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New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
You can make 8 custom characters, so why not make both?

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New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

projecthalaxy posted:

One thing I'd like to see is more giant bosses as DLC. Right now we have 4 Oozaru. I'd love to see Hirudegarn or Giant Janemba, especially the latter. I think with the combat system, Giant Janemba opening portals everywhere and throwing bombs with 3-5 people flying around trying to drop him would be awesome to play.

That would be loving fantastic. There's potential for movie-related DLC, so I'm psyched for that. Janemba is an awesome villain.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Scalding Coffee posted:

How does allotting points into stats influence your character? Can you dump all you can into one stat and be some sort of god or is that a trap?

I've heard that the "best" way to get through the story is just to pump whatever the attack damage stat is non-stop, but then when you get into the world of player vs player, you get your poo poo pushed in by builds designed to counter it. I'm probably going for a balanced build myself, but I know you can gather the dragon balls and wish for your stats to be reset. I don't know quite what that means, but I'm assuming it's a full respec.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Rylek posted:

Is there a place to get a cheap PC copy of this? I've only seen it on Steam thus far. I checked GMG and Nuuvem but didn't see it on either. Is it a Steam only title on PC? I'll buy it either way but I like saving :10bux:.

I think Steam is your only option. I want to say it's an exclusive for now. Scroll all the way down and it has a Steam logo, not some PC logo.

http://www.dragonballxenoverse.com/en/

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

projecthalaxy posted:

Well that's annoying considering 3/4ths of the male Majins we see are quite thin.

In the "lore" of the game, it's because you're all Buu's children. He created his own female based on one of Mr. Satan's porno mags.

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Majin

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Flytrap posted:

Sorry if this has been answered and I just missed it like an oblivious rear end in a top hat, but can you play as pre-existing characters in story mode? Can Hercule save time, or do I have to make him myself?

Pretty sure story mode is just your character, but you can play as others in certain side quests.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Eye beams must suck. I get blinded when a car coming the other way has their brights on. He's got ultra bright beams of light escaping from his pupils.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
So what is the Day 1 Goon concensus on this one? Great game, or greatest game? I'm a lousy PC so I still have a couple days to live vicariously through you filthy console peasants.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Glad people are enjoying this, I was a little worried. Looks like the reviews are the same old critiques over and over again. Friday can't get here fast enough.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

NomChompsky posted:

I keep finding that between time patrol missions I need to go level up a bit at the parallel quest people because poo poo just gets too harsh. Am I just bad/doing something wrong or is this par for the course?

That's actually what you're supposed to do, but a lot of folks are blitzing through the story and end up hitting a wall.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
One thing everyone needs to realize is that the game is designed around doing side missions between story missions. If you hit a wall, go do something else for a while.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
What if they go back in time again but this time corrupt Goku permanently and play that story out?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Zaphod42 posted:

Wait, the freiza race uses kaioken instead of transformations? Please tell me that's not true. :doh:


That's the case unfortunately. That said, it makes sense. Think about the extra effort you'd have to go through during character creation to design additional forms of them compared to the time it takes to make a Human or something.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Zaphod42 posted:

There ya go. Now why doesn't the game use that term? :cheeky:

Because Toriyama won't acknowledge it.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Zaphod42 posted:

What happens if a player Saiyan goes SSJ? Does your hair change shape? Color? Both? What if you're already blonde?

Just a hair color change, no change to shape at all- which is a lot of people chief complaint at this point. Just stay away from flat hair styles and you'll be fine.

Edited to say that they keep saying it is the engine preventing them from doing the hair change.. yet somehow they managed it for Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Gohan, etc.. I feel like all it would take is setting a "normal" hair model and a "super" hair model, but meh, I don't make games happen.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Scalding Coffee posted:

Where did they mention the engine?

Dunno. That's just what I've seen everywhere.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
If anyone isn't sold on this game yet.. http://teamfourstar.com/video/tfs-plays-dragonball-xenoverse-1/

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Power is out due to a snow event. If this drags into the Steam release tomorrow, I'm setting my desktop up in a Starbucks and rigging up the WiFi from my work computer so I can play some loving Xenoverse.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Have they said WHY they're suddenly deciding to release the Steam version early? I just finished installing, but I'm working from home today after a crippling snow storm and power outage. Trying to blitz through the backlog before 6 p.m.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
I've been at "Ready to launch in approximately: 0 seconds" for 5 minutes now.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Tenzarin posted:

The game is powering up, it is activated with your mic! Or restart steam

The bar was going up, it just wasn't updating time. It's at 3:30 now :)

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
This game is loving awesome. I found Piccolo lurking behind some buildings and now he's my master.

Anyone else finding the Raditz side-mission really hard early on? Maybe I'm just not ready for it yet. I've gotten as far as Gohan but by then I'm on zero health.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
So.. am I supposed to be seeing other players wandering around? Because so far, I've just got random NPCs.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Is purchased gear unlocked for my entire account of created characters?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Good god this game is addictive. I'm really digging it. Some of these side quests are taxing, though.. I have one where I've got to solo final form Frieza, and he just doesn't take a hit. It's insane.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
How are you guys doing stats? I've been keeping everything mostly even, but I have HP and Regular Attack (or whatever it is) a few points higher. That said, I'm using Lord Slug's gear on my Human to bolster that, but it really decreases my Ki Supers..

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
I just got disconnected from a single player server.. Anyone else running into this on PC?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Killed By Death posted:

Is the PC Xenoverse server down for anyone else, or is it just me? I can still look for mutli-person parallel quests etc, but I can't join the multi-lobby :(

I get disconnected after every quest on Single mode. It's kinda bullshit..

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Do you get better rewards for using less people in a fight, or am I just gimping myself by going solo?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
I'm really bad at blocking.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Okay seriously, now are you guys dealing with the PC server dropping you after every fight?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Zaphod42 posted:

Its still launch period, if you're having huge server issues go offline.

Not "offline PQs", I mean fully select offline mode when you choose your character. That should fix it, right?


If you select "Offline" mode, you still connect to some server, which is dropping every mission. I've never been "online".

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Third World Reggin posted:

Apparently the way to do that properly is to go to steam off line and then game off line

How does this work when you back online with Steam? Does the local save overwrite the cloud save or something?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Holy loving poo poo I've played this so much today. Anyone else have serious trouble on some of the side quests where you're one man/woman/other against the legions of Z-fighters? Teen Gohan has had a quest for me concerning training for the Cell Games for many, many levels and there's no loving way I'm going to be able to finish it solo.

Is there a good trigger for masters to advance their training? I've got Vegeta's gauge filled up and I've leveled up a couple times, and I use his skills predominately in battle, but he won't do anything. I keep running into Gotenks and Cell but I want to finish out Vegeta first. Does anyone have a list of what the masters give you?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Bubba Smith posted:

Same here. This is loving ridiculous.

What's special about Super Vegeta? I don't understand that one.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
If anyone is having issues with block breaks- there's a loving amazing ability from PQ05 called Arm Crash. It breaks their block for several seconds and lets you get some really valuable hits in, and it seems relatively hard for them to counter. I don't know what I'd do without it.

Also, I beat the final Vegeta training on my first try.. I just needed a bunch of capsules. Feels cheap, but they're there for a reason I guess. I was really hoping for Big Bang Attack, I love using that as SSJ4 Vegeta, but Final Flash will do nicely. :getin:

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Third World Reggin posted:

the nail/piccolo/kami combine z soul is cheating

health regen with max ki
less damage with max stamina
all stats are higher

you can buy most of the z souls from the shop and mix them at the shop right across from it

What's it called?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Third World Reggin posted:



got the stamina thing wrong but what ever this is still stupid op

Holy poo poo.. not only is that insanely easy to get, it's absolutely absurdly strong. I wonder if that was meant to be Namekian only?

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
So I beat my first playthrough. Game is loving amazing. I absolutely love it. I got really screenshot happy at the end, but I won't bore you with all that. Here's my Mary Sue kickass human dude.



BFFs :)

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New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Ometeotl posted:

With this, this and the many many typos in the subtitles, I'm going to guess that the localization was pushed through pretty quickly.

There's a LOT of typos and mistakes. In the storymode, Goku says something along the lines of "We have to get my body back!" during a Captain Ginyu fight when you're clearly the one missing your body. There's also an instance of Trunk's voice actor saying a line where he's clearly not using the Trunks voice. It's pretty sad. A lot of this could have been fixed by a couple read-throughs of the lines.

But who gives a gently caress, this game is crazy awesome.

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