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Kenny Logins posted:the game is hard-coded so as not to create a fire that burns down the whole game world. I know you just said "hard-coded" but now all I want is a mod that changes this
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Ainsley McTree posted:I know you just said "hard-coded" but now all I want is a mod that changes this
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anilEhilated posted:e: Oh, right, forgot why I came here. Endless Legend is kicking my rear end. I've read what's on the wiki here but I mostly got issues with combat, especially judging what I can and can't take on - my starting army of a hero/2 (usually) archers can usually wipe out a village and then get obliterated by the first wandering army it runs into. I know units heal slowly over time, but is there a way to make them rest faster? Just how much of an army (compared to focusing on sim city'ing) do I need to stay in the game? Healing I think can be sped up by spending turns in areas you control and is faster on city tiles but I'm not sure. Broken Lords are slightly different; they don't heal over time but you can spend Dust to heal them back up.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Anyone have any newbie tips for Vernintide? Get good at blocking, dodging, and effectively using power attacks. Having a lock on those skills makes dealing with nasty enemies - especially The biggest trick I can think of is for health draughts (the healing potions). At first glance they appear to be strictly worse than medkits, but there's a trick to them that can make them equivalent - drinking one turns all the grey "temporary" health you get after being downed and then picked back up into regular health. If you drink one immediately after being downed you'll be at 80% HP, which is the same as medkits heal you for. This is especially useful as the bright wizard who can kill herself on command by overheating her fire magic. anilEhilated posted:e: Oh, right, forgot why I came here. Endless Legend is kicking my rear end. I've read what's on the wiki here but I mostly got issues with combat, especially judging what I can and can't take on - my starting army of a hero/2 (usually) archers can usually wipe out a village and then get obliterated by the first wandering army it runs into. I know units heal slowly over time, but is there a way to make them rest faster? Just how much of an army (compared to focusing on sim city'ing) do I need to stay in the game? For the early game, it depends heavily on what faction you are. Necrophages can do pretty well with just their starting army, but Cultists and Wild Walkers might want to build an extra unit or two early on. You can also go into the unit options and tweak your units equipment - even without any armor/weapon techs you can give your units iron armor and maybe swap their weapon choices. Something to keep in mind: Heroes attached to an army are functionally immortal as long as at least one unit other than themselves is alive at end of combat. If your combat hero gets killed but something else is alive, next turn he'll be up and kicking again. The hero will only actually "die" (and be sent back to the academy to be reassigned, you won't lose them) if the army they're attached to is completely wiped out. This can be very useful if the terrain in the combat area has a chokepoint and your non-hero units are archers - stick the hero in the chokepoint, have the archers behind them shooting. Even if you 'lose' the hero you haven't lost the other units and the hero comes back afterwards. For expansion, keep an eye on when the civilization plan is coming up and if you're expanding try to have a settler ready to found a city immediately after you get one, as the cost increases whenever you found a city but you keep the same plan even if new cities would make your current plan too expensive for you. Always try to found your second city as soon after turn 20 as possible. Also one of the first techs you should research is the one for the mill foundry, and early on all your citizens should probably be on industry production. President Ark fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Goofballs posted:I never modded the game but if you find one to turn down patrol respawns a bit that would be ideal. Its the major thing dragging the game down because you go through the same areas regularly and five minutes after you wipe out a checkpoint area they're back again. This is very correct - it didn't take long for me to go almost entirely to water travel in the game. The roads are just too packed with endlessly respawning mooks.
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:I did this and got systematically dismantled by a yeti anilEhilated posted:That yeti is actually a bit of a dick move. He's an optional boss that will eventually move away - you can come back and fight him any time (IIRC) before you depart for the town to the left. If you let him change location, he'll be in a later area and you'll lose access to one shop. It's better to kill him early because he drops an item that's used to make a weapon, but it's best to wait a couple levels. Yeti is indeed a dick move, but he's actually doable immediately, even on hard. The core of Valdis Story's boss fights is pattern and telegraph recognition, so practice for those S-ranks, son. There's a quick restart fight option on the menu when you fight bosses that they put in just for this reason. Fair warning: if that's not your poo poo, Valdis Story may also, in fact, not be your poo poo.
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This game has a great combat system but I am really not used to how it controls yet.
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Kenny Logins posted:The sad thing is that in development it wasn't, so in theory it's possible. Sadly, by all accounts the game's internals are just a hot mess. And what's really sad is that Farcry 3 and 4 have even less fire burning than FC2. So much for modern technology! I can understand not letting you burn the entire game map down, but even in FC2 the idea was you could use fire as like area denial, but it never seemed to last long enough to be great for that. I wanna throw down big walls of fire that burn for a couple minutes at least.
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The White Dragon posted:Yeti is indeed a dick move, but he's actually doable immediately, even on hard. The core of Valdis Story's boss fights is pattern and telegraph recognition, so practice for those S-ranks, son. There's a quick restart fight option on the menu when you fight bosses that they put in just for this reason. Anyhow, thanks for the Endless Legend advice - to expand a bit, since the factions seem vastly different: I tried out the Wild Walkers and Vaulters (on hearing these two play the most civ-like) and didn't really like either, now I'm eyeballing the giant lizards. Any tips for those?
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I just resigned myself to not S-ranking anything on my first runthrough, since I'm still familiarizing myself with the game (and also because I'm running a magic build Wyatt which, uh...is kinda Not Very Good so far). Mostly I'm able to get A ranks after a few restarts--I didn't realize you could quit to the main menu and then retry the fight, that was not at all obvious--though a few bosses have taken more than "a few" restarts. (HORRIBLE loving POISON rear end in a top hat AAAAAGH)
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Oh yeah that poison one is just so mean. You literally have a split second window to cancel the spore attack, and if you hit too early, it also doesn't count 
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Ok thread, what should I know/has anyone got any tips for Hard West? Thank you in advance.
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Ok thread, what should I know/has anyone got any tips for Hard West? Thank you in advance. Don't play on Iron Man. It serves no purpose except to randomly flush hours of progress down the pan by making you restart campaigns.
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Kenny Logins posted:I don't think there are any mods because the codebase is a mess. There are actually some mods despite that. Though there doesn't seem to be a vanilla "fan patch" amongst them. The big one that gets brought up a lot is Dylan's Mod which from what I can tell (and have heard of) it kind of cranks up the FarCry 2-ness and turns the game into something closer to the Stalker games. It (along with a handful of similar mods) does reduce some of the bullshit with the checkpoints, but it also comes with much more realistic combat and a greater emphasis on stealth tactics. Sounds great if you're into that sort of thing, but if you're not...
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anilEhilated posted:Eh, it's not my poo poo, I never S-ranked a boss in that game and still enjoyed it immensely. Walkers and the Vaulters are probably closest to Civ, yes. Two more things: 1. For Vaulters, the way they word the stuff about the 'holy resource' (one strategic resource you can use like a luxury) makes it sound like once you pick it you're stuck with it. This is not the case, you can only have one running at a time but once it's done you can switch to whatever you like. 2. Laying out districts in cities to maximize level bonuses is critical for expansion. Whenever you're building a district it comes with a -5 approval (happiness) penalty; the most obvious thing to do with districts is to snake out your city and grab all the anomalies, but that's dumb. What you want to do is build small concentrated cities; if a district has at least 4 of the 6 spaces around it containing other districts it'll evolve, which increases all its yields and turns the -5 approval into +10. The best city designs with that in mind are either a 2-wide "stick" or a triangle.
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President Ark posted:2. Laying out districts in cities to maximize level bonuses is critical for expansion. Whenever you're building a district it comes with a -5 approval (happiness) penalty; the most obvious thing to do with districts is to snake out your city and grab all the anomalies, but that's dumb. What you want to do is build small concentrated cities; if a district has at least 4 of the 6 spaces around it containing other districts it'll evolve, which increases all its yields and turns the -5 approval into +10. The best city designs with that in mind are either a 2-wide "stick" or a triangle. While the approval penalty can stack up pretty quickly it can also be pretty readily fixed with luxury resources and an approval building or two. Of course you need to be producing enough luxuries to refresh them each time they run out but it's something to consider if you do want to snake a city out a bit. You're advice still stands though. Also very good to do with the legendary buildings one of the expansions introduced as it doubles their already very good bonus. As for the lizards your shtick is diplomacy so try focusing on the techs that generate that and force everyone into binding agreements to not attack you and whatnot.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Diablo 3? Press Space to skip dialogue
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Diablo 3? And stick an emerald in your weapon.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Diablo 3? There's two monster posts on Diablo 3 just 2 pages back, one by myself. I'd quote them but they're huge so you can just hit the back button twice 
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Zaphod42 posted:There's two monster posts on Diablo 3 just 2 pages back, one by myself. I'd quote them but they're huge so you can just hit the back button twice  Thanks!
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Overminty posted:While the approval penalty can stack up pretty quickly it can also be pretty readily fixed with luxury resources and an approval building or two. Of course you need to be producing enough luxuries to refresh them each time they run out but it's something to consider if you do want to snake a city out a bit. You're advice still stands though. Also very good to do with the legendary buildings one of the expansions introduced as it doubles their already very good bonus. Some anomalies also provide a happiness bonus so can be worth expanding to ( or settling near)
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Quick question regarding Persona 4: I'm in the second dungeon and I'm running into a lot of enemies that aren't weak to any of the 4 basic elements or physical. Should I be having light/dark already or am I just unlucky?
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Chibi Robo (GameCube)? its been too long for me to remember anything specific but have fun its such a cute game.
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Foxhound posted:Quick question regarding Persona 4: You could have light/dark death spells by that point but it's all based on the kind of persona you're building. I wouldn't stress over it.
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al-azad posted:You could have light/dark death spells by that point but it's all based on the kind of persona you're building. I wouldn't stress over it. This is the primary reason why it's an uphill battle to use a party member you'll get later who specializes in them. Not impossible, but not worth it unless you really like the character.
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Poison Mushroom posted:To supplement this: Instant death spells are a mixed blessing. Yeah, if an enemy's weak to them, it can save you some resources, but they cost a fuckton of SP, and bosses are always immune to them (or even bounce them back). You should totally always use said character though because they're the only other character with the megi line and nothing is strong against that. In fact, pray for a fusion accident because you'll probably get Decarabia 20 levels early and he's amazing. And by then every other shuffle time will have the skill upgrade card.
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That's fair. Nothing says "gently caress this random encounter" quite like two Megidolaons.
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Foxhound posted:Quick question regarding Persona 4: Just a side-note to be aware of, Chie's gonna stop learning Ice spells past Bufula and start picking up straight Phys moves instead. You'll get a replacement ice-caster around the time it happens though, but Chie's worth keeping for just straight king-hitting poo poo all the way into endgame.
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Chie's super crit kill move is also the best in the game just for entertainment value.
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Foxhound posted:Quick question regarding Persona 4: Don't forget ailment skills! If an enemy isn't weak to anything else, it's probably vulnerable to status effects. Yosuke learns Tenterafoo, which confuses all enemies. If you manage to fuse anything that has fear attacks, those are good too. Neddy Seagoon posted:Just a side-note to be aware of, Chie's gonna stop learning Ice spells past Bufula and start picking up straight Phys moves instead. You'll get a replacement ice-caster around the time it happens though, but Chie's worth keeping for just straight king-hitting poo poo all the way into endgame. If you're playing Golden, I think she only gets the first two ice skills, they tossed Bufula/Ice Boost for some passive physical skills. YggiDee fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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YggiDee posted:Don't forget ailment skills! If an enemy isn't weak to anything else, it's probably vulnerable to status effects. Yosuke learns Tenterafoo, which confuses all enemies. If you manage to fuse anything that has fear attacks, those are good too. Yosuke's worth holding onto rather than who you get in the second dungeon, just because it's much easier to get Persona with Electrical spells than it is to get Wind ones. Plus he's got a great range of invaluable secondary skills like Dekunda and Dekaja
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I'm trying to play XCOM: Enemy Unknown again. What kind of tech/weapons should I be building first? I seem to always mess up my research order and work myself into a corner.
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Foxhound posted:Quick question regarding Persona 4: Bribed Fuzz, Tranquil Idol, and Pursuing Pesce are weak to instant death, the first two to dark and the Pesce to light. Thing is, the character that gets instant death is the last one to join. Nizam Beasts, Wonderous Magi, and Grave Beetles just do not have weaknesses, full stop. Hama and Mudo should have appeared in a few places by now: the level 17 Hermit persona Ippon-Datara starts with Mudo, for example. The problem with instant death spells is that they're unreliable as heck actually. Even with a weakness Mudo can still miss, and it's a while until you can get Mamudoon and Mahamaon with their boosts, and even then they're still SP-intensive.
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Plan Z posted:I'm trying to play XCOM: Enemy Unknown again. What kind of tech/weapons should I be building first? I seem to always mess up my research order and work myself into a corner. A lot of your build order super sperg strats are dependent on your base layout and starting country but if you're playing unknown (vanilla) and not within (exp) you have less stuff to worry about. Standard stuff that applies to either is like this: no steam on 1st or 2nd level or in the 4th farthest slot = restart. Try to use as few explosives as possible first 3 months. Your priorities otherwise are extra satellite the 1st month (make sure to move one of your 2 ships to it as well. Second month build satellite array and try for 2 more. Third month should be hydroplant (getting lucky with drops can let you do it on second month, you can sell most alien bodies since they're not as immediately important as in the expansion. Research wise I don't recall the exact order but you'll want to finish up getting carapace armor and laser weapons before the end of the third month or you risk facing chrysalid invasion mission in default stuff which is basically a free wipe on all your dudes so far and a really ugly setback. If you get past that you've got the momentum to get through the rest of the game, provided you get the next tier of stuff before the third enemy set rolls in 8~ months in IIRC.
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Vahlen posted:Try to use as few explosives as possible first 3 months. This is quite wrong for rookies. Getting characters leveled up is really important, and grenades are the best way to do that early game.
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GuavaMoment posted:This is quite wrong for rookies. Getting characters leveled up is really important, and grenades are the best way to do that early game. Except that they destroy salvagable gear, so don't do it.
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It's far more important to get a decent roster of characters with skills than it is to collect the early salvageable gear. Your soldiers are fragile enough at the beginning of the game that going AWOL with grenades is a really good strategy that will save you a lot of frustration. Later on you should try and use them more to weaken enemies than kill them, but resources are not quite sparse enough that you should be sacrificing soldiers or taking hits just to keep from blowing enemies up. As far as research goes, I generally tend to go for armor first because getting out of the default armor massively increases your survival rate. But it's also perfectly viable to go straight for laser weapons as well, just don't really bother with autopsy reports at first unless you have the South America nation bonus. Don't beeline for the alien capture stuff either despite the game really pushing it, capturing aliens can be tricky and you want to make your soldiers a fair bit more survivable than they start before doing that. Other than that you want to build an Officer Training School as soon as possible as it has some great bonuses, and do make sure you start with some steam vents because they really do help.
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