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?
- Developer - Square Enix
- Release Date - 10/09/14 World Wide
- Platform - PC (Steam)
- Price - 12,99 / $15,99
- Collector's Edition - There are none
- Genre - Role-Playing > Console-style RPG
- System Requirements -
Code:[B][U]Minimum[/U][/B] OS: Windows XP SP2 or later Processor: 2GHz Dual Core Memory: 1GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series / ATI Radeon HD 2000 series VRAM 256 or later Hard Drive: 30GB available space [B][U]Recommended[/U][/B] OS: Windows Vista/7/8 Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad (2.66 GHz) / AMD Phenom II X4 (2.8 GHz) processor Memory: 1GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 / ATI Radeon HD 5870 Hard Drive: 30GB available space
There's a paradigm system in Final Fantasy XIII that can only be used when your characters have turned l'Cie. These are combinations of roles for your characters, and each have different strategies behind them. You should become very familiar with the paradigms available to your party, as it's difficult to make it past some of the harder battles with no strategy. (Click the names below for more in-depth information about the different paradigm)
Commando (COM) / Attacker (ATK)
Description: Build attack chains more easily with enhanced strength.
Occasion: Weakening the enemy, maintaining the stagger bar.
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Ravager (RAV) / Blaster (BLA)
Description: Charge enemy chain gauges with concentrated attacks.
Occasion: Getting the stagger bar up.
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Sentinel (SEN) / Defender (DEF)
Description: Shield allies from enemy attacks with enhanced defense.
Occasion: Good for making another target while attacking the enemy.
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Saboteur (SAB) / Jammer (JAM)
Description: Enfeeble enemies while charging their chain gauges.
Occasion: Weaken the enemy with status effects.
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Synergist (SYN) / Enhancer (ENH)
Description: Support allies with an array of magical enhancements.
Occasion: Give your party an offensive, defensive or status boost.
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Medic (MED) / Healer (HLR)
Description: Focus on restoring HP and removing status ailments.
Occasion: Low health, life-threatening upcoming attack or removal of status effects.
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ATB-refresh (or ATB-cancel) is a highly valuable trick that you should start practicing as soon as you get the chance. After performing a successful refresh, your ATB-meter will charge up instantly. This means that you don't have to wait for the ATB gauge to refill every time you shift paradigms. Mastering this technique is essential for those who are interested in completing the harder challenges of the game. You can obtain refreshes if you fulfill at one of two conditions:
- You've previously fully recharged the ATB Gauge
- 12 seconds have passed since the last ATB Refresh
When you attack an enemy, the chain bonus gauge (CBG) in the upper-right corner of the screen will fill up. Every enemy has his own CBG, and every gauge has a threshold (or stagger point) that, once reached, will temporarily send the enemy into a extremely vulnerable status condition. Increasing the chain bonus will proportionally increase the damage dealt to an enemy, and it will also affect his resistance to status ailments. For example, if an attack deals 700 HP of damage to an enemy with a 100% chain bonus gauge, the same attack will deal 1,400 HP of damage to an enemy with a 200% chain bonus gauge. The resistance to status ailments will drop only after surpassing the stagger point.
Stabilizing and filling up the gauges
Staggering an enemy (filling up the chain bonus gauge) is always faster if you use the Ravagers (RAV -) attacks, but there's also a rule that you have to keep in mind: the faster you fill the CBG, the faster it will tend to deplete. Because of this, it's important to balance the roles that you use with your attacks to stabilize (that is to say, slow down the inevitable chain bonus emptying process) and fill the chain bonus gauge.
The Commando (COM -) role is particularly good to stabilize the CBG, and just a few attacks of a COM will typically be enough to stabilize the gauge for good. On the other hand, the COM role will fill up the CBG very slowly. Vice-versa, the RAV role is particularly good to fill up the CBG quickly, as we already said, but if you were to use only RAV to fill the CBG, the gauge would probably empty and go back to 100% in less than a second.
When you want to fill the gauge of an enemy therefore it's important that you use a balanced paradigm: COM/RAV/RAV is one of the best Paradigms to fill Chain Bonus gauges, because it provides both a "stabilizing" character (the COM) and two characters that will fill up the Chain Bonus gauge (the two RAV). Also keep in mind that different enemies have different "Chain Resistance" values: some Chain Gauges fill up fast, others don't.
Staggering your foe
Despite its linearity, Final Fantasy XIII has a lot of content. Below, you'll find a few extremely essential tips and tricks that you'll be able to use to your advantage throughout the adventure. Newcomers of the game should read this part while players that are already familiar with it should just skim through it.
Scanning your enemies
Early game CP farm spot
Late game CP farm spot
Shrouds conservation
Tizoc added plenty of tips regarding gil, material and much more! Check it out here!
Masashi Hamauzu, one of the composers of Final Fantasy X and the composer of the Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII made the music for Final Fantasy XIII. You can click on the small images below to start hearing some of the beautiful tracks that's been tailored into the game. From left to right, you've got:
- Prelude (2:55)
- The Hanging Edge (3:26)
- Lake Bresha (4:11)
- The Sunleth Waterscape (3:46)
- Serah's Theme (1:30)
- The Archylte Steppe (4:25)
- Strategywiki.org - for providing valuable character info
- Trueachievements.com - for providing essential battle info
- Motomu Toriyama - for making this game possible
- Raitningz, suppadoopa, Perfo, Dragmire666, LuuKyK, Heelpower, Toth and many other fans - for supporting this fantastic trilogy
See you all next time in the Final Fantasy XIII-2 PC OT!
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