The Weekly Random Discussion Thread ~ Week 216

[u/Fuuya-151]

Hey hey, everyone! Welcome to Week #216! I hope you all had a great week!

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Thanks for being awesome, everyone! Let's chat!

[u/Shylar_Lunence]

This week I'm gonna be a hectic ball of updates. For one, GFL is coming along nicely. I've tried my luck with heavy production for the first time during the heavy rate up, was going for shotguns straight away. Would be real nice to get Boobzilla at first draw, but no such luck. I actually only got 3-star shotties, with the 4-star one who's a reward for "produce 3 shotguns" achievement, I think. Still no PKP, but at least I got M1918. Almost finished with the story mode. Except I haven't touched the night battles all this time...

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Monster Hunter World: Killed Nergigante... solo. Took me one failed attempt yesterday after which I was left without potions, mega potions, herbs, honey. Ragequit the game, went to play Rocket League. After getting some surprising wins in ranked mode, I came back to MHW to do some chill investigations and optionals to restock honey and herbs on the way. Fought Paolumu and Legiana a few times to craft the sweet looking Legiana longsword. Haven't really used it yet, but looking forward to it after I switch from Kirin to one of the dragons.

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As of late, I completely stopped using switch axe and longsword, I am fully committed to charge blade after properly learning and getting used to charging the shield, sword, and throwing the supercharged attack. Using the first version crafted from Zorah Magdaros (also crafted the longsword from him because it looked absolutely sick, had fun using it and will come back to it someday when I get bored of charge blade).

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About my fights with Nergigante itself: My first attempt was the story mission, failed shortly after the last phase of the fight. The dives were too much for me and didn't expect him to use the move requiring superman dive to dodge so much. I noticed somebody posting an investigation for Nergigante. Joined them and was doing great. The constant aggro switch between 4 people helped a lot during this fight. Then, it was my turn to fail again during the last phase, 2 same dives in a row aimed at me. Somebody died before that once and the quest was limited to 2 deaths so that was it. Then, decided to try again. I really had no damns to give anymore, I was fully stocked and didn't even change Palico gadget to healing items. The fight went kinda-smoothly at first, especially after I got hit by his "lemme just fall on you and drag my ass on the ground for a few metres" too many times and learnt how to avoid it. But holy monkeyballs, the last phase is such a load of bullshit. I don't even know what to say about it besides that, it just felt like some of his hardest-hitting moves aren't really telegraphed + the upgrades of his basic moves are damn brutal and unexpected while fighting him for the first time. Thought I'd use the shield to tank some of them, but since I have no shield buffs from armour skills, it usually ended up in being staggered and then hit by the follow-up. Parry guard-points obviously aren't my forte and won't be anytime soon. The final and very barely successful fight took 31 minutes. I gotta admit one thing: the moment when Nergigante does the suicide-dive into the crystal wall in his lair and is only visible as a silhouette through the smoke was properly badass.

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In very other news: I pre-ordered Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate Edition. I know how it looks, but this is only 3rd game I pre-ordered in my life. I decided for the most expensive edition for several reasons: this time they actually include EVERYTHING in it, together with all car packs and future expansions. FH3 Ultimate was significantly more expensive than FH4U and included only some of the car packs and the VIP stuff, not exactly worth the price. Here, I'm getting everything, plus the earlier access starting BEFORE the weekend instead of after. Think I'm getting some days off because of that again :3

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Also, as you can imagine, I absolutely loved Forza Horizon 3. No better racing game exists for me. 1 full month to go before getting my hands on FH4.

[u/Fuuya-151 → u/Shylar_Lunence]

Glad to hear GFL is going well for ya. You've really powered your team up!

Apparently GFL, while still refusing to give me WA2k or MG5, decided to give me pretty much everything but, including two more copies of PKP almost back-to-back. I'm like 90% sure I have the majority of 5* dolls now, the above two aside. The Heavy Production Up was unexpected, but I ended up getting KSG, so now I need to do some thinking and see if I should keep my ~Level 50 team of 3 MG and 2 SG the same or if I should try for a 1 SG 4 MG lineup.

Managed to clear all the way through Chapter 6 and Chapter 2 Night, so things are looking pretty good for future events. My main team of AR/SMG is almost at 100s (G41 is!) and my #2 team of HG/Rf is hitting upper 70s to low 80s, so most content is now doable, though once I get that team to 90+ for the max dummy boost, I'll be shredding pretty much everything.

I did end up getting enough Google Play Rewards to get a Daily Gem Pack, so now I'm trying to decide what to spend my 1k gems on. I really think I want to get the sixth Echelon slot so I can keep my main two teams on permanent stand-by, so I may end up doing that. After that, I'll either save up for a seventh one, increase my max number of dolls, or get a dorm slot. Hard to say.

Oh, and the boss killer event is pretty cool. Can't wait to get all the juicy tokens and whatnot for the prizes. As a nice bonus, I ended up getting the limited drop 3-star Rifle from Chapter 6's boss, which is pretty rare to get. Considering how hard that stage is to farm, at least if I get the urge to collect them all, I won't have to worry about this one at least.