Dawntrail's early access release brought a ton of new changes to the game. Are they good? Are they bad? Let's just talk about them why don't we? Want to connect in game? Come find me when I'm live on Twitch: / grimwittv
@@GrimwitTV im using it in conjunction with acerola fx for reshade. the ground shader in acerola is incompatible though so its disabled. my experiments with it continue.
I feel the same about the dye channels. Cool on some but a lot of items are baffling. They fully will ignore the second large section, maybe keep the big obvious other part you'd want to change tied to the first color and then like some single pixel wide stitches on the side will be the second channel. I don't understand how that even happens but hopefully they realize we actually want to change the color of parts we can see without an extreme close up.
Everyone is different but for me personally it's the worst MSQ experience I've had in this game. Pacing issues and just the overall story is not interesting to me.
I didn’t even get to play the new content during the early release because I was dumb and forgot to request it off. 😢 the little time I got I spent power leveling my viper to 90 so I could enjoy the new job in the expansion
As the 2nd Dye channel is coming in waves we must be very aggressive to show our displeasure with this monumental fumbling of the bag. There is no excuse to ever dye a ten pixel wide accent, it's hilarious to call that a job well done and ship it.
Agreed, I'm not too optimistic that they'll change the decisions they've already implemented, but hopefully they can be dissuaded from making similar choices going forward
@@HikingFeral You think it's rude to hold someone's feet to the fire over a false promise until there is an immediate course change on the poor implementation or at the very least an admittance of failure that they missed the mark? Imagine being so soft and trying to speak for everyone at the same time. As it stands now they may as well not have bothered with the 2nd dye channel and actually worked on real game-play content to prop up a slow start to a new decade long story, which is an obvious problem they should have seen coming. Maybe not though considering they think a dye on the tips of a shoelace is acceptable. You certainly won't be getting any message like that across complaining about people trying to argue for making the game better. Why shouldn't we point out painfully obvious failures that are quite frankly an embarrassment from a multi-million dollar team with many games and expansions under their belts.
@@zipzap8937 the thing is - you're not the game developer. If you're unhappy about something they offer, that's entirely your problem. All we can do if we agree (which I don't bc then they have to update the whole game to current graphics which is impossible) is telling them nicely and HOPE they agree and change it. It's not on us to tell them what and how to do it. If you want feel free to start your own studio and release games up to your standard. But everyone else accepts it for what it is - not our game so we can only accept their choices or leave it be and play any other game
Personally I wouldn't want them to CHANGE anything in the old expansions. Brush it up, make it prettier, that's fine, but don't change it. That's a horrible move. I still have trauma from Cataclysm (WoW).
They already have changed it a lot. And it needed it. They aren't going to have a choice before too long. That msq is way too high of a buy in time for new players. Eventually they are going to have to either create a new starting point for new players, or massively shorten the experience. Otherwise pulling in and keeping new players is just going to keep getting harder and harder
@@zombiegodsire People keep saying this but it's actually just an assumption. The MSQ is what gets the vast majority of new players invested, and it's why the free trial is so massive.
@@NabsterHax it's not an assumption. At all. Not only has it been WIDLY known that people quit during ARR because of how slow it is, there are people on forums and comments all the time saying it's too much to get into and they feel like they will never catch up. Not to mention every friend I have personally that tells me it's just too much and they are too far behind to have motivation to catch up. It needs adressed. It gets worse and worse every patch
@@zombiegodsire And yet the game continues to grow in popularity. Of course some people quit because they don’t like the game. But others clearly enjoy it and easily get through the MSQ. I have friends that quit playing Souls games or didn’t start because they say it’s too difficult and not fun for them. Doesn’t mean those games would be better off if they were easier.
Fair point! I definitely think some people overhyped it. Personally, looking at side by side comparisons it looks really good to me, but I can see how other people had expectations set too high and I think it's fair to place some blame on the devs for that
It's the exact same game that it has always been with the exact same type of content and all the old content. It just has a new story. It doesn't make it that much different than the rest of the expansions, chill. You'll get through the story the ONE time you play it, and it'll go back to business as usual
I mean I noticed a little change when I took the characters lighting gage down to 99 but ultimately it looks the same, but even before on my TV it looked beautiful anyway.
Baaaah what's with these spoiler scenes?! I've not yet found the city of gold so pls don't stream cutscenes here 😭 I purposely tried to avoid anything spoilery throughout the last months and it was really sooo damn hard bc of dudes like you just sneaking it in 😢 And to the graphics update: i dunno why but the EA automatically started on ps4 instead of 5. First I was like I don't see any graphic updates but Tuliyollal looked like mashed textures and fps stuttering like an old tractor engine. And the jazz music isn't my style at all so my first impression was... not so overwhelming 😅 On day 3 I tried to make it run on ps5 after noticing the wrong system et voila, that looks drastically different! And Tuli was so much better immediately. But I still see no difference in my potatos cheeks 😂 But I love the music from the other areas a lot. Especially the pelupelu region gives some big FF16 vibes The story so far is uneventful and remembers a bit of ARR with less voiced CS and lots of stuff to read (also pretty irrelevant stuff but it's a nice way to introduce the new lore) but I love the characters and the overall setting. I'm curious about what awaits us at the city of gold (a magic cup?! Thanks, now you got my brain rattling xD), so hopefully it gets a bit more interesting from there on. Also this time I've noticed there weren't any major login queues. No idea if there are significant less players around as in SHB and EW or this time the team successfully stabilized the servers but if I didn't know it was Early Acces I wouldn't have noticed at all. Even now with official release I don't see a difference to before DT. I really love that ❤
There are 4 that disappointed me: 1. It about Wuk Lamat (not to mention VA in the very bad way so they are fine as they are to me becuz I don't hate the VA for my opinion) basically the story is about Wuk Lamat tale and not our character story becuz we being supportive to her and I agree that we can help her and believe she can win with everything she got but what she should've have done is let us fight with her expectantly fighting Zoraal Ja during the the fight cutscenes. 2. The story are somewhat complicated (didnt finish the story yet but will do it later so forgive me if I have a little spare to say) like we know about Electrope and everything but Sphene being endless and being the real final boss break my heart plus I dont like the fact about the soul collecting to become one with soul to gain power which make me very angry than seeing 120 dead children in Skydeep dungeon so what Im trying to say here is it just not right with the story. 3. The scions should have bigger role than short like Thancred, Urianger and Estinien if they can be more helpful like before and they could have included Raha and Y'shtola becuz they are part of the story too since the trailer of them appearance so that way we all can enjoy and laugh but in the end it was always short becuz like I said about the 1 part is always about Wuk Lamat, they should have let us play as Scion and heck even Koana becuz it would be so much better than Wuk Lamat. 4. Two dye slot and most of DT I would discuss: they did stated two dye slot but didnt say it would be limited becuz for starter I thought two dye slot meant for all current gear which I hoped to dye and understandable if they will make more room but a lot of ppl complain about it and say it would limited for only attire and gear of lvl 1 and DT which is true but I don't mind waiting for future if they can make all current to have two dye slot happen. Anyway the attire of DT are fine but weird becuz the attire of Bard is like HW and some of them seem alright but weird, I dont know about the rest of classes but the bard and stuff are off
@@flavioromano8754 I don't know who played as Wuk Lamat but I don't mind the VA of Wuk Lamat as long as they play the role becuz I don't blame them for trying to do it right. I means it was bad but it just hard to say it and I can understand what they trying to do
Dawnfail worse than 2.0. I said it. Maybe I have just been playing for too long and my hundreds of dollars I've given SE for xiv is not wanted by them anymore. Had a good run but im out.
@@melaniebiberger2191 all of the rotations for EVERY class has been dumbed down post stormblood. Other than the massive amount of lag that 2.0 had it was the better version of the game. Dawnfail missed the mark completely and utterly.
@@Azureskies01 the "dumbed down" classes are literally the only thing ARR did better. And even then not really. Balance was ass back then. Everything else is way better in Dawntrail. Combat emcounters too
@@melaniebiberger2191 Balance was just fine other than the final coil killing Dragoons because they didnt have enough magic resist from leveling up. I guess you would have had to raid back then to know what you are saying is totally garbage. cheers
The quality of life changes are welcome, but we still have the awful questing, the trial before the last boss was dissappointing , the last zone was a nightmare to complete, everything is just so good, zones were beautiful but a headache to navigate without flying, they really need to start making questing enjoyable because damm idk how much I had to skip
I still haven't gotten too far into the MSQ but from the "mixed" reviews on steam I've gathered that this expansion is far from perfect. Looking forward to playing through and talking about this in the future.
@@GrimwitTV Looking forward to see your opinion once you're done, this was supposed to be our vacations but it felt so rushed and boring, this was the quality of life expansion but content wise it falls down compared to Shadowbringers or Stormblood and again the questing yuck
Most of the time, "quests" aren't quests at all - they're just little movies. 95%+ of the time spent "questing" is just watching cutscenes and walking. You can barely even call that a "game;" it's just a barely-interactive movie. I agree that the last zone was just awful. A bunch of heartfelt stuff tossed in at the end. Worst zone by far with regard to obstructive level design. The pacing of the zone in the context of the story was atrocious -- "the world is about to end. let's get to know these people and faff off for a while." For me, it was very reminiscent of the last zone in EW (except, while I was initially dismayed by that one, it turned out to be an ok zone storywise, particularly the end) -- HERE WE GO TO THE LAST THING! TENSION'S BUILDING! EXCITEMENT'S AT A PEAK! NOPE HA HA DO A WHOLE 'NUTHER SLOW-ASS ZONE BECAUSE REASONS! I got what they were doing halfway thru the first sub-area and just skipped everything after that. They beat that theme like a dead horse ten times over.
Not going to lie dawn trail msq is so boring . I know it’s a new ark but I’m sorry people it’s trash I skipped it and listened to the story at work it’s pretty bad everything else is 100 percent awesome
I'm still very early in the MSQ and I will say so far it's a mixed bag, some good, some... boring. I understand why it has mixed reviews on steam right now Thanks for watching though!
Yeah, for some reason, the story writers seemed to think that "new arc" and "starting something new" needed to equate to mundane and boring. I get that they probably wanted it to be a lighter mood, but that doesn't have to be boring. Some parts weren't, so they clearly know how to "do it right." They just needed to do another pass over everything and toss out everything that was boring and fill back in with stuff that wasn't. There were faaaaar too many "get on with it" moments.
@@melaniebiberger2191 not looking for instant gratification just a lot of the story was filler for some points not all and I did enjoy the areas they were all bad ass in my opinion and dungeaons and trials thru the story were super fun best yet in my opinion I know story’s take time just my personal opinion on the story it’s self was alright to me. I still love dawn trail I’m having lots of fun
@@donsabok9687 well sorry, my words were a bit harsh. Its just something i noticed that people expect high after high but completely ignore how storytelling works. I also thought the first two zones story was boring but honestly not more boring than ARR was. I do think it picked up greatly with lv 94 and onwards. Encounter design rocks tho
