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I wanna treat myself to some sh Figuarts since I haven’t collected them in a good while and the new vegeta and goku seem like a good place to start again cause they’re about 30 bucks. But I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about how the have poor qc issues. Should I wait for tamashi nations to reissue them and fix the issue like they did trunks or do they not have as many qc issues as people make it out to be?

I been trying to get on a party with my friend for days now but for some reason my friend can’t hear me. I can hear them but my icon doesn’t even light up when I speak. It’s been like this for about a week. Any idea what I can do? My network or whatever it is, NAT, i think is open. Settings are the same as my friend, my mic isn’t muted, i don’t have myself muted in the party and neither does he.

I posted a screenshot here a couple days ago asking if I can beat the Alexia final boss with just 16 shotgun rounds, and 3 mixed herbs. A lot of comments were telling me to bust out the knife and to brace myself for the fight including a lot of supporting comments 😂 thank you tho. I just beat the game after so many rage moments.
I looked up a video of a knife only run of Code Veronica and I looked at the final boss and I counted 60 knife swings to defeat the boss. Now, I wouldn’t have beat the boss with the amount of heals I had so I luckily restarted my save and found a good amount of herbs that I didn’t pick up. I ended up with one first aid spray, 3 mixed herbs for max heals, and 2 normal mixed herbs, and 1 poison mix. A comment said I should aim for the legs of zombies with my knife to drop them and I was able to conserve ammo and health with this strategy. And I kept trying the knife route and I noticed I was reaching up to about 30 knife swings before dying. So this last run did my 30 knife swings and I bust out my shotgun and I used about 16 rounds before beating the final boss with one heal remaining. And I hit alexia on my second shot of the linear gun.
I’m not gonna lie I got scared because I thought I was gonna have to face Wesker but it was just a cutscene lol. I didn’t wanna post a screenshot of my ranking because I’m embarrassed 😂 but it’s E.

So I haven’t played every ff game. I played 1,2, the 7 remakes, 15, and 16. I been eying ff14 for a long time because the game plus expansions are on the ps store. I just have some questions on it.

1. I plan on playing alone for the time being since this is my first mmo. Do I need a party to advance the game or can I get fairly far in the game before needing a party?

2. If I were to get the game plus expansions, will I need to complete the game before moving on the following expansion and beat that one before I go to the next? Because I don’t want to accidentally stumble into a new piece of story before I get a chance to catch up.

3. Do I need to pay a subscription for ff14?

4. I downloaded the free trial for ff14 on PlayStation some time ago but I wasn’t able to play anything because I couldn’t find a server because they were all full. Anybody know how I can find a server to play in?