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[Android18a]

Anyone know how to use spells? i still don't know how i cast them lol and i'm even trying it in the tutorial.

Equip the spell to one of your weapon slots.

You can hold the attack button down and move the area the spell will strike with the left stick, then let go to cast it. There's a bit of a recharge time though.

Additionally if you've got an enemy locked on you can tap circle to centre the spell directly upon that enemy.

Don't worry about hitting your allies with spells, it won't hurt them nearly as much as the foe. Slam tough foes with the most powerful magic you can!

 

[Medicated]

I've try to do a Imp Hunt with 7 level 17 ... when i was level 11, took me a god 20 minutes to dodge and counter and spam Skill.... cost me 20 potion, and 3 pheonix down... i'll wait later to do another at that level, that like 4K gil in waste . And f these blue thing level 14 got 18k of HP and hit then ike 30-40 because they are full resist to everything. I saw they got "Light" weakness ? What is this stat.

Hunt are actual the only challenging part so far...

I've ran into a few really challenging ones but if you know which element they are weak against and use magic it usually takes a sizable chunk of their health and make the fights way easier. Took me a few deaths and 25+ minutes trying to kill a few before I tried magic hah.

 

[Fleet_of_Foot]

Is there a way to "wait" until a different time of day? If I'm trying to do a hunt that only comes out at night, and it's 9am, what do I do?

 

[butman]

Oh man, SE made the worst most boring car driving control in a video game ever, good thing they realized this and added an auto drive mode.

Look the car as it was a train.
The real driving is with the Chocobos. The real FF cars.

 

[Pachimari]

Can I change the spoken language later in the game?

 

[sappyday]

Is there a way to "wait" until a different time of day? If I'm trying to do a hunt that only comes out at night, and it's 9am, what do I do?

The game asks you if you want to wait when taking the hunt.

 

[rezn0r]

So I totally forgot A King's Tale was a thing. I bought from Amazon - is there any news at all about this coming out as DLC or anything? Are we missing out on much? Even if the answer's no, it sort of blows not even having the option for a whole side-game.

 

[zkorejo]

The first time I entered a Dungeon, it was "Scraps of Mystery".. and I got my ass handed to me by a level 52... .. thing that was at the end of it. Worst part is, the whole dungeon has weaker enemies except when you meet that guy/thing/POS. Its like the game cheeses you in and then bam.. you're f'd.

I have been levelling up solely to kick his ass.

 

[artsi]

Can I change the spoken language later in the game?

Yeah, just need to go to title screen.

 

[Medicated]

Is there a way to "wait" until a different time of day? If I'm trying to do a hunt that only comes out at night, and it's 9am, what do I do?

I thought when you accept those nighttime hunts the person will offer to let you wait until nighttime? You might need to switch to a different hunt and switch back to get the option in case you overlooked it the first time. But every nighttime hunt I've done I have gotten the option after accepting to wait there until night.

 

[artsi]

The first time I entered a Dungeon, it was "Scraps of Mystery".. and I got my ass handed to me by a level 52... .. thing that was at the end of it. Worst part is, the whole dungeon has weaker enemies except when you meet that guy/thing/POS. Its like the game cheeses you in and then bam.. you're f'd.

I have been levelling up solely to kick his ass.

I like how the dungeons are pretty much old school "go to the end and kick this bad guy's ass".

Give me a good boss fight instead of pointless loot anytime.

 

[Falk]

Alright. So the game's out. I've been repeatedly trying to sum up how I feel about this game from pages and pages of tl;dr (which I have typed out in full, mind you) to a couple of paragraphs. This is the best attempt at distilling my thoughts into the core essence of what I think about the game.

The cast sells the game. The end. It's about a user experience that's more than the sum of its parts. It's basically a game about going on a road trip with these four idiots, and anything outside of that, even the bombastic storyline and set pieces typical of a Final Fantasy, is a secondary backdrop to that.

It had two big things going against it. Firstly, the previous mainline game had a cast that, while unique, wasn't very well liked. Secondly, open world games do not do this. It costs too much resources/effort to present a fully voiced and realized cast this way. The most you usually get are a bunch of practically interchangeable companions (which is part of the concept of most open world games - give lots of choice, let the player make his own story) Going from superficial - and sometimes romance-eable - relationships like those to a group of four that constantly interact as a group as well as in pairs for the myriad situations in the game is an absurd jump in complexity. Fighting these two things should have been an uphill battle.

However, the cast just... works. And it wouldn't work if they'd met along the journey, much like every other JRPG (proper JRPG, old school JRPG, whatever you want to call it). It works because they're already friends, they already have a backstory and history together, and those bonds are tested in various ways throughout the journey.

I'm not saying people aren't justified in saying the overall narrative may feel a little diluted or weak, or that the supporting cast aren't utilized enough, but even all that aside, the main four sell the experience of a road trip enough that I personally feel like I can overlook it (despite being a 'mainline FF', whatever that means/entails) because I don't think any other game has sold me the experience of simply being on a road trip as well.

Also Prompto's pictures are the icing on the cake. 6 inches of icing on a 4ft tall cake.

Spoiler

music is unremarkable

 

[N° 2048]

Fucking mobile SPOILER tags don't work.

 

[Balls]

Kinda ironic how the four bros the thing people complained most about prior to release actually ended up being one of the strongest if not the strongest parts of the game.

 

[Fleet_of_Foot]

The game asks you if you want to wait when taking the hunt.

Yeah but I was level 4 and the hunt was level 7, so I didn't want to do it right then. Now I'm ready to do it and it's early morning.

 

[ZeroX03]

Just found this really sweet combo, the damage is insane.

1. Large mob of enemies
2. Use Prompto's Gravisphere to draw them in
3. Cast a big ass, high power spell
4. Huge graphical effects mix together
5. Have your game freeze as a result
6. Lose an hour of progress

This game never stops impressing me.
Edit: oh it last auto saved BEFORE the dungeon. Sorry, lost two hours worth of progress! This game man!

 

[Devilinthiscity]

Really enjoying the game, but some of the side quests are boring as fuck. The hunts are fun though. Anyway, is there a faster way to cycle through the songs while in the car? You know like specific albums.

 

[Griss]

I'm currently level 22, and doing hunts against level 12-16 monsters...and I do so little damage, even with with the correct weapon against them.

It took me about 10 minutes at lvl 17 to beat a bunch of lvl 12 buffalo-things, then I fight this massive Behemoth boss enemy who's lvl 15 and I beat it in 30 seconds. The game is wildly inconsistent with this stuff.

Best/worst was when I beat a lvl 32 enemy without too much problems, only to get owned by a lvl 9 giraffe right after the fight was over.

 

[Silav101]

You can hold the attack button down and move the area the spell will strike with the left stick, then let go to cast it. There's a bit of a recharge time though.

Additionally if you've got an enemy locked on you can tap circle to centre the spell directly upon that enemy.

Don't worry about hitting your allies with spells, it won't hurt them nearly as much as the foe. Slam tough foes with the most powerful magic you can!

Don't be an idiot like me, however, and swap to a weapon while magic is on cooldown! I keep forgetting this, and end up walking around like a gormless idiot princealot wondering wtf my attacks do literally nothing, and get gored by, I dunno, a slug or something while my bros save my moronic royal ass.

THE SALT IS REAL.

 

[Moz]

I need some combat tips. I've finished Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, MGSR and most of the DMC games on the hardest difficulty. I simply cannot get the combat in this to work for me at all. The camera spins wildly around focusing on whatever it likes, if I use lock on it jerks around wildly or zooms miles into the air so I can barely see Noctis. The enemies have no significant tells as to when to block/attack, and sometimes when it tells you to block you press it and get hit anyway (likewise sometimes parry doesn't work when you press it). Magic is barely used and annoying to aim. There doesn't seem to be any strategy to combos or switching weapons - you use the one they're weak to. Except you don't, because most of them feel awful so you just use the two which don't (sword/daggers) and put up with the lower damage output. I'm 34 hours into the game and I'm about to simply give up and switch to easy mode because it's so infuriatingly bad.

 

[BocoDragon]

Kinda ironic how the four bros the thing people complained most about prior to release actually ended up being one of the strongest if not the strongest parts of the game.

Very true.

 

[Easy_D]

This game looks ridiculously fun, been watching streams of it and it's a genuinely good time. It's stupid fun in a fantastical world. Shimomura has done a great job as always with the music. I hope she comes back for future installments in the series.

 

[ithebigc]

Can anyone confirm for me that the Japanese version of the game has either English audio or English subtitles at least? I live in Japan so I bought the Luna edition of the console there which came with the game, but I'm not going to open the game if it's Japanese only.

 

[sappyday]

Fucking mobile SPOILER tags don't work.

My bad. I'll fix it.

 

[ULTROS!]

This game is like a reverse FFXIII.

FFXIII had barely any sidequests which involved only hunting, and it's obvious where to go straight away.

FFXV on the other hand is overwhelming in sidequests like you don't know which way to go because there are a lot of options.

 

[Medicated]

Yeah but I was level 4 and the hunt was level 7, so I didn't want to do it right then. Now I'm ready to do it and it's early morning.

Switch to another hunt and then switch back it will ask you again.

 

[zkorejo]

I like how the dungeons are pretty much old school "go to the end and kick this bad guy's ass".

Give me a good boss fight instead of pointless loot anytime.

Yeah. Plus they all are completely different areas and look amazing unlike other games which are just almost the same thing.

These are some of the best dungeons in an open world RPG action game for me.

I have been wondering if this logo is a nod to Tw3?

 

[King_Moc]

I need some combat tips. I've finished Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, MGSR and most of the DMC games on the hardest difficulty. I simply cannot get the combat in this to work for me at all. The camera spins wildly around focusing on whatever it likes, if I use lock on it jerks around wildly or zooms miles into the air so I can barely see Noctis. The enemies have no significant tells as to when to block/attack, and sometimes when it tells you to block you press it and get hit anyway (likewise sometimes parry doesn't work when you press it). Magic is barely used and annoying to aim. There doesn't seem to be any strategy to combos or switching weapons - you use the one they're weak to. Except you don't, because most of them feel awful so you just use the two which don't (sword/daggers) and put up with the lower damage output. I'm 34 hours into the game and I'm about to simply give up and switch to easy mode because it's so infuriatingly bad.

I think you have to hold the button when parrying, then wait for the attack to come in.

I'm using a great sword I found an hour into the game still. I'm 23 hours in and it still carves everything up.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Combat is clearly the game's strongest department but it's indeed surprising to see how great the cast is.

 

[Moaradin]

Can you respec in this game?

 

[sappyday]

Can you respec in this game?

No.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Can you respec in this game?

No but you there's no need to min/max as you can max out everything anyway.

 

[cj_iwakura]

All the voices are great and natural... except Ignis. He sounds like he's laying it on a little thick to me for some reason.

 

[Moaradin]

No.

So is that something I should be worried about or do they give you More AP then you need.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

So is that something I should be worried about or do they give you More AP then you need.

You can get infinite AP

 

[Renmyra]

Anyone get some artifacting while using techs/parries etc? Basically anything that triggers a move. Started happening after about 10+ hours of playing. Not sure if it's the game or my PS4.

 

[Unknown One]

There is an unlimited source of ap practically.

 

[Roussow]

You guys recommend wait mode or not? It seems practical enough, although it really fucks with my flow, so for the majority of my playtime I've disabled it.

 

[Freeman76]

The sound is tinny as fuck in this and the screen looks like vaseline has been smeared all over it. Im playing on 1080p, high mode on PRO. It looks and sounds shit, other games are fine but everyone seems happy with the audio visuals on the game so i dunno wtf is going on.

 

[Kaisos]

Is there a reason my version of the game looks way worse than the screenshots people are posting? I have really really jaggy hair and PS3-level textures in a lot of places.

Also, is there a way to pull the camera out when in the Regalia?

 

[sappyday]

Is there a reason my version of the game looks way worse than the screenshots people are posting? I have really really jaggy hair and PS3-level textures in a lot of places.

Also, is there a way to pull the camera out when in the Regalia?

R1 or L1.

 

[Mister Megative]

Damn you level up way too fast in this game. I'm not even trying to grind and I'm already over levelled. Just ended Chapter 2 and I'm level 20.

You can still get destroyed very easily. Success in battle is faaaaar more dependent on gear and ascension perks. I'm level 23 and a group of lvl 15 enemies or hunts can easily wipe me if I go in not defending and expecting to just wreck everything.

 

[Pyrokai]

This game and Uncharted 4 are really pushing me to get a PS4.

How is everyone liking it?

 

[Silav101]

Also, is there a way to pull the camera out when in the Regalia?

Assuming default controls, iirc L1 would swap through multiple viewpoints.

 

[Loudninja]

Is there a reason my version of the game looks way worse than the screenshots people are posting? I have really really jaggy hair and PS3-level textures in a lot of places.

Also, is there a way to pull the camera out when in the Regalia?

What system are you playing on?

 

[Zafir]

All the voices are great and natural... except Ignis. He sounds like he's laying it on a little thick to me for some reason.

I can't stand Ignis' English voice.

It just sounds like he's trying too hard, yeah. The laughable thing is his voice actor is British, and if he just used his normal voice I think he would have sounded fine. Typical voice direction woes, I guess.

 

[semiconscious]

Kinda ironic how the four bros the thing people complained most about prior to release actually ended up being one of the strongest if not the strongest parts of the game.

is it possible that that's simply a reflection on the relative weakness of everything else about the game? ...

 

[Pyrokai]

Does this game's lip syncing match whatever language they are speaking or does it match the Japanese language syncing?

 

[Vincent Grayson]

is it possible that that's simply a reflection on the relative weakness of everything else about the game? ...

No, because it's a fucking great game.

 

[Disagree Guy]

You can still get destroyed very easily. Success in battle is faaaaar more dependent on gear and ascension perks. I'm level 23 and a group of lvl 15 enemies or hunts can easily wipe me if I go in not defending and expecting to just wreck everything.

Wow man, I've never even been close to getting wiped out even with higher level enemies.

Obviously I ran into a level 40 Coeurl which nearly buggered my day up but I was like level 15 or something.