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[DKL]

No spoilers pls; how much of a chore is it to do Route B after A is done.

The game gives you a new way of playing that can be fun and you have a different perspective on some things.

I think mileage may vary, but I liked it.

EDIT:

And I'm not just talking about the main thing that people will probably be thinking about... they actually give you something beyond that that's pretty interesting.

EDIT EDIT:

Like, I didn't try it too much, but you can

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hack robots and either put them in your zombie army or use them and fight other robots with a completely new moveset

.

It's pretty novel.

 

[hughesta]

okay thanks guys <3

 

[Slaythe]

No spoilers pls; how much of a chore is it to do Route B after A is done.

Lower the difficulty to make it easier to go through the story and not a chore at all.

 

[DKL]

Lower the difficulty to make it easier to go through the story and not a chore at all.

This is what I did and I loved it :v

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

ROUTE E SPOILERS DO NOT CLICK

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Fucking kill me. I am really bad at videogames. Are there any checkpoints after Square?

 

[Slaythe]

This is what I did and I loved it :v

Also, I love the fact that a lot of the bosses can be skipped entirely. I didn't know the first time around .

 

[BRSxIgnition]

Just starting Route B. Does my quest progress carry over, or do I need to start all quests again? Will I be able to go complete the quests I didn't finish before the Route A endgame at any point?

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

Just starting Route B. Does my quest progress carry over, or do I need to start all quests again? Will I be able to go complete the quests I didn't finish before the Route A endgame at any point?

Everything carries over, and yeah you will.

 

[Inuhanyou]

:V is it the seventh yet

 

[Loudninja]

Gameblog.fr 9/10

Nier Automata shines as a magnificent action game and a strong open world RPG with an amazing narrative. Charming, full of surprises, unique, deep, powerful - it is indeed an amazing entrance in the series that can please fans and newcomers.

http://www.gameblog.fr/tests/2693-nier-automata-ps4

 

[raven777]

Route C complete

 

[DKL]

Okay, so I've died about 260 times in the game and I restarted that section in route C like, let's say, 100 times cumulatively...

But I spent only how many hours (not even 2?) in that section compared to the rest of the game due to the fact that the run back is convenient.

People can't tell how angry this realization makes me lol

EDIT:

That's it, I'm just restarting the game on normal.

Fuck everything :v

 

[Hasemo]

ROUTE E SPOILERS DO NOT CLICK

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Fucking kill me. I am really bad at videogames. Are there any checkpoints after Square?

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if you die enough times you can ask for backup. Maybe you'll get me

 

[Inuhanyou]

Gameblog.fr 9/10

http://www.gameblog.fr/tests/2693-nier-automata-ps4

already posted. apparently this website is not credible according to somebody else??

 

[Slaythe]

already posted. apparently this website is not credible according to somebody else??

Lol. It is a credible site.

They are unreliable when it comes to "rumors" or teasers but that's about it.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Curious because I'm in route C now and I think I missed some sidequests and stuff in A/B - is there a post game/new game plus type thing where I can go back to older stuff, or will I have to start a brand new game?

 

[Slaythe]

Curious because I'm in route C now and I think I missed some sidequests and stuff in A/B - is there a post game/new game plus type thing where I can go back to older stuff, or will I have to start a brand new game?

After route C you can replay the game at any given point through a chapter select kind of thing.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

After route C you can replay the game at any given point through a chapter select kind of thing.

Awesome!

 

[Alastor3]

How do you unlock different route? Is it just in chronological order or it's branching paths?

 

[raven777]

Ok so

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I saw upto ending E. Is that all the endings that are relevant to the main story and rest are just bonus type of endings?

 

[Slaythe]

How do you unlock different route? Is it just in chronological order or it's branching paths?

Well just reload your game after beating one route and it will get you on the second, then third.

The other endings demand specific actions but there are only 3 major route and one/two variations.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Ok so

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I saw upto ending E. Is that all the endings that are relevant to the main story and rest are just bonus type of endings?

yeah...don't miss

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ending Y, as that's somewhat pertinent to emil's mindset

 

[Theswweet]

I was expecting literally the same exact game after seeing people complain about Route B being too similar to the first playthrough, and honestly I'm surprised how not true that's been so far. I'm having a great time with it, once I realized how I can tie

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hacking

into combat without using it every other second.

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Question, though - is it random whether you'll get a choice of what to do with a machine that you've hacked, or are there conditions you have to meet to get that option?

 

[YoRHa No.2 Type B]

Asking this here because no one in the spoiler thread seems to give a damn. I spoiler mark it but my questions have no real story spoilers in it, just a spoiler about a certain mechanic.

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1. There's an item which removes the skirt of 2B. Does this item also works on A2 so does she look like this: A2

2. In the debug room can you freely choose your character?

3. In the debug room can you place ANY enemies? Bosses aswell?

4. If you enable debug mode in the story, can you switch characters? For example playing 2B's story and playing as A2?

 

[Strings]

Err, I think I might hate where C route is going >.<

Also, this might be premature to comment on, but B:

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Did that really need to be its own route ? Outside of a couple of semi-neat sidequests, that was maybe 10 minutes of new story content (including the gestalt reports, etc).

Anyway, back to the game for now.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

Asking this here because no one in the spoiler thread seems to give a damn. I spoiler mark it but my questions have no real story spoilers in it, just a spoiler about a certain mechanic.

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1. There's an item which removes the skirt of 2B. Does this item also works on A2 so does she look like this: A2

2. In the debug room can you freely choose your character?

3. In the debug room can you place ANY enemies? Bosses aswell?

4. If you enable debug mode in the story, can you switch characters? For example playing 2B's story and playing as A2?

The spoiler thread isn't getting a lot of traffic, which means it's not getting bumped, which means it isn't getting a lot of traffic. It probably won't pick up until the Western release of the game.

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A2 loses most of her clothes after you engage berserk mode by pressing L3+R3. 2B and 9S lose their clothes after self-destructing with L3+R3.

That said, those who have beaten the game should come on over to the NieR: Automata Spoiler Thread so we can attempt to make sense of what the FUCK just happened.

 

[komorebi]

I hope Amazon comes through. My order just says 'delivery date pending' and I ordered it 9 days before release date. This better not be another Nioh situation where the game is perpetually out of stock!

 

[EatChildren]

oh my gosh the e3 boss fight

 

[raven777]

The biggest negative I have for this game overall was

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playing as 9S was just not fun at all. Really wasn't feeling the hacking part and normal combat with 9S was so frustrating compared to the rest.

 

[Hag]

theres an ending for all weapons and max level like Nier 1 or nah?

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I hope Amazon comes through. My order just says 'delivery date pending' and I ordered it 9 days before release date. This better not be another Nioh situation where the game is perpetually out of stock!

I ordered the Automata T-Shirt Edition yesterday from amazon uk and it says arriving Friday 10th for me. Did you order the Day One edition? Maybe that's more popular so stock is a little less certain?

 

[deim0s]

Am on Route B now, but I have a question from Route A. I don't want to visit the spoiler thread for anything atm.

Met

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Emil

and he ran away to the forest... is it a missable or a potential sidequest?

 

[Kain-Nosgoth]

just relistened to the whole soundtrack!

Man this is so good! it really grow on you like the first nier! I still prefer the first one, but damn this is some high level soundtrack! can't wait that more are uploaded to youtube (every day there's something new), my only complain is that there's too much remix (and except for

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dark colossus

, i don't think they improved the originals)

i Also pre-ordered the soundtrack on play-asia, three disc!

EDIT : Love "voice of no return", it's not on youtube yet, but it's a really good song!

now here's my dream concerning the soundtrack


WORLD TOUR NIER CONCERT


please square-enix, make that happens!

Am on Route B now, but I have a question from Route A. I don't want to visit the spoiler thread for anything atm.

Met

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Emil

and he ran away to the forest... is it a missable or a potential sidequest?

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you will find him on the map in the city ruins after that (don't remember if you need to finish the forest before that) , you can see his icon on the map-menu, he will give you a sidequest.... and something else, you'll see

 

[Experimenter]

Just dodged an attack and it still killed me. Great.

 

[Bendoruu]

Is there any other enemies in the game than the small robots with different skins ? I played the demo and watched some screenshots, all I can see is the same robots over and over again but sometimes with a hat or an armor.

I was already tired of killing the same mobs in the demo so I might pass because of this. I did not realized there would be so little variety.

I would be really disappointed by all this, can someone comment on it ?

 

[komorebi]

I ordered the Automata T-Shirt Edition yesterday from amazon uk and it says arriving Friday 10th for me. Did you order the Day One edition? Maybe that's more popular so stock is a little less certain?

Yeah that's the only one I see on Amazon US. So far it's still pending but we shall see....

 

[SilentRob]

Alright guys, I'm still stuck at the "Wandering Couple" sidequest.Going to say again at what point at the side quest I am, including pictures now:

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I gave them the 50K g. I left the area, came back and the guy was lying around, hurt, his girlfriend is gone. He asked me to find her and tells me something about a biochip that should help me find her. If I talk to him again he just repeats it. This is what my questlog tells me:

There is nothing marked on my map. Someone in this thread told me she is standing to the left of the entrance to the amusement part. Again, there is no marker at all there, but I ran there anway. Nothing.

I'm on Route B and this is the last quest I still have in my questlog (apart from the "Find stuff from the Old World I will never finish without a guide). The next main quest is the one fighting against Robo-Godzilla, at which point the "Wandering Couple" quest also automatically fails.

So, uh, what the fuck? Is this another bug? There have been so many glitched side quests in this game for me >___<

 

[Deleted member 30609]

Played about half an hour of B and I'm very excited by how this has all started. I like this game more and more every time I play it. Super super impressive.

 

[matrix-cat]

I'm watching the last part of Clemps' Nier analysis on Youtube now, and it's reminding me just how little of Nier's story is actually in the game. It's all in limited-edition cross-media shit you had to buy separately from the game, most of which was only ever released in Japan. Without spoiling anything, how does Nier Automata fair on that front? Is the game's story actually in the game?

 

[Stalk]

I'm watching the last part of Clemps' Nier analysis on Youtube now, and it's reminding me just how little of Nier's story is actually in the game. It's all in limited-edition cross-media shit you had to buy separately from the game, most of which was only ever released in Japan. Without spoiling anything, how does Nier Automata fair on that front? Is the game's story actually in the game?

It talks openly about stuff like the alien invasion, at least so far. Although I guess you might be a bit lost if that happened and you had no prior knowledge... There's some notes left around about the project from the end of Nier as well.

 

[ebil]

I just got chained-hit by a spear lunge attack out of nowhere right after exiting a cutscene, while stuck in a dialogue sequence. I couldn't imagine playing this in any difficulty above Normal. As good as the game is, it's not particularly trying to be fair in that regard.

Is there any other enemies in the game than the small robots with different skins ? I played the demo and watched some screenshots, all I can see is the same robots over and over again but sometimes with a hat or an armor.

I was already tired of killing the same mobs in the demo so I might pass because of this. I did not realized there would be so little variety.

I would be really disappointed by all this, can someone comment on it ?

There's good variety, even though you mostly fight robots. They come in many shapes and sizes, but still have that characteristic appearance.

 

[pezzie]

The biggest negative I have for this game overall was

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playing as 9S was just not fun at all. Really wasn't feeling the hacking part and normal combat with 9S was so frustrating compared to the rest.

Aw that's too bad. I actually really like

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playing as 9S. I hated him at the beginning because his melee is just so wonky, but when I decided to play him as a hit-and-run range attacker and hacker, I really started to like him a lot. There are a lot of enemy types that are definitely easier as 9S than the melee androids.

 

[Gbraga]

Rob, will you review this game? And if so, any chance of english subtitles? It's pretty much the only review I'd like to watch/read (after I finish the game myself ).

I understand it's a lot of work, though, so it's alright if it's not possible.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Is there any other enemies in the game than the small robots with different skins ? I played the demo and watched some screenshots, all I can see is the same robots over and over again but sometimes with a hat or an armor.

The robots all are supposed to share a similar design philosophy. But they have a good variety in terms of mechanics and actually being able to tell them apart playing the game

 

[Hektor]

I'm watching the last part of Clemps' Nier analysis on Youtube now, and it's reminding me just how little of Nier's story is actually in the game. It's all in limited-edition cross-media shit you had to buy separately from the game, most of which was only ever released in Japan. Without spoiling anything, how does Nier Automata fair on that front? Is the game's story actually in the game?

There are already two novellas released. Despite of that, automatas entire story is actually in the game, just like in the first nier.

 

[killatopak]

I watched clemps vids as well. They are amazingly well detailed and I learned a lot of things about the game and some easter eggs to drakengard and the side materials themselves.

I hope there's a lot of easter eggs in automata.

 

[Greddleok]

There's a severe lack of gifs in this thread.

 

[Hasemo]

Patch 1.04 fixing some bugs should be out from what I see on Japanese blogs. Link

 

[killatopak]

There's a severe lack of gifs in this thread.

Do that in the spoiler thread.

The game has not officially released yet.

 

[Kain-Nosgoth]

Still missing One sidequest.... I've currently got three missing, two i need to finish and one i need to discover...

i'm missing some unit data (don't know which, i made sure to talk to every machine and kill every ennemy) and some old world archives

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for pascal like gestalt report 7 and 9...

Also missing a third sidequest that i have ABSOLUTELY no idea where is it! i think it's the one with

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9S where you hack into Wise Machines, and then it commit suicide

... but it doesn't do anything in the quest log, even tough they're marqued as side quest (red dot)