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thinking to myself if I pull another straight weekend of playing I can wrap it up but also a new fortnite season is spinning up so I guess my long term goal would be, idk, at least 100% a non-hard mode playthrough before DD2 hits.
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I’m finding Gongaga kind of a chore to navigate and it’s sapping my will to marathon it, think it’s gonna be an hour or two a couple of nights a week game now at least until I get out of the jungle.
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It's funny how when you activate a chocobo stop by propping the sign up, there's this giant slab of concrete on the bottom of the sign that, extremely obviously, goes INTO THE GROUD but instead he just kind of uprights the sign and leaves the entire concrete slab sticking out Like, someone was asked to make the model for the chocobo sign and was told "the player will re-install these as part of activating the stop" and went, "ok cool then I'll make it like a real sign, with concrete to stabilize it undergound" Then the dude who actually programmed the chocobo stops was like "Homie what the gently caress is concrete... idk ship it" e: Don't worry little buddy! Totally fixed your sign!  Ytlaya posted:Graphics mode runs fine (I think it's basically perfectly stable), but 30fps in any game with a rotatable camera is virtually unplayable on an OLED due to the super fast pixel response times. On other displays, the frames are sort of blurred together, but OLED's super high clarity and responsiveness works against it here. I'm on a QD-OLED and it's fine as long as you have VRR enabled. Performance mode looks horrible imo quote:Not sure what's "blurry", I can see everything just fine You must be sitting very far back from the screen if you really don't see any blur. It's crazy lovely looking, but you can kinda mitigate that by sitting far away from the panel. If you're sitting close enough to your TV for 4K to matter in the first place, then you would instantly understand what people were talking about re: bluriness How big is your TV and how far away are you from it? Taima fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mustang posted:Graphics mode runs like dog poo poo, performance mode runs great and buttery smooth without any FPS drops. Not sure what's "blurry", I can see everything just fine. Graphics mode runs fine (I think it's basically perfectly stable), but 30fps in any game with a rotatable camera is virtually unplayable on an OLED due to the super fast pixel response times. On other displays, the frames are sort of blurred together, but OLED's super high clarity and responsiveness works against it here.
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triple sulk posted:Holy loving lmao the chicken quest They could have run, wild and free. And I.... I love that Red 13 is literally a dog, and he specifically calls out that losing focus when he spots a meal is his fatal flaw. Like a dog.
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How do you pressure Elder Golem for the combat objectives? Assess screen says he has finite energy which depletes when he attacks or takes damage and is pressured when it runs out, but this is clearly not the whole story because I ran down his entire health bar without him using his Recharge move (which I assume is refilling his energy) and he is never pressured. Infuriatingly, I did manage to pressure him once on the first encounter but I have no idea how, and then he died on the hit that staggered him, which apparently doesn't count. Game design!
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Harrow posted:In case anyone's unaware, there's a spoiler thread if you want to get more in-depth about the story: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4054682 Also, I played my first game of Fort Condor and Fort Condor sucks.
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Rageaholic posted:Oh dope! I'll have to check this out. Remember to use the hero units. They charge by creating units of the same type. This instantly makes the game go from "really frustrating/hard" to "pretty easy." I didn't use them for the first two matches because I didn't know how they worked and they weren't in Intermission's version of the minigame.
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Morph is really annoying to use. Enemies have to be super low HP but at that HP it’s very easy for your teammates to accidentally kill them. Frog rings on my non-morph characters works I guess but since you can’t change equipment in combat it means morph is only good for farming specific enemies
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I kinda just brute forced my way through Fort Condor using the default “balanced” loadout, with Barrett and Tifa as my heroes. don’t plan on touching the hard mode any time soon. Only real advice I can give is don’t send in units solo, wait that little bit extra so that you can give them at least one back-up unit.
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RatHat posted:Morph is really annoying to use. Enemies have to be super low HP but at that HP it’s very easy for your teammates to accidentally kill them. Frog rings on my non-morph characters works I guess but since you can’t change equipment in combat it means morph is only good for farming specific enemies Is there anything you can only get with Morph? It's such a pain I haven't really bothered with it or Steal much yet. Though I guess maybe I should have Yuffie try to steal since she has some synergies with it.
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Harrow posted:Is there anything you can only get with Morph? It's such a pain I haven't really bothered with it or Steal much yet. Though I guess maybe I should have Yuffie try to steal since she has some synergies with it. Morph allows you to get the higher-rank beast stuff earlier than you can buy/reliably farm it, so it's nice for getting the upgraded armors earlier. As far as I am aware there is nothing unique that can be Morphed and only one or two things that require Steal The Tonberry King's untarnished crown
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Harrow posted:Is there anything you can only get with Morph? It's such a pain I haven't really bothered with it or Steal much yet. Though I guess maybe I should have Yuffie try to steal since she has some synergies with it. No but it’s good for getting rare materials Steal is actually really good once leveled up to Mug. It does damage, refunds your ATB when it hits(which means you can spam it), and has a little AoE so you can steal from multiple enemies at once if they’re grouped up. Mug seems to have a lower success rate though
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Rageaholic posted:Oh dope! I'll have to check this out. Pro tip: change it to easy difficulty and profit.
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RatHat posted:No but it’s good for getting rare materials Enemy Skill (Plasma) + Mug + Brumal Form + Blindside is a super hilarious combo on Yuffie because she just starts making GBS threads out so much electricity your PS5 dies.
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Ah I suppose it's worth actually trying to Steal and Morph sometimes then! Or at the very least make sure a Steal materia gets leveled up.ImpAtom posted:Enemy Skill (Plasma) + Mug + Brumal Form + Blindside is a super hilarious combo on Yuffie because she just starts making GBS threads out so much electricity your PS5 dies. lol hell yes
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Taima posted:I'm on a QD-OLED and it's fine as long as you have VRR enabled. Performance mode looks horrible imo There is no VRR support in this game FYI, and VRR wouldn't smooth out TAA or upscaling issues on a 30fps game.
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ImpAtom posted:Enemy Skill (Plasma) + Mug + Brumal Form + Blindside is a super hilarious combo on Yuffie because she just starts making GBS threads out so much electricity your PS5 dies. Oh poo poo I didn’t even think to use it with Plasma discharge, that’s pretty busted.
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every time I’ve used morph I either got “enemy’s HP isn’t low enough” or the partner AI killed the enemy in the time it took me to cast the spell.
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RatHat posted:Oh poo poo I didn’t even think to use it with Plasma discharge, that’s pretty busted. Oh, it can get more hilariously busted. Enemy Skill + HP absorb for example gives you a massive HP regen every time it triggers, Doppleganger and Haste build ATB even faster it's just bonkers. Some of the Materia combos rival FF7 classic. My personal favorite is Synergy -> Comet on Aerith and then have her put down Radiant Ward. Since Comet has a long cast time Radiant Ward makes Aerith invincible for the entire time frame and it being tied to Synergy means there's no MP cost, so Aerith can just sit there raining meteors down on helpless enemies all day every day. Combine this with Yuffie (as mentioned above) or another fast ATB builder (Tifa or Cloud using Disorder) and it's comets all day every day.
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Does a Synergy spell cast twice if Aerith is in her Arcane ward? And yeah I tried the Synergy-Comet combo in the demo but the issue I ran into was it’s hard to tell what the hell is going on with constant comet explosions
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ImpAtom posted:Oh, it can get more hilariously busted. Enemy Skill + HP absorb for example gives you a massive HP regen every time it triggers, Doppleganger and Haste build ATB even faster it's just bonkers. Some of the Materia combos rival FF7 classic. Arcane ward and radiant ward is a fun combo if you can get them both down, definitely easier on large bosses than stand still a lot more so you can get synergy skills pumping those ATB charges out.
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Does doing Fort Condor hard mode even give you anything other than saying you beat it The game also isn't immune to horrifying ragdoll accidents. Sorry to the grenadier who I shot off a balcony. His body fell to the ground, but his arm got stuck on the railing was stretched out by about 15 feet. Red XIII suddenly entering "I want to see your manager" mode was great.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:They could have run, wild and free. And I.... The actual mini game mechanic sucked rear end and I was hating it, but the payoff at the end was 100% worth it. I lost my poo poo at the music
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Thundarr posted:The game also isn't immune to horrifying ragdoll accidents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7iT_x3jgs lol
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Ytlaya posted:Remember to use the hero units. They charge by creating units of the same type. 
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RatHat posted:Does a Synergy spell cast twice if Aerith is in her Arcane ward? Yep. The hardest part is getting AI Aerith to stay in the drat ward TBH. Radiant is large enough there's little issue but Arcane is small enough you basically need to manually reposition her then swap over and use another skill instantly.
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Thundarr posted:Does doing Fort Condor hard mode even give you anything other than saying you beat it Apparently it gets you a collectible key item, and the game has implied to me that there is some sort of reward for getting enough of those collectibles (maybe all of them?)
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Bland posted:Apparently it gets you a collectible key item, and the game has implied to me that there is some sort of reward for getting enough of those collectibles (maybe all of them?) There is one (as well as an associated trophy) but it 150% is not worth the trouble. It's the piano sheet music for One Winged Angel.
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Playing at a snails pace. Only made it to the junon region after fully clearing out the grasslands because my gaming ocd demands all the checks be marked Pros so far: Game is pretty Combat is fun My party just barrels through all tables and chairs in their way. Seriously it sounds like there is a wrecking crew behind me lmao Cons: Shut the gently caress up Chadley
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ImpAtom posted:There is one (as well as an associated trophy) but it 150% is not worth the trouble. Guess I'll be watching more YouTube videos of Fort Condor clears! Later, at least. I don't think this boat is going to be going back to Junon any time soon.
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Arkage posted:Pro tip: change it to easy difficulty and profit. this is the secret. go to the options and turn the battle system combat to easy and it affects Fort Condor. The hard mode battles are significantly easier than the default difficulty normal mode battles this way.
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ImpAtom posted:There is one (as well as an associated trophy) but it 150% is not worth the trouble. Does it take 7 minutes to play too?
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Last night I accidentally stayed up until 2:30 AM trying to beat the Queen's Blood Survival Boot Camp in the Gold Saucer A+
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christ almighty cait sith has a lot going on in his gameplay
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I feel like I would rather play as aerith than cait sith. And that's a pretty dire statement for cait sith
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ImpAtom posted:There is one (as well as an associated trophy) but it 150% is not worth the trouble. poo poo I need to get this
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No Mods No Masters posted:I feel like I would rather play as aerith than cait sith. And that's a pretty dire statement for cait sith There's not a single character in this game I don't like playing. Everyone scratches a different itch.
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Mustang posted:Graphics mode runs like dog poo poo, performance mode runs great and buttery smooth without any FPS drops. Not sure what's "blurry", I can see everything just fine. I'm playing on graphics mode on my A95K. It's great. Performance looks like the lens has been smeared with Vaseline. It's revolting.
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