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Kaboom Dragoon posted:And don't bother with the achievements. There's one for maxing out the AP on every materia in the game. I didn't even have the patience to do that when I was a kid with unlimited free time. Eh, I got all the achievements and have 69 total hours played, which I'm sure includes a couple hours of idling. It's not bad.
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Fat Samurai posted:Another good way to get more time before a trace hits you is to bounce through servers you have access to. The easiest way to do it is to open an account in each game bank (search "bank" in Internic). Also you can gain a ridiculous amount of money if you got the speed and the guts to do it. Sometimes you'll get a mission where they want you to hack someone's bank account to find the balance and it'll be a ridiculous amount, over $200M. What you'll need is set up an account in the bank you are going to hack, hack the bank with all the cipher crackers, transfer the money to your account in that same bank. Wipe the records of the transaction on both accounts and then do what Stelas outlined. Basically there are two types of traces: Passive and Active. Active is the countdown that you get when you are hacking. Passive doesn't give any indication that its undergoing. Even if you clear the logs and disconnect before the active trace hits you, IT personnel will follow the switch and router logs and find you. Usually within 24 hours. The bank hack I mentioned before gets a REALLY fast passive trace...measured in seconds. You get about 20 seconds to transfer the money, delete the transaction records and wipe the records at interNIC. Once you do this, you don't need to take a job again, you can dedicate yourself to the plot.
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Yip Yips posted:I got all the achievements and have 69 total hours played My god. THE PERFECT SAVE FILE. 
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Stelas posted:4) You'll see some lines: A note on this, you can choose to delete either of the 2 connection established logs, it doesn't matter which, so don't stress out. Just make sure that InterNIC displays the same number of connected and disconnected lines.
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Magres posted:Mount and Blade Warband Do you have any mod recommendations? I seem to remember there being several "Vanilla plus" type mods floating around.
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Final Fantasy 3. Psp edition. What do I need to know to make this as painless as possible?
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Ineffiable posted:Final Fantasy 3. Psp edition. What do I need to know to make this as painless as possible? Play the NES version. The DS version (and subsequent PSP/PC/mobile ports) addresses absolutely none of the legitimate problems with the game, adds a bunch of bullshit difficulty, attempts to balance classes that were never meant to be so because they were your endgame crutches, and just all around is a really terrible version of the game. That said: - Thieves are fantastic classes, and you should pretty much always have at least one unless you absolutely need a specific party for something. They give you a reliable running option, and they can use weapons like boomerangs which let them attack from full damage in the back row. Combined with their crazy high agility, they will almost certainly be your first class that hits for 9999, long before anyone else is close. - Magic is pretty useless, all things considered. Having a White Mage/Devout is pretty handy, because you definitely want to have healing and buffs at the ready but otherwise physical is almost always better. High-end MP is extremely limited until the very end of the game. - Your stats are recalculated in each job as you switch between them (and higher job levels mean you do better at that job) EXCEPT HP. If you spend 50 levels as a Black Belt, you will have a fuckton more HP than someone who spent 50 levels as a Black Mage. It is extremely recommended to spend some time in Monk and Black Belt to jack up your HP (they have the highest two HP growths in the game). - I admit it's been a while since I've played, but Black Belt, Geomancer, Dragoon, Thief, Ninja, Dark Knight, Devout, and Sage seem to stand out as the most useful classes in the game. Artix fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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TerryLennox posted:Also you can gain a ridiculous amount of money if you got the speed and the guts to do it. Sometimes you'll get a mission where they want you to hack someone's bank account to find the balance and it'll be a ridiculous amount, over $200M. What you'll need is set up an account in the bank you are going to hack, hack the bank with all the cipher crackers, transfer the money to your account in that same bank. Wipe the records of the transaction on both accounts and then do what Stelas outlined. Basically there are two types of traces: Passive and Active. Active is the countdown that you get when you are hacking. Passive doesn't give any indication that its undergoing. Even if you clear the logs and disconnect before the active trace hits you, IT personnel will follow the switch and router logs and find you. Usually within 24 hours. The bank hack I mentioned before gets a REALLY fast passive trace...measured in seconds. You get about 20 seconds to transfer the money, delete the transaction records and wipe the records at interNIC. Once you do this, you don't need to take a job again, you can dedicate yourself to the plot. You can also do this without setting up an account at that bank if you don't want to for some reason. If you do it that way though, you need to delete the transaction records at both banks. This is especially funny, to me, to do using the Uplink bank itself, because hacking Uplink (ratting people out / loving fellow agents over is optional  ) is always hilarious.I haven't played in a few months so I might be misremembering, but some other things: I've never found much use for the disables over the bypasses, so it might be worth saving some money there. I also seem to remember preferring the second-to-last gateway over the last for some reason. I think one of them has 3 security devices which is totally useless, you only need 2 ever.
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Agnostalgia posted:Do you have any mod recommendations? I seem to remember there being several "Vanilla plus" type mods floating around. I've only ever played straight vanilla and the cRPG mod, which gives the multiplayer a somewhat MMO component that some dude runs the servers for. Xander77 posted:One thing about Mount and Blade - you might as well look up one of those graphic illustrations of which party members hate each other and which get along. You'll probably lose party members you invested in otherwise. Yeah this is really, really worth doing. I don't have it offhand, but there's a list of like 8 party members you can mash together that won't conflict with each other. It's largely why I don't bother with int skills (though if you don't want to sperg out and research all the party member compatibilities in advance, pigdog is right and int skills own really hard). You can pimp them all out to party members - I'll usually give the first 2 people I find on my list enough points to turn them into light cavalry (which is like... 9 Dex, 9 Strength) and then pump int on them - you want them to be able to fight effectively or they won't level. I like skipping int on my main dude because I'd rather get 30 Charisma and as much strength and dex as possible past that, but you definitely have to do your research and make sure your skillmonkeys aren't going to get pissed at you and bail.
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Going to play Knights of the Old Republic 2 for the first time. I have the restoration mod installed, anything else I need to know about? I'm mainly concerned about any annoying/game-breaking bugs.
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Diplomacy's probably the best Warband mod in terms of Vanilla+ action. There's also a Pre-Battle Orders and Deployment mod that's available packaged together with Diplomacy. Both mostly add features and interface tweaks with only minor gameplay changes. I highly recommend Diplomacy as it adds a trio of mooks to help you run a government with their dialogue menus. Notable Diplomacy Features: Send out recruiters to accumulate appropriate ethnic Recruits and drop them back off at your castle/town. Send out caravans to take gifts to lords/ladies/settlements to improve relations. Have one of your mooks train dudes in the garrison automatically. Store lots of junk in inventories accessed by talking to the three mooks. Set leaderless Patrols (their unit cap is your unit cap) to defend stuff (NPCs do this too) All such conveniences cost denars, of course, and you have to pay the three mooks just to stand around even when you're not using them for anything, so it's pretty balanced.
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Artix posted:Play the NES version. The DS version (and subsequent PSP/PC/mobile ports) addresses absolutely none of the legitimate problems with the game, adds a bunch of bullshit difficulty, attempts to balance classes that were never meant to be so because they were your endgame crutches, and just all around is a really terrible version of the game. I made the mistake of starting with the DS version, and gently caress that poo poo. Rummage through pawn shops for an NES cart or find it on eBay (though it's going for close to what a AAA current-gen title retails these days). Seriously, the remake is garbage, which is a shame because it looks like a lot of work went into it.
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ImPureAwesome posted:Any tips for party configurations and the like for expedition conquistadors? For fights, I always brought some combo of 4 scouts/soldiers and then 2 doctors. Ranged attacks are pretty crappy, I'm pretty sure they do less damage in addition to having a miss chance. Flanking with melee attacks is really good and scouts are great at setting those up.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I made the mistake of starting with the DS version, and gently caress that poo poo. Rummage through pawn shops for an NES cart or find it on eBay (though it's going for close to what a AAA current-gen title retails these days). Seriously, the remake is garbage, which is a shame because it looks like a lot of work went into it. FF3 nes is a Japanese only release. Play Bravely Default, it's the spiritual successor and one of square's best old school style game in over a decade (I don't like ff4 but I guess I'd count the PSP version)
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chairface posted:Diplomacy's probably the best Warband mod in terms of Vanilla+ action. There's also a Pre-Battle Orders and Deployment mod that's available packaged together with Diplomacy. Both mostly add features and interface tweaks with only minor gameplay changes. I highly recommend Diplomacy as it adds a trio of mooks to help you run a government with their dialogue menus. This sounds really great, one of the worst things about vanilla M&B:WB is that you have to hang around your towns and castles constantly to defend them. Getting assigned a town on a border with an unfriendly country is the least fun thing ever because you have to camp it the rest of the game if you ever want money out of it.
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Magres posted:This sounds really great, one of the worst things about vanilla M&B:WB is that you have to hang around your towns and castles constantly to defend them. Getting assigned a town on a border with an unfriendly country is the least fun thing ever because you have to camp it the rest of the game if you ever want money out of it. This is still a major factor as your patrols act just like lords and will run away from groups larger/more powerful than them. They also aren't particularly smart in terms of "I should go join the combat where a minor lord of my faction is losing to an enemy lord, rather than the one where one of our caravans is winning against some bandits." Still, the little bastards are great for bandit suppression, just be sure a leaderless group will still be fast enough. This means using cavalry troops exclusively or near exclusively in your patrols if you expect them to ever catch Steppe or Desert Bandits. The other downside to patrols is that they're also stupid when it comes time to decide whether or not to take freed captives of a defeated group into their group or not. I sure am glad my 70 Khergit Lancer, 70 Khergit Veteran Horse Archer patrol decided they needed those farmers and peasant women they saved from some bandits and now go like half as fast.
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Anything to know as I start Might & Magic X - Legacy? I haven't played a non-HOMM Might & Magic game in a looooong time.
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McCoy Pauley posted:Anything to know as I start Might & Magic X - Legacy? I haven't played a non-HOMM Might & Magic game in a looooong time. There's a thread that got a lot of traffic at the time of the game's release. There was a major balance patch released after I stopped playing, so some of my info is out of date. Things that I think are still valid:
Overall, if you were handy with the old school (MM4-8) Might and Magic games, you should do fine with MMX after a learning curve. It's a good game, and well worth playing.
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Artix posted:Play the NES version. The DS version (and subsequent PSP/PC/mobile ports) addresses absolutely none of the legitimate problems with the game, adds a bunch of bullshit difficulty, attempts to balance classes that were never meant to be so because they were your endgame crutches, and just all around is a really terrible version of the game. I kinda wondered why a game that didn't seem that hard when I played it on an emulator at age twelve was kicking my rear end all over the place when I got it on DS. I didn't even bother with the final dungeon, it was just too absurd. But in the same vein, Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light tips? I asked a few posts ago but it was right before a page break and I think it was overlooked 
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ThePariah posted:Going to play Knights of the Old Republic 2 for the first time. I have the restoration mod installed, anything else I need to know about? I'm mainly concerned about any annoying/game-breaking bugs. I just replayed the game with the restoration mod and didn't encounter any bugs. As long as you don't load any other mods you should be able to play straight through without problem. You will run into some problems with the sound cutting out during cut scenes or skipping all the dialogue but its a minor issue.
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Picked up Two Worlds in the GOG sale. Any mods or things I should know to get the most out of it?
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For Assassins Creed 4, if you really want to break the game and earn lots of money without much effort, then download the companion app for it, and play the Kenway's fleet game. With just a little time and effort, you can bring in about 10,000 reales while barely doing anything within about 5 hours time. You can do it in game, but the companion app allows you to play it from anywhere.
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pentyne posted:I just replayed the game with the restoration mod and didn't encounter any bugs. As long as you don't load any other mods you should be able to play straight through without problem. You will run into some problems with the sound cutting out during cut scenes or skipping all the dialogue but its a minor issue. Unless they've trimmed it down some recently, one really annoying thing TSLRCM does is massively extend the end part of Nar Shadaa. It's one of the parts where you can see why this stuff was cut in the first place because it's very long, very pointless, and doesn't significantly enhance the ending of the planet in anyway. It's also annoying to play just to round things out.
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Yet another post from me in here - I just cashed out my GMG credit for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. I haven't played this for years, and can't remember what I'm doing. Also, is there a thread/Steam group for this on here?
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Mock and Droll posted:Yet another post from me in here - I just cashed out my GMG credit for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. I haven't played this for years, and can't remember what I'm doing. Also, is there a thread/Steam group for this on here? It has a decent tutorial. I suggest playing on the easiest difficulty to refresh yourself on tech trees. Each city can hold 5 farms (one nation can do 7), as many lumber and mining camps as there are forests and mountains, and 1 of each economic building. Each building in the build radius counts towards the size of the city. The size of the city determines how much hp it has when being blown up for capturing. Knowledge is the only resource that doesn't have a commerce cap other than the forced cap of 999. More universities is always better, if you like to use missiles. If you're playing Conquer the World and can't reach an age where missiles are buildable, you can destroy your unviversities/kill your scientists once you've researched everything in the library in order to free up pop cap. Merchants on auto-explore will auto-build on a resource if you don't already have it. Rare resources are absolutely essential if you want to outpace your opponent. Extremely good ones are Citrus if you're on an ocean map, Diamonds all the time, Peacocks, and Sugar. The rest all do things that are useful, but not super critical. Lumber Mills, Granaries, and Smelters in each city where their respective resources are produced are a must as they only work for the city they're in. Refineries are nationwide, so at least 3 will double your production. The hotkey combo B Z will build oil wells, and it will move your camera to the nearest one in your territory, or the nearest one in the ocean if there aren't any in your territory. Wealth will likely be your slowest growing resource for awhile. You can speed that up by doing civic research and researching temple techs, while also expanding your territory. Territory is how you win. If you can block off your opponent from a shore line, they get no ships. No ships means no way to strike back outside of planes. Planes get hosed by AA sites. Stealth Bombers are immune to ground based AA, so having helis or fighters patrolling your border isn't a horrible idea if you're Information Age + final researches. Science research is absolutely the most important. Military, Civic, and Commerce are ALMOST equally important, but Science makes ALL research cheaper and faster. One library will be sufficient, but I like to build 2 so I can research two things at once. It is worth it to have Science research alone before you upgrade the others, to save on the cost. I believe each rank of Science research reduces all other research by 10%, additive. The final stage of Science, post Information Age, makes all unit production instantaneous. If you have resources and you get that first, you basically win if you push like hell. Nukes can be useful until the top tier Military research is completed, which prevents missiles from exploding in their territory. Don't nuke too much, however, because everyone loses, at that point. Or do, if you want to be petty. Wonders are incredibly powerful. Stupidly, stupidly powerful. Probably the best early one is the Terracotta Army. It produces your leftmost barracks infantry unit every 30 seconds, with that time increasing by .5 seconds for each military unit you already have. The Colossus is also very useful for it's pop cap increase and wealth collection increase. Mid-game, Versailles is fantastic. It allows your supply carts to heal your troops, even in combat. It isn't a lot of healing, but it's effective. Only 1 healing aura per cart counts. Supply carts are required for artillery to function in enemy territory, as they reload at a slower rate if they are unsupplied. Only siege weapons suffer this. All units suffer attrition in enemy territory if not supplied. Don't pull a Napoleon and fight Russia with no supply. One of Russia's powers, Russian Winter, will gently caress YOU UP. Russia practically doesn't need defenses if you attack them unsupplied. Unless you have the Statue of Liberty  Building the Kremlin and Statue of Liberty is a huge gently caress you to the other guy, because you're immune to their attrition, and your attrition is at Russian levels, and even higher if you're Russia.Both Information Age wonders are incredibly powerful, and if you get there first, it is worth your while to build them. Space Program clears the fog of war entirely, and you make planes/missiles faster if you haven't maxed out Science yet. Super Collider is extremely useful if you use the market, and if you haven't maxed out research, makes everything researched instant, excepting unit based research. For getting the final researches for the 4 library techs, this is just... insanely useful, as they normally take a shitload of time. Of the two, get Super Collider first if you have library research left to do, or Space Program if you don't. You can only have 1 wonder per city. The Forbidden City doesn't count, so you can build one there. Unit producing buildings can set their rally point on a unit, and if that unit has a hotkey group, will auto join it if possible. These groups technically have a unit limit, but it's stupidly high. If you have that many units on the field and in the attack, you've probably already won, so set stragglers on whatever city you want to take out. You can hotkey buildings, so missile silos are a good one to have hotkeyed as a group. Pressing Q by default sets the build queue to infinite. Whatever is in that queue will build in the order you set it, until it runs out of resources. If you hit pop cap, it will wait until there's space. I like to have 4 barracks and have each one build its own unit, but that's just for fun. Flamethrowers are fantastic against buildings, especially towers, because they eject any garrisoned units, and also against entrenched units. Flanking is a thing! Hit them from the side or behind if you can, because they will take 50% extra damage from the side, or 100% from behind. The engulf formation is handy for this. American infantry units will entrench after being stationary for a few seconds, making them very durable to frontal assaults. Americans also benefit from an early army, as their barracks units produce food, metal, wood, and wealth just by existing. They aren't the best rush army, but they're pretty good. The Dutch are basically unstoppable at commerce if you build up a store of resources. They defy the standard RTS idea of not banking resources. For every 100 resources they have stored, they gain extra production, and this extra production can go above the commerce cap by 50. Their merchants/caravans/supply wagons also have guns. The merchant's guns work when deployed, which will take out an enemy's merchant on its own. I uh... really like this game.
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It's dorky, but I always liked watching replays of multiplayer matches more than actually playing it myself. I always get overwhelmed, especially in multiplayer, with the amount of things to keep track of, I can't quite keep up with it in real time, but watching other people play, especially in games that go on to the information age, is always pretty cool.
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drat, man. I used to obsess over this game, and there's so many things I didn't know there. Thanks for that. As for the civs, are there any really good choices or bad ones? Or is it fairly level?
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quote:Wealth will likely be your slowest growing resource for awhile. You can speed that up by doing civic research and researching temple techs, while also expanding your territory. Also build markets. Markets give some passive wealth generation in each city simply by existing.
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Great tips already for RoN but I'll add that Tab is your best friend. You should be hitting it every ten seconds or so. Also . selects an idle villie, .. selects all idle villies and , and ,, do the same for military units. Terracotta Army is indeed great vs cpu, but weak against any decent human opponent because RoN follows a strict rock-paper-scissors dynamic and 50 of the light infantry it produces can be easily countered with a dozen units of their hard counter. I love when someone builds Terracotta Army in multiplayer, they are usually counting on it for the core of their army and it lets me know just what units to build to crush them. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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I just bought Dominions 4 and god help me I have no idea what I'm doing or what anything is and aaaaaaa. Any tips? (is there a thing I have to do beyond kill all the everyone else, even)
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Any tips for Rise of the Triad 2013? Like, what to look for for secrets or something? I am having tons of fun but I am missing most secrets.
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Wolfsheim posted:But in the same vein, Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light tips? I asked a few posts ago but it was right before a page break and I think it was overlooked Do not play this game.
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Mock and Droll posted:drat, man. I used to obsess over this game, and there's so many things I didn't know there. Thanks for that. As for the civs, are there any really good choices or bad ones? Or is it fairly level? China is really, really good all-around - their power lets them build villagers, caravans, and merchants instantly. They can recover from being raided really fast and can start exploiting new resources (metal/oil), extra trade routes, and rare resources really fast.
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Cirrial posted:I just bought Dominions 4 and god help me I have no idea what I'm doing or what anything is and aaaaaaa. If you didn't change the default win conditions, you can also claim victory by moving your Prophet to each throne (orange-ish icon on the map) and claiming it for your god. If you don't know about prophets, one of the first things you should do is train a priest in your capital, select it and press Spacebar to bring up all the possible actions, and turn him into a prophet. I'm new myself, and there is a huge amount to learn/read, but head over to the Dom4 thread. In very general terms you should be focusing on: - Getting territory from Independents ASAP to make money - Training up Mages in different paths and (S)earching each territory for hidden magic sites, to generate gems/income - Claim some thrones if they are within reach, or perhaps expand your dominion by building extra Temples and Fortresses as you expand - Reading up on what a Bless strategy is, basically any nation that has strong and numerous Sacred units will benefit if your god invests heavily into the Magic paths, each element has a buff for sacred troops that triggers when they get blessed (by a priest) in battle. So you can have your whole army get buffed with Quickness and Flaming weapons if you do it right, although it is not appropriate for all nations.
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Cirrial posted:I just bought Dominions 4 and god help me I have no idea what I'm doing or what anything is and aaaaaaa. I have only played (briefly) Dom 3 so I cannot offer any good tips, but it's a very complex game, and playing the AI won't help a bit because it cannot use magic properly. Your best bet is the game thread
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Wolfsheim posted:But in the same vein, Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light tips? I asked a few posts ago but it was right before a page break and I think it was overlooked
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Magres posted:Any advice for Dynasty Warriors 8 other than 'go kill things' that the thread can offer? Save the Lu Bu story for later on, it gives you very powerful weapons and character that can trivialize the rest of the game. Find characters whose musou and EX attacks you like, because that's the only thing you can't change. You can always grab a secondary weapon (halberd) if you really need the big damage, but you can't get anyone cooler than Huang Gai at using it. The Halberd is really good. You can have two of different attributes and instantly beat every level by weaponswapping whenever you see an officer.
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