Astral chain thread

how the hell do you get critical hits

Why the fuck are black ties part of the standard uniform? I thought the Japanese were superstitious and avoided black ties because of their association with funerals and Yakuza hitmen.

Red tie and darker spats looks better.

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Hit the head or the back

is the auto sync attack ability worth it?
seems like it would just make the game play itself

The game is set in an Ark built in Chile

I'm on like the first proper mission where I can do shit with my legion like Zandatsu. I gave the football to the kid but one keeps talking about some 15 meter shot.

Do I get anything if I manage this shot?

how are you supposed to hit the head of anything besides using the arrow legion to shoot?

Yeah, I noticed that too, it was slideshow framerates on that mission - I have very little eye for this stuff as long as it’s not really egregious and I was still quite bothered by it

I've noticed basically all dips happening in the plaza, but generally it was only to like 20fps and only outside of combat.

It's still a Japanese game, user.

>Combat is barebones
it's an unholy mashup of bayonetta and mgr:r with dmcV dante's weapon/style switching
It's only a little bit in but holy fuck the OPTIONS

>you can do the unchain move, switch legion right after to have two up at the same time for a short while
cool shit

so on top of taking pics of people and enemies you also need to take pics of each vendor machine type and locations. get to work officers

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Based Rose telling the gamers and trannies.

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>you're supposed to bring out other legions during the unchain combos
WHY DID I ONLY JUST REALISE THIS

Why is stopping charging enemies with your chain as a slingshot so satisfying?

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I turned it on and now I get S+ ranks left right and centre. To be honest, if the alternative is just constantly trying to react to random chance sync attack activations when you should be devoting your attention to the actual fight, I’d rather just let it be automatic. I should be focused on reacting to enemy attacks before they happen, not reacting to my own attacks after they land.

Just got through the hq stuff with lappy. Amusing

Yes that's the only reliable method, otherwise it's luck for the head

The protag isn't even silent, I'm playing the female and she screams all the time.

>because of their association with funerals
JEEZE I WONDER IF THIS IS A BRICK JOKE OR NOT...
Guess what, CLONES AND DEATH GALORE!

Doesn't mean they have to stick with their society's rulesets in a fictional world, they aren't American

>Implying a game with a fucking silent protagonist has a story even comparable to NieR Automata or Evangelion
That just fucking reeks of blatant lying and shilling. Fucking yikes dude.

While I agree silent protagonists are annoying I dont think they are universally bad. voicing the protagonist in Fallout 4 was one of the many issues I had with that game. With games where the idea is that you're supposed to create a custom self-insert, it makes perfect sense to be silent. Main issue with Astral Chain's execution is that the protagonist is still basically his own character just doesn't talk.

It can fuck you up though as well
>Doingg a combo, foes going to swing
Figure can end it, evade, and then sync that into big damage
>The last hit auto syncs, can't roll out of that sync, get smacked for 200+ damage
It's better to just get good, and use that slot for other shit.

Go play the Last of Us or Horizon.

>random chance sync attack activations
There's nothing random about them user. The idea is that they make you actually keep track of what moves you are doing so you're ready to react when a sync attack opportunity is coming.

I’m often happy to give silent protagonists a pass, but not in this one where there is a plot and scenes with dialogue and other characters INCLUDING YOUR FUCKIG TWIN are all perfectly capable of talking.

That’s what kills it, I think, having a pair of twins where one is a character and the other is a mute. What made it worse was when my character had the nerve to fucking narrate the epilogue after not speaking a word the entire god damn game.

in previews whenever I saw someone doing a chain bind on a monster they would then rush to it and start beating it.. is there a way to do that or are they just using run? because in the previews it looks seemless like they start attacking and it rushes there automatically

>every vending machine in a new area has its own personality
>even in the mission-only ark mall with the maid-personality vens
this game has so much love

>they aren't American
That's the point. The cops are the good guys in this setting, so why the fuck are they wearing something ominous like a black tie? Are they going to shoot innocent people and go to their funerals? No.

For your MC to rush in or your legion?
The one you're probably seeing is for sword legion and that's an ability you get to have it auto-rush when you chain an enemy
I think there's a correlating sync attack that lets you go in with it

A Silent protagonist contributes nothing, but doesn't hold back either, a plot can be good and everything he would need to say, Hal Oliv or Akira are there to say it for him

ARGH WHERE IS THE START OF THIS DAMN LABYRINTH IN FILE8?!?!
THE ONE THE CRAZY POLICE MAN IS TALKING ABOUT
IM GOING CRAZY MYSELF

Worst thing is that there's so much shit to do in File 08 Plaza area so you'll be spending a lot of time looking at slideshow framerates if you want to do everything.

When are we getting some spicy Marie hentai with huge tits?

What is the final upgrade level of the X-Baton and Legatus? Is it worth upgrading the Legatus at all?

Oh hey, I was just about to come in here and ask that myself.

>Shilling aside
>proceeds to shitpost
bruh

I don't know you but I've seen plenty of people with black ties in the streets, "Aren't American" was a joke on how American developers push their mindset in all kinds of settings, even WW1 Germany

>enemy dont attack you
>fun
what the fuck is wrong with you babby hack n slash tards.

was cool the first time but now I feel I am wasting time doing it especially when all those attacks are telegraphed enough that they can be easily countered with a perfect sync call instead

>Figured the 'sick' one coughing was just a US translation quirk
>It's also coughing in the JP version
They did a good job overall with the translation, outside of 'Pi' becoming 'Partner', but I get it, Southern Japanese dialect becomes Southern Western dialect.

"would be a good band name" is the ultimate npc comment

Why do people keep acting like Sync Attacks are some crazy new thing and not literally Vehicle Attacks from Transformers?

dumb tranny. use your imagination.

fuck me i just realized this when i tried photoing an enemy and it gave me credit for food court

>ask a legit question
>shitposting
Are you allowed to leave your house without a helmet?

More like the dude didn't let the enemy attack him.
Why the fuck do you retards who know absolutely fucking nothing about the game come here and out yourselves to be utter morons.
Stick to your stupid movie games brainlet

10
and kinda? You can honestly do everything even with the baseline 100 Energy, including if you get ability's to lower energy draw/recharge energy more from attacks and red shift. The only thing you get from it beyond faster recovery rate and lower Energy call buffs is more revives/hearts.

Can the controls be rebound? I’m allergic to melee inputs on fucking shoulder buttons.

Because on one played transformers, just like no one played Korra.

Just played the game for about two and a half hours. I don't think I like it, but I'm hoping that's just a pretty weak tutorial or something (last mission I did was the one where you go through the portal and everyone else loses their legions.) Story and the world is pretty cool though so there's that. I dunno it's not "bad" but I'm just not feeling it yet I guess, gameplay-wise. If it matters I changed my control layout to C as soon as I could since it's more similar to how I'm used to playing these kinda games.

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There are more "styles" on the options, but I don't think full rebound is possible

yea literally photograph everything. in the room after you get the fist legion take a picture of the moon. almost missed that

That’s a fucking sad story, user. Transformers is Platinum’s best work ever.

I played the first 20 minutes and got really turned off when I realized the legion autoattacks for you. Cool anime opening though.

I didn’t like it either mate. It took a good few hours for me to start enjoying it. Stick with it a little longer and you might come around.

You're in for even more tutorials for a while, then starts getting good for real

>press x to do cool

i thought nintendo friends said interactive movies are not games?

There is full rebinding but 4 different styles. Melee can be put on the face button...at the cost of moving dodging to the shoulders. You cant have both on face buttons. Tho if you have played bayo it should be fine

Rephrase: is there a control “style” where the melee attack buttons are on the face buttons? I KIND of get why you might want to have the Legion attack on a shoulder (though AFAICT they can’t be moved and attack at the same time, so it’s not like you really need access to the right stick and the legion attack at the same time) but there’s definitely no reason to have your other attacks up there.

>10
Wait, does that mean there are then upgrades or that the final upgrade level is 10? The baton and Legatus start at level 1, and it'd really trigger my autism if the max capacity for the legatus is 190.

I´ve been running around this trash sub15 frames area for like 2 hours now
I am going mad, butt I want it

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Yeah, that pissed me off - there’s usually an implicit contract involved in using canned animations in an action game: the player loses control of their character for a moment, and in return is given a guarantee that they won’t get hit, whether it’s because of I-frames, time stopping, or just the enemies waiting for you to finish. Astral Chain doesn’t seem to care about that so I got really thrown off when I’m in a fancy sync attack animation and an enemy knocks me out of the air.

They are random - there are specific triggers that can cause a sync attack, sure, but in most cases it’s only a chance of a sync attack and there are so many things that can potentially give you one that in practice you have to be ready at any moment.

Maybe at a really high level of play where every move and every enemy is a known quantity and you have the spare mental bandwidth to be constantly monitoring for blue flashes, processing the context of what move it will do and whether it’s safe, and then decide before the window ends - while still staying on top of everything else - it clicks and transcends into something amazing. But at most levels of play, it just doesn’t really work in practice, you either focus on trying to fight and miss most sync attacks, or you make an effort to react to them and just get tunnel vision and don’t play the actual game.

>Melee can be put on the face button...at the cost of moving dodging to the shoulders.
You mean, the way god intended? Okay. That’s actually a big plus for me.

Because you have shit tastes.

Then there’s this guy, who should have played Transformers, because if he did then grabbing Spark Attacks would be second nature to him by now.

It takes a long time to open up mechanically. I’m still not convinced this is one of platinum’s better games, but there’s definitely a lot more to it than you get in the first three missions.

but it is a series of combos

IDK check yourself, I played on default

final upgrade level is 10 for both.
You cap at 200 core energy, 400 overloaded. 50 Energy before call, and an extra 4 batteries. I'd need to screenshot the X-Baton, but you get everything by the lv...6 upgrade was it? 5 or 6. Everything after that is just bigger numbers.

So after you fuse during the one boss fight, can you do it at any time? or no?

>Games are not allowed to be good! REEEEEEEEE STOP HAVING FUN

Somebody explain the sword mode zandatsu. I see that when enemies are attacking they have these red or blue polygons inside the attacking limbs which it seems like I'm supposed to cut.

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>check yourself
I would have to own the game to do that, user. That’s why I’m asking people who own it (though I already got an answer ITT). If I was already certain I wanted to buy the game, I’d have done so. I’m still up in the air, trying to determine what the friction points will be with me playing it.

If you cut them you stun them, but I find not having it go into automatic slow mode and having a toggle button instead of press and release makes it too slow on reaction time to be feasible, never use it unless it's for mandatory gimmicky fights

It's not that it's new but it's a part of gameplay that many people are missing because they don't understand that the controller is segmented into a Legion half and a Human half

Yes, if you hit those points, you'll stun them
If they have two or more, you need to hit all 3 for a stun. Hitting just one will interrupt their attack though, which may be what you need in the moment
I recommend memorizing the position of those lines for attacks that give you trouble so you can insta-cut them when you see the opportunity

What's the difference between the red polygons and the blue polygons?

>Stuff has red squiggle waves
>Aim cut so they turn blue
>Cut and stun them as a result
Foes that doe that spinning crap get countered by this hard.

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They're the same; they're red by default and change blue to let you know that they're within the range of your cutting arc (since your cut also has distance, so it lets you know that the lines are within distance and will be cut if you attack at that moment)

dunno I did it and it wasn't 15 meters but the kids cheered and I got some duty points, then the kid said I'm the 2nd best but he's still #1

>diagonal angle
good to know

sync attacks happen from a handful of very specific things, if you're too much of a brainlet to keep track of one of the basic mechanics of the game you should play something else more suited for retards

>He thinks Astral Chain's story is better than The Wonderful 101 which had a 10/10 god-tier story

No, Sync attack prompts are guaranteed. They're almost always at the end of a given action, be that a standard combo, a pause combo, attacking a staggered enemy, etc
You get access to more triggers for sync combos as you get access to more ways to attack with your default weapon.

The game is garbage for the first 2-3 chapters. For some reason devs decided to fuck over your moveset for hours before handing you the actual game. After that it becomes great.

>If they have two or more, you need to hit all 3 for a stun
Hmm I see

Once in training mode I hit the lines on 2 separate enemies at once and it insta-killed them. I could only do it once though and it could have just happened if they were low on health

nice webm

aaaaaaaaahhhhh, thank you.

Is Arrow Legion fun? I like the idea of bullet-time headshots a la Vanquish but is it just that one stationary long-windup shot or can you actually move around while using it?

First two mainly
The big reason, I think, that they did this was response to normies' criticims for W101 throwing too much at the player too quickly.

i feel like im not making use of my items that much. i just checked to see what i had and apparently i have gunner drones too

>mfw all the sword mode sync attacks from a spin move

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All I've been doing is making Webm's so people know how this game works. There's a lot to take it, but it's pretty great once you do.

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Yeah, so the cut does a lot of damage but if you hit all their lines at once, it deals tons of damage
Like with the Blade's Cut mode, you can hit B to dodge while aiming and you'll do jumps but go right back into Arrow mode.
You can also do charge shots which are useful against certain enemies, particularly in File 4

I really really want a bf like lappy...

Big question: Can you disable the legion auto-attacking/is it disabled by default on higher difficulties? I don’t want a “Smart” partner doing the combos for me.

Yes, there's two of them, in both attack is on Y instead of ZR.

Yeah.
If you want to play more of a support style with your human and let your legion do the heavy lifting, you can play it that way.
Not many people here do that obviously, but it's a style of play more catered to people who aren't action-game savvy. My roommate primarily plays using the gun and sends the legion out to do all the work, throws a lot of money into grenades and drones as escape options since they can't into dodging

how do you do that uppercut with the arm legion equipped? do you have to unlock it?

Well, whatever reason they had for doing it was fucking retarded.
It's by far the biggest flaw of the game and the worst introduction in an action game I have ever played.
Action games need to give you what you get for the whole game at the latest 5 minutes into the gameplay. This shit took hours for me because I wanted to explore. Pure absolute garbage design and I hope if Taura ever makes another game he knows better than to bore me to absolute death.

>expecting anything besides shilling

If you don't want your Legion to auto-attack, you can just recall it. You can just summon it during combos or whenever you need it for other things (certain enemies need to be disrupted using your Legion and stuff like that).

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Sure, I get that. I think getting your bread and butter is important but the issue is that people are dumb and will forget about most of the extended mechanics beyond the basic combo string if it's introduced too quickly.
First two files literally have you just focusing down on getting used to using the legion and player in tandem

Hell, I took a picture of a WALL and it popped up in my database.

It's the back-forward unlock yeah. 360's overall better though, but that one's good for BIG AOE juggling. It's Damage is pretty poor though, but Arm is more for crowd control with some single target burst. Beast is the real single target king though.

1st hour
>This is boring, all I can do is hit them with my police stick
2nd hour
>Oh okay I've got a stand now, still a bit slow but it's beginning to come together
3rd hour
>mfw

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>game is sold out
Kill me.

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Yeah, just make sure you hit Right Bumper when you don't need your legion.
It's actually a habit i've gotten into doing so that I don't waste legion energy just having it sit out in the open

This. I haven’t even played Astral Chain but I’ve played enough DMC in my time to know that there’s a reason you’re drip-fed moves and it’s not just to trigger a dopamine rush. It’s to force you to understand and get acquainted with all the functions and uses of each individual command, one at a time.

Honestly, Bayonetta was pretty weird for how much kit it gave the player right off the bat.

I was surprised the game doesn't even teach you chain jump until Chapter 3, it's a really core feature imo

That's still no excuse for neutering your basic combo making it feel like shit and neutering your dodge and making it feel like shit, which is the whole problem.
There's literally not a single reason for making the dodge clunky as fuck and the regular mash ZR combos absolute garbage because literally nothing changes about the complexity of pulling off the dodge or regular mashing combo.

download it dork

Will there be a sequel?

Arm legion confirmed for arms 2

>using arrow legion's charge arrow
it's just a side gimmick but I'm surprised how fun it is to hop around
The bow and arrow in this game feels better than in shit like Skyrim for me.

Please, someone help...
I am starting to doubt this is even in this area...

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Astral 2: Off the Chain

>because literally nothing changes about the complexity of pulling off the dodge or regular mashing combo.
>What is sync attacks at the end of a combo and when you dodge
That does get added after you get your 'enhanced mode'
When people like this
still doens't get how those things work after they get added, I feel like there's no saving them though.

>legit

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lmao just progress through the file and you'll get to the labyrinth through the story.

It's way later in the file, relax. You know when you get there.

There is, it's to make you focus on your dynamic with your legion.
Beyond that, you unlock more combo options later on as you upgrade your x-baton, stuff like pause combos and heavy attacks and dodge-offset attacks.
If the point of the game is to play up how strong the legions and chimeras are, then making your character weaker without them would make sense, yes?
Like, you can do aerial attacks but you can't jump the 20 feet up that an enemy is at because you're a regular human. But your chimera can pull you up and let you wail on them.

Even in leafland, the games are 80 dollars, 70 if you got vouchers.

Dunno if anyone has noticed but you can switch weapons mid-combo to extend them with no combo drop off in mid-air especially with the bow legion.

Doing the forward-back sword attack to launch them into 4 sword attacks into 2 greatsword attacks finishing off with 3 gunshots into the sync attack, all before hitting the ground.

It's shit though.

How do i pet the dog

That would be a fantastic cameo, along with little mac and mii boxer

Press A when next to dog. Pets.

I havent unlocked the forward back attack for my x baton yet, about to do so

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It's really useful in the Homunculus Y fight. You can break all its limbs with it. Takes out 3-4 fully charged shots to break the armor on limbs.

Someone tell what the fuck the pixelizer is from the lappy minigame order and how to use it! Please

The dog has been pet, thanks

Why am i so bad at this game. I'm good at Bayonetta, i shouldn't be struggling like this

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it all makes sense now. Max is the bathroom fairy

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Is anybody having issues with the Gyro controls? I haven't checked in other games in case my joycon has something wrong, but when I use the aimed shot with the bow Legion they really don't work well at all.
Horizontal movement works fine if I hold the right joycon a bit like a bow (SL/SR forward, front of the joycon facing left), but vertical movement is incredibly slow unless I use the stick - which is obviously awkward. I failed the first shooting challenge because holding the joycon normally the movement was interpreted in a really weird way, and I can't find a better one.

This made me mad too. You'd think it'd be in the starting plaza area but it's actually later on on the chapter. You'll know the labyrinth when you reach it. Just follow the steps from the beginning.

I think that's absolute bullshit.
The whole game is about focusing on your dynamic with your Legions. You do that shit from the second you get access to the first Legion until the credits roll.
Giving you a shit dodge and a short ZR combo for hours until the devs decide "lmao just messing with you, here's the actual good dodge and your ZR combo isn't some weak short piece of crap anymore" is horrendous design.
Why does getting the Legion suddenly make my character able to do more flippy dodges and have more attacks in the ZR combo which doesn't even involve the Legion?
It just feels like garbage.

So, is there a trick to killing the slime/gel enemies in this game, or are they just super evasive bastards? every time i find them, i dont think i've landed a single hit. tried chaining, tried auto-chain, used all 3 weapons.

im only on case 4 now, just got inside the Mall. do I need a certain Legion to actually combo the shits?

Remember the following:
>the fastest way to move around is to chain jump, you can also attack doing this
>if you want to chain an enemy up, you and your legion need to go in OPPOSITE directions
>sync attacks are life
I recommend you only use your dodge if you're facing basic mooks

I usually lock onto them and spam the LT charge attack with my sword legion while running after them, kills them pretty quick.

You mean the enemies made of slime?
I don't know. Dragon Quest didnt prepare me enough for this.
Try manual blade mode or something?

Yes. After the Fusion fight you have a bar that fills up every time you sync attack. When it's full you can activate super mode.

do you only fight one guy at a time

Give me them file passcodes

does the game ever even teach you about the various special moves you can unlock for legions? where you press LZ and X or Y? I think it briefly mentions them when it gives you access to upgrading but never beyond that.. I bought one of them right away and forgot about it because the game never mentioned them

Some useful tips.
>youtu.be/wwPJVmHHT88

Plat may just have fucked it.

speaking as a veteran of their PC titles, they always fuck up mouse camera by capping it at the analogue output speed per frame; they may just have made the same error here, where rapid gyro movements simply can’t be parsed because the game caps the per-frame input at “full tilt analogue stick”

It's your birthday (Because it's about you)
1124 if you're still dense

No, but most webm's are of the training mode.

>sword
do you mean baton

They don't actually teach you about them since the're largely optional
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here

>Beat Chapter 10
>Unlock a new fucking mechanic
What the fuck

>since the're largely optional
they are useful as fuck though

Bitch, you know what I mean.

There were a few people that responded with reasonable answers to my concerns.

taxes are a thing, haven't paid for a full priced game in years so don't know the exact amount but I know they are $79.96 before tax

the basic "send legion out" charge, or an actual charge attack skill? I've got mine with the summon blades, and Hit Rush atm

>Think the gameplay is simple
>Here you go here are sync attacks
>And jump mechanics
>And air combos
>And zandatsu mode
>And finishers
>And charge attacks
>There's also this delay attack you can't buy yet
>And a large skill tree for each legion
>And a bunch of equipable extra skills for the legion to use in combat
>And a third weapon because why not
T-thanks, not a lot to take in at all. What, are you going to throw in on the fly legion switching now?

can't wait for the dunkey video where he makes fun of the game giving tutorials every chapter "chapter 10 still getting tutorials" like in his XBC2 video.. it will be shitposting fuel...

dunkey should be banned on Yea Forums

True, but still optional
There's some interesting shit in there, like the attribute boost skills or the Arrow legion's falling-arrows ability that follows the path of the Astral Chain

>Alicia wanted your dad's dick so bad
bros...

>Is there some secret chink academy for composing I'm not aware of?
Just "soul". That's it.

user...

You can already on the fly switch your legions if you just tap the button instead of holding it down to bring up the radial menu.

>Can't enter opposing gender bathroom
>Your twin waits outside when you go into one
I love when games do this kind of silly details.

Am I supposed to play this game with two joycons and four arms or something

The actual pressing of the LT to send them to charge at the enemy then pressing LT again to bring them back rinse and repeat till the slime is dead. Has worked for me every time I encounter one.

aight, thanks. im planning on replaying a couple of the older levels once i finish 4, for some points for Bow, so ill try it out then

...are you shitting me?
Fuck off game. This entire gimmick mini game file was already the worst part of the game so far, and now this.
Nah game, enough for today.

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can explain the overheat mechanic? It was at 199/100 and nothing happened. Seemed to go down really slowly

Why do the Eva unit 1 colours work so good on the legions?

The unchained legion does a long automatic combo, you don't have to/can't control it.

Where can I see the upgraded baton commands again? I forgot them, I remember you have to do some fightan-game-like button combo to activate the special attacks. Can't find anything in the menu

game is fun only cripe is i wish there were more Legions and that we could capture and utilize some of the wild chimera types like a smaller flying variant of the one boss.

also ending was predictable generic anime garbo ending, but you expect that from Platinum

Its pretty boring. Its basically an anime cyberpunk game with lego star wars mechanics and replayability.

what's the point of having damage numbers on besides obscuring enemies even more?

That was Overcharge. You can, in various ways, have double the energy for your Legatus. once that hits 0, you lose full access to your Legion, til it fully recharges to the baseline 100 (or whatever your baseline becomes after upgrades, mines 120 atm).
Its basically just a management system so you dont leave your Legion out 24/7, and a combat mechanic to punish you for shitty Legion use, since the energy is also their life.

When you collect those red crystals on the ground it overcharges your timer for you legion summoning so you can end up with 250/200 on your summon timer. If that's what you mean

>Implying Alicia isn't a slave to Beast Legion's knot

Beat the game last night. Let me try and rank the chapters real quick.

7 > 6 > 11 > 9 > 4 > 10 > 3 > 5 = 8 > 1 and 2

Only really bad ones are 1 and 2, and even then the final fight in 2 is really cool.

Oh it’s a timer. Thank you! I was wondering why it’d still be filled up even after a while

Why is the arm legion so much superior to the rest?

too many fucking effects jesus is anything in this game not an exploding hologram of blinding light?

Hmm, some sort of temporary capture mode for enemy chimeras that work like the angel weapons in bayonetta honestly feels like a weird omission now.
Personally though my biggest gripe with the game is the scoring system.

>Not liking effects
I PUSH MY FINGERS INTO MY...

Dunno myself but all of them are
Attack -> Delay ->Attack
Forward-Back with stick -> Attack
360 with Stick -> Attack
and
Hold attack button

W101 was an amazing game with one of my favorite endings of any game, but I wouldn’t say it had much of a story

He's just so fucking good. His C8+ ability is fucking super good and armor mode absolutely SHREDS boss healthbars.

According to Taura, it was originally designed like Pokemon, where you captured “wild” Chimeras to be your legions, but they decided that doing it would mean each legion would be too shallow, so they pared it down to a core group.

Maybe in a sequel, there will be enough groundwork to allow them to design enough legions to make every enemy “capturable” and bring that idea back.

into my ass

effects are cool and you probably feel more of a connection to particular effects and their gameplay consequences if you have played the game but from a potential buyer's perspective, someone who hasnt played it yet, its a fucking seizure fuckfest

>that input set
>sync attacks
I’m 100% certain the lead gameplay systems designer on this game is the one who did Transformers.

They said they planned the story as a trilogy or something. I mean, if it sells well

Even then, you could never say W101 had a 10/10 story simply because Luka exists. God what an insufferable little shit.

Whoever drew this in tbe last thread, please draw more

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Why is the ranking system so fucking weird?

>Do fight thats legit just 2 shield boys
>Finish it in about 10 seconds, take 0 damage
>D

>Fighting bow boss
>Absolutly eating shit because I didnt know you could slow down time in cut mode with sword legion
>Used one revival battery on top of the fight taking me like 15 mins
>"man say hello to another D ra-"
>S+

Shit like this keeps happening as well.

When you redo past files, do you still have acces to plot-unlocked stuff like other legions, sync attacks etc

Yeah, you do. First time I tried replaying a file was after getting ora legion, did a rematch for ora versus ora

Seriously.
Fuck. We'll never see the real end then.

The story definitely has a shitload of things left hanging.

Who were the three people Joseph talked to in chapter 3?
Why is the Astral Plane trying to reclaim humanity? Who controls the Astral Plane? Basically everything about the Astral Plane and Chimeras is a fucking mystery
The game ends with Brenda reestablishing the ARI and hinting at beginning a mission to reclaim the earth

That must make the early files stupid easy to S+

where is the porn

But even then, Wonder Red is the best and most based protagonist in all of vidya so you could say the story is 10/10.
The ranking system is garbage yes.
I have no idea how it really works, I think it's just about how much shit you pull off and each shit you pull gives you some points that contribute to an overall score and the higher the score the better the grading at the end.
Perfect Calls gives lots of points, switching Legions and being in the air and chain binding and so on gives points.

>completely sold out in France
>Have to wait until TUESDAY to buy it
FUCK
I can't take it anymore vros

Yes, Wonder Red is easily the greatest videogame protagonist. It makes the MC of Astral Chain being silent even more annoying.

Oh, wait, i was fooled

Here

In aninterview with IGN, it appeared as though game director Takahisa Taura had confirmed that his upcoming new alien-fighting cop IP, Astral Chain, would be part of a trilogy.
However, he later debunked thison Twitter, saying he had misspoke in the interview. What Taura meant to say is that he's already thinking of ways that Astral Chain can be expanded into a trilogy. So while the idea is on the table, it's not set in stone yet and is still just a thought in the director's mind.
It is likely that the development of future releases of games in the Astral Chain IP is dependent on whether or not the first game sells well or not. One thing to keep in mind if the idea appeals to you!

Having only finished File 3, in Yoseph's profile it says that the Astral plane invades to prevent life from getting too advanced/out of control.

Makes me fucking mad because you just know we'll never see the end if it doesn't sell well enough.

Because there's no point deduction in the game, only point EARNINGS. So you need to do a lot of random shit to earn points.

See but that kind of contradicts what Jena says it's for. She says the Astral Plane is some 'archiving' thing or something.

I just went to the local FNAC and they had boatloads of it

how many legions can you unchain at once?

The story suuucks. It breaks the show don't tell rule constantly, characters just explain plot points out loud to you like a PowerPoint presentation. The main character is a sterile, boring mute and none of the main cast can interact with each other in a way that isn't just explaining the plot out loud.

Uhh, dunno probably all of them if you can do it fast enough I've never tried more then 1.

The ranking system is primarily about the total number of cool things you do, not neccesarily how quickly do you do things
in DMC and Bayonetta and most other action games, time is weighed pretty heavily. Here, it's weighed much less heavily compared to pulling off complicated maneuvers like chain counters and chain jump attacks and the like

lucky guy
Tried amazon too, sold out until october

>damage numbers
>no enemy health bar
What's the point

The 4 v 1 at the end of 2 puts it healthily above 1 for me.
it's still not great but I appreciated how much it pushed the player to get used to using the Legion as its own entity alongside the player. Good practice chapter

476343025
obvious bait

Also
Attack while enemy is stunned
yes, you get a unique attack just for that, I think it's called somersault

Point IRIS at it for health bar or just put on the ability that does it automatically

...Hoo boy...
You can see HP bars if you use IRIS, or get an ability onto your legion that auto does it.

If you turn on your IRIS, it displays their healthbar for you, but it's optional.

Oh forgot about that one

to anyone wondering about the scoring/ranking system you can literally go into help and there are multiple sections where it will tell you what you get points for and it's all over the place

>use no items - get points
>use a bunch of items - get points

Fellas am I autistic or have I not unlocked photo mode yet because I cannot seem to find it.

You'll run into it eventually

Lappy-chan has a sidequest for it
It was somewhere in 3 to 6, I forget which.

So what UI color is everyone using?

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I just got it and I'm at the start of 3.

Some enemies have their heads close to the ground; the boss of the level you get Arms basically just leaves his head right next to the ground, meaning you always crit as long as you do it from the front (I think hitting him from behind hits his neck).

tranquil green

I stuck with blue so it still matches everything else

Default, I wanted red cause it's the color of justice but it felt wrong to play a cop game without a blue ui

Same reason I didn't change the default outfit much aside from changing the jacket highlights to red, I dig being a justice cop

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Oh neat, hadn't noticed that was an option.

Do you know what the ?????????? option at the locker room is? I've finished the game and it's still not unlocked, whatever it is. And is there a way to choose what colour your astral chain, glowing hair and eyes, and fusion form will use?

And are there any other fucking jacket options or is there almost no customisation at all outside of head-worn accessories?

I send my Legion at the enemy then yank myself into a flying kick, then lay the beatdown.

You apparently can unlock the medical outfit, Lappy, civilian clothes and the raven set. I dunno how though

>can't play it till sept 10th
Shit fucking sucks desu.

that's not much, none of those are actual clothes you'd want to wear. I assumed I'd get to add to my collection of cool jackets, in the end I just wore the basic formal wear in flashy colours the entire game.

Trying to S+ file 4.
I'm not angry, I'm just absolutely fucking frothing.

turquoise chads

>not wanting to wear the raven set to go full tokusatsu

they really went all out with the eva motif

Either the clothing customisation is really well hidden or just isn't there, I'm pretty disappointed. I was using just the jacketless for a while, though I'm using dress uniform now so I can see her cute butt. And at least I can use the casual outfit now, though shame you can't mix and match and change the colours

>hud opacity option is a side mission reward
this is a jap game alright

Olive's heels make my peepee the big peepee

>you can wear tights
>you can't choose the fucking colour
I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO REARRANGE MY ENTIRE FUCKING OUTFIT JUST TO BE ABLE TO WEAR TIGHTS AND NOT HAVE THEM CLASH HORRENDOUSLY

When am I gonna start unlocking different Legion and Outfit colors? I'm at File 09.

twilight lavender

Go to Orders in the menu and press A on each of them

can one of the stands use ZA WARUDO?

>game about being a cop
>you don't get to beat idealist leftist protesters during a demonstration
Missed opportunity, lappy~

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you can pretty much do MGR's blade mode

How's the undocked performance?

>tfw walk to the beat of the HQ music and stare at the MC's ass
am I the only one who does this every time

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>try to switch weapons mid-combat
>keep hitting photo mode by accident
whoever thought it was a good idea to bind the camera to one of the face buttons needs to be fucking shot

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Gotcha

Marie is NOT Lappy! Repeat! Marie is NOT Lappy!

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I think it's only you

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
After finishing the training mission and playing on PT difficulty i can say for certain that this games combat can be challeging as fuck when fighting multiple enemies.

Having to watch your MC and legion can be difficult.
Bout to start the first mission after trainng so wish me luck

Also:

WHY THE FUCK IS THERE 0 LOVE FOR OLIVE FUCKING ESPINOSA?!

I keep seeing that dumb bitch in the dog suit and Alicia, but no love for the superior waifu Olive!

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>Not snapping sick photos mid combo

Damn, thanks for clearing that up, user. I was almost getting worried.
On that note, Lappy is cute! Cute!

Olive is for Hal

I can't believe Lappy is fucking dead

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>I keep seeing that dumb bitch in the dog suit
>Glasses
>Perky tits
>Great ass
>Thick thighs
>Thick eyebrows
>Olive
>Wacky colored hair in turboslut-wear
This isn't even an argument

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At least you can get cool photos. Imagine being me a pulling up the fucking INVESTIGATION NOTES

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A hunch tells me Brenda is the killer. Her collection wouldn't be complete without the real Lappy!

Yeah, Olive is surprisingly nice to you throughout the whole game. I'm still more of a Brenda guy, though. Oh yeah, one thing, are they both sisters or something? They both obviously use the same face model and seem to be pretty close.

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nah, it says the first time they met was when they joined neuron

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Smash confirmed?

>Mariefag being a dumb cunt
Shocker

Astral Chain is the most anticipated game of 2019l. It will easily sell at the very worst 2 million copies.

Just look around you: it's out of stick everywhere.

WHERE'S THE DEMO?

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>it's out of stick everywhere.
It's manufactured scarcity, the Gamestop I bought it from only got 30 copies

Lappy confirmed for smash!

same thing happened with bayo 2

As much as I like it, I don't think it'll reach 2 millions, at least not easily. Maybe in 2 years.

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Yes
I think it's one of Arrow Legions' sync attacks (might be the aerial one) that traps enemies in a time bubble

based

Jesus christ
Legionis, you're so strong and big, in this picture you're holding up an entire pillar in the Astral Plane
Please, tell us how you accomplished this, Neuron and Mankind depend on it!

>Prologue is on easiest difficulty, removing majority of your Legions combat options making it seem extremely dumbed down and basic for an action game
>Optional training is how the player figures out that the Legion has a billion and a half different uses and it isn't just a glorified summon
What a shit tutorial

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>She says the Astral Plane is some 'archiving' thing or something.
Maybe it's a Brainiac type of deal, where the Astral Plane archives a civilization then destroys it so its archived data is never outdated.

It's for normies
they know action fans will hit the training room immediately, that's why they made it an easily accessible floor to itself

Base, because it's the best.

>that feel when I'm the only one of Yea Forums that picked the male MC for self insert
>I like having sex with women
I think I'm the only straight person left on Yea Forums, I always knew this place was infested with freaks.

>tfw finally get the sequel to Chaos Legion

Finally home, legionbros.

picked up

I, too, enjoy female Diavolo.

I heard you can HENSHIN in this game, how fun is the henshin form?

I picked up male MC to play as law-giving Joker using custom palette green and purple dress uniform with white face/green hair

>he self-inserts

to be fair sword is the name of a legion so it's a bit confusing

need some fan art ASAP

What am I meant to spend my money on? I get all the consumables I need without buying any, what upgrades I have left to buy will have to wait until I have premium material codes to spare, and I have a few hundred thousand G left sitting around.

It doesn't contradict it, while the Astral Plane does archive it does so by invading and overtaking.

>self insert

self inserting is for fucking plebs and morons, it's one of the top complaints of SJWs and trannies. "I CAN'T IDENTIFY WITH THE CHARACTER WE NEED MORE POC AND LGBT FOLKS!!!!!" is brainlet tier. It's a fucking character in a piece of fictional media, it's not you.

Im still in 5, will I be able to revisit the areas at the end of the game ?

Agreed but it's still their most tolerable story. Most of their other games have such offensively awful stories that it genuinely makes me not want to play them.

Who thought that was a good idea ever? The notes should be in the pause menu not where all the action happens. What the hell.

I picked male for self insert
and ogling

can I just sell salvage or is there a use for it later?

What is each legion actually good for in combat? As of the end of my first playthrough, I fully invested into sword as my go-to legion, unlocked a fair bit of arrow because sometimes a ranged option is necessary, and a fair bit into axe because I seemed to get good 1v1 results with it and it seemed like the best thing to mix in with sword. Didn’t really use the other two much in combat. How should I put them to use better in future?

You can redo files any time from your PC at HQ

ok cool thanks

>It's a fucking character in a piece of fictional media, it's not you.
>Has hair, eye, and skin options, you can even choose your characters name
>ITS NOT FOR SELF INSERTING

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you can go back to previous chapters from the PC
you do revisit areas later but not in the "if you missed something you can get it later in another chapter" way

I found the bow legion completely fucking destroys the tentacle boss. I don't know if the game intended you to use the fist legion for it since you unlock it just before and there's a bunch of debris laying around but I just shot him right in his stupid mouth and he melted like butter.

Tranquil green, because I really like the color green and this game has some nice shades of it

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>Zero actual character cardboard cutout silent protag
>NO YOU FUCKING MORON YOU AREN'T MEANT TO PROJECT YOURSELF INTO THIS CHARACTER GOD DAMN SJWS
Brain damage

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which legion does it switch to? Is it just in a rotation order?

>arm stand

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so are red files part of the main story and blue are the side quests? or are both side quests? i dont want to miss any, about to deploy in ch 2

Yeah, it's a rotation. It goes Sword, Arrow, Arm, Beast, and Axe, then repeats.

Did latest Kosmos break anyone else's hid-mitm? Shit won't work anymore and my Joycons drift out the ass.

This color.

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>start file 07
>see lappy freaking out in the elevator room
>head up to roof
>see marie

WHO WAS IN THE LAPPY SUIT?

You can actually change the order of your Legions if you want.

Red are ranked sidequests
Blue are unranked sidequests, just do them without any fear of fucking up really

Yellow is of course the main quest.

seething

some red files are optional its more red is combat blue is non combat

Marine is able to travel around that entire base in seconds. Also would you help her clean up user? or just oogle as well?

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Sell, it is just vendor trash.

I like this game but damn if they didn't throw actually ranking out the window with S+ is easy as shit even with healing a million times. I wonder what the requirements are to actually fail it.

only empty cans and cat food have uses

Nah, Metal Gear Rising, W101 and Nier:A all have way better writing than AC. This doesn’t have anything as fun and memorable as MGR’s cast of bosses, anything as joyously hype and W101’s ending, or as interesting as Nier’s plot, lore and characters

How do you deal with the enemies that shied other enemies? The ones without the tether that you could cut.

There's 3 kinds.

The one that has the tether.
The one that flies up in the air.
And the one that burrows underground that you unearth with doggo.

>Also would you help her clean up user?
Absolutely, at every available opportunity
Then once we becomes friends I would ask her out to dinner and hopefully hit it off and start dating, then I could ogle her all I want
I like the long game

By failing it. Really it's because there's nothing subtracting points like other games, so if you just do whatever gives you the most points, S+ rank. It's like MGS5 TPP's issue where headshots and the like was far better then the time bonus.

About to start file 7, but is boy Akira a huge cunt like girl Akira? Jesus fucking christ all she does is talk down to me.

its actually simple S+ is 10,000 points and everything you do contributes to it so you have to do like every move as fast as possible
there aren't any negative points so if you lose hearts or get hit you can still S+

Thank you both! Are they hard to miss?

Sword cuts tether
Arrow shoots the air ones
Beast digs up the undergound ones
Axe doesn't give 2 fucks.

I've heard both.

Guy Akira - sounds like a whiney little brother like he should
Girl Akira - sounds like a flat out bitch

How do you do the thing like in the OP where you leave one legion doing an attack while you can summon another?

You guys think lil sis likes dogs?

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Boy Akira didn’t seem like a cunt, just a a confused angry kid. Definitely didn’t seem like he looked down on me, if anything he had an inferiority complex towards his older twin.

Looks like Hit Rush

Like she just got BLACKED but she keeps acting like a such a bitch. Her passive aggressiveness is really grating on me. I just wanted to protect my imouto but the game won't let me enjoy it.

She about to get LAPPY'D, that's for sure.

Every Legion is useful for different things really, Beast is my go-to because its fast I find its leap attack endlessly useful.
But ultimately each use is situational, its why you get points for using a specific Legion to dispatch enemies.
Sword can stun enemies which is useful, bow can kill from a distance which is useful, Arms can throw things at bosses and its levitate and dodge can cover mad ground. Beat has an auto-doge and its how is great for groups. Axe laughs at enemies that attempt to shield themselves.

Will i have to give in and get a wii u for w101

>rescue the strange drone
>rescue it again a little later on
>jokingly call it otacon as they sound a little similar while collecting his parts
>his name is fucking hal
>you go through a stealth segment with him

hahaha holy shit I was just thinking "man it would've been cool if they let you change it"

based platinum

Was this English or Jap voices? I listened to the English ones for the first couple missions and they were pretty shit so I switched to JP (which I don’t think were all that much better but we’re at least easier to ignore).

Girl Akira is sort of this, but she's such a bitch after file 1.

there were a few files where i thought i did everything because i searched everywhere but at the results screen i missed a few so you have to look out for them

Shoulda chosen the booty, man

Yes do it now

I like the dub enough, but is she less cunty in the sub?

not as much as Alicia likes Max

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I wanted to self insert as the cool older brother, but I regret everything. She's a trash tier little sister.

There's a lot of "After you do X you have to go back" files. Most of them being the rare slime files.

I wish Alicia was my hot mom

Dunno, I played as the girl. JP Boy Akira seemed like a slight improvement on English.

Replay the prologue so you can have a trash tier little brother instead. At least you get ass that way.

I like strong, silent but short women, so it wasn't even a choice for me

Pretty much everyone is less of a cunt in the sub.

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Lappy that keeps popping up around corners/ appearing behind you only to run away in File/Chapter 8? Can you catch them anyone know the reward for it if you do?

i'd help her, make friends with her and if she's not too awkward maybe ask her out

>player character is a gormless nite for the entire 25 hour game
>has the nerve to then fucking narrate the epilogue
I had to infer who was speaking based on context, I didn’t even recognise the fucking voice.

i want to throw this bitch in a tub and wash her face

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The previous platinum game, nier automata, also did this with its dub where 2B was more of a bitch in english.

gormless mute*
This is what happens when you phonepost before going to bed

>Wonder what its like
>Look on jewtube for reviews
>Nearly every review is glowing 100% positive
>All have "switch" or "nintendo" in their channel name
>Only review or play nintendo games
Er..

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Oh damn, didn't know that. Cool if you've got a preferred order you wanna quickly go through.

>Hmm, I wonder how the game is
>Read what people are saying in the thread I am currently in? Nah, fuck that, I'll go onto youtube, the most unbiased source for my game reviews

Why is she constantly covered in fresh dirt? Dirt doesn’t just stay in patches like that, it spreads and just becomes a thin coating, she should just look a bit grey-brown all over. To look as she does, she must sit in front of a mirror and apply fresh dirt to her face and clothes like makeup so she can keep up appearances and look the part of the edgy villain.

Anyone?

Its either you get a bitchy little sister, or a literal pansy cuck older brother. You can't fucking win. If you pick the girl, all your brother does is cry and scream, BUT DAD YOU SAID- I MEAN SIR *cries*. Its fucking annoying, the bitchy sister is the better of the two options.

When I first saw her, I instantly thought of Jenna Angel from Digital Devil Saga. Not sure why, other than the name similarity.

Like I'd take the demented ravings of user seriously, at least jewtubes have to stand by their words.

Fun things are fun
It’s worth it user

>Want to believe its good
>Videos all look like shit and its getting universal circlejerking by the nintendies making it impossible to tell what opinion is valid and whats just lip service to anything switch
Fuck.

Just buy it then and play it yourself you poor piece of shit

it's good faggot. I hate most nintendie shit.

you get to fuck her, but she insists she keeps the costume on and you have to moan lappy as you plow her through a zipper hole

What is actually wrong with the story in Bayonetta?

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Why do legions constantly try to unchain themselves if this made it clear they do want to stand besides you

So at the end, is the Akira we see the original clone? The protag says Akira doesn't remember stuff of a month ago. I want to be optimistic and think it's the original but...

I initially joked when I saw them that alicia wanted Max's dick but assumed, in reality, they'd make it more of a mentor-mentee thing
well wasn't I surprised
even funnier that Alicia is basically
>hahha, wouldnt it be funny if we dated, just as a joke...unless

>D rank
>D rank
>D rank

I just can't get good at the combat

"the original OR a clone" Fucking shit I can't write.

as a heads up: it's not time-based like it is with Bayonetta or DMC
It's based on the number of complex things you do
chain counters, perfect calls, that sort of thing

its the classic brain dead hero type that isnt getting a clue.

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Chimeras are inherently chaotic, its also implied that the Axe Legion inherited your dad's will somehow.
Maybe came to respect him during the ensuing fight because it appears he damn well recaptured it but somehow died elsewhere.

Most bonuses come from speed, Legion useage and sync attacks. Remember to use Legion abilities too since they add to the total.
The game wants you mo make use to of the tools they give you so use them and get more points.

Does anyone have that picture for the solution for the car puzzle in Chapter/File 8?

Her thighs are juicy and make my crotch tingle

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>as a heads up: it's not time-based
>Most bonuses come from speed

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So, I got an alternate voice for IRIS (Voice B), and when I got the item it said it's a familiar voice, but I don't hear much of a difference, the activation voice is so short. Was I supposed to know who it was? Playing with Nip audio I expected either Lappy, or Bayo or 2B

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Larger bonuses for being fast, not getting hit at all is usually a flat 5000.
So if you want focus on not taking damage over doing things quick.

It's really not timer based at all. The timer score takes like easily 5+ mins before it starts to decay in a fight. Just take your time, use your tools, and make sure to use as many of them as possible each fight.

>Nintendies are so furiously about people commenting on their special games they need to make these
Just make one for all the switch exclusives and spam them everywhere that'd be BASED

How do I reach this fucking chest? This shit is driving me crazy.

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>Marie got big jiggly milkies
>Alicia got Chun-Li thighs
>FeMC looks like a toothpick
I wish I could play as Alicia.

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The drawn out fights unironically get better ratings than the short ones.

I'm on File 04 and the Eva influence is undeniably there but the direction feels absent. Like with Eva, even though the plot winds up not being the main focus, or even explained in-show, it felt thought through and precise. There was such dread in the show.

With Astral Chain so far, I feel like... I dunno, it seems like they had this idea for the combat and stuff and a problem but not how it happened or why. Like, I'm not getting any sense of foreshadowing or an overarching theme or anything yet. It's just like go fight these things. Look, we like Eva but it doesn't really have anything to do with what we're doing

The Eva crap I've noticed so far
>Main 'bad guy' with glasses pose who talks to SEELE-- sorry I mean three voices complaining about money and 'the plan'
>Assistant with mole who probably knows more than she lets on
>The opening with the camera work on the Legion and the glass pounding thing straight from Eva and Unit 00/Gendo
>Eva 01 Color scheme first unlockable color
>Humankind, really? Call it either Mankind or Humanity, but stop reffering to them as humankind fuck it's such a weird word.

I have no idea why your guy is special though. I feel like the bond crap with the Legions is some bullshit that'll be explained near the end, It doesn't have the 'logic' that Evangelion gives for why their characters can do things. Again I just beat File 03. Game is fun but story really feels like a backburner priority. Don't spoil plz

chain length

>Even in leafland, the games are 80 dollars
Not anymore, Thank yourl Carbon tax!

Also, I can't view the "secret" files I got at the end File 05 anymore. There were 2 or 3 folders behind a password, and now that I know it thanks to Yea Forums, I wanted to open them, but they're not in the Computer's Database. Where the fuck are they.

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Why can I not get these fucking dodges right

I tried 1.2 but it wasn't long enough. Is there a longer one?

SHUT UP JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP

I want Kyle's gang weed holomask.
Give it to me.

have to go back to that file

Because there's no iframe on the startup frame of the dodge. So you have to do it a bit earlier than you normally would.

>Thick thighs
>Supreme Dick Sucking Lips
>Delicious brown
Only negative is implying she's Mexican with that name, as opposed to leaving her vaguely-ethnic

Wait for chapter 8 and over

>Not anymore
amazon.ca/Nintendo-110260-Astral-Chain/dp/B07QN1HJV2/
???

>yfw we will become as gods

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The anime esque "enemy draws all the way back but then swings all the way in .000000000000001 seconds" is what always gets me.

>PEOPLE ARE SAYING ITS GOOD THAT MEANS ITS BAD
Take a break from here. Don't come back.

Should I be using perfect calls over dodging? I'm having a hard time getting the timing down for perfect calls.

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I just can not find one of the red cases in the beginning parts of File 11. Did anyone find all the cases there? It's the 5th red case in (1) Uprising that I am missing.

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I keep finding and losing the timing for perfect calls because of the lulls betwen the fights, my sense of timing is so shit

why was that so early in the game

Best time to perfect call is right after recharging your legion. Otherwise you don't have to discriminate, do what feels right in the moment.

>Brenda Moreno
>Olive Espinosa
>Alicia Lopez
nice chunk or hispanic chicks

I saw Lappy in the girl's bathroom even though he's a guy. What's up with that?

Lappy is a raging pervert, people don't really talk about it

Lappy is just making sure everybody's morale is up.

You can replay old chapters with new Legions you get, right? Cause if not I don't see how you can get some of the shit in the level. Like why are there things locked behind Axe and Dog Legions in Files 2 and 3? Ugh

if they do a sequel i hope they do this.

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Does the perfect dodges and call have the same timing? I have no problem with perfect dodging but im too scared of doing perfect calls since shit gets hectic to the point where i maybe stunned to hell.

does legion maintenance actually do anything?

How do you beat slimes?

what are perfect calls?

Who was phone?

pink stuff makes it so you can't change its color until you clean and slightly slows down its speed and auto attack rate
sword legion's slash mode with focus

That's before taxes, with the raised taxes it amounts to $90.

A perfect guard.

I hope they let use use two X batons at once.
I wanna dual Gladius like daddy.

you can guard in this game?

I just want to say that Lappy's guided tour was pure ludo

Instead of dodging you call your Legion to you.

chapter 8 is the shittiest chapter in the entire game which is funny because it's directly after the best chapter

Yeah I laughed at that part. Your dad is basically a shonen protagonist.

Kind of
If you summon your Legion (from not being out at all) at the last moment before an attack, you'll counter immediately and then get a sync attack prompt too

I have one voucher left and I'm between AC and Fire Emblem. Any anons that've played both got advice?

I feel I need another 24 fingers to play this game have decently

Hopefully they let us temporary-capture legions out in the field
Also hope they make more intuitive co-op controls

I feel like I need more eyeballs for any encounter that's against more than one enemy.

Only if your legion has learned that

They're both good. You'll probably get more time out of FE if you get into it though. Depends if you're looking for a fast paced action game or a pretty easy 'strategy' game that's biggest draw is the characters. FE won't challenge you unless you limit yourself

I don't get how, the combat is fun but it's still pretty simple even with the upgrades.

Lappy in chapter 8 runs around the map randomly. You need to talk to him (her) in order to start a hidden sidequest.

I caught him waiting in that narrow area right outside the tunnel on the bottom level, at the edge of the map.

>Glowing perfect reviews that gush nonstop and treat it like perfection
>A history of exlusives being treated like this
>The game also looks like cheap shit
>Defenders on Yea Forums furiously claiming its perfect
>Not sending out huge warning signs
Okay

>every legion has its own weapon
is this concept art literally just XB2: action game edition?
Well it's got a timer element but the rewards for doing well fast aren't hyperbolic like they are in Bayo or DMC

Do you like strategic games or action games better? Fe will definetly last you longer due to having three routes and being able to customize everything while astral chain is a platinum game where your main focus is telling your attack dog to rape life.

It's just impossible to find. Spend 2 hours doing everything in the chapter it is supposed to appear in and found nothing. Can't find anything about it online either because all the guides you can currently find are clickbait shit that was clearly made by people just to get the first google results. There is no info in those.

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I'm loving the game so far, but goddamn the chapters are long.

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How the fuck do you hold ZL AND press L to activate a skill

early stage concept art. they were originally going to make it so every enemy could be caught and used, but scaled it back to the 5 types.

See that pice jutting up on the building to your left? Your legion can get up there and yank you up there, and then you can walk close enough to get to the chest.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK CAR PUZZLE 3 I'VE BEEN ON IT FOR A WHOLE HOUR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I guess all the dumb fucking shitposting is done then. So is the game good? Some of these webms make me excited

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It sounds like I might be better off going AC. Challenge and complexity are the best part of strategy games and FE characters have always been shit so if it's actually easy then I don't see the point

I hope to god you were born with more than 2 fingers user.

What's the code for the locked messages?

Yep. Chapter 7 is the best chapter in the game. Sorry but the game peaks there. Not that the ones after are bad but that's just the truth.

>fall for the its it's easy meme start on hardest difficult
>getting absolutely rekt, try and die multiple times on the early part where you are fighting everyone's legions
>go to switch difficulty
>erases all my progress
Feels bad man

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1125

Chapter 6 just might be the longest one in the game, I think.

It is. It is the only File in the game with more than 30 red/blue cases.

What is a perfect call? I see it on an ability, but I don't know what it is.

The game really isn't that hard, outside the final boss which makes every other Platinum final boss look like a joke.

summon right before you get hit

>Ye shall be as Gods
Best trope

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Thanks!

Did Xenogears, EVA, or Nier come up with that phrase? Or is it taken from something else?

I would if I could see what is going on, but I know it'll be a fucking pixleated mess like XB.

It's in the motherfucking Bible, user

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Pretty sure it's from Genesis

It's a partial quote from the Bible. When the serpent tempts Eve, he rebukes God's warnings to them about eating the fruit saying that "Your eyes shall be open, and you shall like God, knowing good and evil."

I should give it a read one of these days.

>black tie is ominous
What the literal fuck is wrong with you that a standardized practice for the color of a tie is now fucking dark magic voodoo of a murderous undermining cult that controls the world. I swear we never left the dark ages with fucking people like you constantly up in some silly superstitions.

This shows it off near the end user.
>Deliberately didn't do the sync to do the Just Call to then chain and finish it off

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thats the bible you fucking heathen

>Can only assign two special moves to X and Y to use while Holding ZL
>ZL + B dodges
>ZL + A does nothing
This really sours my enjoyment of the game.

Does synching during a finisher actually do anything?

i jumped, missed, and was able to jump up from where i landed

>Japs constantly steal quotes and material from the bible
>But also constantly shit on christianity

One day they'll burn for this, bunch of beta herbivores. Day of the Setting Sun when?

It's very fun, the first two files are very watered down, but once you actually start unlocking things it gets crazy.

Wondering this as well. it's annoying to do. Stop moving already you fucking monster

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throw the legion, then ZR+Y

Anyone else love the Beast Legion's Chain Drive? I love wrapping multiple enemies but not completing the chain, then jump-attacking them right after it ends.

>you can swap after an unchained skill
Fuck, I had no idea.

>near the end
Of the game?

STOP doing shitty 720p pixelated webms, for fucks sake. Encode them at 480p, it will be perfectly readable, and won't be a pixelated mess.

>bump limit.

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Of the webm.

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I see a few posts talking about Legion rotation order but you can just tilt the left stick in the direction the order is while pressing the call button and it'll instantly pick the legion you want.

for example under default controls/order:
Tilt Left Stick to the right + Y= Arrow Legion

That way you don't have to pause to choose a Legion every time. Not once have I ever paused to choose a legion since I figured this out early.

You unironically should. Besides being the basis of the world's most powerful religion, the Bible is genuinely interesting to read and analyze if you take it as a work done over a thousand plus years of writers and philosphers instead of that "divinely inspired" tripe two-bit pastors teach.

The webms are too long this is why they looks so pixelated

*Switch Legion button to be clear.

That's why they should be encoded in 480p. That way you can up the bitrate drastically while keeping them under 3MB. It's not rocket science.

limited image of me and my wife

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I am literally stuck

I keep getting my ass handed to me in chapter 4 over and over and over

This combat is so fucking hard

can you post the screen with all the case names on the side

Turn on some anti aliasing dude

Did you do the one with the giant infernal snake monster that pops out of the ground when you unearth it with your beast legion?

Most underrated girl

They have the exact same lines. Your perception of female Akira being a bitch is literally because of misogyny.

was hoping for bayo but I think it's supposed to be 2B

I'll admit I have no idea what I'm doing webm creation, but no one else was making stuff so somehow had to. How's something like this then?

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how so

I was talking about Japanese superstition.

You're getting the hang of it, user. Make sure yu used two pass encoding, and you're good to go. WIth the (shitty) 3MB limitation by Hiromoot, there's only so much we can do when it comes to webms. The only way is to start from that 3MB limitation, and decrease the resolution until you find an acceptable picture quality for the length you're going for. Looks like you found the sweet spot.

You flash blue, press ZL to activate synch attack, but then what do you press? Or do nothing?

Sometimes you can follow it up with ZR and then get another synch attack, like sword legion's delay and dodge synchs which I believe don't pay attention to your weapon mode. Otherwise, nothing.

I did that one.

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I know it's not his best move, but I can't help but spam ORAORAORAORA on fucking everything.

Good to hear then! I'll be trying to make a few more for combo displays and other tricky and unique stuff this game has to offer, as direct footage tends to shut up the trolls fast. All I've got is the switch 30 second recording function, and then Webm for idiots.

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Would you do that by just setting the resolution to -1 x 480 when converting it?

Yes, -1 x [whatever] lets you resize to [whatever] while calculating automatically the resolution so it keeps the aspect ratio.

Okay user, just checked, and I did that quest. It's called "Runs in the Family".

Nice, thanks for the tip

How does it trigger? Do you need to do a case in a previous chapter before it can be done?