Mad Season
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So if I haven't played a final fantasy since #7 can I just jump right in to this and be ok?
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 PC |OT| So you think you can ride this Chocobo!
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Okay, there's goofy, and then there's "the security system is being hacked from the future!"
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Tough one
Hmm. I would say no...this one is fairly standalone despite being in the middle of a trilogy, but it feels like a hodge podge of nonsense ideas bundled into a game with an established mythos and tries to make it fit. At the same time, it's probably a more fun game than XIII despite this one being way less cohesive.
I would go XIII pc first if you want to eventually play this, but even moreso I'd recommend the X/X-2 remaster if that's an option.
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Tough one
Hmm. I would say no...this one is fairly standalone despite being in the middle of a trilogy, but it feels like a hodge podge of nonsense ideas bundled into a game with an established mythos and tries to make it fit. At the same time, it's probably a more fun game than XIII despite this one being way less cohesive.
I would go XIII pc first if you want to eventually play this, but even moreso I'd recommend the X/X-2 remaster if that's an option.
Best not to put too much thought into the story. I just roll with it.
It should.
Any idea what causes the full resolution/hudless screenshot to simply fail to save sometimes? A bit of a hassle when I'm trying to get a specific shot in a cut-scene and then the screenshot keeps failing.
Address space limitations due to how the game allocates memory. The only thing you can do about it is save and restart the first time it happens.
I'm using Steam's built-in tool for that and aren't having any issues. Plus I get nice 4k PNGs that look great.
But then you have to either toggle the HuD with GeDoSaTo every time you take a shot (annoying) or have HuD on your shots (ugly).
Yeah, but I love the hudless screenshot function of gedosato. I guess I could just disable the hud separately, but that's not quite as convenient as the hudless screenshot function. Oh well, probably just end up using Steam's screenshot function and just assign the disable HUD to a button on the controller. If it ends up being too annoying all just deal with the screenshot failing occasionally.
Ah, my bad. Did you mean no HUD in battle as well? I didn't think of that situation because most of the screens i've taken are mostly event/field gameplay.
I know that you can "natively" go HUD-less for cutscenes and field gameplay (minimap is toggled off by pressing select and turning off subs for cutscenes).
Yeah, I take a few battle screenshots. They look pretty good without the HUD.
Kazdane
Member
I'm just thinking out loud... There's no one that has any clue or hint about what is causing the framepacing issues? Apparently in games that were capped at 30FPS, a modified exe would allow the game to run uncapped. It's probably not that obvious though, or I guess we'd have seen already some kind of solution.
Read my article
(short answer: set your audio driver to either 2 or 6 channels)
There are some UI elements you can't remove (without GeDoSaTo) even on the field though. E.g. talk indicators, goal overlays, etc.
onken
Member
Sorry for the confusion!
Read my article
(short answer: set your audio driver to either 2 or 6 channels)
There are some UI elements you can't remove (without GeDoSaTo) even on the field though. E.g. talk indicators, goal overlays, etc.
That, I am aware of.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Beat the game as well.
So much stuff left to do though.
Massive Ending Spoilers
So much stuff left to do though.
Massive Ending Spoilers
I feel like after the ending credits it should say "TROLLED BY CAVIA"
Lightning Returns is definitely the most different of the three. You play only as Lightning. And the battle system is far more involved than either 13 and 13-2. Still has some great music, but overall not as consistently great as 13-2's music.
I like Lightning Return's battle system more, but I think I FFXIII-2 is the better overall game. With that said, they're both great games, imo.
Was this your first time going through the game?
Forgot about the snow area!
Its the best looking effect in the XIII series.I am really surprised they didn't reuse it in LR.
LOL
I bet this is exactly how Toriyama planned the story on the drawing board.
I still think Noel should've thought more about serah than Yeul at that point
After they came so close to succeeding,serah dies and world goes to hell.
Her death should mean more to him than pretty anything else.
After they came so close to succeeding,serah dies and world goes to hell.
Her death should mean more to him than pretty anything else.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
That diploma from Eden University is worthless now Serah!
This costume has Etro's script below her neck, i wonder what it says.
Remember people choose the best dialog option to get the most (funniest shit) out of the game.
This costume has Etro's script below her neck, i wonder what it says.
Remember people choose the best dialog option to get the most (funniest shit) out of the game.
Started my 4k png album (might be a couple 1080 pics mixed in there). All can be downloaded in the original 4k resolution.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12057637@N02/sets/72157649356116820/
Hope to add lots more.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12057637@N02/sets/72157649356116820/
Hope to add lots more.
^lol
Not that I'm aware of. Really hope someone can figure it out eventually.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Virgin KLM from PCSX2 forums said the costumes aren't missing. They are actually hidden in the game data disabled by Square Enix. Also a theory to Framerate problems.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-FFXI...inal-Fantasies-to-follow?pid=420658#pid420658VIRGIN KLM' pid='420658' dateline='1418769384 said:
Also someone uploaded a custom Launcher that Launches as XIII series games and adds a bit more options to resolution and such.
http://skacik.pl/index.php/my-projects/16-final-fantasy-xiii-series-combined-custom-launcher
Unreal
Member
135 of 160 fragments...
FF XIII-2 Album (17 new screenshots)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/javiercc/sets/72157649724807135/
FF XIII-2 Album (17 new screenshots)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/javiercc/sets/72157649724807135/
Gunblade47
Neo Member
In most cases it's actually worse in terms of performance. Some are reporting very smooth gameplay but most report stuttering at 30/20 or even 15fps. The options are the exact same as the ones they just patched into 13 and the gameplay dlc(Not outfits) are now locked until you beat the story first.
All in all, it's pretty much the same quality port as 13 but with 13-2 having even more fps problems on console it runs worse than 13.
Where are you getting those metrics from? Genuinely curious.
Gunblade47
Neo Member
Steam forum reports, take them for what them are but just know that in terms of port quality it's pretty much the same as 13.
Thank you for the pics!
Tomasoares
Member
Is the game harder than the ps3 version?
ambientmystic
Member
I can personally vouch for Gunblade47's observations.
XIII-2 has so many more dips from 60 to 30 when compared to XIII that I just decided to cap the damn thing to 30 FPS using NVIDIA Inspector and use Gedosato with it for some extreme downsampling. (3200x1800 -> 1600x900)
As an added bonus I could then use 4k shadows + 16xAA with a stable framerate.
Stable 30 FPS takes awhile to get used to but is a lot less jarring from the frequent dips from 60 to 30 when you so much as just move the camera in a different direction.
XIII-2 has so many more dips from 60 to 30 when compared to XIII that I just decided to cap the damn thing to 30 FPS using NVIDIA Inspector and use Gedosato with it for some extreme downsampling. (3200x1800 -> 1600x900)
As an added bonus I could then use 4k shadows + 16xAA with a stable framerate.
Stable 30 FPS takes awhile to get used to but is a lot less jarring from the frequent dips from 60 to 30 when you so much as just move the camera in a different direction.
Kazdane
Member
That's not what Gunblade47 said though. If anything that's mirroring reports I'm hearing from my circle of friends where outright capping to 30fps results in stable FPS (as in, 'most') and one guy dips to 15 regardless (as in, 'some'). That one guy has a decent rig, mind you, so we're scratching our heads.
Gunblade47
Neo Member
The some I was talking about are those that report smooth gameplay at 60fps, not 30.
But yeah, I'll add that it was merely an observation of the forums on steam which we all know can completely overblow things too.
But yeah, I'll add that it was merely an observation of the forums on steam which we all know can completely overblow things too.
Locking to 30 introduces "loading dips" (for lack of a better term) that go down to 20~21 for a couple seconds when the game loads the area in the background. I'm not sure what the drop is like when playing at 60fps since I couldn't put up it, but I'm sure it dips there too. It might not even be noticeable given how frequently the frames drop and stutter @60fps. Its just a smelly port.
I've noticed that also.
GeDoSaTo just refuses to take 4k screenshots in the Bresha Ruins. I realize it's a memory issue, but it's still pretty disappointing. The entire reason I was doing a play-through was to get 4k screenshots. It worked well enough in New Bodhum, but now it just fails 100% of the time. Steam's screenshot function isn't the greatest alternative considering the lack of a HUDless screenshot function.. And for some silly reason, Steam insists on taking two screenshots every time I press the button.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
FINALLY GOT TIME TO PLAY THIS!
Bought just now! Downloading... then installing... gonna enjoy playing this in 21754214 hours.
Btw, how the hell do I activate all the DLC that was promised pre-launch? Why isn't it as simple as "enabling" the DLC by right-clicking like you'd normally do for Steam games?
Bought just now! Downloading... then installing... gonna enjoy playing this in 21754214 hours.
Btw, how the hell do I activate all the DLC that was promised pre-launch? Why isn't it as simple as "enabling" the DLC by right-clicking like you'd normally do for Steam games?
Gunblade47
Neo Member
All the promised DLC are included in the base game. You'll need to beat the game before you can actually unlock the story/coliseum dlc though, but the outfits are there from the start.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
w... what? Why did they do that? Colosseum was always unlocked on the console version.
Gunblade47
Neo Member
Don't know their reasoning behind it. Perhaps to avoid the Lightning DLC spoilers? But they are there.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Yeah. I wanted to have Lightning and the others on my team from the beginning.
You're not gonna play XIII first?