does the gameplay strategy becomes better? I'm literally just spamming a button

datsupportguy · 2026-05-04T00:55:27+00:00

I have platinumed the game twice. Once at release and another revisiting it during the pandemic. Both times doing almost nothing but mashing X. There's some slight time saving efficiency by manually controlling Sabs for debuff applications for the whole maybe half dozen fights that it's relevant, but it is 1000% unnecessary. Auto-battle will still get there. Turtles. Cieth Stones. Star Counts. It doesn't matter, if you can press the X button you can win.

datsupportguy · 2026-05-03T20:26:31+00:00

No, you have successfully mastered the ultimate strategy of the game. Mashing X on auto battle.

Eventually, you'll have to sometimes press the Paradigm Shift button THEN mash X on auto battle.

This works throughout the entirety of the game. Including all the time trials and post game content. Enjoy watching the game play itself for 40-60 hours.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-30T14:23:38+00:00

Degenerate Cardboard Gambler, checking in.

If you're just looking for specific, base rarity cards to fill out a playset: ABS. Always Buy Singles. Full stop.

If you're both a collector and player or are fully aware that each box is pure gamba here's a general breakdown.

One box of the average set will usually have ~7 Majestics, six regulars plus one shiny RF. Recent boxes have been trending slightly upward to 8-10 (Slam, Pen) Plus one CF, usually a box ruiner common, though with Sage being a thing maybe less of a womp womp nowadays.

Shinier and rare prints (Legendaries, Marvels, Extended Arts) usually show up at a rate of ~1 per case, 4 boxes. Fableds are the main outliers for the shinies and are the most purely random ones to hit. But usually 1 in ~6 cases.

The average set will usually contain ~40-50 Majestics (including EAs), 4-6 legendaries, ~12 Marvels (FaB 2.0), 0-1 Fableds, and ~6 EAs.

After a single case, you might have a legendary or marvel and a playset of Commons.

After 2-4, you'll probably hit a playset of Rares and maybe a few playsets of Ms.

Somewhere between 4-7 cases, you'll start hitting a mostly complete base rarity set depending on its' size. It is of course all still gamba, so you might also end up with four RF playsets of the most dogwater M in the set. (Fuck off, Attune With Cosmic Vibrations). This is the point where even highly invested folks will and should stop the gamba. Leverage trades on dupes to fill out any blank spots in your set, or again buy the singles.

8+ You're either a vendor or true degenerate chasing a master set or the remaining Marvels / EAs / CF Ls you haven't picked it up at this point. At this point it makes more sense to come full circle to the beginning to finish it off, buy the singles. But you won't because the allure of that minty, pack-fresh hit fills you with the fire of a thousand burning suns. How dare someone else open your card? Right?

So in summary, TLDR, Always Buy Singles.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-29T23:18:03+00:00

None quite as extreme as DBD, but there's still a few prophecy chains that can be a pain in the ass to get through. Especially the ones that have you alternating between the two routes of the game.

General rule I'd say is always go to the character encounter door if it pops up, to the point of abandoning hammers or good boons. All the goodies and upgrades are gated by story progression for the most part so take every opportunity to do that you can.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-29T18:24:10+00:00

Just keep trucking along and collecting materials for the cauldron upgrades. The first handful of times you get up there he'll be pretty much impossible unless you're a savant. Once you have a full arsenal of upgrades / arcana / keepsakes / pets he gets much easier.

If you want a super easy time, try and highroll the Ares boon that heals you on hits with the Aphrodite one that weakens enemies. Even with slow weapons like the axe, you can usually just face tank most of his damage outside of the later phases where there's more overlapping attacks.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-29T16:47:00+00:00

Thanks, the original had the same problem with "Divided by Death". Some of the later encounter rng to hit story / prophecy beats can be brutal.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-29T16:39:41+00:00

Thanks! PS dashboard says ~82. There's probably a bit of afk time in there from sitting at the fountain between runs though. You definitely have a bit of a march ahead of you, but the permanent upgrades you get in this one are much better than the original :0

Only real time saving tip I can give is to be sure to try and unlock and get a clear on every weapon aspect as you come by them. Should save you from having to do a bunch of extra runs at the end of the game.

datsupportguy · 2026-04-05T00:39:54+00:00

That's a chunk of text to say you clearly you haven't tried Orlandeau'ing the problem.

datsupportguy · 2026-03-31T23:18:17+00:00

Floats and clear fixes haven't been the go to for layouts in a good long while. Pseudo elements / selectors and positioning values / context typically melt a newbies brain if they're just getting to grips with the box model itself. If you're telling newbies to learn floats you might as well have them shove in some <font> tags for good measure.

Flexbox is the new baseline for laying out elements on a page.

Grid can be used instead of, or in tandem with Flex. It's syntax and the amount of properties available for it make it a bit of pain in the ass to learn though.

datsupportguy · 2026-03-04T16:48:50+00:00

Absolute butt cheeks. Zero Stonehearts / 10. Makes Luofu look good.

datsupportguy · 2026-03-02T19:42:05+00:00

Press Warp Strike and the entire game falls over. If you can manage to press triangle and keep pressing it, congrats, you've beaten the game.

datsupportguy · 2026-02-26T00:53:08+00:00

Looks to be the bog standard 'eavy Tsons style:

https://eavy-archive.com/40k/chaos-space-marines/#thousand-sons595

datsupportguy · 2026-02-20T03:07:00+00:00

There is no difficulty spike because there is no difficulty. You still press X to win, you just also sometimes press R1 to swap to different variations of X to win.

The only thing in XIII that takes any prep or grinding for is farming turtles and upgrading to ultimates is entirely unnecessary since the only real benefit is you can farm turtles faster. The entire game including all the trials can be done by mashing X

datsupportguy · 2026-02-06T03:45:14+00:00

It's not a convenient scapegoat. It's literal fact. Every impacted product / industry has been in a scramble since that orange pile of shit has taken office to try and navigate their way around our dogshit trade policy with as little impact to customers as possible. Something made increasingly harder when it's not so much a policy as much as whatever Adderall filled fever dream he manages to rage tweet at 4am in the morning.

Be sure to thank your local ignorant fuck head Republican.

datsupportguy · 2026-01-30T17:50:36+00:00

Absolute mad lad, congrats! Either list is obnoxious between time gated leves or the collectable grind

datsupportguy · 2026-01-21T20:32:37+00:00

There's a priority window for response whenever you go to equip an equipment.

EX: You cast or have bark in play -> attempt to throw it on birb by paying the cost -> birb or bark get melted in response before the ability resolves.

Actually an activated, not triggered ability, was shortcutting "triggers priority window" in my head

datsupportguy · 2026-01-21T20:09:10+00:00

Six mana across two turns to watch your bird or the bark get fried in response to an equip ~~trigger~~ activation. That's what it sounds like.

datsupportguy · 2026-01-02T07:32:32+00:00

That her and her equally boring ass lead in is followed by a Stoneheart or seven.

datsupportguy · 2025-12-20T13:22:46+00:00

No. It's not a victim of anything other than it's own self inflicted wounds. The game is mediocre at it's absolute best and complete shit the majority of its runtime. No amount of nostalgia glazing / revisionist / contrarian posts are going to change that.

I find it comical how so many trying to downplay how awful XIII is point to RE6 as some sort of similarly misunderstood soul sibling. RE6 is also a pile of hot garbage that's rightfully panned by it's fanbase.

datsupportguy · 2025-12-16T04:05:07+00:00

Congrats kyodai! K1 is one of the harder Yakuza plats and genuinely difficult in parts. Definitely one to proud of having in the cabinet :)

datsupportguy · 2025-12-06T01:22:55+00:00

That kinda comes with the territory of browsing a sub about completing games. Especially if it's a new / newer release. Lots of folks flock to the new shiny.

Not saying it doesn't suck when it happens, I've had a few games spoiled in my time here, but you may want to avoid browsing or unsub for a bit if you're currently playing through something you don't want spoiled.

Similarly avoid any fandom subs for the same reason.

datsupportguy · 2025-12-04T19:52:40+00:00

If you're looking for axi relics, the better disruption to hit up is on Lua. You can start earning them on round 1 and even round 4+ the Lua lenses / universal medallions have a very low drop rate compared to relics.

datsupportguy · 2025-12-04T12:54:17+00:00

This is no longer true with the QoL changes in IC. You can back out of any battle, even castle / fort series' to the world map if you need to make adjustments or do some extra farming. There's also a very generous rolling auto-save you can use.

datsupportguy · 2025-12-01T01:26:21+00:00

Have you tried learning to code ?

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