Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier in the Sky Edition [SELF]

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The dungeon song for chapter 6 is fantastic.
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best dungeon song is in chapter 7

best song in the game is in chapter 6 though
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pyresword posted...

Best chapter incoming.

Nah, he just beat it.

Loewe too good
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Loewe overrated
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as if I need affirmation from someone who can't even spell my name right

I mean Squall isn't German

thankfully
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Finished ReLIFE. All the post-anime stuff was quite good! Really wish they hadn't had Chizuru and Arata forget about each other though. Felt really pointless.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Finished ReLIFE. All the post-anime stuff was quite good! Really wish they hadn't had Chizuru and Arata forget about each other though. Felt really pointless.

I don't know that it was totally pointless because it resulted in some really poignant moments from Chizuru because she's aware of it (An having to erase the writing on her hand after she took the pill was heartbreaking, for instance). Now the fact that it was resolved within like 5 chapters is kind of weird for something they built up to for a long time, but that's the only real issue I'd take with all of that.
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But An didn't have to erase the writing on the hand. Going by what they'd discussed at the company earlier, there was no reason to erase it. Just seemed like it would've been better overall if they hadn't had it at all.
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She did though. Regardless, that wasn't the only moment of its kind. It's just the first one that came to mind.
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They said at the company that they were all happy with the two remembering each other. The reason they erased the traces from other people's lives was so that they wouldn't learn about ReLIFE, which obviously wasn't an issue with Chizuru.
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I learned the correct pronunciation of Loewe from Cold Steel 2.
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I mean they discussed among themselves if it was possible to make them remember each other in some way, but they decided it wasn't possible to do it with the stuff they had. I don't know that they ever communicated those wishes to Ryo or An though, so they're just doing their job.
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Shadow Dino posted...

I learned the correct pronunciation of Loewe from Cold Steel 2.

I had to look it up because it was driving me crazy not knowing how I should pronounce it.
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Cold Steel's dub has a few mispronunciations unfortunately. Arseilles being the most major one. Not sure how they got that one so wrong when the JP voices got it right.
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I don't need any help knowing how to pronounce Arseille

also guys don't be spoiling me on stuff that's in Cold Steel, even if it's just referentially
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aw yeah Kirby Star Allies has shipped
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oh man and Tsuredure Children Vol. 8 is out now

what a hype week
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Shadow Dino posted...

The dungeon song for chapter 6 is fantastic.

Sneaking/Infiltration/whatever the Lakeside Base's Theme is called is indeed great.

LeonhartFour posted...

best dungeon song is in chapter 7

pppppprobably

Unless we're counting Liber-Ark.

LeonhartFour posted...

best song in the game is in chapter 6 though

final chapter tbqh

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Bloodborne:

more chalice dungeons

Beat Pthumeru 4, Loran 5, and Isz 5.

I think I did in fact cheese Amygdala. After trying to replicate my strategy from the normal version of the fight failed, I just stayed behind him the whole time and attacked his tail. i don't feel too bad about it though

Loran 5 was pretty easy, and most of Isz 5 was the same, but shout-outs to the Layer 3 boss.

Ebrietas we meet again I see. Again, my normal version strat did not work. Trying to stay at her side just had her constantly turn with a side-swipe so that was no good. I don't feel like I cheesed this one though, had to work out my plan and then execute it without many mistakes. Ended up evading everything (or healing on the occasion I messed up) until she tried her body slam attack or whatever you'd call it, then I could get a good 4-5 hits on her head. Repeat until about 50% where instead she'd stagger and I could get a visceral attack that would drop her to about 30%ish maybe. Then she'd generate a black aura thing and I could try to get some more hits in, but once she was done SSJing up, goddamn laserz.

My counter to this ended up being the Old Hunter Bone to help roll away when the laserz came. I also swapped my runes from +10% HP/+5% HP/-4% Damage to +10% HP/+20% Visceral/+10% Visceral This should have worked but I got a bit panicked and got myself devoured at about 10% HP. Or rather, I could survive that attack, but the frenzy timer would go off before I could move again and that would get me.

The actual success surprised me though. First half of the fight went as usual, got the visceral like usual, but during the black aura part, I got better positioning and just DPS rushed it. Then comedy happened. She started laserz but I kept my DPS up because I was pretty sure I'd win the race. I did, but... laserz still went off. So I had PREY SLAUGHTERED followed immediately by YOU DIED. I was a bit anxious at whether that had counted. The items popped up on screen, but I never accepted, and the echoes did get added before my death. So I was a bit uncertain what would happen as I ran back to the boss arena. But all was well. And the items came too and the echoes were retrievable. So all was well~
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that's amazing. usually trying to DPS race a boss is not an advisable strategy but hey if it worked out then I guess that's all that matters.

ranged attacks work really well on ebrietas. I found this out when I continued my gun-only character deep into postgame chalice type stuff. simon's bowblade in particular has such great damage that I simply had to keep dodging and shooting her in the head until she died. I forget which builds you were using but I think it was one of the physical ones. skill I guess? unfortunately there's no real way to supplement a non-ranged character to make them good at ranged combat later. probably your best option would be to pick up the repeating pistol and upgrade it to max. even then I'm not sure if the damage would be good enough to make shooting at bosses really work.

amygdala strategy that you used is more or less the one yeah. as i mentioned it's easy to figure out even by accident. if you stand next to its legs/tail the only thing it can do is jump straight up and try to land on you... but it's also programmed not to land on you if you're not moving. so you can just stand there and wail on it with no consequences. takes a bunch of hits but it'll eventually die.
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Yeah, I was shocked it worked. If there's one downside to the Blades of Mercy I've noticed it's that the range can be pretty small. On all attempts but that one, it'd whiff on maybe half the attacks because it wouldn't hit high enough or something. But the one that worked, either I stood in a better spot, or maybe got incredible positioning with the raised portion of the arena to overcome that, but somehow it worked, I landed everything while the head was low during the aura part. At that point she was so low on health that when I noticed she was transitioning right into A Call Beyond I was like "...why not, let's see if this somehow works. Worst that happens is I go back to the original plan that would have worked if I hadn't lost my cool before."

Definitely wouldn't have worked if I didn't switch to the Visceral Damage runes either, I needed every point of damage for that to work out.
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visceral attack damage scales upward with skill so that's a pretty interesting strategy that likely only worked so well because you were using a skill build. as for hitting the enemy or whiffing with melee attacks... are you playing locked on? unlocking the camera makes it a lot easier to line up your attacks and control exactly where you want them to go.

that being said 'a mix of both' is the optimal strategy for sure. it just requires the skill of being able to lock and unlock the camera freely and the ability to control the camera all while doing the other stuff involved in playing the game (avoiding getting killed, killing your enemy)
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I usually have the camera locked on, but I found I had more success dodging in that fight with it off, so it was unlocked for that.

Not sure if the timing for sidesteps v rolls is any different or it was just in my head, but the charge attack in particular I seemed to dodge a lot better with rolls.
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your base movement speed is higher with the camera unlocked

it's possible that unlocked movement helped you get out of her tracking range more easily

the roll and quickstep have the same number of iframes so any difference beyond that comes down to player preference. but the base movement speed of unlocked play and the free directional control of the roll makes it objectively better than the quickstep if you're looking at more than just the iframes.
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quick step does have one advantage. in regards to counter attacking, your quick step auto adjusts your charging distance based on the direction of your dodge. so just for example..

quickstep forward -> r1 : normal charging attack

quickstep sideways -> r1 : character takes one step forward, then executes a charging attack

quickstep backwards -> r1 : character takes two steps forward, then executes a charging attack

(this is not the same for every weapon but it's just an example of how one weapon moveset might change based on your quick step)

basically it sets you up to be in a same counter attack position no matter which way you dodge away from the target.

the rolling attack, no matter which direction you go, actually has no frame of reference. usually the r1 after a rolling dodge is just an attack in the place where you are standing. this is the downside of the full directional control.

so while the unlocked roll is objectively better for dodging, the locked quickstep does provide one benefit in that it attempts to automatically guide your counter attacks.

though in the end this automatic guidance is only useful if you feel that you need the game to control your character for you. if you can space and time your own attacks correctly then there's really little value in having an auto guidance system. it's like including an auto pilot when you already know how to fly a plane manually. it can also cause problems because the auto guidance isn't perfect. sometimes when you're locked on it causes your character to move and attack in ways that result in them missing instead of hitting.

the unlocked play "downside" of needing to aim your attacks could also be seem as a positive... it allows you to aim your attack exactly where you want it to go. so yeah I would honestly say with optimal skill level and perfect, consistent play that unlocked all the time would be better. but it's incredibly difficult to do this and it doesn't always provide a benefit. so knowing when to stay locked on for ease of use and when to unlock for needed precise controls ends up being the important factor for optimizing your own play based on your own skill level.
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Lila sidequest the best
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I remember that in my first playthrough, Maybelle and Lila were the last people in the city I showed that photo to.

stupid names changing
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I thought it was pretty obvious who it was because only one person in Bose has blue hair and green eyes

I still showed it around everywhere else first for dialogue though
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although speaking of distinctive features or the lack thereof

one of the drawbacks of the Tsuredure Children manga is that so many of the guys look kinda similar when all the panels are black and white so it can be hard to tell which character it is at first

the girls at least have fairly distinct hairstyles so I can at least tell who's who there but with the guys it's hard to tell unless it's someone like Gouda
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oh man March Madness begins today

I'll probably talk about some basketball the next few days but most of the stuff I talk about gets ignored anyway so it'll be business as usual
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I don't know enough about basketball to really comment on it
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well yes that's what I was getting at

most of B8 doesn't care about sports
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I enjoy playing sports but I find it's really tedious to keep up with watching other people play sports
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This is the only time of year I watch college basketball with any regularity.
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Anyway, I finished volume 8 of Tsuredure Children. I thought this was a good step up from volume 7, which focused on some of the lesser characters. They got back to basics here, but they've also started to have a lot more chapters that focus on more than just two characters at a time.
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I'd like to watch the tournament but I feel like crap so I may not. At least, not as much as I'd like.
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Whew, I was worried about the Vols there for the first few minutes, but they're starting to pull away now.
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I only started watching that when Oklahoma/Rhode Island went to halftime so it was 21-8 or so. so that makes me laugh a bit. >_>
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it was 2-0 for like the first five minutes
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Yeah, I heard them say there was a 6 minute scoring drought at one point so I can imagine it was a lot closer earlier.

also uh oh it's closer now too
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yeah the Vols have been very streaky in this first half

I mean I don't think they're in serious danger of losing at this point but I'd like them to pull away to feel better about the next round
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Overtime on the very first game of the tournament

that's a good sign
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go my oklahoma
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well so much for that
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I'm kinda curious to see who drafts Trae Young and if he's any good in the pros
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It's going to be the Bulls and he's going to be a bust.

Signed, a Bulls fan.
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-03-15/ace-attorney-anime-gets-2nd-season-this-fall/.129044

oh man T&T adaptation incoming

Godot hype
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great finish in Loyola/Miami there
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Hmm...My bracket is 6/8 after the first set of games. Not bad but not great either. Missed on South Dakota State and NC State.
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