Is this for the festival? I thought it was the wedding dress thingo.
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Lightning Returns: FINAL FANTASY XIII PC |OT| Light Eternal
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Is this for the festival? I thought it was the wedding dress thingo.
killatopak
Member
Hit up another area. Over leveling is pretty much impossible in Lightning Returns for a few different reasons, and it's very much possible to do two areas in tandem (the game even encourages it with some of the time locks and on the second day).
killatopak
Member
i finally managed to get the miqote dress by loading an earlier save. What basically happened was that the game skipped some chocogirl dialogue and skipped giving me the dress.
Nice work.You have a good eye for screenshots.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Thanks. Steam making it easy to take shots is very helpful. One button. Done. Post it online later, whatever.
Here's some more:
Sadly I can't take off the HUD while on the field like the Outerworld System did.(unless I use mods of course)
Your screenshots were better than SE's marketing shots for LR.lol
The moogle area is nice looking.
Lightning's FF13 outfit still reigns supreme.Even from the side it has a distinct look.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
haha. i remember Yoshi saying the same thing when the original came out.
Always
Muskieratboi
Member
*cough*
Gj Square, GJ!
haha. i remember Yoshi saying the same thing when the original came out.
Always
lol This dumb cutscene with checkered top hat NPC.
Beautiful Ninja
Member
Hooray Squeenix, you did a good thing. 4k downsampled Lightning is my Christmas present from you.
That's nice.
But it still baffles me how they seem to be unable to just query the OS for supported resolutions. I mean, the engine is apparently fine with rendering at whatever resolution you want, so it just seems incredibly shortsighted to me to limit it to an arbitrary set of them.
Adding those new resolutions manually and adding code to check if the monitor actually supports it and then changing to the maximum supported resolution seems like a lot of unnessecary work...
BONKERS
Member
SE is run by Monkeys that's why.
Now if only they'd patch in higher than 1080p resolutions and a true full screen mode for Type-0 if they aren't going to be not dumb and support arbitrary resolutions.
Perfect.
Good thing I didn't start working on it because I saw the resolution entry a week ago in the changelist. Would have been a lot of wasted time 
SteamDB is so useful.
I don't get why they hardcode resolutions, but with it going up to 4k now it's not a huge deal any more, particularly since the game supports real AA.
SteamDB is so useful.
I don't get why they hardcode resolutions, but with it going up to 4k now it's not a huge deal any more, particularly since the game supports real AA.
GhostTrick
Banned
Good thing I didn't start working on it because I saw the resolution entry a week ago in the changelist. Would have been a lot of wasted time
SteamDB is so useful.
I don't get why they hardcode resolutions, but with it going up to 4k now it's not a huge deal any more, particularly since the game supports real AA.
No down sampling supported I think :/
I very highly doubt that. If you e.g. use DSR and set your desktop resolution to 4k before launching the game it would be very hard to detect that you're not on a 4k monitor. And even if they do, whatever they use to detect it could easily be intercepted by e.g. GeDoSaTo.
I'll start playing the game soon so I'll report back.
Will GeDoSaTo be able to disable the HUD like in the previous two games?
Thanks in advance
Vincent Grayson
Member
How the hell do we change resolution? And if I try to launch it without Steam Cloud on, it still gives the same "requires Steam Cloud" message.
You can change the resolution from the bar on the top of the window.
Just checked and I'm still forced to have Steam Cloud on too, not that I care but just wanted to report that it's not fixed yet.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Oh right, I forgot about the weird menu at the top, thanks.
Great, now I can buy it, kinda bad it's not arbitrary tho'. I hope for DQH to receive the same treatment, but I'm doubtful.
GhostTrick
Banned
I was wrong it seems. Downsampling seems to be supported. But yeah; with DSR/VSR, you could still set up your desktop resolution to the one you want; althought not the best way to enjoy your games.
Don't be stressed about the time limit. Even players who are taking their time and doing every single quest will end up with a lot of extra time. In fact, I did a run where I never used Chronostasis and I still had too many days left at the end of the game.
New players typically don't realize three game-changing things:
1) You have a lot more time than the game says you do. Just by playing the game, you gain more time--so completionists are actually rewarded, not punished.
2) It's actually to your benefit to NOT use Chronostasis, as you gain access to more quests and better items/upgrades only if you allow the days to lapse. If you abuse Chronostasis, you may end up imbalancing the game for yourself (in a way that will make the game more difficult).
3) Even if you somehow do run out of time (pretty confident this has never happened to anyone), doing so will allow you to do New Game+. You won't lose any character progress.
Oh, and another tip I have for new players is to check out all the different zones early. LR is not a "clear one zone and move on to the next" game. The game is non-linear--you're meant to pick and choose what you want to do. If you're bored of an area or you've hit a wall, move on. There are important game-changing items and abilities that are only available from specific zones, so you'll be making the game difficult for yourself if you stick in one zone for too long.
Not sure if I agree with 2). The major bosses all get a stat boost past a certain number of days.
Yeah, you get potentially stronger as the days go by, but so do the enemies.
Agreed that a best practice is to go out exploring though. Even Luxerion alone sorta shoos you away by gating events to a specific time.
Yeah, you get potentially stronger as the days go by, but so do the enemies.
Agreed that a best practice is to go out exploring though. Even Luxerion alone sorta shoos you away by gating events to a specific time.
JoeyJungle
Banned
Woohoo! Just saw the new patch, glad this came out right as I'm wrapping up XIII-2!
Edit:
Anyone know if this has the 2560x1440 bug that XIII and XIII-2 had?
Edit:
Anyone know if this has the 2560x1440 bug that XIII and XIII-2 had?
artsi
Member
They say it in a silly way, actually it just downsamples to the desktop resolution or window size if you have scaling enabled from the settings. Like it did before the patch too.
I'm using that to play in 4K, I don't notice much any difference to DSR to bother switching desktop resolutions. Just set scaling to standard instead of advanced which screws up the IQ.
BONKERS
Member
In the pre patch state. Anything higher than my native broke the weird windowed mode vsync they have going on in Windows 7 and reduced the framerate to sub 30 with tons of tearing.
Even though displayed at native res and using that same higher than native setup through the game with scaling or without scaling had zero issue.
I fixed the incompatibility issues which prevented GeDoSaTo from working with LR.
I also added a hudless screenshot PSHash which seems to work well.
The game seems surprisingly fun so far. Solid performance (at 4k) helps.
I also added a hudless screenshot PSHash which seems to work well.
The game seems surprisingly fun so far. Solid performance (at 4k) helps.
I fixed the incompatibility issues which prevented GeDoSaTo from working with LR.
I also added a hudless screenshot PSHash which seems to work well.
The game seems surprisingly fun so far. Solid performance (at 4k) helps.
Someone worked on a no HUD patch for like a week and now on Christmas you come and deliver in 5 minutes hahha.
Merry Christmas and thanks once again!
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
Doubt it. these XIII games are a crapshoot and it doesn't really matter what your specs are. The recommended fixes don't seem to work for everyone.
I've only played with the patched version, but basically there are predictable loading stutters (like in many games), and some framepacing issues in cutscenes, but performance is very consistent outside of that. It's certainly not (seemingly) random like with the other 2 parts of the trilogy.
Well, I had access to GeDoSaTo, which is a pretty good tool for such things
I don't think it's fair to put LR in the same category as the other games, performance-wise. Outside of loading stutters the performance is very consistent. And it makes sense, unlike 13 and 13-2's.
I's also obvious from how the game interacts with the graphics API that it was ported very differently (and, I guess it's fair to say, better) than its predecessors.
ss_lemonade
Member
The latest update still has the diagonal tearing issue I get. Basically destroys image quality and is probably the worst type of tearing I've ever seen.
Also is it just me or does 3840x2160 not look as good as other games downsampled from that resolution?
Also is it just me or does 3840x2160 not look as good as other games downsampled from that resolution?
R10Neymarfan
Member
don't forget the playstation button mod yoshi
Yup. Steam community always comes through wit da buttons.
Well, I had access to GeDoSaTo, which is a pretty good tool for such things
I was able to learn from bits and pieces from your code for my own stuff. This was the first time I've ever injected my own code into another process' address space and it's pretty sweet. I can't stop messing with the DX calls to try and do weird things now.
Thanks for putting your code up on github.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
what ever they did, it's given me an opposite result in this game-- solid in battle, stuttery in the field. But hey, I'll take that.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
To celebrate Light's new job, here are some pics of her in her fabulous Midnight Mauve dress:
don't remember if I've posted this before but this preset for reshade is pretty neat, adds more colors to the game, might look a bit saturated but I really like it since the game looks pretty washed out
woo was waiting for this! thanks man
I fixed the incompatibility issues which prevented GeDoSaTo from working with LR.
I also added a hudless screenshot PSHash which seems to work well.
The game seems surprisingly fun so far. Solid performance (at 4k) helps.
woo was waiting for this! thanks man
Is Dualshock 4 plug n play with PC or do you need some sort of software like with the DS3?
Can you just plug in the DS4 and use it?
after days of search , finally found POLYDOG
where did you find the moogle ? not the dress, the Moogle it self.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
At night in the Wildlands the Moogle village opens up. You'll even find some moogles outside the village
thanks , found it
but , what i do when i am there ?
i can't find anyone to talk to , should i wear the moogle dress ?
edit: found it , but now i am searching for the lost moogles
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