'Bout; Slightly Less Worse Each Time

Well, the part where they claim it's to help you, instead of obviously punish you, is the horseshit part. It's a punishment no matter how you slice it.

I can at least pretend the punishment is fair so you have to try hard for your title. But while being able to rationalize it, it's still trashy.

If I didn't want to do merc camp today, I still don't want to do it tomorrow.

Living up to the title, this will be the least worst iteration yet!


The part that matters, however, is what happens when you cancel. Will it immediately reroll (absolutely not) or will it simply black it out so it rolls tomorrow instead of staying up 2 whole days. That's what you should expect.

SO! The punishment for not doing (or not being able to do) an objective is FINALLY no longer a punishment. 2 years later. 6 iterations worth of feedback.

Silver was already the only tier worth getting, talk about missing the mark. Oh well, something to be slightly less worse for round 9 or 10.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. (PST) to Monday, December 1, at 6:59 a.m.

New champion for the Silver Tier; A whole *** set of af+3, that's a killer grab for anyone new enough to care about bout.

And Cornyface comin back

Unfortunately, the gold tier is still asscheecks, especially now that you can get 16 old case +1 just for logging in.

Doubly unfortunate, the *** in their infinite wisdom are running this during the absolute best possible ambuscade month. And the congestion will be, regoddamndiculous.

I was expecting time extensions for Cornelia in the 125% and 150% rate upgrades, but appearently this time around we're getting Cornelia for "only" 3 months, correct?

As it currently looks, that's correct. Only 3 months and no extension.

The extension states it only applies to the campaigns and not the face

Shame shame shame :-(

Where does it say it’s a whole set of af+3 and not just 1 piece?

If you can read japanese;

「一式」"Complete set"

That doesn't say complete set... it's clearly a rendition of cerano devergerac!

There are probably 3 people on this site that know what that means. I do happen to be one.

Worth a giggle.

9 posts since the necro bump (not incl this one), and 5 of them are from the person who constantly repeats how stupid VanaBout is and no one should care about it.

For the record, this is one instance where I am in complete agreement with Eiyrl. Vanabout is the most offensive content release that they've ever done imo. The sheer disrespect of our time is staggering. I will not do it, even though the rewards are actually quite good.

Edit: I'll also add that the shutdown of certain servers comes directly from vanabout, and a subsequent misunderstanding by SE of why ambuscade was having exorbitantly high queue times.

A whole *** set of AF+3 is in theory, quite impressive. For silver. That's like 2 days of bout. It's a shame that no set of 5/5 is good, and that if the set was good, you'd likely already have the pieces you want if your account is more than six months old.

5/5 AF+3 is worth right around 30 mil, for an hour a day for 2 days, that's fair

The problem is still the gold tier, and the exemplar "bonus"

....and the fact that the ambuscade line becomes an hour long on servers that matter.

Bout is in fact, slightly less worse than last time!

For what it's worth, they said the server lockdowns were because of backend stability, not queue times.

ITT: People making things up

"VanBout causes Ambu congestion"
VanaBout hasnt caused massive Ambu congestion other than that first attempt where every goal was Ambu based and they required spending 30 minutes in each fight to MAYBE clear all the goals. I play on a small server just like you do, there hasnt been any Ambu congestion due to VanaBout.

"VanaBout caused server shutdowns"
I'm presuming this meant lockdowns, because there havent been any server shutdowns. Anyways, heres the timeline of VanaBout's and server lockdowns:
July 2025: Asura Closed, VanaBout Round 6
October 2025: Bahamut Closed
November 2025: VanaBout Round 7

Asura lockdown and all the RMT making Bahamut their new hub caused Bahamut to go on lockdown, not VanaBout.