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Yeah, EXP gets you character levels, character levels get you SP. SP passively levels your weapons and you can also spend SP on abilities from folios.
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Dumb question BC I haven't thought about or looked into this at all: Is weapon level xp independent of individual weapons? I would assume so but haven't given the levelling much thought
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Dumb question BC I haven't thought about or looked into this at all: Is weapon level xp independent of individual weapons? I would assume so but haven't given the levelling much thought Yeah weapon level is shared across all your weapons.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Dumb question BC I haven't thought about or looked into this at all: Is weapon level xp independent of individual weapons? I would assume so but haven't given the levelling much thought No, it's all the same. Only your skill proficiency is independent. You only have to use any given weapon as long as it takes to learn its skill and then you can switch to whichever one has the materia slots or weapon abilities you like best. In practice that probably means either "one that has the most materia/linkedslots" or "one that has the highest attack damage" (except for Aerith who wants highest magic). If Yuffie's Ninjitsu works off of magic stat I guess you can pump hers too?
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I preferred the weapon upgrade system from Remake, except for how it was presented visually. The little galaxies were dumb. A simple checklist would have been better. Also I discovered that you still get the effect of linked Elemental and Fire/Ice/Wind/Lightning Materia in your weapon even if you are in frog mode. Probably for your armor too.
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UGH I cheated the game and myself. The last thing I did pre-date in chapter 12 was hard difficulty Fort Condor, so naturally I knocked the difficulty down to easy. Then I had to have dinner and forgot when I came back. So I played through all of Musclehead Colloseum on easy, and only on the final round did it occur to me that something was up, because I minmaxed my equipment a ton. And I ain't repeating Loveless. Oh well, there's always hard mode. f#a# fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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IcePhoenix posted:I don't think you're missing anything, this is pretty much how I felt too. His blocking animation feels really bad too because the visual indicator is super subtle. You get up in peoples' faces with Chilling Roar and block or use the blocking ATB ability when enemies are attacking, then do big DPS (or utility) once Vengeance is charged. I don't particularly enjoy playing him, but he's very good. (Also you obviously want the Steadfast Block materia on him for the ATB)
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Aerith's VA Brianna White is streaming Rebirth right now: https://twitch.tv/thestrangerebel Her playthrough of Remake melted even my cold shriveled heart.
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Holy poo poo this Cait Sith box throwing "minigame" is absolutely wretched game play. There is no way this was play tested. It takes 4 button presses to throw, the moogle is insanely slow to walk around, the boxes are floaty and only vaguely follow the arc, and the "throw the box into the spinning red funnel" seems to be right on the edge of your throwing range. I got it but this whole section is just absolute trash tier gameplay. Ohh also he is the only character where if you sprint with R2 and run into something yoi loose all momentum and have to watch a 5 second animation of Cait Sith recovering. (Also I just don't like playing Cait Sith in combat very much).
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Mar 20, 2024 00:47
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Pulcinella posted:Holy poo poo this Cait Sith box throwing "minigame" is absolutely wretched game play. There is no way this was play tested. It takes 4 button presses to throw, the moogle is insanely slow to walk around, the boxes are floaty and only vaguely follow the arc, and the "throw the box into the spinning red funnel" seems to be right on the edge of your throwing range. I got it but this whole section is just absolute trash tier gameplay. Ohh also he is the only character where if you sprint with R2 and run into something yoi loose all momentum and have to watch a 5 second animation of Cait Sith recovering. (Also I just don't like playing Cait Sith in combat very much). I loved Cait Sith in the original, and I loved moogle knuckling nonstop in this game, but yea this was absolutely reprehensible design. The only reason it's better than gongaga is because it doesn't take as long. I guess nobody at SE felt empowered to say "actually this entire segment is worse than every ps1 game".
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Holy poo poo I’ve had my issues with the game but it’s been mostly my own fault. Now I’m getting heated because (final boss spoilers) I’m losing the dmg race at the 10% level before Sephiroth does octoslash vs cloud and aerith where it’s an instant kill if you gently caress up. and the screen keeps going to sephiroths smug loving grin before fading out to ‘retry battle’ and god damnit gently caress you
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TK-42-1 posted:Holy poo poo I’ve had my issues with the game but it’s been mostly my own fault. Now I’m getting heated because (final boss spoilers) I’m losing the dmg race at the 10% level before Sephiroth does octoslash vs cloud and aerith where it’s an instant kill if you gently caress up. and the screen keeps going to sephiroths smug loving grin before fading out to ‘retry battle’ and god damnit gently caress you he doesn't stop until he's staggered. either build up cloud and aerith's limits to level 3 and use fury brand to hit him with two finishing touches at once, or use focused thrust to drive up whatever's left of his stagger bar. the latter requires playing footsie with tempus finis so i never pulled it off
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I have to assume people are somehow misunderstanding the Cait Sith thing's controls if people are unironically going "This is unplayable the worst thing ever" and not like... a kind of boring minigame. I turned off the motion controls so maybe that contributes to it but I can't imagine going "This is worse than Bubsy 3D" unless something is deeply wrong with your controller.
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ImpAtom posted:I have to assume people are somehow misunderstanding the Cait Sith thing's controls if people are unironically going "This is unplayable the worst thing ever" and not like... a kind of boring minigame. I turned off the motion controls so maybe that contributes to it but I can't imagine going "This is worse than Bubsy 3D" unless something is deeply wrong with your controller. people were complaining about the rocket league minigame in costa del sol being impossible. When I finally got to it, it was dead simple and I cleared the required stuff first try. i don't get a lot of the complaints about this game's minigames
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Pulcinella posted:and the "throw the box into the spinning red funnel" seems to be right on the edge of your throwing range. This was me until I realized I needed to toss the crate into the funnel as it was passing by, not when it was stopped.
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biceps crimes posted:people were complaining about the rocket league minigame in costa del sol being impossible. When I finally got to it, it was dead simple and I cleared the required stuff first try. i don't get a lot of the complaints about this game's minigames Oh man that game was incredibly fun. I lost the first few times but once I got a handle on it I was rolling
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biceps crimes posted:people were complaining about the rocket league minigame in costa del sol being impossible. When I finally got to it, it was dead simple and I cleared the required stuff first try. i don't get a lot of the complaints about this game's minigames I mean don't get me wrong, I think "throw boxes at stuff" is an incredibly dull minigame and kind of sucks for what should have been one of the game's coolest areas. I'm not trying to defend it as secretly good, but it's mostly just because it's boring and uncreative.
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Yeah it is awful with motion controls, and just bad without them.
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ImpAtom posted:I mean don't get me wrong, I think "throw boxes at stuff" is an incredibly dull minigame and kind of sucks for what should have been one of the game's coolest areas. I'm not trying to defend it as secretly good, but it's mostly just because it's boring and uncreative. I half heartedly threw the boxes and moved on. It's not something I would ever try again lol. The only other one I don't enjoy doing is the moogles, but I've only failed once so I'm pretty whatever about them. I've completed all the normal mode minigames and the vast majority are fun to play. I actually liked the rocket league one. QB is really fun and tbh super forgiving since you can quickly do-over if you make a mistake. Chocobo racing is really fun and I had a good time chilling out after work completing the side quests for it.
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Are they serious with this mushroom picking poo poo in Gongaga? Insanely cool soundtrack aside this region is just a two pack of rear end from start to finish good god
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JBP posted:I half heartedly threw the boxes and moved on. It's not something I would ever try again lol. The only other one I don't enjoy doing is the moogles, but I've only failed once so I'm pretty whatever about them. If you want to do Johnny's stuff you do need to go back and do it once for that one random minigame on the elevator unfortunately but it is super easy to do anyway.
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ImpAtom posted:If you want to do Johnny's stuff you do need to go back and do it once for that one random minigame on the elevator unfortunately but it is super easy to do anyway. There is absolutely no way I'll ever try to get all the Johnny bobbleheads.
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I like the real minigames. The "puzzle" minigames like box throwing and pushing the mako vacuums are rear end. Wamsutta posted:Are they serious with this mushroom picking poo poo in Gongaga? Insanely cool soundtrack aside this region is just a two pack of rear end from start to finish good god The pain of navigating Gongaga is what made me stop doing side content
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Just being repeatedly washed by any enemy encounter that involves one or more Gorgon Mane like I can’t even hit these things and their magic just annihilates me
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Pulcinella posted:Holy poo poo this Cait Sith box throwing "minigame" is absolutely wretched game play. There is no way this was play tested. It takes 4 button presses to throw, the moogle is insanely slow to walk around, the boxes are floaty and only vaguely follow the arc, and the "throw the box into the spinning red funnel" seems to be right on the edge of your throwing range. I got it but this whole section is just absolute trash tier gameplay. Ohh also he is the only character where if you sprint with R2 and run into something yoi loose all momentum and have to watch a 5 second animation of Cait Sith recovering. (Also I just don't like playing Cait Sith in combat very much). The boxing throwing is bad, yeah. The minigame part (on the elevator) is still super easy to complete in the time given, but it's very awkward. Also the boxes seemingly hit lower than the hit indicators says they will.
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My partner really loves all the open world stuff so they played through Gongaga this even while I sat with them and the cats. Now we stopped tonight at the cave dungeon in Cosmo.
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ImpAtom posted:If you want to do Johnny's stuff you do need to go back and do it once for that one random minigame on the elevator unfortunately but it is super easy to do anyway. only if you didn't get it on the first try  (I still have to do it again for the hard mode playthrough anyway though)
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Should I gently caress around in the Nibel region before or after I go to the reactor? Does it matter?
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Should I gently caress around in the Nibel region before or after I go to the reactor? Does it matter? It doesn't really matter as long as you've alread gotten your Fartcobo. There's some items and poo poo you can get beforehand which are nice to have.
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I wish this game had a day/night cycle. The world looks really good at night, but most of the game takes place in the daytime.
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oh no I got the Aerith date, salt in the wound to my younger self, now that I'm older I must commit and see things through I wished I didn't watch the Final Trailer for Rebirth because it had Implications 
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Okay I got the buggy. Had a mostly great time during the last several sections (feeding the chocobo sucked but the Gold Saucer was amazing and the Barret/Dyne stuff was great and fighting Palmer in his stupid rear end robot was hilarious. Let's go back to Johnny in the desert and do this next step of his nonsense. "Find SIX LIFESPRING WELLS in the corel region". Yuffie, i'm sorry buddy, I fear you shall never reach peak friendship because I can't do that poo poo a second time with the only different being I have to do SIX instead of 2. I stopped doing the open world stuff after the grasslands because it's tedious garbage and I hated it, and I have been enjoying the game much more because of it. Only doing the green side quests. But this Yuffie quest for Costa Del Sol A) stars Johnny and B) has had me do some of the most tedious nonsense, and also won't mark on the map where the objectives are for each step. This last step was the last straw. I refuse. I want the game to progress. Johnny I hope your stupid inn collapses. edit: Let me go do this other green sidequest. This one appears to be for Barret. "Craft a bird trap, but you need a transmuter chip. You can ascertain the location of the transmuter chip through lifespring analysis" Am I being pranked? Macaluso fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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There's going to be more quests that require lifespring analysis later I'm sorry
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Don't do either of those amazing quests where you explore the world of ff7 with your friends, then. They're probably all lovely busywork.
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UP AND ADAM posted:Don't do either of those amazing quests where you explore the world of ff7 with your friends, then. They're probably all lovely busywork.
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Lifesprings also give cool boss fights and are like the easiest things to find so I don't know why you wouldn't do them except out of spite against the open worldWamsutta posted:Just being repeatedly washed by any enemy encounter that involves one or more Gorgon Mane like I can’t even hit these things and their magic just annihilates me Silence them. Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Corel side quests want you to do World Intel so you have time to get acquainted with you new best pal Cait Sith
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Blockhouse posted:Lifesprings also give cool boss fights and are like the easiest things to find so I don't know why you wouldn't do them except out of spite against the open world I'm also missing out on summons, but  the open world stuff does absolutely nothing for me even with the rewards. The main story stuff is (mostly) excellent and I have limited time to play anyway so I want to focus on that. The green quests are pretty hit and miss but I've enjoyed the characters stuff in them and they give relationship points. Chasing a dog while Barret has a crisis about being a good father is top tier content.SyntheticPolygon posted:Corel side quests want you to do World Intel so you have time to get acquainted with you new best pal Cait Sith Joke's on Chadley, I was all in on Cait Sith from the start
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Macaluso posted:I'm also missing out on summons, but I'd just grab a guide to where the summon scans are. Going to the summon spots is very quick and worthwhile.
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Anyway I do feel for people who do not like collecting all them nodes because the game’s systems are pretty interconnected and World Intel gives you a lot of cool stuff that is fun to have access too or play around with. Ignoring buying materia from Chadley or side quests that require chips, the wellsprings give equipment upgrades, bonus bosses and unique accessories, summons are only half complete until you get all the shrines and protorelics are just a full game long side plot like Queens Blood. It’s basically just the fiends and moogles that aren’t anything major and the rare materia/sp boosts they can give are still nice to have.
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