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Wellp, picked up Library of Ruina thanks to TeeQue's excellent LPs, and now I've hit my 2nd (2.5th? Struggled with Spider Bud for a couple of tries before taking a...blunt approach to the fight) big roadblock in Urban Plague after Dawn Office, the Queen of Hatred. Unlike that first fight that I defeated thanks to discovering the power of Walter shenanigans, her ranged pages are messing me up something fierce, and I'm too used to playing with floors that have at least one abnormality suppressed, so Tiph & company's decks are probably too light-heavy. Honestly kind of feels like a fight that I should come back to later, but I'm curious if it is possible to suppress that one without taking on Wedge Office or Love Town.
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GilliamYaeger posted:The second fight on the far left is the Kurokumo Clan, who specialise in slash attacks and bleed effects. If you just stack as much bleed as you can, the Abno will basically kill itself. Solitair posted:You don't need to directly clash with Mass Attacks. Just put attacks that can outroll them in the dice they target, and have those dice target her other dice. Also, don't clash every attack. Just focus on the "In the Name of" attacks and let "With Love" pass by in favor of getting one-sided attacks on, especially if that means getting free bleed on her. Maybe redirect "Arcana Beats" if you have enough speed and a designated tank, but I doubt that can be reliably done and I didn't need it to take her down. Finally, offensive melee dice can keep being recycled as long as they deflect ranged dice, so melee cards with one big die work wonders against multiple small ranged dice. Both of those tips helped, thanks! Also helped that I wound up dipping into the General Invitations for that level, since they're now actually useful compared with the first two story chapters. Even if I only won because Tiph and Queen scored a double KO with the rest of my librarians dead, but hey, a win is a win! Of course, now I've got to figure out how to deal with Dawn Office - might just transfer a couple of those bleed key pages and decks over to Hod's floor, since my first attempt with Malkuth's floor on burn damage fizzled out with not even a single kill. And then after that, there's the rightmost Urban Plague invitation...
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Oct 17, 2021 05:12
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Didn't really have to adjust much when I transferred those builds over to Hod's floor - EGO Phillip went down on my first try, even if he took out a couple of my librarians in the process. Same build worked great for Tomerry, but sweet lord I was not prepared for the visceral part of Love Town. I'm hoping the pages I got from Tomerry's book aren't worth it so I don't have to look at that design again, eeeugh.
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Oct 18, 2021 02:11
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Oh man, I somehow managed to pull off Malkuth's Floor Realization on my first try after only having faced the Index Proselytes as a 2nd tier fight in Urban Nightmare. And despite accidentally skipping a turn in the final section that left me with just Malkuth to handle the fight, she was able to graze the grass and beat up Snow White's Apple!Angela thanks to the Oscar keypage I gave her, some Sweeper cards for light and health refills, and plenty of survival key pages attributed. The Victory screen My Oscar survivability deck, on loan to Malkuth.
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Oct 25, 2021 08:15
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Yesod realization down! Felt like a much smoother fight, and locking down Angela's dice constantly with Butterfly's Coffin when she was in Shooty mode turned the last phase into a joke once the boss's HP got below 50%. they're not going to all go this smoothly, will they
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Oct 27, 2021 03:29
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Whew, managed to beat The Crying Children on my first go with Yesod's floor and all its wacky pages, even if I kinda sorta might've accidentally left one librarian with the default kit. thankfully der shooty is wonderful for putting a stop to the cherubs shenanigans, getting me into Star of the City! And the first fight I tried, The Thumb, saw a full floor wiped out without even managing to get a book for my troubles. Guess it's back to the drawing board for me.
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Oct 31, 2021 06:13
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So, uh...anyone else notice at the end of the trailer when they show the map of The City - honestly still surprised that Ezra's map was more or less accurate - that the population suddenly shot down by 300 million in the blink of an eye?
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Nov 20, 2021 07:45
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Oof, Hod's Realization was rough until I wound up using some of those passives for health gain on anything dying - though it only really mattered for Black Swan and Laetitia, a good girl who has done nothing wrong in her life whereas I just wound up blowing through the other fights with the power of friendship and violence. MVPs were definitely Bamboo Hat Kim, Emma's Block shenanigans, and Cane Office's ridiculous charge antics. and then I went after my 2nd Star of the City invitation, Liu Section 2, with a vengeance - I was down to two librarians, including Hod, for the 2nd round, but by that point I was just unloading EGO pages on them and handling cleanup.
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Nov 21, 2021 08:44
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Phew, Netzach's Realization really crams the difficulty into the last fight, doesn't it? I watched my librarians beat the stuffing out of each other in a panic, thinking I'd have to reset...and then Angela used Curtain Call, Netzach and the surviving librarian who had Nemo's key page on (thank goodness for that revive) staggered her, and the two managed to whittle down the remainder of her HP while the musicians kept pelting them. If I had made one more mistake in that fight, boom, an hour gone. On a related note, the Night Awl pages go really, really well with Netzach's floor, huh?
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Nov 26, 2021 07:10
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Honestly, the thing I like best about that video is that Finn finally gets to graduate from finding lost kittens to finding lost puppies, *and* he gets a thank you note to boot! Truly the better PM timeline.
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Nov 30, 2021 22:18
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Beat a certain Star of the City invitation on my first go - mainly thanks to Philosophy wearing it down to the point where I was able to mop up with Hod's floor - and got a certain legendary key page. Pic unrelated.
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Dec 4, 2021 19:44
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Took down Tiph's Realization on the first go! It was honestly surprisingly easy compared with the earlier fights but I guess that's partially due to the heavier emphasis on puzzle mechanics. Now, time to figure out how the heck I'm going to use Tiphxodia...
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Dec 10, 2021 09:14
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GilliamYaeger posted:The Udjat are also incredibly valuable as red coin generators since they're so incredibly durable - give them cards like Opportunity Spotted and you can get powerful Abnormality pages like Gebura's Mountain of Corpses pretty easily. So that's the trick to it! I still haven't gotten that page, ||even during the Realization which made the last phase a slog||, in part due to the floor having my heavy-hitters who tend to win more clashes than lose.
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Dec 12, 2021 08:25
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Acerbatus posted:I really want to find more about limbus, but for now we get In Hell We Live Lament full version. The only thing that gets me is it feels like the last line should be "writing in this hell", because there is no way someone can fit "reviving each other in this hell" into the space provided. Regardless, I've had this on repeat for a good 7 hours now. Forget the Pianist, Mili and Myth x Roid might as well be a Star of the City with how firmly this song has been lodged into my brain.
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Acerbatus posted:The one that bothers me is "Why does death end my torture?" in a game that is apparently about death every much not being the end of anything. I was curious about that myself, but someone pointed out in the Youtube comments that the "Why (X)" lyrics line up pretty well with the "If you wanted me to (Y)" ones. If you wanted me to speak / Why’d you make my voice stutter? If you wanted me to think / Why do truths never matter? If you wanted me to carry on our dreams / Why’d you curse me with “you’re a natural born genius”? If you wanted me to live / Why do deaths end my torture? If you want me to forgive / Why can’t anyone feel my hurt? If you want us to pretend like we’re civilized humans / Why’d you crown the most violent to be champions?
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PlasticAutomaton posted:Oh boy, welcome to Love Town with 3 nugget floors, TQ. I was waiting/hoping for this madness from the moment the thread went for Molar Office. Even with stuff from general receptions, I'm looking forward to seeing what nonsense TQ pulls to be able to deal with Tomerry.
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Jan 8, 2022 20:48
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Wellp, just did my first Xiao attempt, and man i should not have tried going for Tiphxodia in the first stage and just gone with the Gebura / Binah combo I've seen people suggest
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Jan 9, 2022 02:51
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You definitely do not, I was able to get to all of them before tackling the tier 3 SOTC invitations. devil if I can figure out how to work Bayard's deck into things, aside from shenanigans with the WARP Cleanup Crew's immobilization cards
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Really makes me wonder what the Pinky and the Middle specialize in, now - I mean, aside from dying in the latter's case.
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TeeQueue posted:Now I'm imagining some Fast and the Furious style memes but it's the Middle and I pray that this is accurate. So in other words, something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoEYaLuDdc
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Man I can't-yet-also-can believe the LP thread predicted Distorted Yan's shtick. Also I should really get around to doing that fight and the rest of the upper Star of the City receptions. At least, as soon as I get revenge on a certain fiery EGO.
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Ah right, now I remember why I took a break from Ruina - still can't get past Xiao and Price of Silence, with the latter even beating a team of Precepts and Hokma going Iori-Block and using the P key that the game never tells you about - just can't manage to burn down a specter in 1 turn 9 times out of 10. Did at least get the achievement for Hokma's floor in an attempt, though.
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Cripes, finally managed to beat Xiao - went Gebura to burn down Miris before he did too much damage, then Binah for most of Xiao's fight - remembering to finally change Binah's librarians into something other than a Thumb firing squad helped. Xiao still kicked that floor's rear end, but by that point she was weak enough that Gebura's floor was able to come in for the finisher. Which just leaves Distorted Yan and Chesed, Binah, and pretty much the majority of Hokma's abnormalities as my next fights, yaaaay...!
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Woo, that's my last Star of the City realization down! Giving the Cowardly Lion role to my Xiao librarian pretty much let me delete that phase entirely, AND get the achievement for having 15 strength on a single librarian to boot. Now I just have to deal with Religion's 3rd abnormality - probably not reading its passive right, since it seems like the Blue Star Worshippers don't get deleted by the star when they're staggered? Or do they only die if they're staggered when the Mass Attack fires off? also still gotta fight Distorted Typewriter
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Thanks to the power of Youtube, I discovered Distorted Yan's weakness - turns out Disposal used on the counter dice kinda sorta...removes all of their counter dice, leaving them completely open to attack. Still lost a few librarians to the mass attacks, but now, it's finally Impuritas Civitas time!
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Gotta say, Hokma's Realization wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, given what it threw at me. ...granted I did give him Iori's page with Overcharge in the block deck, so he wasn't really in much danger at all. Still though, all that's left now is Apocalypse Bird! Wheeee.
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I imagine either grabbing them direct from the Abno cards or from the fights themselves. Speaking of, Philosophy's realized! It wasn't as bad as I worried after I brought in a Block-heavy deck to speed up phase 2, phase 3 was pure unga-bunga, and the final fight I just abused Binah's ability to seal off dice to cut down on the sheer amount of mass attacks I had to deal with - I don't think I even had a single librarian go down at all. And now I can B I R D U P
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Based on that upcoming mission that Vergilius is leading his office on, I'm starting to wonder if Garnet might be the person with the weird arm tentacle[?] at the end of the Limbus Company trailer as a result of Distorting...or maybe it'll be an alternate him that gets pulled into this timeline from the singularity the Middle is working on. Also still curious about what Iori's plans are, but I imagine that's going to wind up as an overarching story for the franchise or something that gets explored more in a later game.
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So, The Reverb Ensemble fight. Do I have to do it all in one go without quitting out of the game, or can I take breaks after getting through the Lower and Middle floors? Edit: That's Eileen and Greta down. Former kinda folded to the Yesod Mist strategy, even if I had to whip out Der Shooty to burn through her last wave. Greta wasn't as bad as people said - but I also went into her sticking to a guide, MVP was definitely a turbocharged Bamboo Hat. Still struggling with burning down Philip fast enough, though - probably need to add in Lowell for an extra bit of burning mass attack in phase 2. Verant fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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I was wondering when the English version was posted, saw that the Korean and Japanese versions were uploaded over the weekend. Nice disguise there, Vergilius.
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Wow, folks weren't kidding when they said that Mountain of Corpses could make The Black Silence a complete joke.
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GilliamYaeger posted:gebura stronk I'm halfway tempted to try the fight without using her floor to see what it's supposed to be like, probably with Genesis Netzach waiting in the wings as an emergency panic button, but I guess I have to deal with the Keter Realization, the Distorted Ensemble, and the post-final-boss "Did you really think you could beat agents of the Head in only the second game set in the City??" fight before I do that if I don't want to have to deal with the entirety of this sequence all over again. yet another emptyquote about the weird pacing for the final stretch of this game
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Reiterpallasch posted:I guess I should post these rather less serious floor reviews (Asiyah/Briah/Atziluth) which still somehow capture the endgame flavor of each floor pretty well. Never really got that Chesed one - always figured his floor was more of a sincere "My friends are my power!" as opposed to Tiphereth's and Gebura's "My friends are my F U E L". Does Yan's key page just synergize well with the floor's abnormalities?
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GilliamYaeger posted:In terms of nuts level, R-Corp 2's way behind the other two. You're really only there for Clone and the super attacks for each of the keypages, and while they're all good (especially the Yujin and Happy Memories shenanigans that Clone enables) you can't really put any of that on the same level as the other three. Iori's a very strong contender for best keypage in the game, Yan is an amazing support and we just talked about the burn shenanigans Xiao can do. I mean, Nikolai's Disposal is effectively a hard counter to Yan (which I still haven't beaten legitimately, oops)
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Wow, Aspiration - that fight really is as bad as people said it was, huh?
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GilliamYaeger posted:Yeah it's a motherfucker. Two tips I can give: combining Twelve Fixers with a card with high minimum rolls like Double-edged Rencounter is the best way to handle the power nullification Heart, and that you win the fight once you pull Learning and hit Carmen with Learn while you have any amount of Power or Endurance. ...wellp now I feel like a fool because I did pull Learn, but I completely blanked on the fact that I could've just had Angela delete Carmen's counter dice.
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Good to see that Snow Queen is as painful as ever!
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Honestly, I just wanna see how long it's going to take for folks to realize what Binah's realization is going to be and how much/quickly they freak out. as well as seeing everyone's Least Favorite Godhead Fetus make a return and their reaction to that.
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Finally got past Regret thanks to smoky Iori going ham on one-sided attacks and completely ignoring the gimmick, and now that I'm at the boss rush, I want to try something very, very dumb. What's a good team to support a Light Contract Binah? Thinking Nikolai, strength generator Mirinae, Pluto, and free space - maybe Xiao for more mass attacks and power, or Yan for additional support and erosion.
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Whew, finished the game! Heck of a ride, especially with the fights at the end. Binah crashed and burned in the first round of the rematch, but her floor managed to finish off the quartet and moved onto the second round, which is where Chesed using smoky Red Mist Prowess Iori and the superpower of teamwork demolished Oswald, Tanya, and Jae-hoon before just going to town on Pluto and Elena. Everyone got wiped out to Argalia's incessant mass attack spam at the end, but I brought in Netzach using Yujin and whatever leftover decent keypages to whittle down that last 65 hp. I was so close to keeping Roland alive, just one more turn and he would've made it through - but Baral and Zena decided to double-team him with heavy-hitting cards on one speed dice, and I was only able to redirect one. All in all, fantastic game, and I'm really glad I gave it a chance after the end of TeeQue's Lobotomy Corporation LP! Now all that's left for me is wrapping up those last few achievements, checking out some of these mods, and eagerly waiting for the LP to get into the crazy stuff.
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