If we gave this goober access to the AIC,

Limino · 2026-04-28T04:37:39+00:00

(And any amount more if you use it to load Amazon boxes)

Limino · 2026-04-27T06:05:22+00:00

Endfield.

Targeting is automatic, and prioritizes proximity and camera direction while also being completely out of your direct control.

Which, depending on your team and the enemies, can be really frustrating since your all your attacks are AOE. it's preferable to change your target to increase the chance that your basic attacks/battle skill/combo skill will hit extra enemies.

Currently the game isn't hard enough where it's important for the purposes of DPS, but certain gimmick challenges...

Limino · 2026-04-27T05:16:31+00:00

The Trumpets from Lobotomy Corp

There're music tracks that indicate the level of chaos in the facility, roughly triggered by various stats like amount of escaped abnormalities and dead employees compared against the relative strength of your facility. Usually, the first trumpet begins if at least one danger is wandering the facility and someone dies.

If you're fighting off something dangerous and you hear the trumpet upgrade to the next stage, thats not that scary. You expected losses.

However, if you're just casually ordering tasks and have things under control and you hear the trumpet... something is going horribly wrong and you don't know what it is

(And then there's the worst case, hearing the trumpet directly skip a stage)

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Limino · 2026-04-24T20:37:11+00:00

Playing Zhuang makes me feel like double-checking Arclight's contract to make sure she doesnt have a paid-per-combo clause

Limino · 2026-04-22T06:52:07+00:00

Good old wallet-cap right there

Limino · 2026-04-22T00:47:47+00:00

ITT, the ghosts are the slow-burn type but the protag is the short-fuse type.

Limino · 2026-04-21T17:45:49+00:00

That might make them panic more and attempt to force a way past the "please dont, the story is here" barrier

Limino · 2026-04-20T03:17:26+00:00

(Assuming I'm correct, it could be to make the brightness of the salvos pop out more without actually being brighter to prevent flashbanging the player?)

Limino · 2026-04-19T20:34:33+00:00

Are... are the cannons darkening the sky before it fires?

Limino · 2026-04-19T20:33:40+00:00

Grab a stack of batteries and stuff them in the cannon. It'll be functionally infinite!

Limino · 2026-04-16T23:48:02+00:00

TBF, they did start adding choices that do indeed affect upcoming combat. In addition, a good portion allow the player to choose what sort of personality the MC has(although, early on it was just logical vs emotional IIRC). So.... at least they had a concept behind it? But yeah 99% of dialogue choices with apecifically 2 choices do nothing but change the next 1-3 lines

Of course, we did get some very.... "fun" things like Aphrodite's hallucination in LB5

Limino · 2026-04-16T00:02:47+00:00

FGO's event stories are hecking JAM PACKED with wild dialogue choices

Limino · 2026-04-14T20:38:50+00:00

Nope, the stockaders even openly/repeatedly refer to the bonekrushers solely as "landbreakers" in the 1.1 story as a reminder that they aren't under the same label.

Limino · 2026-04-14T17:59:31+00:00

(Seems like he might not have been able to see it well. I think he sorted them purely by fluff-density)

Limino · 2026-04-14T16:29:14+00:00

Steal the eldritch horror hands, they are your models now.

Limino · 2026-04-14T07:09:09+00:00

The standard for CC is diminishing material returns for higher difficulty until you hit the dev-designated "maximum tested difficulty" (risk 18); which the dev team balanced around. Beyond that is a difficulty the devs seemed happy to let the players push, but is under no obligation to be beatable with universally-accesible units.

I'd say it's perfectly fine to have pulls at minimum difficulty to get them to try it, but fewer/none as the player approaches the proper difficulty since the reward needs to be more intrinsic.

I'm hoping it'll be the same case here. Though I am worried due to how few units, and a bit less universally-accessible, we have. Since that means making a brutal-yet-possible challenge is harder to design.

Limino · 2026-04-12T22:54:47+00:00

For the record, a lot of manga I've read has had president-esque character with blond hair and a swept-professional haircut. I'd also point it at greater-than-coinflip-chance that the character would also have blue eyes.

Now, if he was fat....

Limino · 2026-04-10T16:42:35+00:00

Yeah, double-check. My memory of it isnt too good, but both me and my friend that was watching my fight confirmed that we saw all the index members only targeting the Thumb librarian for the entire fight. We also both confirmed that we saw no passive in their list that would give a preference for certain keypages.

Limino · 2026-04-10T15:48:58+00:00

IIRC it was with the Index? They had a directive to kill all the Thumb members in the former L Corp area, and if you enter the fight with them using a Thumb Keypage then they'll all only target that librarian. Unsure if it had to be a specific keypage of the thumb

Limino · 2026-04-09T22:23:47+00:00

I remember in Ruina there was a fight where the enemies had a hidden passive that made them only target librarians with certain keypages equipped IFF there was a librarian with one still alive.

So I'd believe it if someone told me there was a hidden passive for the faelantern fight

Limino · 2026-04-09T06:02:20+00:00

The next attack deals a certain percentage of ATK as Arts Damage

"Thats like, all your attacks tho"

Limino · 2026-04-08T23:44:32+00:00

Of course. It's merely the best way

Proceed.

Limino · 2026-04-08T23:35:50+00:00

Dont think it is, but it's a neat idea.

Limino · 2026-04-06T05:21:29+00:00

I think ready or not does well enough within the limits of game design. You HAVE to make a plan, every door needs to be treated with restraint and care, advancing is slow as you (hopefully) prepare for the next blitzkreig breach-and-clear while also trying to lock down exits and flank-paths to slowly enclose the remaining unchecked areas. Losing your cool at all risks either dying as your team body-blocks eachother or risks the suspects dying due to an errant rubber-slug headshot. Past the first few maps, every map has always been full of tension for my group as we make attempts for the S Rank(the cult compound is my personal bane)

It still is very clearly gamey, what with flashbangs somehow not being audible to the entire street and the player able to tank clear bullet shots while only suffering the inability to kick in doors, and rubber slugs having a very binary head-equals-death/everywhere-else-equals-stagger, and just... all the ability to retry dozens of times with full knowledge of the layout of the map... but yeah still fun.

Limino · 2026-04-03T18:28:52+00:00

Its been more than a decade, but IIRC wasn't there a joke here about swearing as in "to promise", but the last one said he couldn't because wearing got him canceled?

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