Final Fantasy: Record Keeper

[Claymore]

New Dungeons
IX and XII dungeons have arrived

New Abilities
Waterga
Berserk

 

[Jason Tandro]

So yeah I started playing again before the first podcast and have been hooked since. I'm breezing through the main quest dungeons and cleared my first event last night (Operation Mi'ihen), though I heavily leaned on the Soul Warrior thing. Lv 50 Sephiroth and his Oblivion was I how I beat all the bosses. The last area was the hardest because I actually had to strategize with Sinspawn Geneaux (but fortunately my Cloud had a Lv 2. Fire Strike which made it easier) and Sinspawn Gui was a fun fight with the right balance of challenge and fun.

I'd say I've logged about 10-12 hours so far and haven't paid for anything yet. It's a bit simple, sure, but it's super fun.

 

[vaderSW1]

So yeah I started playing again before the first podcast and have been hooked since. I'm breezing through the main quest dungeons and cleared my first event last night (Operation Mi'ihen), though I heavily leaned on the Soul Warrior thing. Lv 50 Sephiroth and his Oblivion was I how I beat all the bosses. The last area was the hardest because I actually had to strategize with Sinspawn Geneaux (but fortunately my Cloud had a Lv 2. Fire Strike which made it easier) and Sinspawn Gui was a fun fight with the right balance of challenge and fun.

I'd say I've logged about 10-12 hours so far and haven't paid for anything yet. It's a bit simple, sure, but it's super fun.

The game is incredibly fun but it is a grind. Especially as you get into more difficult levels. Some of these new FFXIII dungeons they just introduced have some very annoyingly difficult bosses.

I've spent some real money periodically to heal in the middle of a difficult dungeon or to buy some more equipment slots here and there. I've spent money a few times to buy some rare relic draws but I'd say I've spent less than $20 on the whole. You really don't have to if you don't want to.

 

[Kai Schulen]

*peeks in* I have RK on my phone now too! (I caved, I'm sorry.) My friend ID is qqhj and I just got lucky and got me a Hardedge. XD

Edit:

It's been 4 hours and my follower list jumped from like 7 people to 46 people. I'm terrified.

 

[Claymore]

New characters I've stumbled across in the new wave of dungeons so far are: Irvine, Fran, Arc and Refia.

Irvine apparently has access to Gun weaponry. Yet there are no Guns added to the game yet. :/

 

[Kai Schulen]

SQUALL IS FINALLY HERE I really hope he can use elemental blades like Cloud can cause it's tough going in elite dungeons when he's the only one who can do elemental damage cause Vivi used up all of his spell abilities.

 

[Flintlock]

Celes is a handy spellblade too, did you get her?

 

[Kai Schulen]

Not yet. RK keeps throwing IV dungeons (I'm up to Feymarch now) at me or I've missed her event dungeon. :<

 

[Flintlock]

Yeah, it was an event, Magicite Factory or something like that. It was quite recent, which is why I thought you might have got her. I guess you'll be waiting a while.

 

[Kai Schulen]

I've only started a couple of weeks ago and the event that happened then was Locke's....OTL

 

[Claymore]

Beaten to it!

Yeah, really excited about Squall, just about to enter the new event. Hoping they will add Gun equipment fairly soon, as Irvine is a bit useless at the moment.

 

[Strangelove]

does the english one have special quests yet? 'cause they will give you named characters from previous events even if you've missed out on the events. plus characters from previous events show up in new events as well (the japanese version had vi and x events recently where there were like 4 characters to get)

japanese one updated recently and added a 'forging' system. basically equipment now has an extra stat, which adds a bonus (equal to this stat) to whatever the highest parameter is like strength or spirit or whatever. the higher grade the equipment was originally means they get a higher score (5 star equipment gets max 10 forging points, stuff with a character specific soul break gets 15).

you upgrade this score by either strengthening the equipment with another piece that already has some forging points, or using a 'rosetta stone' which they added with the system. they gave you one for free to try out, but the only other place i've seen one is as a reward on an ex++ event dungeon which is out of my league but it looks like they also retroactively added the points as well? i've got a weapon with some points on even though i didn't use the rosetta stone on it but i might have used some high grade equipment to strengthen it before.

 

[Jason Tandro]

I have to keep reminding myself to go through the main Realms cause I'm getting sucked into the Events and Daily Dungeons. Operation Mi'ihen was a huge grind but Escape from Alexandria was awesome. It was like the perfect length and you got Vivi and Garnet from it, I mean come on now, that's awesome. About to start Balamb Garden but I want to make some progress in the Realms, I just unlocked Esper Valley (FF6) and Western Keep (FF1). I'm a little annoyed that so far there's no love for FF8, FF9 or FF12.


Also, while playing this I just realized something that could actually make a pretty awesome console game. Take the same general concept as Record Keeper. But in each of the realms you play with the same battle style and graphics as that game (albeit making some bug-fixing tweaks for some of the early broken battle systems like FF1 through FF3).

It would be kind of like Sonic Generations only Final Fantasy. Don't get me wrong I know several reasons why that is a bad idea and would never happen, but I'd play it.

 

[Cthulhu]

The difficulty on those events really needs some work tbf (or, the difficulty of the game altogether needs some balancing). I just chuck the game on auto and woop winnar is yu0.

And elite dungeons get too hard too fast, . Or I got lazy. IDK.

 

[Jason Tandro]

The difficulty on those events really needs some work tbf (or, the difficulty of the game altogether needs some balancing). I just chuck the game on auto and woop winnar is yu0.

And elite dungeons get too hard too fast, . Or I got lazy. IDK.

Most of the bosses I can't auto through but with the exception Sinspawn Geneaux who destroyed me four times before I got in to the rhyhtm, I wouldn't call the early ones overly difficult. It probably just seems so after you can't rely on Auto-Battle and have to strategize. Even with using both my Soul Warriors on the bosses if they still stick around I'm like "well shoot, time to pay attention."

I'm sure it gets way more difficult towards the end. Also, I find that any Soul Warrior apart from a high-level Sephiroth or high-level Terra are not terribly effective, or maybe i've just had bad luck.

 

[Strangelove]

the japanese version updated its login bonuses and for a while i thought it might be a temporary thing but now i'm on the second cycle of this and i'm so happy because the previous ones lost their appeal at the level i'm at and now look at what you get

look at all those wonderful gifts

 

[Claymore]

does the english one have special quests yet? 'cause they will give you named characters from previous events even if you've missed out on the events. plus characters from previous events show up in new events as well (the japanese version had vi and x events recently where there were like 4 characters to get)

The tab is there within the Quests section, but the option hasn't opened up just yet.

japanese one updated recently and added a 'forging' system. basically equipment now has an extra stat, which adds a bonus (equal to this stat) to whatever the highest parameter is like strength or spirit or whatever. the higher grade the equipment was originally means they get a higher score (5 star equipment gets max 10 forging points, stuff with a character specific soul break gets 15).

you upgrade this score by either strengthening the equipment with another piece that already has some forging points, or using a 'rosetta stone' which they added with the system. they gave you one for free to try out, but the only other place i've seen one is as a reward on an ex++ event dungeon which is out of my league but it looks like they also retroactively added the points as well? i've got a weapon with some points on even though i didn't use the rosetta stone on it but i might have used some high grade equipment to strengthen it before.

That sounds cool.


Yeah, once your team is strong enough, you can auto everything but the Bosses, most of which do require you to pay attention. I do like some of the new Bosses in the new dungeons they have added, as they have included more strategic sequences - like not being able to use melee attacks in a XIII one, and to stop the orbs from changing colour on NORG in the VIII dungeon.

Still really enjoying this game.

 

[Cthulhu]

I don't know what "the end" is, it just seems like a tl;dr chain of repetitive dungeons to me, .

What really irks me though is that the progression through each game seems to be kinda random - I'd like one story to go through in full before a story opens up in a next FF game area thing. But eh.

 

[ForceStealer]

Eh. Since there isn't a story, I kinda prefer when it jumps around. I actually started to get kinda sick of the FF6 battle music when it was 7 million VI dungeons in the story mode WHILE there was also a Terra Event. And then a Celes Event...And then a Locke event.

 

[Kai Schulen]

Squall can use spell blades. I'd like to thank Odin and Leviathan and all the FF deities out there I finally got a character to back up Cloud and Tidus in the damage department.

*kicks out Vivi*

At this rate, I think I might have to switch out Garnet for the White Mage because WM's Soul Break has better benefits than Garnet's...OTL

 

[Cthulhu]

Yeah I'll probably replace Kain for Squall once I get him... which will be in about one dungeon, .

 

[Strangelove]

i have been cycling characters to get the 'same world' bonus

but then i look at all the level 1 characters i have and despair

 

[Jason Tandro]

I view the plethora of Level 1 characters in my ranks as "replay value".

 

[Claymore]

I've been playing this game far too much so only have a few level one characters, and most others are in the mid 40s.

Yes, I have no life. :/

 

[Teioh]

Will there be an update on the horizon that may add the ability to combine/upgrade the accessories? Because I have a few clogging up my inventory and I want to know if it's safe to just sell them?