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While I'm probably a bit late to say this, another thing for Draygon, is depending on the hack (Redesign for a perfect example) bosses might have new weaknesses coded in. Draygon in Redesign, know the timing when they'll swoop right by? Drop 3 bombs and roll to the side, and you'll have a dead Draygon in less than 10 seconds. 
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Zeratanis posted:While I'm probably a bit late to say this, another thing for Draygon, is depending on the hack (Redesign for a perfect example) bosses might have new weaknesses coded in. Draygon in Redesign, know the timing when they'll swoop right by? Drop 3 bombs and roll to the side, and you'll have a dead Draygon in less than 10 seconds. What if you do the charge bomb spread?
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The actual ending of the Advent hack was anticlimatic in a way, I was waiting for the video title the whole time and I got excited when the save broke things and, something you didn't seem to notice in the video, the map started acting up after you reset. Then it ended without incident. 
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Feb 14, 2016 13:58
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Metroid prime only gets more magical for me the more I know about its guts. I watch speedrunners go out of bounds and every single time I'm surprised by how completely the illusion grabsl me when they get back in bounds.
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 Back to the main game! Today we get both a hot new item and a really cool one.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:10
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I always refer to the Ice Spreader as the Diffusion Missile, because that's exactly what it is. Although I think it is probably less useful in Prime than it is in Fusion.
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Feb 17, 2016 00:13
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Rigged Death Trap posted:What if you do the charge bomb spread? IIRC that's kind of hard to pull off due to the rooms shape. Plus if I remember all of them explode at once? Probably wrong. Other big weaknesses is Ridley dying REALLY quick to pseudo screw attack, also Botwoon you could one shot with the screw attack which you could get as soon as you had the speed boost if your shine sparking was good enough. My FAVORITE though is the entire lower Crateria region (hell the whole loving game really...) was designed in such a way you could, with enough patience(or save states ) shine spark through the entire mandatory underwater segments and get into Phantoon's room which was designed with tiny slopes to let you hold a shine(granted you ended up under a platform so you had to get out quick and recharge) and blast him with it as soon as his eye opened, killing him instantly. For THAT much effort though, unless you're speed running, might as well just do it the old fashioned way.Redesign is a really silly and stupid hack, which is why I 100%'d it about 5ish times now.  Whenever I finally have time/motivation, I need to do Axiel edition to completion, along with a few more of the hacks FPZero listed.
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Feb 17, 2016 00:36
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Is there a Spring Ball equivalent in these games? Seems like it would be handy for Spider Ball puzzles.
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Feb 17, 2016 03:10
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Is there a Spring Ball equivalent in these games? Seems like it would be handy for Spider Ball puzzles. I think it was mentioned in an earlier video, but spoilering just in case Prime 3 did it with the move to Wii, and I think the Trilogy collection implimented it in the first 2.
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FeyerbrandX posted:I think it was mentioned in an earlier video, but spoilering just in case Prime 3 did it with the move to Wii, and I think the Trilogy collection implimented it in the first 2. Prime 2 Also does a spider ball charge jump
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Feb 17, 2016 03:27
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I think you forgot to scan the creatures crawling around the spider ball tracks in the Geothermal Core.
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Feb 17, 2016 03:56
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Dammit Fae I thought we weren't supposed to talk about Other M in this thread anymore.
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I love the spider ball puzzle in the geothermal core, it's not really difficult but it is very engaging. The spider ball is neat.
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gnome7 posted:I love the spider ball puzzle in the geothermal core, it's not really difficult but it is very engaging. The spider ball is neat. A lot of people didn't like it, but I loved how they expanded the morph ball puzzles in Prime 2. It became more of a gameplay feature instead of a movement ability, and I thought it was great.
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gnome7 posted:I love the spider ball puzzle in the geothermal core, it's not really difficult but it is very engaging. The spider ball is neat.
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I remember the spider ball puzzle messing me up a couple of times because I was playing with a Wavebird and it would occasionally forget that I was holding down the necessary button all the way.
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Fae mentioned The Void, and how it is a good game that is perhaps not fun to play. If, like me, you agree but have no desire to actually play the thing, there is a very good LP of it from this very forum, which delves into the philosophical nature of the experience, by CannibalK9. The original links are dead, but it was put on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/LP_The_Void
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GhostBoy posted:Fae mentioned The Void, and how it is a good game that is perhaps not fun to play. If, like me, you agree but have no desire to actually play the thing, there is a very good LP of it from this very forum, which delves into the philosophical nature of the experience, by CannibalK9. The original links are dead, but it was put on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/LP_The_Void The Void is a phenomenal game, but yeah... it's difficult.
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 (This is my favorite dumb title card image, holy poo poo) I forgot the update today until just now, whoops!
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Red pandas are loving adorable like holy poo poo 
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Oh hey, the videos are up to where I got when I stopped my last play-through. Been meaning to pick it back up, and this is as good an excuse as any.
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Shame about the flamethrower. That basically looks like a super expensive handheld burner. I guess Samus could theoretically use it to light a cigarette while facing away from a planetary explosion. I haven't played around with flamethrowers in games a lot, but I have fond memories of Fire Beam in FTL.  e: Also, the half-charge is pretty useful with the Wave Beam, as it still stuns the enemies for a moment. You can basically stunlock anything vulnerable to it. Aithon fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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Feb 21, 2016 13:15
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Red pandas and miniscule steam community market profits, hell yeah!  E:VVV 
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Feb 21, 2016 15:45
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I am so aware of red pandas right now I have been browsing that thread for half an hour and annoying my girlfriend (and gnome) with constant links to pictures
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FPzero posted:
I'm curious, why did you go the long way through the frigate instead of just going through a couple rooms in the Chozo Ruins?
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whitehelm posted:I'm curious, why did you go the long way through the frigate instead of just going through a couple rooms in the Chozo Ruins? Unless I misunderstood, to grab the Flamethrower and that missile expansion.
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Feb 21, 2016 17:32
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I don't think it'll blow minds Phae, but most of us do feel really stupid having blown up those turrets, moving forward and finding the passage afterwards and the scan to turn them off.
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Now that we've gotten all the beams, I can mention what is probably the weirdest thing to me about the various powered pirates: The Wave Pirates are the strongest and hardest to deal with and you run into them first and most commonly. Power Troopers die in a single Super Missile, Ice Troopers only need one charge shot + 1 missile, and Plasma Troopers melt to a single charged plasma shot, plus maybe one or two cleanup shots. Wave troopers, at minimum, need 3 or 4 fully charged Wave Beam blasts, and they usually spawn in groups of 2 or 3. So even though they're supposedly the weakest of the Troopers, the Wave Beam is so much worse than every other beam that they become the scariest of the bunch. The Wave Buster can work to stunlock a whole group but as FP showed this video, that eats like 50 missiles to deal with 3 pirates.
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gnome7 posted:Now that we've gotten all the beams, I can mention what is probably the weirdest thing to me about the various powered pirates: The Wave Pirates are the strongest and hardest to deal with and you run into them first and most commonly. Power Troopers die in a single Super Missile, Ice Troopers only need one charge shot + 1 missile, and Plasma Troopers melt to a single charged plasma shot, plus maybe one or two cleanup shots. Wave troopers, at minimum, need 3 or 4 fully charged Wave Beam blasts, and they usually spawn in groups of 2 or 3. They rebalanced the Beam Troopers in the Wii version, so Plasma and Ice troopers are not so easily disposed of. Power Troopers are still chumps though, regardless of how many super missiles you have to use (because I don't particularly care how many super missiles I have to fire; in fact, the more I get to fire super missiles at stuff, the better).
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I would not call Wave Troopers "scary" at all. First, their weakness is the Wave Beam, which can be used (as FPZero and I had noted on separate occasions) to stunlock them with half-charged shots. Second, their damage actually isn't that great in Normal difficulty. Somewhere in the most recent video, FPZero was surrounded by Wave Troopers and yet he still only took perhaps one energy tank's worth of damage. Really, most enemies in this game aren't that powerful or tough unless you play on Hard mode. This is the big reason why (contrary to what FPZero said) the balance between beams is out of whack. In theory the Power/Wave/Ice Beams are all balanced with each other in a tradeoff between power-per-shot and rate-of-fire. But in practice, the majority of enemies have so little health that your most powerful beam will just take them down in one or two shots anyway - Metroid Prime isn't a terribly difficult game until the final few bosses.
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I would like to say that when the video ended, among the recommended videos was "Scientifically accurate flipper", and against my better judgement I clicked on it, it was the flipper song with science facts about dolphins and it was horrible.
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FP, you better do the thing in the next room.
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I think fae was obliquely referencing Trainspotting and didn't feel like explaining to FP.
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CrazySalamander posted:I think fae was obliquely referencing Trainspotting and didn't feel like explaining to FP. I have it on good authority that this is not the case.
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I remember Sonic Underground. I wish I didn't.
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AlphaKretin posted:Unless I misunderstood, to grab the Flamethrower and that missile expansion. You did. I was asking about his route from Samus's ship to the Phazon Mine entrance. There weren't any items picked up in that section.
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whitehelm posted:You did. I was asking about his route from Samus's ship to the Phazon Mine entrance. There weren't any items picked up in that section. From the ship it's the fastest way into the Phazon Mines front entrance. The other option is to go all the way through the Chozo Ruins to get to the elevator beyond the Chozo Bowling room and then arrive above the mines entrance near where X-Ray Visor is located. Sometimes you just have to backtrack through an area that you've already done everything in. Speaking of Chozo Bowling, one of my friends recently told me that the filename of the music track that plays in that room is internally named chozobowling.dsp. We both found that pretty funny.
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FPzero posted:From the ship it's the fastest way into the Phazon Mines front entrance. The other option is to go all the way through the Chozo Ruins to get to the elevator beyond the Chozo Bowling room and then arrive above the mines entrance near where X-Ray Visor is located. Sometimes you just have to backtrack through an area that you've already done everything in. I was thinking of getting into the Ruins with the elevator off of the Frigate Crash Site (Chozo Ruins East) but I guess you need a glitch to get up there so never mind.
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whitehelm posted:I was thinking of getting into the Ruins with the elevator off of the Frigate Crash Site (Chozo Ruins East) but I guess you need a glitch to get up there so never mind. Ah yeah, I forgot that route. Yeah you do need a glitch and it's a trick I don't know very well so I probably won't even use it in the sequence breaking run.
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