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The world being poo poo because of a secret technology making it that way would really gently caress up the world-building, imo. It's good sci-fi because you can see how all of it happens and how nobody can do anything to stop it. Everyone is being exploited by someone above them, and the way they can take the pressure off is by exploiting someone else below them. Push back, you get killed and replaced, the system adapts and survives. It's grim as poo poo, and I really like it. The conversation with Yesod where he and Roland have an argument about people being complacent about how the tech they use is built on human suffering is one of my favorite bits of Ruina so far because it hits home in a very particular way.Acerbatus posted:It just sounds like some kind of weird brainwashing to me. The plan was actually made pretty clear in LC. Deep LC spoilers: L Corp's Singularity wasn't extracting energy from Abnormalities, it was producing EGO, by way of them. At some point, you learn that the reason Random Agent #56 can suddenly duel with a sword is because EGO exists inside of all of our collective unconscious, and is a part of us. Carmen's idea was based on her belief that people were so ground down by society, they couldn't actually even allow themselves to dream of a better world. Ayin takes this idea and plans to release The Light for seven days, which would impart the ability to everyone to manifest their emotions and desires into EGO. A great equalizing effect of making us all demiurges or something. Is this what Carmen would've done? We have no idea. Probably not, because that sort of 'I'll just give everyone godlike powers and then immediately die' sounds like exactly the sort of plan a self-destructive recluse would come up with, but the ideals behind it are solid. Instead, everyone got halfway lit and, importantly, nobody was there to tell them what the gently caress just happened. Ruina gets into what that means for people. The end of LC kicks rear end, and I just hit Star of the City in Ruina and I'm liking it just as much, if not more.
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running a Smoke Crew against the mountain works great, because of the 0-cost all defense light gain card. just spam that on the adds while you dps race the boss
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I'm on the Star of the City row 3 fights and christ I don't even know which one I should throw myself against first It seems like R Corp is probably the easiest? and getting the exclusive cards would be nice for me, since I use myo and maxim a fair amount
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tbh I wouldn't be surprised if we end up getting a reception similar to one of the SotC ones where we try our hands at getting the book of The Arbiter as she was when she wiped us out, giving Binah a new keypage.Yinlock posted:R corp isn't too tough, just get the Gebura train going and choo choo all over them(you might have to let someone else take a round though because it is a 4 fight endurance match This is what I ended up doing, yeah. Turns out the secret, as always, is Netzach's floor. Love that guy.
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the second phase is basically just a scripted victory lap tho? if you have two or less librarians left it might gently caress up i guess
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losing in that last segment would be awful though, that sucks. the servant of wrath phase of the pre-nihil fight can go straight to hell, i hosed that up like three times
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A lot of Ruina really falls into place once you realize that a bad clash is worse than just taking the hit outright and using that card in a one-side.
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Yeah it tilts back again once you have like, floor specific playstyles, but I spent way too long in the midgame just getting blown out on clashes that I could've easily taken to the chin and getting not much in return.
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The only downside to Yujin is that anything that works off %HP is going to wreck you, but otherwise its an incredible page, yeah.
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you can see the shading indicating a separate finger, its almost certainly hands, unless she's got some wild clothing choices on under that cloak
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https://twitter.com/CoolKidsClubTL/status/1415916624889139201?s=20 translated art book coming later this year!
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late sotc , con't: Rapid Gashes and Clone are incredible together, even. my yujin deck is 3x of those, plus 3x overcome, and its brutal
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The first fight post sotc requiring the books that it does is a crime. I clutched it out but I would've instantly installed the mod if I had lost for sure
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They changed that awhile ago, you get to reuse pages after each layer (Asiya, Briah, Aziluth) now.
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Yeah, you have a single character use one high speed dice to get the status, and a lower speed dice to clash against the other one in the same turn.
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might be worth drafting a new OP/thread since the official launch is happening, and this is still the lobcorp thread?
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Yeah, use whatever floor you prefer as much as you want. Urban Nightmare is when deck archetypes really start to come into their own, and then you'll be plucking the best cards out of each reception for decks, or getting new archetypes completely. The early game is a lot of just dumping all your garbage cards for whatever good ones you can get your hands on, though yeah.
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The R Corp exclusives are easy to forget too. Also, you probably have enough Brace Ups from getting the Hana pages, but almost every deck wants brace up so its worth checking.
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don't believe any slander about kims exclusive card. either it wins, and its kim so it probably just wins, or you get to use the coolest* card in the game * id also accept boundary of death
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I just had the assistants take all the contracts. With all the block passives, Hokma shouldn't need a boost.
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I assumed the third smartest person in the city could very likely be Iori, considering the invention
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Acerbatus posted:Even putting aside the mobile game worries, I am deeply skeptical about their idea to make multiple realities or whatever (apparently) a core plot point. Its class stuff, you can see them promo it with SSR Gregor (Rhino)
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Project Moon: A Bus Is Just A Tiny Train
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alternately, Train to Limbusan
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live games DO allow you to do things with longform storytelling thats harder to do in one and done releases, to be fair. my tolerance for gacha is pretty high though, but im always willing to let them stretch their wings w/r/t storytelling mediums
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Something the final ruina fight puts in context is how insane actually wielding EGO poo poo is, making you realize just how hosed up L Corp agents were, even compared to late game ruina nuggets. LC spoilers, obv All of your agents deathballing a Claw during White Midnight and just clowning on him puts in perspective just how much power Ayin was just sort of casually tossing around. Angela doesn't have nearly as much control over the abnormalities, so in ruina you get to borrow Der Freischütz's gun for a couple turns, and only when everyone is peaking in emotions, but in LC you just gave someone the gun and said 'go wild, kid'.
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Nov 25, 2021 10:42
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Yeah the panic thing always lowers punishing's counter, so it was probably that. Long bird doesn't have any counter manipulation outside of work results, so hes usually always breached by the other two escaping.
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Getting those post-sotc cards basically changes your entire deck structure, yeah. brace up is basically the perfect engine for almost every single deck archetype outside of like, clone gashes. hana association truly is different
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here's the text of the whole thing, from the discordquote:Hello everyone. This Project Moon’s Director Kim Jihoon speaking. im obviously a little wary about a gacha game, but optimistically there IS storytelling you can only do with a long running live game (mobile games, mmos) that you can't do in a standard 40-80 hour game. also a 3rd person arpg in the City sounds rad
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ZeroCount posted:Tanya gets described as an 'executive' member of the Middle so she must have been really high up in it, presumably for her combat power. I'm curious what she was doing during Roland's rampage though, since she she probably could have beaten his rear end. She, iirc, got her rear end kicked by him, its why she distorted. In the same way that Pluto was the guy with the bad contract Roland shook down in that one flashback. They never have the characters say this straight up, but it's cycles of revenge all the way down. It rules.
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Well, its more that whenever we hear about her, its always as "L'heure du Loup." Even if she was a high ranking syndicate exec, its really only after distorting that she becomes a name that people talk about. Kalo is a big deal, but he's nowhere near a Color, who we see are practically syndicates unto themselves.
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On the other hand: Could that fight have been anything else? Dramatic law demanded it.
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The latter. You can quit the game just fine, you just can't exit out of the whole thing and go back to farm more pages and stuff.
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Netzach was I think my most used floor for most of the game because he just doesn't die. So if I just wanted to run generic good decks with no plan in mind, I just shook my boy awake and sent him to work
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R-Corp 2 basically fills out 3-4 ideal B-team decks to perfection, so its more of a quantity over quality thing. I was never too fond of Rudolphs kit, though.
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Forgetting to get Disposal before locking in the endgame felt so bad lmao
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Only one I feel strongly about still is doing SOTC R Corp 2 -> Iori -> Xiao -> Yan iori is surprisingly easy, since the nasty surprise gimmick basically just equals out to having one less floor available. and yans just a pain in the rear end
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other people might remember more specific stuff but the most important part is that you combine it with Myo's passive that adds power based on the speed differential, so that her infinite die becomes incredibly powerful, and her other high speed die just became normally very powerful, ensuring that the minimum damage requirements on her abilities are always hit
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weird, ive never seen that. frankly, the cheese strat for that fight is cool enough that I don't think anyone should feel bad about using it, its extremely satisfying
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thats lore compliance
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