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On my 2nd playthrough of CS1, I did it on Nightmare, and resolved to build the characters based on what I thought they intended. The one that surprised me as really useful, and an interesting change to the flow was building Machias as an immovable object. As high as possible: HP, def/adf, support abilities - no emphasis on anything attack based. Others pointed out that this game is really about blitz tactics, yet having him as an unkillable, pure support type ended up being useful really often and just changed things up. Further, on some of the toughest bosses that have party-wipe abilities, he'd normally still be standing, to give me a 2nd or 3rd chance. I just mention it all, because I didn't expect that going in, and he was kind of a 3rd-tier member for me before hand.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Animal Strap set
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Captain Lavender posted:On my 2nd playthrough of CS1, I did it on Nightmare, and resolved to build the characters based on what I thought they intended. The one that surprised me as really useful, and an interesting change to the flow was building Machias as an immovable object. As high as possible: HP, def/adf, support abilities - no emphasis on anything attack based. Interesting. I'm kinda doing something a little similar. For example, I'm building Alisa as a speed-caster. She inherently has high speed, the highest of all casters, and with Angel L5 and the Golden Bell to reduce casting delay, it lets you fire Space arts off very quickly, as in for fast arts like Golden Sphere or Dark Matter, she can cast 3 or more of them in a row. Of course, that's largely due to a bug where reduced casting delay stacks the two -50% to give -100% instead of giving -75%. On the advice of others, I turned Machias into a status-inflicting powerhouse by giving him the Juggler MQ to inflict random status effects, and the Chaos quartz to increase the length they last, and taking advantage of his AoE attacks to hit a lot of people. It's a bit unfortunate that the game hands out like one-third of the Master Quartz's in the last chapter so you don't get a lot of time to play with them, because there are some interesting ones in that bunch. I guess that's what carrying things over for NG+ is for though. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Jan 7, 2018 05:05
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I've just obtained the orbal gear in The Third and my question is: are there other doors I can revisit for cool stuff or was Tita's special?
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Jan 7, 2018 05:13
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It's just that one with two parts
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Jan 7, 2018 05:25
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Re: TXanadu translation oddities, someone on the translation staff is definitely a Lovecraft fan, and there's a moment where Kou or someone says "Hastur knows" in place of God knows. Other than that, they keep saying "walking the earth like Caine" and I'm not sure if that's a typo or a reference to something. e: to make this post more than me bitching about the translation, I finished it last night, and it was a solid 8/10 game that I'm definitely getting the sequel to whenever it comes out. I think I liked the overall slower pace of the fights compared to Ys, but having played on Normal, they could have easily been a bit harder since I was breezing through most of the dungeons towards the end and especially in the afterstory. Platforming on ice terrain on the other hand can go gently caress itself. SC Bracer fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Jan 7, 2018 11:00
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Captain Lavender posted:On my 2nd playthrough of CS1, I did it on Nightmare, and resolved to build the characters based on what I thought they intended. The one that surprised me as really useful, and an interesting change to the flow was building Machias as an immovable object. As high as possible: HP, def/adf, support abilities - no emphasis on anything attack based. I don’t think I’ve ever used a defense quartz on purpose unless it was a locked earth slot, so it’s pretty cool to know it can let you survive boss wipes
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Jan 7, 2018 11:06
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It's a reference to Kung Fu
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Jan 7, 2018 11:08
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BrightWing posted:I've just obtained the orbal gear in The Third and my question is: are there other doors I can revisit for cool stuff or was Tita's special?
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Jan 7, 2018 12:46
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Holy crap, so I'll admit to hyping myself out, but in CS1 when Angelica gives you a sidequest after midterms to help test-drive her bike, and they're giving you all that detailed information on how to handle it, for a split second I thought I was about to get dumped into an actual bike-driving minigame, and it was the coolest thing ever. (Just watching a cutscene of Rean bombing around on it was still pretty neat though)
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Jan 7, 2018 12:59
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SC Bracer posted:Re: TXanadu translation oddities, someone on the translation staff is definitely a Lovecraft fan, and there's a moment where Kou or someone says "Hastur knows" in place of God knows. Other than that, they keep saying "walking the earth like Caine" and I'm not sure if that's a typo or a reference to something. Some translations use the spelling Caine as opposed to Cain for the biblical figure, and I know Vampire the Masquerade uses that spelling for its version of him.
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Jan 7, 2018 13:29
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Probably why in Nier 1, Kaine has “the mark”
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Jan 7, 2018 13:58
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the briar castle in ch. 4 of xanadu is too loving long and im really hoping it's just because this is supposed to be an endcap for the first half of the game
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Jan 7, 2018 16:53
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Billzasilver posted:I don’t think I’ve ever used a defense quartz on purpose unless it was a locked earth slot, so it’s pretty cool to know it can let you survive boss wipes Not the auto-49,999 hp attacks, but yeah, some other doozies.
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Jan 7, 2018 17:42
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Interesting. I'm kinda doing something a little similar. My favorite Machias build is Lv 5 Moebius, Chrono Burst and some EP Cuts. Alternating Chrono Burst and Burst Drive makes enemies stop mattering.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:14
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Nate RFB posted:As a FYI: If you win the fight in Anelace's door you get a really great sword for her, so if you failed to do so it'worth trying again. Then if you beat the Nightmare Arena with her in the party it gets powered up to be her best weapon. One of the few "gotchas" in 3rd, along with checking the bookcases for sparkles after every chapter and the not running away from fights thing (which sucks anyway). Wait, what's this about not ruining from fight? Cause I've been running from the super annoying mobs here and there.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:17
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Chrono Burst is for the weak. Cassius wouldn't use Chrono Burst.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:20
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BrightWing posted:Wait, what's this about not ruining from fight? Cause I've been running from the super annoying mobs here and there. 300 won battles without running gets you a special quartz. It really, really, really is not worth it though. There's also one you get for running from 300 battles
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Jan 7, 2018 18:24
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Can I play YS 1 blind without missing anything or is there important missable stuff for cool endings.
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Jan 7, 2018 19:45
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Not endings but there are a few easily missable items that will make it virtually impossible to progress if you don't have them. There's nothing permanently missable though.
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Jan 7, 2018 19:48
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Perfect, thanks. Am I missing anything cool by not playing on Nightmare?
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Jan 7, 2018 19:57
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You miss out on fighting the hardest version of the dumbest boss in Falcom history.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:11
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fadam posted:Perfect, thanks. The feeling of fire ants crawling under your skin
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Jan 7, 2018 20:19
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Oh hey if you're playing on a high refresh rate monitor you will want to force your refresh rate and fps down to 60. Otherwise the final boss does some dumb broken poo poo.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:26
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Holy poo poo. The third guardian fight. Jesus that was pure luck on my part, got three 200 cp Grail Spheres off.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:57
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Jan 7, 2018 22:12
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those eyes  I see Olivier and Mueller survived more or less unchanged though 
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Jan 7, 2018 22:25
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Who's that man on the right with the fantastic butt?
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BrightWing posted:Holy poo poo. The third guardian fight. Jesus that was pure luck on my part, got three 200 cp Grail Spheres off. Yeeeeep.
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BrightWing posted:Holy poo poo. The third guardian fight. Jesus that was pure luck on my part, got three 200 cp Grail Spheres off. boom goes the dynamite BearDrivingTruck posted:Who's that man on the right with the fantastic butt? during Trails in the Sky's development Cassius' title was "The Divine Glutes" Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Jan 7, 2018 22:54
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Really Pants posted:those eyes I own the art book that contains these sketches. There's a lot of early-crazy stuff in there. Walter has some hilarious early designs and one of Nial's early sketches would make him look like he's about to strangle a kitten and enjoy himself while he's at it. The one of Olivier and Mueller together is obviously more recent. The ones right above it are also pictures of Olivier. And yeah, the butt-sketch is part of Cassius' page.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:04
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Well. Stuck on some geometry in the 7th plane. Can't move. Dang it game. "We're FAMILY, Kevin!" got me in a big way
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Jan 7, 2018 23:16
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I guess in the grand scheme of a falcom game I'm not far in Tokyo Xan, but when does it "pick up?" Currently in the middle of God App storyline after the first dungeon. I think I'm still in the long, long tutorial.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:17
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Are there any convenient auto saves for you to use? They're the page of saves that are to the left of the first page.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:17
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BrightWing posted:Well. Stuck on some geometry in the 7th plane. Can't move. Dang it game. the part coming up is pretty awesome and by "part coming up" I guess I actually mean "rest of the game"
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Tae posted:I guess in the grand scheme of a falcom game I'm not far in Tokyo Xan, but when does it "pick up?" Currently in the middle of God App storyline after the first dungeon. I think I'm still in the long, long tutorial. Next chapter is when the first instance of something a bit more serious happens and then there's an intermission where the party decides to start their own little paranormal fighting club and it picks up pretty fast from there.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:51
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Is getting the ??? capsule toy from each machine in Tokyo Xanadu just a matter of saving, blowing a few thousand yen, then loading if it doesn't drop? Or do I need to do something specific to make sure it's in the drop table?
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Jan 8, 2018 10:39
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BrightWing posted:Well. Stuck on some geometry in the 7th plane. Can't move. Dang it game. That happened to me too. I just loaded an auto save and replayed the last two minutes again
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Jan 8, 2018 12:52
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Omi no Kami posted:Is getting the ??? capsule toy from each machine in Tokyo Xanadu just a matter of saving, blowing a few thousand yen, then loading if it doesn't drop? Or do I need to do something specific to make sure it's in the drop table? Nope that's it
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Billzasilver posted:That happened to me too. I just loaded an auto save and replayed the last two minutes again I only lost a minute with auto save but it was still annoying. Kevin Grahm: Knight of the church, Hunter of heritecs. Defeated by a gently sloping surface.
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