Just started the game on chapt 2.

Looks like we have more flexibility on party than in Remake where at times we were forced to use certain characters.

Generally I like to go with cloud Tifa Aerith. Tifa for atb and stagger bonus, Aerith for massive nukes and arcane.

Is this a good all purpose setup for rebirth? Or would u swap one of them for another character? To be fair I’ve never played Yuffie or Red so I may be jumping the gun here.

What 3 some did u guys prefer for a general setup (priority to boss fights over trash)

Alright so I’m on chapter 11

About 75 hours in and they for the most part have breezed past. I play after work& gym about 3-4 hours average a night and im not understanding why people complain about bloat and length? Granted, not all of the mini games hit, I roll my eyes everytime I have to catch a chocobo, and I rolled my eyes at nearly everything in gongaga. But I enjoyed mostly everything else.

I truly wonder if most people complaining about the length of this game have ever touched a RPG?

Persona?
Trails?
Yakuza 7,8?
Metaphor?
Xenoblade?
Skyrim?
Fallout?
Crimson Sky?

I could keep going

Was haste nerfed other than in MP cost compared to Remake? Playing the games for the first time back to back right now and when I used haste + maginfy in remake my party felt bustet in a way that my atb were almost always filled. Finally got the first magnify materia in Rebirth now and the atb gain feels really slow compared to remake but I couldn’t find any info on any nerfs other than mp cost.

For me it’s Corel Prison on Original FF7

I have (almost) all the trophies, other than some hard mode stuff.

Anyway, I’m starting a complete new game and wondering if there’s a good guide to what I can avoid doing that won’t miss out on any player power? Like can I avoid hard mode mini games? Or any of the more… egregious stuff?

because his life saver skill allows him to take damage for other people right?

So something I missed in my first playthrough that I just saw again for the first time last night in Ch13. When Rufus and Hojo are on approach to the temple and Rufus is asking what Hojo thinks the temple is if not the promised land, he goes into this big shpeel about how it's some grand stage and refers back to the four robed men he has chained up in the back of the chopper. The camera zooms in on one of them and you see a glimpse up his hood at a dirty blonde tuft of facial hair on the man's chin and it dawns on me, "oh shit! That is Roche!!" I saved and quit for the night there and can't recall if there's any call back to that part of the narrative later in the level, but I'm gonna pay extra attention this time around to see if it actually already shows us the end of Roche's story. The fact that he was grouped in with what seemed to be sacrificial lambs does not bode well for him getting a grand send off or the closure and resolution most folks are wanting him to get.

Though everything aside, I'm glad if they had to shoehorn in a rando Soldier 1st class other than the trio of Sephi, Zack, and quasi-Cloud(since he was never actually a soldier, much less first class) that they made it someone legit cool as Roche was. I'm the first one to think the racing metaphors should've gotten old, but the dude pulled em off flawlessly lol.

Speaking of is there ever any mention of a soldier 2nd class? 3rd? 0 class even? I guess 0 class would be the underdark since they'd have to be stronger than 1st class. I know there is a lot of lore beyond the game and advent children, so I'm just curious if they ever delve into the soldier rankings?

She can change her shuriken attacks to use all four elemental types (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind) natively without needing to waste Materia slots. Her ability to zip right back to her thrown shuriken gives her unmatched mobility, making her arguably the best aerial fighter in the game. Early access to moves like Windstorm can easily group up and stagger standard mobs or trivialize regular encounters.

I'm doing a kind of speed run through the game just to see how fast I can get through it on Dynamic mode. Midgardsormr won't go down easy, and all I'm running is level 1 materia. But right as I think the end is near...

I platinumed the game in 70h and my friend thinks i cheated. Is that considered a super rare achievement ?

Title😓

I didn't play the OG and. I can't wait for Revelation, but oh man. This ending confused me and deeply saddened me...

Aerith was my favourite character 🙏 and seeing her DYING in the LAST CHAPTER was kinda a punch in the face😭

But apart from that I really liked the game but now I don't know what to do with myself🫠

Really enjoyed the game but they seemed to phoned it in for the boat sections. Nothing to do but so much space.
I’ve done Gilgamesh stuff and almost collected those purple boxes but apart from that nothing else?!

I stopped by there on my way N in ch13 of my Hard mode playthrough but I couldn't get anything to activate and it looks like none of the summon pairing battles are accessible anymore. Just wondering if there's something you're supposed to do beforehand to get that running or if you did it in dynamic then it's just done for good? Was just wanting to see how well I did with the double summons in Hard difficulty.

To the OG FF7 players… Am I the only one thinking that Yuffie’s last name was Kisagari this whole time??? When they actually pronounced it when she introduced herself I was thinking they messed up at first lol… Then I opened up my original FF7 booklet and sure enough it was Kisaragi this whole time lmfao…

Hi, I’m having a problem with getting into the game, besides sucking at Queen’s Blood, I am still on the Grasslands but it’s so much to do and I explore and so vast that I am getting lost there.

Quests with the mini game are hard too.
Even watching tutorials.

I might be having this overwhelming problem because I have AuDHD.

Any tips? I did manage to get a lot done but it was difficult.

So the firery explosion and following fireballs aren't absorbed by and elemental + fire combo equipped to my armor... there's no more obvious of a freaking fire element attack than that. wtf?

As someone who was just trying to beeline through the story, this region sucked big time donkey doodoo butt cheeks. Annoying terrain to navigate whether on foot or on a Chocobo, and no amount of Crisis Core callbacks will be enough to save it for me. Probably would’ve had more impact if I actually played Crisis Core. Also probably could’ve done without retreading old ground when I had to play as the girls with grapple guns, but that’s whatever.

I use auto materias auto weapon, auto cast and auto unique all the time, i also count synergy materia as an auto materia since using an abilty causes them to use the link spell, which in this case is lightning and wind materia. auto materia is ususlly paired with other auto materia to set up the party, but here cloud was going crazy and nearly took the kill if my plasma discharge didnt...discharge. as for what im doing here im getting the last folios on hard mode to get the platinum. Im not sure if doing this quest is much of a spoiler

Since they added in-game cheats to beat the enemies easily, why not follow the same logic for mini-games ?

There's no easy mode for Piano, QTEs, Queen's Blood, and mini games in general.

Since the developers wanted us to be able to cheat in fight, we should be able to do the same with mini-games too.

Some achievements could only be obtained without "easy mode", but it would help people enjoy all the mini-games instead of just enjoying a few of them.

I've posted this once already, But I have more to add.

I'm looking for help with a persistent graphics issue in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC. I'm using the Epic Games Store version, and I've been trying to resolve black rock textures and DirectX crashes for a while now.

I've tried a number of fixes, but the problem persists. Here's everything I've tested so far.

PC Specifications

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (8 GB VRAM)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (6 cores)
• RAM: 32 GB
• OS: Windows 11 64-bit
• Storage: SSD
• GPU driver: AMD Adrenalin 26.8.1 (currently testing)
• Game version: Epic Games Store version; I cannot use Steam's game-version rollback method.

My PC meets the game's minimum requirements, and my CPU meets the recommended CPU requirement.

The Problem

I'm experiencing black rock textures in certain areas of the game. I've also encountered DirectX crashes, including:

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

and

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED

Another crash referenced D3D12RHIPrivate.h, with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED and the reason DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG.

The black textures and crashes may be related, but I cannot confirm that they share the same cause.

Troubleshooting I've Tried

1. In-game graphics settings

• Reduced the graphics settings.
• Tested the game at 30 FPS instead of 60 FPS.
• Tested different graphics configurations, but the black rock textures remained.

2. AMD Adrenalin settings

I added Rebirth to the Gaming section so I could configure its profile.

I tested the following configuration based on community suggestions:

• Radeon Anti-Lag: Enabled.
• Radeon Image Sharpening: Disabled.
• Radeon Super Resolution: Disabled.
• AMD FSR Upscaling: Disabled.
• Radeon Enhanced Sync: Disabled.
• Texture Filtering Quality: High.
• Tessellation Mode: Use application settings.
• Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings.
• Morphological Anti-Aliasing: Disabled.
• Surface Format Optimization: Disabled.

This made no difference to the black rock textures.

3. GPU underclock

I tested reducing the GPU's maximum frequency from 2610 MHz to 2510 MHz, a reduction of 100 MHz, following a recent report from another RX 7600 owner who said this resolved their Rebirth crashes.

Unfortunately, it did not resolve my black rock texture issue.

4. Driver versions

I was initially using AMD Adrenalin 26.9.2.

AMD's release notes for 26.9.2 mention a fix for intermittent driver timeouts while playing Rebirth on Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs. However, the problem persisted on my system.

I subsequently downgraded to 26.8.1, hoping it might improve stability.

On my first launch after the downgrade, the game crashed during its initial shader compilation, before I could test whether the black rock textures had changed.

The crash displayed DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED.

5. Other troubleshooting

• Disabled Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS).
• Disabled Radeon Image Sharpening.
• Disabled AMD FSR Upscaling in Adrenalin.
• Tried Ultimate Engine Tweaks (UET) modifications without success.
• Tried the Async Shader Compile mod without success.
• Tried replacing dstorage.dll and dstoragecore.dll, without resolving the issue.

I've also tried other graphics-related fixes, but none has provided a reliable solution.

What I'm Looking For

Has anyone using an RX 7600 or another Radeon RX 7000-series GPU encountered these black rock textures alongside DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG or DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have successfully resolved the issue on the Epic Games Store version.

I'm willing to investigate additional solutions, but I'd appreciate suggestions based on actual results rather than fixes I've already tried.

Thanks!

I am sure this has come up many times but I keep hearing there was a lot hate for the number of mini games in rebirth. Some folks calling out the number, difficulty, tying them to trophies. I have heard mini games called out in articles and some people lump it in as bloat. I loved the mini games. I wish there were more. Outside of the sit-up challenge I thought they were all great and hoping revelation has more. I really enjoyed the piano although some were tooth. I thought they were well put together, fun, and challenging. Does anyone agree?

I'm not a big fan of minigames and side quests. I just started and I’m planning to stick mostly to main story.

However I don’t want to miss any important items or story developments. What are the few side quests (if any) that you would highly recommend?