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 Monk sprite by A_Raving_Loon. "Magicians" sprite original by azren, redone by Abyssal Lurker. "Ikaruga" Black/White Krile sprite by fits.  QUICK GUIDE TO DOING YOUR OWN CHALLENGE RUN Original OP by Mega64 As for my run, it's "Omniserker" because it's a Berserker that has access to all abilities, though as you may expect it'll mainly be the passive abilities that come in handy. Kyrosiris came up with the clever name and I stole it and ran with it. As for why I'm using abilities? Because the whole point of Final Fantasy V is mixing and matching abilities. In the Four Job Fiesta Berserkers are welcomed because they can take advantage of so many wonderful abilities to be good (and because people are crazy). Also, a solo Berserker run is essentially impossible. Hell, I don't know if I'll even be able to complete this, but why not. If you haven't played/seen FF5 before, I've already LPed it so that's probably a better starting point. Orange Fluffy Sheep also did a great LP where he does his trademark game-breaking. And of course Dr Pepper did a great low-level run LP that's also worth reading. And The Wu-Tang Secret did a very early LP that shows off some neat tricks as well. As for stuff about Berserkers, here's Orange Fluffy Sheep's run with four berserkers. More related to my run is Sulla's Solo Berserker run, which broke his spirit and his mind. Recommended reading. Finally, if you want a nice RPG challenge without going to insane lengths like me, the Obligatory Twitter feed link. COMPLETED RUNS quote:
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INCOMPLETE RUNS quote:Chaotic Neutral has predicted the success of Solo Oracle. quote:Nomadic Scholar fires off a Solo Cannoneer run. quote:Bufuman jumps in with Solo Dragoon. quote:Trasson dashes in to show off a Solo Omni-Thief run. quote:CeallaSo releases yet another run for us to catch up on with a Solo Beastmaster. quote:Sordas Volantyr blitzes up a Solo Gladiator run. quote:Hellioning covers the Solo Omniknight. quote:ZenMasterBullshit throws in a Solo Ninja run. quote:alcharagia swears an oath to do the Solo Omni-Necromancer. quote:A_Raving_Loon kicks in a Solo Monk run. quote:Bulborbish conjures up a Solo Summoner run. quote:Flarnith chimes in with a Solo Omni-Geomancer Run. quote:Darkoni saves the day with a Solo Hero Run. quote:Ryushikaze copies the solo run idea with the Megamime Solo Run. quote:Atomic Spud half-asses a Semi-Partial-Omni-Solo Red Mage Run. quote:Camel Pimp survives to tell the tale of the Living Off The Land Challenge. quote:Kyrosiris switches to a second run with the Ikaruga (Black/White) Mage. quote:Railing Kill tosses a bunch of stuff together with a solo low-level Living-Off-The-Land Mime. quote:EdgeryWorthy parties with a solo fiesta run. ----- Fan Art Shaezerus makes the tedious grind for two Death Sickles worth it. Shaezerus posted:
Leraika sums up everyone's feelings (heh) on Karlabos. Leraika posted:
Rigged Death Trap captures the latest Mime run. Camel Pimp sums up Zerky!'s (and my) feelings post-run. Camel Pimp posted:I think I speak for everyone when I say: Mega64 fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Mega64 has gone mad with a Solo Omniserker run!
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Part 1 - Birthserker I'll be doing the GBA version because I pretty much do all my FF5 playing on the GBA version. Sorry, no Y-Burns this time. Plus I don't have to change many settings since my last LP was a GBA game. Hooray for laziness! I'm using a hack that makes the sound and graphics significantly closer to the SNES standards. You may notice it in the boss videos.  Here's our hero in his natural habitat, in the middle of nowhere, living off the land. He's already kind of a savage.   Otherwise, I hex-edited the game to do three things, the first of which is to unlock all jobs. Of course, I'll only be using one of these the entire game, the Berserker.  The second is to unlock all abilities, which is what sets this run apart from your average Berserker run. Of course, with two exceptions the action abilities are useless (the two exceptions being White and Time Magic, and I guess Red and technically Black for Toad but screw those), though some of them transfer stats. In particular, !Summon will give our friend the magic power of a Summoner, which won't be relevant until late in the game. The passive abilities are what will be the crux of this challenge and will help me bypass challenges more easily.  We start with a sword, which Berserkers can't use. We have to use fists until we recruit Lenna and can shank her knife. Sure I could just use Equip Swords to use it but that's not necessary right now and I'm gonna try regular Berserker for a bit.  Fortunately, our fists are sufficient for goblins.  I asked people for names in IRC, but no one responded. So I went with...  I feel I made the right choice.  No, I definitely made the right choice.   With that, we acquire the unique, one-of-a-kind Knife. It sucks but who cares.  The last hack I did was to make the other characters 0HP at all times so I didn't have to keep killing them over and over. Kinda cheating but it's a convenience thing and this is already gonna be kind of a chore.  So, the most annoying part of the Berserker is how stupid they are. The mobile versions has them attack the front-most enemy every time, which makes a ton of sense and helps battles go by quickly. The other versions, they just attack whoever, which can be frustrating.  According to Sulla's write-up (expect me to bring it up a lot this LP), a solo Berserker can't run away in the SNES version. That changed in the GBA version it seems, since I can run away just fine. That said, I reset because I'm going to go for a no-run run, at least until I can experiment and decide whether the Brave Blade or Chicken Knife would be more valuable to me. Probably the Chicken Knife, but good to be sure.  More defense. Cool.  We get a pirate.  Before the Wind Shrine, it's helpful to go to Tule first for a few supplies.  One major quality-of-life advantage that the Omniserker has is being able to cure with White Magic outside of battle. For most dungeons I'll be running !White for random encounters since it heals so much more efficiently than regular 50HP Potions.  Also the Dagger is better than the Knife so I take it.  Free Potions are nice. I didn't bother screencapping any random encounters so they're obviously not worth mentioning.  And so we get to our first boss. For each boss, I'll lay out notable stats and their AI script.  code:  Breath Wing does Max HP/4 damage, so four of those will kill Zerky!. Kind of scary, but Zerky! deals good enough damage to weaken that 250 HP pretty quickly.  Five of those hits are enough to kill Wing Raptor. Even though he's slow, the odds suggest maybe a couple wipes but otherwise things will be fine. Except then we get to the third line of the AI Script.  code: This slows the damage down. There's also a Reaction prompt to the Fight command (which at this stage of the game is what a regular party must do to damage this boss, and what Zerky! is stuck with doing). Normally you'd just stop issuing commands and you won't get hurt, but Zerky! won't listen to reason and attacks anyway.  It'll display text the first time, then set a variable so that future attacks don't show that text, then Wing Raptor does a special attack. In this case, it's Claw, which always hits and ignores defense. Granted, defense isn't very high at this stage of the game, but it still hurts. After two rounds, Wing Raptor will go back to its first form and do Breath Wing.  At Level 5, Zerky! can't really handle that. For a normal solo Berserker, the only options are different equipment or more levels to boost HP, and the latter would just help against the counters and physical attacks, not Breath Wing. Plus at this stage there are no equipment options, it's Dagger or bust.  And this is why I'm doing the Omniserker challenge. I don't need levels, I've got a variety of tools to get me through many of these challenges relatively painlessly. We'll start with one of the most useful, Barehanded.  Barehanded gives you a Monk's strength, which is the highest in the game. Granted, since Berserker has the third-highest strength in the game it isn't a major improvement. It also significantly boosts the damage of your fists though, and they're heavily influenced by level. This is very useful in a solo game where you'll have a lot more levels than usual.   Fists are great for a couple reasons. First, you attack twice, which is already a significant damage boost compared to a single dagger swipe. But besides that, you also have a chance to score a critical hit, as Zerky! did here with his first fist. Few weapons can actually deliver critical hits, but fists are one and they can hurt.  Two attacks/four punches was all it took. Wing Raptor didn't even reach its second form before I won. Behold the power of the Omniserker! For each boss battle, I'll include a video showing the winning run. Not so important for this boss, but maybe it'll be useful for some people at future bosses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsto7gDlr2w FINAL LEVEL: 5 DEATHS: 2  Anyway, normally I'd be excited about new jobs but I've already got all the jobs.  That's not going to work out too well. Next time, I hit my first major roadblock: Karl Boss. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Oh boy, getting in on the ground floor of this, Mega. Can't wait to see Sandworm and Sol Cannon reduce you to tears even with all the preparation in the world. 
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Good luck, you're gonna need it.
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Why do you hate yourself, Mega? Why? 
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KataraniSword posted:Oh boy, getting in on the ground floor of this, Mega. Agreed, those are gonna be great. Also Neo Ex-Death. He should be doable with the extra skill(s) available with the patch, but it still probably won't be simple.
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Ground floor as gently caress. Also I like how every minor noteworthy contribution I've made on the forums revolves around FFV. 
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This oughta be interesting. Here's hoping none of the updates devolve to "And then I grinded for six hours until the boss's strategy no longer mattered because I had All The Hitpoints".
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This oughta be interesting. Here's hoping none of the updates devolve to "And then I grinded for six hours until the boss's strategy no longer mattered because I had All The Hitpoints". Most things in FFV that are truly scary have percentile-based attacks and thus give very few shits about your "all the hitpoints". If he's going to have to grind for anything it's going to be damage to burst down bosses with said percentile-based attacks before they murder poor Zerky!.
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Jun 8, 2015 22:54
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The real question, then, is this: when will he break? (yes, after the run is over is still "when")
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Kyrosiris posted:Most things in FFV that are truly scary have percentile-based attacks and thus give very few shits about your "all the hitpoints". Ah right, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Ah right, my mistake. Thanks for the correction. No problem. You'll see what I'm getting at as we progress in the LP. There's a few notable roadblocks coming up soon-ish that'll be great. 
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I approve of this, even if that means we can't ruin Soccer like FIFA or kill Y Burns all day. The fact that we don't need to worry about Dingleberry's helps ease that pain.
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Jun 8, 2015 23:26
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Yesss. Though technically it's only two so far since I included my successful attempt. Think I'll change that to Deaths to make it clearer.
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Mega64 posted:Yesss. oh well It says three so I guess Zerky! got an aneurysm around a steel bat and died.
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I've had an idea for a somewhat similar challenge run where you can change classes all you like but everybody must always have berserk as their ability. The party would ultimately end up as bares with berserk and 2handed plus lots of useful innates from mastered classes. This idea came from the fact that in the original, an all-berserker team couldn't use either the Brave Blade or Chicken Knife (they can equip the latter, but its random flee after hit would essentially cause a game freeze). While it's not quite the same, I expect this LP will show why I never actually went through with that.
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One hell of a challenge. Are you concerned at all that the hex editing you did to unlock the necessary things is going to end up bugging out?
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:oh Just count the reset
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oldskool posted:One hell of a challenge. Are you concerned at all that the hex editing you did to unlock the necessary things is going to end up bugging out? I doubt it. Said hex-editing almost certainly involves just writing FF to a few bytes of memory, and I'm sure FF5's memory layout has been thoroughly documented, just like as for every other remotely famous NES/SNES JRPG.
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Godspeed you mad berserker.
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Wait, what? Another one of those solo Berserker things in FFV? You must hate yourself. I'm just looking forward to the Sand Worm and Sol Cannon fights. I'd like to see if there are even any strategies you can use other than "Level up about 50 times and kill it before it kills you". I even tried a 4 Berserker party once because I hated myself at one point. Guess which boss I got stuck on before I gave up.
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I... this... wait... but... you...  ... ... ... WHAT!? I mean, holy gently caress, people do this? I saw OFS's ritualistic breaking the game over its own knee (seriously, it's awesome; check it out if you haven't seen it), but this is loving ridiculous!
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Oh god when you mentioned the idea in the fiesta chat I THOUGHT YOU WERE JOKING 
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Can't wait for Sandworm and Soul Cannon 
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Awww yissss... Ground floor. ... Also, Berserker is 3rd highest Strength; Knight is 2nd.
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This can only end in awesome.
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This is going to hurt. You, much more than us. But no one will leave this thread unscarred.
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This... is certainly one way to advertise for the Fiesta 
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Archenteron posted:This... is certainly one way to advertise for the Fiesta Amusingly enough, he actually finished the game.
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Theoretically (we don't officially know how it works yet, but we can guess), one could get four Berserkers by combining BERSERKERRISK with the new #RegChaos option. Theoretically, of course, the odds are pretty low.
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Color Printer posted:Theoretically (we don't officially know how it works yet, but we can guess), one could get four Berserkers by combining BERSERKERRISK with the new #RegChaos option.  I feel sorry for the popular Fiesta players that decides to try #RegChaos.
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Holy crap Mega, you are insane. Possibly as insane as Zerky!. I wish you well.
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Sketchie posted:If I remember right, someone actually got 3 Berserkers through Berserker Risk once in a Fiesta. I was stunned. The RNG really hated him. Icing on the cake is that his only non-Berserker job was... Knight. He actually beat one of the super bosses with that setup as well. Also, you are insane Mega64. Good luck.
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Sketchie posted:If I remember right, someone actually got 3 Berserkers through Berserker Risk once in a Fiesta. I was stunned. The RNG really hated him. Icing on the cake is that his only non-Berserker job was... Knight. He didn't just finish the game, he also killed Shinryu.
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Sordas Volantyr posted:He didn't just finish the game, he also killed Shinryu. In my Fiesta run I was able to kill Shinryu by having the Knight use !Cover and everyone else with low health after whacking him with a Power Staff to berserk him (I had a Time Mage that time). But 3 Berserkers and a Knight?! How? HOW?!
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Sketchie posted:Wait... how... HOW?! For Shinryu? Levels, luck, and planning. For Neo Exdeath? Luck and planning. For the rest of the game? Death Sickles. I'll simplify your decision, Mega64. Since you can't switch weapons, you want a weapon that you can use all the time and will be useful. You want the Defender. Don't kill yourself for the Brave Blade. 40 more attack isn't worth giving up the Weapon Block perk. This seems like a really interesting challenge, but I have no idea how you're going to actually win. The fundamental problem with Berserkers is the inability to heal. There aren't any passives that really help with that. Still, it'll prove to be an interesting ride. For us, at least. For you, you're going to want to kill yourself.
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Trasson posted:I'll simplify your decision, Mega64. Since you can't switch weapons, you want a weapon that you can use all the time and will be useful. You want the Defender. Don't kill yourself for the Brave Blade. 40 more attack isn't worth giving up the Weapon Block perk. The Defender is in Fork Tower. I'm not sure how he's going to take a solo 'zerk up against Omniscient.
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KataraniSword posted:The Defender is in Fork Tower. I'm not sure how he's going to take a solo 'zerk up against Omniscient. No such nonsense necessary. It's stealable from Sea Devils and Landcrawlers, and Berserkers can equip the Thief Knife.
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W.T. Fits posted:Awww yissss... Ground floor. Fixed, thanks. And here I was hoping I'd be done with all these mistakes, haha.
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