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Resonance of Fate |OT| John Woo RPG Action and Small Racks
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indigo-cyclops
Member
Holy shit at the raisins scene - that's beyond bizarre I just have to have it. Comedy gold.
chicken_ramen
Member
survivor said:
You will always hit the outermost segment you're facing if you're on the ground. The actual position of bits on the enemy is less important than the semi-circle representing those parts. If you're shooting at a semi-circle, you're hitting that part. In the air you do random damage to all parts. I'd have to go check if there's more than that to being in the air. I have memories of breaking stuff on top of an enemy by jumping, but I'd imagine that was because they were weaker and had a bigger target than the other parts.
chicken_ramen
Member
Paraclete said:
Minor enemies are often mainly fodder to help you refill your gems.
Dead Prince
Banned
Is that Silver Canyon?Paraclete said:
Dead Prince
Banned
oh man. i'm going to enjoy it tomorrow then :lol.Paraclete said:
mjemirzian
Banned
Some enemies have a delay to their melee attacks that is long enough for you to avoid taking any damage. It's also possible to run out of range of a charging enemy attack, or run behind cover.
Try to conserve hero bezels by finishing scratched up enemies off in normal mode when possible.
If an enemy is targetting someone else besides the character you control, they will not fire until you've finished your normal mode turn. On the other hand, if they are targetting the character you control, they will fire on you during your turn.
When firing in normal mode, enemies will manually turn their armored side towards you to avoid taking body damage. To get around this, perform a Hero Action or try to knock them down then quickly switch to another character and attack while they are recovering.
The B button can be used to cancel a turn in progress, but it also has uses when it is not currently anybody's turn. You'll notice that after you take a characters turn, you can't press LB/RB to select them again. By pressing the B button once or twice, you'll be able to use that same character again. However, using the B button to re-use a character comes with some penalties. Your Resonance count is decreased by 1, and a very small amount of time passes, enough to let an enemy with a charged up action gague perform their attack.
Pay attention to the letters on the enemy's action gague - it lets you know who they are targeting (Z, V, or R).
When you jump over an enemy, you can usually hit their main body, avoiding having to break their armor.
Rookie Grenades are a good, cheap way to level up throwing weapons - just fully scratch an enemy and throw a rookie grenade to cash in.
Try to conserve hero bezels by finishing scratched up enemies off in normal mode when possible.
If an enemy is targetting someone else besides the character you control, they will not fire until you've finished your normal mode turn. On the other hand, if they are targetting the character you control, they will fire on you during your turn.
When firing in normal mode, enemies will manually turn their armored side towards you to avoid taking body damage. To get around this, perform a Hero Action or try to knock them down then quickly switch to another character and attack while they are recovering.
The B button can be used to cancel a turn in progress, but it also has uses when it is not currently anybody's turn. You'll notice that after you take a characters turn, you can't press LB/RB to select them again. By pressing the B button once or twice, you'll be able to use that same character again. However, using the B button to re-use a character comes with some penalties. Your Resonance count is decreased by 1, and a very small amount of time passes, enough to let an enemy with a charged up action gague perform their attack.
Pay attention to the letters on the enemy's action gague - it lets you know who they are targeting (Z, V, or R).
When you jump over an enemy, you can usually hit their main body, avoiding having to break their armor.
Rookie Grenades are a good, cheap way to level up throwing weapons - just fully scratch an enemy and throw a rookie grenade to cash in.
mjemirzian
Banned
Paraclete said:
hit him from behind with incendiary ammo or a molotov cocktail.. he will catch on fire and take major scratch damage
I'm on ch 11 btw.. no grinding or using a guide either.. you just have to use your brain
there are far worse enemies in the game than those guys..
Freyjadour
Member
Found a giftcard and reward zone certificate hanging around in my BB account. This appears to be backordered there, but they aren't carrying Fragile so I don't know what else to do with them. Will definitely sit on the shelf for a while 
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.Gamer @ Heart
Member
How are the achievements in this game? Are they easy and come at a steady pace?
Im compulsive with my RPGs and knowing i get "rewarded" for it always dulls the pain of the hours lost .
Im compulsive with my RPGs and knowing i get "rewarded" for it always dulls the pain of the hours lost
.Fairly easy. You get one for each Ch/Prologue, as well as for doing certain things during the battles(killing enemies barehanded, killing 2 at once, 1000 hero actions, etc)Gamer @ Heart said:How are the achievements in this game? Are they easy and come at a steady pace?
Im compulsive with my RPGs and knowing i get "rewarded" for it always dulls the pain of the hours lost
Dead Prince
Banned
You should get them easily. story trophies. kill XXX enemies. spend XXX money. do X attacks. do X attack on XX enemies.Gamer @ Heart said:How are the achievements in this game? Are they easy and come at a steady pace?
Im compulsive with my RPGs and knowing i get "rewarded" for it always dulls the pain of the hours lost
Dead Prince
Banned
completing the game by getting all trophies?survivor said:
mjemirzian
Banned
Paraclete said:
Once he's on fire it doesn't matter if your MG user gets frozen, you can still finish it off with your HG user as long as you stay alive long enough to let the fire dots tick on it.
You can use an escape hex to get out of the dungeon quickly if needed and resupply or buy freezing resistance gear. I know there's a save point in that dungeon that's right next to the boss.
Dead Prince
Banned
IDK. it's hard to tell since there's no trophy list that shows hidden and the list on the system sucks as well as i know there'ssurvivor said:
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hmm. i just checked on ps3trophies.org. there
EDIT: New Game+. lol @ higher difficulty.
Found a guide to all the achievements (Trophies) http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214339
mjemirzian
Banned
Paraclete said:
umm not sure on that one.. give it a try.
Did you save at the abandoned energy waystation before going in?
Mad Goliaths and Piledriver Giants.. and whatever else the game wants to call them.. are the most annoying generic enemies yet. The giants are even more annoying due to their regen rate. The developers really screwed up the collision detection boxes on these things.. the boxes are like 1.5x the actual size of the giant. You can't safely use a tri-attack around them because someone will bump into their unfairly sized hit boxes.
Bad tri-ace, bad!
jaundicejuice
Member
Asparagus said:
Wow. It's so tempting to just rip the shrink wrap off of my copy and start playing this game. Every NIS I've seen for the North American localisation is just so damned awesome. I have to beat FF13 first!
RobbieNick
Junior Member
LOL He looks a bit like Brent Sienna in that scene.:lol
I'm seriously considering this game. I enjoyed the Japanese demo, and the cutscenes make it seem to be a cut above the average JRPG. Should I pick it up now since it's kinda hard to find, or wait for the inevitable price drop since it's guaranteed to flop under the mighty weight of FF13? (It should at least sell out most of it's first run copies since they put out so little.)
I'm seriously considering this game. I enjoyed the Japanese demo, and the cutscenes make it seem to be a cut above the average JRPG. Should I pick it up now since it's kinda hard to find, or wait for the inevitable price drop since it's guaranteed to flop under the mighty weight of FF13? (It should at least sell out most of it's first run copies since they put out so little.)
mjemirzian
Banned
-DarKaoZ- said:
I skipped that quest. It looked like a drag.
Just got to ch 12.. I can see how some people would wrongly claim that you have to grind.. there are a few bosses and side quest/danger zone enemies that will make your average rpg player wet themselves. If you're having trouble with the first few chapter bosses.. that's a bad sign because it only gets worse.
My levels so far with no grinding.. doing most of the side quests/all danger zones/no arena (yet)
Start of Ch 5 - lv 21-22.. lv 9 MG/HG, and lv 2-4 grenades
Start of Ch 6 - lv 26-27.. lv 11-12 MG/HG, and lv 3-5 grenades
Start of Ch 7 - lv 33-34.. lv 12-16 mg/hg and lv 5-9 grenades
Start of Ch 8 - lv 41-45.. lv 17-20 mg/hg, lv 7-9 grenades
Start of Ch 9 - lv 46-53.. lv 19-22 mg/hg, lv 7-13 grenades
Start of Ch 10 - lv 52-54.. lv 19-23 mg/hg, lv 10-13 grenades
Start of Ch 11 - lv 58-61.. lv 21-25 mg/hg, lv 13-17 grenades
Urban Scholar
Member
mjemirzian you said you aren't grinding but you're switch weapon usage along the way correct? Looking at what you posted its indicative that it just flows better game wise to do so as you go. I feel that I'm grinding a tad in chapter 1 here but I suppose that falls under "doing it wrong". Its best to go as you moving along?
mjemirzian
Banned
Urban Scholar said:
There's nothing wrong with grinding if you're having trouble. But claiming that you have to grind to get through the game is a false statement.
Yeah I'm always switching weapons around. I found Rookie Grenades to be very useful (and cheap) for leveling grenades on scratched up enemies.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Pre-ordered the game, will get to play it on the 29th (PAL-Land + out of the country). Looking forward to it!
Dead Prince
Banned
so i discovered arena and the lovely prizes it offers. ugh :lol.
i checked my record and noticed i spent over 100K on clothing! :lol.
i checked my record and noticed i spent over 100K on clothing! :lol.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolAsparagus said:
Wow...not grasping this game at all so far...I don`t get the Hex map overworld way to advance,and i`ll have to do the turorial one more time in the arena because the combat is still a huge mess for me also so far :lol ...also,this won`t keep me from enjoying the game once I understand it but graphically,playing this right after FFXIII...ouch hehe.Taking a break now because I sense a headache coming.
mjemirzian
Banned
hmm.. best way to make the game easier? dual wield MGs and customize as much charge speed and charge acceleration on them as possible. Head into the Dakota Mine on level 9 asap to grab a second MG in the back. hmm I have 60 charge rate and 19% acceleration on the DWs and I can charge up 30 MG levels on a Hero Action passby pretty easily.
Oh lord.. christmas quest.. why tri-ace, why?!?
Oh lord.. christmas quest.. why tri-ace, why?!?
Urban Scholar
Member
Ok I defeated chapter 1 boss a few hours and I've clearing up to rank 5 star in the arena. Indeed this game is best played thinking, hence the truth of its nature tactical. On many occasion I barely avoided critical condition when in actuality the simplest solution was the answer. Smaller and or easier defeats then proceeding to larger greater threats. hmm, I don't think I can offer greater impressions as of now.
have to head to work unfortunately