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Much of the field is covered with ice making maneuvering much more difficult. On top of this most of the enemies (other than bats which are just annoying) are fairly durable, do decent damage, and are rather difficult to maneuver around even without the ice around. Most of the rooms are fairly cramped on top of this too. Then there's all the traps and shit all over the place. Spikes, lava, instant death lava, and many of the enemies are lined up just right to knock you into one of those things. (Not to mention at least one instance of a trap where the floor falls away dropping you into the instant death lava. Wouldn't be an issue if you had any time to react but it's instant.) You also have to swim through a lava-filled passage to even reach the grail point when I have no idea where the ice cape is in this game.
I'm pretty sure more than half my deaths across my entire nine hours of play time are in this single field.
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i'm 17 hours in and still have yet to encounter more than 3 bosses but i've been to the majority of the fields to some extent now
and i know -where- the next boss is but i just cannot for the life of me figure out how to trigger it even though i already have the item i need & should have fulfilled all the necessary conditions? whatever game
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I honestly prefer Hell Temple to Icefire Treetops. At least I'm to the point where the stupid poison lava isn't quite instant death. Though with everything in the lower part being seemingly designed to get you knocked into the lava, that kinda quickly adds up.
I've beaten two guardians now and know where a third one is. I have no idea what I have to do to be able to survive the intro before the guardian even summons though. I also know where two more ankhs will be but don't have the items necessary to trigger them. I still have three spare freaking ankh jewels though.i'm 17 hours in and still have yet to encounter more than 3 bosses but i've been to the majority of the fields to some extent now
and i know -where- the next boss is but i just cannot for the life of me figure out how to trigger it even though i already have the item i need & should have fulfilled all the necessary conditions? whatever game
Finally spent one only to immediately find an additional one afterwards... I made a crap load of progress today but I feel like I've accomplished basically nothing. Explored two entire new fields as well as large swathes of a few others and still have no idea where I should go. I did find an easter egg though:
https://i.imgur.com/zpJEnEg.png
Location of it:
I believe it's the spot directly under the Yggdrasil entrance of Icefire Treetops on the map. You enter it from the upper left side from a room that has a bunch of vases along the top of it.
Not embedding because you can probably guess what field it's in if you see it. I don't know how to get any of those rooms to work though. I have three of the associated apps and whether they're equipped or not (including equipped by themselves) the rooms are just empty.
Spoilered list of approximately what I accomplished today though:
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I DID find levels harder with him though. Being that it's usually safer to take out the enemies from a distance but you're kinda required to fight up close with Zero (and his gun is way too slow to be of any use)
Had fun though! Now onto... X6... wooooooooooooooooooo
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Oh yeah, I have a Youtube channel
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Don't have to fix bugs if you never find out about them!
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Gone back to Xcom 2 with a fresh set of mods and a sense of optimism I'm expecting to be crushed shortly
Also playing Sekigahara, the board game, against a friend via https://www.yucata.de/en
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but there's like, a sequence of three items i know where they are that i can all get right after i get this particular item
and it'll blow the game wide open for me again
curse you,
mysterious vase or whatever
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Honestly that's been how most of the game has felt to me so far, lol. My typical method of progression is make a little progress, get stuck for awhile and go back to every single field looking for anything I've missed, after multiple passes finally find one thing I overlooked, make a little bit of progress (all too often it's usually progress in one area which ends up leading to just a dead end), and then repeat the whole process. Like theParama wrote: ↑5 years agoagain reaching a point in la-mulana 2 where i feel like i really have a lot of stuff locked off by one item in particular and i don't even have a clue where this one is, great
but there's like, a sequence of three items i know where they are that i can all get right after i get this particular item
and it'll blow the game wide open for me again
curse you,mysterious vase or whatever
Djed Pillar
. I knew I needed it to progress, finally got it and started following the hints regarding places I knew I could use it, and those places basically turned out totally useless to me.It's actually annoyed me to the point where I started doing this to keep track of everything:
Corridor of Blood
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corridor of blood
a while back and made a map but I already have it memorized anyways, hahaThere's a few places with puzzles I feel like I should be able to solve but haven't yet, I need one specific item still to (I think?) activate the next boss ankh and it's the one locked behind several other items i all know how to get and know where they all are
There's also two minibosses I have access too but don't think I have the tools to defeat (one I know for sure I don't, because I know what I need, the other I'm not sure though
I've only looked up one thing so far and only becsuse I was completely stuck from making any more progress anywhere by it, don't really feel too bad about it either because it was kind of jank
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Just got the Egg of Creation in the Takamagahara Shrine after killing my third guardian, and I'm pretty much lost at this point. I started rotating the Corridor of Blood and found like 3 areas that I didn't even know existed, so I guess I'll check them out. I've also solved the puzzle to unlock the Chain Whip, but there's a block in the way of it that I have no idea how to get past (looks like you need to get some sort of ability that shrinks you..?)
I also agree with the previous posts about Icefire Treetops being literal ass.
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been dicking around the underworld for a while & making a lot of progress there, though i have yet to find the "first" gate somehow, despite knowing where pretty much all the rest are. if i can find the vase of storms or whatever i have a sequence of 3 items i can go right to getting as a result (pretty sure i know where they all are & 100% know what they all are) but that's the roadblock isn't it. i have the spike ball whip & all the sub-weapons now, though (and all the main weapons barring maybe one more whip upgrade? not sure)
i have a billion notes to go through now, though. need to find what i'm really looking for
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Oh my goodness. What a ride.
Like it's the most awesome, stupid, brilliant, thing I've experienced recently.
I'm astounded that the game came out in February 2013 and yet touches so much on topics relevant in 2018 haha.
It's definitely the best Metal-Gear.
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Other than that, I'm also loving La-Mulana 2 (because I just can't stay away from whatever's trending at the moment). I don't have much to say other than that this game is every bit as awesome as the first one, and that includes the soundtrack, of course. I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually kind of look forward to the Deceased Crab LP of this just for old time's sake.
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Infinity Majinion is the spammiest, most trash boss of possibly any Mega Man game I've played. Both fights with him I basically just stood inside the big mess of blobs and clones and out DPSed him.
And Blaze Heatnix's stage is probably the worst Mega Man stage in any game I've played. It's literally just spamming the same lazy, uninteresting mini boss over and over again. Who thought that would be fun?
They also hid the armor capsules way too well, and it seems as if you literally need the Shadow armor to beat the game or the first post-game stage you just can't get through. And it ends up putting you in a boss fight that's incredibly inconvenient to fight with the required armor. And even after getting all the armor pieces, I didn't end up wanting to use anything other than the Falcon armor (aka the STARTING ARMOR) because it had the best charge shot.
Also can i say the double-tap a direction to dash is a huge mistake? At least when you're in the air. I don't think this was just in X6 but I really noticed it getting annoying in this game. There is literally never a time where I wanted to air dash by double-tapping the direction buttons. But it kept accidentally triggering because I'm trying to precisely place myself mid-air so I double tap a direction and suddenly X flies off to the side and off a cliff or into an enemy. I looked in the settings for a way to turn this off and there didn't seem to be anything. It made me very angry on pretty much every play session.
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Yeah, it's a horrible feature. It totally goes again the ability to precisely move yourself in midair. I was constantly air dashing into bosses when I'd jump towards them and try to position myself to hit them with the Z-saber.
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turns out it's good
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Finished XCOM2 on Standard - not gonna go back to it for Classic until I pick up War of the Chosen, which may not be for a while. It's good, it's just not quite as good as XCOM: EU or EW.BobisOnlyBob wrote: ↑5 years ago Gone back to Xcom 2 with a fresh set of mods and a sense of optimism I'm expecting to be crushed shortly
I started and very rapidly finished Ironclad Tactics! But it turns out the DLC is included for free now, so I'm doing the additional campaigns. Not sure I'll bother going too deep into NG+, it seems staggeringly hard and more chance-based than I'd like.
I'm thinking of playing though The Darkness and The Darkness II back-to-back after that as part of my long-standing console backlog.