Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

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Ravana said:
expect them to gradually remove all their jumps now.
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But that's like... The most quintessentially Dragoon thing. Jumping and lances and dope armor are consistent and recognizable traits of the class across the franchise. Removing jumps would be retarded thematically.
 
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Baguette Child said:
But that's like... The most quintessentially Dragoon thing. Jumping and lances and dope armor are consistent and recognizable traits of the class across the franchise. Removing jumps would be retarded thematically.
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They now "jump" straight forward (with their feet not leaving the ground) as their new gap closer.

They still have two of their jumps (High Jump and Stardiver) though And you can still backflip.
 
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Tried getting back into Bozja since I've got a friend who wants to level Dancer there.
Thought I'd try and get some Duels done as a win-win and it's full of retards.

CLL run, it's me, dancer friend, a WAR, a DRK, and a RDM.
The RDM pops Spirit of the Veteran.
DRK has Martialist on like any good main tank does.
The WAR doesn't have an essence. Then puts Irregular on, then removes Irregular when I say that you'll want to have your stance off if you're doing that.
...We predictably wipe because the competent damage dealers were on the bottom floor when the WAR pulls the top boss without notifying us.
I explain that we're going to need damaging actions if we're going to want to clear this, which the RDM indirectly stated earlier, and the RDM proceeds to ragequit.

I want to play on Oceana's empty wasteland instances but my ping is too goddamn high for it.
 
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Alter Ego said:
I see. Do you suspect Wuk Lamat would've been accepted had she appeared more human rather than a lion on two legs, or would the appealing visage of a cute anime girl not be able to mask her issues?
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The issue with Wuk Lamat is the overexposure. There was a chart that showed the total number of lines spoken by each character and WL was #1 by a significant margin. It's very much the Poochie factor with this character and the fact that it is poorly written and their English VA is an insufferable cunt is icing on the cake.

Alter Ego said:
Futhermore, are there complaints about the expansion besides the story? Like concerning the new zones, new jobs, and previous job changes.
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Actual content is probably the best its been in years. There have been some complaints about some job tweaks (BLM, change to some tank's gap closers, etc.) but overall there's been a positive reception outside of the story being the drizzling shits.

The game's fanbase has a tendency to put the game's story on a fucking pedestal and treat it like it is the greatest narrative work since Paradise Lost, which is why such a stink is being made about this. The complaints about Endwalker were sort of the inverse of Dawntrails: good story but the fact that the gameplay was very meh was the primary complaint, although it was still largely praised.
 
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Tari said:
I want to play on Oceana's empty wasteland instances but my ping is too goddamn high for it.
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I play with some Kiwi friends and with NoClippy it's honestly not as bad as you might imagine. The main thing you can't do is jumping over gaps from experience (looking at you M1), but with the mod it's very playable.
 
SilenceIsViolence said:
I play with some Kiwi friends and with NoClippy it's honestly not as bad as you might imagine. The main thing you can't do is jumping over gaps from experience (looking at you M1), but with the mod it's very playable.
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It's bad enough that it affects my GCDs, not just the inability to weave. Maybe using an australian VPN might help, i'll have to check after i'm done with PVP for today.
 
Tari said:
Maybe using an australian VPN might help, i'll have to check after i'm done with PVP for today.
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Give us a report on how well this does or doesn't work, I'm also interested in maybe moving to the relatively empty lands of down under.
 
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Alter Ego said:
Do you suspect Wuk Lamat would've been accepted had she appeared more human rather than a lion on two legs, or would the appealing visage of a cute anime girl not be able to mask her issues?
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The other major character in the expansion, Sphene, is a cute anime girl and I've seen plenty of people on reddit/official forums saying she's a good character. I think she's just as poorly written as Wuk was. Actually even worse, at least Wuk's actions and motivations mostly made sense despite how puddle-deep and uninteresting they were. Sphene just made dumb decisions for dumb reasons.

Spoiler for near the end of the story: There's a scene where she tries to convince Zoraal Ja that maybe there's a way to make peace with us, that our experiences and knowledge of other shards could find a way to preserve her people, then she just entirely forgets that option once we remove Zoraal Ja from the picture. She and him were the only two characters present in that scene, so she wasn't trying to deceive us in that moment, she genuinely wanted to make peace. I guess the writers forgot they left that in.
 
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Time travel stories can work, as seen with the time travel expansion they did for FFXI being good shit. Some of the best music and zones that game had.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
Time travel stories can work, as seen with the time travel expansion they did for FFXI being good shit. Some of the best music and zones that game had.
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Abyssea being the alternate timeline where you lost the fight against Promathia was great too, especially with how overpowered you could become in Abyssea zones.
 
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Sphene is just objectively worse than Wuk in every conceivable fashion. Wuk is a shallow annoying character, but even she had more compelling (I use this word very loosely) stuff to her.

Walmart Garnet stand in was just a trite idea they threw in because they wanted a bigger badder villain than Zoraal Ja and the shock value of a sudden, universe ending threat because writing a story without having high stakes is too hard. Nothing about her made any sense, not her words or actions or existence. She was lobotomized for the sake of moving the plot forward. She's so bad I wouldn't even consider her a character at this point. Nothing of value was lost after she "died". You could have removed her entirely from the plot and almost nothing would change.
 
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Tari said:
It's bad enough that it affects my GCDs, not just the inability to weave. Maybe using an australian VPN might help, i'll have to check after i'm done with PVP for today.
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Is this with noClippy? It was the same with me till I tried the extension - really a godsend, I definitely couldn't raid abroad without it. A VPN to AUS wont do anything FYI except add more latency, unless you're being throttled at an ISP level (doubtful).

https://github.com/UnknownX7/NoClippy - is what I am referring to.
https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander - this too
 
Baguette Child said:
None of the criticism I've seen of Wuk has been related to her physical appearance, as much as I'd love to see less furry shit in games. I'm not to DT yet, but based on all the shit I've been reading from others:

Her personality sucks. She's disrespectful in the Japanese voice acting in ways that frankly aren't close to being endearing. She acts like a fucking moron and dominates all the expansion dialogue to the detriment of all previously established characters that should have been given at least a little chance to shine.

Her storyline and the expansion overall was a tonal shift (again, just going by what others have said- I'm still in HW) and the entire expansion was written in a cheaper, more child-friendly tone. Like one of those shonen animes or whatever.

I'm not looking forward to DT. Which sucks, because ARR and the first bit of HW have been really fun; Characters and themes really drew me in and made me care about the setting, and I'd been hopeful the rest of the game would keep me invested.
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There's a chart somewhere upthread where she has more dialogue than all three main antagonists combined.

There's really two, almost hypocritical issues people have with the story (Wuk lamat strangles everyone else out, and all the scions are back a fucking gain), but they boil down to the same point: the world of tural is by far the least fleshed out in terms of characters. There are a handful of people with agency, and they're nearly all part of the same family. Everyone else is just a hat-wearing member of their community with little uniqueness or agency.

For a country that only just settled 80 years ago, it really doesn't feel like that; nearly every part of tural is culturally isolated and simultaneously completely unsustainable without heavy support from it's neighbours. The country's still got people who remember the whole country being at war, and there's a village whose entire identity is 'merchants'. There's almost nobody in the story that has any agenda that isn't either 'i want me or my guy to be the dawnservant', or 'i want to eat the world'. Conflicts off screen are resolved in frankly mind-numbingly dumb ways. Imagine going from Garlemald last expansion, whose arc is largely about how war really makes forgive and forget just impossible, and then at roughly the same time this MSQ we're told about how a war was solved by Tacos.

There's also the giant people, who are all bug-eyed retards who only got dreams of a city of gold in the depths of a far south forest... and spent their entire time crusading north trying to find it. and managed to catch the genophage that made them all become the horrific lumps they are.

The mamool ja just hang out in the depths of an immensely shitty forest, and eat nothing but bananas, and do nothing to better their lives besides making more genetic freaks because...???? really, this is never properly justified. like they don't even like living there? but i guess when a war from 80 years ago has still scarred the forest, you're kinda just fucked.

To say nothing of that whole thing where there's three species of mamool ja, but only one combination can make blessed siblings. There is never any justification given for this.

The fact that I can't name a single person from Tural that supported Koana over Wuk is a key example of this.

Also, the game relies way to much on 'for this questline, here is a convenient tribe from bugfuck nowhere who happens to have the exact cultural hat needed to make this plot function'
 
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This is the IMDB page of one of the writers for Dawntrail

I think I see what went wrong now

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