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Impervious, Unlimited Airdance, Air Dodge, plus Osmostrike, the one where you recover MP doing air strikes, all of which in the Combat tree.
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Final Fantasy XV |OT2| For Jared!
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Impervious, Unlimited Airdance, Air Dodge, plus Osmostrike, the one where you recover MP doing air strikes, all of which in the Combat tree.
BumblebeeCody
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It was in the first demo too.
Just completed the game. 80 hours in, taking my time and beat it at 65 or normal. Phenomenal game! Lived up to my expectation.
Imp the Dimp
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Go the plat yesterday. I'm so good.
spazchicken
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I'm enjoying the combat more than I thought I would but yeah, what's the point? It's a bad Devil May Cry at best.
And what's the point of magic when it wrecks EVERYBODY including you and your crew? Is there something later on that changes this?
What I think it's that the bros should probably not die, and work like the other NPCs that join you. In turn, limit the amount of items.
The difficulty balance is a mess, story is easy but now a lot of shit just one shoots you no matter what, so you spend half a battle just in the item menu mass-healing your bros every 10 seconds, and it just encourages you to just ignore them and fight solo.
The difficulty balance is a mess, story is easy but now a lot of shit just one shoots you no matter what, so you spend half a battle just in the item menu mass-healing your bros every 10 seconds, and it just encourages you to just ignore them and fight solo.
thefragrance
Member
Will try for sure
CielTynave
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Whoever thought it was a good idea to put 4 of those bombs that explode into smaller bombs all in the same room, and multiple times in a row, needs to be punched.
Prompto: *sings victory anthem*
Gladio: "You're really pumped up, aren't you?" *laughs*
Was there more? I also played with German subtitles, so the translation might be a little off.
You can't defend how they force you to move at baby crawling speed. It was fucking agonising.
I also play with German subtitles, but I have they didn't translate exactly what they said
donkey show
Member
I really wanted to cockpunch the person who designed that encounter... it's objectively worse than the
Red Giants/Naga/1 billion Flans room.
DirgeExtinction
Member
While it wasn't as fast as the open world sprinting, it was definitely faster than plain walking. It's the "you're in a town" run. Alternatively, I think you could do the jump the whole way through, which is usually faster than sprinting anyway.
Put a bit more time in last night, got to Chapter 8. Really enjoyed chapter 7 even though it was short.
What the hell is going on at the start of CH8 though? Like what a complete clusterfcuk of weirdness. All of a sudden I'm dropped off and thrown in to a power plant in a boiler suit alone, Gladio is up ahead to be re-united with Noct after randomly leaving (what sort of bodyguard does that!?) Best bit is that Noctis doesn't recognise his voice? WHAT!? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? Kill random enemies for a minute then go back outside and you get the Mythril thing... what!? why!? did i miss something? or is what I should expect more of going forward?
They do recognize each other
For me there's just too many WTF moments (one of which being my post above in the spoiler tag, spoilers are for chapter 8). I just can't compare the story of this game with the way FF7,8,9 and 10 were written. It's so obvious they decided to make the writing secondary to the open world.
It's pretty obvious they recognize each other immediately and are joking around. I found that to be pretty charming honestly.
Yep, they recognize each other and are playing with one another. Pretty obvious imo.
Something really satisfying to do during combat is using the lance to start the backstep + charge attack, but change to daggers during the backstep, so it'll place you in the range to initiate the dropkick attack without having to keep throwing them until you're positioned.
Costlemark is the ruins of something built by Solheim. They seem to be one of these "ancient civilization with advanced tech" guys, so it's most likely automated. The glyphs you find on the walls and floors of Costlemark are the same you find in the entrance to the sealed dungeons, so I'm assuming they built those as well.
Since the dungeons are full of daemons, maybe they were trying to lock them up? I wonder if the inhabitants of Solheim themselves stayed there as well. Could be the way they dealt with the Scourge at the time.
I hope there's more information on Solheim in the game, for now I'm assuming they were the ones who fought the Astral War with the gods.
Thank you. I'm enjoying the focus on the main narrative so far, but it's great to know that the pace will go back to being more similar to Chapter 3 before I go for the final linear stretch.
Costlemark is the ruins of something built by Solheim. They seem to be one of these "ancient civilization with advanced tech" guys, so it's most likely automated. The glyphs you find on the walls and floors of Costlemark are the same you find in the entrance to the sealed dungeons, so I'm assuming they built those as well.
Since the dungeons are full of daemons, maybe they were trying to lock them up? I wonder if the inhabitants of Solheim themselves stayed there as well. Could be the way they dealt with the Scourge at the time.
I hope there's more information on Solheim in the game, for now I'm assuming they were the ones who fought the Astral War with the gods.
Thank you. I'm enjoying the focus on the main narrative so far, but it's great to know that the pace will go back to being more similar to Chapter 3 before I go for the final linear stretch.
If you dodge certain attacks so will your bros, some are unavoidable but the less Noct takes damage the less your team will. an example being the Adamantoise foot swipe and the Coeurl aoe. If you dodge these then anyone within range will too. It's not always consistant, but it seems to work the majority of the time.
Also time techs and Armiger to abuse invincible frames.
Also make sure you invest in the teamwork and tech trees. Unlock 2x accessories asap.
I'm almost never needing to baby sit them.
Are you talking about a sealed dungeon, or Costlemark dungeon?
Because that was like the second room in Costlemark dungeon, and dear god that sucked. Cheesed that fight so hard.
Finally started my playthrough.
I'm just over 3 hours in and my guys just hit level 10. I love just running around and exploring, randomly happening across as group of enemies and warp-striking in to start the battle. I found a cave with a bunch of doors in it and then some weird boss at the end that kept using electric attacks, put that thing to rest. Then some tomb at the end - couldn't get in there so no idea.
Still just doing he hunts and exploring this starting area, I don't plan on moving on anymore for a little while yet.
I'm just over 3 hours in and my guys just hit level 10. I love just running around and exploring, randomly happening across as group of enemies and warp-striking in to start the battle. I found a cave with a bunch of doors in it and then some weird boss at the end that kept using electric attacks, put that thing to rest. Then some tomb at the end - couldn't get in there so no idea.
Still just doing he hunts and exploring this starting area, I don't plan on moving on anymore for a little while yet.
Really? I was fighting the yodas and the bull after that quest and while I more or less managed to survive (well, the yodas were rough as fuck but the bull was manageable) the bros just keep dying over and over.
I have 2 acccesories, I should really farm AP for limit breaks and maybe 3 accesories (and I wonder if the 10VIT points per level too).
Chapter 8 is the one that adds a lot of freedom (and it's just before the lineal half part), even more than 3. Ch.7 is pretty lineal, but I think you'll like it
Imp the Dimp
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Chapter 8 was super bad and entirely detached from everything else in the game. The funniest thing is
Gladio's disappearence never gets resolved. You'll never find out what the fuck he did and how he got his scars lmao. They'll never lose a word about this thing again in the game.
CielTynave
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Costlemark, I haven't even gotten any of the sealed dungeons open lol.
And fortunately, I managed to luck out and not have to do the 2 Red Giant + Naga room and was able to go straight to the boss. All I have let to do with as far as trophies are concerned are three of Cookin/Survival/Fishing ones and the
Adamantoise
Might end up getting the Season Pass for this and Hollow Realization too, both games I got a good 50+ hours out of from last month.
I think it was always intended for characters ters to have their own episodes, so the fact he leaves and returns itswlf is absolutely fine imo. We will fill his adventure in later.
The issue is how abrupt it is, and how against character it is for Gladio who takes his duties hyper seriously. They should have made his removal from the group forced like
Prompto's
Chapter 8 is the one that adds a lot of freedom (and it's just before the lineal half part), even more than 3. Ch.7 is pretty lineal, but I think you'll like it
You're not the first person to tell me I'm gonna love Chapter 7, very curious to know why. There must be a Noct X Prompto kiss.
And I definitely enjoy the linear stretches as well. In Chapter 3, the moment you go down those stairs to get to the ice cave, it's a linear stretch to the end of it. Passing through the Midgardsormr and everything, I loved that. I really really enjoy those linear portions of the game, and that they're not accessible from any angle in the open world.
Haunted
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gotta sell you that season pass/DLC somehow
I was so attached to him, that i skipped his scene before waterfall cave because I saw it on a stream.
You aren't looking forward to Episode Jared? You have no heart.
I find activating chain at the last moment is the best DPS. Since it pulls of many hits of 9999 at my level. I didn't really notice it doing any more damage at lower levels either, with a fuller bar.
also, make sure you unleash the finisher when all bros are alive, for the best damage, also the animation is extended.
if you do it with 1 of the bros dead/red hp, it will do a short version.
Slackbladder
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Definitely having issues with the hunts. Nothing ever turns up. Even hunts where the mark is always there day or night - nothing. And why are some coloured red? They still show on the map with the area etc. Anyway, tried 3 different hunts multiple times and nothing. There are some nasty bugs in this game if that's what's causing this to happen.
donkey show
Member
I've always had to reload to get it working when that happens.
There shouldn't be anything preventing you from re-entering that dungeon after you've beat it. Just keep sliding down until you can't slide no more and the hunt should activate.
PuppetMaster
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I killed
Adamantoise
Oh it's actually IN the dungeon! Thanks!
Is it explained how to do this in the game? :O
So you mean while I have the full bar with Noctis and I activate with L1+R1 I can do something better than just keep O pressed?
Can You explain please? Could be of help to end quicker the Adamanthar fight later...
Slackbladder
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Typical. Well, guess I'll have another bash then.
It's basically armigar finisher, you have the full bar which begins to deplete, at any point you can press R1+L1 to do armigar finisher
Basically, activate armiger, and anytime during when it's active you can press R1-L1 again and pull off a automatic chained combo finisher with all your weapons, if your bros are alive they also join in with their own little armiger. I find it best to do it just before the bar runs out.
like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_lTatnDMc
Damn, why I always miss these important things while I play games... -_-'
Thx! I will try after work!
EDIT:
Thx Kamitechi too.
HeartlessNobody213
Member
Got the platinum yesterday. At level 99 with the team at level 98. Going to do some more hunts and take a break before I take on the sealed dungeons.
Yeah the game has some flaws, but overall it's easily my favorite Final Fantasy game.
Yeah the game has some flaws, but overall it's easily my favorite Final Fantasy game.
Trojita
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I would have never guessed he was the families' butler when I met him in Lestallum.
I have such weird feelings about this game. I literally have never liked a shit game so much. So much of me is telling me the game is shit.
The characters, the story, the tone of the game, the quests, the dungeons are all mediocre to awful so far. The dungeons and quests especially are PS2 tier design.
The combat feels 25% great 50 % middling and 25% broken. I have played over 20 hours and am level 40 and have never come close to dying, even when going into an army base 15 levels above me.
But here I am and Im having a great time, and I really dont understand it! Is it like watching a car crash? I really dont know.
The characters, the story, the tone of the game, the quests, the dungeons are all mediocre to awful so far. The dungeons and quests especially are PS2 tier design.
The combat feels 25% great 50 % middling and 25% broken. I have played over 20 hours and am level 40 and have never come close to dying, even when going into an army base 15 levels above me.
But here I am and Im having a great time, and I really dont understand it! Is it like watching a car crash? I really dont know.
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