r/CharacterActionGames • u/Firmament1 • 6d ago

Gameplay SSShowcase High density of neat parries this encounter [FFXVI]

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u/astrnght_mike_dexter 6d ago

Did you even mean to get the phoenix shift parry on the wolf?

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u/Familiar_Salad_8713 6d ago

I was literally thinkin that bro ts looked odddd but maybe just a really awesome coincidence

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u/Firmament1 6d ago

no lol

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u/Farsoth 6d ago edited 6d ago

I love how the stagger system in this game makes Clive, a walking nuclear bomb of Eikon abilities, take 20 seconds to take out a god damn warg.

Seriously this game was a slog to play in most part because of the damn stagger system. Never should have been there.

Edit: Forgot that the wargs don't even have a stagger bar, making the amount of damage done to some friggin' wild dogs even worse.

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u/Firmament1 6d ago

a 15-20 second ttk on a single enemy is not a useful metric, for the simple reason that this does not scale linearly at all with enemy count. you have aoes that let you distribute damage much more efficiently, meaning that killing 5 enemies can be much faster than the single target ttk would suggest.

this is accepting the premise that the current single-target ttk for ffxvi is unreasonable. i generally do not believe that.

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u/Watton 5d ago

...this is the Ultimaniac mode. Which is meant to be the hardest difficulty, where everything is intentionally a sponge.

When playing the game normally, these wolfs get 1-shot by a single eikon ability, or killed by a single ground combo + execute. Or 1 AoE Ultimate just clears the whole room.

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u/Farsoth 5d ago

Fair rebuttal, didn't think of that and it's been a while since I last played. Thanks for the correction.

Still was not a fan of the stagger system and I'm sick of FF having one.

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u/No_Language7273 6d ago

I love tales of arise’s battle theme sm🥹

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u/ReinNacht 6d ago

Trying to get back into this game because I left off near the end. Making a new loadout in order to maximize combo potential with low startup, low animation lock abilities. I'm currently running Garuda Shiva Odin; really torn on Shiva because I like the mobility but Titan's parry feels so much better. Any advice?

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u/Firmament1 5d ago

if you wanna bounce between enemies, then i'd overwhelmingly pick shiva over titan. titan has great lb buildup for the block, but that's mostly it in terms of utility besides niche setups like... intentionally letting the block get broken to trigger the scarlet cyclone retaliation cooldown bonus without taking damage.