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General for Shift games (Code Vein 1 and 2, and the God Eater series)
Adjacent IPs also welcome to discuss!
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Death avoided just alittle longer
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Marry Josee, it is your destiny
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Lou is gonna snap one day and trap the hunter in the confluence for 1 million years.
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Why is the hounds mask so high up
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>>558263165
Hounds super finisher is a bit disappointing but I suppose there's not much more you could do with it. The doggy mask is kinda lame.
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I love her so much, but I can't stop myself
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it's finally over...
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So cruel yet so funny
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Congrats!
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Killed Josee and Lyle, working on Holly's area.
While I still think it's a gigantic, pretty sad downgrade from the original, the game eventually grew on me (I would lie if I said I didn't enjoy it from the start, even when it was disappointing) and I've enjoyed exploring the world.
I do wonder if Bamco will bother making proper DLC or just will cut their loses given how hard the game bombed.
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It's about time we did our best
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>>558275673
Might as well add it to the next OP, if there is one.
https://survey.bandainamcoent.co.jp/jfe/form/SV_cThTP5iiR12ZE6G
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>>558278610
>if there is one
It's time to believe in hope anon.
Also hope you all respond to the survey and give positive minded feedback.
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Why they refuse to give you the satisfaction of saving the world? First game made sense cause the ending, but in this one there was no reason to reset before final boss fights, you are locked either before second ending or third ending. Why cant you just get back after third ending?
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The whole way of handling the ending was weird with the menu options and stuff.
And I'm kinda over games hitting you with multiple fakeout endings, I just want to know when I'm actually almost done. You gotta watch credits 3 times on CV2 before it's actually over.
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>>558287236
Could be worse
This game plays its opening animation and rolls credits on every mission
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>>558285201
It sucks, is it so hard to let the player see the fruits of their labor. Let me see what my efforts have done. Give a couple post game quests like super bosses are something that only the hunter could handle.
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If your on pc you can use a mod to buy those. I certainly did, hate it when a game gives you an awesome powerup but you can only use it for 30 minutes at the end of the game.
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The first game had 3 endings; the second game also has 3 endings. 1st game's endings are bad, neutral you sacrifice yourself to keep the status quo and good but melancholic because Io can't stay. 2nd game's endings are bad, neutral sacrificial ending to keep the status quo and legitimate good ending where everyone is saved.
But two is worse somehow?
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Cat Josee
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this creature is up to no good, I just know it
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I have this
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Yare yare…Im not proud to admit I spent forty damn minutes between trying to get the rings on the collar and trying (and failing) to get a gold ring around the hat
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STAR PLATINUM
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>>558301382
And finally an obligatory Jojo pose. Yes I know it’s more of a Dio pose but I don’t care. Thinking back on it I think trying to get the hat to simultaneously blend into the hair on the back of the head while not clipping into the front drove me more insane than the ring thing.
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Thanks anon
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>>558301632
There should be a pointing pose in the options.
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Man, it's refreshing being able to actually make men in 2
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>>558301829
Indeed there was. Kinda wish I was better at getting the angles right
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I did it. Terrible boss. Without my wife Josee it never could have been done.
Love the game. Love Josee. Heart!
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Should I do Lyle's fading bond first before I even go to the undead forest for Holly? I was just kinda fucking around cleaning shit up in the scar in the past and stumbled on this
idk where it's supposed to sit, progression-wise
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Fading Bonds are the method for saving the heroes. Is you save them before collecting their bad end bloodcodes then you'll miss out on those. You have to get to the final area of the game prior to the 2nd ending to collect the bad end codes.
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>This is what's on top of those bell bastards
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>>558312456
I'll do an Eldeer playthrough soon. My first run found a nice build that fits her.
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>>558313481
Considering what Holly looks like I can only imagine what adult Monica was like. Especially with those freckles. Can you envision it? Can you envision a freckled, sassy Holly? Camillo was a lucky bastard.
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>>558319249
March 27th
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Legitimately I think CV2 is a vast improvement over the first, only a few minor gripes but still overall much better.
>poise is fucked, even the smallest enemies take so much to be staggered even by heavy weapons and pretty much any enemy hit can stagger you
>adding on to the above, it is very frustrating how enemies seem to be scripted to specifically charge and attack you the instant you try to press a skill, charge hold, or anything with any kind of startup whatsoever
>performance in the open world is truly fucking ass at times. It's more condensed than elden ring with not as much bullshit you need to run around and do but it's just kinda meh. Motorcycle is cool though
Magmell is also not as comfy as the CV1 base, and desu I don't like the design decision to remove the various capes/cloaks/coats of the blood veils in favor of the generic jails. I get they technically added more character customization but I miss the many different blood veils you could get and how cool some were. Now if I want a shoulder coat I'm stuck with either yakumo or jack's from the DLC and they can't be colored and Jack's looks stupidly big for some reason
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Can we stop abusing Lou now?
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>>558286646
You literally see a guy saying he getting a "hunter" license, so enemies still exist,
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Can hunters impregnate vampires?
>>558287236
>The whole way of handling the ending was weird with the menu options and stuff.
The way of starting a new game is particulary cryptic. You "continue" and you start before third ending boss, you "continue lou rescue" and you start before third ending boss, "start lou rescue from scratch" is a no go option.
"Load" only allows you to pick an old save before second ending boss that is like 1 hour before your current save.
Having to load that old file and then go to magmell to find the green bond was the most hidden NG+ option I've ever seen
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She can watch.
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>>558334816
Well, this one already has romance.
DLC will probably just be Oskar coping
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Holly's, Lou's and Joseé's
I'd say Iris too but I'm not really sure what she even does in the game because was less relevant than Lise who is a tertiary character
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Is there any real point to leveling blood codes as I go? I've been swapping blood codes after mastering them presumably to save time.
But I'm gonna guess there's some late game farm spot to just turbo grind blood codes so I have been thinking about just sticking with one or two lines of codes until then
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I can't help but feel like Iris was meant to be more involved in the Lyle segment, considering she meets you there at the start, is there when you return, and her quest ends fighting a miniboss there.
True to most bandai namco releases, there is definitely some parts of the game where there was likely much more in development, but had to be cut for time.
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It does save time if you're clearing areas with bloodcodes that you're grinding but obviously that makes the game a bit harder if you're using suboptimal stats. There are later game areas plus the Booster for increased proficiency gain that speed things up but it's still just mindless grinding.
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at this point I'd rather just stick to a few similar codes instead of juggling weapons/jails that work with different codes. I can handle just endlessly slapping enemies for a while in the endgame to grind the blood codes up, that's kinda what I did for CV1.
For like a good chunk of Holly's area I was using Holly and Lycoris' codes and using a bayonet for the scaling and I absolutely despise the bayonet now. Didn't like it in CV1, and while I like the new ammo system, the weapon still doesn't feel good to use
not to mention I haven't really gotten many good spells yet.
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I get what you mean. Having now played a decent amount of CV2 Bayonet and hoping it would be different, given all the people saying they're OP now, I've found it to be about the same or worse. I don't like the ammo, doesn't make sense honestly, why wouldn't your shots just take Ichor? You really just run around shooting horrors with regular ass bullets? What was stopping Americans from doing that? Joking aside the ammo system is something I would point to as a feature that feels completely out of place. The Bat Jail is what I think is actually kinda OP. But yeah as an unga bunga player, Bayonet is just bringing a butter knife to a swordfight.
The one thing I'll warn you about is that you'll want the three Heroes codes maxed out before you get to the endgame. Not necessary but ideally.
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>first real companion for the first non-tutorial arc of the game
>spend the most time with her in her arc than any other hero
>Miyuki Sawashiro
>incredible chemistry with you
>there are no romantic implications or subtleties she literally falls in love with you
It's only natural.
Tbh I think Lou kinda got shafted. Even though Lou is with you the entire game, she is rarely very involved with you outside of being a glorified signpost telling you were to go next
Hell, even Holly, who you spend the LEAST amount of time with, gets more characterization and chemistry with you than Lou
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I suppose I can't stop you but I doubt this'll end well.
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>Lou should have had her own chain of requests
True, this was an oversight. I suppose you could say the Main quest is Lou's request but perhaps the DLC will give her a personal interest to pursue.
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Would Lou let us drink out of her chest cavity?
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>>558358189
yeah, kind of a shame considering she's completely unavailable in the past and you're not really too focused on the present too much. mostly just there to unlock the past segments.
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Two options: start secreting milk from her skin like a platypus or regurgitate food in the form of "crop milk" like a bird (which is actually not exclusive to females and does not require bearing children to be produced, only nursing them)
What I'm saying is that Lou should become a dinosaur
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Its especially funny because while I thought it was a bit lewd initially, I could have written it off as "A vampire drinking blood"
And then she just casually drops that
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Lou has had ENOUGH. She's taking whats her's.
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Spooked!
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>Josee's blood code trait - if any Overburden effect is active, gain Charged Drain Attack Power Up
>in exchange, you can't use half the boosters in the game since they have a No Overburden condition
Not feeling this one.
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The Strength overburden is a huge damage boost from my experience. The main issue is that it disables most passives, so it's a net loss.I almost never use quick dodge, so I'm always surprised to see people value it so much.
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Glad to still see a lot of JP posts about CV2
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Not sure I understand your question. First make sure to save Noah before going to Lunar Rapacis. Second you need to leave the 3 heroes unsaved until you collect their bad end codes at the Sealing Spire. There's significantly different dialogue for when you talk to them in their unsaved version versus their saved version but the actual Ending 2 cutscene is the same as far as I noticed.
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just talking to them or in cutscenes? cuz if it's just talking to them I assume I can see their unsaved dialogue, save them, and then see that
also do I need all their base blood codes leveled to unlock their bad end S rank codes?
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You can see the unsaved and saved dialogue in a single playthrough so long as you don't save them first.
And yes you need to max out their main bloodcodes to get the bad end ones. They're branches off the same tree.
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Josee is truly beloved
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>getting mentally flash banged by Zenon's song and dance
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Between that song and the fact that he’s absolutely hopepilled I’m firmly convinced that the only reason Lavinia trashes his reputation so hard is because she wanted him for herself, got rejected due to his loyalty to his late wife, and held onto that grudge for the last century
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Hasten
>>558421156TOTAL REVENANT DEATH
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I really really enjoyed this game but I don't really feel like going through another playthrough.
There isn't really any other endings (it seems at most you can lock yourself into a particular ending). Since the builds are just equipping different blood codes you easily have plenty of options to test different settings.
All the quests and side quest are quite straight foward and you can't miss them or fuck them since its just fetch quests (the only one I didn't finish was lavinia).
I don't know, it was a fun 60 hours but there doesn't seem much room for playing it again.
At least in the first CV you needed a minimun of two times to see all the endings, one for the bad one and another for the rest if I remember correctly
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Hey, so, question, do I need to fulfill the Heroes' requests before slaying them a second time to get the good ending without doing NG+ (I assume they'll still be around in the free roam map)? I really don't wanna fuck this up.
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Tried to find the Archive for it but it's just the cocoon breaking without any particular effort.
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Glad someone else noticed it. There's quite a bit of CV2 music that reminds me of Bravely Default's soundtrack.
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I see, I'll have to pay closer attention, in that case. Thanks anons!
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>Lost Bardiche is dropped by the Witch enemies that can be found in the Water Treatment Plant
I mean I would've assumed so since I noticed they carried it but I have yet to see it dropped across any of my playthroughs. Killed the 3 several times over but nuffin'. Humbug.
In other news I don't think I ever really tried the Stinger in CV but it's actually pretty fun.
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Except the one you are forced into marry Josée
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>it flies over humanoid enemies
I don't I've seen that. It can be sidestepped definitely but you'd probably have to be on higher ground to get it to miss vertically. You do have to sweet spot the range or you might still get hit but Stinger has huge range, think more than Bat. Bat is probably the best overall. The short hop backwards comes in clutch more than you'd think and it lets you needle away Ichor without overcommiting and potentially getting punished. Still have to test the Thorns which I'll be doing soonish.
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But that might rewrite the entire events of CV2. Imagine if Lou gets voided from history because we fixed everything from the 1st Resurgence sealing onwards. DLC deletes the poster girl of the main game, completely unprecedented!
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Jokes on Lou; despite being a doctor, Holly firmly believes in the second amendment. Plus Lise for all of her rage would know she’d owe Holly a ton for saving her and be obligated to save her. Funny thing is Holly out of all the girls seems like she’d probably be the most receptive to the Hunter having a mistress or two if Lou can quell her bloodlust.
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>>558499030
While I love Josee and Holly, I genuinely think Lou is best girl.
She is just so pure.
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Colon Three. Is that anime enough?
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Did Holly's good route first (before even meeting Josee) on this playthrough to see if anything might be different. Though, more or less what I was expecting!
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Sleep soundly Hunters
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Josee is the only hero to show up after completing her first route. Lyle and Holly show up aftercompleting their good end routes. And then Zenon after you do all three good routes.Though it will lock you out of bad end S tier codes if you don't get them first before going back and doing their good routes after
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Oh whoops. Glossed over the new game plus part. So you probably already have all the codes you need. So yeah, Josee is the only one in the past to show up on Exploration Era even in bad route. All the others require good end routes to appear.
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Yes and no. Yes in the sense that they don’t pull a cathedral of blood on us, no in the sense that the map (as in the map display) shows everything as being on a surface level with no accounting for the fact that there’s lower levels in certain segments. I chose to forgive this bone headed decision on the basis that the CoB was beyond cancerous and the designer deserves to be garroted for trying to make anor londo without understanding what made it tolerable.
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Cathedral of Blood was amazing though.
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List of missables:
>Lycoris 2 Blood Code
If you don't max her first blood code before doing Holly's fading bond, you cannot receive it anymore as you can't summon her
>Bad End Blood Codes
If you save all three heroes before meeting them again on the second ending route, you will miss all three of their blood codes. You need to have leveled all their previous blood codes at least to receive these
>Noah's weapon
If you don't give him enough gifts to receive his weapon from the gift menu before youFight Valentin the first time and Noah Diesyou cannot receive it anymore, as you can no longer give him gifts because he isdead.Furthermore, the same can be said if you don't complete his request before this happens you also can't complete it anymore.
Tbh I hope they update it so you can at least give him gifts in free exploration.
Alright, am I missing any missables?
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FAT Lou
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This DAMN FAT CAT
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Cathedral would be less of a problem if it weren't for the key hunt in the second half
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Suddenly, have you ever ordered delivery pizza?
When you use a delivery pizza system, you can simply choose your favorite options and a pizza customized to your liking will arrive, right?
In fact, build customization can be done just as easily with the same kind of feeling!"
Pizza FatBoy has pizza. Confirmed!
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Is it after the true end, revenants continued to grow and multiply and society gradually reformed itself after everything?
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Officially, they're different canons. If you want, Jadwiga selling weapons from CV1 can be taken to mean that it's just a parallel world/timeline/whatever.
Also, I'm pretty sure the image for Jadwiga note 2 is cut content. Maybe the void rift subquests were originally meant to be hers.
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Nope, gotta go fishing. There’s a decent spot next to the seaside hot spring in the Sunken City.
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The Sealing Spire is a decent spot. Going into NG+ also makes the entire map count for leveling even S-rank codes.
Ending 3 is actually its own save file, so you’ll still have access to the Spire.
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This. There's quite a bit of difference between an option being your first choice and it being a last-ditch option born from desperation. Case in point, Lavinia didn't even bother to get her markings engraved in the new timeline even as an emergency backup.
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>In the good timeline, Josee finally confesses her love for the hunter before they have to leave.
>Hunter disappears for about ten years, only to show up again the night she's told this will be their last night together before spending 90 something years in a cocoon.
I want to know what the sleeping situation is like on Magmel, because i feel bad for Holly and Lyle if they were trying to sleep that night and those walls were too thin.
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The summoning forma is just so you can summon them anywhere at any time. You make the pact that lets you assimilate with them and get some of their power the first time you meet them before they give that to you. As far as I can tell though what that means is kind of vague. I think the heart in your back is supposed to be the guardian heart.
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there is no reason to max anyone outside of the first for the achievement.
You can get their weapon + skill at around 75 total points-ish
there's a mod on nexusmods that lets you actually track it. Max is 100, with caps in each category
Episode / Present / Adventure
Episode is just all their side quests and story, as long as you can get their max blood code(s) it should be finished. Adventure is just doing shit with them (tracks elite enemies, bosses, and item pickups only) and present is just giving them gifts
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What do I do now
good game btw
fuck them for letting me keep the resurgence core blood code but not the cool boosters that they give me at the end
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>>558749189
Wait for the updates
Wait for the DLC
Play the game again either NG+ or with a fresh account
Take pictures
Search for items you missed
Force feed your companions eggs and then go on adventures with them to get their unique weapons/items
Complete any requests you missed
Find those hidden events in Free Roam
Watch the cutscenes again
Take a bath
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That was actually a very satisfying endingI'm glad. Spending time with the heroes and growing to love them, I hated having to kill them in the end, even after saving them, so in the true end you basically never have to have them sealed into cocoons is very reassuring.
Anyway thank you Zenon, based and hopepilled chad
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This is the proper way to deal with these kinds of bosses.
Anons think you have to be tactical, but nine times out of ten, the best way to solve a problem is to hit it with a stick.
Healing mechanics don't mean shit if the boss is stuck on their ass screaming at the sky the whole fight.
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>>558709806
This reminds me of a recurring dream I had as a child.
JG Wentworth zombies would chase me across town shouting "It's my money and I want it now." until they trapped me in the local gym.
I would turn on the lights, and a giant JG Wentworth in the room would lean down and bite my head off.
I then awaken in a cold sweat muttering "It's my money."
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So far, I only had two recurring dreams
One was about a nightmare involving some crab thing that plagued me as a child for a few nights
Another was a series of fever-induced dreams where I was going mad over Cronos' Travellers actually being secretly involved in a lot of stuff on Earth and they felt downright omnipresent (guess what I watched someone play not long before that)
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>Hunter and Josee’s room sounds like there’s a hurricane going on in it
>Holly, Lyle, Noah, and Craig all have matching expressions of discomfort and concern
>Zenon is fondly reminiscing the times he and his late wife destroyed furniture
>the handful of staff not used in the creation of Lou are confused and terrified at the sound and wondering if someone managed to capture and release a deformed ape in one of the rooms
>Jadwiga is pissed that her fifth nap of the day is being disrupted
>Lou is in the confluence screaming in unholy rage
>then there’s Lise blasting the CV2 equivalent of careless whisper outside of their door
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>>558797002
He's a Cruz simp defending his waifu
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It's worse. He's the Cruz simp that lost to Louis.
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>>558812552
Definitely had her blood code maxed, but can’t remember if I had the cheevo. Given that Zenon only joins you for three short mini-dungeons during the story, I doubt you’ve maxed out his exploration affinity points yet.
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Quests (must finish all story AND side quest requests to max this part)
Trading Gifts
Exploration (Beating bosses, collecting items, killing Elite enemies. Normal enemies DO NOT count towards this part)
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can someone give me a list of the Code Vein 2 player voices for the EN dub, please? I recognized a few, but I wanna be sure.
Pic somewhat unrelated.
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https://www.mobygames.com/game/254205/code-vein-ii/credits/playstation -5/
just look at the credits or something lel
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I did find that on another site but no one matches names to voice, that's what I was looking for, but thank you.
>Caulifla and Kale's VAs in here along with Tatum and Knickerbocker
Bamco really does keep the same actors around huh>
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>Excited to use blind josee's blood code because I like to use a lot of abilities
>Realize if it regains 1 ichor from forma attacks but costs +1 ichor to use a weapon forma it literally does nothing
Thanks Josee very cool
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>Trying out different ideas this playthrough
>Doing things like finishing Holly's good route and interacting with Lise's pathos before meeting Josee for the first time
>Try and do Craig's full friend requests (and also Lyle's) before meeting him in the present for the Hero Lyle fight
>Still does the wheelchair scene at the castle
A little disappointed desu. Didn't think it'd be much of a change to the scene, but was hoping for at least a little different something or other...
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I guess they also really didn't account for the possibility of doing Craig's route before finishing Lyle's, because now his quest progress is glitched in the database, lmao!
>>558822479
Real! I like how all the bad route codes have a gimmick, but in practice they turned out not to be as cool as they sounded. Lyle's in particular sounded AWESOME! And I mean it still kinda is, but the requirements and restrictions for it are a bit hefty for the tradeoff!
>>558825091
>charismatically optomistic positive vibe core e-girl
>cheers you on for sick bike stunts
>always excited to go on a fun date
>has lots of fun trivia
Hollychads just stay winning!
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>>558864694
Of course, truly is good to be back playing Code Vein.
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I'm really enjoying the game so far but I'm currently stuck on the big armed bitch with no lower half. I'm running halberd with the aoe hammer. My current strategy is to wait for the big telegraphed slam then use hammer to try and build up the slow effect and then use the halberd's special on the torso but I can only bring the boss down to like 40% hp before dying. I have no idea how you're supposed to avoid the attack where they spew fireballs, it gets me every time even when using the quickstep ability. Also Josee is pretty useless in this fight, should I just absorb her for buffs or keep her around as a distraction?
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Fireballs do very little damage, just absorb and tank them
Everything else is piss easy to avoid with midroll
Roll towards the jumps, away from the point blank smacks
Also get used to just absorbing your partner, the biggest hurdle is that bosses act erratically when you have a partner out, most bosses become parrybait if you just go solo
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>>558902193
if you're struggling you might want to run around and pick up more heals
fyi, all the heal upgrades are marked on the map. The little blue dots are nectar, and the towers that have beads are clearly shown on the map as well
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>just run and jump to the side
It doesn't work. I think my build simply has too little dexterity/agility or whatever so I guess I should change blood codes.
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Yeah I'll try solo.
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>wide ass cone
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Yeah I really dont see a use for them, if they were a single stream of bullets to complement the bows charge shots maybe
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I got the three punished blood codes and feel like shit. I can go back and fix everybody's smiles now, right?
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yeah or you could power through and commit to a bad end and get a full good end with zero suffering in NG+.
It's kinda lame that after fixing everyone you can't go back and get the good versions of the reunion conversations before the tower
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Yeah I think you might be misremembering, anon. Not just the conversations, but all of the MagMell cutscenes replay with the good route hero versions when you go back (which is mandatory to do before returning to the Spire again)
You might be mixing it up with the Spire itself, as your companions keep their position on the floor you left them at before fixing their routes.
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you can do those though, every time you save a hero, it resets the cutscenes at magmell/tower dialogue
just save all three, and then go back to upheaval era, go to magmell and the cutscenes will replay
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>she
thanks man but he's actually a pathetic twink
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>>558944372
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Just did Lyle's friendship quests and can't help but feel like it's a shame that you don't play a revenant in this one. It was fun everyone coming up with their super chuuni OC bloodcodes and abilities for their characters last time, and the addition of the not!V:TM clans now could have made for some neat stuff
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yeah I dunno what the philosophy there was, as the "Uniting humans and revenants" is almost a tertiary plot point that isn't really brought up often if at all
also all your companions are revenants, but can also use jails? jails are like blood veils but the lore is revenant hunters use jails to mimic it or something? I really don't know if it was brought up what the jail is at all or if I missed that worldbuilding point, all I know is Lou gave half her heart to you, but that's not the heart in the jail?
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A jail holds a revenant's heart- which is the source of their power and they can just take out for some reason- to use their powers, effectively making a hunter equal to a revenant in every way except longevity. Jails presumably are also the reason you can use their blood codes. Lou gave her heart to mend your actual heart, the one in your Jail belongs to whoever your partner is at any point.
My biggest question is how you revive if you're not a hunter. Everyone comments on it so it has to be canon that you're dying, but the heroes freaking out over killing you if you die to them implies it might not be? Or is Lou's revenant heart reviving you each time, since Gobbo confirms you are at least part-revenant at that point.
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>There's no light left in my world. The least I can do is fight to keep that light alive in others. Tomorrow, we'll share the battlefield one last time. Then I want you to forget about me...Just look to the future...and live on, all right?
>I've lost the right to call myself anyone's comrade. Once the dust settles after tomorrow's fight, I'm hitting the road again. It doesn't matter where, the battlefield is where I belong. It's the only place I have left.
>I'll do anything to save one more life, even if it burns me to ashes. I won't let anyone else die. Not these people...and certainly not you. So promise me one thing...Don't look back. When I go, let my memory go.
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I believe I'm about halfway through the prison island in Code Vein 2 now (haven't found Zenon's cocoon yet). I've done all the sidequests and timeline shifts up to this point. Approximately how much of the game is left now in terms of hours, if I were to beeline for the ending?
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I use the manus as a high commitment “fuck you, poise break” attack for the beefier enemies.
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That’s pretty much what I did for my tired old man. The autistic headcanon I settled on was he used to be a professional head knocker for some hoity-toity Superbia branch, got out and opened a dry cleaning business since he’d gained a frankly alarming amount of knowledge and experience on how to clean all manner suits regardless of fabric to keep up the clean pressed look his employers demanded of him, and only closed up shop to hoont again because things were clearly going tits up and the apocalypse is bad for business.
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I started with GE3 but I didn't fully complete the game in one go. They all have quite a lot of content and points where the story could've ended. Go ahead and start GE2 or 3 for a fresh feel and come back to GE1 later. They're similar enough so it's not a huge deal swapping from one game to the next every other day. The stories don't cross over much and only later into the games.
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I personally prefer Ciel but Alisa's design is iconic. I would have to invoke the powers of Mia iconic design to combat Alisa properly.
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Thankfully it doesn't mind break me but it's a really silly error to the point I mentioned it in my character creator focused feedback. One glove sits perfectly and never clips into her arm. The other glove is basically always clipping into the arm as pictured. I don't think the CC even gives you the option to adjust one arm's size and not the other so either one glove is smaller than the other or all characters have one arm that's unnoticeably thicker than the other. Some items from CV1 have obvious issues and they were just copy/pasted into CV2 without being fixed. That annoys me.
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Wait, so Lavinia personally knew Idris? She's even older than I thought.
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I wish you could turn partner chatter frequency up. Running in circles for two hours because I want to hear everyone call you a dumbass for jumping off a cliff but it only triggers one in like ten times is annoying, and this game is not popular enough to have a video just showing all possible dialogue.
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>only boss to have a phase 2 theme
>credits theme plays during her true redemption
>iinazuke-dono
The game itself likes Josee.
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>special lines for hitting an enemy with your bike
>Special lines for jumping off a high fall and surviving
>Special lines AND partner animation for falling to your death
>Special lines for finishing a hard fight without getting hit where just about everyone gets horny as fuck
>Special lines for finishing a hard fight with your partner assimilated where they get jealous you're not fighting with them
>Special lines for playing for a long time without resting
>Extra lines for EVERYTHING with high affinity
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CV1's early trailer made me think Mia would be more sadistic, but outside of her first encounter in Howling Pits she's surprisingly modest and agreeable.
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Honestly hard to pick. Code Vein is edgekino but it's all over the place between taking itself seriously and being a friendship and handshake sim. The plot is cobbled together bur miraculously works somehow. Code Vein 2 is just a more coherent and consistent product but where are my epic anime battle cutscenes? Where's the Mido tier villain? Feels like Code Vein made something fun out of a mess whereas Code Vein 2 had everything organized and ready to go but some last minute second guessing caused something important to be left on the cutting room floor.
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Iirc it’s supposed to be some sort of inhibitor for frenzying or resurgence related shit. Since Iris experiments on herself prior to her end of her quest she probably keeps it on to make certain she doesn’t turn into a horror.
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The current bounce factor mod is good. Wish there was a more focused chest mod. Pretty sure the slider is tied to the character's whole chest so increasing the limit there isn't an ideal fix.
Kinda doubt Shift will be fixing those issues themselves but I suppose it's possible.
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Probably but what I'm saying is they potentially made the incorrect choices on what to cut/not work on for CV2. Apparently co-op was a desirable feature for example which baffles me and probably the devs too but it seems the consequences were quite dire. Beyond that I just have a feeling that something important got cut. Perhaps the DLC will fill that void.
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Finished my first playthrough and probably the most disappointing part of the game is the ending. The ending itself and the three separate fake-out credits is a lot of fun, but the fact that the game is about time travel and you never actually get to see the future change in any way is pretty underwhelming. Even if it was just a quick montage of everyone living their new lives in a city that was no longer in ruin would be more satisfying than the Fable 2 style "you get a letter that says everything is fixed now yippee" thing they did. The fact that none of the cast besides Noah and Zenon even get any lines after the tower is pretty lame too.
Still a really solid game though. Probably gonna do a second playthrough to max affinity.Also realizing poor Iris never even shows up at the end because in the future you created you would have never even met her
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I don't get the appeal. They're supposed to be challenging single player games that famously kick your ass until you git gud and the only multiplayer was pvp and invasions. Co-op ruins the entire experience from challenge to neutering the isolated atmosphere of Souls games. Code Vein doubly has no need for co-op because the game gives you fun and interesting characters you care about to act as companions for the journey. How're you supposed to appreciate the story and characters when your friend is sitting there waiting for the next beat'em up section? It just doesn't fit but casuals want it so they can suffer no challenge and hit skip on everything and then tell Mommy they beat the hard game for big boys. You can't just increase the number of enemies to balance it either; it really doesn't work at all from any perspective. I get that co-op games (that aren't for children) are hard to find these days but I dunno how Souls became the genre for co-op.
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You mean Iris? I did, i mean this scene. To be fair jadwiga isn't here either and I finished hers too, unless there was still something I still have to do with those two that i didn't realize.
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The way I see it, it's about longevity. Co-op capability doesn't preclude anyone from doing their first or second or third playthrough solo to take everything in. But past a certain point, bringing a different person in keeps it fresher than any NG+ or gimmick run.
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Fine. It's a novelty to encourage replaying sure. But I'm fine with Code Vein being single player with the appeal being the story and characters, combined with challenging Souls-like gameplay. Seems a lot of people are begging for even more romance in sequels and DLC which will even further push it away from co-op into pure single player.
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And that'll push it even further down into it's trench. It'll get it's two weeks in the spotlight and peter out again, as singleplayer games do.
I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it's definitively different from CV1, which hung around for a good while on people's co-op runs and that PvP mod.
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longevity thing is pretty true because I beat code vein 2 with all trophies and have no drive to keep playing it. Whereas with CV1 I would co-op and help random people all the time
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>the faction dedicated to TRD has all of the revenants that are part of it collared like dogs
Shit. Everyone except Lavinia huh?
Instead she's got her son's manifesto inscribed onto every inch of her body.
Everywhere else still seems to use masks.
Though given how many "masked" enemies appear out in the wild, they don't seem to be too effective.
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Finished the game a while back, kind of have the itch to explore with Iris again. Anything new going on? Doesn't look like there have been any patches and haven't seen any posts from the official accounts recently.
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So it seems like the special partner select dialogue doesn't require max affinity, at least for some partners. Jadwiga started saying this, but my affinity with her is only at about 70 points.
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I don't have the achievement so i know it's not maxed but I started getting a few new ones after just playing the game with one partner for a while. How do you check the actual level? Or do you just mean the gift points.
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I'm on PC, so I used this mod.
https://www.nexusmods.com/codevein2/mods/89
Guess it's universal and I just got unlucky, that or I have a shit memory. I didn't think I heard Lou's new line until after I maxed out her affinity.
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Good night, anon.
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Everything except most side quest progress, IIRC
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My Regeneration keeps resetting to 5 at odd times, like starting the game, after a cutscene. I can't see how the Nvidia driver update could cause such a glitch, but I don't think I ever noticed it happening before the update, and now it's happening pretty regularly. Is that even a thing?
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Been a lot of weird oddities with the last Nvidia update. Drops in framerates, characters missing/not loading from cutscenes, and entire cutscenes themselves not triggering. Had to warp back and forth from Magmell several times to get the Spire cutscene to trigger. It just wouldn't load and so the entire institute had no characters in iit besides Jadwiga. Pretty eery, desu.
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Nta but I had to update to the latest drivers to play CV2 at all back at release so I'm not surprised anon would be using the Nvidia program and download the latest driver. Weird that it would affect the game so adversely.
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You're right twitter fan artist, I should kill myself
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Josee as OP, it's her turn