Still waiting for 1v1...

Yet that feature could be useful -that is if there weren't missions around yet...

OH WELL!

I want to have an explanation of the difference between "Join Group" and "Party Finder"

Is this the devs trying to bring back the Arcade?

That would be amazing if they want to have the Arcade back. Make this game not as dumbed down as the missions and HoH made and ruined it.

MEH-

More and more I seem to think that 3 Rings ties are with Microsoft. xD
( Just How many Operating systems did they make before making a decent one?)

@ The-Rawrcake

The party finder works while you are in Haven, so you don't have to constantly click the 'Join Group' button.

This was a very useful, much-needed feature on the preview server, and I look forward to using it in production. Thanks for getting it out there!!

The problem is some missions (namely FSC, IMF, RJP) bring you directly to the main point.
What would make Arcade less obscure is making those missions start at Emberlight or Moorcroft Manor instead, but with fixed stages inbetween.

"What would make Arcade less obscure is making those missions start at Emberlight or Moorcroft Manor instead, but with fixed stages inbetween."

All for that, but by fixed stages you mean only one map of the exact same layout and enemies that only have ~2 attacks total and areso predictable that I can run through the T3 version in 2* armor and not die once while my fully equipped 5* friend dies once per floor. (yes, i did that for both times I went down with him to do the prestige mission today. Its pretty rediculous.)

This is becoming a game of how long can you pay attention to the screen.

/endrant

"it attempts to find parties for you near your current Rank."

Oh, that is great.

Not only do they enjoy the fact that they have made missions mandatory for new players due to it being the only way to gain clearance and the HoH, they are embracing this.

Now, finding groups in the Arcade is going to be based on mission rank?

Dear Lord.

I renember this being suggested in the suggestions forums.
Coolios.

Put another way, it will make it more obvious when someone isn't running FSC. The ease with which one can find partymates on those missions makes FSC more attractive than it would be otherwise.

But now if I want to fight Arkus, people can see it, become interested, and hop right in; I don't have to count on people randomly clicking "join" within 30 seconds of me. Hopefully this will create a positive feedback loop and encourage social play, in the same way that the "join" button does for the arcade.

Edit: This is more in response to Xylka's post about low expectations for new content

The new content, from the preview server, is supposed to be good + have a good difficulty. Don't have too low of expectations, it should be good.

Does that make this game no longer hello kitty island adventure?

Heeeeeck no.

Missions still dumb this game down to nothing unique like the ever changing clockworks used to advertise this game as. HoH and Supply Depot still make this game antisocial.

Nothing will change until something is done to bring life back into the Arcade. The devs have shown us, with this specific update here, that they promote missions and hate their original, creative and unique idea of the ever changing clockworks of Cradle.

They only let us get clearance for a tier by the missions.

They only offer non-boss recipes with their dumbed-down accessibility in missions.

They are now making a group finder that finds you groups based on mission rank.

There should be more coming for the Arcade, so long as they don't use this update as their fail "oh, I recently added this group finder thing that should make the arcade better and I can ignore working on the arcade for a long time now".

When no, it is now based on mission rank, so that should encourage me to go farther than just getting the mandatory mission clearance and HoH.

It's just those 4 words ruining this patch: "near your current Rank."

Why is Thalia covering for Eurydice?

This is a more PvE-focused update, not PvP.

Best we discuss PvE.

So before this thread gets de-railed into some 1 vs. 1 idea:

tl;dr to this thread

missions are bad, and please quit making them mandatory. Some of us prefer to play the game how it was advertised, always changing + on the planet Cradle, not on the planet Mission Land.

1. Please don't make this patch based on mission rank, 2. Please scrap the mandatory clearance for the next tier only being in missions, 3. Please nerf HoH and Supply Depot, and then 4. please make the payouts in Arcade less ridiculous.

I dont like the idea: Near to ur current rank, cuz not all people do the rank misions, i dont do it cuz they are soo boring, soo i will have to play with some noobs guys? well i really dont care i just will play alone and invite some friends to my party like allways do.

Please fix this in order:

1.- Decresed CE cost.
2.- Incremented payouts on arcades misions.
3.- Incremented dificulty on prestigy misions.
4.- Don't make this patch based on mission rank.

Doing rank missions has served me then as a filter for people of my "playtime", more or less. Nice feature.

And does this "one hour estimated downtime" mean that OOO has finally reacted so they don't have to "compensate" and give free elevators?

I agree to a lot of that. Maybe there should be a special type of class thingy, where, upon starting the game, you get to either be knights (Like how it currently is) or you get to be, I dunno, bandits, or something like that. Not really bandits, but there would be no missions to do. You could only progress through the clockworks. Just an idea of the top of my head.

Thalia>Eurydice's gopher?

WOOT THIS TIME AGAIN.

Yep, the screen no longer dims when being asked to trade, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. You can no longer hide this trade request window. There is only "Accept" and "No Thanks". I assume it is the same with party invites.

"You can no longer hide this trade request"
Just press dat big red X. It works the same as Hide button.

It says it costs 10ce to join a party at a lobby.
But joining friends normally at lobby = 0 ce.

Is this true?

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