Final Fantasy 14’s first chaotic alliance raid—a better problem 24-player battle that is tailored from one of many authentic A Realm Reborn raids—arrived on the finish of December, and I truly prefer it lots. Even if having to depend on 23 different folks to constantly execute every mechanic is the definition of futile.
Well, why not make issues much more tough by deciding to swap round two means names, practically a month after the battle was launched? I assume that is the query Square Enix requested itself, as a result of that is what it is accomplished. It seems that two names tied behind one of many boss’s assaults—both Core-Lateral Phase or Lateral-Core Phase—had been the flawed means round in English translations.
Before at present’s change, the identify of the solid truly indicated the place the protected spots had been: Core-Lateral Phase attacked the edges first after which the center, for instance, whereas Lateral-Core Phase did the alternative. Admittedly, I did assume that was an odd alternative. Usually skills like that point out the place the assault goes to hit first, relatively than the place it is not. I keep in mind the primary time seeing the assault, my 1000’s of hours of Final Fantasy 14 logic had me going to the alternative of what the identify was truly telling me.
It does appear to have come out of nowhere, although. I checked the identified points section for Patch 7.15 (the one which added the chaotic alliance raid) and there is nothing in regards to the names being the flawed means round. I’ve to marvel why they determined to attend a whole month for the 7.16 patch to truly repair this relatively than… doing it in a hotfix, particularly because it appears to have been a easy textual content error. A Reddit remark claims that the names have been the right means round in Japanese since launch, seemingly an English-only problem. Did they only… not discover?
It’s solely a easy swapsies, positive, however I’ve little doubt that is going to trigger quite a lot of issues in occasion finder for the following few weeks. Not simply from folks preventing muscle reminiscence, like myself, however people who could not have even learn the patch notes and realised that the change had occurred. Things will clean out quickly sufficient however hey, Square Enix, perhaps repair it slightly sooner subsequent time, please? For the sake of occasion finders in all places.
