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FLIPSIXTHREEHOLE posted:Two questions for the knowledgeable folks, sorry if they've been asked already: They are their own thing, but there are a few different things that impact tracking. Most notably the specific boosters (keikiku I think, something like that) are designed “for melee” and give you insane tracking, very funny to use with a stun baton because you stick to people like crazy.
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I just got the Coral Rifle from the Liberator ending's last boss in NG++ and lol they give you its fully charged energy stream attack. It's not very good but boy is it loving cool
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the Sea Spider was fun. very much a lesson teaching boss. a lesson about circle strafing in the air
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Romes128 posted:any tips for destroying the coral transports mission inchapter 3 in ng+++ In general, as other posters have pointed out, having plenty of boost so you can fly for a while, and using medium to long range weapons will do work here. The biggest problem I was running into was the Coral explosions that happen when you kill one. They'll do a lot of damage to you if you get caught in the blast, but if they're close together, they will blow each other up when one explodes.
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turn off the TV posted:there's also a few energy weapons that are basically just inferior versions of others, iirc there's a plasma rifle that both does significantly less damage and has significantly less ammo than another one in exchange for shooting 30% faster. Sindai fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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Sep 3, 2023 23:24
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I feel like I’m missing some very fundamental ac knowledge in the sense of “how to play” and weapon roles and baiting dodges/punishing, dodge timing, etc Is there a primer anywhere
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Sep 3, 2023 23:27
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Now on to NG+ and hopefully the mission options I didn't previously take. Holy poo poo was the Red Comet mission with the ending anime fight with Rusty with infinite boost was so loving hype. Gonna replay that a few times. Crain fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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Sep 3, 2023 23:35
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I wouldn't have guessed that's someone you can kill or even fight
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Sep 3, 2023 23:38
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brand engager posted:I wouldn't have guessed that's someone you can kill or even fight Depends on the story choices, and you do twice. Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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Sep 3, 2023 23:45
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They were trying to say you should spoiler tag stuff about final bosses.
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Sep 3, 2023 23:48
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Captain Foo posted:I feel like I’m missing some very fundamental ac knowledge in the sense of “how to play” and weapon roles and baiting dodges/punishing, dodge timing, etc Low stagger meter. good odds of hitting them with a second gun after they dodge your first big shot, or nailing them after you time countering their red flash bazooka/grenade shot leaving them open. High stagger meter. "The enemy has now dodge canceled out of their red flash three times in as many seconds, rather than suffer the indignity of stagger by twin laser rifle punishing a slow explosive attack." Eventually you sort of realize how easily you are causing an empty stagger meter to quickly fill up, only for finishing the job to seem suddenly hard.
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raverrn posted:He's got a ton of KE defense, try bringing energy weapons. Also never stop moving. Ok. Cool. Had to go to work unfortunately, but I'll give that a shot. My coworker who's just about as far as me kited him over to the tetrapod, so I'll also give that a shot.
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Crain posted:Depends on the story choices, and you do twice. Both encounters with this person are either as an end boss, or as the final bonus arena fight, which is also an important story beat. It's weird that you spoiler tagged the mission details for Breach the Karman line and not the literal name of the final fight, which gives away a major plot point about a character who has been with you for like 60% of the run time...
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I just noticed coral weapons have a different icon from energy weapons, so does that mean they don't benefit from energy damage bonuses from OST chips? Honestly I've been trying to mess around with the big coral beam gun but I keep going back to melee, it's so hard to tear myself away from the rush of the lance/bunker combo.
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The combination of non spoilered endboss information in combination with unmarked spoilers about an end game mission is either the stupidest thing I've seen or precision engineered to piss people off and I can't decide whichShyrka posted:I just noticed coral weapons have a different icon from energy weapons, so does that mean they don't benefit from energy damage bonuses from OST chips? afaik they just do coral damage which is seperate from energy and anything else
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Come on dude spoiler this poo poo you dumbass
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My go-to hand weapons for pretty much anything in the game have changed from gatling guns to zimmermans for a while now just because they're so much fun to use... except for the missions where you have to defend stuff from waves of enemies, in which case my go-to's have been the 2nd tier laser rifles, which are excellent. They can rapidly one-shot most all trash mobs from a good distance and, while their charged shots aren't as devastating at close range as the zimmermans, they're no slouches if you have to get close up and dirty with a more powerful enemy. So yeah, 2nd tier laser rifles are great for defense missions where you'll have to rapidly kill a lot of trash groups coming in from all directions.
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Sep 4, 2023 00:26
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I love the double laser rifle and I'm very sad you can't dual wield them without having the biggest muscly arms possible.
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Cool. Well, uh, anyways in late Chapter 4 I dunno if the mission to take down Balam is mechanically harder but the one against Vesper certainly feels worse. RIP Pater, sorry we had to meet like this.
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Crain posted:Depends on the story choices, and you do twice. Ahh you shithead 
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Eej posted:I love the double laser rifle and I'm very sad you can't dual wield them without having the biggest muscly arms possible. Same. You can get away with one-handing the double laser rifle and other-handing the tier 2 laser rifle on a few of the arms though.
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TGLT posted:Cool. The Vespers and Redguns (aside from Rusty of course) all suck cause they are literally employed by megacorps to murder the locals so they can extract natural resources for profit so don't feel too bad about it
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Sep 4, 2023 00:46
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Eej posted:afaik they just do coral damage which is seperate from energy and anything else Definitely seemed like it wasn't being modified by the energy adjustment stat on generators to me when I was playing with a coral weapon in the simulator
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Eej posted:The Vespers and Redguns (aside from Rusty of course) all suck cause they are literally employed by megacorps to murder the locals so they can extract natural resources for profit so don't feel too bad about it Yeah, true, but Pater tried to do a Rusty impression that one time so that puts him pretty high up on the list in this cavalcade of war criminals
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Beat the game as a reverse join speed mech that shotgunned and meleed everything without much difficulty. Now I'm trying for a ranged spider mech and having to relearn all my strategies, or even if that's just not a thing that's actually good or works at all. Still fun to try to workshop things and get them to a usable place. I miss being able to dodge 90% of an enemy's attacks without even boosting.
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Eej posted:I love the double laser rifle and I'm very sad you can't dual wield them without having the biggest muscly arms possible.
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It's funny because Pater and Snail are basically the same kind of weaselly guy, but Pater's so much less of a dick about it. They're all brutal thugs for resource extracting megacorps, but the Redguns are more down to earth soldier types while the Vespers are more like corporate mascots. Could totally see Arquebus making a Vesper saturday morning cartoon show to appeal to kids, while the only civilians who care about the Redguns are Soldier of Fortune reading weirdos like Red.
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Eej posted:The Vespers and Redguns (aside from Rusty of course) all suck cause they are literally employed by megacorps to murder the locals so they can extract natural resources for profit so don't feel too bad about it Quite a few of them are just punching the clock same as anyone else, though the Vespers have a much higher density of True Believers in their ranks. Pretty sure half of the Redguns are functionally a penal unit. The only people winning in war and imperialism are the people in the boardrooms and congresshalls, same as ever.
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Warmachine posted:Quite a few of them are just punching the clock same as anyone else, though the Vespers have a much higher density of True Believers in their ranks. Pretty sure half of the Redguns are functionally a penal unit. The feds don't seem super pleased about what's going on either though
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RBA Starblade posted:The feds don't seem super pleased about what's going on either though Is that what the PCA is? I couldn't figure out their deal beyond "I guess they set up killsats or something?"
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Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now.
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Chillgamesh posted:Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now. I don't think I caught that one either. I figured Snail was just leaving the toadies out to die because as ALLMIND points out in NG++ his whole plan was ambush you after you find the convergence/fight IBIS.
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Chillgamesh posted:Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now. lmao okay so him shouting about him having just made V.V while dying takes on a different but equally as funny tone.
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Warmachine posted:Is that what the PCA is? I couldn't figure out their deal beyond "I guess they set up killsats or something?" They're not corporations and Walter said even those guys hosed it and went too far so I assumed they were government guys, or someone acting on a government's authority, coming in to settle things down
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Chillgamesh posted:Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now.
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Warmachine posted:Is that what the PCA is? I couldn't figure out their deal beyond "I guess they set up killsats or something?" yeah they’re the space cops who want everyone to just leave the coral the gently caress alone Chillgamesh posted:Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now. No, Pater is a little weasel but Snail is unambiguously the one who set Maeterlinck up so he could ambush and capture you. Pater genuinely has a mood swinging thing going on, he’ll be sobbing about his dead comrade and then in the very next line of dialog be smug about his new number.
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Chillgamesh posted:Pater's a little more than just a weasel. At the end of chapter 4, he sets up Maeterlinck to get killed by you so he can climb the ranks. On the trashcan escape mission, if you took the Michigan job, he's commanding the search party and very clearly and smugly announces that he is V.VI now. I had a weird thing about this I killed the two vespers, but pater still showed up in the escape mission
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Kick's really good for Balteus. You should be assault boosting into him all the time anyway so it's just free stagger and damage.
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Mazerunner posted:I had a weird thing about this I killed the two vespers, but pater still showed up in the escape mission It’s weird, but I guess he was just able to eject in time and the other guy wasn’t.
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Managed to polish off the basic playthrough, thanks in large part to a long weekend. 1. As an AC4/4A enjoyer, ACV disliker, Soulslike hater: this game rules and I love it. Some minor complaints, sure, but this hole was made for me. 2. RUSTY  3. gently caress Snail and his bullshit knockoff Balteus hoop. 8 or so tries down and finally managed to harpoon his rear end with a Fast Tank build. Dude easily had my number worse than any other boss in the game (so far). 4. Favourite design decision: From Soft not booting you back to the title screen for you to choose NG+, and instead just immediately throwing you into NG+ without asking because, what, like you weren't gonna do it?? Someone deep into the NG+/NG++ playthroughs: Are there any late-game weapon unlocks of the "one huge weapon that requires both back slots to mount" type? There was a gigantic 2-slot folding cannon (OIGAMI, for the connoisseurs) in a previous AC game that I absolutely loved using. It had like 10 ammo and was mostly a comedy option, but the thing ripped
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