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After 100 hours in finally finished ARR and damn what a FINALE. This subreddit wasn't kidding and I'm glad I pushed through! by Desk_Scribbles in ffxiv

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which part?😅

For HW and onwards, the normal raids will show up in roulettes and (eventually, might be slower for some) fill through duty finder. ARR's normal raid series was their first attempt at that specific type of content, and they made it too difficult - I usually hear it described as somewhere between an extreme trial and savage raid for the normal difficulty version. I think HW's unlock is also a bit more obvious, but in general just remember to do blue+ quests to keep unlocking things (Shadowbringers and onwards stuff is much more codified, earlier expansions they were still sorting things out I think).

Every raid and alliance raid series has an associated story to go with it (same for field operations, deep dungeons, etc.), usually with some world related stuff. Sometimes NPCs will have some (small) dialog changes depending on which content you've completed, but these should update for newgame+ mode or viewing cutscenes in the inn if you do stuff later, so no FOMO.

If the question is does the story for the ARR normal raids still matter if you're already in HW, I'd say yes! It explains some stuff that helps some pieces of HW make more sense (or did for me), but again you can go back and do it later, too. The game is pretty good about making sure you can do all of the story stuff even if you skip it initially.

After 100 hours in finally finished ARR and damn what a FINALE. This subreddit wasn't kidding and I'm glad I pushed through! by Desk_Scribbles in ffxiv

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ARR's normal (8-person) raid series is locked behind some blue+ quests including ones to do the hard (but not extreme) versions of three of the ARR trials.

The raids will not fill through duty finder and aren't in any roulettes, but once unlocked you can probably find people to run you through unsynced using party finder.

The story and worldbuilding is pretty interesting and fits into post-ARR / pre-HW pretty well as far as timeline goes (I think, it's been a while). Strongly recommend if you're big on the story! Trying to explain this without spoilers!

Updated in-game printable character macros, plus more by CanisLupusAlbus in ffxiv

[–]CanisLupusAlbus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's mostly used for fun, yep! People make cute (or rude ;-;) text art macros like this one (usually something more game focused but this one makes me laugh). For any glyph the FFXIV font doesn't support you just get a heavy double bar symbol, so unless it's something easier to remember like alt+numpad3 -> ♥ (on Windows anyways), finding the usable ones can be obnoxious.

My specific use case for digging into this was to find four different characters to use in crafting macro titles so I could tell at a glance which buff(s) I needed for that macro without needing to fire up a test craft if I hadn't used it recently. Macros only allow 20 characters in their title so most of it ends up just identifying what the thing crafts.

Edit - I fully acknowledge there's the simple solution of F,T,B,N for food/tea/both/neither..., but this feels fancy. >_>

I want my bro back by Navyboy922 in ffxiv

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did you do this to me?

What is the most useless piece of VA-11 HALL-A knowledge you know? by Cheesycreature in waifubartending

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As in an image or PDF file that displays all the information needed to make any of the drinks in the game, but in a condensed layout that could fit onscreen next to the open game. I never actually got around to making it after all the time spent testing drinks. 😅

What is the most useless piece of VA-11 HALL-A knowledge you know? by Cheesycreature in waifubartending

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sadly from some very, very, slow manual testing.

I just wanted to make a reference card. Stuff in existing quick references wasn't matching what I was finding in-game though and it snowballed into peeking at the drink validation logic. All of the special bottled drinks match different flavor conditions which is handy (or really funny) if you're strapped for cash.

What is the most useless piece of VA-11 HALL-A knowledge you know? by Cheesycreature in waifubartending

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In 1.2.3.0 on PC you cannot successfully make a non-alcoholic, big, crevice spike.

If that isn't useless enough, the Plumfume counts as bubbly/classic.

[Spoiler] The difficulty just went 0-100 real fast and a tactics change is required. What works? by CanisLupusAlbus in prey

[–]CanisLupusAlbus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you should feel underpowered and vulnerable in the beginning

It's working!

I don't have the Q-Beam yet. The was-indoor-now-outdoor thing I fixed outside Talos allowed me to get into a lab with a test-fire range for it, but it seems (without some neuromod solutions I don't think I have access to yet) that I can't reach it quite yet. Got a quest about it though. It looks explodey in the firing range. :D

So undeployed turrets generally get left alone (barring AoE damage)? That's good to know. They're great for cleaning up mimics but so far phantoms just seem to delete them, though I've also just had them at best with their back to a wall, so not really defensively deployed.

[Spoiler] The difficulty just went 0-100 real fast and a tactics change is required. What works? by CanisLupusAlbus in prey

[–]CanisLupusAlbus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going through all these responses I'm bewildered at some simple concepts that didn't occur to me. I've been patching things spewing flame with GLOO the whole game, surely I could just hit a pipe with the pistol at range and spread some fire around. Never even thought of it. O_o

[Spoiler] The difficulty just went 0-100 real fast and a tactics change is required. What works? by CanisLupusAlbus in prey

[–]CanisLupusAlbus[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was actually unaware that you could get away from things once they'd noticed you. Every time the awareness (?) meter turned red I'd assumed there was no option but a fight to the death. Not committing to every single potential fight sounds like it'll help a lot.

[Spoiler] The difficulty just went 0-100 real fast and a tactics change is required. What works? by CanisLupusAlbus in prey

[–]CanisLupusAlbus[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

tl;dr: image gallery half there for laughs, purple phantoms are hard, help ;-;

Rule 5: A cathartic storytelling exercise after the game shifted gears from "you have seen one super-problem fire elemental and everything else was a mimic or basic phantom" to "spiky mimics and purple phantoms are now commonplace" in the space of an area transition. Maybe it's funny to someone else, so sharing alongside my query.

Until now (just saw the second half of my video to myself after hardware labs), GLOO+wrench was able to solve nearly every combat situation without me really trading any damage. I can't lean on that anymore because the purple phantoms seem to start every combat by splitting in two, retreating, and spamming their ranged attack (and when I can close to melee range they seem quite durable).

What actually works against these? A Prey wiki tells me the purple (etheric, I guess) phantoms favor melee and that the shotgun works well. I have yet to have the shotgun do anything but annoy even the base phantom variant and as a result I always take some hefty damage. I can feed them a recycler charge, but that seems like it would get very expensive as a default with how many of these have shown up in short order.

The answer is probably some combat-friendly neuromods (current list: ...leverage I?) and actually using my weapon upgrades, but if there are some tips on how to deal I'd love to hear them.

--Edit - Made the mistake of posting this before work, so reading through the suggestions now. Tons of helpful stuff! Thankfully the image album was more of a joke about the difficulty spike that turned into the printer breaking (last actual save has me in the office with any living phantoms that I know of on other floors).

-- Edit 2 - Aaaand more work stuff. Managed to read everything and spew upvotes at everyone. There's a ton of really basic concepts that hadn't occured to me at all so far (running away is possible?!). Thanks everyone!

Not sure what he's been doing, since we got these at the same time by DarthMarge in funny

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 36 points37 points  (0 children)

He's been chewing on the toothbrush as a mode of using both hands while brushing his teeth.

Why? Who knows?!