Stick with it at least until Nappa
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Stick with it at least until Nappa
TheSlySoul
Member
Trust me, it gets really good when Nappa/Vegeta show up. The first 3 episodes are a bit rough.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Alright I'll stick with it. They're going for such a different thing, it robs the experience of the nostalgia I was looking for.
I'm getting to the Vegeta/Nappa stuff now.
I'm getting to the Vegeta/Nappa stuff now.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
It gets more bearable in the latter part of the Saiyan arc, but really hits its stride with the Namek arc.
Play through Future Androids Saga
Edit:
I tried out how to add people you know outside of the game as your favorites/contacts in game. If you have played with them even once, through an invite or otherwise, they will appear in the "Recently played with" list in the Timespace Delivery spot. From there you can favorite them by checking their character profile even if you're on different servers or in an (online) singleplayer lobby. Then you can create parties in multiplayer server and stick together even after PQs and battles end.
Sadly, the AI for your friends' CaC characters is just as bad as it is with every normal one. For some odd reason I expected more.
Freezasaurus
Member
Man, I've been having shit luck farming Dragon Balls. Level 58, finished the story, and I still haven't seen a full fucking set.
TheSlySoul
Member
So I did an experiment.
PQ15 solo and with a team gave the same experience (3148), but rank A for solo and B for team. So that was interesting.
PQ15 solo and with a team gave the same experience (3148), but rank A for solo and B for team. So that was interesting.
I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the team's overall health. I tested only bringing one AI partner instead of two and the Ultimate Finish requirements seemed to trigger more often.
Liferebooted
Banned
PQ 02 whatever its called is awesome for farming dragon balls. at the start you just kill 3 guys in easily, under a minute. Then a time traveler might appear near the house afterwards. It seems to be a high spawn rated. Just got 3 dragon balls in 20 minutes. Youtube video claimed that if he gave me a dragon ball it would say I got a key item, it never said that. It always said I got material yet at the end I got dragon balls.
...Scatter...
Banned
Does it have any affect on anything if I do bad guy quests? Just got the game today and Raditz is asking if I want to punish Kakarot.
TheSlySoul
Member
I think Material can be a Dragon Ball, but Key Item definitely is one.
More often than not Material is a Hercule Badge.
It says Material Item and then Key Item afterwards. You may have just missed it. PQ 12 is also good apparently. I haven't tried farming them yet.
Welfare
Member
Nah Key Item means Dragon Ball. Material just gives Hercule badges.
Philtastic
Member
Since I already went through the effort of uploading this for the XenoVerse DF comparison thread, I thought that I'd post it here as well. I recorded a video playing the Raditz story mission at 4K downsampled to 2048x1152 with 16x AF, depth of field off, glare low, FXAA on but I only moderately compressed it so that people could actually see details which are usually blurred in Youtube videos. Unfortunately, that means that this video is rather large for 2.5 minutes (727 MB - 1/3 the original video's size) so I'm not actually expecting many of you to watch this but, if you were curious as to what this looks like in motion, download the following movie (don't watch it in the in-browser video player: it's worse than Youtube). My framerate while not recording is 50-60 fps but recording shaves off 15-20 fps. It's about 45 fps in the video:
http://1drv.ms/1aWo5BJ
http://1drv.ms/1aWo5BJ
I think I'm going to try this with my saiyan that's not spec'ed for melee at all but I do enjoy a challenge!
huh? I didnt know this.
I'm confused what you mean about the party sticking together after the PQ ends
You mean if I am playing with 'actual people' on my favorites after the Online PQ ends we can stick together? That's sweet. I know in Online Battles the session remains but its annoying in Online PQs it does not. Online PQs need that the most! People want to farm together!!!
Yes. The option to "register a team" was there and I've even used it in multiplayer lobby, but without having people listed as favorites, you needed to actually find their character in the lobby to favorite them for later and/or form a team. I had a PvP buddy with whom I was never in the same lobby, so I had no way to favorite him until I checked Timespace Delivery
When you're a team, once the team leader picks a PQ, the other 2 members get alerted and can join immediately as they approach the Online PQ counter, and the team will persist after it ends.
TheSlySoul
Member
PS2 is really good grinding spot. So quick.
Thanks!!
King Radical
Member
Has anyone figured out how the name filtering system works yet because it seems amazingly arbitrary. I consider myself a person of the world, seen my share of things, heard my share of slang, but for the life me I couldn't figure out why I wasn't allowed to name my character "Viol" even checked on Urban Dictionary to see if there was some really gross term I wasn't aware of but nope, nothing. Yet the game seems to have no problem when I run into a time patroller named "DICK8===D" so I'm not exactly sure I understand....
LurkerPrime
Member
Hmm, DBXV CTDed on exit and seems to have borked my mouse sensitivity settings. What a bother.
The good news is that today's the first time since launch that I was able to play online PQs! Hooray!
The good news is that today's the first time since launch that I was able to play online PQs! Hooray!
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
do the Races make alot of difference beside visually
Stone Ocean
Member
Different basic attack movesets and different stats plus some special abilities like Majins having higher defense when their stamina is topped
Quite a lot, actually. Basic stats are affected, attack strings are different, some special moves are exclusive to a race, and they have different racial bonuses.
I'm very much oversimplifying this, but in single word, the strengths of each race:
Saiyans: shooty
Humans: punchy
Majin: tanky
Namekians: slippery
Frieza Clan: speedy
LurkerPrime
Member
Race is an important choice in character creation. Aside from just appearance, their attack combos look different (though I can't recall if the combos themselves change). Some races have access to different equipment and even skills, like Saiyans being exclusively able to use Super Saiyan, or Majins using Buu's moves. Gender even plays a role for some equipment, but the stat boosts from equipment in general (excluding z-souls) is largely inconsequential.
So, yes, it makes a big difference depending on how you plan to build a character. That said, a vast majority of equipment and skills are usable by all races.
NinjaEdit: Whoops; I forgot to mention the stat bonuses each race/gender gets. The character creation screen explains those clearly.
Namekians are just slugs ;D
Stone Ocean
Member
This image pisses me off because they changed the Majin's passive from being maxed out Ki to being maxed out Stamina. Keeping stamina capped off is so hard, Majins would have been so much better if they could actually count on their bloody tankiness
Namekians: poopy
The picture also doesn't mention the occasional 1 hit of super armor Majins get. You can see when it's on by a slight Z-soul-esque aura effect except pink. I've not explicitly tested whether that's tied to stamina too or is just on cooldown after broken, but what I do know, is that when it's combined with auto-guard, it turns quite gross. As in, can't throw you nor break your guard with charged heavy attacks gross.
Stone Ocean
Member
I thought it was tied to their stamina passive?
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
To be honest if I saw that image I would have probably just made a Saiyan given they don't seem to have much of a downside. The other races seem to be kind of an afterthought; especially given the lack of transformations.
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Being trying to figure out how to control this on my Majin. Maybe it's when she's full stamina. Cause I've noticed there's times she tanks a hit like a boss that would knockdown my Saiyan
The picture also doesn't mention the occasional 1 hit of super armor Majins get. You can see when it's on by a slight Z-soul-esque aura effect except pink. I've not explicitly tested whether that's tied to stamina too or is just on cooldown after broken, but what I do know, is that when it's combined with auto-guard, it turns quite gross. As in, can't throw you nor break your guard with charged heavy attacks gross.
Stone Ocean
Member
It's such a pity Frieza clansmen don't have their transformations, didn't even need all 4, just let me have whatever the fuck full powered Frieza is. Majins could have an "Evil Buu" form as well
There's always the sequel for that, I guess
Spinosaurus
Member
I liked it better when they were demons.
Stone Ocean
Member
I liked namekians better when I didn't have information on how they procreated
Did quick testing. It's 1 blow every 20 seconds. It comes back even if you keep your stamina near the bottom the whole duration
The pink effect might be only the defensive stamina buff
ok. got all the Dragon's Balls. Bout to go erect him from them. What should I choose?
500k zenni is pointless now that I don't have much to buy at all.
I don't have the rare items nor characters and outfits that I never will really plan to use.
I could go for a respec on my saiyan and turn her from blasty mc blast away to a melee build.
or I could change my looks which I am never 100% satisfied with.
500k zenni is pointless now that I don't have much to buy at all.
I don't have the rare items nor characters and outfits that I never will really plan to use.
I could go for a respec on my saiyan and turn her from blasty mc blast away to a melee build.
or I could change my looks which I am never 100% satisfied with.
Ah that explains why I could not figure that out while casually fighting. Interesting...
bobawesome
Member
Dragon Ball Chi Chi
TheSlySoul
Member
Use them while Dragonball hunting. Almost done with Hercule.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I just started getting into this all. But one question gnaws at me. If messing with the timeline is so bad, what about trunks time traveling in the main series to change the future to a positive one? Seems like trunks isn't the right guy to be a time patroller when he kinda fucked with the timeline in the first place.
The one that does no talking would be optimal. Did an online PQ with two spammer Saiyans. All I heard the whole time, "Kamehamma!!" over and over and over! They wrecked shop though in the end. So do what you like!
Hero Prinny
Member
well if i remember correctly if he didn't do what he did the world would've just gotten completely wrecked turning to an apocalypse cause of cell so i mean honestly, theres no where to go but up from that.
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