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[Egan_BW]

No, it's awesome either way.

[Nighthawk]

I watched some gameplay, and my biggest complaint from what I saw is not how animu it is, but how positively weightless the combat feels. To compare it to Monster Hunter again, MH makes you really feel like you're slamming a huge weapon into a massive beastie when you land a hit, thanks to use of hitstop, screenshake, and other similar bits of polish.

In this game, the characters are swinging humongous swords around like they're toothpicks, and every attack is sliding through the enemies like they're made of butter rather than flesh.

Maybe I've just been spoiled by those awesome impact-simulating effects in other games, but damn, watching combat gameplay from God Eater is like watching a kid slap at a pinata.

[chaoticag]

Bean playing it some. The combat is a lot faster paced than monster hunter. You can expect hunts to end in 3 minutes if you do a good job, compared to the five minutes I tend to mentally set as my par time in Monster hunter. To kinda compensate, monsters seem pretty damaging for their weight class so far. You get to bring people back up if they run out of hp, but I'm assuming if there is a party wipe it's just straight up game over despite having 50 endurance.

Couple differences worth mentioning. Dashing doesn't seem to have invulnerability frames like you have in monster hunter, so positioning is key. Monster tells are generally shorter too, so you do need good reactions as opposed to good timing you'd need in monster hunter. I feel way too used to dodging, so I keep mashing the dodge button, but it does seem as though guarding is the way to go if you wanna survive something. Assuming you guard on time anyway. Mistimed a block and the attack went from fatal to mostly fatal. If you get the timing right seems you just negate all damage.

Speaking of shields, looks like shields are what determines defense, while clothing is entirely cosmetic.

Something else I appreciate so far is it seems the inventory management is automatic in God eater. Monster and gathered materials go right to storage, bullets don't need to be stocked up on, that sorta thing. Makes jumping into missions take less time than jumping into hunts in monster hunter, as everyone checks their mewonster hunters, tries to figure out what food to eat, deposits their items, and so on.

So yeah, it's in the same vein as monster hunter, but it comes at the whole thing from a different angle, aiming for more action than management. Downtime in single player gets filled with story segments instead of gathering quests, so you end up with lectures on why things are as they are instead of collect 5 unique mushrooms.

In the end though, it does scratch a different itch than what monster hunter does, and that's kinda hard to deny.

[majikero]

Aww yes. God Eaters.

I'll be getting this for my Vita.

[Furtuka]

Kinda look like it's not female to begin with, tbh. Might just be the brightness on my screen, I'unno.

I actually find it funny the actual excuse they created as to why ONLY god eaters can fight them

But if god eaters need to connect to weapons made from beasts, then how was the first beastie killed? o_O

Scavenging, probably. Harvested the corpse of one that something else killed. Alternately, a lot of people died shaving off some chunks of one and then playing Death Keepaway long enough to get away with the prize. Or time travel, I guess. The first was killed by eaters from the future.

According to lore the first God Arcs were tiny pistol ones created from the cores of mouse sized Aragami and they just gradually worked they way up from there.

Specifically the monsters in this setting adapt too quickly to be affected by conventional weaponry and thus either become highly resistant, immune, and/or regenerate almost instantly.

The weapons "adapt" instantly to what they are attacking and cause lasting damage.

Neo I've talked to you about this before

Ah yeah, they left out all the explanations for it then. Their ability to adapt is only a minor factor in it.

Spoiler: spoilered for convenience of post size (click to show/hide)

It's primarily cause the Aragami are actually massive colonies of single celled organisms called oracle cells centered around a core of oracle cells that command the other cells. While they do evolve rapidly, the reason for this is that the Aragami evolve memetically as opposed to genetically, as they gain information on the structures of things they consume, and then change form to mimic them. This has over time given them extraordinary defense, but that's not what makes them so terrifying.

The major cause of the immunity to normal weaponry is a result of that you cannot harm an Aragami since the Oracle Cells will just squish back together eventually unless the Core is somehow gotten rid of. This is what necessitates the God Arcs, as blade type God Arcs can use their devour ability to extract the core of a downed Aragami, causing the component Oracle Cells to lose cohesion without the commanding intelligence and dissociate into mist, though they'll likely eventually rejoin another colony afterwards.

The other primary difficulty is that the nature of the Oracle Cells is that they will just eat any material they come in contact with, including weapons (incidentally this is why nobody in God Eater bothers wearing armor).  God Arcs are also able to do longer lasting damage to Aragami since they themselves are small Aragami that have been shackled and are [lined with/shoot bullets made from] oracle cell structures that are strong enough to break the bonds between the target Aragami's Oracle Cells, while the bias factor chemical that controls what Aragami prefer to consume protects them and their wielders from immediately being eaten.

[Folly]

Any tips for bullet recipes? I'm having a very hard time figuring out how to make bombs work, and just understanding the system in general.

[Trapezohedron]

I have a bunch of bullet recipes I used. I nabbed these off the God Eater wiki but will post em here. Mind you, I haven't played GE2RB yet; still clearing Resurrection.

Resurrection Recipes:

Spoiler: Lightspeed HDH (click to show/hide)

HDH stands for Head Direct Hit. This is a bullet that fires straight up, and yet never misses to aim at a target's centrepoint from above, which typically means it will hit most heads of the target if fired from the front, or at least hitting Kongou's pipes or Gboro-Gboro's back fin, among other things.

Step by step what happens:
1. Fires a Deco Laser (a shot that doesn't hurt or collide with entities except solid surfaces) straight up
2. Upon 1's fading, shoots a Normal Rapid Round from where 1 fades (it costs 0 OP) to extend its height further.
3. Upon 2's fading, shoots a stationary orb that aims at foes where 2 fades at, pointed 30 degrees below so it's looking down (120 degrees down). This disappears after around 0.5 seconds.
4. After 0.2 seconds upon creation of the orb, the orb aims at the target to shoot a sniper round that strengthens over distance (which is why it's shot upwards for maximum damage). Due to the involvement of a sniper round to hit at a target, it never misses.
5. Shoots a basic M damage shot at point blank when the sniper round hits.
6. Creates a damaging M orb that clings on the target when 5 hits. This in effect automatically sticks to the target for around 0.5 seconds.
7. Shoots a basic SS damage shot at point blank after 0.2 seconds of the orb spawning (it doesn't have to cling to actually fire something, but shots will be fired wherever it is at)
8. Shoots a basic M damage shot at point blank when the SS damage shot hits.

Spoiler: Quick Meteor (click to show/hide)

A variant of the ever-popular/hated Meteor bullet that uses a knockback mechanism to propel yourself to safety, as well as summoning two LL-sized bombs to fall from above for significant damage. At midgame (post God Eater EP1 arc), this can deal about 5000-7000 per LL bomb that hits over a target's weakpoint. Do note that if it isn't shot over a weakpoint or an unbounded body part, it will deal very lackluster damage for its costs. Only really possible to use on Blast-type weapons. The quick comes from its almost immediate arrival into the battlefield so less overhead and telegraphing is needed.

Spoiler: Trident (click to show/hide)

Tridents abuse Deco Lasers and the fact that they have no proper hitboxes to collide with bullets to create three radials firing forward for a wider range and larger damage. Useful for breaking crushing-type weak armor.

Keyboard Controls: Holding Left Alt + Directional Key will allow you to select modules to edit or to copy. Use this to mass-change the element of modules to create other elemental variants quickly.

[Ygdrad]

Nude monster hunters when.

Soon, probably. Some of these characters are not wearing much to begin with, if you haven't noticed.

Soon, definitely. Some modder is likely already on it.

[ChairmanPoo]

Geralt is the only monster hunter I need ! 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Neonivek]

Geralt is the only monster hunter I need ! 

Really? But he is so devoid of character and gets naked with girls at the drop of a hat... and is a total player of the field... and is a Mary Sue.

[Folly]

Thanks Trapez! That explanation of mechanics is exactly what I needed!

[Egan_BW]

Geralt is the only monster hunter I need ! 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

nope

Where's the beard? Can't have a handsome man without the beard. Just look at Next Generation!