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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance PC Version |OT| Violence Breeds Violence
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corrosivefrost
Member
What's the major difference between very hard and hard
Already covered, but remixed enemies, higher damage, etc.
The first mission is one of the hardest to gold... other than the 17/18/19 trifecta, IMO.
Correct.
dodge move backwards/away from the ball/emp.
Never say never. People said we'd never see Mass Effect (original) on PS3... and yet, now it exists. It probably depends on publishing rights, licensing, etc.
Highly unlikely. But I wouldn't say it's impossible.
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Nobody has tips for me on wave 3 of VR18 (specifically dealing with the laser blasts from the damn dog)?
It is impossible, Nintendo fully funded the development of those games.
Listen to this man. You'll need it later in the game and its a life saver in tight situations.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
If you ask me back when the game first game out VR mission 20 looked impossible to gold until this video came out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqDfzodIvLc
How the hell was I supposed to figure this out?!
corrosivefrost
Member
There was a time when Sonic games being on anything other than a Sega console was impossible too. And then Sega backed out of the hardware race and started developing for every platform under the sun.
Companies will go where there's money to be made. There may come a time when Nintendo stops making consoles too. And then what happens?
So again, is it highly unlikely? You bet.
Is it impossible? I think not.
ussjtrunks
Member
Whats up with the last Boss, massive difficulty spike making him nearly impossible and I have no health items grr. Is there anyway to get health items without deleting my save and restarting another chapter?
corrosivefrost
Member
Play defensively to get him to the point where he jumps up and starts tossing debris at you.
Cut the debris and successfully finish the zandatsu sequence and there will be 4 nanopastes on the ground.
Yep, boss was cake once I realized the debris drops nanopastes.
I should really play through the game again but I have so many others I want to play. I see people no-damaging bosses and S ranking revengeance and here I am with only a B average normal mode playthough. I am not worthy.
I should really play through the game again but I have so many others I want to play. I see people no-damaging bosses and S ranking revengeance and here I am with only a B average normal mode playthough. I am not worthy.
corrosivefrost
Member
Higher damage -- not sure about the rest, other than parrying attacks leads to 100x damage (or something like that) where you can just about 1 shot bosses and stuff.
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Are Sam's VR missions optional? If so, what's the point of doing them?
I'm just making January the month of Rising and moving onto other games once I complete the achievements I think I can, or it just gets to Feb.
Offensive/Defensive (X+A+direction) and spamming Y+X+X(Spinning sword strike)
After about 50 tries I got him to the throwing boulder stage(he goes into it at 159 health) in less than a minute. Trust me you can do it with no health...It just takes practice with offensive/defensive and patience with the camera.
Also, when he starts
glowing green, slash his back in cutting mode
ussjtrunks
Member
Problem is Im having a hard time lineing up the slash accurately enough the time frame doesnt seem long enough and its very frustrating
Problem is Im having a hard time lineing up the slash accurately enough the time frame doesnt seem long enough and its very frustrating
Ya that section exposed my weakness in that aspect pretty quickly.
Change to control System B, it changes nothing except moving the angle of your slice to the left stick and the camera to the right stick.
To aim your blade rotate the left analog stick around the outside of its axis, let go when you have the angle you want to perform the strike. Use the right stick for fine tuning.
Problem is Im having a hard time lineing up the slash accurately enough the time frame doesnt seem long enough and its very frustrating
Had the same issue dude. When he goes up top to throw the rock, start running backwards(don't sprint because it puts your sword away) now press LT to start lining up the slash. This is what worked for me.
When I stood still and didn't run back, I would slash the first rock but then the other two would be offscreen because it seemed I was too close?
ussjtrunks
Member
That sounds alot easier will try that later
Outright Villainy
Member
Problem is Im having a hard time lineing up the slash accurately enough the time frame doesnt seem long enough and its very frustrating
Yeah I think it's a skill that goes very underdeveloped by most players as it wasn't really needed for most of the game. Personally after a while of cutting people to ribbons, I preferred to line up my shots carefully so I got pretty decent at aiming with blade mode. Also Sundowner is sort of a practice version, but again, it's not necessary so if you didn't do it there then Armstrong will kick your ass.
yarrmateys
Member
One hard-to-notice different between VH and REV is that enemies are 5x more aggressive.
From what I can recall from the official guide, Normal enemies has a 1.0 aggressiveness index, VH 2.0-3.0, and REV 8.0-10.0. It's hard to notice because VH enemies are plenty aggressive already enough.
As for the counterparry damage, an unupgraded HF blade does 30 damage in E/N/H/VH, and 400 in REV (adjust damage depending on blade used, and upgrade level). 13.3x damage, basically.
From what I can recall from the official guide, Normal enemies has a 1.0 aggressiveness index, VH 2.0-3.0, and REV 8.0-10.0. It's hard to notice because VH enemies are plenty aggressive already enough.
As for the counterparry damage, an unupgraded HF blade does 30 damage in E/N/H/VH, and 400 in REV (adjust damage depending on blade used, and upgrade level). 13.3x damage, basically.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Is
's finishing (10% health) QTE suppose to be super fast or something? I can barely hit blade mode before getting hit in the face. >_>
Armstrong
corrosivefrost
Member
R07?
If so, I'm not sure what you're talking about there, since you say 10% health.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs1psjroAE
This keeps happening. I can't beat the boss because of it.
Just finished the game on Hard. I goofed a few times on Armstrong when it came to cutting the boulders but I got through it.
Man, though, fighting Excelsus with an completely non-upgraded HF Blade was tough even though I've fought it before. Definitely a welcoming difficulty increase if you've beaten it on Hard before and wanted to replicate some kind of difficulty.
Might play Blade Wolf later or start another playthrough on Easy to get stuff that I missed (Storage Devices and Left Hands).
Man, though, fighting Excelsus with an completely non-upgraded HF Blade was tough even though I've fought it before. Definitely a welcoming difficulty increase if you've beaten it on Hard before and wanted to replicate some kind of difficulty.
Might play Blade Wolf later or start another playthrough on Easy to get stuff that I missed (Storage Devices and Left Hands).
Dude fuck that backlog of course it's worth 20 bucks
Super Bunnyhop put up a great review of the game, today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51idgi--0Uo
Except for saying that the game has no dodge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51idgi--0Uo
Except for saying that the game has no dodge...
Had this open in a tab for a while now, time to check it out. Can't go wrong with that opening for sure.
Dammit George, I expected better.
ahahahha all right, im coming for you Raiden!
I knew about it from GAF, but something like that should have been available from the start and in the tutorial.
I do appreciate the hands off approach, but not to that extent.
Outright Villainy
Member
Get it right now, this game is frickin' amazing.
Total Biscuit did this too. And I think it was the same in Rock Paper Shotgun's review. Might be easier to list the rare reviews that do mention it exists.
Is your framerate constant? I've found that if you go below 27/25 fps you will be unable to do the final qte.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Guess I'll try tomorrow. I spent like 2 hours trying to beat him and that kept happening.
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
No.
Why is having fun with really cool and satisfying QTEs considered childish?
Also, reviewer needs to buy the flying homing skill (forgot its name), and offensive defensive, lol.
Cannon Goose
Member
Ok... I can now get Armstrong under 100% consistently but there are two things that I just cannot reliably dodge:
1. The pillars of lava that curve towards you. I always seem to get caught at the bend so even if I dodge through it I still end up inside the lava.
2. His unblockable charge up and explode move. I just can't get the timing down to dodge through it each time and it's random when he does it so I can't always be far enough away for it to miss me.
And the amount of fucking times he does his fucking health recharge move right after he's knocked my fucking sword out of my fucking hands, YOU BASTARD ARMSTRONG. There's no way around that other than using blade mode on his back, right?
Christ, I haven't banged my head against a boss this much in ages.
On a positive note, this really helped:
That definitely staggers Armstrong out of attacks more often than anything else I've tried.
1. The pillars of lava that curve towards you. I always seem to get caught at the bend so even if I dodge through it I still end up inside the lava.
2. His unblockable charge up and explode move. I just can't get the timing down to dodge through it each time and it's random when he does it so I can't always be far enough away for it to miss me.
And the amount of fucking times he does his fucking health recharge move right after he's knocked my fucking sword out of my fucking hands, YOU BASTARD ARMSTRONG. There's no way around that other than using blade mode on his back, right?
Christ, I haven't banged my head against a boss this much in ages.
On a positive note, this really helped:
Zep said:
That definitely staggers Armstrong out of attacks more often than anything else I've tried.
1. The pillars of lava that curve towards you. I always seem to get caught at the bend so even if I dodge through it I still end up inside the lava.
2. His unblockable charge up and explode move. I just can't get the timing down to dodge through it each time and it's random when he does it so I can't always be far enough away for it to miss me.
1) Ninja Run around him but don't ninja run around being too far away. If you are ninja running away from him at around mid range then you will dodge his stuff more accurately. You can also jump in ninja run to increase your evasiveness.
2) You dodge the unblockable charge move by dodging backwards twice (basically just neutral stance dodge). Even if you do it a bit late, you will be able to dodge the explosion with the 2nd dodge's invincibility frame.
2. His unblockable charge up and explode move. I just can't get the timing down to dodge through it each time and it's random when he does it so I can't always be far enough away for it to miss me.
1) Ninja Run around him but don't ninja run around being too far away. If you are ninja running away from him at around mid range then you will dodge his stuff more accurately. You can also jump in ninja run to increase your evasiveness.
2) You dodge the unblockable charge move by dodging backwards twice (basically just neutral stance dodge). Even if you do it a bit late, you will be able to dodge the explosion with the 2nd dodge's invincibility frame.
Blade mode on his back should have him kneeling for a good 10 seconds where you can unleash and ass whooping.
When hes down to 100% its a cakewalk, especially if you got nanopaste. Basically becomes a QTE fight after a few blows.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Use Defensive Offense a lot. Trust me, I died like 20 times to get the timing right, but everything you see him doing an attack use Defensive Offense, DON'T DASH TO HIM, sometimes he uses the charge-kick attack and you can't parry while dashing.
You can use Offensive Defense against most of his attacks except the fire pillars thingy. If you see him charging, but no other notable thing, he will use the fire shock attack on the ground; if he's charging and you see the ground shattered, he's gonna do the delayed fire cracks move, this move is pretty safe so feel free to keep slashing at him; if he's charging and there's this red whirlwind, he will use the fire pillars.
As soon as you see him glow yellow use Offensive Defense twice to get away for him for easy evasion.
tl;dr don't bother parrying, just use learn the timing on the dodging move.
Cannon Goose
Member
I had a feeling that I should be dodging more. Thanks for the advice! I'll have another go later today.
ussjtrunks
Member
Finally beat Armstrong and all thanks to switching the analogs for blade mode was far easier than before
Literally anything
Bullets, RPGs, Metal Gear Leg, a city block that a boss used as a projectile. Anything.
I think in a sense you need to be a little more passive on VH and espically revengeance. If there's ever a situation were multiple enemies are going to be attacking at once and they're not all instantly killable with a perfect parry I just dodge out and pick my spots carefully.
corrosivefrost
Member
This is what I was going to mention -- someone said that lower than 25 or something was screwing up QTEs... and the framerate in that video looks to chug at points.
GhostRidah
Member
Any tips on parrying multiple hits consistently? Like when I am fighting Sam I can block his first, then he tags me with the second, then I block the third hit and sometimes block the last one. I guess its a timing issue I need to get more use to but its really annoying.