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Combat in XIV
Pimpahlishis
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I searched, but couldn't find an answer. Mind you I didn't search awfully hard. Will combat be the typical style in this upcoming game? That being, stop, select an attack, target a villain, attack? Or will it be more fluid like other mmo's such as WoW, CoX, AoC, etc.? Thanks for your responses!
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From what I've read, it will be slower pace. Although, because many players enjoy solo-play, I think it will be viable but discouraged. They speak highly of party play where you fight a monster party (if I had to guess, a few minutes), and then your party moves to the next monster party. They seem to want to make things more dynamic in the aspects of the range that you are playing at (literally, range). The lancer seems like it will be a very mobile melee unit, and the tanks may not have to move as much as the range who will constantly want to distance themselves. I'm going off track... oops! ;p
Overall, I think that it will be unique to the FF-style battles. Fights will be on a slightly grander or more challenging scale for players because party-play will be crucial. My opinion is all speculation though!
It could be similar to White Knight Chronicle's gameplay xD Who knows we'll see when it goes beta!
Well, FFXI was much slower paced. Which I don't really mind. Hopefully XIV will find a healthy balance; Not feeling like a game of chess (in terms of speed) and not feeling like a cocaine junkie's nightmare (button spamming, running around like an idiot).
However, from the gameplay I've seen, combat looks to be a breath of fresh air!
I mean, just LOOK at the character animations! The way the player moves is absolutely GORGEOUS!
Watch the videos and you'll see what I mean.
Just looking at that alone seems to hint at a nice, streamlined system.
I think FFXI combat was more like SPAMMACROx300
you guys should look up the alpha videos on youtube. You will see it for yourself. It is realtime combat, not very slow at all, but it has allot of intricacies to it.
The new combat system looks a little faster than ffxi if at all (Mainly due to the fluid animations).
I agree that games like WoW and some others are just a spam fest of bright colors, hopefully ffxiv doesnt go down this path.
Bear in mind that FFXIV's combat will look slower due to the absence of auto-attacks. Every action in combat is a skill/spell of some kind so whilst it may look slow it'll probably feel a lot faster when you're actually playing.