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Post by Nanocrystal on Mar 11, 2024 11:25:26 GMT
I just use Aerith to spam "Prayer" for healing during longer/tougher fights.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 12:22:42 GMT
I didn’t see this til after I’d finished the game but the trick with Aerith from what I read is basically use the synergy attacks (the R1 ones) to build up her ATB faster, then lay out wards while using Tempest to keep your little casting buddy up. Then you become a mobile magic powered turret that can warp away from danger instantly when needed. Takes too long to build up on a standard fight though. I'm confused, I thought the R1 synergy skills just didn't consume ATB? Do they restore it too? |
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Post by uiruki on Mar 11, 2024 12:30:52 GMT
They can but for most characters they are slower at building ATB than normal attacks which is the trade off for the damage they can do.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 12:32:22 GMT
Not following sorry, if they’re slower at building ATB then why use them to build ATB faster?
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Post by uiruki on Mar 11, 2024 12:35:55 GMT
Aerith’s different because her normal attacks build ATB so slowly, so getting another character to help gets her to those 2 or 3 ATB meters she needs to set herself up faster. Once she’s warping around firing lasers she’s fine, it’s just that first build up. You can cover with materia like first strike and the manual ATB boost too.
That’s what I saw anyway, I saw it after finishing the game but it makes sense that she would be a character who needs to get a bit of momentum given that there are other characters who need to set themselves up a bit before they really get going like Red and to a lesser extent Tifa. I admit I did spend a lot of time just using Cloud because he can do everything straight away, and Yuffie because she only needs one ATB to get a good game plan going.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 12:48:50 GMT
What abilities do you have shortcutted for her?
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Post by uiruki on Mar 11, 2024 13:04:59 GMT
Again, I haven’t tried it myself but when I use her in that one mini game I made sure to keep up the wards, especially Chrono (the one that slows down enemies when they get in your face and does a bit of damage), arcane (double casts spells for anyone standing in it, not just Aerith), and most of all radiant (laser attacks, can’t be hurt when charging a spell). I also had sorcerous storm as a “get off me” button.
Kind of makes me want to jump back in and give it a go as I like the sound of double casting Comet on stuff.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 13:26:39 GMT
It sounds like it's fair to say that she's more useful when it's worth doing the setup she needs. I guess having the various wards as the shortcuts makes most sense?
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 13:30:36 GMT
Actually doesn't that auto-unique ability materia work based on what shortcuts you have? I wonder if I could get Aerith to cast her wards automatically...
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Post by uiruki on Mar 11, 2024 13:41:35 GMT
You have the auto weapon ability materia too though I didn’t mess around with that to see how customisable it is.
A couple of other things I didn’t know:
When you use the vision skills to increase your ATB to 3 bars, it doesn’t actually make the bar longer to charge, it just moves the marks so you effectively get a 50% haste as well that stacks with an actual haste.
If you have a multi-element materia on auto magic or elemental attack it’ll choose the right one for the enemy automatically. That might apply to multiples but I didn’t see that mentioned.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 11, 2024 15:16:28 GMT
Here's a question. Are you guys bothering with Barriers and Manawards and things like that? Other than setting them all up with Amplify it seems like more trouble than it's worth...?
I miss the Big Guard enemy skill. Barrier, M-Barrier and Haste on all.
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Post by The12thMonkey on Mar 11, 2024 15:39:46 GMT
I don't think I bothered with either. It was also a bit whacky to see both the barrier spells and also Protact / Shell.
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Post by uiruki on Mar 11, 2024 15:47:12 GMT
Barriers versus protect/shell are more for when you know someone’s just about to take damage so I think they would be more situational.
The normal buffs are actually quite powerful and make a good difference. Put Brave onto Cloud or Faith onto Aerith and let them rip - by the last third I could reliably hit the 9999 damage cap on a staggered enemy.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 12, 2024 21:18:23 GMT
I’ve just made it to under Junon. The first thing I do is continue the card game. So much fun!
I have found a few of the bosses to challenge me a bit, which I’ve managed to get by.. just. It is a bit frustrating, that you may not have the right materia equipped prior to the fight, so it’s a case of quitting out, then changing it up. Surely there’s a better way to do this?
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Post by Youthist on Mar 12, 2024 22:25:17 GMT
Just reached the first piano since the demo. Got a perfect in about ten minutes - much easier to perfect than the one in the demo / flashback.
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Post by uiruki on Mar 13, 2024 0:27:31 GMT
Don't worry, they get much trickier! I still got As for everything first time though, the thing you've got to watch out for is the notes they skip because of the mushy stick-based controls. It really throws your rhythm off even if you know the track.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 13, 2024 14:34:01 GMT
Why is it every FF card game the CPU cheats?
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Post by hicksy on Mar 17, 2024 10:14:00 GMT
Still hanging back on starting this based on promised performance patch.
For something promised “soon” would appreciate some sort of update on it 2 weeks in since launch!
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Post by Humperfunk on Mar 17, 2024 10:20:04 GMT
Really struggled with the first three or so hours of this, but played another 10 and it's really got it's hooks into me now. Completed everything in the Grasslands area and loved every second of it.
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Post by elstoof on Mar 17, 2024 10:23:18 GMT
I’m not particularly sensitive to that sort of thing but I can’t say I’ve noticed any problems with how the game runs. I don’t even know what mode I’m in, whatever the default is. Probably graphics mode? It’s fine, I can’t say I’ve noticed any frame rate issues, graphics look great, there’s the odd bit of minor pop in but that’s it. How will you know the patch was worth waiting for?
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Post by Nanocrystal on Mar 17, 2024 11:23:59 GMT
Up to Gongaga. This game is absolutely enormous.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 18, 2024 8:47:40 GMT
I don't know how I feel about the game at the moment. Now I've got up to Costa del Sol, with more silliness and jokes.. I feel a bit like I'm too old and jaded to be walking around with Tifa in a skimpy outfit.
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Post by Darknight on Mar 18, 2024 11:15:20 GMT
I reached the sit ups mini game over the weekend, and almost threw my controller out of the window with the second level on it.
The whole "hold trigger half way, then all the way when the gauge is filled" bit is so inconsistent!
It wouldn't bother me so much if I weren't quite so OCD about these things, but leaving that incomplete really bugs me - I just know I'm never going to be able to complete it with the way that minigame currently works.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 18, 2024 11:18:10 GMT
I don't know how I feel about the game at the moment. Now I've got up to Costa del Sol, with more silliness and jokes.. I feel a bit like I'm too old and jaded to be walking around with Tifa in a skimpy outfit. I may be misremembering... but don't you pick the outfit she wears? |
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Post by zisssou on Mar 18, 2024 11:21:00 GMT
I don't know how I feel about the game at the moment. Now I've got up to Costa del Sol, with more silliness and jokes.. I feel a bit like I'm too old and jaded to be walking around with Tifa in a skimpy outfit. I may be misremembering... but don't you pick the outfit she wears? I'M THE PERVERT OK |
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 18, 2024 11:29:43 GMT
Haha
Well conversely I feel like I'm too old and jaded to spend hundreds of hours on a game that takes itself too seriously. I really like that the game has remembered and respected the tone of the original. I wasn't a huge fan of the emo era of FFVII with the compilation stuff, even though I accept it was justifiable storyline-wise.
In fact one of my biggest fears by far before the remake was that modern day Square Enix would completely botch the tone. For a whole decade or so it really did seem like they'd forgotten what kind of game OG FFVII actually was
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Post by Youthist on Mar 18, 2024 12:53:08 GMT
EDGE review is in - 9 / 10
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Post by zisssou on Mar 18, 2024 12:54:39 GMT
Yeah, I'm glad they have kept the tone of the original game. It's more me being a miserable shit. On a big positive I'm enjoying the story, mini games, and open world. I just grin and bare the relationship stuff.
Perhaps I shouldn't have rinsed 16 before playing this.
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Post by Psiloc on Mar 18, 2024 14:23:01 GMT
I'm putting Queen's Blood on the backburner by the way. I've got to what appears to be the final "boss" of the questline and it's a massive jump in difficulty. Quite rightly - that's fine. But I did some Googling and basically, completing that tournament in Costa del Sol is all but required, and there's just too much of it for me while the main story is waiting to be finished.
And frankly I know I'll never get back to it after the credits roll...
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Post by Youthist on Mar 19, 2024 8:58:26 GMT
Just completed all 8 of the Condor battles in Junon. Enjoyable. And Hard Mode 3 & 4 were hard.
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