What if the empire randomly attacks several while I’m running around a 30-foot radius circle for 45 minutes looking for some damn red frogs? Asking for 3 friends.
It’s a good 300 yards or more. If it was just 30’ you’d find all the frogs way too easily for the awesome reward you get. Seriously, that was an idiotic quest. But not as idiotic as having to summon that early hunt monster in FF XII by standing in a particular spot of light in a cave for 5 minutes. At least it’s possible to do the frog quest without a hint book. You couldn’t even do the first real hunt in FF XII without one. And not as idiotic as expecting people to sit around leveling up so they can eventually fight a level 99 gigantoise for no good reason. I don’t know. It must be something in the water in the Square Enix studio…
I don’t think this is physically possible according to our understanding of the cosmos. (Wait a moment, while I go ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson.)
OK, so, since you missed my point I’ll make the correction you’re focusing on.
What if the empire randomly attacks several times while I’m running around a 300-yard radius circle for 45 minutes looking for some damn red frogs?
Edit: just happened again, twice, in the middle of a “find rocks in an area with a gigantoad”. Not fun.
Theres a story, is only is not delivered complete in the game, but fans have manage to glue tips and random information togueter to make a coherent whole:
Asteroid with alien virus hit planet. Virus start turning people into demons.
Humanity is going to get wiped. The Titans or whatever are beings on a higuer plane (basically gods) want to help humanity. To do so, they agree on giving weapons to the humans and bless one human. Ignis (the titan of fire) disagree. He have no problem having humanity wiped.
The bad guy we know is blessed and start using his body has a quarantine area where he put all the virus. His body is made immortal to do so. Dude is the champion of light, but is finnaly corrupted.
The crystal (that is part of the cycle of destruction/reborn that helps contains the virus) reject this dude. Dude turns angry. Dude get old of immortality.
Fast forward a lot of years, and this being, that is incredible old and bored, start helping the Empire make new supersoldiers, by inyecting babies the alien virus. This is probably not a good idea because this virus escape and mutate even more people. So the empire have to build even more robots and machines to fight the new demons. And this create even more demons (because these machines use the virus or are infected with the virus, so they make people turn into monsters).
The plan of this old being de is to force the current king, and owner of the crystal and other king weapons to kill him forever. He succeeded.
( the magical lady / love interest had the same powers than the evil guy, so she was “healing” people by transfering the virus to herself. She was going to die no matter what. Our hero was also destined to die by completing the loop. )
My attempt to get people to use the details tag instead of nasty blobs of spoiler text has failed.
Details is just hard to remember. Spoiler is easy to remember. When I think “oh right, what was the tag I should be using instead of spoiler?” I draw a blank, and have to go searching the forums for the answer, or just use Spoiler instead.
Found some great glitches today.
A minor one…
and a major one
I don’t blame you. Discourse should notice situations where it’s more appropriate and nag you.
$35 on Amazon today.
Wow $35 already…
It’s just a one day only sale.
Does Square even employ Americans in marketing any more?
(I bought this. I am weak. It’s better because I get a $5 credit for Prime Now for choosing no-fucks-given shipping, right?)
(Pretty sure no-fucks-given shipping is a good description of the Overwatch community right now)
They probably ran out of budget spending on things like… Well, I don’t know what they blew it all on after playing the game.
Food graphics.
I had no issue with this. Every dish was incredibly well rendered and looked quite delicious!
Apart from all that Cup Noodle nonsense, which was a bare faced insult when compared to all of Ignis’s other Michelin star creations.
Speaking of food in this game, here’s a deep-dive article on just how and why they created such delicious-looking food porn for this game.
[quote]
Creating a recipe in Final Fantasy XV involved several development team members. According to Hasegawa, the process begins in the art department, where the dish’s ingredients and desired appearance are planned out. Another team takes it from there — takes it outside, specifically, to actually cook on a camp stove. “Our team members took out their gear and went camping to cook outdoors,” says Hasegawa. “You know how even the simplest foods can taste really delicious when you’re out camping? We wanted to focus on that same feeling while we created them.”
Ignis serves up some very fancy-looking meals in the Coleman-branded camp dishware in the game, but it’s believable due to this detailed care in their creation. You can buy that the dedicated outdoor chef could make a beautiful croque madame at a campsite — because a team of dedicated outdoor chefs in Japan actually did the real-world work first.[/quote]
I put about 5 hours into this and am (was?) really getting into it. I’m still not sold on the combat, but sometimes it’s brilliant. Usually I’m just mashing buttons and drinking my entire stock of potions and then buying more later. It sure is pretty though. And I like the UI and some of the gameplay mechanics quite a lot.
I’m not really that into the gear and ascendancy stuff - some weapons, and accessories, and that’s about it. And what I’ve seen so far is fairly … boring. But I’m still early so who knows. The ascendancy stuff is almost all just some passive buffs, or some combat skills that look tricky for me to pull off. Goody.
But all that aside, I am questing and getting into the story. Until this last half hour when I retired for the night in disgust. Guy has me running up to mine a gem for him - sure, I’m level 12 and this is a level 6 quest, no worries. Except the empire troops spawn in literally one wave after another. Over a fucking dozen level 16 guys that have guns and cut us down in moments. I can win against one wave but only by crafting magic - but I’ve noticed a fun little thing where if you don’t get the spell off before you get shot, the cooldown resets and the spell is gone - and never gets cast! Yay!
I’m so fucking tired of these guys spawning while I’m trying to look for this quest, I’m just giving up on the quest and moving on with the main story. If this keeps up it’s going to kill my interest in the game completely - does it ever get better?
I’m pretty much exactly where you are, and having the exact same issue. I honestly want to keep playing this game, but the Empire troop spawns are too overbearing. Even now, when I’m level 24ish, and the troops are still 18, there’s too damn many of them, and the spawns keep happening. What a tragic design decision! They should have just put these groups at static points and let the player decide if/when to go fight them. Having them spawn in on you while trying to find 5 foozles in a certain area is just stupid.
Well, on the one hand thanks for the info and letting me know it’s not just me (though I had read about this being annoying before I got the game, I didn’t realize the levels of annoyance this would reach - I was thinking more like Skyrim spawning dragons at some point in the main story, but this is just… waaay more than that, in terms of frequency). On the other… fuck.
It has to be a bug of some kind, it’s laughable to have them spawn literally four times in a row one after the next wave in a random area while doing a level 5 quest. What would people do that just beelined for the main quest? The quest that unlocks this madness only required level 3 or 5 or so?!
I hope it’s fixed in a patch, but I don’t want to shelve it until a patch comes because I suspect I’ll never get back to it. And there is quite a lot here I’m enjoying, too! Tonight I’ll focus on the main story, perhaps there is a part where the ambushes stop if I can get far enough into the central narrative…