Picture of Your Games the 14th

[Amentep]

Been awhile since I posted...

...fought some monsters...

...saw some nifty abilities...

...watched my demons talk to other demons.

...helped the fairy King and Queen...

...experienced drama...

Yup. Surt. Guess I'll have to go around.

Met these two again and taught not-Radiou Kuzunoha a lesson.

And merged a bunch of demons for new demons.

What's in the cards next?

[Keyrock]

I finally reached the castle at the end of the Chiyoda area. Of course, the castle is guarded:

 

Nope.

Listen lady, I don't particularly care about your grievances with YHVH.

[inner_monologue]You got this all wrong, Ishtar, I ain't Bethel's errand boy, I'm just playing along for now because it suits my needs.[/inner_monologue] Time to whoop some Sumerian ass!

Get her, Alice!

"Just die."

Alice is the best.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Keyrock

[LadyCrimson]

32GB is no longer excessive ... I need moah RAM.

[Keyrock]

I really like the look of parts of the Taito area:

There are giant rectangular prisms made up of disjointed moving cubes that form into a solid surface with weird gear patterns as you near them. A still picture doesn't do it justice.

While exploring I found the Aogami Type-0 essence. The last few Aogami essences I found had some great skills, but more suited for a magic build rather than my physical build. This, however, was the mother lode for a physical build like mine. I almost soiled myself when I saw the skills.

Murakumo is an absolutely perfect fit for a physical, high luck build, like mine. It hits stoopid hard.

My current team:

[melkathi]

Coop with @Chilloutman

To quote him:

 "Was it worth it?"

[Keyrock]

This might be my final end-game SMT V build in terms of skills:

I would love to put Retaliate on my boy Beefstik, it's an awesome skill on high strength characters, Critical Zealot would be great too. But then I'd have to drop something to open up a slot. The only skills I would even entertain dropping are Kannabi Veil and Yabusame Shot. Kannabi Veil has saved my bacon many times and it's so cheap. Yabusame Shot doesn't do much damage but it always criticals, which is great for getting extra turns. With my high luck and Murderous Glee I naturally critical fairly often with Murakumo and normal attacks, but it's really nice having a GUARANTEED critical attack. *sigh* There are never enough skill slots.

[Hurlshort]

All of the recent screenshots you folks have posted basically look like spruced up spreadsheets. Is this a math forum? 

[Keyrock]

1 hour ago, Hurlsnot said:

All of the recent screenshots you folks have posted basically look like spruced up spreadsheets. Is this a math forum? 

Quick, someone post some Football Manager or OotP Baseball screenies. 

[melkathi]

Simply to reduce spreadsheetness:

 

[melkathi]

I guess I did pick the right portrait.

Edited December 19, 2021 by melkathi

[marelooke]

Since it's almost impossible to post any FF XIV Endwalker screenshots without massive spoilers here's one from Shadowbringers: Il Mheg

And one from Endwalker's credits

Always a nice touch when they thank the players for playing.

[LadyCrimson]

I met a boar that was apparently the reincarnation of Moses.

[Keyrock]

I really like Zeus' design in this game:

I was 3 levels lower than Zeus when I fought him and I beat him first try. Hard difficulty my ass!  Seriously, though, I almost feel guilty for using Cleopatra and Mother Harlot, they are so ludicrously strong.  Speaking of which:

Mother Harlot best girl. 

[LadyCrimson]

I have a new drone pet. I shall name it ... HumVee. Mostly it's for carrying more stuff and it has a light, but it can heal you a bit in a fashion if you want it to. Occasionally gets in your way visually but eh, as a major stuff-picker-upper, I like it. I don't use the vehicles (they also have more inventory space, but you can't take those into a dungeon) but I'll use this little guy.

Edited December 22, 2021 by LadyCrimson

[LadyCrimson]

Well I seem to have somehow glitched my way into having two drones. One is the game's normal limit. I suspect if I "deactivated" one, to try to change unit mods on it for example, it wouldn't let me place it back again and that would be the end of the glitch.  It's very handy having even MORE traveling storage space tho, so I will not be deactivating either one.

 

Although, two of them "getting in your way" is twice as annoying at times...

Edited December 27, 2021 by LadyCrimson

[Keyrock]

Swery's latest bit of nonsense:

Naomi seems to love the place.

[melkathi]

I remember you were quite excited about this when it was first announced. Is it living up to your expectations?

[Keyrock]

28 minutes ago, melkathi said:

I remember you were quite excited about this when it was first announced. Is it living up to your expectations?

So far so good, but I only just finished the prologue. It's got all the hallmarks of a Swery game: Heavy David Lynch influence, bat**** crazy characters, a murder mystery under bizarre circumstances that's only the tip of the iceberg of weirdness.

I could do without the sleep and hunger systems. They're not punishing, but why is that crap in this game? What does it add? Keep that garbage out of non-survival games.

Edited December 30, 2021 by Keyrock

[Keyrock]

Gameplay:

[Keyrock]

I earlier was complaining that there may be too many gameplay systems in this game. I've changed my mind. 

Not only can you shapeshift into a cat and a dog, but you can also tame and ride sheep!

What's more, you can name (from a pool of names) and groom the sheep!

Also, the sheep have stats and you can level them up! See, this is why I love Swery. 

Edited January 4, 2022 by Keyrock

[melkathi]

Being gloomy on the train

[melkathi]

Healing people by spraying graffiti on them

[HoonDing]

[Keyrock]

^ The Call of Serengar demo, nice. How do you like it?

[HoonDing]

I'll play the full game