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Final Fantasy XV |OT| There and back again.

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Renmyra

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There's also a level 72 around there that one shots, I don't think they meant for anyone even near the 40s and 50s to kill that thing. What I did was just spam triangle forward to skip the the enemies. I was 48 when I finished the game and I could kill the packs but it took way too long and way too many potions to do them. You should be fine for the end of the game at 45 or maybe even a bit lower as long as you brought enough potions and elixirs. At 48 the end stuff felt easy, but I did use quite a bit of consumables.

Insomnia felt kind of odd, like they just dropped a few high level enemies there and done. I also encountered a level 83 at the start of chapter 14. Barely touched half his HP with Leviathan, but he died after some magic and blocking.
Considering going into post-game content now. Feel a bit better about the game after sleeping on it.
 

Astral

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Go in at night
The monsters are significantly easier
Except for the Naga.
Which u can hide from



Use beast whistle to summon dogs and warp kill them endlessly

I just beat it. During the day though. The boss was hard as shit and I only one because of Quintacast Blizzara. I feel like I shouldn't be dying so fast. Every enemy kills me in one or two hits.
 
I can't believe it took me 5-6 hours to Post-game spoiler...
complete the Pitioss Dungeon. I ended up using a tutorial because I got stuck but it was really fun and interesting. Level design reminded me a lot of Soulsborne Sen's Fortress and The Castlevania/2D section was pretty neat too.

How do I get the key to open dungeons? I've completed them all.
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Just finished chapter 9. It's hilarious how they cram all this story in when you have literally no idea what's going on with these characters.

Maybe if I spent SOME time with Luna I would've felt differently, but god.

This game is going from mediocre to bad real fast.

I really want to see your reaction to 13, lol.
 
Is Hammerhead beast-whistle farming the best way to earn AP?

All my characters are level 99, I've done pretty much every quest but the last four bonus dungeons, yet I need about 15,000 AP to finish off all the nodes...
 

bryt

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God damn, I'm at 16 hours played and still in Chapter 3. All these sidequests are soo distracting I don't even remember what's going on the story anymore lol.
 
I just beat it. During the day though. The boss was hard as shit and I only one because of Quintacast Blizzara. I feel like I shouldn't be dying so fast. Every enemy kills me in one or two hits.

I'm using control style B (xbox)

I was also getting 2 hit KO'd (still do) but be patient. Next time you see a campsite, do yourself a favor and do the training. You'll learn how and when to block more often. That will save your life big time. If you had it hard in the thicket at your level, it may get slightly harder in the next are. Don't be afraid to let your team finally the heavy work while you hide behind a rock or something to Regen.
 

Astral

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I'm using control style B (xbox)

I was also getting 2 hit KO'd (still do) but be patient. Next time you see a campsite, do yourself a favor and do the training. You'll learn how and when to block more often. That will save your life big time. If you had it hard in the thicket at your level, it may get slightly harder in the next are. Don't be afraid to let your team finally the heavy work while you hide behind a rock or something to Regen.

Good to know it's supposed to be hard. My allies get two shot too lol. I am kind of underleveled though. I'm level 32 and that was a level 35 dungeon with a level 38 boss.
 
I have only put in about 12 hours so far but I'm only on chapter 3 still, just been exploring and doing side quests for the most part.

Really enjoying the game so far, fetch quests don't bother me so far as it helps to explore new areas and come across battles. I like how sometimes you see some low level monsters and think 'i will take them on, no problem ' then during the Battle a bigger enemy will turn up, then a bunch of soldiers too so it feels frantic and really forces you to play well to avoid getting swamped.

Looking forward to putting more time into it.
 

Dominator

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Can I put my PS4 on standby during Adamantoise? I'm so tired and he's only halfway down, but if I don't finish it now I don't think I ever will.
 

Tubie

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Insomnia felt kind of odd, like they just dropped a few high level enemies there and done. I also encountered a level 83 at the start of chapter 14. Barely touched half his HP with Leviathan, but he died after some magic and blocking.
Considering going into post-game content now. Feel a bit better about the game after sleeping on it.

I'm gonna do that too, take some time off then touch post-game and see how I feel about the game.
 

Falk

that puzzling face
Is Hammerhead beast-whistle farming the best way to earn AP?

All my characters are level 99, I've done pretty much every quest but the last four bonus dungeons, yet I need about 15,000 AP to finish off all the nodes...

It probably is. I think it tops out at around 15AP/min? That's a long-ass grind.
 

JBwB

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Finally reached Altissia and boy is she a looker. The ride over was pretty awesome.

I bought 1000 medals to get me started in Totomostro. Now I currently have over 150,000 medals haha. Hoping to get most of the items from the shop.
 
Beginning of Chapter 8 now. When can I buy better weapons? I've been using Drain Lance and Ultima Blade for the last 10 hours.
I didn't upgrade my Engine Blade I till Chapter 11 but that's what I was using lol. Quickly upgraded it to Ultima Blade at that point and used that for the rest of the game. Shops never seemed to have anything good so I barely bought anything from them.
 

LotusHD

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Is Hammerhead beast-whistle farming the best way to earn AP?

All my characters are level 99, I've done pretty much every quest but the last four bonus dungeons, yet I need about 15,000 AP to finish off all the nodes...

Lol, I like this game and all, but there's no way on earth that I'd bother to do all of that. Just been using my save files to figure out what I should and should not bother getting, barring the 999 skills which I currently don't have the space for.

Probably won't get Impervious for example, but I'm basically gonna max out the entire Teamwork tree.
 

Splinter

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I'm level 21, about 20 hours in, I think chapter 5.. But without the Day 1 patch. If I download it will it potentially kill my save?

What's in the patch anyway, that I would notice? 8 gigs seems massive for an update.
 

Phil Fish

Banned
Just got 3 million EXP using the 3.0x exp multiplier in Chapter 9. Now everyone is level 99. I was pumped to finally proceed through the story until I read about SE's plans to patch the story mode for adjustments, etc. I think I'll just set this aside until that patch releases.
 

DeaDPo0L84

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Just beat it, overall it ended on a high note for me but im more confused than anything. Game really felt like it was broken into four different pieces with four different developers and then they just stitched it all together. My biggest complaint is that I love the world, the characters, and what little story is there had a ton of potential but it just never quite hit that high note. I'm just happy that it seems the ending was at the least done properly.
 

Jiraiza

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Midair battle? I had none of that lol. She just fought me on the ground just now and occasionally leaped into the air to Jump me.

Yeah, it was super cool. Once she leaped into the air, I'd follow with a warp strike. She'd either jump up higher or move sideways in the air and I'd keep following her with the warp strike.

Shit was exciting. I felt like this was the first fight where the combat really clicked, and warp strikes made sense. Camera was super wonky, but that was part of the fun.
 

Gorger

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Having attack on circle and dodge on square is completely messing with my brain and ruining combat for me. Why the hell couldn't they just add an option to revert those two buttons? It's an universal fact that attack should be square and dodge is circle. The other premade keysetups only partly fixes the problem, but creates new ones by putting dodge on L1 etc... It's really ruining the flow of the combat when I play.
 

JBwB

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I find it hilarious that Chapter 9 is either the best thing ever, or the worst thing ever. I'm so confused.

Haven't played it yet, btw.

It was ambitious as fuck that's for sure. But yeah I can certainly see why some would think it's the worst thing ever. So many things can go wrong to potentially ruin the experience.

That was an awesome section of the game, at least for me. YMMV.
 
I really loved this game, even with its problems.
I can see why they would add some cutscenes, because this game needs them, but that's probably sending the wrong message to the players who bought it day one. I'm ok with it, I'll play this again when New game+ is out and even when these new patches will be out.
I think that the story of this game is ok, not a mess, but it really is explained bad (it makes more sense if you play from Noctis point of view and not from the player's one, but yeah, that's not how things work probably).
Overall I found the combat great, the world beautiful, the OST amazing, the characters great too. The ending was one of the best I have ever experienced in videogames
I never cryed so much for a videogame. I was so weak and emotional during the ending lol
This is my year's GOTY (I didn't play TLG yet so who knows), and same level of Bloodborne for GOTG. I know there are better games out there, but I enjoyed so much my time with this game and everytime I wasn't at home, I felt like I needed to go home and switch on my PS4.
Sorry for the long post.
 

SoulUnison

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Do I have to do something to make the Yojimbo hunt appear?
It's midnight, I've walked all over the "Quest Area" and sat on top of the "enemy icon" on the map for a while, but he's just not showing up.
The music is tense and the characters are tiptoeing like there's an enemy around, though.

EDIT: Yeah, I just YouTubed it. I'm definitely standing int he exact right spot at the right time with the right Hunt/Quest.
This is the same glitch that was in Judgement Disc, where the Bandersnatch wouldn't spawn, I guess.

Cool.
 
Here's why I didn't like Chapter 9

- Discovering that Altissia was the size of a Graham Cracker.
- A terrible boss fight that boils down to using warp strike over and over and then turning super saiyan and holding circle.
- Luna who was already a shitty character with barely any plot development getting offed like I was gonna give a fuck.
- The entire game was building up to that throwaway ass chapter

I'd like to reiterate that the
Leviathan fight is garbage
 
In chapter two and loving my time with the game so far. One question though, should I be hoarding treasures or selling them off? I'm not hurting for gil but I guess you can use those to buff spells? I think I made a level 50+ spell with a pepper although I could totally be mistaken.
 

Floody

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Do I have to do something to make the Yojimbo hunt appear?
It's midnight, I've walked all over the "Quest Area" and sat on top of the "enemy icon" on the map for a while, but he's just not showing up.
The music is tense and the characters are tiptoeing like there's an enemy around, though.

EDIT: Yeah, I just YouTubed it. I'm definitely standing int he exact right spot at the right time with the right Hunt/Quest.
This is the same glitch that was in Judgement Disc, where the Bandersnatch wouldn't spawn, I guess.

Cool.

Is your car near by? If so teleport to it and see if it spawns him when you return.
 
I don't know what Costlemark Tower is more of a test of. My skill, my inventory, or my patience.

Was glitched out near the end and had to go through all those fights in the labyrinth again, and now I've beaten the boss I've not got a sword and it's still telling me to defeat the monster in the innermost sanctum.

Glitched, or something I'm missing?
 

Ourobolus

Banned
I don't know what Costlemark Tower is more of a test of. My skill, my inventory, or my patience.

Was glitched out near the end and had to go through all those fights in the labyrinth again, and now I've beaten the boss I've not got a sword and it's still telling me to defeat the monster in the innermost sanctum.

Glitched, or something I'm missing?
Did you fight the
Jabberwock?
 
Currently in Chapter 5 (with 55 hours played RIP)...

This question is about other characters joining the party:
In which chapter does Iris join your party?
Also when this happens, are you free to free-roam and take on a bunch of side quests?
 

katagai

Member
I'm getting my arse kicked on the Necromancer hunt! What's the best way to deal with these things?

I had to rely heavily on magic for this particular fight, so get some strong spells and use them as often as possible. Just try your best to dodge roll away from the green mist they spray out, pretty sure that's what can cause the insta-kill.
 
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