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If that happened, imagine that those 'Chocobos' were Daemonified versions of them that must be slain.
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My biggest dream is: Hard Mode and a new function for Umbra to travel in the Niflhleim past with access to new areas.
(i want to explore the Succarpe Region without glitch and the Verstael's Laboratory from episode Prompto)
(i want to explore the Succarpe Region without glitch and the Verstael's Laboratory from episode Prompto)
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Yeah, and FFXV's post-launch support was descent, all that's left for the game's post-launch support is the Episode Ardyn DLC, and the wait is killing me because I'm looking forward to it so much, and it feels this week is so slow to get there. But I'm hanging on, thankfully.
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What's ironic about FFXV's post-launch support is that, in the end, its downfall was that it was too ambitious. The majority of players would have found the support sufficient had it simply ended with the Royal Edition as originally planned... but once the Dawn of the Future plan was announced, anything less than that would inevitably seem feel like we'd been cheated of something that Squenix owed us.
I kind of suspect that the Dawn of the Future plan was announced before the planning for the extra DLC was even complete, and that it turned into a far bigger project than intended in the process of conceptualizing it. (Notice how Episode Ardyn barely released according to the original schedule in spite of being the only DLC the team was working on?) If Squenix had allowed LumiPro to only reveal Episode Ardyn and hint at further plans rather than revealing everything all at once, they'd have been able to cancel the other potential episodes quietly. But, since the entire project was announced, they ended up having egg on their face by cancelling things they'd already promised.
This all sounds fantastic. I am in love with the idea of making Ardyn wear ridiculous hats. XD
With regards to gameplay, the screenshots make it look like Ardyn turns into his daemon form after losing his first HP bar? That seems like a cool visual way to represent him being simultaneously more vulnerable to attacks and more powerful.
It also looks like daemonifying enemies is highly incentivized, since it not only gives you powerful special attacks but also makes your normal attacks have a huge multiplier. (It looks like a 12x multiplier for a ~60% full gauge? That's crazy!) They really want the player to roleplay Ardyn's cruelty. XD
Ifrit being summonable at-will is cool, and also makes the footage we've been shown so far a lot more difficult to put into a clear timeline. Ifrit does show up in at least one cutscene, but we can't be sure that just because he's in the party, what we're shown is after that event.
I kind of suspect that the Dawn of the Future plan was announced before the planning for the extra DLC was even complete, and that it turned into a far bigger project than intended in the process of conceptualizing it. (Notice how Episode Ardyn barely released according to the original schedule in spite of being the only DLC the team was working on?) If Squenix had allowed LumiPro to only reveal Episode Ardyn and hint at further plans rather than revealing everything all at once, they'd have been able to cancel the other potential episodes quietly. But, since the entire project was announced, they ended up having egg on their face by cancelling things they'd already promised.
Episode Ardyn Famitsu scans are out.
Translation summary.
Translation summary.
With regards to gameplay, the screenshots make it look like Ardyn turns into his daemon form after losing his first HP bar? That seems like a cool visual way to represent him being simultaneously more vulnerable to attacks and more powerful.
It also looks like daemonifying enemies is highly incentivized, since it not only gives you powerful special attacks but also makes your normal attacks have a huge multiplier. (It looks like a 12x multiplier for a ~60% full gauge? That's crazy!) They really want the player to roleplay Ardyn's cruelty. XD
Ifrit being summonable at-will is cool, and also makes the footage we've been shown so far a lot more difficult to put into a clear timeline. Ifrit does show up in at least one cutscene, but we can't be sure that just because he's in the party, what we're shown is after that event.
those scans are hype.
two screens suggests night-time Insomnia, having dialogue options with Verstael is cool as well.
hopefully the reason Ifrit lends his power to Ardyn is not super generic.
Ibf its all potions and mega-elixir. The conquest aspect is just right for an invasion/terrorist attack scenario, but it wont mean a damn if its easy.
two screens suggests night-time Insomnia, having dialogue options with Verstael is cool as well.
hopefully the reason Ifrit lends his power to Ardyn is not super generic.
Ibf its all potions and mega-elixir. The conquest aspect is just right for an invasion/terrorist attack scenario, but it wont mean a damn if its easy.
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It's probably a safe guess that Ifrit joining Ardyn will be because Ardyn defeats him like Noctis does to Leviathan when she doesn't want to cooperate. Also they both know how it feels to be betrayed (Ardyn by Somnus, and Ifrit by the people and eventually his fellow gods). It's not hard to see the common ground there, doubt there'll be a deeper story to it than that.
Because they're both aligned against the Astrals, assumedly. They both have the same goal to see the gods and their plans destroyed. This was what was assumed in the base game, so same applies here. Only tricky part is Ifrit's daemonification. After they updated his model the assumption changed to Ardyn had simply corrupted him and put him under his control, seeing Ifrit working alongside him in his pre-daemon form in the DLC changes that.
EDIT: Also based on the fact that you have to fight Ifrit as a boss first in Episode Ardyn it seems like his original plan was as you said, to blow Ardyn away lol
EDIT: Also based on the fact that you have to fight Ifrit as a boss first in Episode Ardyn it seems like his original plan was as you said, to blow Ardyn away lol
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Yeah, and the DLC was being adverised several times this month through small clips and screenshots on their English and Japanese Twitters, and now this Famitsu. And the English ATR is on 3 or 4 PM EST time, and updates/DLCs come out around afternoon most of the time, right? The DLC might be out before the ATR.
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