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EGSunBro posted:I cannot wait for this game, I bought a 3DS for it. Although I was still using my original DS so it was time for an upgrade anyway. Spotpass is the free set, yes. Paid DLC is another beast. It's been a long, long time since I've been this stoked for a game.
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Eddain posted:They really need to announce the bundle retailer(s) already. For once, Canada comes out on top.
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Jan 17, 2013 04:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT66kLCNx8U First 20 minutes of the game, if anyone is inclined.
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Jan 17, 2013 06:20
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I think one important distinction to make about Awakening's class change system is that each character can only class change into a limited set of classes based on their personality. For example, one character's gimmick is that he has an incredible lack of presence. He can class change into a thief. edit: yeah well balls to her vvvv RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Jan 17, 2013 16:38
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Demo is up (Canada) go wild  edit: Classic version not available in demo version what the poo poo is this NoA. edit2: aw shucks the character creator is completely gimped in the demo. Only default male is available. RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Jan 17, 2013 17:16
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I would love it if all level ups in the demo are amazing across the board.
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Jan 17, 2013 17:48
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Demo ends after Chapter 1. Tried it out on Hard mode, looks pretty good in terms of difficulty balance, at least from what I gathered. Definitely couldn't blindly rush in and enemies actually rushed you instead of standing place until you entered their range.
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Jan 17, 2013 18:08
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Eddain posted:Is there any sort of penalty to playing Casual? Is it like FE12 where the character becomes unusable for the rest of chapter and loses any level-ups they might've gotten? Does it affect their ending dialogue or your ending stats in any way? There is no penalty (aside from the unit leaving for the rest of the match). The only thing that you'll miss out on are character specific death quotes, which, whatever. RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Jan 18, 2013 07:45
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Is perma-death still just as perma-deathy in the DLC/streetpass battles? I would assume so, but if anyone has confirmation.
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Jan 18, 2013 22:03
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:It is, yes. You can just pay gold to recruit Streetpass/Spotpass characters if you don't want to risk losing any units in a skirmish. This is excellent because I'm going to pack my streetpass team with nothing but Vantage, Wrath, and Lethality  edit: Pass, Lightning Speed, also got all five Slayer skills on one character. Shadow Ninja 64 posted:I went ahead and took a look at the skills list in the OP and drat, it seems like you can really make some devastating units with a little reclassing and some patience. The min/maxer in me is pleased. Not a picture, but here is a class roll (character/class spoilers I suppose): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_41CmPwRQ RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jan 19, 2013 |
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Jan 19, 2013 04:18
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:On topic, if I for some reason chose the girl avatar, would there be a shoehorned love story between her and Chrom? If so I'll stick with the bromance. Only if you choose to support those two. The Avatar can marry any character of the opposite gender.
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Jan 19, 2013 04:26
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Come on guys, the game isn't even out yet there should be no reason for dropping massive spoiler bombs. edit: I absolutely love the battle scenes. They feel incredibly dynamic to me, especially once you get Dual Strikes going at a consistent rate. (Especially if you stock both your dudes with Brave weapons and completely wail on the enemy with like 6(!!) attacks in a row  )vvvv RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Jan 19, 2013 |
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Jan 19, 2013 07:54
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Zurai posted:I hadn't thought about it til now, but does it work with staves? It does not. edit: In addition you can combine it with forged weapons with massive stats and go to town, forever.
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Jan 19, 2013 22:49
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To just talk about how insanely stacked you can build your own team, here are some mechanics that I've spoiler'd in case no one cares: The Pair Up system can make for some hilariously one-sided battles. To give an example, let's say I have a female Avatar with +Spd/-Def at S-rank support with Chrom. Given an Assassin Avatar (designated A) and a Great Lord Chrom with Dual Support+ skill (designated B), Chrom has a ~93% of Dual Striking per round. This means that in a single battle, if you can double, the attack order could go: A1, B1, Enemy, A2, B2 However, given Brave weapons, both Avatar and Chrom can attack twice per round: A1, B1, B2, A2, B3, B4, Enemy, A3, B5, B6, A4, B7, B8 With the fact that Armsthrift could feasibly allow a lot of classes to use Brave weapons all day, and forging can give a +5 Mt, and that each of Avatar's attacks can proc a skill (Astra ), you can wail on the enemy for a good long time. This sort of ties in why I love the battle scenes so much, as your units can end up hopping all over the place proc'ing anything under the sun.This is all just theory-crafting about nerdy video game poo poo though. In practice, forging weapons can get really pricey and grinding units to get Armsthrift is kind of really tedious. That said, some of the tail-end DLC looks to be insane. Endorph posted:Question. If you give a character, Say, Aether and lethality, will it roll once for Aether activation and once for Lethality activation? Or will it only roll for one of the skills, or can you not have two Activation skills at once? It will roll for both, in order of least likely to most. In the case of a 50 skill unit with Lethality (Skill/4)% and Aether (Skill/2)%, it would roll: (1) Lethality: 50/4 = 12.5% chance of proc'ing. On the 87.5% chance it doens't proc Lethality, it will roll for Aether: (2) Aether: 0.875 * (0.50/2) = 21.875% chance of proc'ing. So, in total, you'll have a 34.375% chance of activating something. RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jan 19, 2013 |
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Jan 19, 2013 23:25
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Terper posted:Of course, poo poo like that can backfire if you're not careful. (DLC spoilers, I guess. Nothing big.) This is what I love (about the later DLC in particular), is that despite how powerful you can build up your own guys, Fire Emblem will still be Fire Emblem and punch you in the dick.
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Jan 19, 2013 23:35
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cheetah7071 posted:You can only have a total of 20 spotpass/DLC/streetpass characters with you at any given time, as well. I really hope they upped the limit or something for the localization. 20 is way too low for how many characters you can recruit. It isn't going to happen  .
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Jan 20, 2013 03:18
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Endorph posted:EDIT: Also, how 'unique' are the spotpass character models? I doubt much at all but I hope they at least bothered making Oliver as tubby as he is in FE9/10. I could tell you the answer to this but I'm not because it would make you sad.
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Jan 20, 2013 03:36
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TurnipFritter posted:Man is the leveling in the demo indicative of the actual game? Because I keep getting perfect or near-perfect levels. Growth levels in this game are a lot higher than the usual Fire Emblems.
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Jan 20, 2013 06:03
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Y'all are lying about them growth rates (courtesy of some poster on NeoGAF)
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Jan 20, 2013 07:51
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I have a good feeling about this one, guys. It's going to sell like hotcakes I can feel it.
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Jan 22, 2013 01:06
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Silly question but dudes can also have eyepatches, right? Negative.
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Jan 22, 2013 03:22
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Dr Pepper posted:Wait is this saying that hairstyles and faces are limited to body styles? Yes, each gender has three body types (tall, medium, short) that come with different sets of hair and faces.
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Jan 22, 2013 04:08
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:Man I started looking at the skills link in the OP again and suddenly I was planning out how I wanted to make a Female Avatar and turn her into a harbinger of flying magic destruction and how I could use Lightning Speed to score a kill and then use the second turn to Rainbow Cry buff the rest of my army. This game can't come out soon enough. I'm going to be rolling a +Spd/-Def glass cannon Assassin because  .She will have the lowest Def/Res score in the entire army so I'm pretty sure if someone even looks in her general direction she will crumple over and die.
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Jan 22, 2013 05:18
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It's pointed out in the game, too. For fun, do sidequest 4 before sidequest 2.
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Jan 22, 2013 05:45
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They are making up for Radiant Dawn in spades as this is the supportiest Fire Emblem by far. Outside of a couple special exceptions, every male can basically support every female.
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Jan 22, 2013 21:30
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Arbitrary Coin posted:You could also try getting mothers to pass it down to their male kids if you can grind that much before pairing shenanigans for more MURDER. This is me, I am doing this. RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Jan 23, 2013 01:21
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Alacron posted:
Wow, that. That sure is a penis. Resisting buying a WiiU is becoming more and more challening, but I just don't have money to blow .
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Jan 23, 2013 19:53
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Neo_Crimson posted:Does Astra work like PoR where all the attacks only consume 1 weapon use, or is it like RD where each hit consumes a use? I also heard that each hit of Astra can miss, is this true? Can each hit crit too? Astra only consumes one weapon use in this. Each hit of astra can crit, although inversely each hit of astra can also proc an enemy's Great Shield/Holy Shield skill. Additionally, if you proc a Dual Guard during an enemy's Astra, you will proc it for all five hits (making for some rather goofy animations). I am unsure about whether each hit can miss individually or not.
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Jan 24, 2013 16:42
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Full site is up now, go have a look see at all the names. Now where's my Fire Emblem streetpass puzzle, nintendo  .
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Jan 25, 2013 01:18
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Walhart Tiki Say'ri Some extra characters you can access by messing around with the url.
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Jan 25, 2013 02:11
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One other important difference between Normal and Hard is that on Hard, enemy reinforcements will move the same turn they arrive.
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Here's a brief "How to Eugenics" in case anyone just wants a quick cliff notes sort of deal on what to watch out for: 1) Stat Caps Each character has their own individual set of stat cap modifiers. This is added to normal class stat caps, giving each character a little diversity in their portfolio. For the kids, their stat cap modifiers are the sum of the father's and the mother's, +1 Father: +1 Str, -2 Mag, +0 Luk Mother: 0 Str, +1 Mag, +1 Luk Kid: +2 Str, +0 Mag, +2 Luk Stat Cap modifiers for all the parents can be found here, courtesy of Serenes Forest (some character spoilers). 2) Class Sets For the first generation, each character has a total of three base classes they are free to class change to at anytime, along with their respective advanced classes. For the kids, they will inherit the class options of both their father and mother. There are a couple of caveats to this: - Dancer and Lord classes cannot be inherited, but Manaketes, Taguels, and Villagers (Villagers to sons only) can. - Gender-specific classes will be changed. For example, a father that would normally pass on the male-only fighter class to his son will pass on pegasus knight to his daughter, instead. This is actually character-specific as opposed to class-specific, as one father may have fighter --> pegasus knight while another may have fighter --> knight. - Since the Avatar can swap to any class (again, excluding special classes and gender specific classes), so too can their kids. 3) Skills Each parent will pass on their fifth and/or last slotted skill to their kid. This is decided as soon as you enter the sidequest that you recruit their respective kid from, so you have all the time in the world to grind up your skills before you start the mission**. The important note about this mechanic is that you can pass on skills that are normally tied to gender-specific to kids of the opposite gender. For example, women with access to Lightning Speed(!!) can pass on that skill to their sons, who normally would be unable to class change to pegasus knight and unlock it. This also applies to skills that are tied to special classes as well, (outside of DLC classes). The real spergy part of it, is that some parents will pass on better classes to kids of the opposite gender than others. Here's a quick list of the important ones: Gaius --> Will pass on pegasus knight (lightning speed) to daughters Donnel --> Will pass on pegasus knight (lightning speed) to daughters Vaike --> Will pass on mercenary (armsthrift) to daughters **There is one special exception to this, where there is a time-limit: While most other kids are recruited in sidequests that can be done at anytime, Chrom's kid will auto-join by Chapter 13. RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:Can you adjust the order of your skills, or is that sort of thing fixed? Yes, of course. You are free to swap around between any you have unlocked at any time.
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I'm assuming you've played all the DLC? How are they? Would you say it's worth it to shell out for all of them?
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Jan 28, 2013 19:30
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So there's some buzz going around that the street date has been broken in Toronto and EBGames might start selling/shipping copies a bit early (whether or not this applies only to the Toronto area is unclear). Fair warning, my only source is GameFAQs. edit: i am crossing all my fingers that this comes to vancouver.
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Jan 29, 2013 03:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-9FWGJx69E
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Jan 29, 2013 07:13
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Endorph posted:I'm 90% sure Female 2 and Female 3 are the same voice actor. I had this exact same thought until a friend of mine called me an idiot.
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Jan 29, 2013 07:36
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https://twitter.com/EBGamesCanada/status/296288264309051394 Gonna head to EB after class aaaaaaaaahhhhh
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Hey Vancouver goons, ebgames just called to say I can pick up Fire Emblem today. Additionally a friend of mine got confirmation that his copy has shipped. 
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Just picked mine up in Surrey at Guildford mall. Bonus: Didn't get shot! Looks like they had about 10 copies shelved with 10 books. I'm so proud right now  .
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