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I'm one of the dumbasses who ran around doing all these quests on foot long before unlocking fast-travel  On the bright side, it meant I memorized the *poo poo* out of the map so I never got lost!
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I found the map much easier to read if you just move the camera so you're looking at it straight down. It isn't exactly Metroid Prime or Dark Souls, there's not actually enough verticality for it to need to be 3d.
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May 27, 2017 03:27
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Yes. Yes it's me too, the idiot who ran through the desert on several different quests without fast travel. *cry*
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May 27, 2017 03:48
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Same. It's one of the downsides to trying to stay completely spoiler free.
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May 27, 2017 04:20
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That's the one thing I dont mind getting spoiled on and should be told to everyone. 1.There's no shame in going on easy til you can save. 2. Do the main quests til you get fast travel.
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May 27, 2017 04:38
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Synthbuttrange posted:That's the one thing I dont mind getting spoiled on and should be told to everyone. 3. Nothing is permanently missable- you can come back later even if it looks like you can't, so don't freak out about getting everything right away. Begemot posted:I found the map much easier to read if you just move the camera so you're looking at it straight down. It isn't exactly Metroid Prime or Dark Souls, there's not actually enough verticality for it to need to be 3d. Yeah, 99% of the time you want it vertical. There is a handful of markers that are positioned in such a way that they might look to be in one area if you just go by the default view but are actually somewhere else. I may have wasted quite a bit of time running around looking for a quest giver in completely the wrong zone... in addition to running across the map repeatedly before getting fast travel... I also turned off mini-map rotation. I think that helps for some areas, like the caves under the first bit of the desert, but also just for getting your bearings in general.
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May 27, 2017 04:55
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Mazerunner posted:3. Nothing is permanently missable- you can come back later even if it looks like you can't, so don't freak out about getting everything right away. One thing is, but it happens very, very, very late in the game.
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May 27, 2017 05:05
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My Senior year English and Government teachers were real big on existentialism, but we never talked about the philosophers behind it too much- I think it was more about inspiring students to set goals in life. In retrospect, it reminds me of a part early in Fritz the Cat. "Yes, existential...I heard that word once." Anyway Sartre and Beauvoir were IRL lovers so yeah, we kind of murdered his girlfriend.
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May 27, 2017 06:03
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I'm one of the dumbasses who did every side quest possible before getting fast travel, but honestly I didn't mind too much. The world is relatively small and it let me soak in the atmosphere and the music.
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May 27, 2017 06:26
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this seems a really good time to drop this, a comic explaining Sartre's theories through the medium of Candyland: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/58
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May 27, 2017 06:29
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These portraits have a bunch of semitransparent grey pixels hanging around in the background.    I cleaned them up, so feel free to use these if you like. vilkacis fucked around with this message at 07:42 on May 27, 2017 |
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May 27, 2017 07:40
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Josuke Higashikata posted:STOP objectifying Pascal!!!!  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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May 27, 2017 08:07
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STOP! gently caress Sartre. gently caress yes Dad Bot. gently caress yes all the other bots in the village actually.
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May 27, 2017 11:45
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The Dark Id posted:Let’s take a peak...
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May 27, 2017 12:18
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silentbrains posted:
I want to hug Pascal too.
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May 27, 2017 13:40
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I thought the machine weapon damage boost capped at 500 kills, not damage. You don't even get one point of power per kill so I can't imagine how long it would take to get the power to 500.
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May 27, 2017 16:31
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silentbrains posted:
Hahaha, this is great.
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silentbrains posted:
InequalityGodzilla fucked around with this message at 17:55 on May 27, 2017 |
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Episode XXXIII: Hey, Mister!.jpg) Let’s help out some folks in Pascal’s Village. Jean-Paul, you can piss off until next time. Today we’re going to start with the Wandering Couple because it only takes a couple minutes to sort out.  Music: Pascal .jpg) According to the runaway android woman, she saw an Elaborate Gadget over by the entrance to the Abandoned Factory. We can teleport over there straight away. Unlike running the distance, which is a good ten minute round trip. No, I definitely didn’t do all of these quests as soon as they were available the second visit to the Machine Village. That’d be a huge waste of time! .jpg) So our directions are near the entrance to the factory and... .jpg) .jpg) ...Well, they ain’t kidding. It’s literally right up the stairs from the Access Point in the first pile of trash we come upon. There’s nothing even here to guard it. Well... that was shockingly easy. .jpg) Back we go to Pascal’s Village to turn this in. Yep. It really would have sucked to have sprinted clear across the City Ruins just to grab a single item off the ground and then have to dash all the way back... No, I’m not annoyed I did something like that. Why would you think such a thing? .jpg)  I’m so glad we trusted you. We’ll leave this place as soon as we can. Please pray for our safe passage. .jpg) And that concludes... the first part of the Wandering Couple quest. It’s only Reported after this, not completed. There’s a few more stages to this quest. But they involve venturing to an area we have no business visiting just yet. And even if we did, we don’t have the necessary equipment to deal with its second stage. So we’ll let this one hang for a while. .jpg) Instead, we should probably see what we can do about another lost machine child wandering out in the desert. That seems like it could go real rotten if left unattended. .jpg) We’re given a vague hotspot of the better part of the Desert. For now, we’ll just head to the Desert Center transporter and work our way from there. Though as soon as we arrive, Pascal decides to ring up the androids with further information. Music: Memories of Dust .jpg)  Er, Pascal? Is that you?  Ah! 9S! Yes, it is me. Many apologies for the sudden transmission. I heard that you were searching for the missing child, yes? Well, if you would, please consider this a personal request from myself as well. Go find the child as quickly as you can! She’s such a good little girl, and so fond of her sister! She’s probably somewhere around the desert at the moment. That’s where she’s likely to find the dented plate her sister needs.  Got it. Thank you so much. And please be careful, all right?.jpg) Follow Pascal’s transmission, we’re given a specific location of the missing robot girl. That helps. Scouring the entire desert would be... trying. And there’s already a quest to do that later in the game. Bleh... .jpg) .jpg) A note on the Desert Zone, since we haven’t had much reason to venture out here in a while. Unlike the City Ruins, which has frequent story gated raising of enemies’ levels and passive scaling with 2B’s current level going on... nobody cares about the Desert Zone. All the wandering Facade cosplaying idiots out here are still capped at Level 10 and below. Given that 2B is nearly ten levels above that, everything wandering the desert sands just absolutely melts in seconds. Just worth pointing out. Now about that little girl. As we approach the border between the Desert Zone and the Desert Housing, we come upon... .jpg)  Waaah! I wanna go hoooome... Siiiiisteeeeer! Where are you!? Nnngh... *sniff*I think we found our missing machine. Let’s go try to calm her down. .jpg) Huh? Who are you? Your sister asked us to look for you. ...She did? Really? Really. So what do you say we head home? Waaaaaaaaaah! I was soooo scaaaaared! .jpg) How’d you get lost out here, anyway? I was looking for my sister’s part... *grabs head* But then I got scared and I couldn’t move and... and... and... Waaaaah! Aw, come on now, don’t cry! Did you at least find what you needed? Y-Yeah. *sniff* She’ll be happy, right? I’m sure she will. But I bet she’ll be even happier to see you back home safe and sound. ...’Kay..jpg) So this mission is FAIRLY similar to the one from a couple updates ago where we escorted the Child Machine through the City Ruins. We do have to escort Little Sister Machine clear across the Desert Zone back to the entrance of the buffer between here and the Valley of the Tall Stacked Boys. Which is a decent clip. There’s a few key differences in this escort. Chiefly... Little Sister Machine is REALLY chatty and it’s great... .jpg) No one “made” the desert. It’s just an area that lost all its vegetation due to a lack of precipitation. This caused lasting changes in the soil, which means plants aren’t able to— What’s “soil”? Soil? Uh, it’s dirt. Ground. The stuff we’re walking on? Ooooooo! I like ground..jpg) Like when escorting the Child Machine, we will periodically get jumped by hostile machine lifeforms along our trek. This escort mission is significantly easier for a couple reasons. .jpg) .jpg) One: All the enemies capped at Level 10. Which, as mentioned earlier, means they’re dead before 2B can finish so much as an entire weapon flourish animation. And two: it... isn’t actually an escort mission. Little Sister Robot will cower until we deal with the enemies, who do attempt to attack her. But the thing is she’s a big girl for her age and as such... she doesn’t actually take any damage or reach to attacks at all. She’s invincible. She doesn’t even have a health bar or level indicator. Seems Yoko Taro only lusts for the blood of small children. .jpg) Wind is just a force caused by changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure and... Huh. That’s actually a hard question, now that I think about it. Kind of deep, really. I mean, where does the wind blow from? What do you think, 2B? Don’t know. Don’t care. .jpg) .jpg) For the second ambush, the machines bring along a big axe boy to the rumble. He is... still a Level 10 axe boy. It doesn’t go well for him or his posse. Moving right along... .jpg) Uuuuuuuum... Well, machines can’t really make children. Neither can androids, now that I think about it. Yeah, but how DO you make ‘em? *exasperated* Uhh, 2B? Little help here? Huh? You’re the chatty one. Work it out. Ooof. Mister! Mister, wait! You gotta tell me how you make chil— Wow, it’s getting late! Let’s get you home already!.jpg) Look, kid. That's a complicated question. The Birds and the Bees now has to factor in Sephiroths and that's just thrown everything outta wack. Anyway, as a final challenge, the machine ambushers try bringing along a Goliath Biped to take the androids and their ward by surprise. Just one problem with this... .jpg) ...It’s still a Level 10 Goliath Biped and it still goes down in about 15 seconds of concentrated attack. The level difference damage offset is a harsh mistress that goes both ways. Despite that, a Goliath Biped is worth a boat load of experience when felled, regardless of its actual level. .jpg) That’s the last of the desert machine ambushes and this faux-escort mission. All we have to do is walk Little Sister Machine the rest of the way to the Desert Zone’s edge where we get one last chat... .jpg) Thanks, mister! Thanks, grumpy lady! Oh, and here. You can have this. .jpg) Ergh... Thanks, kiddo? Does this prevent against status ailments or...? .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) *waves and walks off*.jpg) ...... Well, that was exhausting. Yep.OK. We’re done here. Except... what was that Pink Ribbon about...? Let’s dig around in our inventory. .jpg) It turns out it’s a Key Item. One that we can equip. What does it do? Absolutely nothing! Well, except... .jpg) ...Give 2B a big pink ribbon in her hair. Aww. That’s nice. I don’t think it’s her style though. Too bad, grumpy lady. You’re wearing it until we finish this quest. Music: Pascal .jpg) To do that, we do need to return to Pascal’s Village and confirm Little Sister Machine made her way back to Big Sister Machine. .jpg) It’s worth a mention that since we’ve left Pascal’s Village for a spell, the Wandering Couple have moved on. In their place we find a couple of Normal Machines who have a few words to say. .jpg)  I’D LOVE TO GO BEYOND THE SEA TOO... I HOPE THEY FIND THE HAPPINESS THEY SEEK.Alright, you two need to deactivate your ZOAH.EXE runtime files immediately. Though, they’re heading... beyond the sea? Well, we’ll keep that in mind for later. For now, let’s conclude the quest we’ve been focusing on. Music: Treasured Times .jpg) I promise not to make my sister worry any more. I’m feeling much better thanks to the part she found. Please, take this....jpg) .jpg) Another nice chunk of change, a decent bit of EXP and yet another ribbon. And most importantly, we did something nice for these dingus machines. .jpg) .jpg) The Blue Ribbon is yet another cosmetic item for 2B. I dunno. I think this one goes with her outfit alright. Well, 9S you get on top of explaining how children are made. Tune in next time for a far less cute adventure. But for now, enjoy this sappy thing.     Video: Episode 33 Highlight Reel (You should watch this.) The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 16:01 on May 28, 2017 |
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May 27, 2017 20:17
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It's funny how the big machine is the younger sister and the smaller one is the big sister.
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May 27, 2017 20:23
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That was precocious. Poor 9S, being relegated to "the fact guy".
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May 27, 2017 20:30
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2B ended up wearing that blue ribbon for a significant portion of the game when I played. It did nothing to make her less grumpy unfortunately.
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May 27, 2017 20:31
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Yaaaaay you got both ribbons This is one of the cutest sidequests period. Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:2B ended up wearing that blue ribbon for a significant portion of the game when I played. It did nothing to make her less grumpy unfortunately. If you don't slap it on her head the second you get either bows then I don't know what's wrong with you.
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May 27, 2017 20:33
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Queue 9S realizing he doesn't know where YorHa gets everyone's bodies. That's a good question actually, where are the Androids manufactured? Where are their space manufactories!? On the moon!!? Could this entire conflict not only be fought by proxies but also perpetuated long after the original parties of the conflict being long dead!!!??
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May 27, 2017 20:39
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I put the bow on but traded it out for one of the later cosmetic items you can unlock.
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May 27, 2017 20:40
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This was one of my favorite quests.
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May 27, 2017 20:45
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2b rocked that pink ribbon with me
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May 27, 2017 20:55
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Finally! Though I am sad that 9S can't wear a ribbon. Does he get a hat?
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May 27, 2017 20:56
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Aww, I was hoping you were going to check out the way the desert changed after the earthquake during this quest. Oh well, later. That quest is adorable. 9S, you have to remember that machines just make random noises and nothing they do means anything! You don't seem to be functioning properly as a murderbot right now. And the best part about being a murderbot is you never need to answer questions about how children are made.
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May 27, 2017 21:26
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I thought one time to remove the pink ribbon, but then I understood that it makes it easier to see my character from a distance. Also, the existence of ladders in the machine village puzzles me. Can they use them? Are those built to welcome androids?
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May 27, 2017 21:41
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tbf a LOT of the behavior we've seen from machines lately seems to be imitating the behavior of humans without regard to the context.
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May 27, 2017 22:04
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Easily one of the most quests in the game, partly for the big sister, and partly for how exasperated 9S gets as you go along
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May 27, 2017 22:08
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Wow, I'm surprised NOTHING BAD AT ALL happened during that quest. Is Taro Yoko actually going to give SOMEONE a happy ending? Madness. I'm sure some cataclysm will come along and loving murder them all soon enough.
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May 27, 2017 22:13
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Oh, I missed the gently caress Jean-Paul Dogpile. gently caress you, Jean-Paul!  The escort quest rules though. Go watch the video even if you haven't been, the voice-acting is great. I actually failed this mission right at the end because the game decided to go "hey, there's something cool over here" and she got lost while I grabbed the pod. It's alright though, she just goes back to the start to wait for you. So I had to do this quest twice in a row but that was okay. "Hey Mister, why'd they make the desert" still periodically pops into my head and makes me chuckle.
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May 27, 2017 22:31
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Since I missed it the first time it was posted, I'll mention that Treasured Times is a wonderful "quest completed" song for this area. It's so very precious.
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May 27, 2017 22:36
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Elkyrie posted:If you don't slap it on her head the second you get either bows then I don't know what's wrong with you.  Also The Dark Id posted:No, I’m annoyed I did something like that. Why would you think such a thing? Freudian slip 
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PurpleXVI posted:Wow, I'm surprised NOTHING BAD AT ALL happened during that quest. Is Taro Yoko actually going to give SOMEONE a happy ending? Madness. I'm sure some cataclysm will come along and loving murder them all soon enough. To be fair were in the middle of the 14th Machine war, which was preceded by 13 other Machine Wars, an alien invasion, Nier, crusades against Legion against God like monsters led by Red Eyes, a giant naked lady made of magic salt fighting a dragon in a rhythm duel, cannibal space babies, Nowe, Seere, a bunch of kids taking over countries and then getting aged because of pigeon sex, which happened because of a woman ending her miserable existence after someone stuck a flower in her, and someone also dropped a random chunk of Japan in not Spain Maybe the world is finally getting a break 
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May 27, 2017 23:10
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exploded mummy posted:Maybe the world is finally getting a break Finally, love is coming back into the world. Until some dick Black Mage casts Hadouken again.
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May 27, 2017 23:12
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That quest was bugged for me. Not in an unwinnable way, but an annoying-rear end way; I'd escort the girl up to the Goliath Pod, but after that fight she wouldn't come out of her cowering phase no matter how long I waited. I had to run away and force the quest to reset (She goes back to where you found her if you get too far away, and whines at you for leaving her behind) and do it A SECOND TIME. It always had to be done two times, too; it'd -always- freeze up the first go. I don't know what the gently caress.
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The est robuts. (source unknown)
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