Start of Chapter 4 about 7 hours in. I'm enjoying it but my expectations were lower after the 10 year development cycle and following the game until release. Light story and while the soundtrack is great so far the soundtrack is pretty light. Valse di Fantastica should automatically play as soon as I step out of a city/town.
Battle system so far is just button mashing for me. I'm at Level 18 and like the Ascension system but I have not summoned or used any magic thus far. Haven't really played any of the tutorials so hopefully it gets explained somewhere in the game.
exactly me, not about to give up 100% of my bandwidth for the rest of the night so I can get to play the game for 30 minutes before I go to bed. I'll just download it while I sleep.
As soon as i read about the updates I got on the phone to the wife early yesterday morning (was at work) and told her to put the disc in the ps4 so it can update. I swear day one updates are getting bigger with each game.
Enjoying the game a fair bit, but oh god is there some way to get Prompto to shut his stupid clown mouth? I guess later on when shit gets down he'll calm a bit, but man.. when he singed the battle win melody it was so bad.
Also as some people have said already, playing with Japanese voice and English subtitles/text is so distracting. I ignore the subs for the conversations now since they are way too different.
Some of these hunt mobs are insanely tougher than standard shit in the wild. Like I took down level 15s at level 5.....but just got almost 1 shorted by a level 5 hunt mob at level 13 lol
that feeling when you have two UPS packages scheduled for delivery... one contains FFXV... by some dark power one arrives, the other gets rescheduled for tomorrow... and it's the one with FFXV. How even!~?
You can always count on UPS to deliver quality fuckery. I've had shit go out for delivery in cities in the wrong state before, and had customer service say, "well maybe that's your closest distribution center." Like somehow it makes sense for packages to be put on a delivery truck 500 miles away from the destination. Fuck UPS.
Enjoying the game a fair bit, but oh god is there some way to get Prompto to shut his stupid clown mouth? I guess later on when shit gets down he'll calm a bit, but man.. when he singed the battle win melody it was so bad.
Also as some people have said already, playing with Japanese voice and English subtitles/text is so distracting. I ignore the subs for the conversations now since they are way too different.
The contrast is lower in HQ mode. Ambient occlusion shading is also applied to the HQ version, which softens everything but also feels more 3dimensional.
The texture filtering is probably one of the most apparent improvements in HQ mode. On your images you can't really see it, because you view them directly from above, but if there's a flatter angle to it:
Okay... seriously... what the fuck am I doing wrong?!
I would love some help here.
I'm at the very beginning of Chapter 3. I'm level 12. I have played a small handful of side quests. I have fought most the enemies I've encountered in the day... but definitely not going out of my way to fight anything or gain EXP.
So, we get to the gas station and Prompto is all like, hey, lets go ride a Choccobo!
I have the option to agree. I drive down there, and I'm basically told to do a hunt. Well, the hunt it recommends is for level 15... there's a level 13 before that called "Red in Tooth and Claw."
I've attempted it four times now, and am getting absolutely ass fucked.
This combat system makes zero sense to me.
I'm trying to warp from a distance for more damage. I've used the Ascension system for some extra HP and have equipped some rings for small stat boosts. I've tried using magic.
Otherwise, I basically hold Circle for auto attack and try to hit square and hold when I can for a dodge/parry.
There's like 8 of these fuckers attacking me, and I have yet to kill even one.
I'm at a loss.
And earlier in the game, with the
giant mech that made absolutely zero sense story wise and was horribly cobbled together in a cutscene
, I basically button-mashed my way to a win.
Should I be having this kind of trouble? What can I be doing differently? Am I somehow under leveled? Is there a tactic I'm completely ignorant to?
I find it cool how the music transitions between activities, when entering and leaving shops in Hammerhead to riding Chocobos and going slow it's a really nice touch.
Okay... seriously... what the fuck am I doing wrong?!
I would love some help here.
I'm at the very beginning of Chapter 3. I'm level 12. I have played a small handful of side quests. I have fought most the enemies I've encountered in the day... but definitely not going out of my way to fight anything or gain EXP.
So, we get to the gas station and Prompto is all like, hey, lets go ride a Choccobo!
I have the option to agree. I drive down there, and I'm basically told to do a hunt. Well, the hunt it recommends is for level 15... there's a level 13 before that called "Red in Tooth and Claw."
I've attempted it four times now, and am getting absolutely ass fucked.
This combat system makes zero sense to me.
I'm trying to warp from a distance for more damage. I've used the Ascension system for some extra HP and have equipped some rings for small stat boosts. I've tried using magic.
Otherwise, I basically hold Circle for auto attack and try to hit square and hold when I can for a dodge/parry.
There's like 8 of these fuckers attacking me, and I have yet to kill even one.
I'm at a loss.
And earlier in the game, with the
giant mech that made absolutely zero sense story wise and was horribly cobbled together in a cutscene
, I basically button-mashed my way to a win.
Should I be having this kind of trouble? What can I be doing differently? Am I somehow under leveled? Is there a tactic I'm completely ignorant to?
I've not ever gone fishing but I imagine it to be as boring as this stupid minigame. Tried for at least 20 minutes with to get only a snapped line and one less lure.
Think of night early game like Dragon's Dogma x10 in the danger element. Aka you don't want to go out at night early on. I'm lvl 13 and night still scares me shitless.
Finally opened my copy and that reversable cover is pretty cool and I had seen the note inside, but it's a really nice touch when you see it in person.
That said, this is actually not the behemoth quest. It's the one right before it.
I'd really like to get a more firm grasp on the combat itself, rather than skirting by the skin of my teeth.
For my companions' abilities - those are the L1 items, right? Can someone explain in more detail what they are - how they become available? Why does it seem to give me player control for the other guys when I select these?
Okay... seriously... what the fuck am I doing wrong?!
I would love some help here.
I'm at the very beginning of Chapter 3. I'm level 12. I have played a small handful of side quests. I have fought most the enemies I've encountered in the day... but definitely not going out of my way to fight anything or gain EXP.
So, we get to the gas station and Prompto is all like, hey, lets go ride a Choccobo!
I have the option to agree. I drive down there, and I'm basically told to do a hunt. Well, the hunt it recommends is for level 15... there's a level 13 before that called "Red in Tooth and Claw."
I've attempted it four times now, and am getting absolutely ass fucked.
This combat system makes zero sense to me.
I'm trying to warp from a distance for more damage. I've used the Ascension system for some extra HP and have equipped some rings for small stat boosts. I've tried using magic.
Otherwise, I basically hold Circle for auto attack and try to hit square and hold when I can for a dodge/parry.
There's like 8 of these fuckers attacking me, and I have yet to kill even one.
I'm at a loss.
And earlier in the game, with the
giant mech that made absolutely zero sense story wise and was horribly cobbled together in a cutscene
, I basically button-mashed my way to a win.
Should I be having this kind of trouble? What can I be doing differently? Am I somehow under leveled? Is there a tactic I'm completely ignorant to?
I always make sure to have Ignis use scan/Libra the enemies. That determines what weapons and magic they are most vulnerable to. Also, potions, elixirs, hi-elixirs etc. are your friend, use them liberally. Be on the lookout for attacks you can parry for extra damage and you should be good. May take a bit to get used to weaving in all that, but you'll get it
I've not ever gone fishing but I imagine it to be as boring as this stupid minigame. Tried for at least 20 minutes with to get only a snapped line and one less lure.
I've not ever gone fishing but I imagine it to be as boring as this stupid minigame. Tried for at least 20 minutes with to get only a snapped line and one less lure.
That said, this is actually not the behemoth quest. It's the one right before it.
I'd really like to get a more firm grasp on the combat itself, rather than skirting by the skin of my teeth.
For my companions' abilities - those are the L1 items, right? Can someone explain in more detail what they are - how they become available? Why does it seem to give me player control for the other guys when I select these?
You can learn new abilities from them in ascension grid. You choose them from the gear menu and there will be descriptions of what they do there.
You don't have control, it's just focusing the camera on them and there's a follow up quick time event for some of them where you can make Noct do a follow up attack.
I just finished Chapter 2 on lvl 16. definitely feeling over-leveled.
digging the game so far. except:
- side quests are tedious fetch quests. Cindy literally said "go fetch me a..." before the last one. side quests in the old FFs felt like unique experiences with cool rewards, these do not. -___-
- the music isn't even bad, it's just hardly there. the first FF game where you can turn off voice acting and keep on music... and there's no music worth listening to -__-
also, I didn't like the idea of having to watch Kingsglaive and Brotherhood upfront to get the story, but I'm glad I did, and it kind of worked. I gave a shit about these characters before the game started. never experienced that before.
