Thanks, and yeah I've kind of been stressing about the time thing. Find myself constantly rushing.
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Lightning Returns: FINAL FANTASY XIII PC |OT| Light Eternal
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Thanks, and yeah I've kind of been stressing about the time thing. Find myself constantly rushing.
BlazeBreak
Member
Hmm, I'm doing something wrong here. First time using GeDoSaTo.
Depth of Field's not working right (everything's getting blurred). When I set dof to false, everything is back in focus.
My game settings are;
I thought maybe it had something to do with the preset hash for the LR plugin, so I did a dump, but I only get one value whereas the guide I referenced says there should be a second (i.e. the hash value)
SetPixelShader 0C31BF80, name: UNREGISTERED_SHADER
Depth of Field's not working right (everything's getting blurred). When I set dof to false, everything is back in focus.
My game settings are;
I thought maybe it had something to do with the preset hash for the LR plugin, so I did a dump, but I only get one value whereas the guide I referenced says there should be a second (i.e. the hash value)
SetPixelShader 0C31BF80, name: UNREGISTERED_SHADER
if you want to find a PSHash/VSHash you need to set trackShaders to true in gedosato.ini
Code:
# Turn on only if you want to find a PSHash/VSHash for a game!
trackShaders trueBlazeBreak
Member
Ah, must of missed that somewhere. That did the trick. Thanks!
I haven't configured DOF to work with LR at all, so it's not a surprise it's not working. It should be possible to get it to work, but then you should also disable the in-game DoF completely IMHO. Which would require some coding.
I'll probably do a retrospective thread about the entire FF13 series once I finish LR, just because I find what they attempted with each entry (and how they succeeded and failed at various parts of that) so interesting.
No, that's just because you need to prevent LR from doing its own built-in downsampling (if you're referring to the instructions in the LR .ini).
The fun part about this "trilogy" is that the games are probably more different to each other than any random unrelated games you might pick in some genre. So it's completely possible IMHO for someone to love FF13 and hate LR and -2, or love LR and hate the others, or even only like -2.
I'll probably do a retrospective thread about the entire FF13 series once I finish LR, just because I find what they attempted with each entry (and how they succeeded and failed at various parts of that) so interesting.
Ah, alrighty.
I was just remembering that there were some suggested user configs in the XIII-2 ini, but I wasn't at my computer at the time to check if they were the same as the ones in LR ini.
Sort of. I don't think playing each is really necessary, because the continuity is basically nonsense.
Not really, no. I've enjoyed the story and characters quite a bit.
Playing LR without having played XII and XII-2 first would definitely not have the same impact.
If you don't mind a video here's a good video recap for 13-2. There's one for 13 on their channel too.
killatopak
Gold Member
I fixed the DoF for LIghtning Returns, and also added AO.
DoF before/after:
(it was worse in motion)
AO comparison.
you mind telling me how I can do this on my copy? I don't have the dosato thing.
Vlaphor
Member
Awesome. Thank you very much.
Brerlappin
Member
Well, im 10 hours in and honestly, as much of a fan of the Goddess as i am, this game is eh...pretty shit. Like the combat system is fairly fun, but every single thing outside of that is either bad, or, really fucking bad.
Bad voice acting.
Bad graphics (mostly).
Bad missions
Bad signposting for said missions
Bad area layout
Like so far the majority of the missions either invovle MMO style "Bring me a bunch of macguffins", or "Come back tomorrow at X o'clock". And thats it. And the worst kind are the macguffins because the game gives you very little in the way of direction. Like "Go find me these things", and then thats it. No waypoints, no clues, just fucking find it yourself. I had to google the locations of almost everything.
Honestly i preferred XIII's linear corridor run because at least with a linear hallway you always knew where you were supposed to be going. The Goddess deserves better than this, im afraid.
Bad voice acting.
Bad graphics (mostly).
Bad missions
Bad signposting for said missions
Bad area layout
Like so far the majority of the missions either invovle MMO style "Bring me a bunch of macguffins", or "Come back tomorrow at X o'clock". And thats it. And the worst kind are the macguffins because the game gives you very little in the way of direction. Like "Go find me these things", and then thats it. No waypoints, no clues, just fucking find it yourself. I had to google the locations of almost everything.
Honestly i preferred XIII's linear corridor run because at least with a linear hallway you always knew where you were supposed to be going. The Goddess deserves better than this, im afraid.
Garrett Hawke
Member
So I'm about to start this, what's the best way to run it at 4k downsampled to 1080p? Do I need to add AA somewhere? 
AnkhWeasel
Member
All done.
It's definitely worth spending some time just waltzing around killing monsters after beating all of the quests, not only because there'll be abilities you may not have found, but because you'll get even better drops from
.
Made all of the difference in the world in the endgame section, and I took out the final boss without having a game over.
The ending sure is something!
It's definitely worth spending some time just waltzing around killing monsters after beating all of the quests, not only because there'll be abilities you may not have found, but because you'll get even better drops from
the Last Ones
Made all of the difference in the world in the endgame section, and I took out the final boss without having a game over.
The ending sure is something!
I finally got some time to get into this.
Damn these fights do not fuck around. I may just stick to low questing or switch areas because i just had my butthole reversed by the first legit bossfight in Lux, and I was having problems with some new enemies that appeared in the graveyard.
High need to gitgud.
Damn these fights do not fuck around. I may just stick to low questing or switch areas because i just had my butthole reversed by the first legit bossfight in Lux, and I was having problems with some new enemies that appeared in the graveyard.
High need to gitgud.
Make sure you update your Nvidia drivers. Mine were a few months out of date and the game ran crappily (20-30 FPS). Constant 60 FPS after updating them though.
So uhh, this might seem like a stupid question, but is there anyway to put Lightning Returns between FF XIII-2 and FF XIV in my Steam Library? If I buy this game it'll mess up the order of FF games in my library!
Not unless SE fixes it.
So uhh, this might seem like a stupid question, but is there anyway to put Lightning Returns between FF XIII-2 and FF XIV in my Steam Library? If I buy this game it'll mess up the order of FF games in my library!
SE don't care
R10Neymarfan
Member
Doesn't steam allow you to rename games?
SE don't care
IX was already going to mess that up anyway. I'm not too sure how you're going to fix FFIX (a ha ha ha ha pun not intended)
But yeah, LR all the way on another alphabet at all is mildly annoying. Personally I have all my games categorized anyway. I'm probably just gonna split FF out from "JRPG" so that they're at least all together.
They can set it internally or something as a tag. It's how AssCreed games are now in the right order. But that's up to the publisher.
THE MORE YOU KNOW!
Thanks for the heads up. I'm just gonna prod someone who can prod someone and we'll see what happens.
hi , i need big help here
i am now on the Dead Dunes , the sixth day
already beat
in Luxerion chapter ,
in Yusnaan chapter and
in The Wildlands chapter
however , after i beat the boss of the Dead Dunes
, i parted from fang.
but i didn't get this main mission over like the other missions
like this
should i collect the sub quest first before i go to defeat this boss ?
i am now on the Dead Dunes , the sixth day
already beat
Noel
Snow
Caius
however , after i beat the boss of the Dead Dunes
Grendel
but i didn't get this main mission over like the other missions
like this
should i collect the sub quest first before i go to defeat this boss ?
After a few hours I should be done with all main quests and most of side quests (I'm playing with a guide showing how to do it all in 4 in game days).
Now for my question - I saw multiple reports of people being done with main/most of the side stuff just sleeping to the last day, which led to them being too weak to deal even with regular enemies.
Any suggestions what I should do after day 4? Any specific days/locations to get skills or equipment to buy on specific days? I want to blaze through the ending and don't plan to do NG+, so I don't want to bother with omega versions of enemies etc.
Now for my question - I saw multiple reports of people being done with main/most of the side stuff just sleeping to the last day, which led to them being too weak to deal even with regular enemies.
Any suggestions what I should do after day 4? Any specific days/locations to get skills or equipment to buy on specific days? I want to blaze through the ending and don't plan to do NG+, so I don't want to bother with omega versions of enemies etc.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Try to do as many quests as you can to unlock the 14th day. You'll have access to a dungeon with a superboss (that isn't as hard as that dragon).
But each floor of that dungeon has an Omega enemy you haven't taken out yet.
Also the bosses of the main quests grow stronger after certain days. So if you have some bosses left, you might want to wait if you want a challenge.
I think I'm already good regarding the extra dungeon, since like I said I'll have most quests done by the end of day 4. And I really don't want challenge, so what I meant was more of a cookie cutter way of beating the second half of the game. ;p
Ganon Dragmire
Member
If you've managed to have enough quests to access the 14th day and finished all main quests, then you should be fine for the final day. So you can sleep to the last day if you want. (Have a separate save just in case)
Nothing much left to do but gather loot, canvas of prayers, synthesize abilities. You can also check stores on later days for new inventory.
Yeah that's what I was wondering about - are there any must buy garbs/weapons which I should get before challenging the final boss.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
one of the best weapons to get is this:
people like to use this one for the damage Artemis's Arrows can make:
which you'll need to kill every behemoth to get it.
you can also make the Ultimate weapon on the last day as well
people like to use this one for the damage Artemis's Arrows can make:
Thanks for the suggestions.
I ended up doing some canvas of prayers, a 3-4 left over sidequests and now I'm on the 9th floor of the extra dungeon, trying to get as many high level abilities/items as I can.
By the way, do you recover EP between forms of the final boss of the game?
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Ha! No, you don't recover anything. Better stock up on Ethers.
I was wondering about that - where can I buy them? I checked stores and didn't find it anywhere.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
You don't. You gotta find them. Few quests give them. The best bet is getting those Unappraised items to that kid and hope you get one.
I really didn't expect to burn through the extra dungeon in under an hour. I skipped both Eaters and the last boss, but didn't have much problem with anyone else.
Exiting with 750k gil, cool accessories and weapons (plus lv 4 abilities) was a nice surprise, I hope I can buy some nice garbs before the final fight. I'm also planning to get the ultimate weapon, so I guess the last fight shouldn't be that bad (?).
Exiting with 750k gil, cool accessories and weapons (plus lv 4 abilities) was a nice surprise, I hope I can buy some nice garbs before the final fight. I'm also planning to get the ultimate weapon, so I guess the last fight shouldn't be that bad (?).
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Thanks again for answering my questions.
You'll make it.
I finished the game, took me about 25 hours! That last part was quite hard compared to the rest of the game, but I somehow made it through.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
uncredited male
Member
Patch dropped.
It definitely makes the early game significantly easier, and it'll be quite a while before you find Garbs with comparable power to some of the DLC garbs. If you're concerned about breaking the difficulty, I'd say disable it / don't use it until you get to the later game.
Guess I'll skip them, then! Thanks
Will be a while until I play it, but really looking forward to it.
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