HOW THEY FIXED FFXIV DAWNTRAIL'S BIGGEST PROBLEM!

THE SURPRISE THO!
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[@dylanmcla]

I mean if people genuinely thought the expansion was just going to be a summer vacation and chill...that's really on them. The devs made jokes multiple times about how "yeah sure it's just a vacation." in other keynotes. It's pretty crazy to hear them say "We have a lot of surprises in store" and for people to go "Yeah whatever, I know what this expansion is going to be, yawn"

[@raisylvaine8398]

“It’s gonna be 90-100, a some trial bosses, an 8 man raid series and alliance raid series, blah blah blah” Genuinely I turn my brain off around those sorts of people.

[@shawnscouten5184]

Just a summer vacation “wink” could mean a lot of things, its a pretty generic thing to say, even actual “just summer vacation” stories say that about themselves and refer to plot twists or something like that. It could also easily be interpreted as just the lost city of gold or something boring like that, I don’t think anyone could have reasonably expected multiple cyberpunk areas.

[@shawnscouten5184]

Also, Yoshi-p doesn’t exactly have the best record when it comes to statements. Like at around 6.0 he promised that there would be “an event that changes everything you know about ff14 lore” during the 6.x patches, and that kinda never happened, or the whole Endsinger ex is going to be one of the most difficult Exs, and then it ends up being easier than pretty much every final expansion boss ex was besides ultima. Also, Ff14s patch cycle is quite stale, so it is possible those people we’re referring to that when they said they knew exactly what was going to happen.

[@natebroadus8474]

I was incredibly excited for Dawntrail before the Fanfest. I felt like I knew where the story was going, and it looked interesting. I would say I was 8/10 going into JP Fanfest. Coming out of Fanfest, I'm 11/10, easily. Solution Nine just completely threw all my preconceived theories into a blender and made margaritas with them. I have no idea where the story is going, and I love that feeling.

[@JMulls]

Same, I was maybe a little bit more lukewarm on it before Fanfest, but its like you said, I love the feeling of not knowing what in the world is going on and with Solution 9 and all that, I am squarely in that exciting wanderlust zone where I just want to play the game right now.

[@purrbiscuits]

As someone who started playing at the very tail end of Shadowbringers, I had no real emotional investment into the recently completed story arc. This is mainly attributed to the fact that I didn’t experience each expansion as current content with the rest of the player base and more so just speed ran through the entire MSQ so I could catch up in time for Endwalker. Even though I reacted to the heavy story beats, it didn’t hit me emotionally to the core as compared to a veteran player that had been along for the ride for years. So it’s safe to say that I am extremely hyped for this new expansion and story direction now that I am a current player☺️

[@Trattato68]

One more thing to mention. Now that they no longer have to think about building the game from scratch in two years like they did with ARR, they can tell a new 10-year saga that is truly organic in every way. Because if you go back to ARR and HW you notice some retcons that went unnoticed and only from Shadowbringers onwards did the narrative direction become clear

[@JMulls]

Yeah, they aren't ever working from square 0 again, they have a foundation they can work off of and from to branch into stories they really want to tell, and it feels like the world is bigger than any one individual storyline and for an MMO, that's a great place to be in imo

[@Vaeltis]

As exciting and cool as seeing the future-tech city of Solution Nine is, my hope is that they don't just straight catapult us back into some crazy mega bad. I want this to be something really cool and mysterious for us to explore, but not have it have some kind of big world ending consequence if we were not able to solve it thereby thrusting us back into having to save the world yet again. Shadowbringers and Endwalker did so well because it took its time to build up to that point with it's previous expansion. And yes people will say that coming off a big high to something simple and grounded may seem dull and boring, but you need those low moments in order to appreciate the high moments, if you're just chasing the next big high, then you just end up looking for whatever the next big bad is which then makes the whole experience and adventure feel very dull and a can make past achievements in the story feel watered down.

[@whitekitsune1]

So what you're saying is we become Zenos lmao

[@testogel85]

Pretty much had the same experience. I was a bit lukewarm about Tural, but now having seen Solution Nine, damn if I'm not excited again!

[@JMulls]

Zone design looks so freaking good in Dawntrail lol... I REALLY need to eye a computer upgrade soon tho lol 🤣

[@crayyonnyadrav4055]

One of Final Fantasy XIV's big strong points to me is the design of Zones and locations. It has just that big variety of themes that really gets you every time you enter a zone. And unlike other MMO games like WoW, you do not need to re-experience a Zone a bajillion times for every character. And that is great.

[@TheOneGreat]

And yet they all look nice but a pretty much empty in terms of gameplay and completely lifeless. Such a waste, honestly. GW2 isn't perfect, but their zones are leaps and bounds better at making you feel they're alive. XIV's are like a painting. Pretty to look at but completely static.

[@gumi2521]

To be honest this was to be expected, most if not all expansions they always mentioned how they wanted to go even beyond what people expect them to go. Yoshi-P using as refferences going to Ishgard but then revealing sky islands, going to kugane when expecting ala migho, going to Eulmore in Shadowbringers, or going to the edge of the universe in Endwalker when we thought the endgame was the moon. We knew there would be more going on than just a vacantion to south america, but it wasn't until now we got a full showcase of what to expect.

[@saulmadrid9950]

With all the content FF 14 covered and added over the course of its time, as well as what HASN'T been featured yet, I'm excited! We got to see places like Ivalice and seeing the potential for something futuristic like Zanarkand would be awesome. Im crossing my fingers.

[@JMulls]

There's so much stuff they could do in the future, and with all the other shards they've hinted that we'd explore, the sky's the limit

[@shirokasute1520]

Solution 9 looks so much like the Hidden City from FF8 but with a little Mix of Zanarkand from the past. And looking at the Aetherite it gives me a lot allagan vibes

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

Solution Nine is basically Neomuna, but way better. Genuinely thrilled that its a player hubzone as well and I plan to make it my new hangout area

[@JMulls]

I thought it was going to be a throwaway dungeon or something just for a cool visual, but I LOVE that it's a city

[@Dajova]

@@JMulls Well, one of the dungeons they showed looks like it takes place in there. So you weren't too far off xD

[@XionAvalonArcadia]

I hope the stuff like Solution Nine and the lunar recreation stuff leads us to do background planetary exploration. Kinda like how phantasy star or star ocean:tteot dipped into a larger more advanced race to explore.

[@Tripsbro]

I didn’t realize ffxiv had a biggest need to fix problem…..oh wait, it doesn’t, not where story is concerned with enough ideas to grasp from since the franchises inception waaaaay back in the 80’s when I started playing them……god I’m old.

[@IKIGAIofficial]

Ishikawa is head overseer of the story. Im hyped.

[@jujukamiyu]

Solution Nine is protected from Meteon's Final Song I guess - that's their final "solution" against Calamity, by the civilization more advance than Garlean, Sharlayan combined. So the plot is -- what's next over there?

[@JMulls]

I somewhat side with Mr Happy here, I think it's somewhat digital or was created by one of the civilizations between now and the Ancients. Not sure how much I agree with some people saying Allagans, I feel like its something else or at least with a layer of separation from just "and it was another Allagan research outpost"

[@BigStou]

Dunno but its gona be worth playing just to see the new zones, i mean that shit looks amazing

[@Zoeila]

People with keen eyes would notice theres ancient writting on kiosks in solution 9

[@EmelyBurgbacher]

no spoilerwarning for people that havent played for 5 months xd

[@Neobahamutfr36]

I'm so curious about Solution 9. Who are the ones who built this city ? Survivors of an ancient civilisation ? Allagans ? Something older ? Colonists from a Shard still spared by the Asciens machinations ? Can't wait to be this summer >

[@mattp994]

Colonists from 'elsewhere' is a decent guess. Solution Nine is named after one of Zidane's trance moves in IX, he was a 'Genome' a being from another world whose civilisation had essentially built an ark to travel to and assimilate another world.

[@Neobahamutfr36]

@@mattp994Terra when ? 😅

[@JMulls]

Yeah I think/hope it's either an ancient civilization from the New World, or they try and mirror the story of FF9 somewhat with Terra and Gaia @@Neobahamutfr36

[@kurisu7885]

It's kinda neat how often in FF games your party finds out about ancient civilizations that were far FAR more advanced but died out and your current civilization is how the world recovered.

[@TheOneGreat]

If you thought it was just 60 hours of lying on a beach then I kinda admire your naivety. For all its flaws (of which there are many) I don't understand that particular one toward XIV. That being said, an ancient, hightly advanced civilization is hardly a new concepts in RPGs let alone FF. Like literally 50% of all FF story have that trope..

[@idowhatiwant3557]

Cool... and end game hub like every other expansion.

[@mordecaigalidonus2863]

I dunno, I been playing ff14 since 1.0 and dawntrail just comes off as meh to me. I watched the keynote and was iust underwhelmed overall.

[@rickboy7290]

If anybody knows anything about what they will do INVENTORY management let me know. I ran out of space for glams and my retainers are peaking. So far I have liked everything they have presented. But Inventory is my biggest problem with the game.

[@majoodlastsin4468]

Trust me its gonna be same thing 2 jobs 2 extreme 4 savage raid nothing changes same formula 😬

[@sorleytarrys8501]

It's not a particularly bad Thing, especially for a Story driven Game. More important than staying with the amount of Extremes and Raids is how much fun they are.

[@chainclaw07]

0:30 .... but "NOW" with lizard people.... suuuuuure

[@besaidknight]

All is Fixed??? Whoooo, ASTROLOGIAN IS VIABLE!!! XD Bard Has A Solid Role!!! PALADIN BELONGS!!! ^___^

[@GoatOfWar]

And now Dark knight is worthless. You just trade one problem for another.

[@meitomiyazaki9848]

I’m curious what this other civilization is that built solution nine

[@JMulls]

Yeah, I'm not sold on it being Allagan myself, would be cool if it was an ancient New World civilization that made it and we learn about them imo

[@Rataldo20]

i think the same. before the latest fan fest i was just going to play the expansion because i like the game and thats all. but now they revealed and mentioned a lot of stuff that i was worried about (the Pictomancer ended up looking really cool and they are bringing something like Bozja and Eureka Back!!) but the greatest thing was Solution Nine and the new raid tier. those new areas made me excited to explore the world and learn what misteries are behind that!!! and thats what this expansion is supposed to be about!!!!!

[@JMulls]

Exactly! It feels like what 6.1-6.5 did but on a grander scale, where it started as us going on a treasure hunt with the squad and it turned into us going to save the 13th, we go to the New World to rig an election (joke lol) and have a summer vacation and end up in the Matrix!

[@1Mrstephen]

The biggest problem Dawntrail is bringing to FFXIV is bringing back the dumbest job of all… Pictomancer… LOL! The Warrior of Light showing everyone in the universe now who’s boss as a Pictomancer LOL!!!! Trash…

[@MushadX]

1. Alize damn 2. when is thancred going to get new drip

[@JMulls]

Would be kind of funny if each expac, he just got whatever the new gunbreaker set was

[@MushadX]

@@JMulls that’s about right tho

[@izumolee6714]

There's no doubt the story & world building will be unmatched & what makes FF14 the game it is. However many will have mixed opinions on the gameplay aspects especially when it comes to the job balancing. If the team can nail that portion of the game right off the bat than i think a lot of reservations about this new expansion will have players breathing a sigh of relief.

[@The_Racha]

The biggest problem is snapshot. Its garbage. Fix it.

[@s_guedes]

I'm from South America and lemme tell you, the lizard people are absolutely real ;)

[@JMulls]

LOL

[@zenwilds2911]

Here I was thinking FFXIV finally will have instanced houses with doors that open to the outside. So they haven't fixed the biggest problem...

[@lordmetallium9678]

They finally added a Cybercity SCIFI now we need machinist with more GUNS XD

[@YoukoZuki]

Finish their heat-spender combo with a freaking lazer!

[@JMulls]

Would love to see some scifi esque jobs in the future for tank and dps akin to sage!

[@lordmetallium9678]

@@YoukoZuki gatling gun and rocket launcher better

[@gratefulkm]

This is all possible narrative wise, because the Reincarnation narrative is based on eternal truths, whilst the Abrahamic culture is based on the truth of delusion