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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/05/24 7:29:46 PM
#301
trdl23 posted...
Right but this requires not using her in cowgirl form

This is why god invented the hard random ascension function

No matter what RNGsus gives you, you still win

(FWIW I think my favorite animations for her are Ashtart's, because they are just absolutely wildin fluid. But every single ascension has a selling point)

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/05/24 6:16:09 PM
#297
Oh, forgot to say, it's not my favorite NP but this is my favorite chant outside of UBW:

"The return to the Age of Gods, reaching its threshold.
The province of beginnings.
The sound of life blossoming open.
Everything is like a momentary dream.
Edin Shugurra Quasar."

Really conveys the majesty of an entity great enough and powerful enough to make the entire rest of the roster combined look like a speck of galactic dust.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/05/24 2:10:35 PM
#292
The coolest NP is unfortunately spoilers so I cannot share it just yet. The second coolest shows up in this chapter, though, so you're in for a treat.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/05/24 1:54:24 PM
#290
ExThaNemesis posted...
Also seeing you guys nerd out over servant stats and damage brings such a smile to my face when I'm just trying to leisurely travel through time w my wife and learn to cook with EMIYA. Maybe save humanity a couple times, who knows?

It's a good time and a great ride so don't worry about it for now. My stance is fgo accounts go through stages of maturation, from rookie to human rights enjoyer (aka has card supports + ideally oberon) to consolidation to true endgame and it takes years to get to the endpoint unless you gigawhale. We chat about this just cause we've done the journey. Stopping to smell the roses is ~100% the correct play.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 11:54:34 PM
#283
Xuxon posted...
The Salieri comparison doesn't show what you want at all IMO. It basically just shows that NP1 Morgan is enough for any farming node that isn't 90++, and that Salieri can do slightly more with BG but still not enough for 90++ (and in fact, that Morgan CAN possibly do 90++ if it's man). But you don't actually want to use BG anywhere except CQs, and the dropoff from BG is much more severe than cranking, so Morgan can 6CE farm events where Salieri might not be able to. And Morgan can use BG in CQs with a single arts crit or CS and way outdamage Salieri even if it's not man. Plus Extha will have grails and gold fous on her.

90++ is also completely unnecessary. Events are 3 weeks long now except for lottos so it hardly matters at all. You can make a few more blue apples or farm pitifully inefficient dead week nodes a bit more, woo. And then for lotto events, you can be like what, 10-15% more efficient farming 90++. Both things are nice to do if you can but they really don't matter.

Uh, no, arts units just use BG literally everywhere because they hit thresholds through it. I play in JP and not just NA. The game is going to change dramatically with the upcoming summer event. 90++ is also not unnecessary, because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you are going to need a shitfuckload of bond to interact with class score boards. My account that is years and years old had to go out of its way to roll extra berserkers (several! Plural!) just to hit the dang thresholds required. Bond isn't just more quartz, which is enormous, it is also an enormous boost to the power of your faves that lets them perform in ways they otherwise couldn't (to the point it flat out affects what is possible to omnifarm at the highest end, never mind that weaker units have their kits flat out fixed by gaining 30% steroids). You want as much of it as you can get.

MacArrowny posted...
lol comparing NP5 of a story-locked servant to NP1. come on, man.

Morgan's a lot more useful in farming than AA too. There's a reason she showed up in multiple comps for the last lotto and he didn't. Targetable NP charge too good.

Salieri is an automatic np5 if you roll GSSR on any extra class banners like, twice. He shows up en masse because he's the only 3 star that can even drop (well, Xu Fu will pollute the pool soon, but not by a meaningful amount.

Also no, Morgan is not more useful than AA. AA hits thresholds vs literally everything, Morgan doesn't. Again, literal personal experience from playing JP here -- AA eventually solves all farming because he will kill anything you ask him to kill. I legitimately just stopped using him these last two weeks because he finally hit bond 15 from farming every single event for years, but his setup doesn't hinge on the opposition suiting him. He will simply kill, and that will be that.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 3:00:26 PM
#275
Fairly reasonable yeah

No reason not to go for it

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 2:36:55 PM
#273
Yeah Morgan's use case is that she farms anything Man type at NP2+ 100 (might need gfous too I didn't check) and has CQ utility. At NP1 her farming value is unremarkable, just like everyone else's.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 2:32:41 PM
#270
MacArrowny posted...
No way does NP1 Salieri outdo NP1 Morgan.

Also Kiyohime and Darius are both AoE 3* Zerks.

NP5 level 70 Salieri with a practical team (castoria/castoria/oberon, MLB BG): 344k turn 3

NP1 Morgan, same conditions (koyan/koyan/oberon, Cranking MLB): 301k turn 3

It's worse in the pre-oberon turns because Oberon's buster up helps make up for Morgan's dogshit skill scaling via Koyan

Morgan really, truly is nothing worth talking about at np1 if she's not hitting Man. Her Man damage is 610k by contrast under the same parameters, just so you get an idea of what kinda gap we're working with. Does this mean Morgan sucks? No, but she's not Arjuna Alter and cannot just be assumed to outshoot everyone simply by existing.

EDIT: Should note that I did not give Salieri the automatic Castoria NP he's entitled to for the privilege of being Arts either, which would push his damage higher. I just went with a super basic setup. If you're curious, non-MLB BG Salieri still outshoots Morgan, and that's literally an F2P setup down the line.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 1:38:11 PM
#262
It's not berserkers (because iirc there just aren't aoe 3 star zerks) but Salieri tends to outshoot Morgan at NP1 and they have similar use cases. Can't overstate the power of getting to use black grail thanks to efficient loopage, truly.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/04/24 1:19:37 PM
#258
MacArrowny posted...
You do not need above NP1 on any Servant imo.

If you want to just do 90 or 90+ nodes maybe, sure. If you want to do 90++ you better fuckin bring kitted out units. And given the requirements for class score boards down the line, there's a fairly strong incentive for doing those harder nodes, frankly. I cannot overstate just how large a boost class score gives to making weak units much more usable in general. The rising tide lifts all ships.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
04/03/24 11:26:52 PM
#49
Driving gets a ton better with better cars if it's any consolation

(or bikes)

It's never amazing or anything, but the car jank is very much intentional at this point I think. The high end cars are comically smoother.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/02/24 9:26:54 PM
#234
Sibuki is bonkers for 90+ even at np1

90++ takes a shitload of investment but thats how it is for everyone, no surprises there

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
04/02/24 6:59:21 PM
#231
Team Avalon is not meta, its just an easy comp that clears consistently. There's a difference between these things. Meta is when I grab my np5 Arjuna Alter and cave a cq's face in in the minimum amount of turns possible. Generally speaking, the game very heavily incentivizes going mad fast, not slowing down for anything -- as evidenced by how Castoria/Morgan/Merlin showed its faults vs Cernunnos. It'll be enough for just about anything for a while though.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
04/01/24 1:17:25 PM
#40
Excellent choice, smartguns absolutely S L A P

Genuinely a phenomenal experience to play with. Wait until you get a smart sniper, I actually made a Luca Blight face IRL when I saw that existed the first time

The branch I'm talking about is Takemura. Check on him to get an interesting dive into the corpo side of things, rather than just the outlaw side that Evelyn and Judy offer. I think you'll enjoy it.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
04/01/24 12:39:39 PM
#38
You didn't start the DLC yet so don't worry about it. It's unmistakable when you get the chance to begin it, you'll know it when you see it.

Also yes, losing Jackie is brutal. They put in so much effort into making you care for him that when he actually doesn't make it out your heart totally sinks. You did the right thing sending him back to his mama, BTW. You can completely lose out on a truly amazing quest otherwise.

The game really opens up at this point, and not just because the map opens. This is where Cyberpunk starts to escalate into something truly all its own. I suggest chasing the other obvious branch of the main story a bit just because I think you'll find the major 'companion' to it really fascinating, but Evelyn's branch definitely feels like the natural next step.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/30/24 1:31:57 PM
#33
Hell of a ride, isn't it?

Only gets crazier from here too. What did you think of the events leading up to this?

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TopicWhich 2024 Live Service game is the bigger trainwreck?
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 8:09:44 PM
#50
I feel like some kind of distinction would be useful between 'game genuinely needs a subscription model to keep lights on/requires paying a one-time purchase up front' live service games and 'game funds itself with mtx, potentially ones that sell player power'. An MMO is worth getting excited about even if it charges a sub. A gacha isn't worth getting excited for until it's proven itself, since the model is fundamentally predatory and not just transactional.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 4:43:28 PM
#31
You know what you must do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLXTBbMRxK8

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 1:26:36 PM
#189
MacArrowny posted...
There are fully voiced gacha games with similar amounts of text to FGO, though. They're not massive, since they use proper compression. CGs are still super rare too, as are animated battle sequences (which are mostly just a character using their NP in the battle engine, not a proper anime cutscene).

I don't feel like CGs are rare. I'm going over my screenshot folder and LB6 had something like thirty to forty at a quick glance. It's a fairly decent chunk. As for games with equivalent text amounts...I frankly cannot think of any. FGO story updates just dwarf anyone else's stuff. Lostbelt 6 was 600k words, for reference (to its detriment IMO cause it was too padded, but hey). Who else is pumping out even half that many story-relevant lines into their content updates?

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 1:05:29 PM
#187
MacArrowny posted...
lol this is a lie

No, it's factual that voice is by far the biggest thing as far as bloating game size goes. The models and artwork are like a tiny chunk of the filesizes by comparison.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 1:02:06 PM
#185
Xiahou_Shake posted...
My one big complaint about FGO at least as someone who played from the global launch up through the end of Epic of Remnant is that for how huge the game is/was, they really did the absolute bare minimum of reinvesting their profits. Like look at something like Honkai Impact 3rd and how horrifically crusty it was at first versus what it became. By all rights FGO should have frequent fully animated cutscenes, full voice acting, massively improved presentation with regular CGs, etc but instead everyone was losing their mind if an event had like, a single voiced scene or even a single CG. Animation updates are nice and everything but man a story this good really deserves better than how it's presented given the ludicrous amount of money the game makes.

They fixed that a lot. Not having voice is a choice to not bloat the game size because just the valentines updates added like...ten gigs to the game size, but CGs are very common these days. Important segments also get animated battle sequences, too.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 11:26:37 AM
#183
If FGO was not a gacha game it would be as revered as something like Final Fantasy 14 in online circles for sure. The gacha complaints are fair, but the game has done its damnedest to earn people's praise in spite of it.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 10:17:50 AM
#178
Also, now's a good time to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB8Rxe7a5TY

When I was talking about the pillar women theme, this is the one. It's Kiara's signature theme.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 10:16:38 AM
#177
ExThaNemesis posted...
Oh I get it, I can either do that or do it on hard mode without her buffs.

Have any of you done it on Hard Mode? I'm sure some of you have.

I definitely don't have a good enough roster for that.

There's actually two different forms of hard mode. The obvious one is just not turning any of the buffs on. The real ultra hard mode is turning the first debuff on and then keeping everything else off, and it is an absolutely viciously difficult mess of a challenge. I've done both!

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/28/24 9:39:33 AM
#171
Yes, you too can get the lewd nun

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/27/24 4:24:12 PM
#28
He had it coming so I support this

Did you (minor mission spoiler) Free his old boss from captivity? Golden opportunity to do some 'corporate restructuring' if he doesn't instantly aggro on you

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 8:45:03 PM
#26
I had to go look that one up because I never even saw it and yooooo, that's good shit

This fucking game man

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 4:55:55 PM
#164
I'll post the tune once you're deeper in. It's instantly recognizable, and yes, it has this kind of low chanting in the background that makes it sound super ominous. An absolute banger tune in a soundtrack with a bunch of banger tunes to begin with IMO.

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TopicWhat four albums are on the Metal Albums Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 3:56:32 PM
#46
You know what

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Dream Theatre - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

Venom is worthy, but I can't in good conscience not rep prog metal when it's a huge part of my musical tastes. Scenes From A Memory is still a template a lot of gifted groups strive to reach. It's a worthy representative for the more technical and melodic side of metal.

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TopicFrancis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore just collapsed.
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 3:51:59 PM
#80
Wanglicious posted...
this approach i think is more fair, basically going too far in the other direction will end up hurting millions of people in way too many ways to count (food, gas, oil, transport, employment, air quality due to more cars, etc) because of concern of a freak situation. if there's a 100 ton boat floating along a port city that means the place is also receiving 100 tons of materials and there's no feasible way of doing this on land. so transport will continue no matter what and while you can try to minimize the dangers (another bureaucratic check could be more strict safety checks for any large transport) but you need a functional city and a way to get goods to different areas on land. to some extent the city could throw in a bunch of ferries to try to ease the transition but it's not going to be an easy decade.

Couldn't trains get the job done fairly effectively? It'd require a proper rail infrastructure, of course, but that has its own upsides like boosting tourism as well.

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TopicWhat four albums are on the Metal Albums Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 3:22:14 PM
#40
Venom - Welcome to Hell (started the whole extreme deal)

This is a strong pick and might be a better choice than Reign in Blood I think. Strongly leaning towards this as a last nom

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 12:41:44 PM
#160
ExThaNemesis posted...
Is Fate/Extra CCC this eerie and unsettling, or is it because they moved the setting over to "our"/the real world that makes this event so scary?

It's not. CCC has eerie elements but SE.RA.PH works as well as it does because the villain is, fundamentally, given the 'horror movie bad guy' presentation, and it's done masterfully. There's a joke that goes something like 'Any time the Pillar Women Theme starts playing, drop everything and RUN' and it's on point. If you know which track that refers to, you understand why.

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TopicFrancis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore just collapsed.
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 9:39:16 AM
#34
God, that's a disaster. Not just because of the loss of lives, which is by itself tragic, but because...look at that picture. Are sections of the city just...completely cut off from each other now? How are people going to get to work? Or worse, to their homes? Am I crazy in thinking a huge chunk of the town is just going to be paralyzed now?

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TopicWhat four albums are on the Metal Albums Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
KanzarisKelshen
03/26/24 6:54:28 AM
#33
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets

Withholding my last nom for now because I gotta think about this one. We basically have four(ish, could argue five) eras to metal, and right now these noms cover two and a half. Early heavy metal/protometal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the 'radicalization of metal' era that kickstarted with Thrash. This leaves the metal renaissance (kickstarted not by nu metal but by Panthera's Cowboys From Hell, commercially -- metal was completely alive and well as a scene but it had fallen off the map commercially for a while if we don't take glam metal as a real part of the scene), and current-millennium metal. I'm not sure what a good representative for the latter would be, but kinda lean towards it. It has to be something from the point where metal genres started intermingling, I think. Any ideas?

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/25/24 4:44:07 PM
#24
Yeah. IIRC there is like, one attribute reset I think, but I forget if it was for pre-2.0 saves or not. If you really get buyer's remorse and are on PC though, there's mods that allow for stat respecs.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/25/24 3:17:34 PM
#152
Melt's design is Very Extra (haw haw haw) but it's very neat how hard it goes on emphasizing her balletic inclinations. It's a grotesque parody of a ballet dancer and it's 100% on purpose.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/25/24 3:15:59 PM
#22
IIRC there's like, one gig that's really hard for when you first get it which is the one where you have to go into a fenced off compound. It's doable but it takes serious knowledge of how to split up enemies to make it happen. Everything else? Swing for the fences, you are 100% capable of doing it.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/25/24 12:50:12 PM
#19
Yyyyup, there's a lot of game to learn

Early on it kinda pays to play the game like a cover shooter cause you don't have all the good stuff to let you just rambo in yet, but that goes away with time. Kinda a progresion from 'normal joe' to 'super badass'.

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/24/24 10:10:08 PM
#142
If only you knew why

;_;

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/24/24 1:41:38 AM
#138
If you ever wondered why break bars are a thing, just think back to the Cu Alter bossfights in America and how shitty they were. Now consider they released a remaster memorial quest of those once that was just 'what if those three arrows were just one fight, where calter has two break bar pips and ascends as he advances through them?'. Immense improvement tbqh.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 10:48:57 PM
#15
Uglyface2 posted...
There's a cyberpsycho that will kill you dead without a melee weapon. The one with the claws that comes out of the refrigerator, specifically. I didn't have anything invested in melee and had an ok melee weapon, so after dying multiple times trying to use a gun, I switched to melee and blocked her attacks.

You don't need melee for that though. That just hits what I meant about 'get mit chance' because the close quarters are unfavorable otherwise and it makes her into a joke. It's very easy to tranquilize her and at most just swap to fists at the end to conk her out if you're going for nonlethal takedowns.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 7:50:02 PM
#12
Excellent choice, Corpo Hacker lady is a hoot

Game went from like a 6/10 at launch to an 8/10 with the first finalized build and then to like a 9.6/10 for me with 2.0, truly a phenomenal experience now. Enjoy!

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 7:46:12 PM
#10
Also, earlier it was said the origin story does not change things dramatically. This is a LIE and I am bolding that because it's super important to understand why. The lifepaths don't unlock wholly unique content beyond the initial prologue missions, but they dramatically influence the tonal voice of the story and the options you'll have at your disposal to portray V. S/he is always a fully realized character, and your lifepath pick informs a lot of his/her past experiences. A Corpo's story is going to have a very different taste than a Streetkid's if you pick the path options fairly consistently, and viceversa. If you care about the roleplaying side of things, take your time to think about whether you want to be an outsider looking at the city with fresh eyes, a rich asshole who fell from grace, or a barrio kid born and raised in the hood, because you'll get a very different perspective out of the same quests from each one.

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TopicI'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 7:36:53 PM
#9
Melee is absolutely not needed, disregard that advice.

Let's see...I finished my second Very Hard run not that long ago, so here's what I'd say is important to know:

-You get to pick three attributes to max out in the base game, four in the DLC (plus a DLC attribute minitree that is free to max if you explore). This means you end up very omnicompetent over time and there isn't a lot of need to sweat the synergies. THAT SAID...

-Some trees are 'primaries' you focus on and spend your cyberware to boost, some trees splash. Generally speaking, every tree has one splashable branch out of three, one branch that may or may not be splashable depending on build, and one branch that is the 'I want to do THIS thing primarily' focus, which is the left-side branch. Intelligence can splash its left side with a weapon spec from another tree (which are the left side branches too), but it's the only one where you can get away with that. Why does this matter? Well...

-Three of the trees get an Operating System cyberware that DRASTICALLY changes your playstyle and what you can do, and I would urge you to think about what's more your jam before you go in. They are Body, Intelligence and Reflexes. Body's Berserk lets you become an unstoppable melee murderbeast and eventually straight up makes you invulnerable while it lasts at cost of not being able to use ranged weapons, Intelligence gives you hacking powers, and Reflexes gives you Sandevistan, AKA superspeed that works like a bullet time (and also has number buffs on top). If any of these sound like they fit into what you want to do, consider focusing on the appropriate tree to make them stronger because the payoff is noticeable. There's a fourth path available which is 'no OS, just give me a lot of extra cyberware points for elsewhere' but it's an advanced setup and I really don't recommend it while starting out.

-Everything is viable so there is no need to worry about things beyond making sure you pick an OS that matches your main spec (ie don't be a goofy goober and focus on hacking then get sandevistan or berserk for example). I personally feel Tech is an amazing tree to jam into any build but every single stat combination will produce amazing results, and having used every tree, I promise they all transform your experience if you pump them up and they are insanely fun to play with.

-If you like to play on hard or very hard modes, work on gradually acquiring 100% Mitigation Chance (and boost the Mit Strength). This is the only requirement the game asks of you as you crank up the difficulty.

-Unlike most open world games, Cyberpunk's critical path is actually interesting, cinematic and compelling. The way I've described it since 2.0 update dropped is that it's three excellent games jammed together (a breakneck speed FPS, an open world game and a linear RPG with involved sidequests) that become something more than the sum of their parts. It is completely valid to mainline the story for a long chunk of time if you want and you won't be let down, unlike a Skyrim or the like. That said, exploring is very fun, so don't sleep on it!

-Barring some very specific gimmicky builds (and LMGs, which have to wait until the DLC to get iconics iirc), your weapons will eventually be Iconics that have unique and powerful effects. To name one example, the very first iconic weapon you get, the Dying Night, is a mean old bastard of a pistol that electroshocks enemies if you hit them enough times in a row for huge damage, and its impact is very noticeable compared to a generic gun. Make sure to keep disassembling gear you don't need for materials to upgrade your chosen cyberware and Iconics, because every tier is a pretty hefty performance jump!

I think that's everything of note. If you got any questions during play feel free to tag me, I'm happy to explain anything that's uncertain.

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TopicBest Soulslike that isn't from From Software
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 7:16:56 PM
#42
Kenri posted...
Yeah I agree. I can see the argument but Dark Souls doesn't really do movement upgrades and that's a pretty important part of the Metroidvania DNA. Not having a map is also fairly damning tbh

Concur with this. There's roughly three schools of Metroidvania and, amusingly enough, Dark Souls is closest to Hollow Knight's more than the other two (the other two being of course Metroid and Castlevania). Even then though, HK's Castlevania and Megaman Zero DNA is almost as pronounced in its gameplay as the Dark Souls influence is in its aesthetics, so it's not that similar.

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TopicBest Soulslike that isn't from From Software
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 11:34:48 AM
#15
Hollow Knight is a soulslike aesthetically. The gameplay isn't the same (it's profoundly better tbh) but it's impossible to deny the influence dark souls had on it. It belongs imo

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 10:26:45 AM
#126
Also they hand out rare prisms for free fairly often, it ain't a big deal so don't worry about it

Priority tierlist for RPs:

-Outrage Craft Essence (you get it from one of the white day tickets)
-Story events
-Sweet Crystal CE
-Welfare copies
-Bond CEs
-Everything else

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 10:24:15 AM
#125
So, spoilering this just in case -- Shinjuku's two base stories are Sherlock Holmes and Demon City Shinjuku. The 'true story' behind them?

'The Ultimate Crime' by Isaac Asimov, of course. It was in Moriarty's NP name all along!

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TopicDragon's Dogma 2 currently at 'Mostly Negative' on Steam
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 9:38:33 AM
#41
Mtx thing is 100% manufactured outrage and the singular save thing is plot relevant. Total nonissues all around save for the bad cpu opti (which is not cause of denuvo either)

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TopicSo I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond
KanzarisKelshen
03/22/24 9:34:17 AM
#120
ExThaNemesis posted...
Why does everyone think Agartha is so bad?

It's like, actually painful for me to consider skipping story content. I definitely want to play through SERAPH though.

It is a monumental character assassination of one of the most pivotal women in fiction. Most other characters are also portrayed very poorly as well. I would not skip it but it REALLY sucks.

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