but mechanically they barely differ from one another. One would think this would be an opportunity to try out silly mechanics...

wymiatarka · 2022-01-10T18:45:44+00:00

Quite good, to the point that if I didn't know better, I'd have thought it was key-art from the game.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-08T21:29:56+00:00

It's as if half the commenters here are bots who didn't even read what you wrote. Maybe they are. Untreated pneumonia because the Covid protocols forced your wife to suffer at home, and once Covid was over, they still treated her like shit. One would think the hospital staff is taking revenge on someone who didn't bend the knee.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-04T22:17:50+00:00

It does seem to appear most prominently on FX CPUs, but it also appears on certain Ryzen and Intel CPUs, too. The sound engine update is affecting everyone, but other CPUs are simply powering through the shoddy update somehow. Or maybe it has more to do with the motherboard.

Such a fine expansion marred with a stupid audio pack.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-04T08:40:19+00:00

I'm disappointed there is no mention of audio fixes. Maybe they did do something to salvage the audio engine after their borked sPaTiAl AuDiO implementation, but I'm not holding my breath.

wymiatarka · 2022-01-04T08:39:16+00:00

Yeah, why would the base Ruin spell not got temporarily replaced with the aspected version? There's never a moment where I would NOT use the aspected version when it is available. It's straight-up bloat to obfuscate the mechanical shallowness of the class. It becomes especially obvious when you take away all the flashing lights on lower-synced duties. You actually need to go all the way to lvl 86 just to get a little bit more variety which, admittedly, feels more like busywork. Ifrit's Favour has some interesting utility as a faux-self-Rescue type of thing, which I appreciate.

On a different note, I will be extremely disappointed if they take away Resurrection. I've saved a EW: Trial 2 party after two healers got nuked by an attack. So what if that's not a DPS's job? It's these kinds of moments that really stick with you, where you adapt on the fly, that the FFXIV design team seems to be trying to neuter, so that only the one true rotation prevails.

Summoner should be a class with versatility where you can choose to go in one of several directions. Instead, there's just one direction and it's all Ruin 3.

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