Super Robot Wars X: Keith Courage in Alpha Numbers

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Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

I'm not sure what the issue with play-asia is. I got the last couple games through them just fine.

I also got up at 2am to order the limited edition. I wish I had somewhere I could punch in the tracking number they sent me today.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 01:02

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 08:47

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ImpAtom posted:

... Animus?

Not the worst translation of Soul.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 11:35

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

KoB posted:

Specifically, all four units lose 10 will.

Is this before or after any Will Gains as a result of the attack itself? SO you'd end up with like, 131-132 if you did it at 140?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 01:16

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Tae posted:

I never really got why the portables outside of console ports never got SR points.

J did have the Puzzle Robo stages, which were kind of fun, though some of them are downright brutal to get right.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 03:26

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Bah, my copy arrived today, but we were out shopping so they left the slip that says 'we missed you'. I have to wait to pick it up after work on monday.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 22:05

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Man you guys weren't kidding about how rough even the early SR points are. Doing the space route it's a careful juggling of units and precise use of Raid and Quicken.

Or the mission that's 'Reduce everything to under 2k in 5 turns, don't kill anything, oh and if they touch you you're frozen for a turn.'

# ¿ Aug 28, 2016 17:57

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ImpAtom posted:

If they occupy the square next to the character.

Yep, and that's after your action, if you move in the bring one down below 2k with a Vulcan or Beam Saber, you won't get paralyzed if you succeed.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2016 02:44

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Man I really like Yon, and she has a secret attached to her. But the fact that her default P attack on her default mech has 0 accuracy sucks hard.

So I stuck her in a Gespenst as soon as Katina could hop into the GanDuro. Now all is well.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2016 00:20

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

EthanSteele posted:

Hell yeah looking forward to G Gen!

Learn how to use the Maximum Break mechanic. You basically force a squad to support attack you but with no penalty to their attack and with a bonus bit of damage before you start kicking butt.

By default Kai, Katina, Irm, Viletta, Aya and Kyosuke have the skill to start it (another one with it shows up near the end of the game).

You need two sets of twins next to each other and everybody needs a weapon that has the F quality. Most units have one by default, but you might have to equip a couple with something.

Everybody you wish to do the Maximum Break with needs 140 will or higher.

When you attack with one of the above mentioned characters and these criteria are met it'll pop up with the option to Maximum Break and then you just choose your attacks and go from there and reduce your will by 10 as a price for having a good time.

Otherwise my only big tip is to not twin people that do combo attacks together. Eg: don't put Kyosuke and Excellen together, not only are they not very good together in the same squad, it means you can't do their combo attack as often. This goes for every combo attack in the game, Kyosuke/Excellen, Sanger/Ratsel, Arado/Seolla, SRX/R Gun, Formation R and Latooni/Shine in the Fairlions.

I think everyone in the MB has to be at the same movement mode too, that is they all have to be flying or landed.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 14:36

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Senerio posted:

I'm playing Moon dwellers. i meant I hadn't seen it in og2 so I didn't know if it was good.

The Angelg is usually pretty good. Lamia and Haken are the only ones who can use it, I believe, and Haken is much better in the Vysaga from what I've heard. But if you like Lamia, she'd do fine in any number of other machines too.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 01:27

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Caphi posted:

Lamia is weird because she's actually an evasive pilot with Focus but both her default machines are very heavy and survive on Double Image and Prevail (she also has Guard, I guess). I put her in the Wildraubtier for a bit and she seems to have gone all the way to untouchable.

Oh that would be a good mech for her. I'll have to think about where I put her, I need to play more, I've only gotten past stage 11.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 02:07

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Caphi posted:

Seriously Banpresto give us back the Wildschwein. Put it in instead of the MP Hucky III they dig out of storage every game. Or the Schwert, does anyone actually use the Schwert?

Yeah you can put Repair/Resupply on the Schwert and send it out solo if you really want to. But I would love to have the Wildschwein back, give it an upgrade like they did the Wildraubtier.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 02:38

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ImpAtom posted:

I suspect the reason is that Wild(x) units are now associated with The School and there's no more School pilots left over to give one to as a default unit so there's no real interest in making a new one.

I bet in the next game we get Cobray showing up with a Wildschwein [German Word] just because it was Ingram's unit in OG1 at the start.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 04:09

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

The GIG posted:

Bandai Namco seems to really hate built streaming because most of the games I've played from them lately will either block out literally every cutscene no matter how unimportant, or will just not allow you to stream after a certain point.

It's the music licensing nightmare, easier to disable it for the whole game than only when certain tracks are playing.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 00:42

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Ashsaber posted:

And uh, roughly when does my namesake mech show up? I would feel bad if I didn't put a lot of love into it.

And your namesake is a solid mech, a very good choice for Yon as it plays to her strengths and is just plain better than her default Mech.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 22:30

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

GimmickMan posted:

^^ The ~~Huckebein~~ Exbein Gunners have two ALLs that are ammo based and hit quite hard with very good range. I put Carla in the 2nd one and she was my first aced pilot. They're very good at wiping twins if you pair them together.

5 bars in accuracy is 20k, super cheap and so useful you should give that to all the mechs you plan to use. MD has tons of enemies that aren't just dodgy, but also like to evade during the player phase instead of counterattacking. You can go without upgrading accuracy in other games but in this one it is just going to frustrate you.

e: The hit and dodge rates remind me a lot of A Portable, except in this game you have to get SR points.

e2: poo poo I just got the joke.

Yeah, the best way to get started with upgrades is 5 bars in accuracy, then 5 bars in mobility or armor, whichever is more relevant for the unit.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 20:54

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

EthanSteele posted:

Strike completely counters them. Bring Alfimi to Inspire if your fave dudes don't have strike yet or it's too expensive to use 2-3 times.

Alfimi is pretty great for that. Pair her with Gilliam so you can use Confuse when you don't need Inspire.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 03:59

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Brunom1 posted:

I elected to pass on the Super Soul Saber skill point.

Picture this: I was one turn away from ending things off, all mooks are dead so everything's good... and then this half HP escort decides to zip across the lake to attack Vought (who only targets Akimi) and gets himself wrecked.

Yeah, no.

Is this the stage where you had to keep all the horrible mooks alive? I barely managed to do it, thanks to a couple well-timed uses of Solidarity, Confusion and the repair module on the Hagane. But I wouldn't have cried if I didn't manage it.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2016 21:27

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Rascyc posted:

It's a little annoying cause if you kill all the fodder they decide to turn on the afterburners and charge the boss. You are better off just leaving them some fodder so they tangle with the weaker enemies.

That was a fun mission but a mean surprise.

Haha, posted before I saw this. Yep this happened to me too, rip

At least they're smart enough to always defend when attacked, and beefy enough for that to make a difference.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 11:19

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

EthanSteele posted:

Keeping them healed up to full can help too, though I'm pretty sure on hard he's guaranteed the kill if he crits, even with them at 100% hp.

They might be able to take a hit at full, they did for me at least once, but I wouldn't chance it.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 23:32

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ZuljinRaynor posted:

Quick question about Gundam Breaker 3; it came with the DLC code, will it work only on the PSN account that it is activated for or is it a 100KB file that you download and all players on that system (regardless of PSN region) will be able to take advantage of the code?

Also, since I don't see an online pass code, I assume if you play with an NA account, everything is fine and dandy. Is there anything I lose if I don't use an Asian account?

I've so far only dealt with buying DLC for SRWZ3 and Gundam EXVS FB and I bought all of those on my JPN account and they worked fine on my English one (minus the online pass for EXVS FB). Does DLC work similarly for PS4?

I have looked in other places and this seems to be the case but I would like to confirm with someone here.

Any DLC is accessible to the entire system, but you'll need to use the native region to download it, from my experience.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2016 12:42

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

GimmickMan posted:

I partnered Shu with Gilliam just to abuse Gilliam's multiturn shenanigans. The units kinda sorta work well together so that's a bonus. Fun fact: The Mahakala system acts as a super repair kit! What's more fun than MAPWing a bunch of guys twice (god bless continuous action) and cleaning up with an absurd ALL weapon afterwards? Doing it four more times in the same battle.

I tried partnering Amara with Glacies (they're both ranged units with ALL finishers) and setting up a conga line of Josh->Glacies/Amara->Shu, the weapon ranges juust work out that way but honestly neither Amara or Glacies are worth the trouble imo.

Masaki is pretty bad, the Cybuster still lacks an ALL and his MAPW is not what it used to be. Lune is solid though, and the Valsione R's weapon ranges are similar to the Lichkeit's, so I put her on Alfimi Bodyguard Duty.

I partnered Gilliam with Alfimi for semi-infinite Confusion. Not sure who to partner with Shu. Tried him and Yon for a mission, with Yon in the Wildfalken, the seemed to work all right, their all weapons have similar range in fact.

I've also finally started getting enough PP for Meditate on top of Continuous Action for some people, it's beautiful.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2016 18:47

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Sordas Volantyr posted:

So, I just finished my first SRW last night (It was J, pretend to be surprised). What should I dive into next?

OG1+2 for GBA have official translations, but their systems are primitive compared to J.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2016 19:58

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Man the fight against Helluga was rough. First having to eliminate tons of tough mooks and two full-on bosses in 15 turns, then that jerk himself where if he touches a real they vanish. My suquad has a good mix, but that was still painful, I have to spend like, 150 turns or so just letting Alfimi's SP come back to recharge everyone's SP...

# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 21:01

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Oh here's a probably dumb question, you have to beat EX-Hard in order to unlock Special right, you can't just play Nomral twice?

# ¿ Oct 29, 2016 01:51

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Well it looks like I'll need to get a Singapore PSN account now for the bonuses. I still want a hard copy of the game though, so I'll have to see where the premium english version goes on sale.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2016 01:10

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Brunom1 posted:

V Famitsu scans say that you'll, indeed, be able to choose between either Souji or Chitose as the protag; both will pilot the Vangray. The one you didn't choose will be a "sub-protagonist" but it says nothing about being a subpilot... I'm thinking something akin to Z1, in which they pilot something else and act separately.

That's pretty neat. Not too sure about the look of the Vangray yet, we'll see if it grows on me.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 01:43

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

GilliamYaeger posted:

If you max out everyone, it gets to the point where the AI just switches off, especially against enemies with low accuracy.

And then they just throw themselves at your battleship. This is great when its the Nadesico, as fully upgraded its a beast.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 00:12

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

GilliamYaeger posted:

Oh, if you're playing J and want something other than curbstomps from start to finish, I'll note that it's one of the few games that let you give enemy units upgrades. Normally you'd need to play through the game several times to get the option, but there's a rather good cheat FAQ over on GameFAQs that has the codes you'll need to get the option on your first play through instead.

...if you're so inclined, you can also use cheats to set all the secret flags to on, so you can save Gai and still get Great Zeorymer.

Not just giving your enemies upgrades, but it lets you fully customize your protagonist's spirit list on New Game+. You will be taking Fury because everything in the endgame has Orgone Shields.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 04:21

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ZuljinRaynor posted:

Been playing more Moon Dwellers. Lower HP to X missions suck. But at least the SR points have been pretty easy at the moment. Though getting HP down on the HP Sponge Boss was down to the last attack.

I like how it's been two missions and 0 kills for anyone, too.

But I am enjoying it a lot more than 2ndOG since it is in English. Some of the dialog is really goofy. I love it.

Thankfully the 'reduce HP to X' missions really taper off after the opening.

I've been on my second playthrough, probably about halfway. The absolute worst missions are the 'keept he NPCs who will suicide against bosses alive', but thankfully those are almost always just the SR point.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2016 00:54

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

GimmickMan posted:

The Hyperlion is like the Grungust Type-3 and Ryukooh, they deploy precombined by default and use nearly everything equipped on all of its components. You can check what applies and what doesn't from the intermission screen. Give the Vegalion a booster and the movement range of the Hyperlion should go up. IIRC everything except the ability slot parts on the subpilot and submech should apply.

The SRX does count as its own separate unit but it's always worked that way for balance reasons.

I think the SRX uses whatever ability parts are equipped to the R-1, because you can't equip ability parts to it.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2016 03:12

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Speaking of V, does anyone know if the Premium Edition will be made available with English subs or if that's a Japan-only thing? None of the usual sites have an English sub pre-order for it available, but have the Japanese one so I'm guessing no...

# ¿ Dec 1, 2016 04:18

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Endorph posted:

I think Super Magical Girl Wars nto being a thing is a combination of licensing - Toei would get you PreCure and Sailor Moon, and obviously the Symphogear guys are willing to play ball, but then you'd have to scour high and low for the rest to fill up a roster - and just not seeing a market for it. The kind of otaku that are into giant robots probably aren't also into magical girls, and 4 year old girls probably don't play much strategy RPGs, is probably the logic they're using.

I think it could work if you went with a few nostalgia bait series (Read: Sailor Moon), a couple of precure, and then filled the rest of the roster with shows that weren't really aimed at kids, like Symphogear, Madoka, Yuuki Yuuna, etc.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is directly inspired by Super Robot Wars, no way you could leave it out.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2016 20:07

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Very happy to see the Sub Orders system back. Moon Dwellers could've used it a little bit.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2016 23:48

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

I still want to see Xenogears (not Saga) in SRW. It'd fit right in with the likes of Xabungle and Turn A Gundam and After War Gundam X.

Xenogars fits in with most of Alpha Gaiden, is what I'm saying.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 05:03

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

So I guess this confirms that there's no Premium Anime Song edition outside of Japan huh?

# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 12:30

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Brunom1 posted:

Wasn't that like First Edition thing?

Either way, considering how they only released info on MD's EN Premium Edition like, what, two weeks before release, I wouldn't rule it out just yet.

True, I was mainly thinking since theyr'e releasing at the same time, and not weeks apart like MD we mgiht not have time. I have my pre-order in for it either way.

It might not get an EN release due to liscensing the music though.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 00:10

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

ImpAtom posted:

When I used them p-A's customer service was basically a pile of rear end and nothing I've heard suggests they've changed.

I had to cancel one of my orders because they put out the special edition version of MD in Englsh and I had no trouble, so your mileage may vary.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 00:54

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

MechaX posted:

Holy hell, being on the receiving end of Orgone Cloud kinda blows. I am only on stage 10 of Moon Dwellers, but those Fury units were on steroids (and parked in forests on one stage with insanely high dodge rates even though I upgraded everyone's accuracy, and felt like Advance Portable all over again).

I was playing through Calvina's route and I'm noticing that a lot of the SR Points so far have been "use the dual action twin spirit, park your beat-mech as far up the map as possible around a bunch of enemies, hope for the best." It felt like some of these points were just flat out impossible until I realized how to use this spirit.

I am glad I got some of my favorites back at least (Lamia will always be shoved into Vysaga because gently caress Angelg, Hugo/Aqua can drill stuff in the Garmraid, Rim needs to get the gently caress back in the group so I can use Forte Gigas, and Leona and Ing are still my best grunt killers). I dunno what to make of some of the other cast this time around, though. SRX team (save for Rai) hasn't been all that useful even though I can foresee needing the HTB Cannon Spam in the future. Viletta keeps dying to everything and is currently my Confuse button. Kyosuke and Excellen are just kinda along for the ride, and I straight up forgot Arado and Seolla existed

I've never done anything with the SRX team but form them into the SRX immediately. Just can't afford to upgrade all three of them.

You also get 4 people with SP Regen. Gilliam, Mai, Radha and Alfimi. Gilliam has Confuse as a twin spirit, Alfimif and Radha have Aspiration. This will be important. Meditate is the most important skill for these folks.

And yeah, the early SR Points can be rough, you need to spead Accel and Raid around to really get them all.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 16:50

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 08:47

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Hokuto posted:

I wouldn't say they're simplistic? They get really obtuse and arcane the further in you go. That's most people's beef with them. I did really like the early ones.

Yeah they defintiely get more complex, some of them I was never able to figure out without consulting a guide, they're pretty obtuse.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 12:23

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