/srwg/ Super Robot Wars General #1136

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>>14834278
This is how Kusuha knocks Bullet unconscious for love making without his spaghetti

Are there any scans for the Alpha Gaiden perfect bible? Alpha 1's in the pastebin, but those stats aren't the same as the ones in Gaiden.

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>Getting Burn nets me Attacker
Now this is a difficult choice.

Are the powerpuff girls human, fury, or hybrid? I only played Calvina's route in J, and not very far either, and I don't remember them talking about that. I just know that Touya's dad rescued them. Is there anything else interesting about their backstory?

>>14834404
Filthy crossbred hybrid scum.

>>14834404
Human in J, MD made them half-fury

>>14834390
Personally I tend to give Attacker to non main characters who use really good units but don't have the power multipliers like Burn or Moritsugu

>>14834390
I don't think I've used any of those special items in UX, since they're one-time-only kind of deals.

>>14834428
You can always reset your items every playthrough.

>>14834408
>>14834412
Any info about their parentage in MD, (which parent was fury? Was the human parent a willing participant?)? In J, were they kidnapped and used for experiments? What exactly do they do as sub-pilots?


>>14834431
Does that unequip skill parts and put them in your inventory, or does it delete all of them, but let's you get the unique items again?

>>14834443
Unequips all parts and returns them to you, when you do that in one of the later runs you end up with a hilarious amount of parts that keeps getting added to since outside of the secret parts you keep getting new copies of all the others.

>>14834420
Reiji doesn't particularly need it, he has Soul and his attacking power is nearly as good as Linebarrel (he's actually got the third best final damage of a unit from that show - Linebarrel wins by 600 with its maxed partner bonus at 15 but has Hot Blood, so the only two better are Juda and Tsukuyomi - and Tsukuyomi ONLY at 15 and with maxed partner bonuses).

>>14834453
You seem to think I play with big numbers in mind Matt, otherwise I'd just put everything on Demonbane and have him solo the game.

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Still waiting on that SRW announcement.

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I swear this game gets more and more fucked as it goes along

>>14834469
I seem to remember that being a glitch caused by the patch.

>>14834469
Gideon is a hack fraud.

>>14834459
What is that? Looks fairly recent.

>>14834420
I was actually going to give it to Arnie since he's always there. Or one of the weaker main characters without a damage modifier.

>>14834474
that's what I'm assuming, or it could be the game continuing to conspire against me, or penance for trying to cheat, which didn't even work and corrupted my save file, luckily I had a back up

>>14834480
That is also a good choice, Arnie has no modifiers and since he starts autodeploying a quite bit in the later stages I'd say also give him an All Attack if you don't plan on combining him outside of boss fights.

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please tell me that the GX being activated is a good thing, please don't kick my ass even more

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>>14834479
Regalia.

>>14834481
Did you get Archibald's fix?

>>14834459
Regalia, no? The pose also looks like Zeorymer.

>>14834500
don't think so, I just grabbed the ver 1.2 iso off emuparadise

>>14834502
From the latest episode, yeah.

I am about to smack Tetsuya, you'd think Kenzo would put some common sense into the boy's head jesus christ.

>>14834497
It is for Garrod.

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Threadly reminder

eternitychan.org is back up and you should make use of it.

SRWE Thread >>14800628
Game Translation >>14820090

FF14 is also a terrible game. Never forget this.

>>14834459
I hope it never happens.

>>14834499
...So you're "still waiting" on an announcement for a CURRENTLY AIRING SHOW?

Well, ok, if you want your show to be really fucking shitty, sure.

>>14834556
Silly Mattman, it'll be long since done by the time any SRW featuring it would come out anyway.

>>14834408
Better than inbred

IN THE FIIIIIIRE

BREAK IT DOWN

YOU GIVE LOOOOVE A BAD NAME

>>14834556
The comment was clearly made in jest. I'm not sure why you would approach it so seriously.

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even if I don't have the MK III Gunner, I've got the next best thing

>>14834556
>if you want your show to be really fucking shitty, sure.
It doesn't need help with that to be quite frank.

Least it still has it's great fight scenes.

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why is the enemy fighting in a terrain they have a B in?

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Hey, here's a sight for sore eyes

>>14834637
>Level 36
>100 SP
Those were the days, huh? In K it's something fucking horrendous like 40->138.

>>14834595
More like a hybrid between the Geant Chevelier and the Dea Blancheneige.

>>14834764
The hell is hybrid about the Dendrobium? Its attacks include missiles, explosives, whatever weapons the mech inside can use without getting out, big beam sabers, and big beam cannons.

Unless you're intentionally being dumb.

>>14834744
>Those were the days, huh?
Indeed they were.
Although I don't miss the bullshit SR points requirements.
Like why would you make it entirely dependant on RNG?

>>14834783
Specific examples, please?

>>14834791
Anything involving uncontrollable NPCs comes to mind.

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>>14834791
Make sure none of the ZAFT units get shot down in this stage.

>>14834791
THE TRANSIENT FACTS in Alpha 3 is pure RNG as memory serves.

Outside of MD's NPC skill points, which do still involve some manner of skill for the most part, I think the most recent bit of RNG requirement was for the Shouko secret in UX - and it follows an RNG issue that's been around the block a few times prior, where you have to fight really dodgy foes with non-accurate allies.

>>14834795
Valid point.

>>14834800
I beat that stage without the ZAFT units ever getting attacked, every time I took that route, across 10 playthroughs. The trick is to split up your team.

>>14834779
>>14834764
you're both wrong since it predates both the Geant and the Dea, if anything they're based on it

>Third New Game+ run of MD
>Played Space Route on the second run, so why not revisit the Land Route
>Fully upgrades both the Kaiser and the Soulsaber and their weapons by stage 2
>Forgot about stage 3
Fuck me.

>>14834817
What does that have to do with the Dendrobium being Real or Super?

>>14834830
Who said anything about it being real or super?

>>14834822
I hope you didn't overwrite your clear save.

>>14834744
I actually kind of don't mind Banpresto chopping SP counts down since back then you got to spam spirits with impunity due to huge SP pools and small costs.

>>14834791
stage 17 Fort Severn in @G is pretty fucking luck based
>First time getting these units back since the Neo Granzon
>units are, GP01, GM Custom, GM Cannon II, Raideen, shitty Raideen plane, Turn A(which isn't going to reach any enemies in time), two renamed Zaku IIs and two Kapools
>Beat all enemies in 5 turns
if an enemy targets the plane and isn't in the water? you're not getting the skill point, if an enemy targets a unit out of countering range? you're not getting the skill point, enemies gang up on the kapools? you're not getting the skill point. Supports are your fucking friends in this stage

>>14834855
And nowadays it just never feels like it's worth spending SP aside from the most extreme of circumstances or burning through battleship subpilot SP on Cheer/Bless.

>>14834822
Hello, me. Somehow I managed to get through that with vulcans and separation antics for Kaiser, but it was hell.

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Alright who should I dump my ill gotten gains into?
Kira is already FUB'd

>>14834855
But the can go to hell for nerfing Soul.
I mean really what was wrong with 2.5x damage for 50 SP?

>>14834872
Was it basically you quick saving after every successful "kill"?

>>14834868
>>14834855
boy I don't know about you but I'd sure love to have some good SP point pools in @G, because running out is all too common when uo against dodgy enemies

>>14834882
Yes we get it @G is a bitch.
But that's nothing compared to the bullshit 3 and F/Final will pull.

>>14834868
The SP costs in MD felt fair enough. Valor/Soul should be taking huge chunks of your SP if you want to break them out.

>>14834875
Ask the guy in FMW who thought that 1.5x Valor for 45 SP and no criticals was a good idea in the same game with Ryouma's ace and Precision Attack as personal skils.

On a normal SRW related note, dropping Soul to 2.2 while keeping Valor at 2x was dumb. When Soul was 2.5x, it allowed the reals to hit just as hard as the supers in exchange for eating up a bigger chunk of their relatively smaller SP pools. At least nerf Valor if you're going to nerf Soul.

>>14834879
More or less. I was fortunate to be able to lower all the smaller grunts to the right HP with vulcans, those that went after SoulSaber anyway, so it was left to figuring something out with two of those left and the two heftier grunts that gun more directly for Kaiser.

Pretty sure I eventually managed to gun the weaker grunts down and then combine a vulcan attack with the weakest G Thundergate attack to do it.

>>14834894
I'm seriously gonna have to remember those stages once I start up my Special Mode run. Because you better fucking believe I'll forget and invest 15 bars of weapons on some people

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Oh christ almighty

>tfw you got all skill points and the G-Bits in your only run through Alpha Gaiden
get on my level you fucking plebmaesters

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So, does anyone have any tips on beating this monstrosity? Any and all suggestions are welcome

>>14834900
Don't forget there's another "reduce, don't kill" stage about five more levels down. At least the Fury grunts are more solid and more likely to not die from your power, though.

>>14834917
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzxtlP78vc

>>14834944
If this is the first time you're seeing him, IIRC you stay the fuck away and wait like two turns.

>>14834989
That would have been the smart thing to do, but I was never one for that, and took him head on, managed to make him retreat. but when he shows up later he'll probably kick my ass

A King's Love is for His _____.

Is Burn good in UX or am I better off dumping Marvel in the Zwarth? Deployment sports are kind of tightish since i'm still dragging along the Fafner guys for getting secret kills.

>>14835056
Burn's good, but Marvel has both Aura Power AND Holy Warrior, so the Zwarth is better served with her.

>>14834946
Man I find literally all versions of this song great EXCEPT the for OG version. They really need to update the themes in the next game.

>>14835046
Debt?

Alright, /srwg/, Yon and Shana-Mia have challenged you to a battle to the death; however, to keep it from being a 2-on-1, they've decided to combine to form ShYona-MiYon.
You've got your pick of any OG to combine with in order to fight against the most dangerous foe yet. Who will it be?

>>14835071
If only I had a second copy of Attacker to pass over to him.

>>14835090
Giganspada

>>14835090
Any form that involves Mekibos. The Yon part of that combination will kill herself before she harms her master.

>>14835090
>You've got your pick of any OG to combine with

How lewd.

>>14835090
If I pick Ryusei do I also get the entire SRX team to combine with?

>>14835090
can I combine with ShYona-MiYon?

>>14835073
Really? I feel the other way around, in that I find the older versions to lack the "oomph" of the newer one.

Especially the opening riff - the old ones just sound too monotone to me.

>Jin and Ayul actually use the pair system
Huh

Its fun fighting nega Arnie and Saya though.

>>14835114
I honestly wonder if they're gonna kill them off in OG

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>>14835110
It's a technicality, but I'll allow it.

>>14834893
>At least nerf Valor if you're going to nerf Soul.
1.7x Valor represent

>>14835090
I'd have melted from cuteness overload before the fight even starts anyway.

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Didn't he die in @2?
Oh god is Divinidad going to show up?

>>14835046
Theme Song.

>>14835120
Either they'll kill him so Masaya Matsukaze won't ever be allowed to live to the credit roll in OG, or they won't kill him so that he can be in OG again.

>>14835264
Incidentally, another Jeeg episode got released.
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=858909

>>14835264
IIRC Jeeg in Alpha 2 only went up to Himika's death, so if the actual main villain revived the old ones... Well, he's supposed to be someone big in the underworld (possibly the ruler, possibly not, Hades existing in Alphaverse makes it hard to tell.).

Of course, why Jeeg got more plot on the premise of "they didn't kill a major villain" while Getter Robo didn't makes little sense to me, but oh well.

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Its a shame that she's stuck with Jin who went from hothead to someone's who's been reading too many books on how to be a chuuni.

>>14835289
It's a shame she's stuck in that robot.

I like the concept, but its actual appearance and its attack slate are bleh.

>>14835287
Now that I think about it.
The Hyakki Empire hasn't shown up at all.
Actually Matt how many games have the Hyakki Empire appeared in?

I think I've cooled down about @G, its not a bad game so far but it just throws a lot of bullshit at you when it comes to Skill Points, when I was really bitching earlier I was on the stage where you have to shoot down Dante within 6 turns and it takes 6 turns for Great and Dancouga to even reach him. Is the game gonna ease up on the skill points at some point?

>>14835295
She's just not! Saya so I don't mind the robot.

>>14835289
Jin didn't go all that chuuni, though.

>>14835295
Just wait for OG when Jin and Ayul unlock a !Shin Shine Spark combo.

>>14835296
As in Getter G?

Uh, A, R, C1, C2/Impact, 64, MX, Z, they had grunts in the Classics, and, uh... I think there was one other. Technically C3 had Kouchoki and Tekkoki, but they were it so it doesn't count.

They're not in Alpha 3. Neither is Grendizer, despite Alpha 2 ending with Kouji going to America to study UFOs. Instead make way for Gundam Seed!

>>14835305
More like they'll get !Odyssea instead so Arnie/Jin can get a combo attack to btfo Kali Yuga.

>>14834556
Regaliafags are obnoxious crybabies who only care about PWETTY ANAMUTIONS

Of course they think their garbage should take priorty over stuff like Exodus, G-Reco, Thunderbolts,IBO, MJP, Akito, Bubuki, etc.

>>14835311
Fucking please Banpresto a combination would do so much for those two machines.

>>14835311
I fucking wish.
I can't even begin to describe how I'd react if OG gives us recruitable Jin and Ayul as well as a Final UX Special.

>>14835324
>>14835318
Too bad we'll have to wait another 10 or so years before UX gets around to OG. Granted Banpresto could surprise us and knock out two handhelds at a time from now on.

>>14835264
>Oh god is Divinidad going to show up?
Well considering Crossbones isn't in @3....

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Oh for fucks sake.
Who else is alive?
The fucking Gaiking antagonist?
Gato?
Haman?

>>14835359
You got at least two right

>>14835359
All the Angels come back from the dead FOR NO REASON just for more boss fights

>>14835297
>Is the game gonna ease up on the skill points at some point?
Well I don't know how to say this but Acquire Superiority

>>14835359
Heinel from Voltes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSbQraVbLo

>>14835297
Oh goddammit.
So I have to kill Karl again?

>>14835359
Now to be fair, Shapiro actually did come back to life in Blazing Epilogue.

>>14835371
Heinel never died. He lived Alpha 1 canonically and also canonically was around for the last stage of Alpha 2 with Richter.

Their luck ends in this game.

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>92% hit rate on enemy
>it dodges

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>>14835391

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The biggest boner killer about this entire ordeal is that Citra doesn't play the upgrade theme properly.

>>14835391
>>14835395
Its not 92 is not 100% and 1% is not 0. Of course no one ever complains when the opposite happens and you land that 42% hit or that 2% crit. So fair's fair.

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>>14835391

>>14835399
Funny you posted that, it's FE that I was playing. Ninjas and dolls are assholes.

>>14834893
>1.5x Valor for 45 SP
To be fair, most people don't have to pay that much for it.

>Ryouma's ace
Which isn't meant to replace valor. It's meant to be stacked on top of valor to deal absolutely silly amounts of damage, because hitting like a runaway freight train is kind of Flan's entire gimmick.

>>14835410
>because hitting like a runaway freight train is kind of Flan's entire gimmick.
And Marisa's gimmick as well.

>>14835398
A 2% critical rate in SRW is abnormally-low and probably means you're way under the enemy's level or you're a character with shit stat growth either overall or on your Skill stat, or the weapon has a negative crit modifier. Or some combination of the above.

>>14835410
Well she kind of needs to hit stupidly hard considering that she has no durability and uses up EN as bad as a unit from K.

But really, Valor/Wrath/Triumph ought to get revised in FMW4. It would benefit both the weaker characters and let Flan cleanly claim her spot as hardest hitter.

>>14835423
Its more than likely an exaggeration on his part. Since when people whine about 1% crit, they're bitching about FE.

>>14835423
>A 2% critical rate in SRW is abnormally-low

In a modern context. In older games, it happens a lot more often with weapons at 0+ Crit.

>>14835461
The old games had a higher multiplier for critical hits, so the rates had to be lowered to compensate for that. It's just that it was in the hands of, you know, Winkysoft.

>>14835472
Right, but even after those days ended it happened sometimes.

I've done fairly extensive crit testing in GC because of the annoyance of getting Skill Ace for some pilots. Most enemies beat you in terms of Skill for a rather long span of levels, so if your weapon is 0 Crit it sometimes will literally just not be able to crit, or have insanely low odds.

>>14835414
And Youmu. Although Youmu doesn't have Soul yet so she's stuck dealing so so damage instead of being one of the best.

>>14835453
>Wrath/Triumph
What are these two supposed to be again? I'm guessing one of them is Fighting Spirit and Soul doesn't exist yet...

>>14835489
Wrath/Fighting Spirit iirc is 1.2x damage for the entire turn but no criticals.

Triumph is Z3's Fighting Spirit, as in the single use one.

>>14835481
I think crits are the only thing related to the skill stat where you can have a 0% chance. Doubleimage, sword cut, shield defense, and shoot down all have some bare minimum nonzero chance.

>>14835496
>Doubleimage, sword cut, shield defense, and shoot down all have some bare minimum nonzero chance.
I think Skill basically only affected those in the Nintendo Handhelds though

>>14835507
Skill started affecting special defenses ever since they stopped making Sword Cut/Shield Defense level up skills.

Bunshin is the weird one that they can't decide on.

>>14835511
>Bunshin
I don't think I've ever seen a scaling-probability version of that on a Sony system, except maybe OE. I'm not sure how that worked, and the system's such a black sheep and I've yet to see the hit/damage/defense formulae even on JP wikis.

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I wonder when this will get in. Whether XO or a handheld.

>>14835528
OE uses a fixed activation rate based on your Bunshin skill level. It was especially obnoxious on any boss that had the skill because Strike in OE does not ignore Bunshin.

Granted Strike doesn't actually wear off until when you hit something but still.

Last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSbQraVbLo

>>14835534
Did this even make a profit from merchandising or have presence in Japan anymore

>>14835546
If it works with whatever story they're cooking up, there's no problem if it gets in.

After all, show quality/popularity never exactly stopped certain picks.

>>14835046
Giant robot.

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>>14835546
2005 was a much different time from today. It wasn't super hard on the merchandising aspect. While not really remembered so much for the mecha aspect, its influence is still seen in the yuri genre today, and has one of the most famous EDs to this date. If I recall correctly Chikane and Himeko were the long-standing favorite yuri couple for years.

I guess the main thing would be if someone an Banpresto would want to even think about including it. There isn't much in the way of mooks to fight but there are plenty of bosses and two ally mechs, though one would only be endgame. Most of the time you'd really just have Souma as the series rep which would be really weird, representation-wise. The main characters wouldn't even get to field until the end unless something drastic was done to the story. The boss mechs with some neat designs and there's enough Ancient Evil plots that it could mix into.

Fat chance though since Bamco haet yuri.

>>14835046
>A King's Love is for His _____.

Dinner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6CJFgn9ss4

>>14835555
>After all, show quality/popularity never exactly stopped certain picks.
Well in that case, it usually comes down to someone in power pushing for it... which I'm a little doubtful.

>>14835574
So who pushed for AGE because even for a Gundam series, that's one of the worst picks if you're going for a popularity standpoint.

>>14835567
The neck's robots were pretty rad.

Seems like a mess to include but I'm sure it's been considered.

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>>14835578
>So who pushed for AGE
Did you need to ask?

>>14835579
I just saw the necks as getting the Zeorymer boss treatment.

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>>14835391
>>14835395
>>14835399
>Raise your dodge stat.
>Enemy has the ability to never miss attacks.

>>14835567
>Fat chance though since Bamco haet yuri.
Is that the reason we haven't got Lagrange yet?

>>14835596
But we got Iczer

>>14835600
And Zeta

>>14835567
There's a SRC scenario done that puts the series to use in some capacity. I dunno much of the details of the show, but for mooks I think they mix the enemies with the game's originals or some other enemy faction so they have a few mooks while mostly having the boss units, and it's late mid-game when you have two separate robots to represent the series.

Three total are playable on the Kannazuki side of things, though one is a secret in the game. You got Souma in the thing that's usually his, the blonde girl in the end-game mech (which in SRC Dungeon is what Souma upgrades into), and Souma's brother, I believe, as a secret.

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Oh.

>>14835600
And Godannar.

>>14835607
Souma getting out of the upgrade was the biggest nerf that it ever got but considering that Souma had !Attacker and Zeal it was probably for the best.

>>14835594
> Enemy casts Strike very turn

>>14835534
>>14835567
Someone said once that the theme songs by Kotoko are pretty expensive. If that's true then they probably won't think it's worth it for such an unpopular series.
>The main characters wouldn't even get to field until the end unless something drastic was done to the story.
They could finish the plot from the show relatively early if they wanted to. I remember L ended Godannar and Shin Jeeg's plot like halfway through the game and you already had all the final units and attacks.
Also they could make Tsubasa recruitable.

>>14835608
And Heroman

>>14835626
Couldn't they just use Souma's theme instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTLGsLbKLo

As for the plot, yeah they could end it early but it would feel weird since its ending is basically a world reset to undo all of the deaths and stuff caused by Orochi.

>>14835608
Sheesh, I see bluestacks is still giving you issues.

>>14835635
Another good choice to ignore having to murder their funds from licensing would be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpQAyGO4nH0

On that note, how often did a series get in without using any OP/ED and it wasn't units only?

>>14835635
Or they could just get stopped mid-way through their heroic sacrifice.

>>14835621
Depends if they're the stage objective and when the Strike-casting starts. And if you're playing OG and have access to Mind Blast where you can just strip them of the effect, anyway.

>>14835635
They'd use Souma's theme for Souma, of course. But if they didn't use the OP (or possibly the ED) for Murakumo, that would be pretty fucking lame.
>but it would feel weird since its ending is basically a world reset
They wouldn't do the world reset, it's too inconvenient for all the series. They'd come up with a way around it. To reference L again, the reset at the end of Iczer-1 didn't happen. They just didn't kill Nagisa or her parents to begin with.

>>14835644
>On that note, how often did a series get in without using any OP/ED and it wasn't units only?
Demonbane's music theme technically wasn't its opening theme for the PC version or Anime. I don't know if it's ever used as an OP really.

Man I wonder what it be like if SRW had a boss on the level of LV99 Yorihime and Lunatic!Suwako

>>14835662
Iczer's handling in L was weird in general. Didn't they pretty much defeat almost all of the bosses in Iczer 3 via text events and started Iczer 3 part way through the 1 plot?

>>14835666
That one version of the Neo Granzon from the bad end of IIRC 4 comes to mind.

>>14835676
The
> 19k finisher
one?

>>14835666
Lots of angry JP casuals bitching about it on the internet.

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>>14835730
I sometimes worry that my only source of difficulty feedback is myself.

But I'm sure all of you are Kongming-tier strategists.

>>14835794
You assume incorrectly. I'm sure if actual strategy is required in your games, I will fail fantastically. Fortunately, cheating in SRC is easy enough.

I still actually need to boot up DB and go through it.

>>14835794
I actually find it easy to balance everyone around no upgrades.

Oh snap! A SRW had the balls to alter the entire history of a non-OG entry: In fact, they alter AGE part 1 in such a way where young Flit is able to save Urine, but this doesn't necessarily stop him from eventually wanting to nuke all Vagans anyway because he thinks they're just a bunch of pricks.
Would you play this, and if so, how would one justify such an action?

>>14835810
Urine was just icing on the cake. He still hated them because of what they did to his home and the other people.

>>14835810
Why wouldn't I play it? Modified stories are really fun and sometimes better, take Destiny for example. In fact, why not modify AGE to let Flit actually nuke the Vagans?

>>14835816
I like to think that's what pushed him over the edge, but "Urine was just icing on the cake." is something I never realized I would find so funny to hear.
>>14835823
>Flit actually nuke the Vagans
absolute madman
Kio would be giving his speech about "not all Vagans" or whatever and Flit would just "nope", fire the nuke, and kill em all
This actually sounds really entertaining

>>14835800
>I'm sure if actual strategy is required in your games, I will fail fantastically.
I'm aiming for a level that's sorta like "you'll have to spend SP on grunts, but you won't probably won't lose just because you didn't calculate every expenditure down to molecular level" - but that's kinda relative to my skill level so who knows. It's definitely not Lunatic Touhou or POJ.

DB honestly got way easier as the game goes on IMO

>>14835807
Well, I do them on no-upgrades to ensure they will never be "unwinnable" because someone pumped all their money into the wrong unit or something, but on the other hand I do assume players will actually upgrade stuff because it's really boring otherwise and the design challenge is how to make sure the player doesn't just sleep walk through the entire thing if he has several Maxed units.

>>14835810
Why in gods name would you not? I mean, that's kind of what we hope for when it comes to games with really bad plots, take them and rewrite them to make slightly better. That's one of the big reasons people still praise Z super hard to this day. A fun way to do that would be for Kio to eventually "break" like we all thought he would in series when it finally hits him how unsalvagable the Vagans are and be on grandad's side when he pulls out the nuke.

>>14835810
I wonder if there's a SRW game that could play through all levels of AGE's history to actually make something like that possible, saving the girl and still going Grandpa Nuke on us.

Anyway, I'd play it, sure. It's not the first modification to a non-OG plot, like some handling of Destiny. Heck, even bad modifications happened in some cases (read: Shin SRW).

Whether minor or major, I'm all for a little changing of things. Let's let a non-X-O SRW give us both Lockon's from 00. Let's have a Prince of Darkness Nadesico where Gai never died (that starts at PoD instead of W's handling). Let's have a G Gundam plot that never involves a betrayal by Master Asia, and puts the Devil Gundam Jr. in the plot somewhere. Go crazy!

>Captcha shows Blockbuster Video sign

Man, those were the days.

Somewhat random, but very related question. What are some foods that Akito cooked on the Nadesico? Ramen is out for reasons that will be evident later. I'm assuming he made fried rice at some point, yes?

>>14835844
Assuming the Mars Bowl is fried rice

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Stop bullying Ray!

>>14835567
>If I recall correctly Chikane and Himeko were the long-standing favorite yuri couple for years.
Considering that whole relationship was hot garbage I don't see HOW. Must have been the year of low expectations.

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X-OMEGA

>>14835857
Silly anon, everyone knows the relationship doesn't need to be written well, all that matters is the attractiveness of the ladies.

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>>14835873

@G is actually starting to get easier, the Skill points are more fair and the game is throwing less bosses, I just beat the stage where Hola attempts to steal the Iron Gear and Jorin steals the Gallier

>>14835873
Huh. So she didn't die or whatever in the beginning like I believe they implied. But now she's probably a villain for now, or something? I dunno, I don't play X-O and it probably has a super-thin plot as is.

>>14835873
>Kun
So do they call her Kun-kun?

>>14835887
When do you use Kun for girls who aren't tomboys

>>14835889
Teachers and other adults do it to younger girls in animu often enough. She's probably a bit too old for that, though.

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>>14835876

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>>14835896
That outfit makes me think SNK's Iroha for some reason.

Except with a lot more cleavage

>>14835873
Looks super interesting.

>>14835889
I would make a special exception for her, and I'm sure she'd hate it.

>>14835882
>Huh. So she didn't die or whatever in the beginning like I believe they implied

Zegapain is involved apparently. Its plot is getting in.

>>14835908
You're someone who would use the -Chan suffix on Jackie Chan, aren't you

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>>14835916
Yes.

>>14835810
Considering I hate Kio, yeah, I'll take it.

MD Radio:
Q. Where is Astranagant?
A. Astranagant is not yet in OG universe. It may pop up in a different universe, in another form...

>Rom Stol and Wing EW characters showing up, the few EW ones making the Tallgeese event canon at that

Well, now Season 2 stuff relates to plot in X-O.

>>14835932
I swear to fucking god if it shows up in V.

>>14835932
Q. Why are there 12 keys? Also in Z?
A. Just a easy to remember number. The number of the Zodiac, which is easy to throw in story development.

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>>14835939
>it may pop up in a different universe
>SRW V
>V stands for voyage
>Astranagant voyaging to OGverse and passing through other universes before doing so

>>14835941
I told you tinfoilers that 12 means fuck-all.

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>>14835905

>Terada english pop quiz

>>14835876
why are their shoulders bare now?

>>14835962
It's getting too hot inside the cockpit

>>14835962
It's October, that means that summer is starting in the Eastern hemisphere.

>>14835963
It's easier to just wear a bra, works out for us as well.

>Fought Z-Master at end of Chapter 3
>fighting EI-01 in Chapter 4

uhhhhhhhhhh

I'm sure this makes a lot more sense if you speak the language

but WHAT

>>14835968
I want X-O to include shirtless outfits for guys, why do the ladies get all the fanservice?

>>14835970
Hm, there was the summer portraits for the OG unit, the dude wasn't shirtless but that was the best you'll get. He had an open shirt and was showing off his chest.

>>14835970
Well, there was that one time...

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>shirtless guy again
Well this thread's over

>>14835981
No no, for that guy it has be shirtless shotas

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>>14835977
>>14835978
You're both referring to this?

>>14835984
Thank you for not being stupid, unlike >>14835981

>>14835988
Well I was, not sure bout Matt

>>14835988
No, the other thing.

>>14835990
Ah well I hope they provide some for the non OG guys in the future.

>>14835939
>mfw V OG in an Ingram clone

>>14835992
What other thing?

Stop being so vague.

>>14835995
Well, I don't have a copy of it, so no pics, but anyone who played X-O at the time would remember it, I think. Or maybe not. It's not something everyone's interested in.

>>14835998
Why the fuck are you being so vague?

Just spill it out.

>>14836002
Maybe, if you wish to know, you should play X-O. After all, we're just past the anniversary, if you start now you'll have a decent resource base when the old event units show up if they end up doing that.

>>14836008
I'm fucking playing it retard.

What are you even talking about, if it isn't the picture I posted then what other shirtless guy thing was there?

>>14836008
I'd dig through my folder of screenshots but they were all lewd pics centered around the chicks.

>>14836016
Why can't he just say upfront what he's talking about?

>>14836019
It's a tsundere thing.

>>14836008
You better not be referring to the fact that Godzilla is shirtless.

>>14835571
ENOUGH

>>14835944
>Super Robot Wars Voyage
>No Voyager
Talk about a missed opportunity.

>>14836049
Panda Z in SRW never

Have some food and some hate-sex.
http://pastebin.com/Lv7Ga4N7

Also, still nowhere near done.

>>14835949
Porn when?

>>14836057
My psychic powers is telling me there'll be Old Man NTR in the future

>>14836065
Excellent.

>>14836065
But sahib would never defile another mans waifu

>>14834800
>REEEEEEEEE COORDINATORS

>>14836073
Who said sahib was the one doing the NTRing?

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>>14835873
>>14835896
Christ Almighty.
And that is not an omega crystal in my pocket, I'm just happy to see her again.

>>14836126
Explain.

>>14836140
I'd spin her gacha is you know what I'm saying.
I would complete her daily mission if you catch my drift.
I would break her limit if you know what I mean.
I'd give her my omega crystal if get my meaning.
I'd fill her part slot if you catch my get my drift.
I'd grind her till she's SSR if you know what I'm talking about....

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>>14836158
Explain further.

>>14836158
If I ever marry someone, I think it would be really funny to tell them that it's time to do their dailies before holding hands.

Which probably explains why I'm not married.

>>14836179
whoops wrong thread
ayy lmao got a lani

>>14836181
better buy those lapis and try again kupo!

>>14836172
Maybe one day you will be.

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>>14835395
>>14835391
That's RNG for you. Personally it is rather too heavy in SRW, so you have to rely on spirits on some enemies. 100% or bust.

>>14836195
>Personally it is rather too heavy in SRW
Eh, not really in the long run kind of thing - if it wasn't for OCD, you can afford to get your units blown up or usually take one more turn than usual - SRW usually isn't in the habit of giving you Layzner tier bosses without someone with Strike on hand.

>so you have to rely on spirits on some enemies.
In the same way that you got to use Flash/Endure/Guard against Bosses, I guess. Is there really any strategy left once you take that away?

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>>14836219
Typically most pilots carry strike and alert, if not focus, anyway.

>>14836221
Harry Ord.

>>14836221
El Big Zam

>>14836219
SRW's kinder than most series since you have spirits.

In other games whatever shit hit rates you had that was it.

>>14836221
Le Gourmet Énigmatique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSbQraVbLo

Translate now

Emperor of the EOP's here.
So, eventually I wanna play all the OG Games (no Masoukishin or Endless Frontier, tho) and I have access to story summaries/translation for every game except for OGs remake on the PS2, which have some extra story content. Do I lose a lot of plot if I play the original GBA ones and then I go to Gaiden and 2ndOG?

>>14836255
GBA OG not canon,no R,Axel being a dick etc.

>>14836255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4st3_J3yi1E

GBA OG not canon

>>14836255
>Do I lose a lot of plot if I play the original GBA ones and then I go to Gaiden and 2ndOG?
To be honest, not really - yeah, there are some characterization changes but you'll get the general chain of events.

Big changes are
- Axel isn't a giant douche in OGs.
- One character who dies in OG2 doesn't in OGs.
- No R characters, but they weren't particularly relevant anyway.

>>14836258
OG1 is pretty much unchanged though.

>>14836258
>>14836264
>le GBA OG is no canon meme

Anyways, there isn't that much change honestly, so you could do that.

I prefer GBA OG, since Dick Axel was more enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX7fLPTvm74&t=986

GBA OG2 NOT CANON

I, on the other hand, feel that Axel Almer is not getting the treatment befitting such a nuanced character.

Where is the Super Soulgain? He's been in so many games, he deserves a solid upgrade by now.

He also needs a lead role. If Kyosuke gets to be the lead of the SRW A plot, then I believe Axel should be the lead of the SRW Alpha 3, SRW W, and SRW Z plot.

And finally, though he is extremely well balanced and quite fair to use, I believe he could use a buff. I mean, it's sorta lame how Ryusei gets some super powerful lame combo attack and Axel doesn't.

>>14836272
Axel doesn't need an upgrade, Attacker alone makes him OP

>>14836272
Even though I know that its you old man, Ryusei needs to eat 4 deployments

Kouta & Kaiser is in OG2 also right?

>>14836274
His my headcanon son is a better pilot though

So when are we getting more SRW V news?

>>14836268
>meme
But it's true, you fucking retard.

>>14836282
OG2.5

>>14836291
MEME
E
M
E

>>14836056
>When he had entered Al-Van's quarters, he found that weren't having an argument, but were rather in the middle of a bout of hate-sex.
Calvina is spot-on.
Looking forward to more, and the Calvina hate-sex side story.

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>>14836219
>>14836223

I know. It just doesn't sit well with me when fighting reals, since I prefer trades to be predictable and have strategy come from other elements, positioning, terrains, attack-orders, supports etc. But it's SRW, and probably wouldn't mix well with feel and general gist of it. It's not Advance Wars.

For the project I am currently brainstorming, I have been thinking of evasion being sort of threshold. Ex.
>if(ACC>=EV-dodge_decay){ damage(dmg_calc); }
>else{ miss(); dodge_decay+=something; }

>>14836277
That is not an excuse. Axel is a main character of a soon to be fully translated SRW, and as such he requires a super powerful attack that is equal to, if not stronger than, SRX's best attack.

Thus spoke Uchuu no Kishi Sahibman.

>>14836304
And Ryusei's in the franchise mascot.

>>14836291
How can it be true if our memes aren't true?

>>14836306
In the past, maybe, but the majority of video gaming companies have gone beyond the idea of a mascot.

Mascots are a thing of the past, and it's time that Bandai Namco realized this and helped Banpresto move on.

Thus spoke Sahiborger 009.

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>>14836056
Oh, cool, you're actually going through with it, then. Hope to see the full version soon enough, guess this means there's little need for me to try my hand at it.

>>14836056
Predictable

>Accidentally too many missions for Route B and not enough ideas for A.
Now I understand the use of episodic MOTW series.

>>14836056
If this is supposed to be J continuity, the girls are Humans according to earlier posts.

Also does Hate-Sex have a completely different definition than what I think because Calvina didn't hate Al-Van by the end of the game.

Sword F + Claw F
or
Sword F + Rifle F

>>14836335
Sword + Rifle

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>>14834595

And we stopped having certain non-grunt characters' portraits in their helmets and/or pilot suits when SRW left the PSX why? Compare and contrast >>14834595 from >>14834637.

>>14835383

Speaking of Heinel, how does he find out Lagour/Kentarou Gou is his father in the first Alpha if he never attempted to bring out Lozaria's knife, which tipped the latter off?

>>14836398
Not like this

Not like this!!!

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A pretty well rounded unit if I do say so myself. Benefits nicely from all three girls since you can turn it into a turret with Katia, Melua lets it tank better and Tenia is generally an excellent choice due to more damage.

Vorlent is on the +1250 tier (which is J's highest) so its not too far behind the others. Raftclans however is back to the regular +1000 tier that SRs get.

>>14836398
wee lad

>>14836398
>Gargantia gets Z3
>MJP gets mobage
Vulvarape the penetrator when?

>>14836398
And what's that?

>>14836065
There's already that short doujin by Hiromitsu Takeda where Shatte whores herself out or something.

>>14836309
Shut the fuck up monsoon

>>14836404
Honestly I would kill for my series to show up in Mobage given that I don't even have a 0.00001% hopes of seeing it in mainline.

Perspective, I guess.

>>14836436
Majestic Prince

>>14836439
That is what I'm referencing, yes.

XROSS!!!
OMEGA!!!!
New function update!!!
https://twitter.com/srw_xomg/status/786890337981562881

>>14836445
Well. That oughta shake things up a bit.

For those of you playing X-O, does the mod still work or did they finally crack down on that?

>>14836444
If it's in a mobage, you have a 0.00001% chance of getting it (note: not serious here) unless it's an event reward or guaranteed to be in the 10x.

>>14836445
So uh, they implemented Boob Physic Cut-ins?

>>14836451
>If it's in a mobage, you have a 0.00001% chance of getting it (note: not serious here) unless it's an event reward or guaranteed to be in the 10x.
It's more of a "someone remembered this and paid enough money to put it into something where other people can see it" kinda thing.

>>14836445
Now that's having your priorities straight.

>>14836445
Remember to buy many gatcha to achieve own cute hot bounce girlfriend

>>14836445
Who's this semen demon?

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>>14836445
XROSS!!!
OMEGA!!!!
AAAAAAAああ!!!!

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>>14836473

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>>14836475

>>14836473
>>14836475
Outstanding.

>>14836478
Hey look, it's bouceless Berta. The best friend Ibis never had.

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>>14836475

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>>14836478

>>14836475
SRW bouce became so severe the uniforms have build in bounce restrain belts.

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> 「はぁ・・・はぁ・・・」
Asahi!! What in the world are you doing to your sister!!!

>>14836538
Skinship with his real little sister?

>>14836542
More like foreskinship.

>>14836451
It works but you can't go overboard and use it on the conquest, and probably arena, mode since that's able to detect if you're using it

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>put Shatte and Honoka in danger
>threaten to kill one of them
>asked Asahi to pick
>Asahi picked his sister
>called Asahi a scumbag and weak thing
>called Shatte a failure for falling for Asahi
>said Asahi is not keeping his promise protecting her daughter
>said Asahi is using her daughter from the beginning
>making things personal with Asahi

>>>14835932
>Q. Where is Astranagant?
>A. Astranagant is not yet in OG universe. It may pop up in a different universe, in another form...

Kun is Ingram ver2

>>14836554
Arena is fine, it applies the bonuses to both sides so the only things really affected are guys like Evangelion.

Conquest they'll get you on, if you go past a certain point.

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>>14836559
>Asahi
Did somebody say Pascal?

Why don't they throw in Mist in X-O to bait players buying crystals?

>>14836436
What the fuck were you talking about Matt?

Please don't say that Godzilla being naked was the thing you were talking all vague about.

>>14836559
Is she trying to pull an Ingram or what

>>14836563
I usually did a Rival battle with the mod set to default and let it auto run for about 10 minutes til I finally win, now I'm just using the vanilla version to go all out on Arena and Conquest until the next event needs me to reinstall it.

>Being hype about X-O

>>14836640
Let's be hype for V, and all the news we have had

>>14836398
T-thanks Monkey's Paw

>>14836640
Well, X-Omega has relatively high-end graphics considering the hardware and a cast list that's not the most cynical thing anyone ever came up with, so it's already more hype than any of the Z team's stuff

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>>14836644
How about some hype for GR?

No, the title of the image isn't serious.

>>14836666
Why are they in the library then Satan?

>>14836666
I'm pretty excited for GR route B, at least. Route A is a cool idea, but as much as I enjoy Demonbane, the rest of the cast is a bit too "literally who" even for me.

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Actually, now I really want to fit Touhou A Live into Route A.

Huh, that dumb joke paid off

>>14836676
It's supposed to be the Misakatonic Library, which I realize probably doesn't have a red colour scheme, but SRC's tileset choices isn't very huge.

>>14836680
Read or Die was actually pretty popular back in its time... though questionably /m/, I suppose.

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For those that were interested. http://imgur.com/a/oCmZw

>>14836297
>Calvina is spot-on.
Thanks.

>Spoiler
I actually wasn't planning on going deeper into that. It was just a throwaway gag.


>>14836318
I think the powerpuff girls are hot. I wouldn't mind more smut of them. Then again, you could always expand on what was happening to Calvina and Al-Van.

>>14836321
Hopefully good predictable, not bad predictable.

>>14836332
I'm intentionally mixing MD and J continuities because it better serves the story. As for the hate-sex, I did it because I thought it would be funnier that way. You can imagine that that's how they resolve relationship issue (instead of yelling at each other, they have sex while yelling at each other), or that whenever they have sex, they open up all the old wounds (like Calvina bringing up the fact that Al-Van killed everyone at the Moon base)

>>14836725
Nice.
I know what I'm fapping to next then.

>>14836725
>handholding
TOO FAR

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At first it wasn't going to have Bunshin but considering how reliant it is for special defenses if you actually want to tank, I opted for it in the end.

EN Regen M could stand to drop a rank. That part depends on how you guys feel about it.

>Shin Ryukooh will never be relevant again since Granteed Dracodeus can deal with Cross Gate ALONE

>>14836753
If it's keeping the unlock requirements from the unmodded game, it can stay or go up to L, if you play through a game three times you've earned using crazy shit.
If not, probably down to S.

>>14836727
I'd like to maybe give a shot to the powerpuffs, even though I think you and I would be treading over similar points. About the only thing likely to change is the specifics over the sex itself, and mine might not be in pseudo-J continuity.

>Calvina and Al-Van

Not a bad idea since you don't plan on expanding yourself, it would be something different again. Never really tried hate-sex before.

(Also, you're probably melding this intentionally like you mentioned, but I think MD's version of Calvina's story says that Al-Van actually wasn't responsible for the murders. I want to say it was Karo Ran, So-Des and/or Ja-Mu who did most of the killing.)