Dev Tracker - Discussion

I think this update a lot more clear than last year's tease of double the fun. I assume the next battle content is Empyrean/Abyssea. Glad to see they are still planning on adding more new gear and not just more palette swaps.

Fresh Battle content, as long as it's not Infailsion 2.0, im good. Bring back Temenos/Apollyon 2.0 and I'll be good.

Xarcabard Divergence when?

I would like to see a 119+ nyzul isle or salvage ~ heck even einherjar

Neo Vagary...

NONE of these events are desirable. You picked the 3 worst events from the lamest expansion.

To each their own, I guess. Lamp floors and stuff were kind of ***. Salvage was fun at first. I'll admit that much. Now it's a task. Would have to become more 18man floor hunting to bring that nostalgia back. I don't miss kneeling for Odin in Einherjar...

I want to see a true upgraded Limbus. Not that crap they did awhile back but an actual upgraded event with floor climbing and everything. That event kicked *** because it made you bring variety, have a semi-balanced team and think using strategy. There is plenty of gear they could "iLevel" the heck out of for rewards, plenty of mixed fights they could add new twists to.

The update they did to Limbus was very lazy and never gained much interest. The gear wasn't even that good anyways (besides...enif body?)

There was a lot of variety, but there was also progression via chips, which unlocked different zones/bosses. I thought that was a cool little strategy at the time, and every floor had gimmicks and traps you had to look out for. I would love a Limbus reboot for 6-18 man content.

If it’s more Diveregence; probably CoP Dynamis and Tavnazia-Divergence.

Would be easier and consistent design flow where each zone corresponds to a gear slot and the body for doing all 4.

Me too, but using Promyvion music, so soothing.

Or you know maybe Provenance.

Abyssea

Matsui Here!
YOU SHITBIRDS WILL GET NEO GARRISON AND LOVE IT!

Aight SE, here's my feedback. GIVE ME MORE WARDROBES!!!! I need space damnit ><

Also, inb4 dreamlands Dynamis-D unlocks empy +2/3 gear.

Why haven't you learned jp yet

Just what I always wanted! I'm constantly shouting for Garrison but not one person took me up on it.

:(

neo eco warrior

Everyone knows it's Adoulin branch CL150 (or w/e) VW for Empyrean +2/3, right?

What actually made abyssea good, is how it rewarded players of various levels of advancement to work together.

An advanced player might be farming Briareus for making an Empyrean Weapon. A new player might be getting clear for quest/mission, and another player might be aiming for the atma, upgrade items for empyrean armor, or maybe even the gear drops.


there were various, parallel goals for Abyssea. That kind of synergy was really cool and fun. It very much encouraged ppl to team up with whomever was in the zone doing the same thing.. usually.

Something that I miss (and hate) was being in an open world, interacting and seeing other players.

FFXI these days feels more like WoW a few expansions ago where everything was instanced and even in the open world you had "instances" (fading it was called?) where people couldn't see other players in the same spot of the open world because of different advancement of quests etc that changed how the world looked to you client-side.

Being in the open in an open area with no lag, very few packetloss (god I swear I didn't even have the knowledge a thing like a packet loss could occurr back then) and seeing other players, interacting with them, even if everybody was doing their own thing at their own pace, it was really good. Loved it.


What was annoying was the "having to compete" against other players, and of course the same few guys being complete douches.
Abyssea fixed part of this later through the course of its life by adding more ??? and stuff like that, but it was still a pain to compete against NMs that were popping on their own etc.

Other than these negative aspects, I kind of miss that sort of open world action/interaction. Having instances is good, but playing EXCLUSIVELY in instances gets boring after a while, especially when they tend to be so incredibly laggy, killing the fun part of it.

I think I'm calling "no lag, no packet loss" on rose-tinted glasses. Every server on FFXI back in the day had several times the number of players does Asura does today, and there were plenty of areas where players congregated enough to stress the system (Dynamis, Sky NMs, Lower Jeuno, King camps, Wyrms, and even the more crowded exp camps. Plus, most of us had much worse computers at the time.

we need more lockstyle options. I think weapons are good where they are at along with armor.

Those wardrobe 3 and 4 tho

The packet loss issues are only present in instanced areas. They were clearly not around back in the day, and it's pretty obvious that they are tied to a poor software design element rather than the server's capability.

Lag is an entirely different issue, and I'm sure most people experienced more lag back in the day(but probably weren't comparing to games as smooth as today's hit titles).