Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

[Sooks]

Oh wow there aren’t many promotion items...

[Saint Rubenio]

Just now, Sooks1016 said:

Oh wow there aren’t many promotion items...

That right there is probably my biggest issue with FE6. You cannot miss a single one - you just can't, it's too big a loss. You'll also want to visit chapter 16's secret shop. Without it, there's no way your whole team will be able to promote. It's not cool.

[Sooks]

1 minute ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That right there is probably my biggest issue with FE6. You cannot miss a single one - you just can't, it's too big a loss. You'll also want to visit chapter 16's secret shop. Without it, there's no way your whole team will be able to promote. It's not cool.

How do I get the member card?

[Saint Rubenio]

Just now, Sooks1016 said:

How do I get the member card?

It's on a recruitable in that same chapter.

[Benice]

34 minutes ago, Sooks1016 said:

So how good is Ogier? I know Barth and Wendy are armor knights (and Barth has the same speed growth as Lilina >.<) but is Ogier worth using? Deke’s already pretty good, how is Ogier as a character?

Ogier's decent. He's more-or-less Deke's replacement. His growths are much better, but his con and bases are worse. He is perfectly serviceable if you use him-He also has the axefest of the western isles to look forwards to.

[Lightcosmo]

21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Pretty sure that's a glitch of some kind. He does have his own palette in the game files.

He's not bad per-se, he's just outclassed. He'll be faster than Deke, but other than that, he'll be worse off.

Zeiss? Also doesnt have a pallete set. So hes also generic! 

[Saint Rubenio]

40 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:

Zeiss? Also doesnt have a pallete set. So hes also generic! 

The wyverns are weird. They have palettes of their own when unpromoted (or at least the generic wyvern palette suits Zeiss well enough), but then they promote and they get the same generic "green wyvern, silver armor" palette, for some reason. Well... Actually, that's not true - Milady's promoted armor is very slightly more bronze-ish than Zeiss's, and her wyvern's underwings are red instead of blue. That's where the differences end, though.

Not entirely sure what happened there.

 

[Benice]

59 minutes ago, Sooks1016 said:

How do I get the member card?

Make sure you get the silver card, guiding ring and warp staff in Ch, 14!

[Armagon]

I did Yelv's first Affinity Mission. I chose the option where we salvaged a piece of the White Whale on Oblivia's northwestern coast. After that, i did that one Affinity Mission you can get in the entrance to the BLADE Barracks. The one where you fight a Simius on a cliffside in northeastern Primordia.

I'm about.....10 hours in, i think? Maybe a bit more, haven't checked but i want to talk about my impressions with the combat. A lot of Xeno fans say that Xenoblade X has the best combat in the series. Idk if it does, i haven't gotten to Overdrive and Skells yet but what i can say is that Xenoblade X combat truly is Xenoblade 1 combat but vastly improved but i can also see how this game influenced Xenoblade 2's combat, even if the two games go about it differently. Xenoblade X isn't that intuitive at first but once i got the hang of it, i could begin enjoying it more. Soul Voices in particular made more sense once i understood how they actually worked and it gives incentive to not go in guns blazing, instead saving Arts for when an appropriate Soul Voice is called. I also feel like Soul Voices kinda paved the way to Xenoblade 2/Torna's Art Cancelling. Mainly in the sense that using a certain Art at the right time gives you a visual cue and the Art itself is stronger, perhaps with added effects.

So far, the only thing i'm not a fan of with the combat is how revives work. It used up 3000 TP, but TP is the default max that you start with, so it's essentially like what if in Xenoblade 1/2/Torna, a revive used up the whole party gauge. At least in the start, i know TP max can be increased, which is good. And honestly, this is probably just early-game syndrome, i imagine racking up TP will be a lot faster later on, especially with Overdrive.

Of course, on the exploration side of things, Xenoblade X is king. I haven't explored all there is to see but even with Monolith Soft's phenomenal track record in world design, Xenoblade X stands above the rest. 

Honestly, between Xenoblade X and Xenoblade 2/Torna, i don't know if i can ever go back to Xenoblade 1 after this. I mean, i still like Xenoblade 1 a lot but man, it really does show just how much the gameplay has improved a ton since then.

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@Shrimperor it's a good thing you played XenoblaDE first because knowing you, if you had played X, 2 or Torna first and then DE afterwards, you probably would've gotten a ton of whiplash in the combat department (I say this since you did bring up how you might've liked GBA FE more if you didn't save them for last).

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

FE12 as well, actually. There are a couple of instances where it gets really annoying, too. Bantu's recruitment is absolutely hilarious.

It's a case of a remake being too faithful to the source material. After the GBA games and Tellius, idk why IntSys thought it was a good idea to allow only one unit to visit villages.

5 hours ago, Shrimperor said:

Mario 35, actually.

I was at 2-4 and suddenly i find myself being swarmed by Bowsers.

Best thing is, i was able to evade the Boswers fine...

then fell into the lava xD

 

RIP.

Mario 35 is pretty fun, although i mainly do the strat where i just farm 1-2. That being said, once you get into the top 5 or even top 3, the game just becomes "see who fucks up first" because everyone at that point pretty much has equal skill.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Pivix, huh... Usually I just check google images for my fanart. Maybe I'll do some digging myself.

I usually start off with Safebooru first because that site is guaranteed to only give me SFW stuff. From there, i find the sources of the images and then see if there's anything else.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...Damn, there's a lot more, uh... suggestive art than I would've expected from something like Berwick.

Hey man, you know the rule: if it exists, there is porn of it.

3 hours ago, twilitfalchion said:

Oi, pixiv is a minefield, even for the most innocent stuff. Maybe it'd be better if I logged out when looking for art...

I will say that once you bookmark a few things, your recs does show similar things in nature. Like i said before, i usually begin searches with Safebooru first. That's how i started looking up Godzilla fanart and then i just followed the source from there. Bookmarked a few things on Pixiv and then Pixiv just began recommending me actually good Godzilla art (too much of it tho, it's like the only thing that shows up in my recs now).

So my advice is that Pixiv is only a minefield is you search through the tags itself. Following your recs is a much safer alternative.

[Codename Shrimp]

10 minutes ago, Armagon said:

it's a good thing you played XenoblaDE first because knowing you, if you had played X, 2 or Torna first and then DE afterwards, you probably would've gotten a ton of whiplash in the combat department (I say this since you did bring up how you might've liked GBA FE more if you didn't save them for last).

good thing i waited for DE then, right? xD

11 minutes ago, Armagon said:

although i mainly do the strat where i just farm 1-2.

ah yes the 1-2 coin farm loop

11 minutes ago, Armagon said:

hat being said, once you get into the top 5 or even top 3, the game just becomes "see who fucks up first" because everyone at that point pretty much has equal skill.

i usually lose at 10-15 so far

[Armagon]

Spanish dubs really do be having the same exact seven voice types.

9 minutes ago, Shrimperor said:

good thing i waited for DE then, right? xD

Yep. On the bright side, XenoblaDE's simplistic combat does make it arguably the best starting point, because it only goes up from there (in regards to Blade, pre-Blade Xeno is too different gameplay-wise).

8 minutes ago, Shrimperor said:

usually lose at 10-15 so far

My highest is top 8 so far. But even though I haven't gotten to the top 5, I can feel that it does become a waiting game to see who dies first.

 

[Acacia Sgt]

5 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Spanish dubs really do be having the same exact seven voice types.

Okay, I laughed.

But what's this of?

[Armagon]

4 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

But what's this of?

Promare. The movie is essentially a spiritual love letter for Studio TRIGGER fans. It's definitely one of those movies where the best way to watch it was in the theater.

Movie's soundtrack also bangs and it was composed by Sawano (the guy who did the Xenoblade X OST).

[Codename Shrimp]

why do i always lose to the most stupid of jumps lol

Then again SMB jump physics are...something xD

Never thought i will say this, but... i need to get better at Mario Lol

Edited October 8, 2020 by Shrimperor

[Interdimensional Observer]

53 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Soul Voices in particular made more sense once i understood how they actually worked and it gives incentive to not go in guns blazing, instead saving Arts for when an appropriate Soul Voice is called

Don't forget about Secondary Cooldown. I realized it was inefficient to pop off all your Arts right away because of that, though I'm not entirely sure how it works. 

For damage-dealing Arts, it says +250% damage, but I'm not sure if it means. Do you deal 100% + 250% = 350% of normal Art damage, or is it misstated and they mean your Art damage is increased to 250% of its normal? I'll be cautious and assume the latter and lower number, but even if it is the lower number that is true, thats an extra half-a-use's worth of damage for waiting for Secondary Cooldown. If I'm understanding it right.

For Auras, it's a little clearer. How much of a boost to its effects an increase of one or two tiers in the Aura's power is, is unclear to me. However, an extra 20-40 seconds of Aura duration is big. Offensive Stance, to pick any Aura, at level 3 has a 46 seconds cooldown and 24 seconds duration, you're almost doubling Offensive Stance's duration, making it a little stronger due to the one tier increase, and you're only spending 1000 TP, instead of the 2000 you'd spend casting it twice. Something like a Shield's Supershield Aura really benefits from Secondary Cooldown, considering that has at most an 18 seconds duration without higher levels of cooldown.

However! One must remember that you only have Secondary Cooldown happening on with the Arts of the weapon you're currently wielding (if an Art has partly SC'ed and you swap, the time on the SC frozen at where you leave it). So maybe, if you intend to wait a bit for Secondary on some Arts of a particular weapon, then perhaps firing off the Arts of the other weapon wouldn't be a bad idea. And, maybe you want to answer Soul Voices as they come up too, be it for the gameplay benefits of trigger them, or getting that tiny bit of additional Affinity with the person who called out. 

 

53 minutes ago, Armagon said:

So far, the only thing i'm not a fan of with the combat is how revives work. It used up 3000 TP, but TP is the default max that you start with, so it's essentially like what if in Xenoblade 1/2/Torna, a revive used up the whole party gauge. At least in the start, i know TP max can be increased, which is good. And honestly, this is probably just early-game syndrome, i imagine racking up TP will be a lot faster later on, especially with Overdrive.

Since you're using a Striker and I assume going to follow into Samurai Gunner and Duelist, when you've mastered SG, mix Tornado Blade with the Yamato Spirit skill. With an Aura active and Tornado Blade and Yamato Spirit at level 3, you'll get 80 for using the Art (and any other melee Art), plus 70*4 TP for every enemy in Tornado Blade's reach. The TP doesn't get increased from Secondary Cooldown I think for either Yamato Spirit or Tornado Blade, so spam the melee Arts as they come online.

 

...I uh, didn't pay attention to and realize any of this stuff on my first run. None at all.😅

Edited October 8, 2020 by Interdimensional Observer

[Benice]

14 minutes ago, Shrimperor said:

Never thought i will say this, but... i need to get better at Mario Lol

It's okay, dad. Me too. It' been so long since I've played one...golly, I really need to play SMG 1 and  again. Man, those games are still gorgeous by today's standards. And the music...

Edited October 8, 2020 by Benice

[Lightcosmo]

Yeah, getting TP late game is a cinch in X. That and you can have arts TP gain, max tp up. And after all that, specific soul voices make it easy, and certain arts.

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by lightcosmo

[null]

17 minutes ago, Shrimperor said:

why do i always lose to the most stupid of jumps lol

Then again SMB jump physics are...something xD

Never thought i will say this, but... i need to get better at Mario Lol

Same. I stopped playing 2D platformers consistently a long time ago. I'm garbage at them now.

3D I'm somewhat better at though.

[Benice]

Why did I think TP was referring to Toilet Paper?

[Benice]

Just wondering, do i ever fight Dimitri in VW?

[null]

I thought Twilight Princess, lol.

[Benice]

Toilet Princess or Twilight Paper also work,

[DragonFlames]

5 minutes ago, Benice said:

Toilet Princess or Twilight Paper also work,

XD

[Benice]

Wait, if Shrimpy is my dad, can Draggy be my mom/other dad?

[Acacia Sgt]

TP?

Tornado Pack