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The difficulty is about on par with part 1, but I can already tell that some of the intel requirements are going to be super obnoxious. Also the combat got a lot less frustrating once I realized I could make right stick not swap targets!
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The game wasn't very good about explaining the synergy abilities. Highlighting the tiny pips under the HP bars would have been nice, at least. Also having some of the super basic manual entries like status effect explanations only appear after you walk to Chadley and do the tutorial missions is sure a choice. Throwing Tifa at birds is very fun. I'm looking forward to the FF7R2 versions of ridiculous Tifa combo videos.
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Rosalind posted:Ok I literally just had to close the demo out of frustration. I went into options > camera and changed Lock-On Controls from Camera Controls to Menu Controls & Auto Camera. This way, what you lock on stays locked, the camera follows it, and you can swap targets with left and right on the dpad. Having the right stick do both camera controls *and* target swapping by default is completely demented, and after years of playing XIV I can't not impulsively move the camera around during a fight. Party members don't automatically jump, but everybody has at least an option for going up, even if it isn't always great. Have Tifa use her synergy attack with Cloud to throw her at flying enemies, Cloud can use ranged attacks while holding block. Red 13 can, uh, do spinny attacks I guess?
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Well now I feel a little sheepish about swinging my sword around more uselessly than I thought. I went into the boss of the demo with no foreknowledge, and had a pretty bad loadout as a result. Luckily Ramuh carried it for me anyway.. Hardest part of the demo was not letting the hunt #2 birds take off even once. You really have to dump a lot of damage into those shits to interrupt them, and they like doing it at the same time. Is the Leviathan summon supposed to be in the demo if you have a Remake save, or is that just for the full game?
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Feb 22, 2024 04:06
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You can target both ways the boss can lock up a character and attack them directly to free them. One of them is hard to break without using ATB for spells, though.
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Feb 22, 2024 04:11
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The funny thing is Chadley has a synergy tutorial but the scaling is such that everything will be dead before you can build enough meter to use any synergy abilities. MAI is quickly going to grate on me with her cheery comments about how I didn't quite get everything right, just try again! Having weakened versions of summons in VR if you're a hunt completionist is an interesting incentive. The extra weak version of the summon fight in the demo is barely stronger than a normal encounter, but still gives you the VR mission reward for first completion.
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History Comes Inside! posted:The card shop owner guy outside kalm kept wrecking me at queens blood until I decided to try making a deck with tons of level 1 cards that could place pawns in front and just rushed all the way to the end and fenced him off so he couldn’t place anything I respect that the game let you pull off "WH40K victory during deployment".jpg.
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I've only had the chance to get to the chocobo ranch so far but it's pretty fun at this early point. I'm pretty sure those card packs I didn't buy in Kalm can be obtained later, but I owned all three players there with the default cards. On the other hand, what the heck is going on here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc5bgfk-nM
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Mar 1, 2024 20:29
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gently caress Fort Condor.
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Vitamean posted:words of the deranged??? Its a puzzle pretending to be a strategy game, and trying to play it like a strategy game will get you owned repeatedly. And for some reason the base game difficulty setting affects it too.
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I appreciate just how deep they go with the number of music tracks there are. Salmon gets a banger that only plays during his escort mission, when you beat Neil at QB he pulls out his guitar and has an entire extended jam, and even Kyrie gets her own theme song with multiple variations. I'm still waiting on a Ghoul phase 2 moment but I haven't finished the Junon area yet. The game just keeps flipping my completionist trigger. It was very funny that in the demo, the "interrupt Soothing Wind" field report fight was obnoxious because you had to really go apeshit to pressure them (and even worse if they both started at the same time), but in the main game it just takes one Blizzard spell. I'm liking QB more than I thought I would, though at this point my decks are still a bit limited (could use more cheap cards that attack diagonally forward) and opponents are getting smarter about not taking bait. Or doing the FF14 Triple Triad thing where you almost have them beat and then they have the exact card they need to completely reverse the game at the finish line
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Asterite34 posted:There's a non-zero chance that the biological components of Chadley are some Sephiroth 2.0 poo poo, this is Hojo we're talking about. Now add onto that whatever the gently caress cybernetics he has, which we know for a fact include the ability to read minds. Looking forward to creating and destroying Bizarro Chadley in part 3.
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Crystal Lake Witch posted:I knew that, what I didn’t understand is that id put an enforcer down to block one lane while I focused on something else, and sometimes it would last long enough that I could focus on the other lane long enough to make progress, and then on the next attempt, against the same enemies it would just instantly die. The enemy units should be fixed for each stage (maybe changing a bit depending on difficulty setting?). Exact placement and timing of when you deploy a unit can affect the outcome though, like whether or not it gets hit by an AoE from a trebuchet. The really obnoxious part was even watching a video of a clear I had to repeat the stage multiple times due to units not doing the same thing because I was off by half a second or five feet.
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Mar 4, 2024 22:27
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I don't have an issue with having a ton of mini games in concept, though the way they're implemented does kind of make the game's pace more like "what even is pacing, anyway?" It would be nice if more of them were 100% optional though.
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I'm glad that running the hardest version of the parade doesn't require you to get a perfect score to get the award at the end. I biffed the last set kinda hard but I'm guessing a final score of 10,000+ is just enough to squeak by. No checkpoints so if I had to reset back to the part before the leading cutscene enough to get a perfect score I'd have lost my mind.
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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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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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CapnAndy posted:If you noped out of the Queen’s Blood tournament on the cruise ship, just know that you made a terrible mistake. Everything about that was amazing. This is incredibly true. Do the QB tourney, guys. It's a good thing wheelies just kind of bounce harmlessly off people because otherwise everybody in Costa del Sol would have shattered shins.
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I'm a bit confused still about how the points for weapon levels are actually accrued. In my game Aerith actually has the highest weapon level out of anybody, which is weird since she hasn't really been in the active party more than anybody else and definitely less than Cloud. And if existing weapons gain material slots with levels I haven't seen that yet, unless it doesn't start happening until mid or late game.
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Mar 6, 2024 20:17
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Ok so weapon upgrades and SP actually are the same thing, and the game was just confusing me by treating them as distinct ideas. I could swear I've never seen somebody with an empty materia slot yet and said "oh that must be from a weapon upgrade". But as usual I have a mind like a steel sieve so maybe I just slammed something into the slot without thinking about it.
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Mar 6, 2024 20:22
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Queen's Blood is cool because you can quick restart the match if your opening hand is garbage or if your opponent happens to pull some "you just activated my trap card!" poo poo out of nowhere. It would be nice if there were some more cheap cards with forward diagonals though, especially since it seems like NPC opponents get plenty of them. e: it also helped when I realized the game has a list of pre-built decks that you can select once you have all of the cards involved. Just gonna chill over here, slowly deleting the other guy's cards while Midgardsormr becomes +12 by itself. Thundarr fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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gently caress, I see what people were complaining about with the crunches mini game. Having to rapid tap L2 while the adaptive trigger is active is goddamn sadistic. Just clearing the basic version was rough for me.
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Had to stop playing early for the night, Jules is just too cruel and my hands can only take so much. I got within a few seconds of beating him a couple times, only to biff it at the last second and he caught up.
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I finally beat Jules 57 to 49 (I lost my combo with 3 seconds left on the clock but so did he, I don't think he could have caught up even if he kept going). I did have to disable the adaptive triggers though. Now to move on and just not use the championship belt at all. The Corel area really wanted me to collect a hell of a lot of zinc for item crafting. Is the game trying to tell me something about my diet? And how far do I need to go into the game before I finally get a Revive materia? I'm finally getting good enough to fight the VR summons with the training wheels removed, but it can get rough if somebody gets nuked since I can't sit them back up with items.
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I don't find Yuffie annoying the way that Chadley and Mai are annoying, but I did enjoy bullying her with the minecart. Now that I think about it, Mai is starting to grow on me. I don't think Chadley can be redeemed without a sudden personality reset though. The closest he got was doing a little actual poo poo talking in the QB tourney.
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Somebody mentioned that the hard mode version of Fort Condor gives you a key item you need for completion's / trophy's sake, but I just ran it and all I got was 5 party XP? Specifically I mean the hard mode version of level 4 that opens up after you clear all four levels and get the protorelic. If it doesn't actually matter for anything, then I guess its at least 5 party XP. 
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Arist posted:You need to do all four stages! When I click on the thing my only option is to do hard mode stage 4. What other stages? E: cripes you mean the original locations don't you. 
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Multiple hours later, following different guides with completely different strats, I finally beat Fort Condor hard mode level 3. Literal hundredths of a second or inches of placement can affect the outcome and force a restart if one of your guys dies when they weren't supposed to. So I guess I have to reiterate, gently caress Fort Condor. And now I'll never, ever have to touch it again. Still no key item though but at least the intel page has them checked off?
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Hung out with Aerith at the Gold Saucer, relived our Corneo Colosseum date by beating up bosses ten levels higher than us. There sure are a bunch of folios stashed in this place. Just curious: if you happen to have multiple characters equal in approval when you reach a related event, how does the game break the tie? Is there an approval cap or is it always possible to do a few more synergy abilities to put one party member over the others?
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I'm about minigame'd out so I think I'll leave maxing out all the Gold Saucer stuff for later. After all there's some things that I can't even finish right now anyway. The eventual crossover between FF7R and FFXIV is going to be a flex-off between Dio and Godbert, isn't it.
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Did I miss a QB opponent somewhere if I wasn't Blood Knight by the time I entered Gold Saucer? There were only two opponents in North Corel, and by the time I found the next person to fight Chadley told me I had unlocked a new opponent in... North Corel. That's lower level than the ones I'm finding now.
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OK, thanks. It sure is a choice to have the level 5 ranking guy be locked behind having beaten level 6 opponents though, based on how they're parceled out.
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The Dustbowl fights with the cactuars and the two wolves are some serious fuckin' bullshit. Camera lock is actively detrimental, can't tell when to block or dodge, the dodge windows are tiny. At least I can throw some grenades at the cactuars.
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Does the "relatively forgiving" QB stage Survival Boot Camp in Gold Saucer imply there are harder versions of this later? Because loving christ this is awful.
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Too many mini games and side quest enemies in Rebirth can swing wildly based on fiddly randomness or awkward controls. That's fine when you are playing with other people. It's not great in a single player game.
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You can wait until you see the jellyfish casting a spell, then smack them. Solo Cloud vs six cactuars in a tiny room though? That's fuckin' fiddly.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Man, I'm having some trouble with the combat. There's so much to it, lots of stuff going on. I did that first mini boss or whatever it's called, the wolf you have to kill for the farmer. It absolutely murdered me at lvl 17 on normal. I could put it on easy, but I'd rather try to learn it a bit so I can dig into it and enjoy beating things up instead of button mashing. The synergy skills are used by holding block and pressing one of the four buttons. You can unlock different skills in the manuscript page, just like you can with synergy abilities. Some of the skills are a bit awkward to use, but Cloud + Aerith's Magic Sword is dead simple and can instantly fill both their bars if you hit a bunch of things with it. Other skills let you do things like have another party member teleport to Aerith to block incoming attacks. Cloud's parry is basically automatic as long as he's in Punisher mode (press triangle) and holding block. You don't have to perfect time it, though perfect timing the block will also reduce the incoming damage to zero. Note that he can't counter (or block at all) ranged attacks or spells, it has to be something taking a swing at him. He also can't counter unblockable attacks.
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Just one-shot the Access Denied bout at Gold Saucer despite the second team having nobody with a heal and nobody happened to have Lightning equipped (I goofed when picking my teams). It was entirely due to Red absolutely refusing to die and also Stardust Ray being OP as hell. I don't use him enough, I should definitely fix that.
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SettingSun posted:Tonberry King sucks. Also if you don't know the gimmick and don't happen to be ready for it by chance you have to fight it twice. Can't stab Yuffie if she teleports behind you. But yeah the exact way that crown works means it's a fight a lot of people will end up having to do twice. On the upside, doing it twice means you can make two of that accessory.
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RatHat posted:Er Yuffie is suddenly gaining her limit extremely quickly(like in 20 seconds against random encounter trash enemies). Am I missing a mechanic or is this a bug? I've noticed this too while having her abuse Enemy Skill, Mug, and Blindside to create constant plasma explosions. Staggering multiple things quickly while burning through actions builds LB super fast. I also expect that Soothing Breeze is going to be a killer app in hard mode so I'll have to remember to grab Enemy Skill off her before I start that.
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