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exploded mummy posted:Nah, though the frequency drops and the variety of what spawns can increase. As far as I can tell, the drops are kind of "random encounters" in that they seem to always trigger on combat for me in the overworld. And apparently can trigger off a previous drop... I'm pretty convinced they're a blunt case study on "this is what magic is for" as a single 50 potency tricast spell will usually wipe out the entire group in one cast. Or (once you have access to chocobos) just call your choco and sprint a few times, and you're off the hook. So, I just got into chapter 15: I loaded my save, called umbra, and popped back to the past at Hammerhead. IMMEDIATELY got a wave of party chat about parts, connections, and talking to Cindy. Wander over to Cindy, get gushed at. "Unlocked Regalia Type-F" Well then  *two hours later and I was still flying around gawking at things. The First-Person artificial horizon and altimiter are functional, apparently  *
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Zest posted:As far as I can tell, the drops are kind of "random encounters" in that they seem to always trigger on combat for me in the overworld. And apparently can trigger off a previous drop... I'm pretty convinced they're a blunt case study on "this is what magic is for" as a single 50 potency tricast spell will usually wipe out the entire group in one cast. Or (once you have access to chocobos) just call your choco and sprint a few times, and you're off the hook. You should try landing it on that isolated stretch of road near Ravatogh
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Dec 30, 2016 03:05
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Just remember, just because you can take off, doesn't mean you should. I learned that the hard way.
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Dec 30, 2016 03:22
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exploded mummy posted:You should try landing it on that isolated stretch of road near Ravatogh huh... didn't notice that little landing strip.
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Dec 30, 2016 03:27
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A single ice bomb spawned in the middle of the road. The game gave me both Aranea and Ramuh for it. Get hosed that one enemy in particular I guess.
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Dec 30, 2016 03:42
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I sincerely despise the piece of poo poo programmer that decided the "talk" and "quest" interactions with mobs would require standing a millimeter differently when addressing mobs.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:14
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Saint Freak posted:A single ice bomb spawned in the middle of the road. The game gave me both Aranea and Ramuh for it. Apparently bombs are an abomination unto Ramuh and he sent his prophet to herald the coming storm. I REALLY like how this game handles summons visually. "Angry God" indeed 
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Dec 30, 2016 04:28
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Zest posted:Apparently bombs are an abomination unto Ramuh and he sent his prophet to herald the coming storm. My only wish is for the areas they get summoned to be permanently hosed. Ramuh has a different animation when you summon him in while underground and it's loving badass.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:32
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to be fair I'll admit i missed most of her missions until much later then i should have. So she mentions it, then dino, and I've learned I missed ambient npcs just commenting on things besides food. WaltherFeng posted:would've easily noticed that it was getting darker sooner when driving around doing stuff. It's slight but wonderful attention to detail. I noticed because I usually went to bed when night hit because ignis was too pussy to drive, and kept bothering me. once you beat a few iron giants he lets you drive. Hilariously enough, that happened and then a loving red giant spawned in the same spot. Yeah his health was a bit more than next level recolor i expected.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:58
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I feel like they named insomnia what they did just for the name of the final quest tbh, and it's actually a cool name.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:59
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SectumSempra posted:She seemed 15, when i think about ff and anime. There's new context on on Noct's (Lestallum sort of spoiler I guess) "your brother would kick my rear end" when she pseudo-flirts with you and you pick the warmest response. As for Aranea, I have to agree. It's surprising solely because Japan and how they usually do that kinda stuff. 30 feels right.
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Dec 30, 2016 05:21
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Wait wait people are saying there's no in game Codex but... I heard there was, it's just in the tutorial mode. That's how people find out stuff like Leviathan being Bahamut's spurned lover
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Dec 30, 2016 07:06
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Onmi posted:Wait wait people are saying there's no in game Codex but... I heard there was, it's just in the tutorial mode. That's how people find out stuff like Leviathan being Bahamut's spurned lover There are like 5 paintings in the tutorial that give you about a paragraph of story info. That's it.
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Dec 30, 2016 07:07
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can't believe I beat the game and missed crucial information about Bahamut and Leviathan's love lives
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Dec 30, 2016 07:30
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I beat it tonight but I wish I'd been more patient. I went in at level 50 and the first boss that you get 2 scripted summons for, the second summon didn't give me the option to trigger after the voiceover and it turns out you can pretty much deplete his health bar for another 20 minutes and then start doing 0 damage and he won't die. This happened twice in a row over 90 minutes of fighting, using my entire inventory of curatives and ending up dying. After it happened twice I read online what was supposed to happen - a third time I didn't get the prompt, but the fourth it did. By then I was annoyed and stuck it on easy and was wishing it would be over. Felt like it took a lot away from the ending. I also don't have a regalia type f after reloading that save. Genuinely loved all of it, including chapter 13, but those last 2 hours just annoyed the piss out of me. Wish I hadn't finished it because now I don't want to go back to do sidequests anymore. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Dec 30, 2016 07:43
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I want Aranea to be the new Lightning. She's too great to be wasted in such small parts. I'd rather have Gilgamesh's DLC with her than Gladio. 
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Dec 30, 2016 07:44
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I beat the turtle. What a fight.
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Dec 30, 2016 07:59
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The game wants me to get on a boat now and says I won't be able to come back for a while (chapter 6ish). I'm afraid to go but there's still spots on the map that aren't accessible and I assume they become so afterward?
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Dec 30, 2016 08:00
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ComposerGuy posted:The game wants me to get on a boat now and says I won't be able to come back for a while (chapter 6ish). I'm afraid to go but there's still spots on the map that aren't accessible and I assume they become so afterward? You won't be away from the main map for too long unless you want to be.
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Dec 30, 2016 08:03
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The Grimace posted:I want Aranea to be the new Lightning. She's too great to be wasted in such small parts. I'd rather have Gilgamesh's DLC with her than Gladio. Gilgamesh only comes to those who need his help. Aranea doesn't need anyone's help.
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Dec 30, 2016 08:05
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The Grimace posted:I want Aranea to be the new Lightning. She's too great to be wasted in such small parts. I'd rather have Gilgamesh's DLC with her than Gladio. She's coming as a party member with Iris, Cor and, if they have time to develop her, Luna, in the final DLC Expansion
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Dec 30, 2016 08:21
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ComposerGuy posted:The game wants me to get on a boat now and says I won't be able to come back for a while (chapter 6ish). I'm afraid to go but there's still spots on the map that aren't accessible and I assume they become so afterward? The main map "story" ends, but you can still go back and do quests and level up later on. The game basically turns into 13 from this point on and the main map is the one open space.
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Dec 30, 2016 08:33
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The Grimace posted:I want Aranea to be the new Lightning. She's too great to be wasted in such small parts. I'd rather have Gilgamesh's DLC with her than Gladio. I feel lightning returns lightning is more or less arenea, just in a wacky story and way more costumes. Still the same sass.
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Dec 30, 2016 10:36
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More fun coding wackyness i guess they didn't want you to see your teammates pop out of nowhere in front of you, so as long as your teammates are on camera they will remain stuck. Whether it's behind a gate. or on top of one of those like 60 foot levi's lmao. I kept Ignis on one was ai was walking to town. They even coded them to still behave normally, so at first he tried to walk the long way then stopped.. then he just kept staring as we walked away, eventually i turned the camera right before we get into the pit stop to hear him call promto fat again. Also always take fall damage, don't go down ladders, even if you "die" you can pop a potion, and it has to be a big rear end drop, otherwise, just wait because your health auto regens out of battle. I hate the extra dungeons so far but I'm still doing them I have a problem.
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Dec 30, 2016 10:39
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SectumSempra posted:i guess they didn't want you to see your teammates pop out of nowhere in front of you,
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Dec 30, 2016 12:15
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DaveKap posted:If you can see your chocobo a mile away and you use your whistle, it will run a mile to get to you, even if it takes a full minute. Or, you can turn your camera 180 degrees and it'll jaunt into view in 1 second like it's always been five feet away. Well, it's slightly less immersion breaking than your horse doing Zero Shifts in MGSV.
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Dec 30, 2016 12:25
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I just went on to chapter 4 and then quickly onto chapter 5. Are the rest of them more or less this quick? I notice in also now gimped for travel and the world map has been reduced slightly. When does it open back up again for me to hit side quests and dungeons, etc?
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Dec 30, 2016 12:34
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Why does the "get 1 AP when you win a Chocobo Race" ascension node cost 32 AP, when you will realistically only ever do seven of them?
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Dec 30, 2016 12:37
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Kin posted:I just went on to chapter 4 and then quickly onto chapter 5. Are the rest of them more or less this quick? You're kind of funneled along now until the end of chapter 8 which will come sooner than you think. You'll basically do 2-3 dungeons in a row then the world opens up again. The "point of no return" is closing chapter 8 when the game asks you to get on a boat. e: Well I say point of no return but once the game lets you talk to Umbra before you sleep you can return to the open world map. al-azad fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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al-azad posted:e: Well I say point of no return but once the game lets you talk to Umbra before you sleep you can return to the open world map. AM i the only one that's thrown off by this decision? Like they understood their story was too on-rails after a certain point so they let you dream of the past or something through Umbra so you still have access to the open world. Like you have 3 regions but you can only travel to/from them via dogge.
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Dec 30, 2016 14:03
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:AM i the only one that's thrown off by this decision? Like they understood their story was too on-rails after a certain point so they let you dream of the past or something through Umbra so you still have access to the open world. Like you have 3 regions but you can only travel to/from them via dogge. It was a good idea, even if it barely bothers to justify itself in-game. Tabata's team clearly understood how threadbare the game got from Chapter 9 onward and gave players an escape hatch to go back to where the actual gameplay was (plus opportunities for grinding, if necessary).
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Dec 30, 2016 14:10
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Oxxidation posted:It was a good idea, even if it barely bothers to justify itself in-game. Tabata's team clearly understood how threadbare the game got from Chapter 9 onward and gave players an escape hatch to go back to where the actual gameplay was (plus opportunities for grinding, if necessary). Oh I don't disagree it's a good idea. I'm just thinking if your story is getting to the point you need to half-rear end an escape hatch... why not change how on-rails poo poo gets?
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Dec 30, 2016 14:14
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Oh I don't disagree it's a good idea. I'm just thinking if your story is getting to the point you need to half-rear end an escape hatch... why not change how on-rails poo poo gets? With what time?
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Dec 30, 2016 14:24
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Oh I don't disagree it's a good idea. I'm just thinking if your story is getting to the point you need to half-rear end an escape hatch... why not change how on-rails poo poo gets? I don't know that this was the intent so much as they wanted to be able to change the world in different ways but without locking you out of content.
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Dec 30, 2016 14:32
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Oh I don't disagree it's a good idea. I'm just thinking if your story is getting to the point you need to half-rear end an escape hatch... why not change how on-rails poo poo gets? Probably because the actual development of this game was about 2 years and hell even under Tabata. FFXV had the dual problem of NEEDING more time and not being able to get more time because idiots were already going "Ten years in development!"
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Dec 30, 2016 14:34
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Oh I don't disagree it's a good idea. I'm just thinking if your story is getting to the point you need to half-rear end an escape hatch... why not change how on-rails poo poo gets? Probably because it was too far gone to change it, so this is the only way to satisfy SE into "fixing" it through DLC. It should have been better made but this is what we got.
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Dec 30, 2016 15:11
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Kinda awkward how only Noctis will shimmy along ledges and crawl through tight spaces. The other party members just warp past it. My first thought was "Hmm, well maybe they didn't want to waste time animating other characters?" 
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Dec 30, 2016 15:12
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I stopped reading this thread sometime in August, but since I beat the game a couple days ago and have been working on postgame stuff, I've also skimmed through to catch up with everything. Game's fun, and I echo the somewhat common sentiment that Gladio comes off more as a huge jerk than a stern hardass. After awhile of murdering things super fast with the Zwill Crossblades, I got kinda bored of that, so I've been rolling with a no spells magic Noctis build and murdering things with the Scepter of the Pious and the Bow of the Clever (actually using it in addition to using it with Overwhelm). The Scepter provides a nice balance of power and utility since you essentially get one combo string from four other Royal Arms, each with their own uses. The away+attack combo that emulates the Trident complete with afterimages that do several strong hits of damage while you're still swinging through the rest of the combo is especially strong on enemies that'll sit there and take the punishment. I hope they patch the Bow's warp strike sometime, because it's really strong and yet almost completely worthless on anything about Noctis's size or smaller. They should also just give us more weapons that scale off magic in general so my other two slots wouldn't just be Sword of the Father for magic +100 and a Wizard Shield for magic +99 and being a shield.
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Dec 30, 2016 15:15
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Onmi posted:Probably because the actual development of this game was about 2 years and hell even under Tabata. Lol yeah that's why
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