This whole no autosaves or manual saves while inside a "dungeon" thing is just stupid. An arbitrary holdover from the "you died, start over" days of gaming.
Especially in long caves populated with monster that have instant death attacks, and I don't mean puts Noctis in Danger with 1 HP I mean you're dead, game over. In one hit.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release Square juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the settings and turn it on.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
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Oh found Steve Blum, that guy is everywhere and I make it a personal mission to find him. :razz:
I usually keep the group in casual clothes. Casual clothes just look so much better on everyone.
Edit- oh if Noctis dies, you can use a Phoenix Down on him. Game gives you a fair amount of time to do it before Game Over. It actually took me quite a long time before I figured that out.
Edit 2- in fact the Phoenix Down gives him full health and mp so now I usually try to get him killed during the more grueling encounters. Pisses me off when his buddies try to "help" him.
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Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release Square juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the settings and turn it on.
...the stamina bar being off doesn't mean it's actually OFF does it? It just means I can't SEE the stamina bar?
I feel dumb, I was like "Why would anyone WANT a stamina bar to be turned on?"
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
The stamina meter has the letters "St" above it. Try releasing Square when your meter is under the S.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
Is that a glitch, or an actual game mechanic? If it's working as intended, then why not just give him infinite sprint...?
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I don't have the stamina bar on because I find it annoying, so Instead I hit L3 and watch his running animation. When Noctis straightens up a bit, I hit L3 again and it refreshes. Granted you can't anticipate as much with the bar on, but you can do it on reaction and have infinite sprint.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
Is that a glitch, or an actual game mechanic? If it's working as intended, then why not just give him infinite sprint...?
Probably the same reason why Gears has the timed reload function. Just an extra thing to reward good reflexes
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
Is that a glitch, or an actual game mechanic? If it's working as intended, then why not just give him infinite sprint...?
I've wondered about the latter, too.
The mechanic is intentional. There's a special animation and green flash when you do it.
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
Is that a glitch, or an actual game mechanic? If it's working as intended, then why not just give him infinite sprint...?
Game mechanic. Stamina is used in battle as well (barely), and I suppose this is a means of allowing you faster travel in the beginning. Hoofing it on foot is a bit pointless later on.
So maybe I've not gotten far enough yet (I'm basically in the first Outpost still) but I can't figure out how to save. The game autosaves but I want to be able to manual save if I have to go take care of the kid.
So maybe I've not gotten far enough yet (I'm basically in the first Outpost still) but I can't figure out how to save. The game autosaves but I want to be able to manual save if I have to go take care of the kid.
On PS4 at least, Start (or Options or whatever the heck the Start button is called now) and there's a save option there.
So maybe I've not gotten far enough yet (I'm basically in the first Outpost still) but I can't figure out how to save. The game autosaves but I want to be able to manual save if I have to go take care of the kid.
On PS4 at least, Start (or Options or whatever the heck the Start button is called now) and there's a save option there.
Hrm. I'm on PS4 and don't recall seeing that. I'll have to look again tonight. I just bought my PS4 also so a lot of the controls are foreign still as well.
So maybe I've not gotten far enough yet (I'm basically in the first Outpost still) but I can't figure out how to save. The game autosaves but I want to be able to manual save if I have to go take care of the kid.
On PS4 at least, Start (or Options or whatever the heck the Start button is called now) and there's a save option there.
Hrm. I'm on PS4 and don't recall seeing that. I'll have to look again tonight. I just bought my PS4 also so a lot of the controls are foreign still as well.
There are basically two main menus, and it's in the one that doesn't have Gear, Map, Elemental, Ascension, Etc. Pretty sure I told you right, but I'm not at home to check. Hopefully I told you right enough to find it if I wasn't 100% correct, at least!
Hey dudes! I just discovered a run/dash technique that I need to share with y'all. It's a game changer.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme . Release B juuuuust before your stamina bar depletes. If you do it right, Noctis will shimmer green for a second and you will get a full stamina recovery. This technique will essentially give you infinite sprint.
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the setting and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
The stamina meter has the letters "St" above it. Try releasing Square when your meter is under the S.
You also don't necessarily need to look at the bar, you can also just watch Noctis; hit sprint again right as he straightens up out of his running animation.
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I must really suck at combat, because the fight against Deadeye felt like bullshit to me. But now I can ride Chocobros!
Hey game, want me to throw fire spells at the exploding barrels? Then give me a way to actually target them please, unless I am being dumb (most likely), then tell me how to do it. Eventually I think the game just got bored of my fumbling, after a while, and let me fight him normally. Or maybe one of the others managed to get to one of the barrels at the right time? I reeally don't know, I haven't trusted them with magic yet.
GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
When you cast a spell, hold the button. You'll see the area effect of the spell as an orange circular volume. You can move that around with the left stick. The game actually does tell you this during the tutorial
The barrel thing is just an AP-bonus objective that maybe makes the fight easier if you can do it. But I sure as fuck couldn't do it.
Ohhhh, that makes much more sense! :snap: Yeah, most fights are so busy, with so much going on, I doubt that even knowing how to do it I could have pulled it off.
So can you do that hold-to-cast thing while you're doing that warp-hanging from the sword thing? (I know I sound really dumb because I've already forgotten what it's called.) :P
GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
Never tried doing it while I was point-warped. My guess is...maybe? For instance I can do Technique follows up while being point-warped, but not regular attacks (which magic is kind of a version of?).
The last FF game I played was VII on the Playstation (XI counting MMO's), so I'm a little rusty on the conventions (if there are any).
Does potency increase AOE or range, or does it just scale up damage?
It seems tricky to use magic outside of an opener or for stray mobs on the fringes of the fray. Otherwise, all of your friends are in the thick of it and get smacked by friendly fire. Any tips?
Is there a way to use the L-thumbstick to navigate menus instead of the D-pad (XBO)?
I'm not particularly enjoying the fishing mini-game. Is there anything essential there that I would be missing if I skipped it?
Do any of the audio tracks in the car have vocals? I liked the music that played at the very beginning of the road-trip, but that track isn't available so far. I get the homage to previous FF soundtracks, but they are not things I would put on my playlist.
Is anyone using an Elite controller? What button mapping are you finding most effective?
That's it for now. Thanks all. Happy hunting.
This got missed a few pages ago, so I'll try to answer.
1. I think it just scales up damage.
2. Ignis' Regroup tech will get everybody together and out of the way of the blast (if you do it right). Buy it in Ascension and equip it in the Gear menu.
3. don't know
4. Not that I've found yet, but I'm nowhere near end-game. I normally love fishing mini-games, but am not a huge fan of this one.
Don't know the rest, I fear.
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I must really suck at combat, because the fight against Deadeye felt like bullshit to me. But now I can ride Chocobros!
Hey game, want me to throw fire spells at the exploding barrels? Then give me a way to actually target them please, unless I am being dumb (most likely), then tell me how to do it. Eventually I think the game just got bored of my fumbling, after a while, and let me fight him normally. Or maybe one of the others managed to get to one of the barrels at the right time? I reeally don't know, I haven't trusted them with magic yet.
Don't worry. DarksydePhil had the same trouble on Deadeye. . .o_0
Guys question. Since I'm WAY overleveled for Chapter 3...do buying weapons matter at all?
I'm under the impression weapons are very important. I'm in Ch. 7, and the fact that I haven't been able to upgrade my weapons in a while seems to be hindering me a good deal.
But I also don't really know what it means to be "WAY overleveled".
Regroup also has a pretty long animation and a period where you can't be damaged. If you see a huge attack coming, it's entirely possible to use Regroup to avoid the damage entirely.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
Guys question. Since I'm WAY overleveled for Chapter 3...do buying weapons matter at all?
I mean if you're already steam rolling everything, probably not, but the game is more weapon dependent than level dependent. At some point though you have so many levels it doesn't matter.
(As an example, Japanese players doing efficiency/time runs are supposedly beating the game at level 36 now, but they are gaining the required power through weapons).
Levels can matter if you really want the extra stats by buying the appropriate traits, but other than that the stat boost is very incrememtal. The biggest bonus seems to be from getting 3 AP per person per level, and even 1-99 gets you less than 1200 AP total
Just in case anyone doesn't know when in the car L1 changes your camera view.
Also holy cow when you drop a high level spell it flattens the enemies. Has anyone found any other magic combinations that produce a different element or FF spell?
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
Just in case anyone doesn't know when in the car L1 changes your camera view.
Also holy cow when you drop a high level spell it flattens the enemies. Has anyone found any other magic combinations that produce a different element or FF spell?
There is really nothing like Flare or Meteo or anything like that (that I've heard of or seen). Everything revolves around the three normal elemental spells (Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga, Fire/Fira/Firaga, Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga) + Unicast I/II/III (random element chosen at cast time). Then from there you can add a prefix using an item as a catalyst. Some prefixes I know off the top of my head are dualcast, tricast, venomcast and healcast. There are rumors of a quadcast as well.
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Especially in long caves populated with monster that have instant death attacks, and I don't mean puts Noctis in Danger with 1 HP I mean you're dead, game over. In one hit.
Use the Square button to sprint (Note: I'm using control scheme
One other note. The stamina bar is turned off by default. You need to go into the settings and turn it on.
I've been trying that and I guess my timing must be bad since I've yet to actually get it to work
I usually keep the group in casual clothes. Casual clothes just look so much better on everyone.
Edit- oh if Noctis dies, you can use a Phoenix Down on him. Game gives you a fair amount of time to do it before Game Over. It actually took me quite a long time before I figured that out.
Edit 2- in fact the Phoenix Down gives him full health and mp so now I usually try to get him killed during the more grueling encounters. Pisses me off when his buddies try to "help" him.
...the stamina bar being off doesn't mean it's actually OFF does it? It just means I can't SEE the stamina bar?
I feel dumb, I was like "Why would anyone WANT a stamina bar to be turned on?"
that makes more sense.
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I find it works pretty much everytime if you wait until the bar is between the S and the T of the "ST" gauge. Seems like if you do it much later, you'll fumble and have to recover.
Also I assume most people know, but using L3 does an auto-sprint (so you don't have to hold down the sprint button) and doing the stamina refresh move works the exact same, except you let go then reclick the stick instead of the button.
The stamina meter has the letters "St" above it. Try releasing Square when your meter is under the S.
Is that a glitch, or an actual game mechanic? If it's working as intended, then why not just give him infinite sprint...?
Probably the same reason why Gears has the timed reload function. Just an extra thing to reward good reflexes
I've wondered about the latter, too.
The mechanic is intentional. There's a special animation and green flash when you do it.
Javen - yeah, good call.
Game mechanic. Stamina is used in battle as well (barely), and I suppose this is a means of allowing you faster travel in the beginning. Hoofing it on foot is a bit pointless later on.
On PS4 at least, Start (or Options or whatever the heck the Start button is called now) and there's a save option there.
Hrm. I'm on PS4 and don't recall seeing that. I'll have to look again tonight. I just bought my PS4 also so a lot of the controls are foreign still as well.
There are basically two main menus, and it's in the one that doesn't have Gear, Map, Elemental, Ascension, Etc. Pretty sure I told you right, but I'm not at home to check. Hopefully I told you right enough to find it if I wasn't 100% correct, at least!
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You also don't necessarily need to look at the bar, you can also just watch Noctis; hit sprint again right as he straightens up out of his running animation.
Hey game, want me to throw fire spells at the exploding barrels? Then give me a way to actually target them please, unless I am being dumb (most likely), then tell me how to do it. Eventually I think the game just got bored of my fumbling, after a while, and let me fight him normally. Or maybe one of the others managed to get to one of the barrels at the right time? I reeally don't know, I haven't trusted them with magic yet.
I have a theory that they set all the default settings wrong as a joke
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So can you do that hold-to-cast thing while you're doing that warp-hanging from the sword thing? (I know I sound really dumb because I've already forgotten what it's called.) :P
This got missed a few pages ago, so I'll try to answer.
1. I think it just scales up damage.
2. Ignis' Regroup tech will get everybody together and out of the way of the blast (if you do it right). Buy it in Ascension and equip it in the Gear menu.
3. don't know
4. Not that I've found yet, but I'm nowhere near end-game. I normally love fishing mini-games, but am not a huge fan of this one.
Don't know the rest, I fear.
Don't worry. DarksydePhil had the same trouble on Deadeye. . .o_0
I'm under the impression weapons are very important. I'm in Ch. 7, and the fact that I haven't been able to upgrade my weapons in a while seems to be hindering me a good deal.
But I also don't really know what it means to be "WAY overleveled".
I mean if you're already steam rolling everything, probably not, but the game is more weapon dependent than level dependent. At some point though you have so many levels it doesn't matter.
(As an example, Japanese players doing efficiency/time runs are supposedly beating the game at level 36 now, but they are gaining the required power through weapons).
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Also holy cow when you drop a high level spell it flattens the enemies. Has anyone found any other magic combinations that produce a different element or FF spell?
There is really nothing like Flare or Meteo or anything like that (that I've heard of or seen). Everything revolves around the three normal elemental spells (Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga, Fire/Fira/Firaga, Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga) + Unicast I/II/III (random element chosen at cast time). Then from there you can add a prefix using an item as a catalyst. Some prefixes I know off the top of my head are dualcast, tricast, venomcast and healcast. There are rumors of a quadcast as well.
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