to break the combat over your knee use the crit+ sword (ancient overlord i think?) and crit+ chips
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@talbain sums it up pretty good, I think - namely that if you do not know about these chips initially (or arenāt having a go at combining them to chain effects to your advantage asap), it can be a bit frustrating, I guess.
Iāve listened to a bit of ranting about dodging and the combat, but since thatās the bit I absolutely like about the game, I cannot say if players are just being unlucky or struggling for real here. Just thinking that when s.o. used to playing beatāemāups is saying that he has trouble determining what he has to dodge, i donāt feel like dismissing this or assuming that Iām such a pro at gaming that I donāt have those problemsā¢.
And yeah, having played quite a few shootāem ups also makes these bits more fun than they probably should be.
+ a thought I've had yesterday, re mem-chips: tri-Ace sure did train me well to have a feeling for the potential of chaining the effects of some mem-chips, e.g. bullet-time+continuing combo+perfect dodge bonus+damage/deadly heal sound like they could make life instantly easier than it should be. Haven't tried that combo, since I am only now trying buying all of them ā¦ not sure if j. doe also thinks the same way here, but I just _love_ experimenting with them.
Iāve been down to my last heal item against three different bosses over the course of normal difficulty, and every time itās been totally accidental, like I just happened to buy or be holding enough to barely squeak through. this is thrilling! however, the encounters in this game arenāt really tight enough (or not-overlong enough) that I wouldnāt have been irritated by dying at any of those times, so itās just as well that I didnāt.
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yeah the effect was good but I was really not in the mood for it when it came up, idk
So I started a clean, fresh play to see how fast I could get through the game with no sidequesting, and even with the chips, this makes the fights much more interesting. I havenāt died yet and I am almost at the end of Loop A though, so not much more challenging. Iām like 5 levels below every boss I face, as opposed to several levels above them, so my damage isnāt quite as good, but that is OK.
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Hoping this thing will run alright on my 960 if I just turn down the settings a bit. Guess I got Steam refund to fall back on otheriwse.
Be aware that it does like to use the default Intel display driver. I had to fiddle with it to get it to recognize my graphics card.
Is there any way to stop games from doing that completely? Only recently got a laptop that had both integrated and a dedicated GPU for the first time and it took a lot of head-scratching before I figured out that Hitman: Episodes (oh hey, thatās Squeenix too!) was using the wrong one like you said (even weirder was how the names for the two seemed to be reversed in the settings menu?)
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Go to your Control Panel and look at your nVidia Control Panel, and under Manage 3D Settings
There should be an option where you force the nVidia graphics card to be used in all instances.
Basically, change the Auto-select to be āhigh performanceā or whatever and it should force the card on. (Do the same in the Program Settings Tab to be sure). This will, Iām pretty sure, turn it on in all instances.
this will use it for web browsers and kill you battery life, though.
Iāve been living with this since 2010 and Iāve learned to make a habit of checking for any game sub-AA.
You can also context-click on a programās .exe and select ārun with graphics processorā->
basically do not buy a laptop with switchable graphics
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yeah, almost always small laptop + desktop for games is better than trying to do both in one
I managed it back when āmultimedia laptopsā were still a thing but now you only see non-gamer graphics cards in Macbook Pro-alikes and I havenāt been that happy with my XPS 15 and it was way too expensive
particularly now that in-home streaming is pretty widely functional!
well 3D mid-budget gamedev is an edge case where my needs are met by very few laptops
I really really wish more OEMs (by which I pretty much just mean Dell since theyāre the only apple alternative these days who arenāt consistently embarrassing) would ship 28w Iris in their 13" models.
Apple only ships the 28w Iris in the touchbar 13" MBP rather than the non-touchbar version, which is even crueler. really hoping that changes after they refresh with 10nmā¦
I use laptops mostly by necessity of living in a hole in a wall and living in-between Seattle, Austin, and New York. A desktop wasnāt easy to travel with but a laptop is much easier. Granted, it still mostly just sits at home, but every now and then Iāll go somewhere for a while and I can justify lugging it along.
I also have a tablet but Iām mostly using it for reading and not much else as of late.
I think itās a perfectly fine mission.
I think the problem lies with what happens as you exit. The game just dumps random plot points and progresses past a great mission that should stand on itās own.
Iām at 29 hours in the middle of loop b? i keep piddling around during side-quests worried that theyāll become inaccessible later.
some of the side-quests have decent rewards, like pod programs (even though bomb (charge it x3), mirage, and hammer are pretty much my staples), but the real reward of side-quests are their slightly off-center endings.
do i have to use my scanner to go rare-item hunting to get the materials to upgrade my higher level weapons and pods? i only have one pod at level 2. man i hope not.
Wouldnāt surprise me but most scanner items seems to be quest specific or just a touch above the usual stuff strewn about.