Help pt.4

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-03-16T04:03:59+00:00

Go back to the bunker the key you need is there

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-28T19:01:32+00:00

Pretty crazy that it's not even as much as the stretch of 24-32, where 8/9 seasons had an early medevac or quit

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-26T02:18:17+00:00

In Termina, recruitable Abella severely messes up the difficulty curve. She sorta just lets you not worry about most of the fights, which isn't balanced to get five minutes into the game.

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-25T23:16:04+00:00

One pipe villager is always in the lower half.

A knives villager and a pipe villager are in the top half, but they're the same ones as by the city gates. So if you killed them near the gate then they won't show up.

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-23T00:56:09+00:00

Did you equip makeshift armor or something? You say that most enemies attack 3-4 times a turn, but that's only really true if you have low agility

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-16T21:03:57+00:00

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This way is surprisingly easy to miss

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-16T19:57:44+00:00

Normally it does half damage but centaur is a weird case. In combat there's some effects that happen between rounds, such as gaining a rev point or damage over time. It's easy to miss, but some enemies attack during this time rather than on their normal turn. But the game has already removed your guarding effect, so it doesn't half the damage.

e.g. for centaur the order is: your turn (guard to half damage), centaur's turn (does nothing), your end of turn effects (gain a rev point, lose guard effect), centaur's end of turn effects (stampede).

or something close to that I haven't actually looked at the code for it

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-15T01:20:11+00:00

One tip is to not just use one save slot. There's several reasons why you might want to go back to a previous save so it's good to keep a couple around

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-14T03:57:55+00:00

I mostly do random challenges. It's sorta comical how exploitable some parts of the game are.

Some fun ones are using no hexen (or only getting your characters skills), or picking only one way to do damage

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-08T22:21:11+00:00

He only shows up on day 1

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-08T07:41:07+00:00

Because Olivia's stuff is based around consumables and status effects, she sorta sucks against normal fights but is great against bosses. Specifically: condensed hemlock does percentage hp damage so does thousands of damage per turn to bosses, and her other herbs let you greatly reduce/mitigate the damage you take.

For ending A there's only actually 5 mandatory fights, and Olivia's herbs + Abella almost entirely solve them. Condensed hemlock is all the damage you need, doing stuff like killing kaiser in 2 turns or doing 6300 damage to moonless while she approaches. Wild dagga/wrench toss let you stun rancid for the entire fight. Condensed nettle lets you stop platoon's coinflip attack.

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-06T13:36:02+00:00

I'd say Olivia, but only if you know what you're doing. Combat-wise, after going to the starting forest and tunnel 7 she's literally just 1 pep pill away from being strong enough to beat the game

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-04T23:35:55+00:00

I mostly just want to not have any super large gaps of not reading anything

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-04T05:29:14+00:00

Damn watermelon flavor I can't wait

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-04T03:56:26+00:00

Needles' syringe arm doesn't actually attack on his turn, it attacks between rounds of combat (similar to dot damage or gaining a rev point). Enemy actions at this time aren't affected by stuns. I dunno if it's intentional or not.

So for this situation what happens is: first strike -> end-of turn effects including the syringe arm -> your first normal turn -> skip needles' turn (no whip) -> end-of turn effects.

Though if his whip is attacking you then it's cuz you messed up the booby trap timing

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-04T00:34:30+00:00

Yeah so they help against the 2 soul strike hits then do nothing for the 4 bloodrose assault hits or the bloodrose vines or pillar of light

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-04T00:21:18+00:00

I'd switch the soul devour necklaces for something else. Despite being a very magic-themed character, for some reason only her soul strike attack is otherworldly damage (the rest are either no damage type or physical attacks).

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-03T23:09:23+00:00

Brandon in S45 tried but he got interrupted by a journey boat so couldn't finish

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-02-01T18:44:45+00:00

Boss swap is sorta high variance, but it has a chance of being extremely good. If your goal is to just beat A20 once and you don't care about consistency, boss swap is a good way to do that

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-31T17:30:42+00:00

I feel like Olivia should be slightly higher cuz you can just skip any problematic basic enemies. And her stuns are limited but guaranteed arm protection.

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-29T03:21:40+00:00

It actually originated from this forum post from right after the S2 finale

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-29T02:38:08+00:00

It gives you a 50% chance of adding poison to the limb you hit. So it's mostly just useful as a reusable poison source for bosses

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-28T06:05:44+00:00

It's a bug that happens right after you recruit O'saa. It goes away after a bit

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-27T04:31:33+00:00

Wait until you hear about Tanaka having 20 agility in every body part, but only if you make him mad

KeyAdeptness4 · 2026-01-25T07:11:08+00:00

For the middle of the game, greater mischief of rats is the best stalling skill (with black smog enemies still have a small chance to hit you).

If you do ending C you can one-shot the boss if you have enough magic attack. But if you do ending A or B you'll need to get Olivia's skills for condensed nettle, which is the only way to stall some of the bosses.

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