doing 'new' Castrum is fascinating
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doing 'new' Castrum is fascinating
doing 'new' Castrum is fascinating
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i'm going through it with some NPCs but
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they really changed it
Un(t)sundered
yeah, it's been changed a lot!
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holy shit Cid didn't show up in person to order me into the trash
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now he's binning me from a distance
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i very much appreciate that they've gotten rid of so many of those pointless cutscenes
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having Cid be like 'look out there's a thing' in real time is so much better
Un(t)sundered
yeah! and trimming out the cutscenes helps the flow
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yet again very appreciative of how they've also upped the difficulty
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i was fighting the first boss and just mindlessly collecting the adds adn then i realized that it wasn't taking damage nearly as fast as it used to
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and i actually needed to think about what i was doing, lol
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i also appreciate that they got rid of the whole 'be careful or you'll alert them' mechanic
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like they are not dumb. I'm in here, killing all their shit, shutting down their systems and basically fucking up their day
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of course they know i'm here
Un(t)sundered
god, yeah
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not having to do the searchlights is such a relief
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...also, as someone who very easily gets turned around in dungeons, I appreciate that they've taken out a lot of the like
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weird doubling back?
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woah, i no longer have to destroy the magitek fuel pump thingies,
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wild
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and i fully agree, i am so happy they got rid of that loop-de-loop nonsense
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if i got killed and had to go back to the start i would have no idea where my team was
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even if i could see them on the map
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i wouldn't be able to reach them
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because there were about three ways to get to the... uh... third? boss, and only one of them wasn't blocked off
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i like that they didn't get rid of the fuel pump area, just blocked it off
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very nice
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second boss... i actually have to pay attention to mechanics, holy shit
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HOLY SHIT
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did they just
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cut out the whole annoying middle section???
Un(t)sundered
sure did
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no more spotlights at all hot dang
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this is so much better, holy fuck
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...i don't exactly miss the canons but they were a fun meme for a while
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so i am still sad to see them go
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well. As far as 'reestablishing the old content NPCs as threats' Cape Westwind far outranks Castrum
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but that was still really really good
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i hear that Thanbread is really intense too, i'm excited to do his solo duty
Un(t)sundered
oh yeah, Lahabread is a significant challenge now
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so i hear, yeah
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i'm about to do it, so this should be fascinating
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right off the bat, 4-person Prae is just strange
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4-person Cast was bad enough but i'm pretty sure i've done that before just from members leaving lol
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this is just straight up odd
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ahhhhhahahaha, they removed the ability to jump ahead
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i love it, i love it
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as someone who gets very annoyed with how people jump past all the trash, i'm so glad they finally did this
Un(t)sundered
yeah, I liked that!
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holy shit no more sacrificial teleporter
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HOLY SHIT they again cut out the annoying middle bit! this is great!
Un(t)sundered
yeah!
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so fun fact, if you do this with NPCs you are the only one in the magitek
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lmaoooo
Leif
all the changes to this section are sooo good
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welp. Nero actually hurts now. Amazing
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honestly delighted to see him have actual mechanics, finally
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Gaius' speech is hitting a little different in the light of current content (that i haven't done but i still know what it's about)
Un(t)sundered
god yeah, Nero having mechanics was great
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6.1 alliance raid, specifically
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..i can't tell if they upped the brightness factor or if my old monitor was just that dark
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but it definitely looks significantly brighter now
Un(t)sundered
it got a glow up, yeah
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okay Gaius fight was SO COOL
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...that's it????
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i mean i know i go on to do the other stuff
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but
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wow
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i'm. I wasn't expecting it to just end
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also i got too excited that i could skip a cutscene so i did lmao
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OH
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IT'S A WHOLE NEW DUTY, WTF
Un(t)sundered
oh, yeah!
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Ultima Weapon is its own thing now
Un(t)sundered
ditto lahabrea
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yoooooo
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i actually started crying in the middle of taht
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seeing Crystal Mom actually doing a significant thing to help us and not just 'making us able to hit the big robot' was so good
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also so happy i'm doing this blind, i got very Concerned when we all got trapped in earth jails lol
Un(t)sundered
yeah, my first run I was all "uhhhhhhhhhh we are all jailed, this seems... bad"
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aaand here we go!
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i still wish Thancred's whole thing here was explored more but that is my character bias showing through haha
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that was a much better resolution to ARR than it has been for many years
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i loved that so much
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And I have said this about the Cape Westwind rework but
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It feels like these should have been the content all along
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I'm so glad I did them as an alt character so could have the illusion of experiencing them fresh
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I did NG+ for them
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Also an option but I have a ton of alts i made and have done not a single thing with so
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Seems silly in my case not to use them now
Un(t)sundered
Fair!
Un(t)sundered
All of my alts are either past that point or nowhere near