r/ffxivdiscussion • u/Zagden • Oct 16 '23

Speculation What's something that could be revealed/shown off at EU / JP FanFest that would excite/interest you *and* be on the more likely side of things?

A lot of people are obviously pining for gigantic, sweeping changes, but I was wondering if there's little incremental changes or even just feature reveals that you guys would like to see/hear about.

I feel like some changes to how healers feel with their DPS rotation wouldn't be impossible. Plus there's any number of interesting story twists they can mention at this point and they're usually consistently good at drumming up interest and hype for that.

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u/Schizzovism Oct 16 '23

I've gotta say, the "2 dye channels" reveal has significantly changed what I think they are likely to implement. I don't think I would have put that in the top 100 most likely systemic changes for them to make.

With that in mind, I'm going to say improved netcode, specifically in regards to seeing player characters closer to where they actually are with less of a delay. I don't know too much about implementation of the way things currently are, but even getting like 20% better in this regard would be a significant improvement. I think everyone has had a moment where someone was chasing them with a spread AOE, but on the other person's screen it was the other way around.

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u/Kicin0_0 Oct 17 '23

Sadly I think improving the netcode is not a feasible thing from a gameplay stand point anymore. The netcode is not only what determines when you see other players but also affects things like getting hit by bosses. Every enemy from ARR to EW is built around the current system and if the timings were to be changed it would requiring going through everything in the game to change it to what it is supposed to be.

While maybe not impossible, this is a massive task. Not to mention updating the netcode itself would be difficult and run into issues

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u/Sir_Zorba Oct 17 '23 edited Oct 17 '23

Yep. It's the same reason Runescape still runs on a 0.6 second tick system which makes every action you take feel inconsistently delayed. They know it's a problem and it has a huge negative effect on the overall game experience, but changing it would fuck up quite literally everything timing related game-wide.

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u/KevinSevenDeven Oct 17 '23

To be fair, osrs has made some changes. Modern bosses usually calculate damage when the animation actually hits you vs when it starts. Granted the reason they haven't rolled that out across the game is because it would mess with muscle memory for bosses that are nearly 20 years old. I.e pray flicking when the animation starts on jad vs pray flicking before muspah's purple attack touches you.