This is the best guide to do everything step by step
http://www.trueachievements.com/Lightning-Returns-Final-Fantasy-13/walkthrough.htm?page=1
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Lightning Returns: FINAL FANTASY XIII PC |OT| Light Eternal
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This is the best guide to do everything step by step
http://www.trueachievements.com/Lightning-Returns-Final-Fantasy-13/walkthrough.htm?page=1
I hope so. I would love to hear his opinion about why SQEX locked the resolution.
She doesn't need belly button
She is a goddess.
I specifically installed goddess returns to test if the 13 and 13-2 problem with xbone controller was there, and good news, controller works great.
Also in case you didn't know, in 13 and 13-2, if you push LT several times when you get stuck in those menus, it will eventually recover. Sounds nuts I know, but it works. It makes me wonder if someone knowledgeable would be able to take a look at what's happening and fix it with a mod or something.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
How do you get the DLC costumes?, I only have the ones from XIII and XIII-2, shouldn't be there once I start the game?
The side-quests system is simply AWFUL. You have no way to know where and WHEN a side will appear, so you are FORCED to visit every city during different times just to grab a side. I also hate the multi-step sides, like "Ehy, you need to kill that Omega dude and all mini- monsters" from the Fortune Teller...yeah, but WHERE can I find this monster? No clue. This is the classic example, like SE is used to do nowdays, to a game which NEEDS a guide to be completed. I still remember FFVII and VIII, there were still things you need to figure out by your own (and without a guide was almost impossible to do, like the materia dropped by the pirate ship in VII if you used transform command on it, or the quest with talking stones in FFVIII), but those titles can be pretty much complete for a 90% by your own.
Here it's not possible or...it's possible if you spend the entire day running around each city from the scratch in order to find quest givers. But even by doing so, it's not always clear what you need to do/where you need to go in order to solve them.
Anyway this is, by far, the best FFXIII game, no doubt. Even if the plot is still dumb and non-existent, characters are awfully written etc, at least the main missions are not boring like XIII or XIII-2.
You need to "activate" DLCs from the main menu, than reboot the game, than from the game menu you need to purchase those items from the Reward section of the menu for 0 guil.
Here it's not possible or...it's possible if you spend the entire day running around each city from the scratch in order to find quest givers. But even by doing so, it's not always clear what you need to do/where you need to go in order to solve them.
Anyway this is, by far, the best FFXIII game, no doubt. Even if the plot is still dumb and non-existent, characters are awfully written etc, at least the main missions are not boring like XIII or XIII-2.
You need to "activate" DLCs from the main menu, than reboot the game, than from the game menu you need to purchase those items from the Reward section of the menu for 0 guil.
I don't know why they did not, and I have ported some PC games before.
For a game to support arbitrary resolution in the code, just make your render target resolution proportional to the screen resolution, and make all UI and post-processing resolution aware.
It takes a bit of time but very much doable.
It is even more inexcusable in the case here since it already supports multiple resolution (with some different from the console version). That means the bulk of work supporting arbitrary resolution was already done.
Hmm, this guide recommends the 1st playthrough to be set on easy, should I start a new save? I'm only 7 hours in so far (normal difficulty).
Well, technically that opinion would have been for Tecmo Koei and the engine they use.
Squenix most likely had nothing to do with the game or port itself. Just like Namco Bandai had nothing to do with the One Piece one.
I actually disagree that it's the side quests that are the problem. The side quests are perfectly fine, and would be alright, if it wasn't for the stupid time limit. Xenoblade Chronicles managed to do a system where you can only pick up quests at a certain time of day and so on, and I think it makes the world feel more alive, as the characters feel like they have schedules and stuff. However, how Xenoblade made it not annoying was that you can change the time anywhere, and there's no time limit.
The time limit inhibits your ability to explore to a certain extent, it goes directly against the fact you have to explore to find and do certain quests.
That's more like his opinion about the lock, and I agree with him. I'd like however to know why Square would make such a weird choice after making a good port like LR:FFXIII.
Well no one is going to be able to give you the diffinative answer you're looking for bar the team responsible for bringing it to PC but it's pretty obvious that it's a combination of a different team than what brought FF XIII/XIII-2 over and by how trivial it was to get the game rendering at any resolution you want via memory editing that it's more to do with inexperience of the platform and ignorance of what is expected than any issues of doing so. As I've said in the past if you took 30 mins to and hour to explain to one of their graphics engineers how Windows knows every resolution you system supports, show them one of the process of how you can query this so they let the users system decided on rendering resolutions rather than plucking figures out of a hat then these issues shouldn't happen ever again. Resolution is the ultimate scalability setting and not to support it fully is crazy, even more so when there are so many common resolution less than 1920x1080 most of these resolution locked game don't cater for at all. The fact 1280x720 crops up every time but not 1680x1050 shows a lack of experience and knowledge of common display resolutions used with PCs for the last decade.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
The time limit plus the arbitrary limits of what areas you can explore in differents times of day plus the restrictions of when you can get certain quests makes for one of the most fucked up side quests systems ever designed.
I think I'll just downright play it with a guide.
Thanks, turns out that the option in the menu on my language is reversed. "No" means "Yes", lol.
I think I'll just downright play it with a guide.
Thanks, turns out that the option in the menu on my language is reversed. "No" means "Yes", lol.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
They removed Lightning's message from the game. I'm so disappointed.
I got to Luxerion and didn't even noticed until recent.
What it is:
They were connected to the Outerworld Service, but there was no reason to remove the text that pops up during the quests. They could of just left that part and not have the Summit feature.
I wanted to takes proper screens of each message and now I can't.
I took some pics from the PS3 demo to show first timers what I mean:
There are tons of these. From serious to humorous. They were a fun interesting read like the datalog.
I got to Luxerion and didn't even noticed until recent.
What it is:
They were connected to the Outerworld Service, but there was no reason to remove the text that pops up during the quests. They could of just left that part and not have the Summit feature.
I wanted to takes proper screens of each message and now I can't.
I took some pics from the PS3 demo to show first timers what I mean:
There are tons of these. From serious to humorous. They were a fun interesting read like the datalog.
Game can take some AO too. comparison after adding it from reshade ( with other stuff ), look mostly at the feathers.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/154298
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/154298
it doesnt automatically change it, you have to go to options, controller type on screen and choose the pad for it to show.
artsi
Member
Well, all resolutions (in 16:9 at least) work, but someone just forgot to include the menu options for over 1080p.
It should be something super simple to patch so hopefully they will, and I don't have to fire up cheat engine every time I boot the game.
Thank you!
change it in the options to show gamepad buttons
I doubt they just forgot to add them, they said multiple times in the game description that the game supported a maximum resolution of 1080p.
Muskieratboi
Member
Update on that FPS thing from before: I was outputting via HDMI to my 40 inch TV while i was having the issue. Decided to try just going through the Laptop LCD instead, and boom, 1080p60. Couple drops to 30 in Luxerion and Yusnaan, but never in combat.
There was some kinda rumor about the game dropping to 30 because of EDID reporting, right? Guess this confirms it?
There was some kinda rumor about the game dropping to 30 because of EDID reporting, right? Guess this confirms it?
artsi
Member
Yeah but it's clearly not a technical issue on the engine side as I can switch resolutions in a few minutes by modifying simple variables, so whoever decided that options only up to 1080p is fine seems just ignorant of what PC gamers use these days.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Is the Cheat Engine method the only way to run the game higher than 1080p right now?
I'm pretty sure they're still on the loading screens when you're loading up a save, unless my memory's playing tricks on my and those are a different thing.
Kind of a pain if you want to see them all though (since you'd have to reload the save every time you progress a quest). I wish they were more visible.
Rising_Hei
Member
I liked 13, "digged" XIII-2, but this becomes unbeareable. And the production values are so damn bad. Also, Hope's codec calls are so annoying and you can't turn him off -_-
This is my favorite game of the 13 trilogy.
Garrett Hawke
Member
How big is the DL?
~20gig.
Not very long. Honestly the game is extremely quick if you don't care about perfect leveling your abilities. If you want perfect abilities for every ability then that will take a long time but it's incredibly pointless because the game is so damn easy even if you don't lower the atb cost at all or power the spells up to max.
If you just play the game, killing whatever is in your way, to complete the game and quests then it's very quick. Over 90% of the power up side quests are very fast to do.
Doing the main quests is very quick, far too quick imo.
Game is far too easy for my liking. There's no challenge whatsoever to this game.
Download is about 14GB, 20GB once installed.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Ah ok thanks
was thinking I might DL it on the Windows side of my Intel HD 4000 MBP but considering I have a data cap here I'll just wait till I get home and play it on my proper PC. You can modify the executable to replace the resolutions to what you want. Still misses the depth of field resolution and you would be overwriting one resolution for another so not as flexible as using Cheat Engine but if you wanted to replace 1920x1080 with 3840x2160 and fire and forget then it will work.
Regards to scaling, you'd need to select Full Screen as you Display Type and Scale Display Area to Standard to get bilinear scaling (as you get with DSR) but screen shots would only be at your deskto presolution and already resampled. If you wanted full resolution screen shots you'd need to set you desktop resolution to 3840x2160 for example and then you'd get raw, unaltered captures.
Couple of examples bellow.
5120x2160 rendering res resampled in game to 2560x2160 said:
These were both captured using a modified executable replacing 1920x1080 with 5120x2160. On a 2560x2160 monitor or less at 100% zoom you shouldn't be able to tell the difference. End of the day none of this is ideal and SE should have enumerated resolutions via Windows and handed this off the game and then none of this trivial fucking about would be necessary.5120x2160 rendering res captured as full resolution with no resampling said:
Uses a horrible resampling implementation that looks suspiciously like nearest neighbour.
KainXVIII
Member
Strange indeed.
artsi
Member
I feel they mixed up standard and advanced. Though I also think the "advanced" one should not even exist.
Played a lot during the weekend, finished all main quests and now I lost interest. The first time I played through the game this happened too, but that time I wanted to see what happened so I kept playing, this time not so much. All in all I feel like the game lacks meaningful content to last 14 days, but is still very fun up until you do all main quests, which may happen sooner or later depending on your play style. In my case I'm on day 6 with all main quests done and about 30 side quests and Canvas of Prayers quests each.
The combat is great of course, and the general smoothness of it on PC is even better, but there's only so much that can do to keep me interested at least, specially having already played through this once.
One thing I realised now is how Caius and Yeul serve basically as plot devices despite having potential for far more interesting development than Lightning's internal feeling of being hollow and half-human half-god.
Yesterday I read about how the Yeuls get a bit more exposure on the novellas released before and after both FFXIII-2 and LR, but I feel like that should have been in the game.
The XIII trilogy really had potential for greatness, and while it achieves some really great stuff in some areas like the audio department, the story is really just a bunch of undercooked ideas thrown together, specially the things introduced in XIII-2 and LR.
I hope we see Yeul again though.
The combat is great of course, and the general smoothness of it on PC is even better, but there's only so much that can do to keep me interested at least, specially having already played through this once.
One thing I realised now is how Caius and Yeul serve basically as plot devices despite having potential for far more interesting development than Lightning's internal feeling of being hollow and half-human half-god.
Yesterday I read about how the Yeuls get a bit more exposure on the novellas released before and after both FFXIII-2 and LR, but I feel like that should have been in the game.
The XIII trilogy really had potential for greatness, and while it achieves some really great stuff in some areas like the audio department, the story is really just a bunch of undercooked ideas thrown together, specially the things introduced in XIII-2 and LR.
I hope we see Yeul again though.
As Etro in FFXV. teehee
KainXVIII
Member
So you need to chose No scaling for 1080p resolution?
FYI, the console button prompts mod is out.
I know, I did read your posts, that's why it's even weirder!
KainXVIII
Member
Modders never cease to amaze me! FullHD fonts and UI is next step, i think =)
What values are you modifying in the executable? I've modified the two 1920x1080 strings and the ones with the 1.9.2.0.x.1.0.8.0 format and it still just goes to 1080p.
Thanks!
Beautiful Ninja
Member
Sub schema are just there for you to quickly switch them with your main schema out of battle, so you don't need to constantly be creating new schemas. You can only use 3 at a time in battle.
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