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The Lone Badger posted:Final Fantasy 15 (windows): It's powerful, but it'll be outdated by the middle of the game. Use it or don't, I didn't care for it and went back to the normal weapons progression pretty quick.
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The Lone Badger posted:Final Fantasy 15 (windows): It'll be outdated fairly quickly. Just leave it there if it bugs you, but know that you can, in normal progression of the game, get the Ultima Blade for Noctis about 1/8th the way through the game.
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I'm very excited to be finally playing EarthBound. What's to know?
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Apr 15, 2018 19:04
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admiraldennis posted:I'm very excited to be finally playing EarthBound. What's to know? Damage causes your hp to tick down instead of instantly chunk away. You can heal during it to counter act it. This is helpful if say, you have 100 hp, and take a hit for 120; if you pop a heal for 30 off before it ticks down, you'll end up at 10 hp instead of dead.
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Apr 15, 2018 19:19
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Also if you end the battle before HP tick down to 0, you'll keep the HP the counter was at when it ended. There are a few particular enemies where that's guaranteed to happen. Manage your inventory space. Always keep one slot empty for stuff you may find. You probably won't be able to carry as many healing items as you think you need. Personally I always thought condiments were a waste of a slot. Don't remember if that's ever communicated, but run into enemies from behind to get a surprise round. Same thing goes the other way around. If you're running from an enemy and they're too quick for you, at least turn around and face them head on.
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Apr 15, 2018 19:26
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Earthbound's pretty old-school with it's difficulty compared to something like a ninties final fantasy, so you'll probably have to actually stop and grind levels between areas in the early game to get through alive (especially before you get your second party member). Either that, or get really good a dodging encounters.
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Apr 15, 2018 21:53
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My Lovely Horse posted:Don't remember if that's ever communicated, but run into enemies from behind to get a surprise round. Same thing goes the other way around. If you're running from an enemy and they're too quick for you, at least turn around and face them head on. The game has friendly moles who explain a lot of the battle mechanics, including this, and the fact that if you're powerful enough to kill all of the enemies in a fight with just physical attacks in the first round before they'll be able to attack (the game calculates it all behind the scenes), you'll win instantly without even loading the fight. If you're strong enough that this will be a regular occurrence, or if you've killed the dungeon boss, enemies will run away from you, giving you easy back attacks (and instant wins) so keep that in mind if you feel like you need to grind. It's also worth noting that the game assumes you've hit the enemy for it's pre-fight calculations, so you can sometimes make use of weapons that are more powerful but less accurate (there are a few that have extremely high damage, but as low as 25% chance to hit) to get more instant wins.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:32
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admiraldennis posted:I'm very excited to be finally playing EarthBound. What's to know? - A lot of the things people like are a result of exploring the world. Talk to NPCs, look at the Help descriptions for items, take your time. -In the first town, there's a building that's peeking out of some woods (a nearby NPC says he's keeping watch of the clubhouse, or something to that effect.) You can enter the building if you walk into the trees and go north. One of the NPCs will give you some equipment that's stronger than what you would get otherwise, it's helpful in the early game.
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Thanks all! Great tips. I'm some number of hours in now, and in the second town (Twoson). This game is delightful. I thought the "HP counting down" was just a display thing; didn't realize how that worked  Anyone know what's up with this "chime" I'm getting every 30 seconds or so: https://streamable.com/mf81i (at 0:05) It sounds like I should be taking poison damage or something, idk. I tried healing at a Hotel, and my status looks good...
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Apr 16, 2018 16:35
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did you buy eggs in happy happy village? they hatch into chicks that grow into chickens which you can sell for easy $. i think that sound effect is to let you know the eggs have hatched to chicks. baram. fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Apr 16, 2018 16:41
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baram. posted:did you buy eggs in happy happy village? Ah, it looks like I have a Chicken indeed! Sold it and no more beeping, hooray.
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Apr 16, 2018 17:33
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admiraldennis posted:Ah, it looks like I have a Chicken indeed! Sold it and no more beeping, hooray. It's worth noting that buying fresh eggs and waiting until they turn into Chickens, then selling them is a pretty good way to make money in the early game. Also if you take a Fresh Egg into a hot spring, it turns into a Hot Spring Egg and will heal more HP. The game has a decent number of little neat things like that. On the subject of items, the Protractor, Ruler, and Picture Postcards don't do anything and are safe to sell.
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Anything for Resident Evil 7? Checked the wiki and no mention. Seems like a game where blind overall is best maybe?
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Zushio posted:Anything for Resident Evil 7? Checked the wiki and no mention. Seems like a game where blind overall is best maybe? I haven't played it myself, but my friends who have (and who loved it) seem to agree that blind is what they'd recommend.
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Zushio posted:Anything for Resident Evil 7? Checked the wiki and no mention. Seems like a game where blind overall is best maybe? Just as general notes - There are usually environmental factors in boss rooms that can save you a lot of ammo. Look around and try and find them. Don't try to kill family members early, they have very clearly defined "boss rooms" which is the only place they can take real damage. - Monsters can't follow you through doors. They also lose interest in you if you go into a safe room, which is a lifesaver when being chased. - You can get an extra coin by acing the short prequel game, but it really isn't worth it unless you are going for a 100% run. - Don't worry about cleaning house your first time through an area. After you beat the boss pop a couple of the pills that point out items and just grab them all at once. - If you are being chased by a family member don't bother shooting them. You can evade pretty easily. - You can greatly reduce incoming damage by blocking. Somehow your bare arms take sledgehammer blows with ease. - You can fix severed limbs with a health potion. I never had to do it, but it can happen. - Even if you are a masochist and love hard games, play on normal first. Hard mode isn't just increased difficulty, the locations of key items change around, and it is a bit confusing if you didn't play normal first. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Also to save you on inventory space, there are only 3 doors per fancy key you find, so don't worry about carrying them around after you find all of each one.
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admiraldennis posted:I'm very excited to be finally playing EarthBound. What's to know? Status effect spells are extremely powerful and many bosses are vulnerable. Using PK Flash at high levels is almost always worth it, as it attempts to inflict every single status effect that level of PK Flash can, up to and including diamondization and instant death.
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Zushio posted:Anything for Resident Evil 7? Checked the wiki and no mention. Seems like a game where blind overall is best maybe?
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Yeah I already beat the base game and blind was the way to go. Those few tips from earlier were nice though.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Personally I always thought condiments were a waste of a slot. I'd say this is accurate unless you have a version of the game that has the condiment glitch. Basically, load a character up with condiments, then put whatever food you want to use at the bottom of their inventory through judicious use of the Give command. Once in battle, have the character use the food item. If done correctly the game will use the condiment but not the item. Rinse and repeat for either absurdly cheap full heals+PP restore (Brain Food Lunch) or absurdly high stat gains (Rock Candy).
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Zushio posted:Yeah I already beat the base game and blind was the way to go. Those few tips from earlier were nice though. Get the DLC where you play as Jack's brother. You run around the swamp punching molded to death. And giant alligators.
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Leavemywife posted:Get the DLC where you play as Jack's brother. You run around the swamp punching molded to death. And giant alligators. If you got PSVR the DLCs are really the best way to have a buddy come over to try out VR for the first time. Theres a "Red Light Green Light" escape room, an action game with ya boy Chris Redfield, and the aformentioned swampman super punchout.
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Anything for Pyre? Only just finished the first battle outside the tutorial.
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Vidaeus posted:Anything for Pyre? Only just finished the first battle outside the tutorial. The game is very good at adapting to failures, don't feel forced to win every single game. May be worth it to kick difficulty up a notch if you're cruising. You won't have enough XP to max out every skill tree, choose one lvl 4 skill you like for each character and go for it. Moustaches are cool and good, don't even think about it.
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Haven't played Hollow Knight since the DLC/Expansions came out. Anything I should know? How hard is it to find the new content? Are we talking Dark Souls-level 'get a weird key item with useless flavor text from a random enemy then go to a completely separate featureless area with no indications that it's important'? Or can I find most of it just by being relatively thorough with exploring on a new file?
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For Transistor, is it possible to hit Clucker bombs back at them? Swear I did it once but I don't want to sit there getting myself blown up to test how it works if someone can just tell me. Tried Googling it to no avail.
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PMush Perfect posted:Haven't played Hollow Knight since the DLC/Expansions came out. Anything I should know? How hard is it to find the new content? Are we talking Dark Souls-level 'get a weird key item with useless flavor text from a random enemy then go to a completely separate featureless area with no indications that it's important'? Or can I find most of it just by being relatively thorough with exploring on a new file? Sometimes it's just a new cracked wall in a corner somewhere, but I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to be able to find the white defender if they're playing blind and don't even know he exists. That's one I wouldn't feel bad about looking up the location for. Everything else should be findable if you're thorough.
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Anything for ELEX? Specifically regarding good/bad skills and joining factions; I've played the Gothic and Risen games so I know these are kind of the sticky points of Piranha design.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:25
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I got Dying Light plus extras for 20 dollarydoos. If you're reading this, too late the sale's over. All I know is that it's a Ubisoft-style game with a bummer ending. Anything important?
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Apr 23, 2018 20:36
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I got Dying Light plus extras for 20 dollarydoos. If you're reading this, too late the sale's over. All I know is that it's a Ubisoft-style game with a bummer ending. Anything important? Just off the top of my head.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I got Dying Light plus extras for 20 dollarydoos. If you're reading this, too late the sale's over. All I know is that it's a Ubisoft-style game with a bummer ending. Anything important? The game is Mirror's Edge with zombies. Cutting your way through zeds is a massive waste of resources. Run around them as much as you can, only fight when you have to or it is to your economical advantage. Also firecrackers are incredibly cheap and super effective for clearing out spaces to work in.
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For the new god of war; any tips for gear and skills? I知 maybe 4 hours in and I feel like I知 not exactly swimming in upgrade mats; I知 paranoid that I値l spend them on upgrading my current gear, and then just find new gear soon after that値l make it obsolete. Am I overthinking it, does keeping your poo poo upgraded not matter too much?
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Any advice for Signal from Tolva? I'm a few hours in and I feel like I'm missing strategies beyond "drag dudes across the map to take bases".
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I got Dying Light plus extras for 20 dollarydoos. If you're reading this, too late the sale's over. All I know is that it's a Ubisoft-style game with a bummer ending. Anything important? Also worth noting that molotovs in the main game are kind of the win button, particularly against human enemies and if you can get the high ground (Anakin) against anything. Well except at night, you will die immediately to everything at night forever so never go anywhere at night ever, the end. anilEhilated posted:Anything for ELEX? Specifically regarding good/bad skills and joining factions; I've played the Gothic and Risen games so I know these are kind of the sticky points of Piranha design. Also worth noting that you may think the game is literally impossible to be good at before you get an NPC companion (there are about a half-dozen permanent ones, found usually through quests and sometimes through exploration). Once you have somebody to take some hits for you while you circle around and attack or fire from range without something charging you, suddenly it makes a lot more sense. Though if you are good at kiting you might be decent from the beginning, or at least once you have enough stats to equip something resembling a real weapon.
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Re: Dying Light The XP penalty for dying is rescinded during the night, so instead of holing up and sucking your thumb like a baby, go out there, get spooked, and have fun with it.
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If you stockpile UV flares, you can easily beat the crap out of the things that come out at night. For some reason, I had a ton of UV flares when I played through the game.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I got Dying Light plus extras for 20 dollarydoos. If you're reading this, too late the sale's over. All I know is that it's a Ubisoft-style game with a bummer ending. Anything important? Run! Killing zombies takes forever with starter weapons, so don't. Parkour around them unless you really need them dead. Humans will evade grenades. They won't avoid firecracker-bombs because they think it's just a firework.
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The Lone Badger posted:Parkour around them unless you really need them dead. or kick them into wall spikes, if you notice them. free quick exp 
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I know it just came out, but anything for Swords of Ditto?
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Anything for Divinity: Original Sin II? I've read the tips on the beforeiplay wiki which are very useful! Wanted to know if there are any items which I should be keeping for quest/crafting purposes that may not be obvious?
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