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Valkyria Chronicles PC |OT| May the bloodline live forever
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CertifiedFP
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When we actually have
Federation uniform models instead of reusing Generic Gallian Troopers.
God Ch9 is such a cocktease IMO with the existence of Federation assets and all that go used for merely that mission. Just an IMO here, but that deserved a DLC campaign, not Edy Detachment
God Ch9 is such a cocktease IMO with the existence of Federation assets and all that go used for merely that mission. Just an IMO here, but that deserved a DLC campaign, not Edy Detachment
Obviously texture replacement already works and I doubt model replacement is far behind, but those, along with any mod campaign setting, do run the risk of contradicting actual canon should the franchise be officially revisited in future. (Something that isn't peculiar to VC yet probably is a bit more of an actual issue considering how rich the universe is)
I've actually been digging around old blog posts, etc. to see what kind of plans SEGA might have had for the franchise beyond VC3. Something that stuck out to me was one of Tanaka's blog posts prior to VC2's release that the game 'could appear on consoles' after PSP.
You gotta wonder how much of those assets were done and when along the dev/release cycle that the decision not to bother with the console version happened, and if any of those hypothetical assets might eventually make its way to hypothetical Steam VC2/VC3.
(Of course, as pointed out that'd be far more work and probably out of the scope of the 4-man team that VC porting had)
I've actually been digging around old blog posts, etc. to see what kind of plans SEGA might have had for the franchise beyond VC3. Something that stuck out to me was one of Tanaka's blog posts prior to VC2's release that the game 'could appear on consoles' after PSP.
You gotta wonder how much of those assets were done and when along the dev/release cycle that the decision not to bother with the console version happened, and if any of those hypothetical assets might eventually make its way to hypothetical Steam VC2/VC3.
(Of course, as pointed out that'd be far more work and probably out of the scope of the 4-man team that VC porting had)
So chapter 14...
This one's going to be a doozy to figure out. What made it worse was
I begin the map, Alicia goes super saiyan and starts blowing everything the fuck out. On 2nd turn after she nukes the AT cannon into oblivion I run a scout by and capture the base which triggers the pincer attack.
This is all well and good as this attack was extraordinarily obvious given the massive empty size of the map. However I'm ready this time, so I ready up both of my snipers and proceed to eliminate every single foot soldier in the south while moving the rest of my units into safe positions.
HOWEVER for some reason right after my turn is over, the enemy immediately spawns reinforcements, replacing every single unit that I killed last turn. WTF. Snipers appear from the cliff above and proceed to kill off my scouts. Edelweiss is caught between an anti-tank cannon that I can't kill and a giant tank that can shoot flaming napalm.
This is all well and good as this attack was extraordinarily obvious given the massive empty size of the map. However I'm ready this time, so I ready up both of my snipers and proceed to eliminate every single foot soldier in the south while moving the rest of my units into safe positions.
HOWEVER for some reason right after my turn is over, the enemy immediately spawns reinforcements, replacing every single unit that I killed last turn. WTF. Snipers appear from the cliff above and proceed to kill off my scouts. Edelweiss is caught between an anti-tank cannon that I can't kill and a giant tank that can shoot flaming napalm.
This one's going to be a doozy to figure out. What made it worse was
After I captured the camp it said "reinforcements canceled" and then the turn after they immediately spawned reinforcements with no prior announcement of a reinforcement call, WTF?
WTF.The best thing about the anime are Alicia's reaction faces. Example below, my reaction after somehow finishing the entire 20 something episode adaptation
There's also a super weird love triangle between Faldio, Welkin and Alicia. Faldio also gets his own tsundere male assistant who has a tsundere thing for Isara... Yeah it's a bad adaptation.
Yeah, Homer, Emile and Oscar. Highly inferior to the true best characters. It was a crime. A crime I say.
Worst mission, even worse than the Maiden's Shield.
I didn't have demolition boost when I was doing that mission. I'd imagine that makes it super fucking easy. The only way I could beat it was to set up a trap with 4 shocktroopers waiting for the APC to drive past, then just wailed on the weak spot with all four of them sitting there attacking each turn. The weird thing about that mission is that it only lets you assign 6 units in the planning phase, but you can bring in another 2 or 3 once the mission starts. Who knows why that is.
I really wish the turns went a bit faster in this game. The mission in Chapter 11 is especially bad. Every fucking turn you need to wait like 20 or 30 seconds for the stuff to happen at the end of the enemy turn in addition to their actual turns. Missions like that just make me save after every turn to avoid ever needing to replay it.
I didn't have Demolition boost either and it worked out fine. You don't need more than one Shocktrooper, since the car isn't driving that far and a shock can shoot as much as she or he want.
Why would you not have at least 2 though? You get extra damage every turn by having more of them with the team attack.
Oh, they do attack the radiator? I always thought the were shooting in the general direction, only hitting the armor of the APC.
Nightengale
Member
The Isara male love interest thing isn't as bad as it sounds. It's basically throwing in a random one sided puppy love from the guy to her. Frankly, the addition resulted in more Isara air time, so.. I can't complain too much about it.
The love triangle, though is basically DRAMA fodder. Terrible.
Faldio who?
And Alice during
Valkyria potential :"I'm a weapon, no a shield." Yeah, yeah, there's a reason why US called their WMD Peacekeeper. You are not only a talking breathing tank, but also a talking breathing nuke.
xBladeM6x
Member
I haven't had a crash yet, but I've been getting this temporary issue where if I ALT+TAB the game enough times, my GPU clock will drop to 504, and stay there permanently until I restart my PC. If I go onto other games after closing VC, like BF4, it'll chug because it's staying at 504 clock speed. Lol.
Psychopath
Banned
I asked for an increase in shadow res mod and got ignored too...
TaroYamada
Member
Maybe because modders aren't paid employees but rather fellow fans who choose to contribute to the community....
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
xBladeM6x
Member
I believe the shadow resolution scales with the rendered resolution.
I play at 3520X1980 (can't maintain 4k without dips) downsampled to 1920X1080, and I can tell you that character shadows are horribly low res.
That's a weird one. VC has more weird ones than regular ones.
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I am currently hunting aces down that I missed and to my devastation I realized that I had not one of the first empire weapons because their aces were hidden as fuck. Especially Segular the Wall. Fuck him. Now I am only missing the two 30er royal weapons, then I should have every weapon and weapon upgrade and thus the last achievement before I just can do what I want. (Killing 1000 units, unlock the full personnel profile and earning A Rank everywhere goes luckily hand in hand). I also think of taking the Splintered Horn Cezary that racist dick weed.
Snakethesniper
Member
Played chapter 7. When I first played it on the PS3 it got me stuck for some time, now I finished on the first try wooh hoo!
How do you play the DLC mission? I think I'll play them when I finished the main campaign since it seems that the selvaria's one unlock some OP weapons
How do you play the DLC mission? I think I'll play them when I finished the main campaign since it seems that the selvaria's one unlock some OP weapons
You can access the DLC missions at any time from the title menu under "Extras". Albeit you should at the end or after you finished the main story since it's balanced for an endgame squad. Or so I heard.
xBladeM6x
Member
I think we may be the only two people in this thread trying to 100% this game. Haha
TaroYamada
Member
I'm considering trying for 100% since I just beat it and never touched it again on PS3.
xBladeM6x
Member
Hard mode skirmishes are too much fun. Even if you don't 100%, at least do those.
julesodies
Member
I hate the crappy AI in this game. The computer waits 13 turns and then moves it's lancer up twice and one shots my tank.
Is it possible to speed up the computer's turns cause this made me rage quit several times.
Is it possible to speed up the computer's turns cause this made me rage quit several times.
*brofist*
I am usually not an achievement hunter, but damn, I want to complete the game.
I wish. It's especially annoying at missions where the enemy pile up points until a certain event happens and then keeps using all of them and that one mission where you have this slow ass walking enemy you just wanna kill for being that terribly slow. Usually I am going to take a piss, make some food or start watching youtube on my phone. Sometimes everything at once.
xBladeM6x
Member
TaroYamada
Member
Also not an achievement hunter, only game I've earned 100% on is Jet Set Radio HD.
Pssh I ain't gonna try for it, I'm going for it! Seriously the first Valkyria Chronicles has got to be up there as one of my all time favourite games. It didn't even have trophies for bragging rights on PS3 but yet I wanted to and did clear all of it including A ranks on EX skirmishes and the other DLC on PS3.
Not really a advocate of that stuff but as soon as someone figures out how to make the higher quality cutscene models be playable you'll get that.
Unrelated lol;
This is possible by editing the value in a save the game uses to "is x unit going to get deployed to y camp next turn?" on a PS3 even. (Framerate drops tho.)
Not really a advocate of that stuff but as soon as someone figures out how to make the higher quality cutscene models be playable you'll get that.
Unrelated lol;
This is possible by editing the value in a save the game uses to "is x unit going to get deployed to y camp next turn?" on a PS3 even. (Framerate drops tho.)
Psychopath
Banned
Hasn't Sectus made that already?
Only the High-res textures from the cutscene models, not the models themselves.
What, you already got 100%? D:
KimonoNoNo
Member
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No, but I'm apparently close
The big one honestly would be getting 1000 kills.
Thankfully it's not as ridiculously far out as FF8 Steam's 10,000 kills.
Maybe they have patched it?
Maybe they have patched it?
?
It's still there
I believe it's hidden on personal achievement panes till you get 1,000 kills like a regular tiered achievement.
Warrior_Keoni
Member
Are battle potentials unlocked via leveling or do I need to deploy the actual fighter on the ground and use them in battle?
Each soldier has one personal hidden potential. You deploy them and get 5 "Ellet Points". Off top of head, deploying is 1, killing an enemy is 2, rescuing a downed squaddie is 4, among other actions. Once you get 5 (cumulative across battles), talk to Ellet at Castlefront St. and it unlocks their potential.
Never really cared about the other actions since deploying someone and rescuing a downed squaddie with them pretty much insta-unlocks hidden potentials.
Other than personal potentials, each class also has a set of potentials that are unlocked by levelling.
Never really cared about the other actions since deploying someone and rescuing a downed squaddie with them pretty much insta-unlocks hidden potentials.
Other than personal potentials, each class also has a set of potentials that are unlocked by levelling.
But, but Macross!?
Damn.
So that is what that line of Ellet dialogue means. I never knew.
LurkerPrime
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Warrior_Keoni
Member
Thanks for the help! I'm still slowly making my way through the game.