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If you mean to target non-engaged mobs (e.g. Sheol C) then I dunno, why would they want to make it even easier for us? I wish they would just let us cleave that ***now it is so old and mundane.

Prioritization is just not amazing, I don't think there's a universal agreement on *how* it should be fixed, just that it could be better.

Somehow I feel kinda annoyed when Alfania share the same opinion.

Maybe Im wrong in the end?

I'll be honest, I don't understand the obsession with things remaining the exact same. "It wouldn't be the same game"? Balance patches don't make FFXI a different game.

This remaster is a chance for the developers to exercise creative control and better execute their vision, both for gameplay and story.

Final Fantasy Tactics was notoriously poorly balanced. Some jobs are god mode, some are literally useless. The game offers absolutely zero resistance if the player has any clue about what's what. It had game-ending missions if a new player was unprepared and foolish enough to use one save. Meanwhile Chapter 4 is a boring slog of "kill the leader" missions which the player can one-turn one-shot with no preparation.

Rebalancing would only be a good thing (but is also pure speculation at this juncture). And a Hard mode is legitimately exciting.


It wouldn't be a remaster to begin with if they didn't change and fix things. Good news though, the OG version is included, have at it.

To my knowledge noone has yet implemented ToT (Tree of Thought) yet either. Some argue Google might have in some limited format in their newest model but no transparency on it.

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/tree-of-thoughts

Not sure where you are seeing this when the graphs have up to 200k tokens, etc.

...It isn't just those things.

* The lighting is completely redone, making the maps look better.
* Full voice acting.
* New animated cutscenes.
* "Extensive adjustments and additions to the story."
* New difficulty modes.
* And if Tactics Ogre Reborn is any indication, probably at least some degree of rebalancing.

$50 is a pretty reasonable price for all this. Same as Tactics Ogre Reborn was. That's sub-full price even before this generation's price hikes. Plus these things are always available discounted on Steam via other retailers (-20% on GMG already, making it $40).

That worked for devs in the past Panta, but AAA games are so expensive now they need the sure thing to balance it out when the risky stuff fails.

FF1 of course was named because it was their last ditch effort before leaving the business, and it worked. Then the Spirits Within movie almost bankrupted the company. Enix saved Square, and so they survived again. I'm not sure a studio could survive something like that today.

Bethesda made dozens of versions of Skyrim over the years. How much of that cash cow money was spent on Starfield development and not realized as profit because the game didn't do well? Microsoft didn't even bother to get it on Xbox, which is really telling.

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Meaning what?

@afania

The pre 2008 dial up pace of zero quality of life adjustments speeding up the game (and hours needed to even solo some jobs to level 5 for example) if that had persisted while the rest of the gaming world sped up and evolved, we would have seen a lot more people jump ship due to SE failing to listen to user feedback etc

It absolutely had to speed up back then to stay with the times.

Honestly the instance lag is not the first thing they should spend resources on.

The completely broken in today's game auto-targeting should be the first thing to be reworked. Which they said they would but haven't.

The problem with XI is the 56k data cap, it's been asked over and over to fix it and they keep saying the original programmer hacked solutions by using that 56k cap (same with 30fps) as a crutch for various timing stuff but that's honestly not a good enough answer.

They need to hire a programmer on / or take one from XIV for a while and get them to remove the 56k data cap (just as they have done before, and did with the character race change).

This is a game that makes millions a year, and will still be around 10 years from now. It's not acceptable to just leave it as it is when it's making the game worse.

They spend unlimited money on crap that closes in a month, yet they can't invest in something that has a loyal audience.

There is a problem with people using 3rd party stuff, making the issue worse but that's a reality of the game and so they need to fix the game up to take it into account. Get rid of the 56k data cap.

FFXI still makes millions becasue it has carved out a niche that nobody else can or will invade on (and if they try, they are low budget shitshows like pantheon), they can't change the game too much or they will lose that niche.

They just need to allow the 40-50% who play solo/casual to be able to make progress too (in an osrs type way).

XI is like an indie band that has a core passionate audience, and XIV is like Taylor Swift. Even though XIV has far more players, who spend far more on cash shop stuff it also have very very high dev costs with a large team constantly needing to pump content out due to the short term nature of the content.

Hmm, I played it a lot but if you know how to manipulate it so yoou get the dark gear the game becomes a joke.

Ugh, this is *** ridiculous. AI upscaled textures and new UI = £60 plz.

I'll play it on switch emulator cus I ain't paying for this.

It is dumb that you either have to choose enhanced gfx+new UI OR old graphics and old UI. What if I want to play old UI+enhanced graphics? Would cost them nothing to have added this.

Anyway, this is a ***game compared to Tactics Ogre and Knights of Lodis. Those games are so deep in the development system like nothing has come out in the decades since as deep as this.

Not to my knowledge. By default, packetflow is only active in instances, so most of the time it will actually have no effect.

I personally suspect the same restraints that leave SE unable to address the core problem also leave them unable to analyze who is using this. If they had the resources, I would hope they would fix the problem instead of spending them figuring out who to ban for using a crutch to hobble around it, but ultimately any 3P usage is a ban risk.

Twitch is a great example of this. Watch any new release and see hundreds of thousands of people foaming at the mouth with reasons that particular game is the worst thing in history. Most have very little actual knowledge or interest in the game itself and just want to stir the pot. They read a lot like many of the posts on any fansite, FFXI is definitely not unique in that regard.

The entire industry does this, and for good reason. It's cheaper than coming up with risky new ideas, and guaranteed profits. Without these types of releases, you'd see many fewer unique titles.

I haven't had an opportunity to play without any gearswap users because *gestures at everything* but FWIW my dynamis group NEVER has a full alliance of characters playing. At most we have...12? Sometimes as few as 9? And 3-4 of those aren't using any addons.

Sch - geo would work best IMO.

Sch makes SCs, both nuke. Will still need to kite so will need someone to land gravity.

Everyone has lag in instances.

What will make the most difference is minimising the amount of gear swapped by your character in each action.

Meaning how much gear you're swapping to go from idle to precast, from precast to midcast and from midcast back to idle.

If you swap all possible gear options for each step, you are adding a lot more lag onto yourself.

Multiply that by the number of people also doing this at the same time around you.. you get Dyna-D with a full alliance.

Not sure but think he didn't nuke much at all, assume was busy replacing bubbles and backup curing when a trust died.
I went BLU though, not SCH so nuke wall isn't much of a issue since they can only MB like once every 1:40-2 minutes and majority of damage is just cycling BLU spells without MB.

Makes me wonder if maybe a SCH would make a better duo partner since we'd not get in each others way?

I played FFXI from the East coast of the US for a very very long time, including "back in the day" and for years in current content (dyna [d]. ody, sortie, vagary, etc.).

Moved to Japan and have plenty of experience, it's still laggy as hell, packets drop, macros don't fire off. In dynamis, characters de-sync and freeze, sometimes characters outside of your party are totally untargetable. In Ody, there are lag spikes and mobs teleporting all over the place. R goes up to several thousand at times.

It's essentially, from all I can tell, the same experience.

Close the porn tabs while playing.

Wait Really? That’s curious because there were specific LS members that, by their account, “literally never” had any sorta of lag in Ouryu or Dynamis D and their parses very much reflected those statements. I never asked them where they lived but their active times placed them much closer to JP than myself (East Coast US) so it only makes internet sense they’d have an easier time.

Or is everyone getting the shaft but some are getting it rougher than others, you’re saying?

We're u getting nuke walled by weaker nukes? I've gone in with a geo b4 and been so busy I didn't notice till tabula was over that they were nuking walling me occasionaly. Just always was happening when I wasn't looking at the log. Asked them to stop nuking and fight went much better.

Btw, I must say the PSP version of FFT was amazing.

I actually sinked 200h on it to make Ramza capped in all attributes available to cap.

The endgame was awesome and the nultiplayer was great too.

If they add an online version of it, maybe I can reconsider, to play PvP or coop, it would surely increase the replay value of it

I know Xenogears remaster will never happen due to rights, but just imagine if they redo it and actually create a second disc for it, add new open world, a polishing in game mechanics

It would be game changing to place it near the best game of all time.

Ive just watched the trailer, I honestly was hoping they would at least drop the 2D character animation and use 3D.

But no, it the same visuals just with more polishing in the edges.

While the voicing seems interesting, the speed options is a must for modern age, I definitively dont see why I would buy it.

Only if for the sake of being a fan? Nah, as I said, I prefer more FFXI over FFT.

I would go as far as to say Xenogears is higher than FFT in my list.