Letter from the Producer, XI

[avelle]

With the current stamina system I'd sometimes just end up saying "oh fuck this" because of how much delay readying my shield added; though I only got to level 18 or so GLD, so my only partying experience was a few behests. But dammit, wasn't the original plan to have a separate bar for shield actions? Sigh. Suppose that doesn't matter now.

I often found myself in the same situation as you. I use a controller (because mouse + keyboard currently sucks in this game) and having to constantly bounce between attack, guard, and special abilities was tedious as hell. Even when I wasn't getting my ass kicked I still tried to keep guard up so I could ride the phalanx train.

[kisada]

i'm praying that with the adjustment of the active/passive mode that they also work on making it instant, or at least reducing the delay.

[Levin]

Well I was just rewatching the video, and it looks like the goblin occasionally attacked 3 times in a row. So it could be a return of double attack/triple attack, but who knows.

[Shuichi]

Frankly, I think that during this time, they've been working on the infrastructure to support all the changes that are forthcoming. So while this video has a focus on auto-attack, they haven't been sitting around twiddling their thumbs all this time.

[Meko]

I hope that is the case Shuichi. It's just a crazy difference from WoW and Rift to the FF games. So much seems controlled versus what WoW/Rift offer in real time combat. The ability to right-click and engage in combat right away. No sliding around the map/ground to toggle.

[Kurokikaze]

Almost a full 5 second delay between hitting a mob to engage it and it turning around and saying hi back. I feel like they have much bigger problems besides Auto Attack.

[Kaylia]

Because the challenge of the game shouldn't be trying to most efficiently spam a basic attack when you are dealing with a 3 second delay between when you put in a command and when it actually happens.

I agree entirely about the issue. The solution however is not an auto-attack.

[Lucavi]

Almost a full 5 second delay between hitting a mob to engage it and it turning around and saying hi back. I feel like they have much bigger problems besides Auto Attack.

Same technology as with XI. None of us should be and are surprised. They only know how to do it one way. They'd better learn another if they want money from XIV.

[Kurokikaze]

Same technology as with XI. None of us should be and are surprised. They only know how to do it one way. They'd better learn another if they want money from XIV.

This didn't happen in XI is the problem with that statement.

[Lucavi]

Yes it did, you just may not remember. Do a ballista match sometime. You'll either slide or come to a dead stop while engaging/disengaging, and its even more laughably visible when you see others do it. People sliding around, pulling out weapons, then slide-WSing behind someone for a kill shot.

Its the same damn tech, just with prettier visuals.

[Meko]

Yea, no doubt it is. It's pretty hilarious. When I first played XI, I thought it was other players lagging but then I saw it on my wife's screen and I was like wtf?!

[Lonely]

This is horrible. FFXI-2, same crap all over again but with everyone regarding it as the worst mmo in recent years, slower REAL content updates, Nothing to do but level, PvP as a serious focus, less players, and a boring slow outdated combat system.

That decision to revert to XIs combat entirely should show you this game is going nowhere interesting or fun and real endgame is going to be a myth, I wouldn't be surprised if they bought back dynamis copy/paste for those instances they promised.

Just play XI or wait for Tera/GW2, this game looks like its going to get the plug pulled by the end of the year and if not they're going to start charging you SE money again since this is doing nothing for them.

[Lucavi]

Its nothing they can't fix, they just need to fix it.

[Takiwaki]

You cannot fix something that's made broken from the ground up honestly. yes they can get it to be a mediocre game at best which is bad. to make this game anything good they will have to change the basic core system its being built on, which is not going to happen

[Sephiroth]

Wait, is FFXI really the only MMO that uses auto attack?

[Meko]

You cannot fix something that's made broken from the ground up honestly. yes they can get it to be a mediocre game at best which is bad. to make this game anything good they will have to change the basic core system its being built on, which is not going to happen

I hate to say this but I agree. At this point, if it were me, I'd just close up shop on this project and start over. I'd name the game something different and I'd let it die. The FF fans are loyal so we'll keep coming back as long as there are the smallest crumbs for us to feed on but at this point, the game is just done. Three weeks and a 2 minute video of auto-attacks?

[Crizto]

Maybe an auto attack that slow and clunky

[Kurokikaze]

Wait, is FFXI really the only MMO that uses auto attack?

That uses Auto Attack that slow and makes it a big part of the combat system - yes. We're going back to Auto Attack and long cooldowns.

[Draylo]

Just stack on some haste :D

[Crizto]

Just stack on some haste :D

I'll play again once I can wear a Walahra Turban!