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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Is a high Harmony worth giving up having different Affinities for? In my experience, no not at all. Maleketh posted:What the gently caress is he even supposed to be? Nightwing? Some of the other costumes for Shu have this sort of "future" theme going on. With the five tiger generals with a sort of Super Sentai thing going on. They aslo get beam weapon DLC to go with them. 
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I just saw Dynasty Warriors 8 on steam. I didn't know they still made these games. Has the series ever evolved beyond pressing X 1,000 times to win? When I was in high school and played I remember it not being a huge challenge. vv Alright yeah, getting this Blast of Confetti fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 13:20
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I feel like I'm playing DW5 all over again. Jesus this game is great. I feel bad for anyone having troubles with the game just functioning, hope it works eventually. In the spirit of "Ancient Chinese Genocide Simulator" moments of awesome, I during the fourth Wei mission, I ran Cao Ren and managed to break his rage musou and racked up a 3731 hit combo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKltXeMhXXM And yes it is possible to kill Lu Bu in Hu Lao Gate. Kill his wife, this makes him enrage and focus solely on the general (hopefully you) who killed her. Run around like a demon possessed while your allies all do basic attacks to his back. He ignores them because he only wants you. Cao Cao ended up getting the death blow while I was running around trying to find more musou or health and trying to not die.
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May 14, 2014 13:29
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Blast of Confetti posted:I just saw Dynasty Warriors 8 on steam. I didn't know they still made these games. Has the series ever evolved beyond pressing X 1,000 times to win? When I was in high school and played I remember it not being a huge challenge. They are still pretty easy but the gameplay has changed slightly in that you can't just bumrush the end guy anymore, you'll generally have a series of objectives like meeting up with someone, beating some key officer, blowing up siege weapons, etc. and actually are actually to some extent enacting these battles rather than just wading through killing dudes until you eventually kill the boss. If effortlessly slaughtering thousands of dudes in the process of trying to juggle slightly tougher dudes does not appeal to you, I would probably stay away from this.
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May 14, 2014 13:32
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Blast of Confetti posted:I just saw Dynasty Warriors 8 on steam. I didn't know they still made these games. Has the series ever evolved beyond pressing X 1,000 times to win? When I was in high school and played I remember it not being a huge challenge. No, they haven't really evolved much beyond layering more subsystems and modes on top, but it's still a lot of fun, especially if you haven't played any of them in years. I got sour on the series somewhere between DW 5 and 6, and I'm really enjoying 8. I really do wish they could get past the technical stuff, though. I don't mind the fact that they're so ugly, but I don't understand why there are still invisible troops running around in 2014.
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May 14, 2014 13:33
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Jibo posted:They are still pretty easy but the gameplay has changed slightly in that you can't just bumrush the end guy anymore, you'll generally have a series of objectives like meeting up with someone, beating some key officer, blowing up siege weapons, etc. and actually are actually to some extent enacting these battles rather than just wading through killing dudes until you eventually kill the boss. Yeah, been watching some vids and this looks pretty good. It got flashier, which can make up for eh objectives
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May 14, 2014 13:34
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Did you know you can juggle officers with the ballistas forever? I spent five minutes giggling to myself juggling Wang Ping until he went into space.
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May 14, 2014 13:43
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Normal is basically easy braindead X mash for the most part. If you want a legit challenge that eats you, go for the higher difficulty. It really pushes you to learn the new mechanics.
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May 14, 2014 13:53
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Tae posted:Normal is basically easy braindead X mash for the most part. If you want a legit challenge that eats you, go for the higher difficulty. It really pushes you to learn the new mechanics. Starting on hard is pointless if your faction is level 1, you'll rack up amazing hit combos but actually killing someone, even the basic mooks takes a bit of time. Time that's spent watching your morale meter plummet or the sounds of various officers getting horribly slaughtered.
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May 14, 2014 13:58
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How do I set DW8XLCE resolution to 1680*1050?
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May 14, 2014 14:15
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Sir Rabia Tirnova posted:How do I set DW8XLCE resolution to 1680*1050? You can't, unless there's some .ini edit I don't know about. Sad to say, but 16:10 resolutions are dying out. It feels like fewer and fewer games support them these days.
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May 14, 2014 14:21
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Hakkesshu posted:You can't, unless there's some .ini edit I don't know about. Sad to say, but 16:10 resolutions are dying out. It feels like fewer and fewer games support them these days. Haha what? Glad I didn't buy this then.
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May 14, 2014 14:23
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Hakkesshu posted:You can't, unless there's some .ini edit I don't know about. Sad to say, but 16:10 resolutions are dying out. It feels like fewer and fewer games support them these days. Good. 16:9 is proper widescreen anyway. Tired of having to crop all these drat 16:10 wallpapers to fit my proper monitor.
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May 14, 2014 14:37
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Octolady posted:
That's I believe supposed to be looking dopey and passive, but potentially concealing a crafty intellect. Put him in that outfit though and BEWARE the Night Rapist.
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May 14, 2014 15:43
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5er posted:That's I believe supposed to be looking dopey and passive, but potentially concealing a crafty intellect. Put him in that outfit though and BEWARE the Night Rapist. The hands really don't help.
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May 14, 2014 15:47
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What's the go to level for getting weapons easily? I forget which DW it was, but I remember just running through a quick level a bunch of times to get 4th weapons.
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May 14, 2014 17:00
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The easiest way to get weapons up to 3-stars is to just go through a story mode until the last level, then buy poo poo from the blacksmith, burn through the level, rinse, repeat. That'll do for most story modes. Anything higher and you're probably best doing Ambition mode, since all the levels there are automatically short and to the point and then you can just liquidate all the drops in the Blacksmith. 5th and 6th weapons are specific drops in levels for doing certain things, but half their bonuses are fixed so you're often better off making a custom loadout on a 4-star weapon. Stelas fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 17:05
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Stelas posted:The easiest way to get weapons up to 3-stars is to just go through a story mode until the last level, then buy poo poo from the blacksmith, burn through the level, rinse, repeat. That'll do for most story modes. Anything higher and you're probably best doing Ambition mode, since all the levels there are automatically short and to the point and then you can just liquidate all the drops in the Blacksmith. Not to mention that a sufficiently-upgraded Blacksmith straight-up sells level-4 weapons.
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May 14, 2014 19:20
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DW8 on PC is good and fun and runs pretty well overall, better than I expect it to for sure. There is one question, though. Is there a way to change the deadzone on joystick controls? Because moving either a character or the camera in a diagonal direction causes it either said character or the camera to hit a complete loving crawl. (Also, I really hope DW8 sells well and Koei puts out SW4 for PC)
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May 14, 2014 19:57
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Picked up DW8XL:CE, which remains an utter pleasure to type, for the Vita. Should keep me busy during downtime.
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May 14, 2014 19:58
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5er posted:That's I believe supposed to be looking dopey and passive, but potentially concealing a crafty intellect. Someone flat out says this in one of the camp conversations in WO3 (forget which character) that Liu Shan wears the fool's mask to hide his true nature. Maleketh posted:What the gently caress is he even supposed to be? Nightwing? Basically a mook from a toku series, like the Shocker troops from Kamen Rider.
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May 14, 2014 20:05
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Is a high Harmony worth giving up having different Affinities for? Harmony is pretty good with two of Lu Bu's weapons The weapon switch buff for halberds makes you attack faster and hit multiple times per attack, so you can switch weapons and do an attack string then switch back and repeat. It turns the game into EZmode.
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May 14, 2014 20:41
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Giving Lu Bu two Halberds makes him basically invincible and lets you win fights on hard or lower in a few seconds of mashing square, it's crazy.
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May 14, 2014 20:48
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Does anyone know if that buff stacks with the Switch Counter buff?
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May 14, 2014 21:15
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Chortles posted:Does anyone know if that buff stacks with the Switch Counter buff? I want to say yes since I think that weapons with switch-in attacks fire them off after the counter.
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May 14, 2014 21:40
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Elliotw2 posted:Giving Lu Bu two Halberds makes him basically invincible and lets you win fights on hard or lower in a few seconds of mashing square, it's crazy. You can do this with anyone! This is basically how I got a lot of the tougher 5 star weapons. Give a pair of halberds and Red Hare to anyone and they will wreck everything regardless of affinity/proficiency.
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May 14, 2014 22:01
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Shima Honnou posted:Do he still have the crazy wrestling moves that have a crowd chanting for him? Please say yes, I'm still downloading the game. Yes, and his weapon is a boat
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May 14, 2014 22:42
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:Yes, and his weapon is a boat The main reason I like 8 over 7 is that I like every character having a distinct weapon. It just feels better, and less like model swaps.
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May 14, 2014 22:50
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Stelas posted:The main reason I like 8 over 7 is that I like every character having a distinct weapon. It just feels better, and less like model swaps. Same for me, although I freely admit that some character suffered from the transition. Sima Zhao 
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May 14, 2014 23:25
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Maleketh posted:Same for me, although I freely admit that some character suffered from the transition. Sima Zhao I liked his new weapon, and I thought it was a neat mechanic. That said, a moment of silence for Ding Feng and his gloves.
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May 14, 2014 23:30
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First time I saw the boat I was like, "Well, Koei, you've got my money, and you'll continue to get it probably, you're doing good". I'm also loving being able to use whatever moveset I want as any given character instead of being stuck with whatever their default moveset may be.
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May 14, 2014 23:31
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I do wish that equipping the mastered weapon skills would unlock the EX moves, not just those lame moves like Dash
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May 14, 2014 23:38
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The best part of having more weapons is you have more freedom in creating fun combos. For example, I find Lu Lingqi's cross halberd and the flute have pretty good synergy and you can make some neat combos. And you can get EVEN MORE movesets via DLC...whenever Koei get round to releasing them at least.
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May 14, 2014 23:40
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Unlucky7 posted:That said, a moment of silence for Ding Feng and his gloves. Ding Feng's new weapon is great fun once you figure out how to use it.
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May 14, 2014 23:48
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Bless whoever decided Xing Cai needed to loosen up and gave her a surfboard attack. And oh god, these story stages take so long. I'm still only on Shu and I still don't have all the stages. Do you guys finish one faction or do you do the basic story and do the objectives after?
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May 14, 2014 23:57
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Brony Hunter posted:And you can get EVEN MORE movesets via DLC...whenever Koei get round to releasing them at least. I'd have thought the so-called 'complete edition' would have that DLC in place already. Isn't that the point of calling it so?
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Tae posted:And oh god, these story stages take so long. I'm still only on Shu and I still don't have all the stages. Do you guys finish one faction or do you do the basic story and do the objectives after? First time around, just do the basic story. By then you'll have stronger weapons which helps immensely in getting some of the objectives done. Second time around you'll often complete many of them by accident just from having better gear. And yeah, story mode is so huge now.
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May 15, 2014 00:03
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Stelas posted:And yeah, story mode is so huge now. So is Ambition Mode.  It's going to take so long to get all my officers back.
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May 15, 2014 00:05
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Can someone explain to me why this weapon has a golden star beside it and seems special? I can't understand it. 
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Kreczor posted:Can someone explain to me why this weapon has a golden star beside it and seems special? I can't understand it. its a rare drop off a playable officer. The numbers on the skills are extra high and it only comes with those skills.
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