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PancakeTransmission posted:I mean she is yelling out THE TALLY OF SLAIN MONSTERS HAS BEEN UPDATED or whatever repeatedly (was 30 hours ago for me), and there's a big scoreboard which updates. Did you (and others) not think to go over and talk to her? Not really, no. She doesn't stand out at all, plus there's a ton of flavour dialogue in the slums. She doesn't get any camera focus as you walk past, and there's no marker until you get right up close. I only went to find her after seeing people mention it here, and didn't realise who I was meant to talk to until the barely noticeable person standing behind everyone else was highlighted with a small marker when I deliberately moved the camera over her.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:07
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Okay, I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this so apologies. What exactly do I need to do to complete the stagger effect part 1? I only have like 4 so far. I try staggering then using a sword ability on the enemy but it doesn't always work.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:08
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exquisite tea posted:Just completed Chapter 7. I haven't played FFVII in about 22 years, but so far the biggest change I've noticed is how they altered the framing around first and second Mako reactor core bombings. In the original game I don't remember anyone in AVALANCHE being all that concerned about the human cost, but in the remake you see that Shinra allowed it to happen in order to justify their wars and oppressive hold over Midgar. In the original I think Jessie even says that she's going to make the explosion bigger in Sector 5, not smaller. I can see how that might be controversial but I think it works here, first because it makes the question of "how could a group of 5 people including one guy with a 500lb sword evade security twice" more plausible, and second, because it leads to some more interesting characterization for Barret and other members of the team. You see Barret as someone who is willing to push on for a cause no matter the cost, and Tifa being more reluctant. And in the middle you have Cloud, who doesn't really have a moral compass so the work doesn't bother him, but obviously loyal to Tifa. One argued about fact is OG Jessie says the blast at the first reactor wasn't supposed to be so big. I chalk this up to the fact they're a ragtag crew of untrained slum terrorists working out of the basement of a bar and would absolutely gently caress up at bomb-making because that's the kinda poo poo that happens. But a lot of fans have been saying this is implying Shinra played a part in destroying their own reactor to seize power/demonise AVALANCHE - as in the remake.  And yeah, Roche is a brand new character, definitely a 2020 modern Square-Enix addition.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:18
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Kingtheninja posted:Okay, I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this so apologies. What exactly do I need to do to complete the stagger effect part 1? I only have like 4 so far. I try staggering then using a sword ability on the enemy but it doesn't always work. Stagger then use your triangle (unique) ability to quick fill your ATB.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:18
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Things that irritate the gently caress out of me: ATB gauges being used up even when the ability/spell doesn't get cast because the character got attacked And also what's going on with the slum areas? They look completely unfinished, like an upscaled PS1 game.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:21
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:And also what's going on with the slum areas? They look completely unfinished, like an upscaled PS1 game. They look great. Some people have said there are texture streaming issues. I've noticed it a few times on smaller objects and in Cloud's bedroom but not outside in the slums.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:23
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Things that irritate the gently caress out of me: ATB gauges being used up even when the ability/spell doesn't get cast because the character got attacked the unreal engine's always been a prima donna when it comes to texture loading, allegedly there's a patch in the works
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Apr 11, 2020 15:24
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It's everywhere in the slums... running it on SSD too. The weirdest thing is that they have modelled the roundest, nicest barrels that surely takes up thousands of polys, and put it against a ghastly 12x12 texture cliff face. It's best described as inconsistent. The most obvious is when tifa shows cloud the flat. The door right there looked like it came off the N64.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:25
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:It's everywhere in the slums... running it on SSD too. The weirdest thing is that they have modelled the roundest, nicest barrels that surely takes up thousands of polys, and put it against a ghastly 12x12 texture cliff face. It's best described as inconsistent. SE really seems to have a thing about lovingly modeling barrels. See XIV 1.0.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:33
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Reactor 5 mission question: I got the Elemental materia on platform H-07 but there's another purple materia on a beam kinda near H-01 and I have no idea how to get to it. Anyone manage to get it? Edit: figured it out. Ugh. Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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Apr 11, 2020 15:36
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Elephant Ambush posted:Reactor 5 mission question: I got the Elemental materia on platform H-07 but there's another purple materia on a beam kinda near H-01 and I have no idea how to get to it. Anyone manage to get it? Lower the platform you used to get to the blue materia.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:40
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HD DAD posted:SE really seems to have a thing about lovingly modeling barrels. See XIV 1.0. I think back to art class and its love of having us draw a lot of cylindrical and spherical objects and wonder if barrels are a part of that for graphic design.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:42
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This Sector 5 section sucks. I hate mazes.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:44
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It's barely a maze, there's the path forward and some side branches with treasure like every other dungeon, it just looks a bit more messy.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:54
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stev posted:Yeah I did end up going up to her, but she's just one of hundreds of NPCs and they're all pretty loud. There's nothing to indicate that she's more than background scenery. She gets a name above her text in the chat log on the left.
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Apr 11, 2020 15:57
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Sakurazuka posted:It's barely a maze, there's the path forward and some side branches with treasure like every other dungeon, it just looks a bit more messy. It took me forever to get out. I'm in the reactor now finally. Is there a fast way to heal everyone? It takes a long time to give people potions 1 at a time.
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Apr 11, 2020 16:13
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The game starts getting a lot harder at Airbuster, at least for me. Every boss and mini boss after that has been very difficult for me, unless you somehow have the correct Materia on the first time you fight them. I am never going to even bother with Hard mode. Also, the music in the first part of Sector 6 Slums sucks. It's like a track they pulled right out of FF13 and it gave me PTSD, and it doesn't even fit the theme of the area at all. The techno Wall Market theme is ok, though.
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Apr 11, 2020 16:22
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Elephant Ambush posted:It took me forever to get out. I'm in the reactor now finally. Benches, otherwise, no. GoGoGadget posted:The game starts getting a lot harder at Airbuster, at least for me. Every boss and mini boss after that has been very difficult for me, unless you somehow have the correct Materia on the first time you fight them. I am never going to even bother with Hard mode. Wait are you talking about Hollow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2RH6fLvJEw It's an instrumental of the games main theme. Full vocal theme is the games credit song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op59nu5sIwk Anyway, if the FF7RE soundtrack sounds FF13 at times it's because Masashi Hamauzu is the main composer of 7RE and the sole composer of XIII Onmi fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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Apr 11, 2020 16:23
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Seedge posted:She gets a name above her text in the chat log on the left. There like three hundred entries a minute in that log.
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Apr 11, 2020 16:24
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when theres a giant number tracking how many fiends ive killed i am usually inclined to see if i can talk to the girl in a half-shirt yelling about it
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Apr 11, 2020 16:31
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Starting to genuinely dislike the phase mechanic for bosses, the past three or four bosses I haven't gotten a single stagger because the second I get close it shifts phases and undoes everything.
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Apr 11, 2020 16:56
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I have a new ability on Tifa and I still can't get "the stagger effect pt 1" to go past 8/10. What the gently caress, game?
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Apr 11, 2020 16:58
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Onmi posted:Benches, otherwise, no. this thing is total bullshit and the fact that you can't use items like potions directly from the inventory is annoying potions are nearly infinite with how many you get and should be easier to spam if you have them because it's better than wasting mp on cure
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Apr 11, 2020 17:38
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Elephant Ambush posted:It took me forever to get out. I'm in the reactor now finally. Not super fast but hold down l1 on the screen for selecting potion (if you look there should be a toggle saying multi-use) that lets you spam using a item without the menu closing after using one at least.
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Apr 11, 2020 17:40
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As someone who had always read mako like mayko, it has bothered me far more than I thought it would. Thankfully it’s been the only thing that has bothered me.
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Apr 11, 2020 17:41
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Onmi posted:I think the best part about Barret is half the time he's trying to be a big burly hardass, and the other half he's trying really hard to make Cloud think he's cool. Barrett just wants you to pick him for that Gold Saucer date.
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Apr 11, 2020 17:44
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I wonder what level/gear they'll start the player out with in part 2 when it comes out. Start you at low levels again like the Mass Effect sequels/Xenosaga games did, or have some sort of like "you start at level 30 in this one" thing going on? I sorta doubt they'll start you off with an inventory full of materia and gear because when something is a series like this, they usually at least try to make it something a person could conceivably start in the middle of without being completely overwhelmed, but who knows.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:06
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Sakurazuka posted:Starting to genuinely dislike the phase mechanic for bosses, the past three or four bosses I haven't gotten a single stagger because the second I get close it shifts phases and undoes everything. The metagame involved around that is probably the only game mechanic I don't like. When I fought (Ch. 8) Reno in the church, I staggered them and blasted them with Cross Slash and they were literally standing around dazed and staggered with half HP and a little X marker over their health indicating that I was not allowed to do damage anymore until the game phased them lol I don't really see the point of doing it that way. Let me shave the next phase. The game is tightly designed enough that if you somehow manage to blow through an entire phase of a boss and basically skip it, you kind of deserve that win.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:10
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Here's really dumb question - what button do I press to cycle through the various on-screen map options? I went from compass at the top to map on the right and I don't know how. I'd like both!
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Apr 11, 2020 18:11
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Harrow posted:I wonder what level/gear they'll start the player out with in part 2 when it comes out. Start you at low levels again like the Mass Effect sequels/Xenosaga games did, or have some sort of like "you start at level 30 in this one" thing going on? They actually kept your entire spec between Mass Effect 2 & 3, adding new evolutions to the existing skill trees. The only thing that was removed were the ammo powers since those were changed to be consumables.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:13
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They are really trying to pull at your heartstrings with Jessie. And it’s working. 
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Just played the first hour and stepped out into the city for the first time I'm... I'm a terrorist, holy poo poo. This is worse than 9/11. We blew up a nuclear plant in the middle of a city  Barret is our bin Laden and we are mass murderers.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:35
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Even the plateside residences in Midgar seem kinda lovely. Also I just met Jesses parents! They are really gonna make that one sting.
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I’ve never played the original but it feels like I did through cultural osmosis and this game is neat so far, apart from finding the battle system clunkier than FFXV’s iteration.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:43
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Caidin posted:Even the plateside residences in Midgar seem kinda lovely. Also I just met Jesses parents! Seeing photos of her in her dad’s room just made me sad. 
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Apr 11, 2020 18:45
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Elephant Ambush posted:Is there a fast way to heal everyone? It takes a long time to give people potions 1 at a time. Out in the field unfortunately no, unlike the original where you could use potions and cure magic from the inventory. In battle you got some options such as pairing magnify and healing materia (magnify is the same as 'all' materia from the original) or the 'prayer' command materia which is incredibly powerful.
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Folks, I already achieved the pinnacle of this game. https://twitter.com/JakeMHS/status/1249031316215128071
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Phenotype posted:Just played the first hour and stepped out into the city for the first time I'm... I'm a terrorist, holy poo poo. This is worse than 9/11. We blew up a nuclear plant in the middle of a city Not really, just kinda. Did you miss that Shinra ordered all their robots to go berserk and blow up the reactor harder?
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