Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream Suggestions & Improvements

[@YudaBest]

I normally don’t bother with these type of videos for SAO games. It’s because this game is really in a bad spot right now they need to reconsider and act quick not just waited out like LR. DIMP is well known not improving or care about the game after a while. It’s only after a month there are barely any player base left… even most of the matches that aren’t 85+ raids are struggling filling with players. I couldn’t even find some matches in Asia server. This is a multiplayer base not a solo game they cannot wait it out, by that time player base is gone and good luck getting them back. It makes no sense to put out a $60 game and tell players to wait for many months before we give out more contents.

[@keithitokirigaya3146]

Did you do the survey yet for the Game

[@YudaBest]

@ I do that for every game, but they don’t seem to care at all.

[@keithitokirigaya3146]

@@YudaBest I did it but you do have a point they mostly just pay attention to Japanese audience Which is the problem specially for a multiplayer server game

[@jonmadden7161]

6:07 "Is that all?" hit me so hard, I've been putting off that feeling for FD but def had that same reaction with LR. Modes that should take little effort to make Abyss Mode in FD format This was great in Fatal Bullet, just bring it back with multiplayer (8 players is enough) and let people try to clear 100 floors in one sitting. Duo's & Squads If this format was already implemented in base game, having a low player volume would be less of an issue. Instead, every party needs a leader or player character (5 people not in parties) to start. 20 player raids are hard mode Boss' need more beef. Endless small enemies during boss fights that DON'T drop exp (you should be prepared to fight) and more aggressive or frequent attack cycles (they act like 20 random anime kids DIDN'T just enter their home and slaughter their people) PK Mode Yall combined GGO and ALO together and forgot the thing that makes both those games in the cannon universe what they are. This shouldn't need an explanation either, enable locking on for non player characters please. 4v4v4v4v4.....10v10...5v5v5v5.... something please

[@YudaBest]

@@jonmadden7161 anything is good as long just not one singular mode. It makes hard for people to play for a long extended time. Variety is what makes games interesting and fun.

[@Yishen.]

That’s what I’ve been saying. There a chance people aren’t coming back once the game is finished. While this game is heavily on multiplayer base telling others to wait for more contents it’s BS. Just release the game later when there are good amount of stuff in it. There are barely any player base left. Yeah sure there are people to play it, I could barely find players in most of the matches beside 85+ raids. Even with raids it is slowly to fill the lobby most of the time.

[@YudaBest]

@@Yishen. history repeating itself, and last thing I want to see is another LR.

[@matcoffidis1135]

I agree. A couple days ago I waited 10 minutes just to start a quest. Wish there was another way to get character xp offline. The grind is real...lol. Looking forward to the next two characters in DLC pack 2.

[@michaelkelloff7377]

Now, I'm starting to understand all the negativity. I'm not an SAO fan and never played any of the previous games. I had nothing going on the weekend of the open beta and figured I'd waste a few hours. I ended up playing the entire weekend... I think the game is incredibly fun even with all its flaws. I was super confused by the rampant and persistent negativity for the game that started up BEFORE it was even released. Obviously, there is a lot of baggage and expectations that have carried over from previous titles I wasn't aware of. Honestly, I think the biggest problems with the game have pretty easy solutions... 1) The regions need to be merged. Most people are playing on 'Asia' in the settings already... adjust matchmaking to prioritize proximity, but match globally. First person to start the queue determines the server. 2) Add an 'Aid Request' queue. Most people, especially at rank 100, just want to do stuff. Pull from that queue to fill the other queues after like 1 minute. I HATE waiting for aid requests to pop up... just give me a queue and throw me in literally anywhere. 3) Bump up Lengendary item drop rates (again). I'm closing in on 100 hours of gameplay and have been rank 100 since hour 55ish... I still don't have a single lengary item that I actual want. I still haven't even seen most of the legendary accessories... that's with gambling 100 accessories every day since hitting rank 100.

[@YudaBest]

@@michaelkelloff7377 even merge the server doesn’t necessarily fix the problem because most of the players are indeed in Asia server. I’m sure boost legendary and drop rates certainly helps, but they still need to add more contents in general. People aren’t playing because there are no bosses to fight and maps to play currently. Japanese are big in having challenge contents and grinds if you want to keep their player base just like the previous SAO games. To them farming characters to lvl 100 for all of them aren’t necessarily fun because there’s nothing to kill or build for. There has to be some purpose of playing the game for that Japanese player base to stay. Without them the Asia server players we lost half the amount and more.

[@devinjames2258]

My suggestion would be to add all maps together and let it randomly pick because most might not want to play that map same for boss raids it shouldn’t be only once a day switch out new one some people work so they can’t play it long in my case

[@YudaBest]

@@devinjames2258 it is weird to have them rotate in the first place. If I work during the week I won’t able to play them for a while.

[@Shinstrikex]

I think 4 person modes is a wonderful idea. keep the multiplayer aspect, while greatly reducing the overall required bodies. I'd like content in general for this game. i wont speak too much for other SAO games, because i think this one has much better gameplay than the rest, so much so i can even call it "good" or something i can recommend to people who arent fans of SAO, which i did see a lot of people in this game that didnt care for SAO. but that makes it all the more painful seeing how the game is getting hit right now. The endgame is praying you get lucky with drops, running the same boss over and over and still not really getting anything for your efforts. This month's season trial pass is even worse than the 1st somehow in a sense. there's only ONE ticket on it. we get to look forward to an extreme boss raid that will happen later this month and yeah it will be ran much better than the first event, but for someone already 100 we dont have much to look forward to til then. But they did release surveys as of late, asking what us players want and i hope everyone who had criticism passed it along to who matters. I want this game to thrive man. SAO Finally has a GOOD game, and before someone says "but fatal bullet was good" i gotta retort with, you still had to be a fan to even approach it, and normally needing to be a fan means it lacks appeal on its own merits as a video game.

[@YudaBest]

@@Shinstrikex the game is simple for a reason for people to play and have fun. It is still a debate whether if everyone likes this game type or not. Personally I’ve seen a lot of friends stop playing after AL because the game is too easy and had no challenges. It much easier to draw players in, but from a real SAO fan wise not really. The game is not doing better in overall player base wise as data says compared to other SAO games. It comes down to personal preference in the end of the day. It’s not true people didn’t care about it other SAO games, it’s that good amount of players only started from FB and not play good amount of SAO games. It created a gap between them. The problem doesn’t start with whether if you like the other SAO games. The problem is how are they gonna fix this game rather than worry about what happened in the other SAO games. This thing is on its own right now and what can they do before it repeats history itself?

[@Shinstrikex]

@@YudaBest i think "simple" in the context of SAO is a good thing. As many of them come off as... convoluted, and thus boring. it is also fluid. Far as how good/successful the game is out the gate, i mean what helped this one vs the others is a mix of the fact that it isnt relying on you to be a pure sao fan, and also platform release choice. So player data wise, it absolutely did do better. I think it being simple, but being fluid is what draws new blood to this game. Dark Souls is popular with even less going for it gameplay mechanics wise, yet is arguably challenging. SAO FD can also be challenging but i think we can both agree that that difficulty mainly comes from their "limited" content, extreme boss raids. and it is definitely an issue we dont have a lot more of that. I do hope they fix the game, but i also hope that people with criticism took full advantage of the survey we were all given access to. I can name a lot more things i have suggestions on, that id love to see improvements on. And i can see this game having good life after it implements some of the changes ive seen imposed. it is important to note what good this game has going for it, and it definitely has staying power unique to it in the series. "No content" is the biggest problem right now, fix that and maybe this game will ..well no even psp sao games are still played online to this day, i guess i dont have to worry much about how long it'll live but you know what i mean.

[@Shinstrikex]

@YudaBest to expand on the "more challenge needed" point, i think the game needs more of that during more points of the leveling cycle. Another issue is the game is extremely grind, not everyone is 100 nor will they get 100. Maybe we experienced a taste of what that can be like before it was removed after 3 short days, but for the average person there isn't enough going on for that initial trek. Maybe something akin to extreme boss raids should be implemented at ranks 30, 50, 75 and 100 just to keep things interesting, but permanently of course. And lots more leveling events. Idk why this roadmap has them coming along so late. And even then I'd argue the values of the events are too low, make it 2.0 pr/cr at least

[@YudaBest]

@@Shinstrikex either way they can forget about changing part for the game. People not necessarily playing FD for that mostly just for fun. The leveling system is what grindy. I’m sure normal people don’t really play it too much per day thus making it slow progress. That is hard to say with Asian player base cuz they do that in a few to max out levels and characters. In result that’s why they don’t seem to play more, and waiting on contents. Honestly being ‘simple’ aren’t necessarily good or bad thing because you will have people like it and people don’t. The game will always draw players in regardless. Data shows that FB still has the best sales over 1 mil. In terms of online marketing it is better than some SAO games, but still far less than what FB did. I think nowadays companies are worry about making it more sales rather than focus on what makes a game good. Then again you can’t really compare FD to other SAO games because it’s not a gameverse thing. It’s on its own thing. Because souls game is popular people want to try it, and it’s trending upwards. People play it because of the popularity and challenges not because the game is simple. There are many souls games that is not as popular as dark souls series, but they are souls games. Much more complicated than souls mechanics. Yet less players play it because it’s not popular.

[@Shinstrikex]

@@YudaBest dont think we have sao fd's sales yet, but i doubt it sold 1m yet. i do know it was number 1 in steam japan sales for a bit, which is a feat in itself when paired against the likes of Dragonball , Metaphor, etc. so it definitely did well enough if that was the only data relevant. Also i think Souls games are in fact more popular because they dont really have the complexity of some other action games, but they are still punishing enough to most players. Souls games do one thing very very well, and that's punish "Button mashing" . Lots of players like to just mash buttons, and because thats what they are fighting mainly Souls feels more like a game the majority can stand to overcome. Add something like Nioh into the mix where you are not only punished for button mashing, but actually need much better execution when it comes to button combinations, while enemies/bosses are much faster, you get less players interested because it feels less possible to overcome as a trial. i think thats why a lot of soulslikes are as popular. but yeah all this to say i dont think "Simple" is necessarily a bad or good thing. but in the context of SAO as you'd have to be familiar with a lot of their games, i think it is a good thing.tho things being less cheesable in this game vs others where you can just get unholy stats doesnt make it easier. Need to be good at timing your dodge/guards, and how to maximize punishes, compared to FB where ur hitting stuff rather early for 99999 with low difficulty.

[@booker3944]

The game will die if they don’t act that’s all there is to it. In fact it’s already begun. Just look at the player base right now it’s empty. Not to mention there are other games coming out that’s bigger than SAO next early year, and how are they gonna keep players in this game with the current situation? Sure people will come back for new characters and some stuff, and they will leave after like usual. Lack of contents will ultimately drive people away, and the terrible grinds.

[@YudaBest]

@@booker3944 there are big games coming out next year gonna be rough for them if they don’t act.

[@SethAshes]

@@YudaBestSaw how much longer it took to fill a raid, even on Asia server, during MH Wilds beta? This speaks for itself lol

[@YudaBest]

@ people think Asia will save the day, but that’s not the case. Nothing will if it stays the same. Certainly want the game to be good, but devs aren’t really showing they care.

[@SethAshes]

We're, like many others, on the same boat. If we didn't care for the game we wouldn't be speaking here right now, and you wouldn't had taken the time to make this video adressing the problems. Let's just hope it reaches those devs and have at least an impact, as slim as it may be (_ _)

[@YudaBest]

@ I do what I can, but there is only so much as a NA player base can do. Japanese don’t often listen to us at all just like in the past games. That is the biggest problem. Oversea they don’t treat our player base exist. As survey goes it’s the same thing every game. They pretend to hear what people say from here yet makes no changes. To some people they think I’m just out here creating problems lol. Some believe the game is fine, and doesn’t have problems because they like it. I mean really…

[@DarkHeart_X]

They also kinda rushed us by making us reach lvl 90 for the Ex raid within the first 2 weeks. We have F100 and samurai boss in the game yet it's not one of the bosses in the rotation.

[@YudaBest]

@@DarkHeart_X yes the rush was unnecessary. I didn’t see a point to drop ex raids that fast, and people still playing early on. That’s just poor management on their end.

[@neovpx9864]

I think the game doesnt need more endgame or it isnt the top priority. Adding more bosses to the raid pull and a coop lvl 100 with random map can be good but i think the key is to make something similar like grand blue relink. In that game u spent 10h upgrading to max level a charcter and considering there is 21 chars, that make a total of 210h hour of game + 60h to complete story and reach endgame. But why do u even consider on building all 21 chars? Build and gameplay variety. In relink u can feel the uniqueness of each chars in terms of gameplay something like each weapon in monster hunter. If u would spend 5h to lvl up a char to 100 rank and another 5h to make the build (adding a system to create accesories, not rng) you could be easily playing for +200h and they could even add more chars. What type of build would make this possible? For kirito when activating L1 skill if you do 3 skills in a row the forth one can be an ult. This with extra skill dmg, reduced cooldown and ult dmg could be nuts. Plus some rank rewards could give u extra unique passives like the previous mentioned which can change the playstyle, good accesories like bounty in fatal bullet, weapons or even new skills to swap. I think this is what devs should aim. This game is not an AL so having a long endgame isnt the solution but to make people want to play through a good chars system.

[@YudaBest]

@@neovpx9864 endgame means having bosses to fight and things to do not necessarily like AL. FB had an endgame because in this game you don’t really grind for anything or build for anything with the bad RNG. You can’t really make much of builds tbh since it doesn’t offer that much. People who building characters are for using it higher contents and challenges in general otherwise what are you using them for?

[@neovpx9864]

@YudaBest you build the chars to play with them and try their playstyle. Overwatch, lol, they dont have endgame, you just play with other chars for fun. Of course they will have to add harder missions to mach the player base power level but as i say the priority is to solve gameplay and builds, then they can add all the missions and bosses they want. But imagine they increase lvl cap to 200 and add 3 more tiers of Coop with 2 maps each one, with the current Gameplay and gear progression do u see yourself playing and enjoying that?

[@YudaBest]

@ the things builds are somewhat important otherwise we’ll be just level up and hit more that’s about it. Tbh we can somewhat forget about builds in this game that’s not important as for them to put more maps and modes. Just need more contents, and call it good. Let’s be honest SAO vets play this game and not expect builds at this point lol.

[@neovpx9864]

@@YudaBest gb fantasy relink was something like this. Doing the same 3 missions all over again but tanks to the fantastic roster, characters uniqueness and extreme difficulty of the missions It was pretty fun. I dont know if u played the Game but i spent 500h just building all the chars and enjoying the fights just like other ppl. A lot of ppl (with over 200h xd) start complaining and saying the same as you: we need more endgame, more Monsters, weapons... But the Game wasnt build for that. I want AL 2 or HR 2 but i think this is a good opportunity to explore other type of game design and this is something we have never seen in sao games and, as gb relink, can be amazing.

[@YudaBest]

@ I don’t play these type of games like I stated because i like builds and mostly challenges. Which is probably why it seems like to others I don’t find it interesting that much. It’s really just the genre of the game and not build for that. I can understand that since this game is just for fun that’s about it.

[@reanschwarzer1525]

i would like if they at least give us a legendary drop per co op quest or boss raid keep the rng to what that legendary drop is be it weapon or accessory just 1 guaranteed legend drop would make this game a bit better

[@YudaBest]

@@reanschwarzer1525 It would actually because an epic or legendary would be okay for certain fight. Then again they want people to really farm and play the game. Also have to worry about people get it easy without doing anything.

[@reanschwarzer1525]

@@YudaBest yeah and since player rank 100 is the end goal with how low the player base is right now they need to give us 1 guaranteed legend drop per quest to keep the grind going, just because you get a legend drop doesnt mean it will have good passives.

[@Totemikus]

Well, now i'm actually feeling kinda relieved that i haven't preorder this one, like i wanted. Still sad though. Is it completely unplayable with bots? Can't you just do that "solo-online" runs like in previous games?

[@YudaBest]

@@Totemikus you can’t play with bots you don’t have at least 4-5 players minimum to start the match. And no you don’t have anything you can do in solo offline beside story mode. Online just tower, and maybe free roam that’s it.

[@Totemikus]

@YudaBest wow, thanks, glad that I've asked. Had plans on buying it before holidays, but now actually thinking about skiping completely. Can't understand namco though, SAO games was never super-popular, but with last entries they'll might just lose anyone who ever enjoyed them. Unless that is the plan.