Right, I keep forgetting Vita games have digital manuals. Thanks for the info.
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Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment |OT| Now in English | #YOLO - You Only Live Online
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Right, I keep forgetting Vita games have digital manuals. Thanks for the info.
MGS games did as well. I think it eventually changed in the later games though.
Edit: Beaten
Oh yeah, that actually messes me up every time I played it. Even when I was used to FFVII doing it, MGS always messed me up.
It's Onslaught (Square I think) that can stun enemies early on.
Piercedveil
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I'm still trying to figure out the combat, but I think square does a quick stun. I'm pretty much just mashing circle right now with a square thrown in when it's available
I know, I don't know what is happening right now and I love it! Philia thinks I am awesome!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I'm still trying to figure out the combat, but I think square does a quick stun. I'm pretty much just mashing circle right now with a square thrown in when it's available
After you guys get out of the tutorial check what skills are mapped to what on your quick bars.
Circle should be attack if they really didnt change the button usage. I think havent played in a long while now due to work and other things. D:
But it definitely did (square) for me just now.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
From what I remember there are 2 attacks that specifically stun. One of them takes far longer to come back than another and do think that might be the starting one. Since there is another one you can unlock later.
Onslaught does stun if not under cooldown and it's the default square skill. The effect is best seen when using it in the startup time for enemies skills.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
The other skill was called Bash? I think. Id look at the strat guide with all the skill names but am a bit busy atm.
Yeah, never used it but pretty sure I saw that mentioned in a vid before.
You are right. It's called Weapon Bash (hopefully) and it's a quick way to stun and raise enemy risk level a bit. Comboing it with an AI waiting for your stun will almost always raise enemy risk to 5. In short, a good skill to have.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I always had to make use of the two constantly and being sure that one was active to save my ass when necessary. lol Am pretty sure in my vids you see me using both on occasion.
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Updated the OT adding a review and user provided info section (misc links) though no fancy text links yet for the reviews, just hard links. also am leaving out obviously shitty reviews so it has to have at least some valid points in it to be put up.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
For folks already in the HF area, when you cant open a treasure chest, its usually because there is either a monster linked to the chest or you have not killed the boss.
Game will "bug" out if enemies chase other NPCs out of the area as they usually dont return to said spot therefore with them or one of them being linked to the chest you will be unable to open it. So if you can kill all of the weak enemies first then go after the boss to prevent situations like that in sections that have other NPCs wandering around / fighting as when they get their asses kicked they run like hell which pulls the monsters with them at the same Looney Tunes speed.
Usually leaving the area and coming back fixes it.
Game will "bug" out if enemies chase other NPCs out of the area as they usually dont return to said spot therefore with them or one of them being linked to the chest you will be unable to open it. So if you can kill all of the weak enemies first then go after the boss to prevent situations like that in sections that have other NPCs wandering around / fighting as when they get their asses kicked they run like hell which pulls the monsters with them at the same Looney Tunes speed.
Usually leaving the area and coming back fixes it.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
was so glad to have found that since it fit so well for the initial localization confirmation for the west announcement lol
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I liked what I had it at before. Think it was
"No word on localization Sorry!"
then linked to the Sachi tear gif lol.
judging from the silence would be a good indication that downloads are done for folks are all running amok in SAO lol.
#YOLO
new users remember "Parry" is your friend, but does not work against everything. For the most part should be pretty obvious what it doesnt work on.
There is another skill that you use to counter things like breath from enemies and whatnot I believe. I do have it but never used it myself.
I remember that
;_; Sachi was the way I was when I saw it.
I prefer this one, less upsetting, more cute lol
names2hard4you
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Eh folks seem to be getting their feet wet already. Response seems to be pretty positive on the Internetz, and this thread is just moving at full throttle. Any time you have any questions you know where to come, we are all good people here
Eh folks seem to be getting their feet wet already. Response seems to be pretty positive on the Internetz, and this thread is just moving at full throttle. Any time you have any questions you know where to come, we are all good people here
How long until I have to do something other than press O nonstop
Eh folks seem to be getting their feet wet already. Response seems to be pretty positive on the Internetz, and this thread is just moving at full throttle. Any time you have any questions you know where to come, we are all good people here
Loving it so far. Closing in on the end of the first Hollow. Really intense, energetic, and fun so far. I like having to time things, pay attention to what my partner is suggesting, watch for parryable attacks, even pulling mobs ala MMOs is good fun. I haven't seen even a hiccup in the text so far, but then it hasn't been long.
I can see how it seems that way, and you could just press O til dead, but there are far more effective ways to fight, stuns, parries, and combos with your partner seem to really speed things along. Managing Risk is still a little confusing to me. Does switching reset it?
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
You actually shouldnt be pressing O non stop as if you have not edited the combo list all you are doing is wasting SP by having the Sword Skill automatically activated at the end.
You need to earn Skill Points from leveling up your weapons that have a number representation of how far along it has progressed.
Skill points is whats used to buy new Sword Skills (offensive skills) and Battle Skills (buffs, debuffs, healing, etc)
Good to hear!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
its literally the left and right keys on the Dpad. its kind of a mess with how it works really lol, but you will get used to it eventually. breaking off of a target and out of combat totally is a whole nother story too...
Doing that just makes me end up using the dpad shortcuts. D:
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
shit i dont have my game active, since there was a button combination you had to press. It was really odd with how they did it truthfully.
X then left / right? cant remember. D:
wait think X is used to actually break off combat when in the mode to actually switch targets... or something like that.
names2hard4you
Member
Great responses to the O thing as you can see we all help each other here, which is great! And great responses, I am away from home now, but when I get back I expect to see a ton of others responding but how much they like it.
noooooooooooooooooooooooo
Dpad, left and right switches between enemies.
Yeah. YOu have to be within view of the camera. It's really wonky. That's all.
So many skills, and already I have points to spread around from the jump. Going to hang on to them a bit until I decide what I want to do.
If memory serves, while it would take a lot of grinding, you CAN feasibly unlock everything for every weapon yeah? I am not saying it would be smart, or fun, but it's possible yeah?
Oh and here is the first time anything mentions HOW to stun, like stated the actual skill description says nothing about Stun.
If memory serves, while it would take a lot of grinding, you CAN feasibly unlock everything for every weapon yeah? I am not saying it would be smart, or fun, but it's possible yeah?
Oh and here is the first time anything mentions HOW to stun, like stated the actual skill description says nothing about Stun.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
So many skills, and already I have points to spread around from the jump. Going to hang on to them a bit until I decide what I want to do.
If memory serves, while it would take a lot of grinding, you CAN feasibly unlock everything for every weapon yeah? I am not saying it would be smart, or fun, but it's possible yeah?
Oh and here is the first time anything mentions HOW to stun, like stated the actual skill description says nothing about Stun.
Im not exactly sure how many skill points you would get if you went and 1000ed all of the weapons in the game. But one thing is for sure eventually you will want to start thinking long and hard about which skills you pick as the higher up you go the more expensive they become in skill point cost.
Piercedveil
Member
So I just accepted my first side-quest (protecting a farm?) and I'm a bit confused about how to know where to go to do it. Can I only access those two areas from the teleporter, or is there an exit from town too?
The game recommended I start with the Hollow Area, so I don't want to go off in a bad direction this early on.
The game recommended I start with the Hollow Area, so I don't want to go off in a bad direction this early on.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Aincrad is by far easier than the Hollow Area as Hollow Area was designed more with folks who are familiar with the game / combat in general.
For Hollow Area its only done from the teleporter, Aincrad you can go to the other zones by leaving the towns main gate, but then you will literally have to walk everywhere yourself. Once you have certain points open up in Aincrad you will be able to teleport to them as in each floor.
One upside with the Hollow Area is there are little "checkpoint" stones which you can activate allowing you to teleport back to the locations of them from the main terminal. Seriously helps in some areas.
Unfortunately, there are not enough skill points to learn everything even after mastering evasion, shield, and all the weapons. However, there should be more than enough points to learn everything you want to learn. Just be more prudent at the beginning as to what you want to learn and what you don't.
Piercedveil
Member
Thanks, I will check out Aincrad first then. I just found it by leaving the gate and helping some people, so I will continue to explore a bit.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its a lot smaller area and the monsters are weaker than yourself so makes things a bit easier to get used to the mechanics. Though there will be some boss types of enemies that might make things a bit challenging, so just be sure to check the level of enemies when you are unsure of if you should be hitting something or not lol
Aincrad will make you feel like this for a little while
Making you feel all invincible
Then you wander into the Hollow Area and it turns into this
Make sure to check this post out:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=125932343&postcount=2095
Should help get you started (it's in the OT but linking it for those who just skip straight to the last page lol )
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=125932343&postcount=2095
Should help get you started
(it's in the OT but linking it for those who just skip straight to the last page lol )Maintenance
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Ok, just watched the first 15 episodes (1 more than the 14th just to have a safe margin). What should I do first in this game? the 24 last floors or the plus content that wasn't in the PSP game? Any tips? Thanks.
Just saw the post above, thanks!
Just saw the post above, thanks!