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I'm up to Chapter 3 and I'm really enjoying the look of the game as well as the collecting blades stuff. My first rare was Perun and it's taken me FOREVER to learn how to unlock her Level 2 stuff. It's a shame I can't actually do it yet. I don't get why hers is so weird but everyone else feels more normal. It's also cool that Rex is from Bolton and Nia is Welsh! Not as much of a fan of Pyra having a generic American accent but you can't win them all. And I loving hate all the easy bossfights that then act as though I lost. God drat, why does it do that? It makes the fight feel pointless. I've wasted like 10 minutes fighting Malos or whatever and then a 30 minute cutscene tells me "Actually, you lost". Someone earlier said there's an easy way to get the map. What is it other than "Press X, scroll to the location you're in, scroll to the part of that location, look there"? Because it's the worst part of the UI to me and I just want to look at where to go since the compass is absolutely worthless. Taear fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Dec 8, 2017 |
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abraxas posted:I do however wish that the skip travel map was the actual map you can bring up as an overlay in-game as opposed to them just blowing up the tiny mini map area to fullscreen and zooming in way too far. How did nobody notice this was total crap for navigation? I think my Skip Travel access is like 75% checking the map and 25% actually wanting to quicktravel somewhere. Ugh. XCX made it a pain to leave the map and now they're making it a pain to get to it. Surely in playtesting the testers were going onto the thing constantly to check where to go? I don't get why they have to make it such a huge struggle! And XC1 did have some boss battles where it does what this does but I didn't feel it was every single time. Here, unless it's some generic monster, it's every single fight so far.
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Srice posted:It works a lot better in some instances than others, like the fight where bad poo poo happens after bringing the boss down to half health. I was thrashing them though so it just felt strange. It constantly telling me we're on the brink of death when I'm not even hurt is extra grating.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:The point I think is that bosses are challenging and for a lesser player who might die a few times to them, the time where they win with barely any health might have a fixed cinematic like that make more sense. You've optimized that fight to the point where you dont see that (using mechanics well, being overlevelled, just being a veteran rpg player) and it might make better sense if you were a newer player. Plus, its super anime and its an anime cliche. I just wish it was a bit less often. It's not as grating as the ridiculous boobs and constant underwear shots but it's still annoying. Two or three times I can deal with but it's genuinely been every proper boss battle so far.
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Dec 8, 2017 14:20
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I dunno if anyone knows the answer to this but I'm going to ask anyway. I'd been only using rare cores if I can spend four boosters at least on it, because the times I've done it I've had rare blades. But I don't know now if that was just a coincidence or not. Does getting up your truth, justice and etc just change the chances of certain elements and that's it? Or are certain rare blades (eg: Perun, which loads of people seem to get) increased chances because they're Ice and there aren't generic ones with Ice?
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Dec 9, 2017 09:40
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Caidin posted:I'm in chapter 3 and fighting a huge nerd. How long is this game gonna pull this "win a boss fight, lose the cut scene" horseshit? I just got off Cold Steel 2 I don't need this crap. It's the worst part of the game. Bad UI aside stop making it seem like I've lost fights when I thrashed the person. It's just bad game design.
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Dec 9, 2017 19:54
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Caidin posted:I just finished chapter 3! I figured Vandham wasn't in it for the long haul, even without the little mechanical clues. But at least he went out More chapter 3 spoilers. It annoyed me that the cutscene went on for so long though. Maybe let me play as Vandham fighting them with some buffs until I inevitably lose or get told I've lost? I dunno. Especially since I'd not used him even once so it felt a bit weird. Apparently it's called the Aegis because in the JP version it's called the Grail and that's their translation. It won't get explained other than that!
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Dec 10, 2017 14:49
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as all hell, and then I got to see Akhos have to scramble around dodging orbital lasers so that was fun. Poppi speeding in with the Tora for the drill combo was fantastic and it's bullcrap it didn't work but at least they get to pull moves in a cutscene, which is more justice then Riki ever got.
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Barudak posted:I assule for field skills it only counts blades currently equipped on active characters, not all equipped blades on all characters? It's definitely all equipped on all characters. They're assumed to be with you. Roc popped up for me loads and Vandham wasn't active in my party at the time. I've just unlocked Dahlia. Why does she exist? I guess I can live with Pyra and the stupid underskirt shots of Mythra but loving hell. She even has a rabbit tail.
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Dec 10, 2017 15:57
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ConanThe3rd posted:Eh that was one thing, the problem I have is that the game REALLY wants you to use the Sora-Donald-Goofy (ATK-HEL-TNK) configration but if you have a TNK on Nia (Which I did, due to getting Finch on her) that kinda goes out of the window at speed the moment you try to set up a combo and that's compounded by that guy's ablity to basicaly paralise you basicaly at will. How do you mean? Being healer/tank/attack doesn't affect your combos. I had a tank on Nia too and it was totally fine.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Not having someone on Healing tends to make things go downhill fast. I tend to run Nia with two Healers and an Attacker, just so she's more likely to stop Tora dying than not. But at that point you're only able to have two blades and Dromach is always a healer, so she must have been HLR/TNK. Which is how I fought it and it was fine! And I've been playing for twenty hours and haven't seen the other party members. So please don't spoil it, they're not revealed early and I'd rather not know, at least!
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Dec 10, 2017 17:23
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DLC Inc posted:boy being 2 or 3 levels about the bosses for the end of the factory sequence really helped. also thank god you don't actually have to battle Rosa with 2 people the whole way. I kept thinking "this is it, my waterloo" XCX has serious interface issues as well. My only assumption is that what I want in an interface isn't what they think their customers want.
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Devoyniche posted:Yeah Ive had this happen more times than once and it's very loving annoying. Especially because I can heal but only once, and then I have to wait, or Im caught in between waiting. I think it may have something to do with the AI trying to chain up blade combo elements?, and if you have a blade that can heal it puts less emphasis on switching back, but it's lovely no matter what. The AI doesn't feel like it gives half a poo poo about chaining up elements. I've often started a Water one that requires another water and found that Nia's switched over to Ice or whatever. It actually feels entirely random! Now I've read about Truth/Justice/Compassion/Bravery I've seen that they have little elements floating around them when you choose the boosters so I guess they do influence the element. But all three of the rare blades I've had from "common" cores have come from increasing one of those four stats above 8. Which is maybe coincidence? I wish I knew for sure. Justice seems to be dark/light and I thought normal blades couldn't have that! Taear fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Calaveron posted:Electra the second most upsetting looking blade after Vess Dahlia is more upsetting than Electra. Electra is just standard creepy anime, Dahlia is something else. And I'm floored that the Merc Missions don't count down when you're not playing. I seriously can't believe that.
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Dec 10, 2017 18:47
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Evil Fluffy posted:Electra looks far, far better than Dahlia and it's not even close. Dahlia might have the worst voice in the game on top of her bizarre appearance. I'd have thought getting people to hop in and set merc missions was the entire reason for them existing. To keep you logging in and the game in your mind for when DLC comes out, you know.
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Dec 10, 2017 19:02
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Evil Fluffy posted:The game outright states that Luck affects it. Equip Luck accessories and maybe a blade (or blades) with a chip that boosts luck by 50? I forget what weapon type gets that boost from the gem(?) chips though. Maybe fists? When I went 2 for 5 on rare blades for the 4th party member I also used 5 boosters on every blade. Once you're in chapter 4 and can get the 3rd tier cannister you'll be swimming in boosters if you salvage for a bit. Especially if you get the one shop deed that gives +10 to your max booster count so that you can hold 15 of each type. I didn't have any luck boosting stuff on the 4th party member though when they had their run of crazy luck. It'd be nice if it was actually clear though. Do 5 points of luck increase the percentage chance of a rare blade from 10 to 11? Something like that would be good. And Dahlia is the rabbit woman with breasts the size and length of her legs. Google her, as I'd rather not post a photo for those who don't want to be spoiled.
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Andrast posted:Nobody knows if the boosters do anything Boosters (or at least the four stats) definitely affect what elemental affinity the blades get. The elementals are floating around the stone when you choose which booster you want. I mean I have no idea if that makes a rare blade. It seems that way to me but I'm sure it's a coincidence.
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It's pretty annoying that every sidequest is about 6 steps. I'm up to ones that require merc missions now and it's frustrating that I can't finish them without a big long wait. Did my first blade sidequest for Electra, that was really interesting. I didn't expect it to work quite like it did! Almost like if every Pokémon had their own quest.
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Crawfish posted:There's an update coming for the game mid to late next month. Giving you in-game free items for buying the expansion pass is weird and I don't like it.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:edit: Also pressing X going to the current map layer should've been designed that way by default. At least they fixed it. It shocks me that at no point in the testing of the game did a person go "Why does the quick travel always start at Argentum?" to the developers.
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Tae posted:I don't think they're patching pyra's clothes All of the women blades have stupid clothes. Just look at that blue one Morag has or even at ones that are children like Electra. It's like the worst anime and it makes me uncomfortable as hell. I'm just waiting for a scene where Rex and Nia are swimming or something and there's a "misunderstanding" and ugh. In other news though I'm really impressed that every Mor Ardanian character has a Scottish accent. It's rare to see attention to detail like that. It's a shame they don't speak in a Scottish "voice" like in Witcher 3 but you can't win them all. In fact it's just generally strange that the game's such a mishmash of really good attention to detail and then the worst possible way of doing things slapped in there too. It's mad. Taear fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Aside from some poor direction in certain scenes where more emotion was needed, the english dub has an amazing amount of effort put into the localization. The game doesn't really give you a chance to notice it, but all the Urayans have Australian accents, and the Gormotti are all Welsh. I'd only noticed the named Urayans and Gormotti having those accents, but then again there aren't many of those in cutscenes. It occurred to me when I was doing the quest for the blade with the human face that's name begins with V - her driver is Mor Adanian but lives on Gormotti and he had a Scottish accent still but not as pronounced. It was good! I hope everyone from where Rex lives has a Bolton accent.
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atholbrose posted:I can't believe the big story DLC is, like, almost a year away. It's always like that though with games. I hope it's post-game because if it isn't I'm not going to bother. It feels like a big mistake to release DLC that's just taking place mid-game when it comes out so much later because the biggest fans who got it early days probably won't bother playing through a game this huge over again.
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Doc V posted:You can't give the kid a silver cylinder, period. Contrary to what the Perun quest guide video says, you can't just give the quest givers what they ask for, you specifically have to give them something better. I thought my game had bugged when I never got the prompt to give the other kid a Nopon Chess Set despite owning multiple, but no, the video was just wrong. Does any other character have anything like the Perun unlock stuff? It seems by far the hardest and the fact that it's for the level 2 affinity stuff really hurts if you want to actually use her. quote:I think there was a bit of confusion regarding if the ideas actually do anything besides affecting elements? Well, I was going through the informants out of curiosity and the one in Goldmouth has a bit that says "as a driver's ideas grow, so does their chance of awakening stronger blades" I wonder if it's better to have a decent mix - like 4 of each - or a single one super high? My Rex has a decent spread but Nia's Bravery is really high in comparison to his.
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Tiger Tiger is annoying because you can't just keep repeating it. Why do I get returned to the game and have to click through it all again to start over? Just let me keep doing it! Also I'm finding the compass super annoying. I wait until the red/blue square is central in it and then walk in that direction. But sometimes it's central even when the thing you're after is over to your right or left. During Chapter 4 (I think?) I was on some rooftops trying to follow a mechanical blade and they leaped over a fence. So I spent ages on top of the buildings trying to drop over it because that's where the thingy showed and getting the actual map up takes loads of clicks so I thought "I'll just use the compass". Turns out I didn't need to do that at all and I wasted loving ages just running about. Taear fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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DrManiac posted:So is it better to specialize with blade pairings or be versatile? I'm leaning specialize since you can't control when your party switches and nia loves to stop healing in the middle of me getting my poo poo kicked in. Just keep throwing Crystals down and using the boosters, you'll get one even with commons eventually. I find that it's best to specialise because of that reason. However your teammates seem more likely to switch if it's an element that's needed in the current combo. So if you want Nia to keep healing and your tank blade on her is Electric then don't use combos that lead to electric because she'll switch to it. That has worked for me really well so far.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I find two healers and an attacker work well on Nia, because it keeps her keeping everyone alive most of the time but still able to deal damage if everyone's not in imminent danger of dying. Sticking a Tank on her is asking for trouble though, because if she switches off that with aggro she's gonna suddenly be very squishy. She has it for me just because I got Electra and had nobody else to put her on. So far it's been fine but once I can actually have someone that uses blades (so not the nopon) then she'd be ATK/HLR/HLR for me too.
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I'm so surprised there's more to Dagos. No wonder he seems so rubbish compared to the other blades. It's annoying that you've not really got a way to find that out - because why the gently caress would you ever be using him without knowing there's more to unlock?
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brand engager posted:After you unlock these the switch transforms into a cop and shoots you In all of Electra's cutscenes you see up her skirt. Every single one. And not in a subtle way, in a proper "LOOK AT THIS" way.
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Chaosfirev posted:Is Electra the one with a hammer? Yea the vampire girl with the hammer. Emphasis on "girl" there. I'd been using gold cylinders off the side of Feif of Forgetfulness in Mor Ardain but it keeps giving me different buttons to press and it's too fast. So one time it'll be X Y Y and then it'll be Y X Y and stuff and it takes me a second to remember which one Y and X is, so I miss it.
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Do you need to raise affinity to get certain blades personal quests or is it random? The Electra one just started randomly when I went into Torigoth when she was only at 1 affinity.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Merc missions don't cycle through time when the switch is in sleep mode? motherfucker It's annoying that some main quests (and side quests) require a merc mission so you just sort of...bum around for half an hour. I mean, really? There's also so many requirements for the different quests and it's so much bother. But that's sort of the idea of the game I guess, tonnes and tonnes of systems for no real reason.
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Pollyanna posted:Yeah, this game has a serious case of feature bloat. There’s tons of crap to be done and I personally would have preferred if they refined what was already there first. When you have sidequests that all have 5 or so steps that require you to go all over it's sort of annoying. But when that sidequest also has a merc mission in that requires 2 bitballs and a female blade as well as an animal? That's even more annoying because it's down to random chance. Why do that? It just feels like it's justification for all the extra systems and weapons and etc they've thrown in.
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MechaX posted:So I'm in the middle of Chapter 3, and... uh, are the battles supposed to be taking a long time? Combat is quite slow. The game suffers from the disease that there's loads of fancy mechanics so you should be using them all the time and if you don't, you're not going to be doing anything. And even with those it can take a while! Rex's damage is only good if you're doing an art and auto attack damage is pretty blah, especially with the Aegis sword.
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Barudak posted:Starting whenever you can go to Mor Ardain you want to at minimum salvage enough to get salvager rank B as the accesory that gives is one of the best in the game. How much scavenging do you actually need to do for that? I'm at E and feel like I've done loving loads.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:man I just like typing that phrase cut me some slack The story feels like it's been written by aliens and the way the characters react to about half of it is a lot like when Tommy Wiseau laughs at the terrible story in "The Room". But most anime is like that, what can you do.
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Barudak posted:Getting Mor Ardain and Gormott to 5 was enough I think. Ita surprisngly little for how much the game expects you to do Me and you have really different definitions of "little". And hey Dack Fayden, tag your spoilers thanks.
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Out of curiosity, what do people think about the pouch items? I'm finding them an annoying bit of busywork and while they give nice buffs I think it'd be better suited to just another accessory slot.
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Pollyanna posted:Hahahahah, it turns out you can just speak to one Nopon over and over and grind out the Nopon Wisdom conditions on anybody. Are you absolutely certain? I tried talking to that one outside Bana's room in Argentum and it wasn't going up :/
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Andrast posted:It works but you need to zone out when talking to the same person twice. Thanks! It doesn't seem like it works with merchants at all.
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Pollyanna posted:I ground it up by talking to Gegebi and Limuli (3rd/4th floor outside in Goldmouht) after one another over and over, so maybe you can't talk to the same person in a row, and have to switch off? Now that's a good plan, I'll have a try!
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