Everyone is all over Automate now, but let's have original Nier thread. If you have nothing to discuss - feel free to dump music and art/fan art. There is magnet for those who don't want to deal with youtube or whatever. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:OA3DHEUODIGY6XRS4ASAQZ2QX75MSRO6
People say it aged poorly and is not enjoyable to play, but replayed it recently in preparation for the sequel I found it to be really enjoyable action game with amazing animations and satisfying weapons. I think nowadays almost all cation games are either cuhrayzee or musou, with nothing in between. Nier fits that niche quite nicely.
Beat Automata, just started Nier. Got to the first encounter with Kainé. Really liking it so far, aside from the damned chicken egg sidequest.
Connor Hill
That sidequest is ez, you just compare three hints from people in town to figure out where it is.
Also, if you pick up the eagle egg in Kaine's shithole village, DO NOT SELL IT. You need it for a quest, and they're really hard to get a hold of other than that one.
Angel Wood
also weapon upgrades. you can pick up an eagle egg from that spot mutiple times.
Before Emil blows it up, obviously.
Andrew Ward
There is also an art book on sad panda but no torrent unfortunately. exhentai.org/g/472987/704f8a429a/ It doesn't like my proxy so I got to switch ips
Kayden Torres
It can spawn there, but it's a rare spawn and you have to fucking climb all the way up there every time to check, and then if it isn't there, you have to leave the whole fucking area, go back in, climb up, etc. It's a guaranteed spawn the first time though.
Chase Garcia
Is there any confirmation that content was cut from Nier? It feels like there should have been more going on to justify how close everyone is by the end of the first half. The voice over at the start of the intro implied something huge was happening but that scene felt like it was missing a lot of buildup.
Dominic Garcia
How many endings did you get? Did you get final/true ending?
Josiah Edwards
I can only find two people giving hints, and they suggest to me that the egg(s) is/are hidden behind the arches near the fountain. I've searched there and the broken structure near there mashing (B) all around.
Colton Richardson
Isn't there a quest missing that was unique to the brother/sister relationship from Replicant?
Adrian Williams
I got them all
Mason Adams
How good is the 360 version? Worth a buy?
Robert Cook
What do you not like about it then? There it a bunch of time skipping events even before the big one. Basically every time you sleep it means that more than just one night passed. It isn't said outright, but heavily implied by dialogue and the fact that you keep finding money in your house.
The fact that the world is fake and everyone is either clone or android or living magical weapon is pretty huge tbh.
I think that's a DLC exclusive to jap version that ties the whole thing into light novel or some shit.
Huh? I mean yeah game is absolutely worth buying if you're into that kind of thing, dunno how it performs on 360 though.
Xavier Kelly
Worth the 2 maples I paid for it sealed
Why are the twins so ugly in the sequel?
Jose Martin
Nier is a good game. Got good memories of it.
BUT LIFE IN THE SANDS CAN GET FUCKED
Sebastian Wright
that does seem like a downgrade.
James Howard
I had no issues with the 360 version, it's definitely worth a buy.
I'd rather there be some event after Emil joining up to solidify the group. Something they can all go through together to build a bond. It's always better to show than tell when it comes to character development. That's all doled out at the end though. Hearing Kaine screaming at Weiss during the opening over being hypnotized and shit made me expect more than that scene actually delivered.
Ayden Martinez
Oh it should be noted that Nier was translated by 8-4 but Taro kept a close eye on it and there's no problem with it from what I can remember.
Mason Stewart
I would have preferred brother to father but that's fine, nothing else that I know of either.
Ryder Morgan
Maybe it was two hints, it's still easy. One person says by the arches, another person says in the shadows. Check all of the shadows cast by the arches, you'll see a prompt when you're right on top of it.
Adrian Martin
Maybe because I played a lot of jrpgs back in the day I automatically assumed that everyone became friends off-screen like they usually do in well jrpgs. But that might just be me and you're right.
Well yeah, the reveal was pretty anticlimactic, especially since shades being humans, little kids included was so heavily hinted through the drops you pretty much knew what was going on before they spelled it out to you.
Nathaniel Williams
That's what I've been doing, but I'll keep trying.
Brody Robinson
if you're that stuck then just look up a video of someone completing it.
Christopher Sullivan
Are there any quests I should entirely avoid? I've heard of an infamous farming quest that is boring shit with a crap reward.
Hunter Moore
/r/equesting Nier images
Carson Baker
Refer to this image
Carson Peterson
Now, without all the unnecessary bull at the beginning.
Gavin Jenkins
Nier may have had boar drifting but Nier 2 has boar drifting and boar grinding.
Caleb Lee
9S has a cute butt
Elijah Howard
bump
Mason Anderson
Just started playing it for the first time. Managed to find a copy for $16 before it really shot up to what, $35 now?
I wanted to just play through quick to get to Automata, but man I am just enjoying it far too much. Been doing every quest so far, although these ones where I need tons of robot parts are driving me nuts. They all seem to be rare drops.
Also, got to meet to Yoko Taro at PAX and got this signed poster. It was pretty awesome.
Parker Baker
Is it bad that I prefer daddy nier over brother nier?
Levi Rogers
No.
Xavier Young
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Aiden Jenkins
i'll ask here too
i have a question i've read somewhere that if i'm a pirate i won't be able to get one of the endings is that true?
Robert Stewart
I can't be sure, and I can't tell you why without spoiling anything. It may be true.
Adam Adams
just spoil my shit up fam
i heard that it's related to Ending E, where you [REDACTED], but i don't get how would it be related to internet connection
Blake Morris
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Elijah Ross
You asked for it To get the final ending, you'll need help from other players. I do not know if it impossible to do it solo, but I have you to hear of anyone accomplishing it. Further spoiling When you sacrifice, you help others.
Sebastian Stewart
you yet*
Ayden Taylor
RIP i mean you'll be able to use online fix by REVOLT… but it's better to just buy it.
Also apparently v-sync forces it to 30 fps from reports so use your gpu software to enable v-sync outside the game if you need to use v-sync.
Julian Allen
For the people stupid enough to buy it, does it run like shit?
Kayden Brooks
So how's the pc port ?
Carson Sanders
Oh, and there's an issue with AMD driver 17.2.1
Game's only been out an hour, doubt there'll be any concrete stuff yet. You're going to have to wait.
Nathaniel Turner
Runs in 1600x900 when you set it to 1920x1080 and fullscreen. Only runs at 1080p in windowed.
Ayden Hall
Yeah, it's the same issue Metal Gear Revengeance had. And I don't ever think it got patched in MGR, but it's been a while since I played it.
Xavier Jackson
It's not the same because people using DVI and DP are also getting it.
Thomas Foster
do japanese people only have one type of monitors?
Ryder Morris
Oh, weird. Well, as I posted above borderless gaming seems to temporarily fix it according to others. I'm waiting on full port report before I bother playing.
Tyler Peterson
I don't know. With the amount of shit PC ports they crank out I'd say they do all of their coding on calculators.
Brody Morales
I don't want to sound like a queer or anything, but those messages people left inspired me
Sebastian Perry
Oh shid, give it to me straight, how bad is it? I might just refund if it really is that bad.
Connor Cook
I think it mostly has to do with the resolution not low fps or stutters
James Cooper
There are complaints about cutscenes having a 30 lock and going under, is that true?
Jacob Lewis
yea cutscenes are locked at 30 fps but I don't think they go under. I am gonna wait till they put an update to play it.
Luis Howard
my cutscenes were going 10-15 fps, it's fucking insane. Aren't those pre-rendered? How's this shit even possible when everything else is fine
Caleb King
I fucking hate it when Holla Forums is right. Should I wait for a patch or just fucking refund it.
Jackson Ross
do both and pirate when it's cracked
Tyler Davis
I just installed the game and wonder if I'll miss out on gameplay if I play on normal instead of hard. There appear to be zero checkpoints on hard, meaning that I have to do this intro practically flawlessly. Is the game too easy on normal? I really don't want to miss out.
Colton Reyes
Don't be a puss puss and play on hard my friend.
Nicholas Sullivan
Do you have an AMD card?
It seems for AMD cards it's completely borked. Some can play it, but it freezes and the screen goes blank with sound, for others it happens straight from launch. People can't get past the first boss. For some Nvidia users it happens too, but for AMD it's across the board it seems. They posted an announcement saying its the 17.2.1 driver, or more precisely a combo of Win10 + RX400 series + 17.2.1, but people are reporting it exists outside that including on newer & older drivers as well as Win7 and Win8.
Basically, do not buy the game if you have AMD. If you have Nvidia, the blank screen freeze can happen, but not everyone is reporting it yet.
Lincoln Martin
I'm on Nvidia. I have another computer that has AMD but instead of win10 it has 8.1, so I'll try it there and see if it works and if not I'm just gonna refund.
Christian Powell
Lad, clearly I'm not scared of it. I just already died 3 times in a row. This wouldn't be a problem if the first few cutscenes were fucking skippable. What are you playing it on?
Also, any non-lewd pictures of 2B?
Bentley Reed
Pretty sure you can change the difficulty in the options menu at any time so you can just do normal and turn it up if it's not challenging enough.
Wyatt Peterson
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Nathaniel Rodriguez
Sounds good user, let me know. Trying to gather all the information I can to help send it for a hopefully patch in the future.
Nolan Moore
How the fuck they fucked up with AMD when every console this gen mount AMD?
Nolan Perry
Right, it did mention that in the difficulty selection. Somehow I presumed this was excluded on hard and very hard. Thanks user.
Thank you kindly, lad.
Angel Robinson
Well, the he consoles don't have GPUs, they have APUs. But I do not know enough about APUs to be able to tell you what the difference could be or if it would even matter.
Gabriel Johnson
Japs cannot into programming. At least not on the PC, but looking at console it seems they're not much better there either.
Camden Rogers
I might have an idea for AMD users, going to test it. Might be a while though.
Colton Harris
are you going out to buy an Nvidia ?
Tyler Taylor
It's simply a amd gpu and a cpu on the same silicon chip, sharing the memory.
Jonathan Ward
I guess the game works on my machine. For AMD boys try using the Borderless Gaming app from github and play the game in windowed mode, if the game keeps crashing on the prologue boss then try to skip cutscenes,
My specs are pic related, I do not have the latest drivers and I'm using Windows 8.1, I don't have any problems yet.
Jordan Nelson
There are no checkpoints in the prologue on any difficulty. Stop being a fag and get through it.
Christian Ward
I just now exited the game real quick to fap because I got too horny from those upskirts. Didn't actually expect that to happen, but damn
Justin Perez
Well, on normal it was easy.
Gabriel Butler
How do I get the Pearl Harbor Assualt archives? I was told you get them by talking to Anemone as A2 late game. I did at the very latest point possible and got nothing.
Brandon Smith
I got it after Pascal sends you to Anemone. After speaking to her for the mission I spoke to her again, and during that dialogue the camera pans over to a nearby computer terminal and she says you are free to access her logs. Interacting with the computer got me the archives.
Christopher Parker
danke
Mason Moore
:^(
Oliver Harris
Why you do this to me Toro? Why? Spoilers as well.
Ayden Collins
that song just plays in that area
Leo Myers
That looks like the cave kaine lived in, do you find it in the game? Spoiler answer plz.
Caleb Mitchell
I mean automata, ofc it's in nier 1.
Alexander Thompson
probably not the same location but it's an area emil (or one of his clones) gives you access to
Angel Cox
ending E doesn't make the pain go away.
Jayden Collins
Get a refund now and then when a patch comes out see if the problems have been fixed.
Angel Morgan
if i want to get into this series where should i start? id rather not just bandwagon and go straight to automata. also i always appreciate muh lore
Lincoln Harris
Basically DOD1 Ending E => Nier => Nier: Automata
Joseph Price
Oh look, another game using Denuvo with performance issues. And people still want to say it doesn't affect anything.
Probably a combination of shitty coding + Denuvo.
Robert Harris
How much stuff in Automata needs knowledge of past games?
Noah Mitchell
Not much I'd assume. Small things like Kaine's music seen above is a small touch that previous players will get.
Hunter Sanders
Start with Nier. The only relevance to Drakengard is that one of it's endings leads to the Nier universe. Watch the ending and then play Nier and then goto Automata.
Almost none. Main plot-wise there's nothing in Nier that is important to Automata's story. There are references and throwbacks to Nier throughout the game like certain cutscenes, characters, music, while the only knowledge you would need from Drakengard is it's Ending E cutscene that explains what caused the world to go to shit.
Nathaniel Hill
Start with Nier, it's better than Drakengard games to being with and will lead you straight to Automata which is actually a prequel
Julian Parker
>Somehow a prequel? Taro's been screwing with timelines again.
Samuel Cruz
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Kevin Taylor
Just finished Ending B. Felt like the bosses got a big health buff. Do they get buffed again for Ending C/D?
Hudson Russell
I was watching a stream of the game and saw Devola and Popola in it. You kill them in Nier 1.
Caleb Evans
The only good thing about nier was the music.
Jace Collins
Devola and Popola were a series of androids, all twins named the same assigned to different towns. Ive already gone through A through E ending since I had a Bloodborne device.
Xavier Gutierrez
Oh, I got bored and stopped by ending B.
On a somewhat related note, I seriously don't understand the hype that Automata had. It looks like a boring as hell game to me, but everyone went crazy over it and I have lots of friends who pre-ordered this and are playing it non-stop. I just don't understand. There's literally nothing appealing in the game to me.
Angel Brooks
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Nolan Bennett
Are the old games on PC? Do they play well with emulators? I don't want to jump into the Xth game in a series and not know what the fuck is going on.
Angel Ross
Kek, you missed half the fucking game. Thing of it like this >endings C&D are the actual second half where a new character is unlocked and you really get into some shit bet you don't even know what's really on the moon
Julian Sanchez
no, and lol
Levi Brown
DoD works great, DoD2 doesn't real, and DoD3 and nier are ps3 only so no
Isaac James
Does the gameplay actually change? At all? Because once I did ending B, I was under the assumption that I would just be playing through the same thing 5 times so I could get a little bit more dialogue each time.
Kevin Brown
drakengard 2 is canon
Dylan Evans
Knowing Nier has anything to do with Drakengard is apparently a spoiler. At least that's what I was told. It meant literally nothing to me, though.
Henry Baker
Nier Gestalt is on 360 as well.
Joseph King
You're so lucky. I want a signed poster.
Jose Flores
It's like this, Satan. There's 17 chapters, and route A and B follow chapters 1-10. Route C is 11-17. Finishing route C opens up chapter select, so it's really easy to get the last two endings after that. If you've gotten ending B then you've got about 1/3 of the game left, and route C is where shit goes down hard.
Connor Lewis
Welp. Too bad it's been years and I don't remember any of the characters, their names, or what the fuck was going on. I'd have to replay the whole thing.
Brandon Wood
That's originally how I played Nier. In the US I think it was just called Nier, not Nier Gestalt. I loved that game and it's why I'm looking forward to Automata, but it looks like I won't be playing even when denuvo is cracked because it's a shitty port.
Jonathan Wright
Call me when everything is fixed
Jaxson Watson
Automata looks like it happens before all robots break down. In Nier all the robots are broken down. So I it's a prequel right?.
Carter Brown
Actually, I'm a dumbass who though you were talking about Automata. ! shouldn't be posting at 2 AM. OG Nier's endings C and D require some grinding, but they follow right after B. If you aren't up for the grind, just youtube 'em.
Jordan Sanchez
He was talking about automata
Henry Wilson
Did you not notice everything is 20 to 30 levels higher?
Owen Lewis
👌
accord, angelic alphabet, accord being namedropped in the first village in nier automata
drakengard is pretty closely tied to nier.
Hudson Bailey
I don't know what levels the bosses are. I found that they aren't any harder in NG++ anyway, now i'm just wondering whether to do ending C or D
Jose Stewart
Do C, then D.
Henry Morris
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Michael Bailey
No, it takes place like 6000 years after the first game
Jason Nelson
Completing the unit data is starting to piss me off. Anybody know where some of these enemies spawn? Desert Medium Flyer: Kamikaze, Enhanced Medium Flyer: Gunner x2 Kamikaze x2, Enhanced Reverse Jointed Goliath, Enhanced Small Sphere: Axe Equipped, and Enhanced Linked-sphere Type: Drill Equipped?
Kevin Russell
I've noticed that if I run back and forth across certain areas, sometimes enemy spawns vary, spawning more, less, or different machines. Enemies will stop spawning if you kill them forcing you to go very far away to transport to reset the spawn. I've tested this in the city caves right before the aliens, but the only enhanced enemy I've been able to find is the Small Sphere: Drill Equipped twice, despite the standard Axe Equipped one being more common. I'm also missing EMP Small Biped.
Jordan Hughes
If people actually care that much to see why Ending E happens then sure they can play Drakengard. But from a story standpoint literally the only thing worth knowing from it to help aid with piecing the lore of the world is Ending E. Everything else involving it is a reference. Like the Dragoon Lance's story which is a direct reference to Angelus and Caim.
Fucking Enhanced versions are all RNG and it's stupid. Just quick travel with access points, it's faster.
From what I've read on some shitty wiki, The Enhanced flyer gunner/kamikaze can be found outside the Oil Field along the left wall (2 enemies) or in the Desert directly between the paths leading to the Desert Camp and Housing Complex amidst a group of enemies near a rock with a hackable (or empty if you got it) chest. The Enhanced Linked-sphere Drill also spawns on that rock/chest location in the Desert (speaking of which I found just now so that's a confirmed spawn location)
Liam Brooks
How? I can just run back and forth a short distance away from spawn points instead of loading the area every time. I've been checking that area repeatedly. I've been getting nothing but Desert Medium Flyer and occasionally Desert Medium Flyer: Kamikaze x2 Gunner x2. The area along the right wall near the chest spawns Enhanced Medium Flyer Kamikaze half the time, and the other half no flyers. I've been running around there and gotten no linked sphere types. Do you have to kill the enemies around the chest for it to spawn? Also, are you sure it wasn't a Thorn type? They both have a drill.
Dominic Walker
I just use the access points to travel somewhere else and travel back, though in this case I'm traveling from the Camp to the Oil Field repeatedly cause I need the Enhanced Multi-tier type non-gun variant. I don't know if leaving the area or transporting at access points affects RNG so use whatever you want.
Guaranteed it's the Drill type. I already had the Thorn type and when I killed it, my unit data updated. It should spawn along with the rest of the enemies, just keep trying and hope you get lucky.
Btw I'm doing this in chapter 16-01 if that helps any.
Hudson Fisher
The wiki is correct, but not very clear. A tall one should spawn in the area right before the lunar tear in the beginning desert area. Hit it in the middle to make it shorter, and that will give you the other unnamed variants.
Ryder Davis
Enhanced Linked Sphere Drill type spawned where you said it would on the first try since you told me.
Connor Clark
I also do most of my searching on chapter 17-03, but just happened to be on 16-01 when I found the drill type.
Camden Walker
Fucking wiki's man. People can't explain shit properly.
I'll check that area later when I'm not coughing and sneezing my dick off.
google translate this page from the Jap wiki worked beautiful for me.
Eli Hernandez
Got Enhanced Reverse Jointed Goliath. Spawns right in front of the the Soul Box in the flooded city area.
Landon Clark
Once again Nippon is superior. Danke.
Jeremiah Campbell
Enhanced Medium Flyer: Gunner x2 Kamikaze x2 found in the large grassy area at the beginning of the game-post tutorial. Found in chapter 17-03.
Samuel Murphy
Nip guide says EMP Small Biped is found by Engels fallen arm in the city ruins, but I can't remember which chapter it was that they spawn at all.
Ryder Moore
I always went chapter 17 unless they specified
Jeremiah Richardson
yes, you get another character that plays like 2B but has a bigger dodge radius, charged dodging, and donte style taunts, the entire map also gets things added to it
Cameron Fisher
Started this week. Maybe it's because I've playing Yakuza 0 and Gravity Rush 2 before but I'm going at a slug's pace. Got a few stupid questions if anyone could give me a hand: 1. How many access points are there in the desert? I found 2 (oil field and center). 2. I read that Emil's shop can have different things depending on where you stop him and at spot he'll sell Titanium Alloy. Is there any truth to that? 3. I'm wondering how far I'm into the game - rescued 9S and killed (?) Adam.
I'm enjoying the game a lot but overleveling is a serious issue. Like Dragon's Dogma and Witcher 3, it starts relatively balanced, bosses are still at least 3 levels over you but got out of hand quickly. It's partly why I want to buy the Titanium Alloy. I know there's a place where enemies that can drop it spawn infinitely ( boss room in the desert housing complex ruins ) but it adds a lot of XP and I honestly can't stand those robo-Muslims any more.
Blake Sanchez
copied city is about a fifth of the way through the entire game and a third of the way through 2B route.
Colton Price
Dang. Guess there's still a lot to go through. I was curious because I've got my quest log at around 40%, fishing at 75% and about half the weapons. I also think I got a quest failed (Photographs) and some removed from the map. It's Dragon's Dogma all over again. Thanks.
Side note, I love the level of customization you get with the chips. You can make some interesting things with it and I have to confess I would have never made it past the shooting section against the giant machine with the EMP emitter without auto-heal. I first placed for convenience's sake, to heal while traversing the map but it's very helpful in combat, particularly against those unique enemies that ages to beat.
Parker Lopez
The Jap site says all the other EMP enemies can be found in chapter 11. I've searched the area in every section of chapter 11 that it will let me, nothing even spawns there.
You've found all the access points in the desert. Yes, in fact, repeatedly talk to him in the same place without even leaving. He will randomly switch between selling chips and materials. Better items can be found when he's on different routes; there are three.
Henry Thompson
Is meat box supposed to be a euphemism for vagina?
James Phillips
Quests do have failstates, I let some robot kid died and never had the heart to tell his mom so she was just standing there outside the village for such a long time ;_;
Tyler Johnson
I was unsure because the map info seemed a bit incomplete in its opposite end. Side note, running into those giant Emil heads really freaked me out.
Had no luck switching his inventory in place; will be a bit more persistent. From my experience, he'll sell chips in the areas near the bridge that leads to the factory and desert, sell weapons by the pond in front of the Resistance camp and sell mid-tier materials in the collapsed area.
Thanks.
I tried that quest but failed so I reloaded to try it a different time but I think it's no longer available. At least, the dot is not there anymore. Might be because 9S is not with me; he seems to do all the talking after all.
Cameron Flores
Is there any better place than the caves right before the aliens to try and get the Enhanced Small Sphere: Axe Equipped to spawn? I know there are a few in the largeer cave below. They're sparser, but I see more enhanced units down there, so there might a higher enhanced enemy chance there. I've gotten 5 Enhanced Small Sphere: Drill Equipped machines to spawn on my reglar route already.
Eli Sanders
At that point in the game, I would ignore all quests and just follow the main quest.
Colton Hall
I just found out that A2, despite wearing very little, also has clothes destruction. When you use berserker mode, the small cloth covering her stomach is blown off. She has a cute bellybutton.
Cameron Sanders
Holy shit, this is great. Thanks.
Ayden Williams
Note that it says eagle egg has a good chance of spawning. This is not true. I believe though, that on your first visit to Aerie Village, one will spawn some below the mayor's house guaranteed. I'd get it as soon as possible.
Nathan Foster
It's not
Owen Perez
No these are just different pair of twins
Brayden Roberts
In Nier will there be a better method to collect materials later than digging around in the dirt every ten feet?
Jordan Parker
Since Forest Kingdom was built on top of Aerie (you get eagle eggs as items in there), the desert was once Facade Kingdom, where would the original village and the trading village be now?
Yea you get autoloot chip later on where items fly into you
Samuel Rogers
Oh and the abandoned factory was once the abandoned factory
Austin Evans
Doing this quest like…
Caleb Nguyen
refused to use it, short/longsword or double fists is more fun
Robert Williams
I think part of Façade is in that are where you find those flat short rooftops don't know where the others are also what the fuck, is the red eye thing still going after 9000+ years and why are androids/machines affected by it?
John Russell
If you meant some curse in Drakengard, I've beaten Ending C and all I know is that its caused by an entity of the automata universe
Liam Ward
Try hitting the rabbit statue in the amusement park
Brody Barnes
you gotta hit him for like 3 minutes straight now just a handful of times
Caleb Lee
aint even right
Ian Flores
I was reading grimnoir nier and then it hit me how similar it is to the legion and the red eyes
Joshua Hall
speed star is a cheating bitch.
Thomas Nelson
For challenge 3, have speed chip +6, speed salve large then free fall from building and just run to the finish line. Even then you you're suppose to beat him within a milisecond
Elijah James
just before you posted this i managed to best him with a movement speed+4 and some speed salve, i checked a youtube video and if you dodge/jump/dodge/glide off the initial building you get a way better lead
Carter Wright
How the fuck
Jayden Turner
Oh I thought glide is slower than free falling
Sebastian Harris
this is the video i used to learn the trick, free fall is fast but recovering from impact isn't
Jackson Bell
I was lucky enough to find it (and here I thought I spent all "lucky points" fishing the pipe at first try and Pod B without even expecting it) but still stuck running in circles for the third artifact. I'm trying really hard to not go "fuck it! gonna YT this shit" as I did for the Virtuous bracers then felt like a stupid asshole for not realizing I could walk over that part.
Landon White
I understand he lost the meaning of its life but that other one was just waving a flag, he didn't have to die
Xavier Jenkins
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Luke Moore
judging by the dialogue flag guy exploded for a laugh
Brayden Phillips
m8 it took me three hours to beat the first mission on hard.
Robert Ramirez
nah man his unit data says he "awakened to a calm within himself" and he was "satisfied with his life" :^)
Austin Wilson
>can equip the battlesuit whenever i want now this is even better than that fat ass
Jayden Murphy
IN NIER
Andrew Jenkins
It took me two tries. One to realize you die in two hits, and the other to not get hit more than once at once because the tutorial is shit easy.
Sebastian Barnes
what happens when you beat the game on very hard mode?
Isaiah Allen
Nothing. I don't actually know, will try when I finish Unit Data and Fishing. Probably nothing. There's no achievement for it.
I need three fish, Arowana Machine, Killifish Machine, and Beetle Fish. I am fishing for them in the shallow forest river downstream, the pond outside the resistance, and the Oasis respectively.
I need two machines. The Enhanced Small Sphere: Axe Equipped, and the EMP Small Biped. I am searching for them in the cave before the ayylmaos and fucking everywhere in chapter 11 respectively.
Is there anything I can possibly do differently that might remotely improve my chances of finding these little shits?
Aiden Sanchez
i think you find arrowana deep underground, in the little pool you find on the way to emils house. killifish machine is really common i'm surprised you haven't got it yet
Oliver Butler
It's neat to see consequences for what you do in not so expected ways, like after you do those combat trials for Jackass and turns those two androids into addicts from the drug she made from the results.
Justin Torres
I find arowana in various places. The pool, the forest rivers, the oasis. No machines though.
Jaxon Richardson
Only Partway through the Third playthrough, and I have to say, fuck the 9S sections, he is my absolute least favorite to play is, even with all of my OP chips and being overleveled as fuck fighting with him is tedious as hell and his hacking minigame is either teeth grittingly hard or boringly easy
Jordan Hall
git gud
Michael Bell
I have user, like I said, most of them are either too hard or too easy, it's not fun, it's just tedious both ways.
Joseph Butler
DO YOU GIVE UP HERE? DO YOU THINK GAMES ARE SILLY LITTLE THINGS? DO YOU ADMIT THERE IS NO MEANING TO THIS WORLD?
taro you fucking madman
Jack Price
git gud
Eli Adams
Anyone else feel like the Chip fusing system is broken as fuck? IIRC the vendor in the robo-village sells EXP Gain +1 chips that you can buy and fuse so long as you have enough money, by my third playthrough I'm almost 10 levels ahead of all the enemies.
Gavin Davis
In Nier Automata, can we agree Ending U is the best ending?
Isaac Cruz
can i brute force my way through the credits bullet hell or is it attempting to force me to connect to network?
Ayden Turner
You can try but it will keep forcing it and it's next to impossible. But don't let me stop you, aim for the stars user.
Zachary Torres
so it is possible to beat it then.
marketing division is my true final boss
Anthony Lee
Sure, maybe, good luck I guess.
Brayden Green
DID THEY PATCH IT SO IT WORKS WELL ON PC YET?
specs: 970 i5 @4.5GHz 16Gb RAM SSD
Joseph Ortiz
did the pc version got cracked already?
Blake Nguyen
This is some bullshit! Why can't I join the cult ? They got a kick ass theme and everything. BECOME AS GODS! BECOME AS GODS!
Camden Williams
Even without the exp chips, overleveling is a problem
Jaxon Walker
>accidentally connect to network during battle credits holy shit that was magical
Landon Martinez
whats wrong on pc? I played 8 hours already and everything is fine
Juan Moore
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Luke Nguyen
>THANK YOU FOR PLAYING
i hadn't even finished all the sidequests yet but i don't regret my choice
Tyler Jenkins
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Owen Stewart
I'm preparing for very hard. Do reset chips work on that mode, and if so, what the fuck drops them? I've done 99% of everything and I've only naturally come across a +1 and a +3, both non-diamond, and both as sidequest rewards.
Jaxon Sanchez
Oh shit, I finally found out what one of my favorite epic themes in Automata was. Why did it take me so long to find it?
Because it was a goddamn REMIX! I was only looking for new song titles!
I don't know what's more shameful: not recognizing this, or not IMMEDIATELY recognizing that Emil sings his shop theme to the tune of "Emil."
Mason Hall
Does anyone know what the reward is for completing the arcade? I've only completed 32 rounds because I'm scrub who sucks at bullet hell. I do think it would be much easier with keyboard and mouse.
Brandon Ortiz
so Nier and yet so far guys amiright? x)
what is your opinion on rimjobs?
Aaron Sanchez
Made it up to 38 now, and with a lot of luck. Unless this gives something amazing, I'm probably not gonna do it. Every other reward it's given has been trash.
Carson Lewis
Just finished 2B's part. IMHO that last bit could have been stretched out a bit more. You go on crazy cult adventures with Pascal and then the part's finale gets dropped like a bomb with Eve basically pulling a Leeroy Jenkins. "Thumbs up, let's do this!" Doesn't help I was 7 levels over the part's end boss and I've got about 5 quests that weren't finished plus 2 failed and whatever else I missed.
Ayden Davis
lel
Benjamin Perez
Did you take damage just before the revealing scene? That sounds like Auto-Heal chip in effect.
Hudson Parker
must have the auto heal chip Didn't even realize I had it
Christian Rodriguez
Who was the chucklefuck at Platinum that thought no lock on was a good idea for hard mode? Did none of them ever play the shit show that was DmC?
I want something harder than normal, but I don't want half the difficulty to come from the fact that I have to break my hands clawing the controller 24/7.
Austin Allen
git gud, i played through normal with lockon turned off just so i could remap the button to something else
Robert Turner
And before someone says it, I get that lock on makes your drone shots over powered. But they should have balanced the strength of the drone instead of using the lazy band-aid fix of removing a feature that's considered essential for action games.
Daniel Kelly
Lock on sucks ass though. It makes your drone hit your target 50% of the time. Just get the auto heal, spam drone fire, and dodge if you're so shit at video games.
Luis Brooks
kek just play with kb+mouse faggot, no problem there
Nathan Jenkins
Clawing?
Jonathan Campbell
This really, things went straight to 11, hopefully they explain it more in the other paths
They did a kickass job on the soundtrack for the game, everything fit perfectly
Carson Flores
Ending A should have cut off before the blinking started.
Chase Sanders
How do you triple jump, is there a guide out there that I'm missing?
Nathan Russell
I know there's a special move where you get the pod to toss you forward. I think it was (Pod Program) + (Jump), but I never used it enough to be sure I was getting the input right. Hell, I think it mostly happened on accident to me. Also don't know how well it works with a double jump, if it does at all.
Matthew Rogers
Just started with 9S and so far, kudos to them for this not being the same game with a different character but I get feeling that the hacking will get tiresome quickly. I can already tell it does a lot of padding. Still, the start is fantastic. You control a stubby who goes pick a bucket of oil to give a dead biped he's calling brother and as I carried the bucket, I tripped on a pipe and spilled the whole thing. I never asked for these feels. Anyway, there's a few things here and there so I wager 9S's part will provide more context.
From what I gathered, to get the most height you hit Heavy right as you jump to do a launcher, then use the Mirage pod program and then jump again.
Pod fling is pod fire + jump. Took me its sweet time to remember that one from the demo.
Bentley Williams
I had a brief moment of rage when 8-4 killed me
Tyler Johnson
40 gives simple gadgets and some other stuff I think
Ryder Morris
Just played drakengard for the first time It's fucking ace combat with dragons
Why isn't this getting more games?
Juan James
Excellent game lads
Zachary Smith
on PC? Check the steam page and the thread we had yesterday. It's awful. Framerate sucks, crashes for AMD users, can't go above 720 because it just stretches everything beyond that, saves sometimes won't save. Were you living under a rock? It's bad.
Camden Gray
DID SOMEBODY SAY
ART DUMP?
Ryan Davis
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Daniel Parker
It's Musou where you can can travel on a Z axis. Musou sucks to begin with, it's a dumb button masher.
Blake Peterson
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Brody King
D&C shill
Landon Foster
Because the other 2 are much worse You might still want to play the second one for a few select moments though
Colton Lewis
How am I a D&C shill? Do you even know what that means? The game didn't work for a lot of people.
Has the PC version been patched to work yet
John Cruz
But he's right the PC port shouldn't be tolerated for being that shit.
Brayden Gonzalez
During the Grun fight I spontaneously retarded and fucking forgot how to shoot and beat it just spamming spinny sword. I didn't even know you could use spin sword to cleave through dark bullets on previous fliers.
Yeah chips are a lot of fun, running full on ranged attack now for a break and just blasting shit to pieces I LOVE HACKING
Jordan Lewis
Fullscreen crashes. A lot.
Jackson Miller
KYS. He's right. That doesn't mean the purchase is a bad one. Just wait until shit gets patched or bear through it. This is coming fro, someone who gets crashed and white screen of death on an Nividia driver. The fucking game keeps crashing it under the right conditions.
Carson Taylor
I miss him, Holla Forums
Oliver Thomas
AhahahaHAHAHAHAHA The kicker is that at 1600x900, "optimized" is right at the middle.
Kevin Garcia
has automata been a disappointment for anyone else? i expect MGR with a good story but it's pretty shit in nearly all aspects. ugly/empty/poorly designed environments, fragmented clusterfuck of a story, and extremely watered down combat. i remember hyrule warriors having more variety in a single weapon/character than even 2 automata types. difficulty is non existant.. any time you get hit you just pause and heal to full with unlimited and cheap consumables or slot some healing chips. this was supposed to be my goty but it's worse than just about every 60 dollar title ive played in a year or two. the music is great I guess
Kayden Brooks
I just spent a fucking hour fighting those giant bronze robots then the game goes to white screen, wiping out all the fucking progress I made. I mad.
John Diaz
You get into a groove with it after a while and you take a ton of damage off the enemy with it too, so it's worth it. Playing as 9S after 2B was terrible, though, as there's only one weapon and one combo for it.
That said, I hope you get used to the hacking since YOU BETTER
Jack Nelson
I prefer A2 to 2B honestly, but I've always been more of an Ara~ man and A2 is basically like 2B but older, if that makes sense.
ACCORD is still best waifu though.
WHY WAS ACCORD NOT IN THIS GAME? IT IS LITERALLY ALL ABOUT ANDROIDS!
Hudson Gonzalez
Beat them just now. Courageous Brother and Giant Gold Bipod.
Asher Perez
i found a weapon shop flyer with her name on it in the canyon but that's all i found
Camden Murphy
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Joshua Wood
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Charles Young
she is mentioned by the weapons shop seller in the first rebel camp. He says he gets his stock from accord, implying the weapons in the game are also pan-dimensional.
Jaxon Flores
I'm assuming you're only on Playthrough 1, the story is nothing special till at least Playthrough 3 and the last 3 endings, which are amazing
Isaac Hernandez
So I've gotten all endings in nier automata but I still dont understand who the aliens were. It just seems outlandish even for the drakengard/nier lore
Henry Myers
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Caleb Cruz
a2's hot as shit and too underrated. There's barely any art of her compared to 2b.
Julian Diaz
How do you pet the pod on the PC?
Julian Thompson
Does Emil only sell shit like the weapons and accessories at certain points in the story or do you just have to reload until you get lucky?
Lucas Hernandez
how does one get that fucking pod that I hear always in the forest? Please don't tell me you actually have to fish for it
Levi Peterson
:^)
He will randomly be taking one of three different routes. Each route has two sets of items you can buy from that chosen at random each time you talk to him. Just keep talking to him until sells the other shit. The best stuff is on the route where he becomes sanic.
Just keep looking.
Jaxon Cooper
I bet you think you're really fucking clever.
Camden Lee
It's possible to pet the pod in the PC version, but I only triggered it once on accident and I have no idea how to do it properly
Justin Wood
Shake your mouse a bit.
Aaron Diaz
It took me an embarrassing amount of attempts to get this one
Nathaniel Baker
That seems like it could get annoying.
Jordan Brooks
Anyone have a link to the soundtrack?
Henry Gray
Are you retarded and/or blind?
Asher Cox
I never read OPs so the former.
Jose Wilson
That's new to me. What are the moves after the launcher? Just a couple of lights?
Understatement of the year.
How do you interact with the pod like that?
John Thompson
The OP is the first game's soundtrack. I'll just go look it up :^)
Aiden Foster
Finally.
Adam Stewart
So how the fuck do you pet the pod on PC?
Jonathan Thompson
You boys need to learn how to read
Matthew Garcia
Ok how the fuck I get good at this game? How the fuck do I kill this faggot? I just got him stun locked in factory why can't you allow me to do it again?
Is it like crazhee games that I should just try so fucking hard I actually will manage to dodge every single of his attacks? Should I just accept that I will get fucked by getting out of position two attacks before that and I will need perfect timing either way?
Also awesome game if they will port other games by Moonman I am getting into them.
Like double tapping to dodge? I can see that happening.
Read nigga.
Joseph Young
Shit, last was meant for
Christopher Watson
Shoot him until he loses his shield then keep breaking his legs so that he's constantly getting stunned and once he's in his ball form just hit him once.
Connor Hughes
…but I'm a lowly Bloodstation peasant, user. That said, I could have googled that shit as I just did.
I just shot that thing to death since you can't touch the water. The bomb pod program made short work of it. Then again, I finished the first part quite overleveled.
Landon Williams
Oh so you can do stun lock him. I assumed hitting his legs had nothing to do with it but well. I am turning off Don't Lose Your Way. There will be no training montage of my playthrough.
Also any solution to double tapping to dodge? Or shit's fucked?
Kevin Brooks
Yeah, but how do you pet the pod on PC with a controller?
Sebastian Sanders
I will not answer your question solely because how I envy your dodge button.
Adam Garcia
Yes, on hard mode you basically need frame-perfect dodging.
Also got ps4 import but want PC, crack when?
Kayden Hill
A2 with glasses is cute.
Lincoln Young
Okay so I got the blue and pink ribbons from doing the robot sister side quest, what did you do to get the glasses?
Christian Miller
There's a ladder in the building across from the one you land on at the beginning. You can use the ladder to go to the roof on route C/D
Tyler Johnson
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Blake Harris
The fuck did you expect? It got on PC two days ago.
Alexander Gray
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Lincoln Johnson
I expected a Nier Automata PC thread like we have had for the past 2 days instead of just taking over an OG Nier thread.
Owen Edwards
Shit's fucked, getting a controller is the only solution.
Caleb Taylor
Oh shit I am retarded. There is a Nier Automata thread. It just doesn't have it in the title because the OP is also a retard.
Carter Harris
This shit is wrong. Bon Appetite does have unique companion dialogue. Is this thing even worth following? Is there not simply a list of the quests that aren't worth your time?
Caleb Long
God damnit, I tried, I fucking tried to finish this game but the awful side quests and the terrible combat cant keep me motivated to end the game. I have just given up after the eye ball boss from the Aerie and I cant say im regretful, I respect YT but this game is awful and no matter how many lovable characters and nice mysteries it throws at me I cant stomach finishing this tripe.
Thank god another dev was in charge of the gameplay in Automata.
Gabriel Garcia
>all the children of the machine village kill themselves Goddammit Yoko Taro.
Easton Baker
The lock-on makes your drone shots have huge bullet spread. Half the time you're better off aiming manually since manual fire always goes in a straight line. That's a non-isuue for Pod B, though.
Mason Cox
Requesting that picture of a red-eyed machine captioned with "THIS CANNOT CONTINUE"
Adrian Fisher
apparently if you erade pascals memories after that you can get a weapon later, i chose the opposite choice because it seemed more in character for A2
Jack Brooks
i thought the new ones were cute, but i might just be thinking that because they weren't fucking everything up
Christopher Myers
I walked out without making a choice.
Owen Sanchez
is automata like the first nier where you have to collect all weapons to get the true ending?
Elijah Cruz
No.
Christian Davis
what happens when you do that?
Colton Collins
kinda the same question
Jeremiah Martinez
Pascal calls you a monster and some other stuff, try it.
Camden King
Or, if you're at ending B+ you can Hijack a robot to remote control it, kill every other hostile robot in the area, and hack into the big statue to activate it. It's actually the best way to farm EXP in the game.
Chase Bennett
Ok ending A achieved on normal while being 6lv under the boss. Eve took me about 30-50 tries as I preferred to die instead of using healing items. Now I am fucking ready for hard. Fuck every faggot who will call me a casual, I am getting myself as over leveled as possible.
James Thompson
How good is the pc port?
Elijah Moore
Pretty basic, but it should be good if they decide to patch the obvious bugs.
Hudson Davis
Double tap to dodge. Some technical difficulties. It is not most optimized game ever seen. Double tap to dodge on keyboard, for fuck sake. Your finger gets tired after you keep firing with shift for over 2h.
It is good, but not perfect. Stuff they haven't thought right now can be easily patched, by which I mean double tapping to dodge.
Ethan Nguyen
Shouldn't be an issue if you're playing with a controller.
Jonathan Collins
Would you say it's demanding?
Carter Perez
I get around 30-50 FPS on 960, using medium-low. So it pretty much follows what it says at steam page.
Carson Gray
Consoles don't use DirectX fam
Zachary Moore
When replaying the shmup segments at the beginning of the game, all the enemies scale to your level, but for regular gameplay, they do not on any difficulty. Fucking why? Why was this not an option for the entire game?
Don't do it. Overleveling is a severe problem.
Caleb Watson
It will make game too easy of shrump part will be impossible?
Chase King
i noticed this when replaying the boss fight in the ocean the other night, the bosses weak points were all at like level 10 but the enemies were level 75 and took more hits to break than the boss
the goliath flier didn't scale and it died before it could even fire a shot
Henry Miller
Seriously, who's fucking idea was this? Taro is a bad vidya designer, he needs a better half to stop stupid shit like this.
Ayden Wright
Game too easy, the shump parts will be fine, since they scale to your level while nothing else does for no explicable reason.
Lucas White
Can someone show me the exact room where the enhanced version of the enhanced legpower goliath is in the lower abandoned factory? I don't want to reload for an hour then realize i was in the wrong place.
Matthew Evans
nevermind :^)
Jayden Cooper
yeah i dunno if I can tolerate another x mashing playthrough even if there's some hacking minigame to break it up
Henry Long
Trust me mister quadsman, you'll be excited for part 3.
Josiah Russell
welp, refunding. can't argue with those quads.
Brody Perez
already spoiled myself on most of the game's twists and plot points from this thread and others so there's not much point
Gabriel Perry
I noticed that at the beginning of 9S's part and thought it was just some coincidence that we happened to be at the same level but then the rest happened. That said, 9S does take ages to kill anything unless you hack it which, in turn, decimates anything. Took the golden enemies in a couple of minutes while with 2B I had to wail on them for almost 20 minutes. Special enemies are absurdly resilient and everything else goes down too fast. It's Dragon's Dogma all over again, all right. I'd say one might ask P* to patch enemy scaling in but they're deathly allergic to the concept of touching a game after it's released.
Side note, pod pats is terrible on the PS4. The input overlaps with a alternative menu open.
Jack Bell
Holy shit. Is that The Foot Slam from End All?
Tyler Walker
rub the pad, don't press it
Chase Foster
I might get there with practice. It was the same thing with GR2 and there the touch pad actually matters.
Something I forgot asking - is it common for other players' bodies to always be on the same place? I couldn't help but notice that.
Owen Bell
another player sent me a message letting them know it was my data that saved them
nier automata is the crowning achievement of mankind
Joshua Foster
Did you save scum?
Grayson White
nope i willfully gave my save file to the greater good even though i still had quests i wanted to do
Joseph Foster
You fool! I bet having more to sacrifice lets you help more people! And that is why I must 100% unit data and fishing and then beat the game in one clean run on very hard!
Joshua Robinson
i'm letting my roommate borrow the game now but when he's done i'm gonna go back to seek 100% proper like
Ayden Ross
Have fun reusing the scanner fucking everywhere.
Jackson Williams
i don't look forward to doing heritage to the past again
Carson Russell
But don't already know where all the stuff is? At least you should be aware that there's nothing of value in the middle of the empty desert areas.
Carter Baker
the phoenix spear is hidden somewhere out there, i found it on my first run just scanning as i went about my business
Dominic Reyes
Well I remember the general location of it, and it's really easy to find. Definitely not in the middle of the open desert.
Isaiah Wilson
Is this what it means to get Moon Man'd? That feeling that I'm not ready for what's to come?