Thread: Patch 3.1 Notes (Preliminary)    

Wouldn't mind the AoE thing, but there is nothing like going through your combo with muscle memory only to find it got fucked two steps ago due to LoS/range.

What happened to being able to queue for DF with Companion out?

Originally Posted by Ophannus

What happened to being able to queue for DF with Companion out?

Since it counts as a party member and they largely copy your data when you register (and accept) the duty finder prompt..it will probably never happen.

That's not a very convincing excuse. As birds are never legitimate DF members, even the most rudimentary coder should be able to recognize and exclude them.

I'd actually like to see a system that lets you use birds in instanced content when you are at less than full capacity. But that's me.

Originally Posted by Spider-Dan

That's not a very convincing excuse. As birds are never legitimate DF members, even the most rudimentary coder should be able to recognize and exclude them.

I'd actually like to see a system that lets you use birds in instanced content when you are at less than full capacity. But that's me.

Therein lies the point: It's such a simple fix but their system is so convoluted it's likely never going to be fixed lol since every time he's asked about it he dodges the question or facedesks and talk abouts about hard it is. So it's definitely something to do with their queue system in general since he said the servers copies your entire data everytime you hit "commence" and if your companion is summoned, logically that data would would copy over stating you had your chocobo summoned on the current system.

So yeah, it's quite the easy fix.

It's probably because parties are, right now, "all or nothing". All members of the party (however many that is) are in queue, or none. I'm guessing that parties have an internal ID number somewhere, and parties are maintained as a full set. Rather than placing each individual member in the queue, the party is just added to the queue. This includes "parties" of solo people. They would likely have to rewrite the duty finder code to keep track of individual members treated as a party, instead of just a party.

* [2.0] The matching algorithm for Duty Roulette has been adjusted to reduce wait times.

I bet that's exactly what they've done, and they want to test it live before they implement anything new like queuing with birds out.

Edit: Nevermind, reread "roulette" part. SE isn't smart.

Originally Posted by Destinye

Since it counts as a party member and they largely copy your data when you register (and accept) the duty finder prompt..it will probably never happen.

They could simply just add an option to the DF menu that lets you queue solo while in a group, then require you to ditch party/bird before you can accept because god forbid the game doesn't just do that for you.

well, we ARE getting a new roulette out of it. moar tomes! but yeah, Expert should be 4

Originally Posted by Cassalot

I still cannot understand why they are separating the expert dungeons now from the new dungeons. WTF

I think their excuse was always "different ilvl requirements" and "different ilvl rewards" which isn't a very good excuse

Originally Posted by Silenka

Honestly, patch looks good. There isn't a TON of new content, but that content should keep everyone busy for a while. I will be majorly impressed if Skynamis is as fun as it sounds!

Basically this ^^. I know a lot of people are being super cynical but I am looking forward until Tuesday. This isn't the patch that will fix whats broken, but it will give us stuff to do. Maybe with the Red Scrip Crafting Mat changes I can bring myself to craft some AF for myself. Maybe the Explorations will be fun. Maybe with a bit of ilvl/singularity weapon madness my group can finally get into the killing of A4S before 3.2 hits (pipe dream, thanks yoshiP).

Maybe I won't go completely insane because hunts are STILL the most idiotic excuse for zerg content there is in this game and they need to stop making them relevant and start fixing them to not be a circus of morons.

Maybe this patch won't fix whats wrong, but maybe we can have some fun with it while we hope that 3.2 fixes Savage, Crafting and Gathering and finally makes PvP something people want to do for something besides that 40eso per day.

The only reason hunts were such a problem at 3.0 was because they were the ONLY way to get Law upgrade items. Now they'll be one of two ways to get law and eso upgrade items. That's fine. Hunts will be alive, but enough people will say "fuck that" that it shouldn't be too bad.

Originally Posted by BaneTheBrawler

The only reason hunts were such a problem at 3.0 was because they were the ONLY way to get Law upgrade items. Now they'll be one of two ways to get law and eso upgrade items. That's fine. Hunts will be alive, but enough people will say "fuck that" that it shouldn't be too bad.

On the upside, at least we don't have any god damn instanced PVE zones now to screw with us this time around.

What a mess that ended up being.

Originally Posted by Lokus

I clearly remember in Tera how you can queue for something and join a party right afterwards and even enter an instance with that other party and do things. Once the queue would pop, it would pull you out of your current party and into the queue party. So clearly it's not some technical marvel that SE can't reproduce.

Wildstar has a similar system. You can either queue as a group or queue solo (it's two buttons on the same menu). When you zone into the instance solo you get put into your instance party, but you still remain in your outdoor party as well iirc unless they booted you during your dungeon run.

Spoiler: show

Current state of Wildstar seems to do a lot of shit right in terms of handling/QoL that ARR lacks.

DF for the newer summon fights.. finally.. maybe now I can clear them.