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Been keeping an eye on this one, and it finally released this past week. It's a F2P game that allows you to replay classic FF battles from every game in the series (MMOs excluded) using characters and gear from the entire series in the classic FFI-IX style. You start off with a handful of core characters (Black Mage, White Mage, your own toon, VII's Cloud) and dive into the annals of FF history, reliving monster fights to unlock new characters, gear, gil, and foozzles to make/upgrade gear and abilities.

As a F2P game, it does use an Energy system that limits how much time you can spend playing, but so far I haven't hit a wall. Plays as a nice time-killer/bathroom break occupier. Would recommend for old-time FF fans.

Edit: Grammarz

Great bathroom game. I have not played it outside of the bathroom.

Load times are shit.

 :grin:

Whatever happened to just sitting on the toilet and enjoying a good shit?

He says like he was shitting before books existed.

Just an FYI to anyone playing this you have until the 11th to get Tifa and Sephiroth.  I managed to get Tifa this morning but I think it's going to take quite a bit of playing to get strong enough to clear level 60 for Sephiroth in time.

Basically the same core system as every other DeNA game just with more FF nostalgia.  Which basically mean I'll play the hell out of it for a few months until they keep releasing stronger and stronger shit behind insane pay walls of random 'relics/packs/pacts' and finally give up.

Got Tifa. Not even bothering for Sephiroth. No clue why this is the event they chose to lead with.

...I'm basically playing because the music is so pleasing.  :awesome_for_real:

I managed to get Sephiroth this morning.  Farming the mats for Dark attack seems to be the key for floor 70.  Once you get blind on Rufus the fight gets much easier. 

So far it seems like spamming daily quests on the armor day, weapon day and gil day is the most important thing in this game.  Especially the gil day because getting stuck with a full inventory and no gil really sucks.

It's like Heroes Charge with a nasty nostalgia factor. I got teary hearing the FFVII battle music again.

The "legendary stories" seem like ridiculous romance stories now. I was particularly amused by the JRPG trope of the young, inexperienced protagonist with special gifts entrusted to save the world.

I want to play this more, but Schild's right; these load times are a turn-off :(

A million times this.

This new Mt Ordeals event for the two Cecils is MUCH easier than the Shinra event.   Plus this one is handing out accessories like candy, so easy way to get good accessories for everyone. 

Do you guys have older phones?  I don't have any noticeably bad load times or at least nothing I consider out of the norm for a phone game.

Haven't noticed any exceptionally long load times, but it's a mobile game so it's usually not getting my full attention most of the time. Plus it pretty much plays itself unless you're fighting something difficult.

Also the new event is easier than the Shinra event because Mt. Ordeals was apparently the first event in the JP version. Not sure why they were released out of order aside from it maybe being due to FFVII's popularity here.

Load times were really bad for me because our internet sucks bad at work.

It's less about any individual load time, but rather the combined fortitude of loading between every single fucking thing you're doing.

Also, item scrolling jesus christ.

Oh god the scrolling. I'm happy if I can even get it to scroll. About 1/3 of the time it'll lock up the game.

Also has anybody been able to transfer a game from one iOS device to another? I've tried Game Center and one time code and neither of them work.

Item scrolling is awful, and I've realized I just have to switch to 4G to play at work. Got Sephiroth, still working on Pally Cecil. I haven't touched the Elite missions yet; are those doable in the early 20s?

Handful of the elites are. I'm actually backwards on the game atm. Getting Paladin Cecil tonight. Nowhere near getting Sephiroth. I am not min-maxing a goddamn thing though. It's a toilet game.

Rydia with Thundara can handle the two hard bosses on the way to Sephiroth; hone it once so you have 4 charges and it's easy as long as she lives.

Child Rydia has always been a bit of a bitch.

This is an HTML 5 game and the CPU and RAM on the device makes a big difference in performance. I managed to finally get my game transferred (turns out that message about the load failing was a lie) from a newer iPad to an older one and I immediately noticed a slow down in performance.

Most of my load times are latency related; being in an area of poor WiFi signal strength really slows everything down. Why the hell does a single player cellphone game require constant connectivity anyway? (Obvious answer: MTX :oh_i_see:)

New event starts tomorrow for Aeris.

She's alive!

At least the next two events should be FF6 ones.

...dammit! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNbp0u8WjA)  :awesome_for_real:

Hmm one time through Easy/Normal was enough to get Aeris and the 3 Protect Vests.  Guess there's a bunch of time to farm up all the other stuff.

There's a really good weapon for Rydia (Light Rod) in the second Elite FFIV dungeon from the Octo boss.  Pretty easy to get if you have Thundara.

Buying commodities with the event items is super tedious; no way to buy multiples, and after every purchase you have to scroll back down to the thing you're trying to buy 10 of.

It really is terrible, especially if the thing you want is near the bottom.

I used 2 of the big xp eggs from the event on Aeris to get her to 25 and threw her in as my healer.   She is a MUCH better healer than Tyro, her ability doesn't seem that great though.

I read a trick that using a 2 finger swipe to scroll on the items and commodities is faster.  Seems to be working for me, YMMV.

A bunch of new content patched in today, including Cyan (VI), Knight (Core) and Summoner (Core). The core classes don't count for FFI either, so I guess there's no way to get a synergy bonus there.

Stat-wise, even with a synergy bonus the core classes still wouldn't really be worth using compared to other characters.

I use Cecil (Dark Knight), Rydia, White Mage, Kain, and that loser from FFXII (the lead character).

I never change my party.

I have crushed all the content except for some of the "elite" shit or whatever.

How did you get Vaan? Or do you mean Tidus, the loser MC-san from FFX?

Tidus.

Sorry that whole game is a pile of shit.

X or XII? Tidus was a looser, but aside from that, I'll play XII any day of the week over X.

X sorry. Everything after VI other than XII was unmitigated dogshit.

I've got Dark Knight Cecil and Kain's five star weapons, so I'm using both of them. Aerith is the healer since she's more sturdy than White Mage. Rydia is good for now, but she might get replaced later. Her black magic tops out at three stars and her summons are too hard to hone. Fifth slot gets swapped out frequently right now, although Cloud was there for a long time.

The only character-specific 5 star I've found is Pally Cecil, who I don't really like. My default party is MC-san (healing with a bow), Sephiroth, Rydia, Tifa, Cloud; however, I'm trying to get everyone leveled up (aside from the useless core characters) for synergy bonuses. The Wakka and all the IV guys are there and Cyan's a work in progress; I really hate Tidus (and there isn't a lot of X content) so he's out on principle.

Apparently I'm not using Tidus. I'm using Cloud.

At least at this point Cloud is way better than Tidus.  Clouds spell blades are pretty good and Tidus gets... boost? I guess.

Where are you guys getting 5 stars? Relic pulls?  I've just been hoarding Mithril except using some to increase my inventory space so that I have to do the horrible inventory management less often.

I need a 4* sword for Cloud.  I found a 2* mithril sword drop in the new VI Airship level so I'll probably try to farm 2 more of those up.

Every time I get 5 Mithral I do a relic pull.

Same.  Only thing of note I've pulled is Dark Cecil's sword.  That thing owns.

Aeris's ult is goddamn terrible.  I've tried to pull her staff hoping it gets better, but no luck so far.   Cyan is OK (his ult is bad too),  but he can't equip bigger swords, which limits his damage potential.  Right now I'm running Dark Cecil, Cloud, Cyan, Rydia, and the White Mage. 

Well I dropped the 50 mithril on an 11 pull and got a couple 4* things that are pretty good.  Was hoping to get Rydia's whip but oh well.

Aeris's ult is pretty useless most of the time but it can really wreck a few of the bosses.  I think it even worked on the Magus Sisters.

The Summon Radiant whatever (Mist Dragon in old guy parlance) completely destroyed the Magus Sisters. One hit, two kills. Kain stabbed the last one in the face.

Mist Dragon makes quick work of Calcabrini too; I couldn't master that fight without it.

Mist Dragon makes quick work of all sorts of shit, it's absurd how good it is. I know following the rules of the original fights is incentivized, but the power levels are all out of wack across the board.

Terra event is now live.

I've been trying to clear some of the elite content and some of the bosses are pretty rough.  The first one I really got stuck on was Baigan follwed by Cagnazzo in Baron Castle.  They just give you no room for error on the timing.  Trying to not let Baigan's arm explode is really difficult and Cagnazzo just wrecks me if he hits with his wave attack.

Also on FF6 Mobliz, I cant seem to poison Humbaba to get the Champion clear.  There must be a different skill since poison does't seem to work no matter how many times I use it.

I used Biora and it worked well. Are you accidentally using Poisona, which is for curing poision?

I'm using the Black Magic "Poison".  I'll farm up some orbs give biora a shot, thanks!

Man, I get Terra, and found she doesn't have the ability to summon.   :oh_i_see:

That's because Terra wasn't a summoner. She was a magitek knight with shit magic abilities.

Really?  Been forever since I played.  I thought she was like, the last magic person, who could talk to the espers and summon them and shit?

She was part esper.

FF6-FF8 pretty much let anybody summon but none of the characters are "Summoners". You'll have to wait for them to add in Garnet, Eiko, or Yuna for another summoner.

This.

What's worth redeeming for in the Countdown to Destruction event? I have ~20K shards and my main group is in the low 30s. I've done one "11 for the price of 10" relic pull and got the Buster Sword as my only "epic" weapon. E.g. are the 3 star items worth getting now or should I just get as many orbs as I can afford?

Maybe grab some of the summon orbs since they're generally not available outside of the events. The jeweled ring and peace ring are pretty much worthless. Aside from that maybe just see if there are any good abilities you're an orb or two away from having and get those.

Cool, thanks!

I have a party level 12-13 and finding the game play extremely dull. Does it get better or it just a nostalgia thing?

No it doesn't :awesome_for_real:

It really doesn't. It's a nostalgia game for the toilet or work downtime. I 'Auto' through 90% of the fights, and only actively control it for bosses.

I agree, if you don't like it by 12-13 it's not going to suddenly get better.

I think Terra is going to be a pretty good character.  Seems like she can equip swords and high level black magic which is going to make her a way better auto battler and strong against bosses.  I'll probably start leveling her once I get Rydia maxed out.

Seal Evil is amazing. It's a near-guaranteed silence on anything it hits, and it will make a whole lot of bosses essentially weak as kittens.

Celes event coming tonight.

I've been farming the FFV Ghost Ship level all day to try and get Black Cowls.  The drop rate really sucks but hopefully I have a 5* soon.  2 down, 1 to go.

Pulled a 3rd Scimitar from the rare relic draw (plus the two from the Celes event) so I'll have a 5* weapon soon. Speaking of the Celes event, the later tier rewards are grindy as fuck; I kinda want a 2nd Hero Ring but 100k Memories... Ugh.

Also FYI, the FFVI Elite Dungeons aren't sorted by difficulty; there are a bunch of 20s and 30s below the old 40s and 50s.

Are 5 star weapons worth upgrading to? I mean are upgrades worth it at all?

All gear is worth upgrading. If you don't have native 4*/5* stuff, upgrading and combining to get there is the next best thing. Ideally you have a set of upgraded gear from each game.

but but but

the game isn't hard

Have you cleared all the 50-60 elite dungeons?

no because i don't poop enough

Eat more fiber.

I didn't say I wasn't regular.

I really hate this Celes event.  I just can't be bothered to spend stamina 4 at a time anymore, even if the flans drop crazy xp.   Back to Elites  :grin:

Lots of updates lately. Rinoa event plus new I, II, VIII and XIII content. Got Rinoa, Snow and Warrior of Light so far; WoL is actually classified as FFI instead of Core so at least he gets a synergy bonus. Up to 80 Stamina with plenty of normal and all the new elite content left to clear; finally feels like I can play a bit whenever I jump on at full energy.

The Rinoa event was terrible and I actually quit for like a week after it.  It made me realize that a hard version of this game is really not what I want.  The mindless phone game is more up my alley.

Anyways now I'm way behind and am catching back up.  Finally finished the Vanille event today and am slowly catching up on the new zones but I still have a long way to go.  I hope they actually slow down or repeat an event at some point so I can make better progress.  There's just too much to do without playing constantly at the rate they put stuff out.

Also I'm not sure how you're supposed to level more characters if everything keeps coming out with heroic versions, even my top level team struggles in the heroic mode so there's no room for sub max characters.

The game is just too painful to play for extended periods unless you are just Autoing.

Getting word that a recent update has addressed a bit of the UI issues. Anyone still playing that can confirm?

The only UI changed I've noticed recently is in the Event missions that have turn ins it'll remember your last position.

They also show you boss weaknesses and score conditions before you enter the dungeon.

Well the update from this morning just changed a whole mess of things. I thought luckton was referring to the changes before that.

Ahh, I hadn't played in a few days until this morning.

Being able to see the boss info in-game and having optimize take record synergy into account are great updates.  The not losing your scroll position on crystal turn-ins was nice too.  Upgrading gear is still a hot mess.

The new friend system made me realize how powerful some of the 5* character weapons are.  Really wish I would have rolled for Vanille or Rinoas 5* weapon now.  I ended up with Lenna's which is pretty terrible.  Instead of spending it I maxed out my item box and now am sitting on over 100 mithril.  Guess I'll wait for the next OP weapon and just roll on it.

Also if you haven't tried it, don't pick Joseph with Noble Sacrifice for your friend.  I thought it would work but it ends up killing whomever summoned the friend.  Pretty lame.

If anybody needs Cloud with his Buster sword and Braver for that sweet sweet 9999* damage feel free to friend me: eMuf

* Your damage may vary -- you'll only get 9999 damage on weaker foes and most bosses you would want to use Braver on will just laugh at your feeble damage, in fact forget I every mentioned the 9999 damage part

Finally got a bit lucky  :grin:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1072019/Tidus.jpg)

Friend code is 9Eme.  Currently a vanilla Sephiroth but I should have a really nice Tidus once weapon material day rolls around again.

I quit playing this because Fallout Shelter is simply better.

I'm still playing, because Fallout Shelter isn't on Android. :oh_i_see:

Well I just blew a ton of Mithril trying to get Sephiroth or Red XIII's weapon and got neither.  Kind of disappointing.  Think I'm at the point now where I'm ready to sell anything that's 1* combined or otherwise.  Just no space.

Fallout seems like the kind of thing I'm going to be bored with in a couple weeks.  Unless they are planning on updating it regularly or adding some more mechanics in some way.

Yeah I don't know what the actual odds are but my relic draw rate feels horrible with only 2 so far after like 70+ draws including a bunch during the increased relics drops week. Fortunately my first one which I got in my very first 10+1 draw was Cloud's Buster sword so that enabled me to get past a lot of content I wouldn't have been able to otherwise.

I've found a lot of 5* items but none of them have been character specific good ones.

Yeah I have a few of those gold orb 5* ones too. I was referring to the rainbow orb character-specific relics.

I thought gold orb meant 4*, and rainbow was always 5*? Stuff like the Genji Helm/Armor, Zantetsuken, Golden Spear, etc.

Oh, could be.

The first 5* draw I got was Dark Knight Cecil's sword, which is pretty rad.   Then during the whole boosted drop chance event, I probably did 30+ draws and only got a 5* piece of armor that casts shell.  Whoop-de-friggin-doo.  I've since lost interest completely.  

The damage sponge design of the elite bosses kind of ruined it for me as well.  I just don't like having to input in this game.  I don't mind hitting auto and watching the numbers fly by.  It's great when you've got to poop.

I'd like this game better as some variety of "my life as king".  Right now it's just a little dry and lacking any real charm.

I just wish it ran a little faster/less clunky; having to swap abilities to hit boss weaknesses is such a pain since Optimize doesn't take boss weaknesses into consideration. Optimize also gears Celes really strangely (gives her melee gear but spells instead of attack skills) so I never use her.

Celes is awesome.

Gold are definitely 4* and Rainbow are 5*.

I agree on the elite bosses.  The only ones I finished all of them were for the Tidus event and it wasn't fun at all and took me tons of tries.   Now I've just been doing the elites up to like the last 2 or so stages and then forget it.

Also releasing a character (or multiple) then putting a requirement on the the final elite boss to have them not die is a bad pattern to follow.  It basically forces you to level them up to 50 in a week.

I just do the Elites for the level cap break items; I haven't bothered completing them.

No it's not.

There's really nothing interesting to do in Fallout Shelter.  It's an ant farm where the ants don't do anything.

So I started the new Knight path event and the intro said to use physical skills to beat the event.  So I spent a few minutes making a pure physical team with a healer support.  So I start it up and both the second and third bosses both require you to use ranged magic to get full points.  :uhrr:   Edit: And then I realized that the button at the top isn't the path your in, it's the button to take you to the other path so I was actually in the magic dungeon.  So yeah, oops.

I do want to complete this event though because Shellga would be REALLY handy on some of the harder magic based bosses.

I'm also closing in on 200 mithril again so when Lightning hopefully releases next event I *WILL* get her 5*. Probably.

Wait, how do you increase chances for stuff?  I mean, other than saving up 50 mithril so you can get one god damn extra relic roll, is there any other way to influence things?

When you click on the Relic screen there are 'banners'.  One being the common draw and then at least one other banner.   The banners usually change weekly but there have been times when they've run a few at once.  Once you click the banner there are some armor/weapons at the top you can scroll through.  Pulling from that banner has a much higher chance of pulling one of the weapons listed up top than 'normal'.  So if you were to pull right now you'd have a much higher chance of getting Tifa's Crystal Glove or a Wizard Bracelet, etc.

The banner coming up later this week has weapons for Lightning and Sahz as well as a dagger that is pretty good for some of the odd characters like Wakka or Sep (if you don't have a katana).

I did manage to champion the Mage's path but I had to blow a ton of orbs honing magic to have enough to finish the boss rush.

The Knight's path I thought was pretty tough in comparison.   I finished it, but only got expert on the boss rush.  Not sure it's worth trying again and I had to spend like 2 mithril to finish the last couple bosses.  Seem like these are all about honing now to have enough damage to finish the bosses. 

How the hell do I find/make friends in this game?

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!!


....so that you can be let down one more time.  :why_so_serious:

(https://i.imgur.com/TLKgHkh.jpeg)

I would love for some of these random games to just become 99 cent premium jobbers.