/fg/ - Falcom General #54

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>Trails of Cold Steel PC out now:

store.steampowered.com/app/538680/
gog.com/game/legend_of_heroes_trails_of_cold_steel_the

>A version of the old Zero no Kiseki fan translation was leaked:

mega.nz/#!LM4Hxb5J!0LrSUQF0yPjveDVPLSSn3Xq1i_tSwvqXHIU9Rzd3fiE

Don't forget to support the games and spoiler the spoilers!

>Latest news

- Trails of Cold Steel III's on track for Japanese release on September 28th of this year, confirmed PS4 exclusive. News/article translations: gematsu.com/tag/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-iii

- Short CS3 TV ad: youtube.com/watch?v=NYaV_GNqyCo

- Class VII's back: imgur.com/a/Pw4Cp

- New CS III scans: imgur.com/a/YnoXU

- Cold Steel PC guest blogs (written by port programmer Durante, of DSFix fame):
xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/163454030210/loh-trails-of-cold-steel-pc-guest-blog-2-from
xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/163720373505/loh-trails-of-cold-steel-pc-guest-blog-3-from

- Ys Seven coming to PC, trailer/info: gematsu.com/2017/07/ys-seven-pc-first-details-trailer-screenshots

- Zwei II coming to PC via XSEED (Summer), preview stream: youtube.com/watch?v=3gVOBPNrNgU

- Tokyo Xanadu out on Vita, improved EX+ version on PS4/PC scheduled for late 2017

- Cold Steel 2 confirmed for PC, release date pending
twitter.com/xseedgames/status/850395724223098880

>Older news

- Check out these Trails FC & SC updates, re: translation improvements (xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/159288714430/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-series-localization)

- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana brought by NISA. Please complain to Falcom, not XSEED (they're upset about it too). Good Japanese grammar is extremely recommended.

Pastebin (aka music): pastebin.com/G2mswYCt

Extra Stuff (Guides, links, CS undub): pastebin.com/n2G4xL5s

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youtube.com/watch?v=lJhL-QZfZ9M
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youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-n145WYWc
youtu.be/d5gcEf8EeIc?t=2h12m33s
youtu.be/Gr8PsV4dIGs
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twitter.com/AnonBabble

bEstelle

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Calvard when?

gib crossbell

MISTY

No.

What's the secret to Hexen clan's lewdness?

playing with magical, big sticks

Aidos save us from the witches!

>Elliot's side of town, everybody loves the cute femboy.

>Machias' side, BULLYING.

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Anyone here knows if CS2 will be on pc?

Later this year

Durante said it probably won't come out in the next few months, earliest would be December if things go well. They'll also be fixing bugs on CS 1 in the meantime, which i guess also helps for CS 2 since it's the same engine.

richard is the gayest character ive ever seen

Just finished the first one and seriously, the cliffhanger is frustrating but as I far as I heard trails likes to do these kinds of things so ill go easy on them

Bullying is a strong word for what Patiry is attempting to do.

for a pc port it sure is good quality even better,
most of the bugs I experienced so far doesnt seem to hinder gameplay or gamebreaking

There have been 3 story arcs so far, and the first game of 2 of them end on wicked cliffhangers. The exception is Zero, which manages to end on a pretty positive note

Only bug I've ran into in about 20 hours of play was some oddity with their being massive amounts of bloom. It went away after I went into a house and never ran into it again.

*low ATS delay behind you*
Nothing personnel, kid.

20 hours into the 3rd and it's probably already my favorite game in the series by now. My favorites before that were Zero and (not being ironic) CS2.

>(not being ironic)
Stop giving the shitposter ammo with crap like this. Stand up for the games you like.

The truth is that CS2 had some of the most hype moments in the series. Between the god-tier soundtrack, the fun as fuck combat, and the scenario, I really enjoyed CS2.

>(not being ironic) CS2
It's a little sad you can't say one of your favorites is a CS game without being accused of being a memer.

I actually like all the games but whenever I say anything positive about CS it's immediately disregarded as bait or one autist insists it's a Reanfag doing damage control. So I mostly gave up posting, but I just finished Kloe's moon door and this is the only place to talk about the series so back here I am.

3rd ended up being my favorite game as well, easily my favorite OST in the series.

Would you buy Tio's t-shirt?
dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/577/1577269/

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The shitposter won't admit it, but those endgame missions leading up to the infernal castle where some of the hypest shit in the series. The soundtrack and fast paced combat really sell the whole atmosphere

love it, got a chuckle out of me

you sure user? I mean Rufus full on wrecks your whole crew. and his attack animations and stance are very similiar to arionrhod's lance use (her rapid thrust attacks and his soul slicer move). And since we think Arianrhod is the lance maiden from Erobonia it's likely her fighting style is apart of the noble fencing style

agreed user, I loved all that build up, and infernal castle was great. I hope Falcom streamlines the spell and S-craft animations though, I like to watch but... 10-30sec animations just to get a damage number is a bit much at times.

We need a "short summon" option like FFX had or something

cold steel 2 was mistake

Meh, to me the combat was perfect. Cold Steel 2 was one of the few JRPGs where I found myself fighting everything near the end of the game just because I had a blast with the combat.

Here comes the csfag with a victim complex. Nobody said you couldn't like CS, we're just saying that CS has the 2 worst games in the series. You can have them as your favorite, it just means you have shit taste.

Where her fuckbuddy went?

I liked the combat too user, my grip is just the overly long animations that don't really have business being that long.

Cold steel could use some tweeks to balance out nightmare mode, but other then that I feel like the games combat is in the best places the series has ever been

>Patrick has a crush on Rean's sister
Kinda cute.

Not at all. 2bh I'll be mad if that little shit ever canonically ends up with her

post shirley

Go to bed Rean.

I hope we can cockblock Patrick even more in the next games.

Here you go m8

>same picture
>same quality
>same filetype
>different filesize
I never understood this.

I just wish we get to explore Heimdallr
youtube.com/watch?v=lJhL-QZfZ9M

post erebonian girl

Towa a cute. A cute!

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How terrible is the leaked zero translation? Should I just wait for the Geofront version to finish?

zero fan translation is passable, dry but you'll understand what's going on

ao's leaked translation is a train wreck

Its awkward in a lot of places but its perfectly playable and you can understand everything. The notebook with spell lists and such is untranslated though. Avoid the current Ao patch though its pretty awful.

Honestly, considering how the current zero leaked translation only needs a little editing of the dialogue and of graphical text, it's a fucking wonder the finished version isn't out yet. Go for the leak, it's plenty acceptable.

Cutest TX

It's sad that Coldsteel is so unbalanced because it would take little to bring it back in line.

Give status effects and evasion diminishing returns, make master quartz physical damage buffs only work on crafts and not s-crafts, make Criminal and Pandora not give any free artes, and make it so that you can't use artes or items after using a chrono burst. There, now you have a balanced game.

It's actually neither of those. Like, it had the same kind of slow chords this one or Armorica Village does. youtube.com/watch?v=aKX4-0VH45s
I guess I'll just have to keep looking.

How about not caring about balance all that much in the first place? None of the games are hard once you're decked out and know what you're doing, even the 3rd's fight on nightmare against Cassius + Loewe isn't hard at all if you come prepared, every game has an exploitable way to win the game, Cs just happens to have a lot of options in that regard, meanwhile it can kill you in 1 go if you're not careful too.

You played Zero before the 3rd? That kinda spoils some of the stuff the 3rd tried to set up for it.

>Bullying
You mean "very angry tsundere"

I unironically like the TX version better because she's more expressive there.

Bad but I guess it's passable if you're desperate.
Don't think about touching Ao though.

>Solid as the rock of JUNO

aside of Renne what else does it spoil?

youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-n145WYWc
Found it.

>Damage controlling CSfag
Cold Steel is broken from the beginning, at least in other games you have to work to break them, and even then you can't break them as badly as CS.

The best part of CS dub
youtu.be/d5gcEf8EeIc?t=2h12m33s

different user here, but are you looking for this one user?
youtu.be/Gr8PsV4dIGs

if not, I'm not going to really search too much, can't not 100% sure what you want~

Played any actual good games lately, /fg/?

damn it linked the wrong one:

youtu.be/MJrD1WOBI3A

Yeah, that was the one.

I played Celceta :^)

I believe that aside from Renne, you also get to understand what Estelle is talking about when they first see a demon in the final dungeon, the setting up for Richard's door towards something, but that one is Ao, so doesn't count, and i guess the fact that Estelle and Joshua were going for Crossbell. Now that i think about it, it's not that big of a fun breaker. You should definitely play it before Ao though that's where most stuff related to Kevin makes no sense at all without the 3rd.

>Everything remotely saying CS is okay is met with this mouth breathing retard

Hey, mongoloid, it may surprise you but i like every single one of the games, and that doesn't mean i can't see how the past ones aren't flawed as well. From sky's earth wall, FC's white gehena spam, SC's all area spells and the single target one for almost no EP, the 3rd with Richard and dark matter EX, Zero with combo crafts and not being remotely challenging, Ao with the rough start but still having OP combo crafts, and spark Dyne spam, plus dodge tanking, and one hit Ko with Wazy's S-craft + a master quartz, all of the games have something.

Once again, CS does have more ways to make it easy, but what i'm trying to say is, that despite all of this, all of the games are enjoyable. You can be a tryhard and min/max if you find it fun, or you can go normally and still find a way to win, either way, all the games have that, CS just happens to have more options like i said.

Whats the point of gaius

Having a well functional member in the team, who doesn't have a tragic past or baggage, he's pretty nice.

Elie is kinda similar in a way, but she still has a troublesome past and baggage.

Audience surrogate for CS1. He's pointless in CS2 but you can't just throw him out.

a new Gralsritter

Started up Ys I & II. Keep going in release order or start chronologically with Origin after I & II?

So Olivier has connections in Nord in case he needs to run away from the country.

From what I remember, the stuff with the goddesses and sages kind of gets mostly forgotten after that, so breaking the sequence isn't a bad idea. You could catch some stuff you otherwise might forget, like the names of the sages' families.

I personally recommend jumping to The Ark of Napishtim first, since that one is on the same engine as Origin and Oath, but the gameplay is hardly as refined as those are, so play the more awkward one first.

After that, go Oath, and then Origin, then you can jump to the party based ones, like Celteta, and seven, and then it's 8.

What did you guys do with Estelle's orbment set up on the final chapter of SC? She's been a support/spell caster for a while now, but I just unlocked her final S-Craft I think and that shit hits hard. Is it worth it to make her more of an attacker rather than a spellcaster to abuse the damage on that?

I'm playing on normal, so I suppose it doesn't matter either way.

Dawn of Ys immediately after II
No really, actually play it, it has fanservice you'll get because II will still be fresh, and is a good sendoff to the bump system

Then you can move on to Oath/Ark/Origin, and the party ones afterward
V optional if you really want to- it's not awful, it just isn't very Ys

>Implying it take's any effort to get White Gehenna or Action quartz or spam Earth Wall
>Implying Zero does not just hand you combination crafts as the story progresses
I'm only about 10 hours into CS1 but from everything I've heard its broke as fuck too.

Remake release order. Don't bother with V.
Maybe play Dawn if you like bumper cars. I don't though.

Just give her a ruby gem for extra attack, but keep her for support since she's still not remotely close to the level of power as some of the more focused ones, like Olivier/Kloe for arts, and Agate/Vander for physical.

oh i actually forgot that estelle talks anou that. but she also mentions Weissmann but I guess it isnt much of a spolier since u find out his real name later

You don't even need combo crafts in Zero. The enemies have 0 aggro so it's very easy to backstab them to get team rush.

It will never get that bad again, Olivier will just travel across the continent like he would and could now a days..

CS3 might put a political damer on all of that though, considering Osborne is not rreallty dead

>Weissman
I'm sure that user has played SC.

Was talking about bosses in particular. Random encounters were a piss easy for the most part because of the max advantage team rush's. I actually liked that to be honest.

For normal encounters sure, but try not using them on a nightmare fresh run against those dragons on top of the tower in chapter 4. They're way faster than you, get almost no damage from physical, and if you are casting, they use a giant showave that deals super damage to everyone all over the map and cancels arts.

Not to mention, when you gotta care for escorts.

Thanks. Wanted to get into the series in anticipation for VIII, even though the systems are obviously different. I don't mind the bumper system, so I might give Dawn a try after.

>Escorts
You can safely ignore them unless it's the prologue boss. Fuck whoever thought that was a good idea.

The system might be different but they mostly play the same. Though, humanoid bosses in newer games are pretty underwhelming because the player's gimmicks are better than theirs.

Pre-order her game and give her back her Crossbell.

Say that to the first time i started the final chapter section before the IBC building. Thug literally got the first turn and one shot both the people i was supposed to protect. Also yeah, fuck that one part in the prologue in particular, getting their attention does nothing.

In TiTS you needed to protect yourself with earth wall and heal occasionally. In CS you don't even need that since most bosses won't get a turn. I stopped equipping healing arts after chapter 2 because there's just no need for them. Seriously is there a character that can even TOUCH Rean Schwarzer? Let alone defeat him.

If you're lucky, it won't be necessary yeah, but most bosses have a 20 on AT delay, and others 0, like Gideon, so the gimmick falls short there.

So unless you're the luckiest guy alive, you're gonna need to heal at some point.

CS2's final boss literally had to cheat to use his s-craft in the very first turn to force you heal.

誰かを愛したくて
誰かに愛されたくて
飢えながら→震えながら
夜明けを待っている
夢見て憧れたって
両手を差し出したって
答えなんか
どこにも落ちてはしないさ →どこにも落ちてやしないさ
ずっと追いかけて彷徨って
いっそう捨ててしまいたいのさ →いっそ捨ててしまいたい
飢えるのは 温もりだけ →望んでるのは温もりだけ
つかの間でも
走り出す 何処へ向かうの
突き進むしかないのなら
行く先に何があっても
真っ直ぐに進め軌跡が
答えに
youtube.com/watch?v=C8sxwHOHdBE

Faint, seal and sleep still work. By "won't get a turn" I mean they won't be able to act.

So user, how are you going to survive her Grand Cross turn steal? Reminder that if it's done in exaltion mode, it's 100% chance to crit, and it may be like 3rd Evo, where she can pierce your immunity.