Dr. Araxxor

Another birthday to my name once again.

A very nice surprise, got a Switch 2 as an early birthday present! Having fun with Mario Kart World so far.

God the dinky little stand on my original Switch kept snapping off after I had it for a while. So glad that was something they decided to improve quickly in later editions of the system and its successor.

I know exactly what you're talking about and I want whatever sprouted that idea in the dev team's minds. Absolutely amazing and galaxy brained.

Incredibly cursed shiny spawn (below the satellite dish). The guard rail protects it from long distance sniping. I can't get into a safe distance to lock onto it at all. Targeting it from the ground is a no go, the building is too high up for me to target it.

Jacinthe is the most unhinged character I have ever seen in a Pokemon game.

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Battle formulae for Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold. Quite similar to the ones used in Etrian Odyssey Untold, but there are some key differences. Unfortunately there's some that are unknown at this time.

Starting from Etrian Odyssey Untold, there is an oversight where if infliction rates get too high (surpassing 3276.7%), they'll go into the negatives instead and will miss.

This is most visible in EO2U as both you and some bosses have some very overkill rates. Not so much in the other games though.

Yeah I have no idea what happened there. At least you're taking 15% less damage so it is ultimately easier.

Later games fixed this by just having a separate set of lowered stats used for enemies in Casual instead of applying these multipliers.

Did you know that the Casual difficulty mode of 7th Dragon 2020 was bugged?

How it functions is simple.

-Total EXP and SP payouts are multiplied by 1.05.
-Enemy HP is multiplied by 0.85.
-Damage is multiplied by 0.85. All damage. Including yours. effectively negating the HP cut benefit.

7th Dragon III Code: VFD Enemy Data

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Enemy data for 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. Also includes the encounter tables!

From 2020-II onwards there is a separate sheet used for the Casual difficulty mode that lowers the stats of enemies. (Casual in 2020 was uh... not functioning correctly to say the least...)

Super sold on Air Riders. First game was pretty fun but this looks to be a giant improvement.

I was already sold before the direct. I’m giga sold now. Didn’t expect Top Ride to get that much of a glowup. Different machines and riders is definitely gonna have that play out differently than the first game’s version.

Somehow they look even worse in real life than in photos. And most of my friends who saw one in motion had that reaction as well.

I really wish this bubble would burst and burn down faster. It has done so much damage.

Goddammit. What a devastating loss.

Also yeah related to the boss you're talking about I was really surprised when I saw the mountains of complaints about it and even the minions when it's like, the Beastfly can be baited into killing them for you? I abused that for all its worth to get through the fight more easily.

I think there's also an unfortunate trend where some players think any form of failure is really bad and that it's never okay to die/game over/whatever the failure equivalent is in that game more than X times or ever at all, causing them to label things as super difficult when it's normal to do so.

Jesus Christ. I barely checked up on that server aside from data mining stuff. Didn’t realize it got that bad.

Venom: 4 unresistable damage per tick, 3 times. Subsequent applications just refresh the duration. (8/8)

Plasmium Phial + Pollip Pouch: Despite what it may look like, the initial explosion doesn't deal damage. It just applies the venom debuff. Startup time of about 0.5 seconds, the mask lasts for about 3 seconds before detonating. (7/8)

Flintslate: +11 damage or 1.8x base damage (not sure which), lasts for about 8 seconds (There's a bit of startup time not included here, about 0.5 seconds?)
Flea Brew: Lasts for about 10 seconds (There's a bit of startup time not included here, about 0.5 seconds?) (6/?)

-Cogfly: 11 per hit, lasts 6 hits (Be careful about summoning too many, the cogflies can attack during enemy i-frames, thus wasting their durability.)
Rosary Cannon: 4 per bullet (5/?)

-Tacks: 8 per tack, each hit (RIP any grounded enemies).
-Longpin: 19
-Curveclaw: 11 per hit
-Throwing Ring: 15
-Conchcutter: 8 per tick (Shreds any enemies with big sprites hard)
-Silkshot (Mount Fay): 38
-Delver's Drill: 15 per hit, max of 5 (4/?)

-Straight Pin: 19
-Threefold Pin: 15/22/27 damage for 1/2/3 pins hitting the target.
-Spike Trap: 8 damage per hit, max of 5. 15 per spine projectile instead (if you can hit the trap at just the right time right when the enemy touches it, it'll deal a ton of damage!) (3/?)

Another note, enemies in Silksong appear to have a damage resistance system of some kind, which seems to vary per enemy. No idea on the specifics of these, but it may explain why it can feel like Needle upgrades feel a bit weird (which has the same base damage values as the Knight's Nail.) (2/?)

Looked a bit into tool damage in Silksong by messing around with the game's memory. With 3 needle upgrades (I'm fairly sure this affects tool damage) as well as all 4 crafting kits, this is what I got for most of em (wasn't able to get 2 of the tools yet), so spoilers inbound, you were warned. (1/?)

It’s not like how crits function in 7th Dragon DS from what I’ve been hearing. Crits only affect normal attacks but also reduce the defense stat by 30% for that hit. In practice that ends up being much less than a 30% damage boost with how low enemy defense stats are In this game.

A good portion of complaints about Nintendo nowadays I’ve seen were trying to basically glaze over their past actions to prop up their points, which kinda drove me batty to see. That video was a much refreshing take to witness.

Supposedly the Rogue's Triple Kiss skill in 7th Dragon can randomly get a 30% damage boost. Anyone got any documented cases of this? No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get it to happen, and looking into the game's code didn't turn up anything here.