Demoskinos
Member
Cool. Finished a sub-quest and then right after the game hard crashed on me. Lost every bit of progress I made tonight. Just fantastic.
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NieR: Automata |OT| "I wouldn't expect too much from this game if I were you."
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Finished Ending B.
Was a pretty nice and interesting change in perspective. 9S was a bit of a downgrade combat-wise, but his hacking skills was pretty neat and made up for it to me. The stuff you find out as 9S was really interesting too. And that preview for Route C sounds hype... 
Nightengale
Member
What I felt was the ideal approach to side-quest:
1. trigger any side-quest that you come across along the way/close to the path to main storyline
2. if side-quest can be completed without travelling too far off-course, just do it.
3. if side-quest needs you to take major detours (photography, satre's melancholy), ignore it.
4. unlock fast travel later in game
5. go back to do side-quest that needs major detours
1. trigger any side-quest that you come across along the way/close to the path to main storyline
2. if side-quest can be completed without travelling too far off-course, just do it.
3. if side-quest needs you to take major detours (photography, satre's melancholy), ignore it.
4. unlock fast travel later in game
5. go back to do side-quest that needs major detours
Exentryk
Member
It does.
Play on normal mode and save a lot.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Yeah, there's a huge amount of information as well as gameplay in the sidequests, they add a lot, particularly in terms of tying the game in with the original Nier and setting up major story beats.
The main thing is that with fast travel and the general slickness of character movement, there are very few quests that I'd consider to be overly time-consuming to do.
Exentryk
Member
Exentryk
Member
Yes, for some chips it is indeed better to go multiple lower quality chips.
Yay seems it's popular in my country though there's not much chatter in local forum.
Resident_UA
Member
no
I just didn't have patience for them. I started by accepting all sidequests, but at that point map didn't make much sense yet. So I just had about 40 red dots and no idea what to do. On second playthrough I just gave up on them
. And considering that I felt that route C was too long I don't think that doing more sidequests would solve my issues with open world...EDIT: Just watched the video of that quest. You're right, it's pretty funny
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Finished Route A... I still think I hate this game. I had to set the final boss to easy to stand a chance (had no recovery items and no idea I was going into the endgame, also was only level 25 because I did like three sidequests)
Started Route B and got to the VERY END of the prologue, died, and was sent back to the beginning.
Story isn't doing it for me either, but I will admit that the set pieces and machine bosses are extremely majestic, in a very unique way.
Started Route B and got to the VERY END of the prologue, died, and was sent back to the beginning.
Story isn't doing it for me either, but I will admit that the set pieces and machine bosses are extremely majestic, in a very unique way.
Why normal?
Exentryk
Member
Opening boss will one shot on hard mode, and you'll have to start from 30 mins before that fight.
Sounds perfect for I!
NightShift
Member
The game is still plenty challenging on normal and for some reason, lock-on is disabled on hard. I would have loved to have played this on hard my first time through but having to aim manually takes away from the high speed pace of the action IMO. But if you think that's not a problem, go ahead and play it on hard. Just remember you won't be able to save until after the prologue.
You should read through the previous pages and see if they had fun.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Shit, chips carry over (with everything else seems like)
Can you buy the counter chip? I'd certainly hope that there wasn't only opportunity to have it. Game is playable without it but it's nice to have
Can you buy the counter chip? I'd certainly hope that there wasn't only opportunity to have it. Game is playable without it but it's nice to have
Wishmaster92
Member
This is good. I hope the game is doing well.
Resident_UA
Member
To be fair the game is kind of easy on normal if you use chips right. I think I died 3 times total and that's while being severely underleveled (finished game level 49)...
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
The reason is because having lock on trivializes the game way too much.
Hard eliminates the cheese of spamming dodge while your robot shoots away making you basically invincible and the robots can be insanely powerful especially late game. I was honestly bored of the game the first 8 hours or so until I switched to hard.
Shooting there becomes more like a ranged opportunity attack cost rather than a auto include action in your playstyle.
The42gamer
Banned
Taro's wife just posted this to Twitter
https://twitter.com/2894chang/status/842573983304183808/photo/1
https://twitter.com/2894chang/status/842573983304183808/photo/1
The OTP is real.
GGNKovalski
Member
So what was you guys play time at when you finished Route A? I feel like I didn't take my time enough. 11 Hours for me. To be fair though, I did a main quest and it locked out many optional side quests. Will I get a chance to do them in the additional routes?
About 25 hours for me. I took my time, completed close to everything I could in the first route.
Yes you will, don't worry.
FrankWza
Member
Route a is really weak compared to the way the game finishes. The story gets a lot better and darker. I found 2b to not be very likeable until later as well. As far as the difficulty you just got caught with too few healing items. Youll get chips that will make them not even necessary, especially on normal but in the mean time spend some money and stock up.
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
Is starting on hard a bad idea?
darkwing-buck
Member
Depends how much you value your time and how easily you get frustrated. If you die within the first hour or so you'll need to replay it from the start.
Probably. You could just set the prologue mission to normal and switch afterwards, unless you don't mind getting one shot kills and restarting from the beginning of the game. There are no trophies tied to difficulty so no reason not to switch afterwards.
It's never a bad idea to join the cycle of life and death.
Demoskinos
Member
So these two dots in this picture on the map.
Can 2B actually get down here?
They are right under the facility that you start at in the beginning of the game which leads me to believe that you have to be able to get elevator access somehow?
They're access points you'll get to via story progress.
Basketball
Member
not releasing at midnight
Augemitbutter
Member
avoid. change to hard after the prologue if you want to try it.
NightShift
Member
Oh, wow. Hard mode is much harder than it was in the demo. Now I know what people are talking about.
Spoilers for a few things, still on Route A
Oh man that mission with the Resistance member fixing a YorHa unit and using him as "family" was kind of unsettling. That creepy music.
Also I just did that mission where 2B sends a picture of the flower to operator 6O. Man this is something I can ship...
Also I just did that mission where 2B sends a picture of the flower to operator 6O. Man this is something I can ship...
Yes.
Yeah you're good
yeah