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curl-6 on 17 January 2018
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killeryoshis said:
curl-6 said:

For all its excellent qualities, I think this might be one of the most frustrating games I've ever played.

There are just so many little things that annoy the shit out of me; getting halfway through a fight only to have a mob of foes join in and fuck you up being chief among them. Tedious grinding aside, I've spent the better part of an hour abusing the game's detection and disengagement rules to cheat my way through areas because they're set up in such a way that trying to fight way through normally is pretty much impossible because every goddamn fight turns into a clusterfuck cos random enemies keep joining in until I've fighting about 20 and just get crushed by sheer weight of numbers. It's just maddening.

Have you tried using the lure button? I use it and run far away from a group. That usually does the trick. I also concentrate my attacks to kill weaker guys first. I usually never have a problem with mobs using those strategies. 

Yeah sometimes I am able to lure them out one by one, but even when I manage to lure them away to an empty area, somehow a bunch of other fuckers always seem to wander by and join in halfway through the fight. I ended up just running through everything to the next cutscene trigger with about 10 enemies in tow trying to engage me, which didn't feel like how the game was supposed to be played.

Nuvendil said:
curl-6 said:

For all its excellent qualities, I think this might be one of the most frustrating games I've ever played.

There are just so many little things that annoy the shit out of me; getting halfway through a fight only to have a mob of foes join in and fuck you up being chief among them. Tedious grinding aside, I've spent the better part of an hour abusing the game's detection and disengagement rules to cheat my way through areas because they're set up in such a way that trying to fight way through normally is pretty much impossible because every goddamn fight turns into a clusterfuck cos random enemies keep joining in until I've fighting about 20 and just get crushed by sheer weight of numbers. It's just maddening.

You are past chapter 7 right?  You can eviscerate large groups with a chain if that's the case.  If you can quickly get max affinity with Pyra/Mythra and full party guage, just get 2 elemental orbs, maybe 3 if the enemies are tough and whip out the full power mode and chain.  Level 2 and 3 specials are AOE, you will kill nearly everything in the near vicinity.

The problem is, I often can't get to max party gauge cos I keep having to use it to revive my guys when they get ganked halfway through a fight when new baddies randomly show up. It just got particularly on my nerves in Chapter 9, where as I say I ended up just running through pulling a daisy chain of angry baddies behind me cos any attempt to fight always turned into a ridiculous 10-on-1 clusterfuck. Ah well, I got passed it in the end I suppose, so at least I didn't get stuck. Really want to see how this ends.