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Shadow Ninja 64
May 21, 2007

"I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."


DelphiAegis posted:

So THATS where you get the magitek suit. I got one of those, but had no idea where from. I don't remember that guy being very much trouble though. Are you just doing that setup for the big numbers?

He's not exactly trouble, in the sense that nothing in this game is really much trouble besides the no items dungeon, but he has extreme damage resistance on most of his targetable areas except the cockpit portion and the rocket launcher and arm disc thing when they're in active use. Most people farm this thing for the 5% drop of the V2 suit quickly by dropping the difficulty to easy, dying for the Carbuncle Ruby Light buff, then going to town on it. I didn't want to do that, though, so this is my answer.

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Cowman
Feb 14, 2006

Beware the Cow





SunAndSpring posted:

lmfao at everything about this post

really if she bothers you don't go to the south in the summertime. Aside from the bra showing, I've seen comparable outfits here when it's 100+F out

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
Just reached Chapter 13. Wow this game went from Metal Gear Phantom Pain to Resident Evil quick.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


I'm debating whether or not to do Steyliff or Costlemark Menace dungeons at all. Is the only use for the Hunters Medal to make a huge batch of limit break spells? I don't really have anything left to kill...

I did finish pitioss at least.

I didn't hate Chapter 13 but do wish it was easier to kill the enemies. The ring needs a basic attack just to keep it interesting. At least I figured out that a well timed dodge uses almost no MP, while holding it drains very fast, so mashing square was overall much faster.

Edit: vv thanks.

SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 7, 2017

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

SLOSifl posted:

I'm debating whether or not to do Steyliff or Costlemark Menace dungeons at all.

The answer is no, unless you really want another fix of the combat system. That's pretty much all the menace dungeons are really for, letting postgame-level players get their monster-hunting on.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


stuff like the chakrams draining your HP is stupid, should just be tied to MP instead. MP management is way too trivial as-is anyway.

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013

Cowman posted:

really if she bothers you don't go to the south in the summertime. Aside from the bra showing, I've seen comparable outfits here when it's 100+F out

Can't believe that the south allows literal pornography like that, I thought this was a Christian country

Cartridgeblowers
Jan 3, 2006

Super Mario Bros 3

I really like the battle system in this game but I haven't even used wait mode once and I'm in chapter 3. Should I be using it more? What's the advantage?

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

When you stand still time stops and you can target and scan enemies. It's not that big a difference, especially since Ignis has abilities that automatically target weaknesses and there are only three elements anyway.

Cowman
Feb 14, 2006

Beware the Cow





Little Mac posted:

I really like the battle system in this game but I haven't even used wait mode once and I'm in chapter 3. Should I be using it more? What's the advantage?

You can spend AP to get bonuses for Wait Mode stuff like faster scanning and do bonus damage when you scan an enemy's weakness and exploit it. It's actually not too bad and helps when you're trying to target specific body parts or get a feel for the battlefield in general. Once I got used to it, it's really pretty useful especially since Ignis's Analyze doesn't always trigger when you want it. You can for sure ignore it but I really like it.

JetsGuy
Sep 17, 2003

science + hockey
=
LASER SKATES

Cowman posted:

really if she bothers you don't go to the south in the summertime. Aside from the bra showing, I've seen comparable outfits here when it's 100+F out

lol as if the goons that upset by it go outside.

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe

MMF Freeway posted:

Thanks, this made me go look at this post again lol

That post can't be real. I'm all aboard Cindy sucking but come on

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Deified Data posted:

I'm all aboard Cindy sucking
You're kinda setting yourself up with this one.

Raxivace fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jan 7, 2017

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
I think it's the Hammerhead Hot Sandwiches the food I would mostl ike to try from this cooking game with dumb plot and gameplay thrown in

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Cowman posted:

really if she bothers you don't go to the south in the summertime. Aside from the bra showing, I've seen comparable outfits here when it's 100+F out

I too think that what she is wearing is appropriate attire for a woman mechanic on the job.

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
Jump scares?

Really?

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
Altissia was designed by people that hate all humans and maybe the very concept of life itself.

Nina
Oct 9, 2016

Invisible werewolf (entirely visible, not actually a wolf)
This thread becomes like a parody of internet discourse without fail whenever Cindy gets mentioned

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Saint Freak posted:

Altissia was designed by people that hate all humans and maybe the very concept of life itself.
About a week ago I tried to go to the bar in Altissia and straight up couldn't find it, despite having been there before. It's like being lost in Rose Red.

SectumSempra
Jun 22, 2011

Bi-Han now we've got Bad Blood

WaltherFeng posted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ZMgczw79zM0

I just realized that they are reusing FFXV animations.

I mean, it's not suprising but kinda funny

Also I don't understand what's the appeal of Lightning Returns gameplay. On my playthrough it felt like I barely even got to fight anything and I feel like I was missing something crucial.


I'm sorry but lmao.

you fight poo poo so loving often you literally can fight creatures to extinction.

and it actually has the most complex battle system out of the xiii series and has combo videos.

I'm all for disliking a game, but pick the right thing to hate, for xiii-3 it's story, the whole god thing.

thats the thing, the awkward story speeches contrasted with the believable and funny sidequest lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVk0AHGpk

I still respect your perspective and hey maybe its not your thing but even the first hour of the game had like 20 fights.

SectumSempra fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 7, 2017

SectumSempra
Jun 22, 2011

Bi-Han now we've got Bad Blood

Saint Freak posted:

Altissia was designed by people that hate all humans and maybe the very concept of life itself.

It was designed like it was meant to have a gently caress ton of areas of interest and they all got dropped and they didn't move everything closer and shrink the map.

If I tossed that in front of someone and said don't use gondolas but get to X i'm pretty sure they'd say it's impossible.

the paths are all over and some design decisions were just like "lol ok gondola on the hotel roof"

Mezzanon
Sep 16, 2003

Pillbug

SectumSempra posted:

It was designed like it was meant to have a gently caress ton of areas of interest and they all got dropped and they didn't move everything closer and shrink the map.

If I tossed that in front of someone and said don't use gondolas but get to X i'm pretty sure they'd say it's impossible.

the paths are all over and some design decisions were just like "lol ok gondola on the hotel roof"

I just got here and can see the stupid bar but cannot get to it

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Mezzanon posted:

I just got here and can see the stupid bar but cannot get to it

You have to take a gondola. Weirdly it also will stop separately at one of the two shops on the bar island.

All I know is that's a dangerous place to get drunk.

SectumSempra
Jun 22, 2011

Bi-Han now we've got Bad Blood

Mezzanon posted:

I just got here and can see the stupid bar but cannot get to it

Thats the only part besides the monster arena you need a gondola to for some weird rear end reason lol.

Everything else requires bridges and steps all over.

A Bystander
Oct 10, 2012
The place clicked with me in about five minutes' time, so I guess I'm lucky I didn't have the same problem everyone else did with it. The hunts were fun and I wish I could bet more than 9999 at the arena.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


SectumSempra posted:

I'm sorry but lmao.

you fight poo poo so loving often you literally can fight creatures to extinction.

and it actually has the most complex battle system out of the xiii series and has combo videos.

I'm all for disliking a game, but pick the right thing to hate, for xiii-3 it's story, the whole god thing.

thats the thing, the awkward story speeches contrasted with the believable and funny sidequest lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVk0AHGpk

I still respect your perspective and hey maybe its not your thing but even the first hour of the game had like 20 fights.

The thing with Lightning Returns though is you need to learn to start running away from fights after a certain point lest you fight the same enemy a billion times, quite a few areas have really bad monster variety

Renoistic
Jul 27, 2007

Everyone has a
guardian angel.
I've been watching a video of scenes that were shown in trailers but deleted and I wonder if some of them could be put back. I can deal with most of the game's problems but it sorely needed more scenes with Regis and Luna. Heck, they could've just put in the first minutes of Kingsglaive and it would have covered several missing parts, and given Ravus' actions more context, to boot.

The video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVYVpxNarU&t=197s

The intro to Kingsglaive (first 3.5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UblcNFVVHT8.

JunXaos
Mar 11, 2011

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Just got to Pitioss and enjoying it alot. Using control type C is the best.


Its nice not to have to kill anything.

Renoistic
Jul 27, 2007

Everyone has a
guardian angel.

JunXaos posted:

Just got to Pitioss and enjoying it alot. Using control type C is the best.


Its nice not to have to kill anything.

I'm probably going to try beating Pitioss today but I'm a little scared.

By the way - are any of the abilities that cost +300 AP worth it?

WaltherFeng
May 15, 2013

50 thousand people used to live here. Now, it's the Mushroom Kingdom.

Renoistic posted:

I've been watching a video of scenes that were shown in trailers but deleted and I wonder if some of them could be put back. I can deal with most of the game's problems but it sorely needed more scenes with Regis and Luna. Heck, they could've just put in the first minutes of Kingsglaive and it would have covered several missing parts, and given Ravus' actions more context, to boot.

The video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVYVpxNarU&t=197s

The intro to Kingsglaive (first 3.5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UblcNFVVHT8.

The only way not to completely screw up the established canon would be a prologue chapter before the actual invasion where you hang around in Insomnia/Tenebrae as Noctis.

WaltherFeng fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 7, 2017

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Renoistic posted:

I'm probably going to try beating Pitioss today but I'm a little scared.

By the way - are any of the abilities that cost +300 AP worth it?

Boost point blank warp strike, boost link strike damage, break link strike damage cap are all real good.

Outside of that extra accessories, especially the one for noct, are ok and the various magic boosting ones are nice.

m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe

Barudak posted:

Boost point blank warp strike, boost link strike damage, break link strike damage cap are all real good.

Outside of that extra accessories, especially the one for noct, are ok and the various magic boosting ones are nice.

I really should find a way to effectively grind out AP. Sure stacking XP is great for leveling but AP is where it's at to really open up your characters.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I wish the suit (Kingly Raiment, I think?) wasn't DLC only because it's Noct's best looking outfit by far.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

SLOSifl posted:

You have to take a gondola. Weirdly it also will stop separately at one of the two shops on the bar island.

All I know is that's a dangerous place to get drunk.

The first time I ever used that shop from the bar side, the game glitched out and I couldn't interact with anything until the menu popped up.

I tried it again a second time and then it happened again, but I also noticed that when I went to leave, the gondoleer wasn't in place by the bar.

On the third attempt, I slowly watched the gondoleer guide his boat around the bar, and when he got to the shop the menu popped up, and then he circled back around when the menu closed to the bar dock.

It was glitch and beautiful.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


m.hache posted:

I really should find a way to effectively grind out AP. Sure stacking XP is great for leveling but AP is where it's at to really open up your characters.

Monster whistle and three valleys spawn point with the shield gets you a ton of AP/hour. It's also really loving boring and repetitive

SectumSempra
Jun 22, 2011

Bi-Han now we've got Bad Blood

Augus posted:

The thing with Lightning Returns though is you need to learn to start running away from fights after a certain point lest you fight the same enemy a billion times, quite a few areas have really bad monster variety

oh i get that, this was in response to I felt like i never fought anything.

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

m.hache posted:

I really should find a way to effectively grind out AP. Sure stacking XP is great for leveling but AP is where it's at to really open up your characters.

Fishing is the most fun way I've found. Pick a spot with a bunch of weak fish (the pools on the southeast of duscae work pretty well) and just fish it dry (if you can, they usually resplendent with daylight changes before I can clear them), then if you leave the hole and come back it will have respawned. It probably isn't quite as fast as spamming an aoe warp strike on mobs of lvl 2 dogs but it's a nice change. Getting all the skills unlocked that give you AP for things you'd be doing anyways helps a lot as does wearing the accessories for getting bonus AP for A+ ratings in battles. I just play normally for half an hour and I can get easily over a hundred without forcing it.

By far the fastest way is to just go somewhere that spawns low level dogs and just warp strike with a greatsword or some other thing that does an aoe warp strike, blow the monster whistle the second you see the battle complete screen, rinse and repeat. If you're efficient at it you can get over 1000 ap per hour.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Also, if you're still early in the game there is 0 reason not to equip the extra AP time and offense items. They give 1 for one A+ and 3 for two A+ and given that you'll easily get into lots of battles its a free extra drip of AP. Of course, you should also be obsessively warp striking literally every foe you can.

I still don't get why quests don't give like, 5 AP per completed quest.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

m.hache posted:

I really should find a way to effectively grind out AP. Sure stacking XP is great for leveling but AP is where it's at to really open up your characters.

Equip the Shield of the Just, go to the northermost valley in the Three Valleys region, find the dogs clustered near the treasure procurement spot, and start cracking out Warp Strikes. The shield has an AOE effect on Warp attacks so you'll blow them away, then blow the whistle to instantly summon another mob for another Warp Strike. There's Youtube videos to this effect.

It's still horribly tedious.

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Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av
Hey guys I hear if you warp strike with something that does aoe damage you can kill dogs real fast.

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