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[Minamu]

Is that picture with a big bright blue tank on Pulse fake? I was kinda hoping to fight that thing :lol

5 Dark Matters away from Platinum (unless I've missed some accessory). Drop rate is bullshit I don't have to actually equip every weapon & accessory for the trophy, right? I'd be pretty screwed if that's how it works...

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Lightning had that pierced belly button even in the 2006 trailer?!!! How did I miss that for this long?:lol

I'm still kinda surprised it's there at all. :lol

 

[CruxisMana]

Seriously. I'm having way more fun with the game, now that I'm only playing the non-essential parts of it. I always like the optional stuff, but this is the first Final Fantasy where I've enjoyed that content more than the main game itself.

After the plot progression in chapters 9 and 10 I decided to skip the Pulse sidecontent in chapter 11 to get on with the plot, but then nothing much happens in chapter 11 or 12...

I'm just glad I can go back and take a brake from the straight lines of constant battles and annoying bosses.

 

[Deleted member 30609]

part of the reason I liked Gran Pulse so much as an environment is because of how interconnected everything felt.

the beginning of the game, or rather, the middle of the game, felt like such a smattering of random locations the art team felt like designing, whereas Pulse felt like a world.

 

[Zzoram]

YES!
Most of the stagger lock weapons come with a hidden trait of "Random:Instant Chain" if paired with the right accessories (energy sash, speed sash, hunter's friend, survivalist catalog)
this will completely fill up your chain meter randomly(but not stagger it)

and some of these weapons also have the highest stats for that character


if you keep only 1 out of 3 characters using it, it shouldn't affect the battle negatively

Sazh (Rigel) and Fang (Taming pole) are two great candidates for this type of weapons

Wait, so stagger lock just means the wielder of the weapon doesn't stagger, but other party members can still trigger a stagger?

I think you don't even need a stagger lock weapon to get instant chain modifier, I think Lightning can get it even when using Axis Blade (ATB recover).

 

[jjasper]

Man I haven't had any problem with the game till just now. Just got my ass handed to me by

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Cid

like 8 times in a row before I turned it off.

25 times in a row I have died. I died 1 time the whole game before this fight. WTF I don't get it, I am clearly missing something.

 

[Green Mamba]

25 times in a row I have died. I died 1 time the whole game before this fight. WTF I don't get it, I am clearly missing something.

Anything specific giving you trouble in the fight? What party are you using?

 

[jjasper]

Anything specific giving you trouble in the fight? What party are you using?

Not really I just keep getting caught with low health and getting sucked into one of his combos that go on forever after the metamorphosis.

 

[jiggle]

are u using sentinel?

 

[jjasper]

Yes tried with both Snow and Fang.

 

[jiggle]

what about sentinel+med on permanent standby?
pretty hard to kill with that
just use 1 character to deal damage
might take forever to kill but at least u'll win?

 

[Dedication Through Light]

25 times in a row I have died. I died 1 time the whole game before this fight. WTF I don't get it, I am clearly missing something.

Ouch! I think I definitely used a sentinel in this one and had one person do physical attacks and another do the magical ones since he alternates with what type of damage he can accept.

 

[Yoshichan]

Use debuffs.
Buff yourself.
Use SEN/MED-combo when shit's going bad.

 

[jjasper]

what about sentinel+med on permanent standby?
pretty hard to kill with that
just use 1 character to deal damage
might take forever to kill but at least u'll win?

:lol Yeah I suppose I could do that.

Use debuffs.
Buff yourself.
Use SEN/MED-combo when shit's going bad.

Usually use Hope/Fang to buff/debuff. I guess it has just been me not paying attention and being lower on health than I thought and not getting the MED/SEN/MED up in time (or any other SEN/MED combo).

 

[Rahxephon91]

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For the Cid battle I started off with Light,Vanilie, and Hope. They were on com, rav, and rav, I switched to sab and synth and after I was done with those I switched to rav rav com and after one turn of com I switched to rav rav rav, which staggers the enemy quickly. It then turned and basically the same plan but vanile was mostly a healer and I didn't have as much time to bother with buffs and debuffs.

 

[Yoshichan]

Rahx, spoiler tags.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

For the

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Cid

battle I started off with Light,Vanilie, and Hope. They were on com, rav, and rav, I switched to sab and synth and after I was done with those I switched to rav rav com and after one turn of com I switched to rav rav rav, which staggers the enemy quickly. It then turned and basically the same plan but vanile was mostly a healer and I didn't have as much time to bother with buffs and debuffs.

Fixed

 

[Choopy]

If you already have the ultimate weapons, then you should be fine as long as you farm the Dark Matter. The biggest expense after that are the 6 Adamantites you need (200k each).

Ah, thanks. Can't farm the Adamantites I'm guessing?
And how many Dark Matters do I need exactly? 5? 6?

I hope it's 5... Nothing is dropping

 

[Threi]

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Cid

was hard? I beat him on my first (or second) try :lol

Sazh man, Sazh.


My party is usually Sazh(Leader)/Lightining/Fang (Sazh as leader because he stays out of trouble and won't get his ass killed)

Start the match off with Syn/Med/Sab for buffing (HASTE!)

Rav/Rav/Com for regular attacking (Rav/Med/Com to play it safe)

Syn/Med/Sen for when he feels like attacking the hell out of you or when he does Gill's super art and debuffs you.

and Com/Com/Com for when he's staggered for massive damage.

Haste so far has been by far the most useful buff.

 

[ULTROS!]

judging from that small footage, didnt the battle system seemed deeper? It had more menu options it seems.

Actually it seemed too confusing for me. I'm glad it was simplified. :lol

But I'm sad that the battle graphics didn't look like that in the final game, it looked so cool. ;_;

 

[Meier]

I swear, the rarity of the traps is just absurd. There is absolutely no reason they should have made it this bad.

 

[firehawk12]

Ah, thanks. Can't farm the Adamantites I'm guessing?
And how many Dark Matters do I need exactly? 5? 6?

I hope it's 5... Nothing is dropping

Yeah, pretty sure you need 5 DMs.

 

[Lightning]

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Cid

was hard? I beat him on my first (or second) try :lol

Sazh man, Sazh.


My party is usually Sazh(Leader)/Lightining/Fang (Sazh as leader because he stays out of trouble and won't get his ass killed)

Start the match off with Syn/Med/Sab for buffing (HASTE!)

Rav/Rav/Com for regular attacking (Rav/Med/Com to play it safe)

Syn/Med/Sen for when he feels like attacking the hell out of you or when he does Gill's super art and debuffs you.

and Com/Com/Com for when he's staggered for massive damage.

Haste so far has been by far the most useful buff.

Haste is the most useful buff but Sazh for the most part just sucks. His crappy stats and slow attacking sequences really hold him back.

His blitz move rocks though, especially against Adamantotises.

 

[Arjen]

Any tips on beating mission 54?

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giant cactus thing

Sentinels don't work at all, can't even heal fast enough with two medics.
Have around 15k hp for ligh/fang/hope with tier 2 weapons.
Tried tow use shrouds to, but the fucker destroys me all the time.
I must be missing something, cause it's a B mark and i kill most A marks easy..

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

Any tips on beating mission 54?

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giant cactus thing

Sentinels don't work at all, can't even heal fast enough with two medics.
Have around 15k hp for ligh/fang/hope with tier 2 weapons.
Tried tow use shrouds to, but the fucker destroys me all the time.
I must be missing something, cause it's a B mark and i kill most A marks easy..

Camp it up like I did. Just equip the correct weapons/accessories for Random: Instant Stagger and keep going at it. I got the stagger on the 2nd round of attacks and just COM/COM/RAV'ed him to death. Five-star as well so I don't have to go through that bullshit again.

 

[BeeDog]

Any tips on beating mission 54?

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giant cactus thing

Sentinels don't work at all, can't even heal fast enough with two medics.
Have around 15k hp for ligh/fang/hope with tier 2 weapons.
Tried tow use shrouds to, but the fucker destroys me all the time.
I must be missing something, cause it's a B mark and i kill most A marks easy..

As ichinisan said, an Instant Stagger setup is pretty much essential. Use Lightning/Fang/Snow (or anyone else with good Magic and Strength), drop two shrouds, immediately start attacking with RAV/RAV/RAV, hope that you stagger him fast, then start attacking him with COM/COM/COM. If you're lucky, the fight will fly by extremely fast.

 

[Arjen]

Ugh, so it's another one of those impossible to beat unles you get a lucky stagger/ Death.
What a load of horsecrap.
Thnx for the advice though.

 

[Pooya]

OST Plus official site
You can listen to some samples and there is a message from Hamauzu.

andriasang

As previously detailed, this second Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack includes music that was added for the overseas version of FFXIII. Additionally, the soundtrack includes prototype music that cannot be heard elsewhere.

* 1. PV Final Fantasy XIII 2007 JFS
* 2. PV Final Fantasy XIII 2006 E3
* 3. M1 No.2 title αVersion
* 4. M3 No.4 BossA αVersion
* 5. M306 OPN2 Unmei he no Hanmei Paramekia Totsunyuu Version
* 6. Hope_PfNer3
* 7. M42E Sunleth Waterscape Overseas Version
* 8. M36A Gapra Whitewood Instrumental
* 9. M74_2 PRO Shukumei e no Aragai No Chorus Version
* 10. M64E Cocoon de Chocobo English Version
* 11. M33 Lightning NW Version
* 12. M181 Shugeki2 Prototype
* 13. M44B Sazh B+ Prototype
* 14. M106 Last Battle Prototype+
* 15. M5_2 Senkou Long Version
* 16. M42 Sunleth Waterscape Instrumental

 

[Rahxephon91]

The chocobo theme has become a hit during my drives. The English version would be ever better.

 

[desverger]

Any tips on beating mission 54?

Spoiler

giant cactus thing

Sentinels don't work at all, can't even heal fast enough with two medics.
Have around 15k hp for ligh/fang/hope with tier 2 weapons.
Tried tow use shrouds to, but the fucker destroys me all the time.
I must be missing something, cause it's a B mark and i kill most A marks easy..

Instant chain on all chars. Took me only a few tries.

Also, the thing you want to know is that his attack does exactly 10000 damage, and is NOT affected by buffs, debuffs, guard, sentinels or anything else. So you'll want at least one char with 20k+ hp, who you'll be controlling. Of course the other chars in your party should have at least 10k hp

 

[BertramCooper]

Well, I finally made it to Gran Pulse last weekend, but I haven't done much playing at all this past week. I've done a few missions, but really, I've pretty much lost all desire to finish this game.

I think part of it is Chapter 10 totally burning me out, but the dull story and lifeless world aren't helping either.

On a related note, you really don't appreciate NPCs in video games until they're gone, as is the case in FF13. This game has been streamlined to the point of absurdity.

 

[Lince]

Ugh, so it's another one of those impossible to beat unles you get a lucky stagger/ Death.
What a load of horsecrap.
Thnx for the advice though.

I beat it the non-cheap way and still got 5 stars by casting Daze on it (SAB/MED/MED), then RAV/RAV/RAV and COM/COM/COM, no need to get lucky.

 

[i_am_ben]

Just beat the game. Used pretty much Lightning/Hope/Vanille the whole game

Medic/Medic/Medic saved my arse so many times.



Also, this is another game that is almost unplayable on a SDTV due to horrible & unreadable text.

 

[samven582]

OST Plus official site
You can listen to some samples and there is a message from Hamauzu.

andriasang

I just bought the original soundtrack this week from Square enix

 

[firehawk12]

OST Plus official site
You can listen to some samples and there is a message from Hamauzu.

andriasang

English lyrics for the Chocobo song. :lol

I'm surprised they couldn't get the rights to that Leona Lewis song though.

 

[jjasper]

Finally beat

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Cid

figured out what the trick was, 5 starred it too. :lol

 

[Epix]

Help:

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I'm at Orphan just after the part where you get ported to jabbawonky dude, kill him, and come back. There seems to be three ways to go: Up the middle which is guarded by a big ass dude who summons a blade that one-shots you for 10k on each person, to the left which is guarded by two hover bikes that you can sneak past but also a caped dude + big ass dude you can't sneak past that kick your ass, and to the right with a sea of walking fish and Cie'th mobs that come in packs of 14 and overwhelm you. I've tried each way several times and I'm quickly dispatched to the point I think I'm doing something wrong. I've managed every other boss along the story so far with at most maybe 3 attempts but I've died to these fuckers 10+ times now not even getting close to success.

 

[desverger]

Oh maaan. Killed a Long Gui!

I'm pretty much done with the game. 890/1000, but I had my fun :lol

Would you think I was crazy if I said the post-game was way more fun than the story portion of the main game? With post-game, I also include the missions. It seemed like there was more challenge to the missions, at least a few specific ones, than the any of the story fights could muster.

 

[Kagari]

English lyrics for the Chocobo song. :lol

I'm surprised they couldn't get the rights to that Leona Lewis song though.

Good thing they didn't. Don't need that song tainting Masashi Hamauzu's work.

 

[boredJonathan]

Help:

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I'm at Orphan just after the part where you get ported to jabbawonky dude, kill him, and come back. There seems to be three ways to go: Up the middle which is guarded by a big ass dude who summons a blade that one-shots you for 10k on each person, to the left which is guarded by two hover bikes that you can sneak past but also a caped dude + big ass dude you can't sneak past that kick your ass, and to the right with a sea of walking fish and Cie'th mobs that come in packs of 14 and overwhelm you. I've tried each way several times and I'm quickly dispatched to the point I think I'm doing something wrong. I've managed every other boss along the story so far with at most maybe 3 attempts but I've died to these fuckers 10+ times now not even getting close to success.

Worst part of the game right there. I gave up/got lucky and had some of the Deception shrouds left. Went to the right where I was able to miss the first sea of

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fish/Cie'th

and then was able to make it to the back of the 'ring' where you are forced to fight

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Cie'th & one of those tank things

but if you move quick you'll still have your deception shroud up and can start off with the

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tank

staggered.

Like you, I'd had litttle to no trouble with bosses or encounters up till this point. If I died on a fight, I was usually able to change up my strategy and after a few trys get past whatever killed me. Here though, I spent about 45 minutes before deciding that I cared more about just finishing the damn thing than fighting each fight. Unfortunately, even if you get past this section there is one more fight coming up that you cannot avoid that drove me mad. Harder than the final boss. (again hope you have a deception shroud cause while it wasn't instant win with it, it did give me the edge to eventually whittle down these other mobs over a long 15-20 minute battle.)

The good news is your ALMOST done!

 

[j-wood]

When using a weapon with instant chain ability, is that only affective from the commando role? Or does it work as a ravenger too?

 

[B.K.]

Good thing they didn't. Don't need that song tainting Masashi Hamauzu's work.

It's not like his music for the game was very good either.

 

[Rahxephon91]

It's not like his music for the game was very good either.

You shut your whore mouth.

 

[Cep]

You shut your whore mouth.

Agreed.

 

[Kagari]

It's not like his music for the game was very good either.

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After hearing the amazing that is the FFXIV OST, I am inclined to agree with you :x

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

When using a weapon with instant chain ability, is that only affective from the commando role? Or does it work as a ravenger too?

It should work with every role I think. I've certainly had it work with Fang as a SAB.

 

[Pooya]

Looks like I need to start a Hamauzu Defence force. about 14 ost, outside of those vocal tracks everything else was mediocre to garbage.

 

[Zomo]

If anyone from Australia was interested in a FFXIII calendar I have a few spare just PM me

 

[Rahxephon91]

From what I've heard of 14's ost, it sounds like typical FF music and I have never found FF soundtracks outside of X or VIII to be that great.

 

[B.K.]

I don't know if anyone cares, but Square Enix is releasing a special bundle for the game when they release XIII in China. They're bundling the game with a special edition Lightning Dual Shock 3 controller.