Contradiction on Battle System?Follow

Will be more like realtime, but not realtime 100 %.

For example, you engange weapon, press swing button, then there's bar, when it's full you can swing again, the better timing you have pressing swing button once it's done, the better attack you will make

That does make the whole thing seem rather confusing, doesn't it?

I'd love something more "cerebral" if that means it involves more thought, skill, and strategy. Hell, I got all giddy thinking about some awesome brain wrecking battles. AHEM. Though, I do think they should avoid making it too involved. I think ATB with a "Swing sword button" is too much, to be honest. Repetitive and annoying at least, carpal tunnel syndrome at worst!

Edited, Jun 4th 2009 7:22pm by Codyy

You don't have to look too far to see MMOs that already implement a more "real-time" combat system than FFXI. FFXI was loaded with long cooldowns to the point where a lot of jobs would literally spend 10-15 seconds or more doing nothing waiting for TP build or for an ability to come off cooldown so they could do something other than just auto-attack. I'm not sure if SE will do away with the concept of auto-attacks for normal melee hits, but they wouldn't exactly be thinking way outside the box if they made it so most abilities were on a cooldown no longer than 9-10 seconds and there was enough diversity in available abilities that you could actually be activating a new ability every second or two from the start of the fight until the end with limits in place based not on the abilities themselves, but on the situation.

Maybe this means you can "engage" the enemy (or rather target it) then instead of there being a mindless "auto-attack" you will have to chose whether to "Swing your blade for a normal attack", "Cast magic", "Perform a job ability" or do a "special tp attack" all while having a timer of sorts.

This would mean, melee just can't engage then go afk while the avatar swings away at the mob hehe.