thunder_snail
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Or you can press y to immediately execute commands. If your ATB gauge is not full, it will only execute the commands that have been charged and ignore the otherss.
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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
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Or you can press y to immediately execute commands. If your ATB gauge is not full, it will only execute the commands that have been charged and ignore the otherss.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
One of my favorite things to do in this game is execute a command early to take off that last little bit of health. So satisfying.
I forced Adaptive, triple buffered vsync through Inspector, which seemed to give me a constant 60 FPS, but now I have crippling screen tearing.
I'll try that out too, thanks.
I'll try that out too, thanks.
uncredited male
Member
I should make a Kickstarter to create of team of dedicated PC porters to go around Japan helping out.
Any word/rumors about SE doing anything related to this?
Any word/rumors about SE doing anything related to this?
thunder_snail
Member
Adaptive mode turns off v-sync when the fps is below 60 fps. So I don't think there's anything that can be done about tearing. It's too bad this game has weird performance issues. Locking it at 30fps is no answer either as in that case, it's no different from playing on my PS3. Really hoping SE fixes the issue and if not, at least for XIII-2 and LR.
Yep. Also it's so satisfying when you attack at the last moment when the stagger gauge is about to deplete and then get the stagger. Then launch the enemy in the air and keep it airborne through careful timing of paradigm shifts and its instant ATB recharge. This game can be so fun if played like that.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Truth. At times it can almost feel like an action game if you're creative enough with your execution.
I'm pretty sure people who say "lol autobattle" never tried to appreciate the combat on that level.
I have to vehemently disagree on that point. I fired up the PS3 version yesterday just to get a real sense for the comparison. It's a blurry god damn mess compared to this. And even the PS3 version didn't maintain anywhere near a constant 30. Locked 60 is ideal, obviously, but until SE patches the game (lol) that's just not in the cards. 30 is fine by me.
Kazdane
Member
I'd guess that what is actually happening is that the environment and characters are being loaded in the background. It's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Always loved doing that. FF XIII captures the essence of time really well. Some of the split second decision making is truly intense stuff.
My favorite is surprising an enemy, getting them all near stagger, and then casting quake. BAM! Next I would destroy them in a pyrotechic flurry of Blitzes and "Ga" spells. Never got tired of that from beginning to end.
Exactly. The Hope/Snow plotline is absolutely dreadful and it nearly brings the entire game down with how horrible it is. Just absolutely awful writing and miss opportunities.
*spoilers below*
The game establishes this lie that it's Snow fault that Nora died (it's not). Hope then proceeds to act like a complete brat for entirely too long. He refuses to tell Snow about what happened and everyone around him simply enables his horrible behavior. Lightning was especially bad with this, even though she did try to reverse course, she didn't try hard enough. Hope continues to get more and more mad at the things Snow is saying, but you can hardly blame Snow for that since Hope refused to tell him about Nora. And then, despite the fact that Lightning already tried to talk him down, and despite the fact that Snow was already having a bit of a breakdown, Hope tries to kill him anyway. Worst of all is that Hope totally would have killed him if it weren't for a coincidental explosion that stopped him. At the very least, they should have made Hope hesitate a little bit.
That would have been a great time for his Eidolon battle, but instead his Eidolon battle happens later in a seemingly random fit of angst. It makes no sense.
So we're left with Hope who very nearly murdered Snow even though he had every reason not to. What's really bad is that the game doesn't even acknowledge this at all. It just keeps piling the blame on to Snow for some reason. The game doesn't even bother to address the very dark road Hope was on, nor does it address that Hope very nearly murdered Snow. It simply ignores the horrible things that Hope did. Where's Hope's guilt for what he almost did? Hope should be the one with a heavy conscious, not Snow.
Framerate drops and fluctuations during loading screens is actually completely normal. A lot of games do that.
Robert7lee
Neo Member
Am I the only one who misses the controller vibration / rumble? Combat just feels hollow without it, I'm annoyed it's also been excluded since it was in the console versions.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
You don't really need to time your defense, just be sure you have Protector paradigm shift up for when her big attack comes.
Still... that is a significant improvement. You really reduced the compression artifacts.Very time consuming and tedious and not 100% perfect but at least an improvement:
PC vanilla:
PS3:
PC fixed:
I don't know if there is a more elegant or efficient method or if you can somehow use different formats for the game since by default it expects to play bink videos.
What I did was re-compressed the original PS3 files with bink with significantly higher bitrate. Like brute forcing quality with a bad codec.
I have only tested this so far with the intro cinematic and it works ingame. But the intro is in a single file while some of the bigger files are achieves for several videos in one. Not sure it works there.
And the cinematics on the PS3 are 720p as well. There's nothing you can do without the originals. Only SquareEnix could.
Moral Panic
Member
Odin kicked my ass more times than I expected.
BasilZero
Member
uhh i believe in the ending? Dont remember it being played through the actual game though o.o.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
BasilZero is correct, it's the ending theme.
Last CGI cutscene.
BONKERS
Member
Very time consuming and tedious and not 100% perfect but at least an improvement:
PC vanilla:
PS3:
PC fixed:
I don't know if there is a more elegant or efficient method or if you can somehow use different formats for the game since by default it expects to play bink videos.
What I did was re-compressed the original PS3 files with bink with significantly higher bitrate. Like brute forcing quality with a bad codec.
I have only tested this so far with the intro cinematic and it works ingame. But the intro is in a single file while some of the bigger files are achieves for several videos in one. Not sure it works there.
And the cinematics on the PS3 are 720p as well. There's nothing you can do without the originals. Only SquareEnix could.
Definitely a step in the right direction. Fucking bink though
BONKERS
Member
Screenshots don't do it justice, it looks worse than this
Yeah I mentioned that here
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=133864823&postcount=1169
brotkasten
Member
Of course it matters. It's a terrible song and I'd rather not listen to it again.
Just going to have to replace the textures for those 2D elements. GEDOSATO has the functionality and Durante is working on an FFXIII implementation when he has the time.
threelights
Member
It's like and up port from the 360 version, that is still not as good as the PS3, but with 60FPS (that some people have problems getting stable). idk what the updated 360 version is, so idk =P
BONKERS
Member
Yeah, I can see doing the fonts will be easiest. (I can easily whip up the layer styles in photoshop probably. Someone would just have to probably trace the original font) Getting replacements for the portraits and other elements. That may prove more difficult.
It may end up being just a better choice to take the elements from the game, and try to upscale them to 1024,2048 as good as possible
japanese 360 version has higher stagger capability and higher item drop rate.
threelights
Member
I wouldn't know, but there is an easy mode in the game, so maybe it is the updated version.
This is weird. I mean I know everything sucks and is a huge wasted potential but I still like it somehow. Maybe it's the quick flow of the battles or something. I could list everything I hate about it very easily and would probably have trouble listing what I like, but I'm still playing...
and playing @_@
and playing @_@
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Probably my favorite track in the game. I hate leaving that area.
That's Easy Mode, which is included in this version.
You've just described FFXIII in a nutshell.
Just wait for Chapter 11.
threelights
Member
It's basically Deadly Premonition, really.
=P
I will be playing the game mostly for the battle system and cool bosses (because those are in fact good), and yeah, from what I see the story is just not up to par with other Final Fantasies (which is actually a pretty high bar), but it doesn't mean you can't get enjoyment from it.
Ya I'm having a blast with the combat system.
Attack, shift, attack, wait, attack, shift, attack, wait, shift to defensive stance to heal up while still dealing the hurt.
They have cut so much fat away from the traditional JRPG formula that it almost veers into ARPG territory.
Right now you're probably at the hold the left stick forward and press A/X a lot. Wait until you get to some of the boss battles or the stupidly hard to stagger enemies. Then the battle system comes into its own.
Almost, but it's still plenty strategic, I ended a game having 3 teams for different situations and something like 6 sets of paradigms 2 for each team. It was painful to change it manually all the time, I wish the game let you save all menu of paradigms for a certain team.
Tempo is great though, it's really hard to keep up all the time, but there is no other way, so you just have to (><)
edited: I made motivation "sleep well" screenshot, decided to share
Nevadatan
Member
Test for text layer styles (Obviously font is just there as placeholder)
once the texture override is out dis gona b gud
BELIEVE
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Test for text layer styles (Obviously font is just there as placeholder)
Yeah the proper font is Xoireqe.
ShinobiFist
Banned
Test for text layer styles (Obviously font is just there as placeholder)
Nice..very nice. It looks like this weekend is going to be all about Lighting..Playing through this game again(Didn't beat it on the PS3)And skipping the tutorial, one thing that finally hit is the level of detail S.E. put into this game is staggering. Is concept art come to life. One thing I enjoy about JRPG's is the journey..And boy this game delivers...I'm having a blast just re-writing the story in my head as well, lol.
Also, the update(GeDo)makes the game very pretty now at 1080>1080. I have it with MSAA X8 and Shadow at 4 at 60fps on my GTX 660. Just a few dips during battle. I get that clean image now on par to 4K..But 4K is 4K, lol. .
Here are my 1080p shots with MSAA X8 and Shadow on 4. I'm very happy the way it looks.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I might have to manually edit a few things to match which won't be much of a big deal.
BONKERS
Member
Well here's my .PSD file if you want to use that as a base to tinker.
https://copy.com/mIemogNxsaN4QoTI
https://copy.com/mIemogNxsaN4QoTI
Has anyone beaten the game yet? I just made it to Palumpolum ... the Flanitor enemies are almost unkillable, they heal each other permanently. Is this a bug? I don't remember this ever happening on the PS3. The game crashed when I alt-tabbed out. I'll try the scene again without GeDoSaTo running, although that shouldn't have caused it.
EDIT: Same thing. I guess I just don't remember it being this annoying.
EDIT: Same thing. I guess I just don't remember it being this annoying.