Rydeen
In-KWEH-dible
I'm really interested in the Sephiroth childhood stuff that's coming out. I am going to have to check out the gameplay videos.
FFVII: Ever Crisis Announced
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Maidenofwar
They/Them
Vincent becoming playable in Ever Crisis before Remake pt3 is wild to me, excited for cold spirit and other Vincent folks to see too!
Aerith new costume so I am unlurking from the game. Golden bomb event is on again too yaay. Tifa new costume is super cute but I have to save for the first year anniversary too mm.
Aerith new costume so I am unlurking from the game. Golden bomb event is on again too yaay. Tifa new costume is super cute but I have to save for the first year anniversary too mm.
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
Interesting thing about Vincent is they said he's specifically based on the Advent Children / Dirge of Cerberus design rather than Rebirth.
Roadmap for the next few months is progressing the FFVII and Crisis Core stories. Seems like the next episode of FS will probably be during the anniversary. They put showed off a piece of art depicting young Sephiroth and Angeal:
The next FS episode is going to reveal how Sephiroth obtained the Masamune, among other things.
They're also implementing a Guild function and will soon be doing a Monster Hunter collab, as well as the summer event with new swimsuit costumes for Yuffie, Lucia, and a third character to be named later.
Roadmap for the next few months is progressing the FFVII and Crisis Core stories. Seems like the next episode of FS will probably be during the anniversary. They put showed off a piece of art depicting young Sephiroth and Angeal:
The next FS episode is going to reveal how Sephiroth obtained the Masamune, among other things.
They're also implementing a Guild function and will soon be doing a Monster Hunter collab, as well as the summer event with new swimsuit costumes for Yuffie, Lucia, and a third character to be named later.
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Maidenofwar
They/Them
Actually kind of exciting, looks like they will be doing the global live streams too like Opera Omnia, and Josh is on board. Rewards from live streams too which is hype. I don't expect the game to become quite as generous as OO it does have to make some bank but some freebies are definitely welcome. Looks like the monster hunter Cait Sith will also be a free outfit? which is super hype because it's adorable as heck. Seems they are dedicated to this game at least for the time being Nomura comment about NY too 
cold_spirit
he/him
- AKA
- Alex T
Clicked on TLS just to talk about Vincent, happy to see this.
Here he isssss. I really like his hair. It's a bit more luscious like how it was in AC versus what we got in Rebirth. His armor plating has been reverted though and isn't as intricate. Also doesn't have the additional plating on this thigh and under his cowl. I actually liked those changes from Rebirth, but yeah, not surprising as he's based on his original design as Sukaku said.
He's also wielding Quicksilver instead of Cerberus, further indicating that he acquires Cerberus at some point during his adventure with Cloud (Part 3).
I believe the stream also said he'd be a pure DPS character at launch. Looking forward to the Vincent meta.
Roadmap:
Rydeen
In-KWEH-dible
holy shit that is gorgeousInteresting thing about Vincent is they said he's specifically based on the Advent Children / Dirge of Cerberus design rather than Rebirth.
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Roadmap for the next few months is progressing the FFVII and Crisis Core stories. Seems like the next episode of FS will probably be during the anniversary. They put showed off a piece of art depicting young Sephiroth and Angeal:
The next FS episode is going to reveal how Sephiroth obtained the Masamune, among other things.
They're also implementing a Guild function and will soon be doing a Monster Hunter collab, as well as the summer event with new swimsuit costumes for Yuffie, Lucia, and a third character to be named later.
SS2Link
Pro Adventurer
New Crisis Core chapter (Chapter 3) added a lot of cool things.
Was nice to see Zack interact with Scarlet—I always felt like the Scarlet/Heidegger/Palmer side of Shinra and the SOLDIER side of Shinra were too segregated until now. For a long time, the only interaction we had between them was Palmer's reaction upon seeing Sephiroth in Shinra Tower. At a character-specific level, it was just nice to see Zack and Scarlet talk for the first time since they have very contrasting personalities.
Zack helping a 3rd Class SOLDIER quell a monster attack was very cool, almost taking him under his wing the way Angeal did for him. Then, Zack saying "I'll be Angeal for the day" when helping a scientist with his research was very cool too.
The scene of Zack meeting with the Turks was streamlined, but nothing important was lost, which is good. I like that the artist actually slightly changed Reno and Rude's portraits (gave Reno short hair, made Rude clean-shaved) to fit with Crisis Core being a prequel. Honestly, I fully expected the portraits to be the same, and would've been okay with it, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see the attention to detail.
I'm happy that the entire cinematic of Genesis and Angeal sparring with Sephiroth was included. Always extremely cool to watch.
I did not at all expect to see Ever Crisis create a brand-new Angeal Copy. To stop Zack from catching him, Hollander summons a new character, A-Rejector, to act as the boss of the chapter. Honestly, I expected the boss to be Angeal himself, but I'm glad it wasn't, since the whole point of the scene was that although Angeal was attacking, Zack refused to defend himself. Very happy to see a new Crisis Core boss was created instead.
Was nice to see Zack interact with Scarlet—I always felt like the Scarlet/Heidegger/Palmer side of Shinra and the SOLDIER side of Shinra were too segregated until now. For a long time, the only interaction we had between them was Palmer's reaction upon seeing Sephiroth in Shinra Tower. At a character-specific level, it was just nice to see Zack and Scarlet talk for the first time since they have very contrasting personalities.
Zack helping a 3rd Class SOLDIER quell a monster attack was very cool, almost taking him under his wing the way Angeal did for him. Then, Zack saying "I'll be Angeal for the day" when helping a scientist with his research was very cool too.
The scene of Zack meeting with the Turks was streamlined, but nothing important was lost, which is good. I like that the artist actually slightly changed Reno and Rude's portraits (gave Reno short hair, made Rude clean-shaved) to fit with Crisis Core being a prequel. Honestly, I fully expected the portraits to be the same, and would've been okay with it, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see the attention to detail.
I'm happy that the entire cinematic of Genesis and Angeal sparring with Sephiroth was included. Always extremely cool to watch.
I did not at all expect to see Ever Crisis create a brand-new Angeal Copy. To stop Zack from catching him, Hollander summons a new character, A-Rejector, to act as the boss of the chapter. Honestly, I expected the boss to be Angeal himself, but I'm glad it wasn't, since the whole point of the scene was that although Angeal was attacking, Zack refused to defend himself. Very happy to see a new Crisis Core boss was created instead.
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
Bumping with two more Vincent teasers:
Limit Breaks: Berserk Dance, Beast Flare, Chaos Rampage. All three use his Galian Beast transformation. Chaos Rampage looks to grant him PATK Up, MATK Up, and Haste.
One of his weapons has a basic AoE Blizzaga. Another has Spinning Pentashot, which deals damage and boosts his LB Gauge. It seems that filling his LB Gauge more quickly might be one of his core mechanics.
His attacks also all seem to crit in the video, which may mean he has a high crit stat like Cait Sith, or it might just be the developer video.
Edit: Confirmed the crits are not reflective of how the abilities work in game.
Limit Breaks: Berserk Dance, Beast Flare, Chaos Rampage. All three use his Galian Beast transformation. Chaos Rampage looks to grant him PATK Up, MATK Up, and Haste.
One of his weapons has a basic AoE Blizzaga. Another has Spinning Pentashot, which deals damage and boosts his LB Gauge. It seems that filling his LB Gauge more quickly might be one of his core mechanics.
Edit: Confirmed the crits are not reflective of how the abilities work in game.
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Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
One last countdown video:
This showcases the new Reprieve ability, which nullifies a single fatal attack and grants a small amount of healing and brief window of immunity, and shows that Berserk Dance deals more damage the lower his health is. He has two C. Abilities assigned, Sludge Shot (earth element) and Sage Shot (non elemental).
We also get our first look at one of Vincent's costumes, unclear if this will be his Gear Exchange Ticket costume or the first banner.
This showcases the new Reprieve ability, which nullifies a single fatal attack and grants a small amount of healing and brief window of immunity, and shows that Berserk Dance deals more damage the lower his health is. He has two C. Abilities assigned, Sludge Shot (earth element) and Sage Shot (non elemental).
We also get our first look at one of Vincent's costumes, unclear if this will be his Gear Exchange Ticket costume or the first banner.
Strangelove
AI Researcher
- AKA
- hitoshura
i got there too late and there's no spaces 
i was thinking a guild/team feature would be useful when trying to do the missions for the monster hunter quest involving multiplayer. unless i am just being dense (i might be, i haven't looked at the help section) i don't see any way to see who is looking for a match. so if you're not manually inviting people you have to select a quest and just try matching and hope someone else is also trying to play the same one. if there was a list of current parties looking for matches, a little icon on the quest menus showing someone is looking for players, or something like ff14's content finder (let me pick a selections of battles and check if anyone is partying up for those), that's be swell.
in the 50-ish days i've played it, i have managed to get into multiplayer games on 1 of those days. i look at stuff like the summon stream missions asking for 'use 300 stamina in multiplayer' and bitch how.
i see like i have hit a plateau in terms of levelling now and the grind has really set in. the highest power level my team has reached is about 140,000 and it's not really rising above that. for my more levelled characters (cloud, barret, and tifa) i need 30 of those memory crystals to unlock things in the character stream, but if there's not an event going on i might get 15 from those 3-per-day quests. it's nice that it has thrown weapons at me with the gachas but i have too many now (also gathering the higher level upgrade materials). i liked that they added the highwind thing with character buffs for everyone but i'm still at that plateau
even the story sections, which i found decently balanced at first, seem to have took a sharp increase in difficulty. used to be i could get through them with the set story party characters but suddenly that wasn't the case anymore. even with different characters it got to be a struggle
i just wanted to get through the first soldier stuff, that's all
i was thinking a guild/team feature would be useful when trying to do the missions for the monster hunter quest involving multiplayer. unless i am just being dense (i might be, i haven't looked at the help section) i don't see any way to see who is looking for a match. so if you're not manually inviting people you have to select a quest and just try matching and hope someone else is also trying to play the same one. if there was a list of current parties looking for matches, a little icon on the quest menus showing someone is looking for players, or something like ff14's content finder (let me pick a selections of battles and check if anyone is partying up for those), that's be swell.
in the 50-ish days i've played it, i have managed to get into multiplayer games on 1 of those days. i look at stuff like the summon stream missions asking for 'use 300 stamina in multiplayer' and bitch how.
i see like i have hit a plateau in terms of levelling now and the grind has really set in. the highest power level my team has reached is about 140,000 and it's not really rising above that. for my more levelled characters (cloud, barret, and tifa) i need 30 of those memory crystals to unlock things in the character stream, but if there's not an event going on i might get 15 from those 3-per-day quests. it's nice that it has thrown weapons at me with the gachas but i have too many now (also gathering the higher level upgrade materials). i liked that they added the highwind thing with character buffs for everyone but i'm still at that plateau
even the story sections, which i found decently balanced at first, seem to have took a sharp increase in difficulty. used to be i could get through them with the set story party characters but suddenly that wasn't the case anymore. even with different characters it got to be a struggle
i just wanted to get through the first soldier stuff, that's all
SS2Link
Pro Adventurer
Yeah, my only reason for getting the game was to play through the First Soldier story, but the difficulty spike is insane. I was able to drag it out pretty far, though now it's basically impossible to proceed now without grinding. I thought they were gonna flatten the difficulty curve a little bit, but it doesn't seem to have. Real shame.
GamerSkull
Pro Adventurer
I might get flak for this but I kinda wish there was like a "story mode" difficulty for this game.
Normally, I never play anything lower than Normal when it comes to games but this particular one is really a case of "I kinda just want the story." The counterargument is that I can watch it on Youtube (which I am grateful for because that's basically how I'm consuming it) but I also think being able to interact with the game even if it is piss easy is still better than watching it. At least in my opinion.
Normally, I never play anything lower than Normal when it comes to games but this particular one is really a case of "I kinda just want the story." The counterargument is that I can watch it on Youtube (which I am grateful for because that's basically how I'm consuming it) but I also think being able to interact with the game even if it is piss easy is still better than watching it. At least in my opinion.
Strangelove
AI Researcher
- AKA
- hitoshura
this feels like the most unevenly balanced f2p game i have played, which granted isn’t a lot. but most of the time i still feel like i can get through the main story without excessive grinding. especially for a more story-focused title and not like a candy crush-esque puzzle game (or maybe that’s just me, but you’re putting backstory for a big budget console game in here so i feel like story is meant to be a key appeal). i don’t remember having this problem with something like mobius ff or sinoalice or the dissidia mobile game.
i don’t know if this is where they want you to start buying gems, is there much to buy that isn’t paying for the gacha? i think i already manage to get all the weapons and it’s just levelling them up that’s the hassle. plus this is a square enix mobile game, what guarantee do i have it will be here in a year
idk either adjust the difficulty or make levelling up your stats easier. lower the number of high level materials (like the mythril stuff that’s basically only exchangeable during events) to upgrade weapons. better drops for memory crystals (which you can only do 3 times per day and there’s like a dozen characters to do that for). make my life easier here
i don’t know if this is where they want you to start buying gems, is there much to buy that isn’t paying for the gacha? i think i already manage to get all the weapons and it’s just levelling them up that’s the hassle. plus this is a square enix mobile game, what guarantee do i have it will be here in a year
idk either adjust the difficulty or make levelling up your stats easier. lower the number of high level materials (like the mythril stuff that’s basically only exchangeable during events) to upgrade weapons. better drops for memory crystals (which you can only do 3 times per day and there’s like a dozen characters to do that for). make my life easier here
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
Haven't replied in a while but I've still been playing daily, keeping up with the events and getting my account stronger. Figured I'd recap the last couple months and talk about the ongoing anniversary event...
The last time I posted was just before they introduced Vincent, along with Chapter 7 of the FFVII story progressing through Gongaga, Cosmo Canyon, and the return to Nibelheim, including boss fights with Gi Nattak and Lost Number.
Vincent launched with his default costume, Mournful Former Turk, and two original costumes: Bouncer Gear from the Gear Exchange and Stray Dog from a Limit Break banner:
We also got Guilds, which added Guild Bonuses that improved other aspects of the game, most notably materia synthesis, as it reduced the required synthesis mats and greatly improved the odds of getting higher rarity materia. The guild I created, Ragnarok (named for the 13th SOLDIER Division as described in DC Multiplayer Mode), is currently level 45 and has been landing around rank 300 in the ranking battles.
Next was a new Summer Fireworks event with three new costumes: Citric Dress for Aerith, Formal Attire for Vincent, and Passion Mermaid for Tifa:
This was shortly followed by Dark Attire for Sephiroth, and Entrapment Gown for Lucia:
We next got Chapter 4 of Crisis Core, which covered Zack meeting and going on his first date with Aerith and teaming up with Angeal and Sephiroth to repel the Genesis invasion and protect Hojo.
Followed by a rerun of the FFIX event, with the original gear and weapons slightly buffed and a new weapon for Cait Sith, the Quina Megaphone.
And then we get the anniversary countdown and the anniversary itself, which came with several quality of life improvements and lots of free goodies, and is still ongoing.
The most significant new feature is the addition of Ultimate Weapons, a new class of weapon that goes into a special equipment slot for each character and gives them a powerful U.C. Ability that doesn't cost ATB but instead has a limited number of uses and a charge/recharge time. Unlike other weapons these can't be overboosted, only leveled up, so there is no need to get duplicates.
There's an Ultimate Weapon version of each character's default weapon (IE Ultimate Buster Sword) that can be obtained from an exchange shop for a currency that can be obtained by completing event stages and missions. Currently there's enough to get two of them, and soon should be enough for a third.
There are also more powerful Ultimate Weapons that can be obtained extremely rarely from draws, which will be released less frequently and featured across multiple banners. There is a pity mechanic -- a currency you get for doing 10 draws -- but it seems they're really meant to be rare lucky pulls and not something that you can reasonably target unless you're a mega whale.
Currently the only banner Ultimate Weapon is Sephiroth's Genji Blade, which was featured for the first three banners of the anniversary. The next will be Cait Sith's HP Shout, starting from the next banner.
As for the anniversary event itself, it's Bahamut themed, with an event story that involves Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, and Yuffie encountering a pure white version of Bahamut Arisen called Bahamut Alba, and getting pulled into a Portal. There they arrive in the past and meet a Cetra named Chakiya, the leader of a tribe of Cetra called the Dragonmaster Band that was protected by a pure white version of Bahamut called Bahamut Orta, which she summoned and bonded with. It appears that the Dragonmaster Band came into conflict with humans from Wutai, and over the course of many battles, Orta's fury grew, and Chakiya sealed him away out of fear. However, his fury manifested as a separate incarnation, Alba, and began to rampage, blaming the Cetra and humans for disrupting the flow of the Lifestream and endangering the planet. Chakiya puts the party through trials to test their strength and then enlists them to help defeat Alba, giving them Bahamut-themed weapons and armor to help them. The climax of the story hasn't been released just yet.
To go with the story are the four Bahamut-themed costumes and their matching weapons, on Limit Break banners: Bahamut Garb for Cloud, Bahamut Mantle for Yuffie, Bahamut Robe for Aerith, and a yet-to-be-released costume for Tifa:
There's also a new anniversary illustration by Lisa Fujise to go with it:
And also some new merchandise / anniversary campaign prizes with some new Lisa Fujise art:
And also versions of the key character art for Cloud in his Murasame Gear, Sephiroth in his Shinra Formal Uniform, Tifa in her Lifeguard Gear, and Aerith in her Prism Dress:
Finally, we've gotten word that the next Story update should be the start of the next episode of The First SOLDIER, which will introduce Young Angeal, who is expected to eventually be added to the roster of playable characters.
The last time I posted was just before they introduced Vincent, along with Chapter 7 of the FFVII story progressing through Gongaga, Cosmo Canyon, and the return to Nibelheim, including boss fights with Gi Nattak and Lost Number.
Vincent launched with his default costume, Mournful Former Turk, and two original costumes: Bouncer Gear from the Gear Exchange and Stray Dog from a Limit Break banner:
We also got Guilds, which added Guild Bonuses that improved other aspects of the game, most notably materia synthesis, as it reduced the required synthesis mats and greatly improved the odds of getting higher rarity materia. The guild I created, Ragnarok (named for the 13th SOLDIER Division as described in DC Multiplayer Mode), is currently level 45 and has been landing around rank 300 in the ranking battles.
Next was a new Summer Fireworks event with three new costumes: Citric Dress for Aerith, Formal Attire for Vincent, and Passion Mermaid for Tifa:
This was shortly followed by Dark Attire for Sephiroth, and Entrapment Gown for Lucia:
We next got Chapter 4 of Crisis Core, which covered Zack meeting and going on his first date with Aerith and teaming up with Angeal and Sephiroth to repel the Genesis invasion and protect Hojo.
Followed by a rerun of the FFIX event, with the original gear and weapons slightly buffed and a new weapon for Cait Sith, the Quina Megaphone.
And then we get the anniversary countdown and the anniversary itself, which came with several quality of life improvements and lots of free goodies, and is still ongoing.
The most significant new feature is the addition of Ultimate Weapons, a new class of weapon that goes into a special equipment slot for each character and gives them a powerful U.C. Ability that doesn't cost ATB but instead has a limited number of uses and a charge/recharge time. Unlike other weapons these can't be overboosted, only leveled up, so there is no need to get duplicates.
There's an Ultimate Weapon version of each character's default weapon (IE Ultimate Buster Sword) that can be obtained from an exchange shop for a currency that can be obtained by completing event stages and missions. Currently there's enough to get two of them, and soon should be enough for a third.
There are also more powerful Ultimate Weapons that can be obtained extremely rarely from draws, which will be released less frequently and featured across multiple banners. There is a pity mechanic -- a currency you get for doing 10 draws -- but it seems they're really meant to be rare lucky pulls and not something that you can reasonably target unless you're a mega whale.
Currently the only banner Ultimate Weapon is Sephiroth's Genji Blade, which was featured for the first three banners of the anniversary. The next will be Cait Sith's HP Shout, starting from the next banner.
As for the anniversary event itself, it's Bahamut themed, with an event story that involves Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, and Yuffie encountering a pure white version of Bahamut Arisen called Bahamut Alba, and getting pulled into a Portal. There they arrive in the past and meet a Cetra named Chakiya, the leader of a tribe of Cetra called the Dragonmaster Band that was protected by a pure white version of Bahamut called Bahamut Orta, which she summoned and bonded with. It appears that the Dragonmaster Band came into conflict with humans from Wutai, and over the course of many battles, Orta's fury grew, and Chakiya sealed him away out of fear. However, his fury manifested as a separate incarnation, Alba, and began to rampage, blaming the Cetra and humans for disrupting the flow of the Lifestream and endangering the planet. Chakiya puts the party through trials to test their strength and then enlists them to help defeat Alba, giving them Bahamut-themed weapons and armor to help them. The climax of the story hasn't been released just yet.
To go with the story are the four Bahamut-themed costumes and their matching weapons, on Limit Break banners: Bahamut Garb for Cloud, Bahamut Mantle for Yuffie, Bahamut Robe for Aerith, and a yet-to-be-released costume for Tifa:
There's also a new anniversary illustration by Lisa Fujise to go with it:
And also some new merchandise / anniversary campaign prizes with some new Lisa Fujise art:
And also versions of the key character art for Cloud in his Murasame Gear, Sephiroth in his Shinra Formal Uniform, Tifa in her Lifeguard Gear, and Aerith in her Prism Dress:
Finally, we've gotten word that the next Story update should be the start of the next episode of The First SOLDIER, which will introduce Young Angeal, who is expected to eventually be added to the roster of playable characters.