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 Monster Strike is the latest of dragonesques to hit North American shores (gently caress you Europe). Featuring a weird hybrid of billiards and pinball (or Metal Walker if you ever played that) and designed by SFII and Final Fight alum Yoshiki Okamoto, it's become so popular in Japan that it's even managed to dethrone Puzzle & Dragons as the nation's top grossing app. Here have a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqXX1iRJpY Here have an IRC #monstrike@irc.synirc.net and a friendslist https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RDIVpwTy-da91e1rd_029b3O5RbTOBpQKjiv5kks2iE/edit#gid=0 iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monster-strike/id906287108?mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.mixi.monsterstrikeUS - APK: https://app.box.com/s/fefmzf8nf9vuockeicuk Co-op This game supports co-op with up to four players, each controlling a monster. Not only are rewards duplicated for each member of the party, only the party leader spends stamina to run the dungeon. This allows players to chain run dungeons and helps play sessions last much longer than the average dragonesque. We use LINE to manage lobby invitations, as the app is natively supported by Monstrike itself. You'll need a phone number or a Facebook login to sign up. Join the goon group by scanning the QR code from "Add Friends" from within the app:  You get 5 stones for the first ten unique players you co-op with and 1 stone for the next 90 thereafter (make sure to turn on push notifications), leading to a huge windfall of premium currency early on in the game to get your box up and running. The game is balanced around co-op, even featuring dungeons exclusively playable with others, so party early and party hard. Rerolling The bad news is that this game has a fairly brutal rerolling process as far as scarcity of keepable monsters goes. The good news is that rerolling is super fast compared to PAD or Terra Battle, and due to modularity and co-op, whatever monster you end up keeping is viable all the way to endgame. If you're using iFunbox or a rooted Android to reroll, the file to delete is data10.bin. Otherwise, you'll have to download hotfixes every reroll attempt. Don't reroll on data because you'll use up a lot of bandwith redownloading everything each time. The tier list, according to the latest version available in Japan, is below. Since our gatcha is currently not as strong as Japan's, I've added other monsters considered pretty good for our standards. Bolded monsters are what are currently attainable in America. S tier: Aladdin Margarite Belphegor Yggdrasil Red Riding Hood Zeus Arthur A tier: Sakamoto Ryouma Napoleon Tokugawa Ieyasu Beethoven Hunter King Striker Alice Tini B tier: Uesugi Kenshin Agnamute X Mustang/Wildcat Heracles Athena Agnamute (separate from X) Harley X (NOT the regular version, who is considerably worse) Satan Loki Odin Other keepables: Nanami Nobunaga Nobunaga X Eclipse Merlin Apollo X Mundus/World Yukimura Other game features that I'm explaining because people will ask otherwise The primary method of increasing your monsters' levels is by feeding them Expies. You can get these from the friend hatcher, from Expie dungeons (check the Expie Forecast for when the next scheduled one will occur), or from bonus stages at the end of a dungeon tier. There are monsters that look similar to Expies called Backs which are only good for being sold for cash. Luck affects the probability of obtaining additional drops at the end of a mission. If you're in co-op, each participating player gets a roll depending on the Luck of their lead monster. With lots of Luck, fun things like this can happen:  You can increase your Luck by fusing monsters in the same evolutionary line to each other. Yes, this means your hot REM exclusives probably aren't going to max out on luck unless you're an omega-tier hyper whale. Monsters can evolve or ascend. Evolution takes stoans and sharls, obtainable as mission rewards from clearing normal dungeons, as rare drops from normal play, or as more common drops from daily dungeons. Divine Sharls are super rare and only come from the Hard versions of these dungeons, but are slightly more common on weekends. You also get one free Divine Sharl by clearing a certain co-op dungeon. Ascension requires monsters to perform, obtainable as boss drops from rotating dungeons. You can switch between evolutions or ascensions at any time provided you have the necessary materials. The daily dungeon schedule is as follows: Monday: Light & Dark Tuesday: Fire Wednesday: Water Thursday: Wood Friday: Gold Turtle money day Saturday: Mixed Fire/Water/Light Sunday: Mixed Wood/Dark Morlings allow you to increase the stats of your monsters above what is normally attainable. Different Morlings specialize in each stat, and you can feed same-stat-type Morlings to each other to stack buffs before feeding them to your desired monster to save on money. Striker Jr. is a rare drop from the friend hatcher. While his base stats suck his stats can be buffed to a high number after being fed Morlings. He's pretty much a whale trap for this reason though. dragon enthusiast fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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PleasingFungus posted:can you explain this game to people who aren't obsessive japanospergs, OP? You have monsters that are represnted by orbs that you fling around a battlefield and smack other monster orbs / enemies like they were billiard balls edit: here have a gif I pulled from some random youtube video 
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Oct 30, 2014 02:20
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Suicide Pacmen posted:Anyone have a quick and dirty guide to setting up co-op games? Every time I try to join or host a random game it'll go through the location data business, never pulls up anyone for me to join, and nobody ever joins me. Is that strictly for playing within the same area? Through line works -sometimes- when I join, but whenever I try to host and join through the link I make it never seems to let me go through? I'm probably loving something up but the whole process seems really obtuse for being a really fun game otherwise. The game was originally local co-op only (much like Monster Hunter) and the true online co-op was only recently added in a bit of a hack job, assumedly for the western release (much like Monster Hunter). Does Monster Strike appear to be completely restarting whenever you kiln your own LINE group? There's a thing that happens where your lobby resets to the last instantized one if you run out of RAM and MS gets put into suspend mode. Note that the yellow "search for players" button is strictly for local play (within a few miles) while the green one is for creating online lobbies. When you make a lobby and post it to the chat room, you need to click on the link yourself to join the room you created. Tabbing back to the game won't do anything. If you join somebody else's room and nothing shows up, usually that means either the host hasn't joined yet or he/she has already started the quest.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:07
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The save structure is pretty similar to how PAD works so I'm guessing it will work, but you may get strange issues like stamina not appearing correctly or monsters not existing when they should.
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Oct 31, 2014 14:55
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If you got a Zeus, his Ascended mats are rotating in http://us.monster-strike.com/news/extreme_event_quests_111_-_114.html
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Nov 1, 2014 00:07
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bengy81 posted:Where do you farm Divine Sharls? the op posted:Divine Sharls are super rare and only come from the Hard versions of [daily] dungeons, but are slightly more common on weekends. You also get one free Divine Sharl by clearing a certain co-op dungeon.
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Nov 1, 2014 19:20
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applebane posted:Okay, almost everytime i try to start a co op game it never sends the stage i select, and worse it loves selecting stages that are no longer playable and I dont know how to fix it. Do you notice Monstrike restarting when you click in from the LINE link? There's a bug where if that happens it'll actually send you to the last dungeon you successfully hosted. You can actually use this to chain run bonus stages... but that might be against TOS.
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Nov 2, 2014 14:12
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Yermaw Zahoor posted:I'm thoroughly enjoying this. Yes, the turtles do what they are advertised. Same with the Morlings Generally speaking anything below 4* is worthless trash, with the exception being probably the drakes that you can farm for Luck. 4* monsters tend to have very niche uses. Like for example Jupiter has a weak bump combo but the combination of Pierce and Shield Breaker makes her really good for bosses that like to surround themselves with shields. 5* monsters are more universally useful.
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Nov 2, 2014 18:59
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m.hache posted:Ok finally pulled a Zeus. Piggyback onto goon runs. If they're good about labeling what stages they're running (which isn't generally the case, yet) then when exp shellathons and bonus stages are up you can get a bunch of experience for Zeus really quick and get showered in stones for new striker bonuses to boot. Your starter drake will generally be replaced early on. As a long term project, though, some players stack luck on the Fire Drake to make bonus drops very likely.
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Nov 3, 2014 16:36
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You can add goon friends but it's easier to just wait for runs to get put up in the group chat room. Or put some up yourself. Make sure you don't share as post.
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Nov 3, 2014 17:55
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Pierson posted:Got an Arthur on my fifth or so reroll (and immediately wondered what Saber was doing here). Guess that means I'm playin' now. Does this game have PAD-style godfests to save stones for? The events where all eggs come out at 4* or above are the equivalent of PAD godfests, the current one of which should be ending soon. Are you scanning the QR code from LINE itself or from whatever reader you happen to have installed?
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Nov 3, 2014 20:20
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Stuff in later dungeons presumably will be harder to deal with and will require combinations of attributes that Zeus and Arthur don't cover. You can already see Zeus struggle with dungeons with lots of gravity barriers. I don't know what Japan's metagame is like currently since I quit back in Friday but YouTube might give you an idea.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:37
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inkmoth posted:So I'm a sucker for this kind of game, but I don't really understand the reroll process. I understand how to delete my info and start over, but when in the game do I want to do that? There's a tutorial at the start where I picked a colored dragon and the first tutorial mission results in an egg - if that egg isn't one of the big guns, do I need to restart? After your first roll, the game will direct you to the first quest in the game. Instead of finishing the stage, choose to quit from the menu and you can claim 5 orbs from the "complete the tutorial" mission. You can also skip the fusion tutorial to save more time and hold on to that Deluxpie to feed to whatever ends up being a keeper for you.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:31
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DaveWoo posted:A question for you, dragon enthusiast: Chill out and kill descendeds as they drop, maybe pick up a 90 Luck Wrathful Jabbanero? I think eventually you'll hit a normal dungeon that requires you to be rank 111 before it lets you run it, so yeahhhhh Xtanstic posted:What's the reason for the discrepancy between the OP tierlist and http://www.monsterstrikedatabase.com/tierlist.html ? Is it mainly a stat thing or a skill/quality of life issue? Mine comes from this site. That site's is based off of [url="http://モンスターストライク.gamewith.jp/article/show/286"]this tier list[/url] I believe. edit: gently caress radium you get the picture dragon enthusiast fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Nov 5, 2014 01:53
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To whomever was wondering if you can transfer accounts between ios/ Android, apparently you can just copy the data10.bin file over just fine even though there's no official method.
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Nov 5, 2014 14:00
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The list in the op is basically only for anchors, there are plenty of monsters that fill niche needs but not many are generally useful.
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Nov 5, 2014 20:57
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Local Co-op probably, online co-op maybe depending on if the game likes your phone/internet connection
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Nov 6, 2014 04:33
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Silvergun1000 posted:Is there something you need to do to get orbs from co-op? I've played a ton of games with other goons and have gotten nine, and have even hosted a couple and gotten nothing from those either. Would be a bummer to miss out on them. the op posted:(make sure to turn on push notifications) although to be fair this is like the most commonly asked thing so
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Nov 6, 2014 07:44
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Fatherwolf posted:Anyone know what just got added in the new immortal series? Tequila (now Margarite) and Gimlet (now Tini)
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Nov 7, 2014 06:43
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Margarite is god tier and Tini top tier on the reroll list so as far as those are concerned they're great. However the machine no longer has guaranteed 4* and up which means I hope you're ready to get trolled.
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Nov 7, 2014 06:57
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madstrike posted:So, on the mission log, i have a bunch of co-op missions there since the start of the game but whenever i click on "attempt", i get that the stage is not available yet ? Is this just me? It's because they're the final dungeon in a particular set, which you haven't unlocked yet.
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Nov 7, 2014 21:27
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Using their strike shots as a baseline, Margarite is more support oriented while Arthur is more offensive. Since it seems like 75% of goons have Arthur somehow it may be advantageous to add diversity. Or you can contribute to the OW Laser lightshow if that's more your cup of tea.
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Nov 9, 2014 07:36
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Eventually you will pull a good monster, but it may take a very long time. It's better to either save scum, or take an account from one of the goons who has extra starter accounts saved up from earlier in the thread (assuming you're on iOS).
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Nov 11, 2014 04:04
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You can do better. Also, the Goon LINE group is currently at 191 members. Since there's a soft cap of 200 members I'm going to delete anybody inactive in the group. How it's going to work is I'm going to clear my chat history starting right after I post this, and on Thursday I'm going to check the chatlogs and remove anybody who hasn't posted anything in the chat room since now. If you want to stay in the group just say literally anything in the chat before Thursday.
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Nov 11, 2014 06:33
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Nosre posted:I think I'd love the game, but gently caress giving random apps my phone number and/or permission to troll through my contacts/facebook. What is this line thing that it requires being able to do that? The reason it asks for those permissions is so it can do this  If you don't want to spam your contacts list with garbage don't click on the "invite friends" button. As said before just stick to LINE and you won't need to bother with any of that.
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Nov 12, 2014 00:00
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LINE group filled up faster than expected. I was originally planning on culling inactive players tomorrow but if anybody who recently started playing really wants to get into runs i can do it tonight instead?!
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Nov 12, 2014 20:12
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Has anybody has connection issues since today? Keeps getting stuck on Connecting... after the title screen. Edit: nevermind it fixed itself after switching back to my US iTunes account dragon enthusiast fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 18:40
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Strikehub is in progress; I think he recently learned how to datamine the game so he's got translations up for things we can't access yet. http://www.strikehub.com/
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Nov 15, 2014 06:24
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If you have people to play co-op with (and you live in Japan so duh) then all you need is one competent monster. For solo play you probably want at least two solid keepable monsters.
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Nov 19, 2014 13:14
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Free 50 orbs from the launch party (unlimited use, once per account) 200054319032480
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Nov 20, 2014 18:38
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It's already more popular than PAD in Japan, but the US seems way less down with the abysmal gacha so we'll see.
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Dec 4, 2014 18:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zs6M-MQmEY
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May 14, 2015 23:12
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No at starter list being up to date (I stopped playing so I don't know what's the hot poo poo anymore)
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Jun 5, 2015 17:55
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I don't play anymore so go ahead and make a new thread
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Aug 10, 2015 03:33
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http://us.monster-strike.com/news/important_co-op_overhaul.html rip
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Mar 9, 2016 04:44
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Oh it already took hold in Japan? I don't play the game anymore either lol
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Mar 9, 2016 04:55
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=EvxMvqrJUC4 lol
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Mar 29, 2016 15:05
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Better roll in Granblue Fantasy now cause you get 1 free Legfest 10pull every day for a week!
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Mar 30, 2016 04:04
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:I tried looking up how to register aaand... i'll wait for the language patch. Use the Chrome App Store method, it's fairly straightforward. Don't even need to set up a reroll process since you'll probably get an SSR over the course of the week... maybe.
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Technically you get English options if you were selected for the beta, but the complete rollout isn't going out until April 11th. Also I'm fine with the change in thread title because much like Monster Strike all I do in Granblue is log in and roll on gacha
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