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"Sidequest: Story of Seasons started!" S-S-Shameless self-promotion?!
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Trails of Cold Steel is really charming so far and I am enjoying it.
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Dec 24, 2015 17:13
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The weirdness of Rean's vanishing VO aside, I like pretty much all the dubwork so far, it's real natural sounding.
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Dec 24, 2015 18:37
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Zaggitz posted:The weirdness of Rean's vanishing VO aside, I like pretty much all the dubwork so far, it's real natural sounding. Rean's vanishing VO? Besides points where he's thinking to himself, I haven't encountered anything like this yet.
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Dec 24, 2015 19:50
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It happens after the prologue. Hell be unvoiced talking to a voiced character sometimes
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Dec 24, 2015 19:54
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So bonding points in Cold Steel: is there some arcane optimal spending pattern that unlocks secret stuff or am I free to use them as I see fit? Since you can apparently farm tiny amounts of link XP in battle I assume you can max out everything anyway.
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Dec 24, 2015 20:21
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oh god, the book collections and BP/AP were already bad enough if bond points have their own bullshit secrets then I will definitely be mildly cheesed off for like a minute or two
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Dec 24, 2015 20:28
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Ojetor posted:So bonding points in Cold Steel: is there some arcane optimal spending pattern that unlocks secret stuff or am I free to use them as I see fit? Since you can apparently farm tiny amounts of link XP in battle I assume you can max out everything anyway. Looking around it's for trophies, learning more about the characters, etc. You can max at least 4 or 5 in one playthrough. Bonding points for a day expire after the end of the day/story event is over so you can't build them up.
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Dec 24, 2015 20:35
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Really Pants posted:oh god, the book collections and BP/AP were already bad enough Book collection's actually relatively safe in this one. You can buy the books you missed later, though it's random and makes you do lots of grinding.
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Dec 24, 2015 23:13
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Supremezero posted:That part's not really that odd, when you consider that orbments don't work quite the same way as our tech. Flatscreen monitors would most likely be the default. That combined with it being top of the line military makes a bit more sense.
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Dec 25, 2015 01:00
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What the hell is up with the Cherubic Gates on the second level of the Schoolhouse? Playing on hard, and haven't really had any issues I couldn't get around by playing methodical up until this point, but when they spam that loving Crisis Cry art a bunch, I'm not really seeing a way past other than "grind a lot." Given it applies a speed down along with hitting the entire battlefield for damage, it really becomes stupid when all three of them begin spamming it one after another. And then do it again their next turn. Currently around level 14, and I've tried only damaging one of them, but it doesn't seem to matter. edit: And it's not like they have a specific weakness to Mute, so trying to do that is a crapshoot. Lord Koth fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Dec 25, 2015 07:56
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You really do have to use every craft you can in that fight. Resounding Beat helps limit the damage, Armor Breaker and Motivate will set one of those jerks up for both your S-Crafts, Autumn Leaf Cutter delays their turns, Blessed Arrow keeps you healed and lets you rinse & repeat sooner. Are you going in with 200 CP on everybody?
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Dec 25, 2015 11:40
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You could also potentially grind Rean to level 15 and get Arc Slash, so you can delay 2 at a time for even more than Autumn Leaf Cutter.
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Dec 25, 2015 15:44
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So I've only just started Cold Steel, but am I going to be waiting a long time to get any S-Crafts?
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Dec 25, 2015 16:24
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Some Numbers posted:So I've only just started Cold Steel, but am I going to be waiting a long time to get any S-Crafts? Laura is part of your first field study group in Chapter 1; she starts with an S-Craft. You get another for the end boss of the chapter.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:29
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Really Pants posted:Laura is part of your first field study group in Chapter 1; she starts with an S-Craft. You get another for the end boss of the chapter. I knew Machias was full of poo poo when he was offering to protect the girls, but I didn't realize he was that wrong.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:35
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Some Numbers posted:I knew Machias was full of poo poo when he was offering to protect the girls, but I didn't realize he was that wrong. Laura's most common moniker tends to be "The Strongest First Year".
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Dec 25, 2015 16:45
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Really Pants posted:You really do have to use every craft you can in that fight. Resounding Beat helps limit the damage, Armor Breaker and Motivate will set one of those jerks up for both your S-Crafts, Autumn Leaf Cutter delays their turns, Blessed Arrow keeps you healed and lets you rinse & repeat sooner. Are you going in with 200 CP on everybody? Yeah, I generally get up Motivate and Resounding Beat on their first moves, though initially I was having the issue of Elliot getting confused virtually every single time before he even took a turn, thus delaying me getting Resounding Beat up - though that issue has been fixed. Autumn Leaf Cutter I'm not finding too useful for that fight since they're so spread out since it's only possible to hit one, so I may just try getting to 15 for Arc Slash. CP is not an issue. Think I'm just going to grind the party to 15 in general, as that shouldn't take too long, and then try again.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:55
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I used Autumn Leaf Cutter as an oh-poo poo button, for when it looked like one of the enemies was just about to drop somebody.
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Dec 25, 2015 17:24
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Okay, getting up to 15 and picking up Arc Slash, along with some other tweaks, made a significant difference. Had a few close calls, but the only one that went down was Alisa once(well, technically twice) since she can't heal herself with Blessed Arrow, and I really needed it to keep my front-liners going. What are people's opinions of characters so far, whether character-wise or mechanics-wise? Like, aside from Resounding Beat I'm not finding Eliott too useful, since Alisa currently does both Arts and healing better than him, along with being faster. And I find being able to reliably Guard Break at least certain enemies more useful than having a low chance against most.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:00
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resounding beat is really good though also heads up: hold r to run. i just realized this
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Dec 25, 2015 20:02
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Also, make the "leader" a ranged character because it's so much easier to faint monsters from behind with ranged attacks, especially Machias' shotgun.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:09
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Yeah, I wasn't planning on using Elliot much, but that craft is incredibly good, especially getting it right off the bat. It feels almost unfair getting access to that as the first move. I enjoy the characters for the most part, but holy hell can I not stand Machias and that whole conflict between him and Jusis. Maybe he'll become tolerable later, but right now I'm dreading the inevitable mission group with those 2 down the line.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:13
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Fie's field attack confuses me. Sometimes it's a really slow double slash. But sometimes it's a gunshot. And I have no idea how to choose which it does.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:17
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Cake Attack posted:also heads up: hold r to run. i just realized this Motherfucker. I'm about to finish chapter 1, Rean's weird VO stuff seemed to stop as soon as the field study got going. Really enjoying the game on my vita tho I'm excited to get back home from holidays for better load times/framerate on ps3. Laura rules.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:29
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Well, there's a reason I said "aside from Resounding Beat."  I agree that it specifically is extremely good, the problem is it's also the ONLY good thing about Eliott, at least so far.As for characters, I've generally found them all pretty interesting, but agree that Machias is really pushing my limit in being extremely aggravating currently. Even moreso in chapter 2 than 1 for reasons. Knowing Falcom they'll play it out well, but at the moment he's basically insufferable.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:38
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Lord Koth posted:Well, there's a reason I said "aside from Resounding Beat." Oh, I dunno. The fact that Macchias is somehow managing to be the arrogant noble type of the equation is pretty hilarious.
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Dec 25, 2015 20:43
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Really Pants posted:Also, make the "leader" a ranged character because it's so much easier to faint monsters from behind with ranged attacks, especially Machias' shotgun. Monsters have a limited chase distance. Move up to the monster so it chases you, run away until it stops. Walk up to it and wait for it to turn around to return to it's original spot you can get an easy faints with any character.
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Dec 25, 2015 21:01
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Ojetor posted:Monsters have a limited chase distance. Move up to the monster so it chases you, run away until it stops. Walk up to it and wait for it to turn around to return to it's original spot you can get an easy faints with any character. But it's even easier with the range characters, since you don't have to get quite so close and risk an accidental encounter.
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Dec 25, 2015 21:04
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Machias is funny cause he's the family member who insists on arguing about politics at Christmas dinner while everyone else just tries to ignore it and talk about how nice the stuffing is
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Dec 25, 2015 21:06
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To get advantages I just hit them from the front and circle while hitting them twice or so to keep them staggered until I'm behind them
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Dec 25, 2015 21:07
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Cake Attack posted:Machias is funny cause he's the family member who insists on arguing about politics at Christmas dinner while everyone else just tries to ignore it and talk about how nice the stuffing is
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Dec 25, 2015 21:08
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Endorph posted:had a rough christmas huh let me tell you what my family thinks about Trudeau and the alberta ndp
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Dec 25, 2015 21:08
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Oh, as an outsider looking in his actions are hilarious. It's just that if I had to deal with an actual person with that personality my thoughts would not be "gosh, how can I smooth things over with him." More along the lines of "Just ignore him, try and resist the temptation to push him out the window."
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Dec 25, 2015 21:20
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I decided to finish my Nightmare Yunica run in Ys Origin and it's still hard as gently caress but I've gotten from the second half of Silent Desert to Blighted Blood and Yunica rules
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Dec 25, 2015 21:28
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Is there any reason for still having lines under the new orbment system?
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Dec 25, 2015 21:54
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Cake Attack posted:Is there any reason for still having lines under the new orbment system? Progressively higher slot opening costs, and longer lines give higher EP gains. So hypothetically, an orbment with a ton of lines would be cheap to open, but give relatively small EP bonuses. Motto fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Dec 25, 2015 22:04
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There's probably more to it than this, but from what I recall playing around with the Japanese version, you can stick one status-effect quartz on each line, so honestly, I've gotten more use out of my multi-line people. The casters are kinda lagging behind. There's these really nice quartz that I don't know the name of in English (drat you UPS) that were those Chinese gods, ie: Suzaku, etc that have 2 status effects each. I'm missing one but, they're probably made for Gaius because Fie has one of her lines restricted to Time. But honestly, from what I've played of Zero, I think it might be that you're supposed to think that it's a heavily modded ENIGMA and that the lines are vestigial.
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Dec 25, 2015 22:06
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The Colonel posted:Yunica rules  She's my favourite Ys character and I wish she'd somehow show up in the main games.
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Just bought SC for myself for Christmas. I wonder if the writing was this slapstick in Japanese. SLUMBER! And "oh goddess, not yet!" Also the extra BP options are brutal. Only a 2 bp difference between Max rank and total points in the game means I can't go through it without a guide like I did with FC.
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