Silent Chief
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I got all the medals on the PS3. Just chilling at chapter 5.
Any visual improvement, if there are any, are lost on me.
Any visual improvement, if there are any, are lost on me.
Ok, so the platinum doesn't seem too bad so I may as well go for it. I haven't been able to find a clear cut guide for it though so have a few questions.
Is there anything that isn't grindable at the end of NG+? I know you need to get all A ranks, unlock everyones hidden potentials (use them in battle a little?), and get all the weapons and upgrades. Anything else?
None of that should take too long right?
Other than that I know I need to let someone die for a medal, I'll do that now before I finish the game so that they're back for NG+.
Also how does finishing the game work? I know missions are repeatable in NG+, but does that work for the final mission too, or does that boot you to NG++?
Just got the platinum yesterday, clocked in at 28ish hours.
Everything is pretty much grindable at the end of NG+, you can redo all the chapters so you can get your A ranks and farm royal weapons no problem.
Unlocking someone's hidden potential is easy:
-skirmish 1 easy
-kill one of your own teammates (have Rosie empty a clip on a sniper)
-have the person who's potential you wanna unlock revive them
-clear level and go to Ellet so she mentions the rising stars of squad 7
You can unlock 3 peoples potentials this way (maybe more but I just stuck with 3) , best to do it at the end of the game so you have access to all recruits. Remember there's 5 recruits who'll only appear when certain conditions are met. And yes, have so one die in NG for the splintered horn medal and just do their story on NG+ (which you need to do anyway because one recruit only shows up on NG+). If a recruit has a - it means potential hasn't unlocked (story characters are unlocked via reports), a diagonal line going across means they don't have a 4th potential so you're good.
Finishing the final mission on NG+ doesn't boot you, just don't play the epilogue chapter and you're good.
Grindiest thing I'd say was farming 1000 kills but if you leave that after A ranking everything you should only be left with a few hundred.
Fantastic post! Thank you!
I've only just discovered the optional reports (I was puzzled as to what I was spending money on the whole game ). Does it matter when I do them? Going to go through them all now before I finish NG game if not.
And there are 2 where I could probably shave off another turn if I tried a little harder or got a little luckier. "Full clear" of a map of course takes longer of course (and usually feels more satisfying), and a few take an extra turn to nab an ace. Finishing maps with goofy objectives like only using 1 job is also a hoot.
Also of note-- There's a report that you can only unlock in the later half of a NG+, but there's no attached battle in it.Does it matter when I do them?
Does anyone have a full scan of the PS4 boxart anywhere? It's really bugging me that they're only offering the steelbook version in NA.
If it makes you feel better, the steelbook boxart is literally just two pieces of old art copied over one another; the Europa map (used as the inside of the JP PS3 box) and the Squad 7 full shot from the official artbook which has some popularity outside of the game.
Map:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/valkyria/images/5/5b/Name.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091018062910
Artbook cover:
http://segashiro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/valkyria_coverFull.jpg
It looks nice but it's not very earth shattering. It was a $30 release after all.
Uh, so chapter 18.
How do I do any amount of good damage to the lance? My lancer takes like 18 hits to destroy it, and recovering one ammo per turn means that isn't fun.
I could bring all my lancers and run them up top I suppose.
Slowly dealing damage seems to just slowly result in me getting killed by the turrets (especially the Edelweiss), because the anti-tank ones even take 3 shots from lancers (which again, is 3 turns of ammo recovery).
I also couldn't figure out where they were referring to with the tanks aiming up on a slope. I tried directly in front of the Marmoto in its blast zone but they could only reach the bottom of the lance and not the vulnerable tip. But even then the tanks don't have enough movement to be getting in and out of that blast zone each turn.
Uh, so chapter 18.
How do I do any amount of good damage to the lance? My lancer takes like 18 hits to destroy it, and recovering one ammo per turn means that isn't fun.
I could bring all my lancers and run them up top I suppose.
Slowly dealing damage seems to just slowly result in me getting killed by the turrets (especially the Edelweiss), because the anti-tank ones even take 3 shots from lancers (which again, is 3 turns of ammo recovery).
I also couldn't figure out where they were referring to with the tanks aiming up on a slope. I tried directly in front of the Marmoto in its blast zone but they could only reach the bottom of the lance and not the vulnerable tip. But even then the tanks don't have enough movement to be getting in and out of that blast zone each turn.
Height makes a big difference in this game. Try to get your Lancers on the upper scaffold and aim. Height multiplier can have a big effect on damage dealt, and since Lancers are single-shot units it matters even more.
If you have the order Penetration, try using it on a Shocktrooper that has good vsArmor rating and range on their weapon and go to town. Combine that with the order Damage or Demolish Boost and that will help.
Don't bother moving Edelweiss in front, it's pointless. The damage dropoff from height is too high and it's risky.
I had the same problem you had when I first played this game. I had no idea what I was doing wrong and was fairly annoyed. The fact that the game hides the final target's health values with a "????" really pissed me off too. In the rebalance mod this was fixed to show the actual health value so you have an actual idea for how much damage you're doing.
Does the Europa edition have a steel book? I'm tempted to buy that edition if it doesn't just because I really hate steel books and that's all that's available in the US!Saw the Europa edition in a local gamestore for just 22 euro's so I just couldn't not buy it.
I'm very tempted to just keep it sealed as a collectors piece.....
But man, this game is so awesome, and I never even beat it!
What to do, what to do....
So a guide on GameFAQs says the easiest way to farm hidden potentials is just going to skirmish 1 and getting one unit to kill another then call a medic (1 point for participating in battle + 4 for medic = 5 for unlocking the potential), but when I try it my teammates dodge the friendly fire 90% of the time which makes it a massive pain.
How can I kill my men better?!
I blindly picked this up yesterday for PS4. I never played the original, but the gameplay intrigued me. I am on Chapter 6 and the characters are very good so far. Does the story go to interesting places, or is the gameplay the reason to stick with it in the long run?
Uh oh, didn't pop up on NPD.
If that "50k a week" number is holding true for Minecraft, we're looking at sub-200k in America right now, and that's without accounting for the numbers of the four games listed below Minecraft on the charts.
IDK if it's really anything to worry about. Every title in NPDs is a multiplatform title. Furthermore, this is a re-release of a cult classic on a single platform that also recently had a PC release. I'm glad we got it at all, and hope the sales are in line with what SEGA was hoping.
It's been a slow burn for me since I typically restart missions if I miss a shot I need to get a high rank. Aside from the disappointing quality of the cutscenes, it's still as fun as I remember.
Up through chapter 13, really having fun. I'm still making plenty of dumb mistakes here and there but other than chapter 7 I feel like the game is pretty lenient on me. Most of my difficulties come from not knowing what is around the corner, and if I fail spectacularly my next attempt usually gives me no problems.
I've had a fair amount of trouble with the named enemy aces, since they seem to dodge everything. General strategy I've worked out so far is lots of grenades and/or attacking from multiple angles, since they tend to not dodge when attacking from the rear. From one I got a pretty sweet flamethrower that one-shots crouched bunker enemies, so I try to kill the aces when I see them.
Going to play this for the first time today.
Any tips for a complete beginner going in completely dark?
Going to play this for the first time today.
Any tips for a complete beginner going in completely dark?
Ignore the ranking system and just enjoy the natural flow of combat, at least for the first play.
Started playing the ps4 remaster yesterday. Hmm pretty disappointed by the graphics. Aliasing every where!
Also I played this once through on ps3 and loved the story. But maybe I have changed because wow I have no patience for these cut scenes anymore. And the voice acting seems worse than I remembered.
At least the core gameplay is still great.
Just finished Chapter 7. This game is awesome.
But the guy at the Cemetery isn't offering to teach me an order anymore, even though he had one before which I never picked up. Did I miss out on it?
I got stuck at 7 and haven't had the interest to go back. Bleugh.
Curious if the remastered on PS4 has redone translations? I'm playing it on Steam right now and oh boy, the localization for this game is complete, hot garbage.
Nope.
The localization is pretty horrible. At first I thought they were trying to match lip flap, but after watching a few more scenes that doesn't work at all either. It's just shoddy work.
EDIT: On the PC version, I tried looking into retranslating the game myself.
Replacing the subtitles in non-movie cutscenes is very easy. The way the game calls upon addresses for movie cutscenes is something that is way outside my expertise though. So I would need a programmer to help me. Some people put forward some efforts for me in the past but no one stuck around long enough for me to do a full job.