Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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Cool. that makes sense. Yea some things don't seem to quite do what they say, and some times things reflect in the party screen, some times they don't.
 

Qhue

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Plot / setting spoiler
Do they ever elaborate as to the conflict between the Writers and the Painters in 'real-world' Lumiere? I thought there would be some elaboration as to that and how that led to the fire...unless I just missed it.

Given that Verso doesn't like being a Painter I also wondered about Musicians, would they be a third artist group?

(The getting lost in worlds you create that are better than real life is a serious deep cut at the whole gaming industry)
 

Zindan

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Plot / setting spoiler
Do they ever elaborate as to the conflict between the Writers and the Painters in 'real-world' Lumiere? I thought there would be some elaboration as to that and how that led to the fire...unless I just missed it.

Given that Verso doesn't like being a Painter I also wondered about Musicians, would they be a third artist group?

(The getting lost in worlds you create that are better than real life is a serious deep cut at the whole gaming industry)
Nothing beyond what Clea mentions during Act2 epilogue
 
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spronk

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the most important thing to know before going in too deep is that you can only fuck 0 or 1 chick, you cannot do 2 chicks at the same time

finished the game today, a bit over 45 hours to 100% the entire game in a single playthrough. amazing game, should be sweeping up GOTY awards especially music ones. There are two endings (epilogues) but you can easily see both reloading an older save, the game keeps the last 10 saves for you automatically.

gonna read through spoilers and stuff now, tbh i am a bit lost on the ending / story but I think i got the general vibe and its an absolutely brilliant setup and story.

i wish this was real, died so many times trying to parry instead of just a final attack

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re: spoiler above

yeah there isn't much more about clea, painters and writers except a brief mention about how Clea believes the writers are the ones who started the fire that killed Verso and maimed Alicia. Probably setting up a future DLC/sequel, its interesting to think about how Painters can create living world canvases which would imply writers can also do that with books. Makes you REALLY wonder what the real world is like in this game universe if such crazy stuff is possible.
 
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Hatorade

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Nerf incoming tomorrow or later today. A certain skill is way to strong apparently.
This one and who cares…single hits are all kinda meh anyway. Why hit once for couple million when you can hit 3+ times for a triple the damage.
 

Zindan

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This one and who cares…single hits are all kinda meh anyway. Why hit once for couple million when you can hit 3+ times for a triple the damage.
Pretty sure Stendahl is the highest dmg skill overall, atm. It is why it is getting nerfed. If there is/are skill(s) that can do triple the damage of Stendahl as you mention, then those would need to be nerfed as well. There reasoning for nerfing Stendahl is that it was an underwhelming skill during development, so they buffed it prior to launch, and now the see it was buffed a bit too much. Its the only skill that I've seen a screenshot of that hits for more than 1 billion dmg, there could be others, but if so their logic for nerfing Stendahl is wrong.
 

Needless

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The only ability that hits harder is:

maelle's lvl 3 Grommage, which is how people hit 3 billion

Even if they nerf it, she's still going to 1 shot everything, just not dozens of times over lol
 

Zindan

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The only ability that hits harder is:

maelle's lvl 3 Grommage, which is how people hit 3 billion

Even if they nerf it, she's still going to 1 shot everything, just not dozens of times over lol
The requires lvl3 Gradient charge vs. 9AP, so it isn't an instant death nuke at the start of combat. Its damage still breaks their logic, but it is more difficult to pull off.
 

Needless

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I share the same opinion you have as i posted about it on the last page, it's pointless because strendahl is so absurdly strong and nerfing it alone won't fix maelle's damage without also nerfing virtuous stance and the amount of damage she can stack through lumina

Even if they nerf Strendahl by 75% and you optimize your pictos for damage you're still gonna 1 shot everything in the game as im almost certain nothing has more than 50m health (not sure about Simon on NG+ though), but even then i doubt he has more than 250m when you get the positive roulette roll

But at the end of the day you should know you're going to 1 shot everything by then and that's just on the player at that point lol
 

Kirun

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I mean it's no different than hitching Mime to Knights of the Round in FF7. JRPGs always have broken shit at the end game.

So sick of this culture of homogenization and everything having to exist in this stupid state of "perfect balance" amongst gamers. Let the player decide.
 
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Sludig

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I mean it's no different than hitching Mime to Knights of the Round in FF7. JRPGs always have broken shit at the end game.

So sick of this culture of homogenization and everything having to exist in this stupid state of "perfect balance" amongst gamers. Let the player decide.
That level of balance only should matter in pvp/ multiplayer. My wife being clueless on a build isn't being hurt by someone's 1 billion dmg mael.
 
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spronk

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its also not that tough getting to level 3 gradiant with some weird ass fucking builds involving the pictos that kills two of your party at the start of a battle (auto rez pictos too) and other pictos that add to gradiant, break, burn, etc.

i did it once for shits and giggles but its a super weird way to fight, but i did have a level 3 gradiant charged before the enemy even attacked.
 

Caeden

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Managed to secure the last physical copy in my area. I wish I didn’t enjoy physical copies so much. It’s probably just a fucking code.
 
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