Lurker > skullbone

You do get a Gil Toss materia but IDK what the max damage you're able to do with it.

I died on 9/10 of a brutal fight and wasted 15 minutes so yeah I think I'm moving on without the platinum. Great game overall but damn they need to chill on these combat sims.

Yeah Weiss was the perfect difficulty level for this kinda game. So I don't need to fight 5 Weiss level bosses back to back.

Also most of these fights are just hard because you're getting blasted and interrupted by off screen stuff which sucks.

Reading that made me lose interest in going for the platinum lol. Holy shit that sounds miserable. I like hard stuff in games but it feels like they went kinda overboard with the brutal and legendary challenges.

But maybe I just need the stat boosts from max materia and max weapons? How significant is the boost for level 9 weapons?

Yeah I finally managed to beat Clouds legendary fight and I have a feeling the others are going to be so much worse. Anyone else do these before hard mode?

Hmm I had Cull pinned but now I'm not so sure after these Thanos nerfs. Maybe I'll just keep saving

I mean yeah that's fight 2 of 5 though so IDK how brutal the last 3 fights are as well. I beat all of the protorelic fights on dynamic first try so I think I'm pretty good at the combat but the numbers in these post game fights are just rough.

Wow some of these fights you unlock after beating the game are hard AF. I'm not really sure how to keep getting stronger either since I'm already max level.

I guess I could max out my stat boosting materia but I'm not even sure it would help that much.

There's a Cloud 1 on 1 fight against a white wolf and it does 3000 damage with an AOE attack and then follow up with 4-5 fireballs each doing 1500 damage each too. It also feels like you're doing pitiful damage in these fights.

She's a vault dweller so of course she's going to sound like she's out of the 1950s. That's why the person she's trying to save says "fucking vault dwellers".

I think it looks okay but I'm a Walton Goggins stan. Will wait for reviews at least.

Emote spamming is whatever but I don't understand the people who emote spam me after a loss in infinite.

Like bro we're both in the 40,000 ranks here and cubes don't matter anymore, why are you acting like this.

You should be happy I let the game finish so you could get your cool combo instead of leaving early.

That annoys me more than anything when I have my cool combo ready on turn 7 that it's taken me 20 games to line up and then the other guy leaves for 2 cubes on turn 7. We're infinite, just let me do my thing with my bad deck!

For the worm swallowing you, you gotta dodge toward the worm.

But stuff that requires tight timing for a parry you can use ATB counters like Yuffie's Brumal Mode, or whatever Cloud's ATB counter stance is. I'm pretty sure Red has one too

I was watching someone play yesterday and they were using sleep pretty often in those combat trials where you're getting spammed by lots of enemies. Your allies won't attack sleeping enemies so it looked pretty useful.

I think you could buy heroes actually but anyone who did that should be embarrassed anyway since they're free to unlock.

Punnyz posted...

Let me know when the PVE modes are free or you can use the coins to get them

I think there's only 1 and the rest are probably cancelled at this point lol.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

I didnt realize they werent all already free to play, its stupid that they already werent, and this is not going to bring me back.

They were free on the battle pass so you had to grind them out or pay money to unlock them early. After the battle pass ended you could unlock them by playing a certain number of games.

So yeah they were already free but this is removing the grind of unlocking.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Overwatch 2 about 5 times so I think I'm done for good now. I pretty much only play Mystery Heroes anyway but I doubt I come back unless they make some major changes like revert to 6v6.

Very cool, I'm glad to hear it sounds like he's going to try to fix the difficulty of higher stakes.

I'd love to see more wacky cards in the style of the legendary jokers that actually change how you play a run instead of "multi +5" type cards. Just need more broken stuff in the game!

The most hype and fall out of my chair moments come from fighting games (and Smash Bros specifically) but my favorite to watch is probably high level Dota. I haven't even played in 5+ years but it's still fun to watch how the game evolves.

Rocket League is absolutely the answer for watching without ever having played it. It's soccer with rocket cars, immediately easy to understand and enjoy.

An article I read today said that it takes place 100 years before Episode 1 so not nearly as far back as I thought. I mean Yoda would still be around in that time right?

Edit: I guess Yoda is 900 years old so he's still around in the High Republic era too. But I definitely thought that this would be in the 500+ years before Episode 1 range.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

yeah something like Skyrim VR or RE7 VR is not a good "first VR" experience.

Definitely start with like a "job simulator" type cartoony thing. Something that doesn't even pretend to resemble reality. Build up a tolerance for the motion of VR playing things like that before tackling more realistic games.

It's not the sort of thing you can jump right into the deep end on, but once your tolerance is built up it's a fantastic way to experience those games.

Yeah my dumb ass thought that since I was good with Vive I'd be okay with Gran Turismo, the Horizon game, and No Man's Sky.

Could not play any of them seated for more than 5-10 minutes without wanting to die.

Yeah PSVR2 has made me really sick, even with motion sickness pills. I'm used to walking around with my Vive so sitting down was a pretty bad experience.

I think VR is a waste unless you have enough room to walk around.

Yeah I think it gets stale around 25-30 hours just because the high stakes runs are too luck based. But that's still a good amount of time to spend on a game that was $15 and I had fun.

I really regret mine but at least it'll work on PC soon.

People had issues with Chocobo Gliding? Yeah it was weird you couldn't invert the controls but it wasn't particularly difficult.

Yeah I'm using an enhancement deck too and it's owned pretty much every match in 1-2 attempts. I won a game 70-0 once it was pretty silly.

My collection level is 14,000 and I'm also missing 9 cards. So you seem to have gained about 3000 worth of CL by not spending gold on variants.

I've also bought a few variants for 5000 tokens though instead of getting cards so I could be doing better with my collection.

I think whenever they suspect that people are getting close to having a full collection or even being ahead of the collection that they're going to drop 10-20 cards out of nowhere. That's just a hunch I have because they don't want people to ever be collection complete.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b5d8f3be.jpg

Infinite achieved with this deck. Elsa and Hope are lol

Daily gold pass is interesting, 1800 gold for $5.

It's sad that doesn't even buy two premium variants though.

Boo I didn't want that Ghost Spider variant but it took 4 to get Mockingbird.

Well she counts enemies so she COULD get +14 but yeah that seems pretty unlikely.

I mean yeah you can easily build a deck to counter Destroy. The issue is that when you do that you're suddenly going to stop running into destroy decks lol.

There's a reason that Destroy has consistently been one of the top decks in the game since basically day 1 despite having 1000 counters.

No, those cards are not being used much. I think it's not worth getting 1 cube out of Destroy matchups to put those cards in your deck that don't really work against the rest of the meta.

Also wow originally they said that card effects would be tied to the border but that's not the case. So they said if you wanted a custom card to be 3D it would need to have the green border, for example.

But custom cards actually have all of the effects with any border so all of my white border inked cards have full animations and 3D now, very cool.

It's a bummer you can't turn off the card effects though, it says you need to unlock "none" with an inked split but I didn't think that was a possibility.

New Mantis should give -1 cost to the card she copies or something to give it an advantage over your opponent's copy.

Thanos and HE (Leech) decks nerfed, Destroy untouched.

The Leech nerf actually helps Destroy a lot because Death and Knull were completely useless when Leech'd but not eligible anymore.

So it looks like Destroy is poised to take over the meta again.

I have a feeling there are little tiebreakers like the first game.

Whoever you pick to help in the beach fight probably has an impact but IDK

With Cloud you need to roll, then hold attack and he'll fly up into the air with them.

Tifa has a move called Gale something that gets her airborne.

Yeah Brock Samson or other Venture Bros representation would be awesome.

The new clips of the game they did show looked pretty good honestly. It's hard to put my finger on it but it feels slightly less jank.

The rumor a few weeks ago was that gleamium is in the battle pass but it's a very small amount like 150 or 200 or something.

It also said they're taking the Halo approach of allowing you to work through previous battlepasses at any time.

Kinda the opposite but I started listening to a new podcast a lot while I was playing Bravely Default 2. So now whenever I listen to that podcast I think of BD2.

If I play Shuri then the next card needs to be in her lane to get doubled.

But then if I double a card I can't play a 1 drop because Taskmaster will copy it the next turn.

I had fun with this game but it got a little stale as a solo queuer. Some of those new gadgets look fun though.

Lopen posted...

Main benefit to doing Shuri I can see is doing

Hope -> Shuri -> Magneto (which loads their guys against big Magneto) > Taskmaster

If you're just using Shuri on vision I don't see what Hope is actually adding

Yeah Magneto is in the deck too but I find myself needing the flexibility to move Vision on turn 6 most of the time.

I'm running a deck from Regis that uses Shuri and Vision mostly. But then the problem is that if I have 6 energy on turn 5 I can't play a 1 drop because I need to Taskmaster on turn 6.

And I can't start the turn with a 1 drop because I need Shuri to hit Vision lol.

Maybe this deck just sucks

I find myself not really being able to take advantage of the extra energy that Hope gives me. Most of the time it just lets me play a 6 drop and a 1 drop on turn 6.

Yeah he didn't click for me until I did his combat trial.

Well I thought she could only trigger once a turn which was still strong but not crazy.

Are these devs ever going to learn that cost reduction and extra energy are too strong of effects? Hope having vanilla stats and giving 1-3 extra energy a turn is insane. Did they forget you can move cards out of her lane or something?

I'm so confused how this card got released compared to other energy giving cards like Electro.

Oh yeah I meant that Hope feels more important to the deck than Elsa now.

Jeez Hope is a lot stronger than I thought in that case. I thought it was only able to trigger once a turn.

I'm already getting sick of running into this Hope deck. It's basically just the old Elsa deck but using Hope instead of Elsa.

Uhh if you play 3 cards into Hope's lane does she get 3 extra energy the next turn? I didn't think it worked like that so can anyone confirm?

Sephiroth's private file at Shinra HQ should really have a giant "DO NOT SEND TO NIBELHEIM" message at the top too.

Like surely someone in the company knew that would cause an issue right.

It was pretty stupid to make that post 1 day before the Xbox showcase and not have anything to show there. Xbox even tweeted back at them the day before!

But I'm sure we'll see something in the next week.

One of the recent rumors said that they're taking the Halo approach and making it so that previous battlepasses don't expire. I think that's a much better approach compared to the FOMO impulse purchase model.

Also some rumored characters:

Joker
Barbie
Beetlejuice
Wicked Witch (Wizard of Oz)
Samurai Jack
Paul Atreides (voiced by Timothee Chalamet because he likes video games)