All I wanna do is play Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (F2P Edition coming to US March 12 + Steam)

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#47

So the 3rd Anniversary event was held on Saturday and we got several announcements. Around the 1:45:00 mark to 2:35:00 they have a session where they talk about the development of the game and even if you don’t understand it there are a lot of pictures and footage that are neat. They also have a tournament if you want to see that.

As far as the November console update goes, on November 22nd we’re getting balance changes and the Cloud Refresh, plus the release of Dissidia NT Free Edition (SE hasn’t announced this for the West yet but you can always download it off J-PSN). Basically this is the game for free with the story mode stripped out and only 4 free characters available to play at a time for free (one from each class), that will rotate out at intervals. The game is also getting a “Missions”, which I guess are bonus objectives you can accomplish during the game to get more money to buy customization stuff.

Coming out now for arcades (we should get these in December), they announced Yuna, a marksman character who looks pretty cool.

And a new stage called Final Battlefield, which is based off the final level of the story mode. There are already a couple of barren, flat levels in the game but this has some (breakable) obstacles so it does have a slightly different flavor. But not the most interesting addition to the levels.

And they also announced some new music which, uh, honestly don’t sound like particularly great arrangements to me. They also announced a lot of balance changes, buffing many characters and adjusting some system mechanics. And then they also announced in December they’ll reveal the Y’shtola refresh, in January they’ll announce a new male character (I think people believe this will be Snow from FF13-2?), and in February they’ll be refreshing the Summons. The update to the summons should be interesting to see. I know that in the US playerbase people tend to go for Shiva since she’s the straight damage buff.

So a lot of stuff on the horizon for this game.

#48

I have this now.

#49

Someone asked what the lowest sales price was and it’s currently $10 on Amazon (as an add-on item).

#50

Rise from your grave.

I know there were at least a couple people interested in it, so the Free Edition is coming out in the US in March 12, and the game is coming out in PC. I guess SE hasn’t thrown in the towel yet, which is nice. The game is still getting major updates and system revamps monthly as part of the game refresh so I’m glad we’ll continue to see those changes come to the west.

And Snow came out a couple of weeks ago. He looks like kingdom hearts fanart. (Edit: Wait, no, he looks like Woody Harrelson in The Hunger Games)

#51

Very excited for this, was holding out on buying the full game to see if the free version was on the way

#52

Dedicated servers or P2P?

#53

Pretty sure it’s P2P.

#54

oh man

I will definitely fuck with this a little bit

I expect to be at a loss to explain almost every design decision in it

#55

I just read about this coming to PC. I’ll try it out, why not!

#56

F2P comes out tomorrow and a complete summon system overhaul came out today so everyone will be learning new stuff!

Because this question will come up, the most convenient way to create a practice mode is to go to the tutorial and choose the Chat Message mission. That gives you a bunch of stationary dummies to attack and it won’t end until you use a chat message. Alternatively you can create a de facto training mode by creating a VS. CPU match and setting the cpu difficulty to “Stop”.

Once you’ve gotten the controls down, the arcade/“Gauntlet” mode is good just for practicing against a live opponent. The important stuff to get a hang of is comboing an HP attack off an ally’s bravery attack, letting an ally do the same to your bravery attacks (these points are covered in the tutorial mode under the “Tandem Attacks” section), and watching the radar to see where all players are located and who’s targeting who. I felt I kind of got the hang of the radar after one or two runs through the Gauntlet mode but it’s definitely something that takes some practice; feeling out when it’s safe to look and how far apart people are. But eventually you can half play a match by just looking at the radar.

(Also the season pass is on sale for $15 on Amazon, but that’s getting a bit ahead of yourself if you don’t have the main package with the whole cast yet. But a physical copy is $17 there, which will undoubtedly be cheaper than whatever the digital price for upgrading the F2P version will be).

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#57

Edit: I’m hearing that Dissidia’s ranked matchmaking broke worldwide yesterday olol (I don’t know if this is server side or related to the new patch). I don’t recall that ever happening before but what an unfortunate timing. Hopefully that gets fixed before people start hopping on F2P.

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#58

Played some of the PC version yesterday. It feels solid enough, though the anti-aliasing could be better. It looks good at 1440p but the aliasing on the character models are noticeable on the match loading screen so I don’t know how it looks overall at 1080p or other resolutions. I didn’t have much trouble getting matches (under 30 second matchmaking times) but it was the first day after all, and there seems to be a bug where if you return straight to matchmaking after a match you’ll matchmake indefinitely and/or crash the game. So you need to return to the character select or main menu and then restart matchmaking from there. Match quality was 50/50 good and bad, so it depends on who you’re playing with but I don’t have any complaints about lag on the good matches.

Make sure to switch the controls to Type F, or whatever the last option was that puts jump on X and Bravery Attack on O, because that’s the franchise and arcade standard and I don’t know why that got reversed on the default controls for NT. It just feels weird.

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#59

the way the publisher logos and the title screen are voiced was like an immediate “oh god I am in for it” sign

anyway I think I’m going to wait until there are free V/VI characters before self-harming in this particular way

#60

That was like the best part of Steambot Chronicles though.

#61

This was default when I tried it just now on PS4. Did they mess up the default on PC?

Messed around in an offline gauntlet as I’m getting used to the controls. This game is super polished, load times are kept to a minimum, and the length of an individual fight is very reasonable. The sensation of landing a blow that both breaks your opponent and makes you purple, and then hitting them with the HP attack (bonus points if you managed to corner them against a wall) is incredibly satisfying and it makes the game for me. I just need to get better at blocking and then I think I’ll be ready to head online and take advantage of all the other newbies in the ranked queue.

#62

Yeah, I think the game did really well at making the action feel good like a regular action game does. A lot of melee based online games have really limp game feel, with delayed or non-existent impact probably to account for variance in response times due to the nature of online games. But that’s such an important part of an action game’s feel and somehow Team Ninja really nailed it on this game. Maybe that also makes this game more prone to laggy matches in exchange. I dunno how that works.

Blocking is real important, yeah. I think you cancel out of attack recovery into blocking a few frames faster than into evades? But the only thing that can beat a block is an HP attack so it’s an extremely safe option if aren’t sure how to get out of a situation. Guarding also makes you drop to the ground really fast so it’s useful if you’re out of dash meter and need to ground yourself. There’s a small bit of “un-guarding” animation though so it’s not like you can just mash in and out of it.

If anyone wants to group up sometime you can friend me on PS4 (ID PooglyWoogly) or Steam. Just let me know you’re from SB so I know you aren’t spam. I think parties have a separate matchmaking queue and I don’t know how long matchmaking times generally are with those, but if you get a full party of three you do get to name your team and the game shows it during the match, so that’s cool.

Edit:

Yeah, PC defaulted to Type A or whatever. The original release did too. I don’t know why it was fixed for the Free version on PS4 but not PC!

Edit 2:

Looks like the current set of free characters last until March 21, so check back on the 22nd. I guess that means it rotates characters weekly.

#63

That’s A and E on PC. Default was G for some reason. So I guess I’m going with E. triangle = hp attacks, circle = bravery, x = jump and square = ex skills.

I like that the game immediately recognized my dualshock 4 controller and that all the button are the Playstation buttons instead of ABXY. The game recommends me low graphics settings which makes me :sad:

#64

ok that’s more like it, guess this is my week

#65

They’re announcing a new character on Monday too.

#66

Why is this guy so cool

He hits the console version on April 11.