abandon hope, all ye who enter here
Why was the ending so shit?
>>736653297Now that I'm done with CCC I'm tempted to start thisHow hard is it to complete the story as a f2p? I don't really care about engaging in the gacha.
>>736653297I really wish it was just a VN. I like the story, but the gameplay is just really fucking ass after all these years
>>736653297context?
>>736654304Old school / old gacha. A lot more hardcore gacha rates and etc . Compared to ZZZ , Arknights and etc
>>736653297you're like a decade late bro
>>736653727>How hard is it to complete the story as a f2p?Not that hard really. The game itself finally got some QoL that accelerates story completion and the fights barring a handful aren't too hard. Just make some friends with certain servants on their support.
>>736654423>Not that hard reallyUnless you are fighting Lostbelt bosses
>>736653727best way to get into it now would be just buy a cheap account since it usually has a good amount of resources and possibly some good servants you would want.
>>736653727The game's support system (letting you borrow one character from another player before each battle) is going to be very useful, to be specific look out for a high level Berserker Heracles with the Castle of Snow CE (lets him revive several times per battle for free) which will carry you through pretty much all of Part 1 singlehandedly, though you may want to keep a guide open during Camelot and Babylonia because some of the boss gimmicks can cripple you if you don't see them coming, for example sometimes a boss will just open with an NP with Ignore Invincible that will wipe your frontline for story reasons. Part 2 is significantly harder and will have several walls, most notably in 5-2 and 7. You may have to rely significantly on command spells and Leyline Stones (given out frequently to help people through the story).You'll have to engage in the gacha to some extent, but you'll never need to pay real money. The game will throw quartz at you as a new player, so just use it on whatever the current banner unit is who is probably going to be pretty good (never, ever roll the Story banner) and build a team around them. I don't remember if they still give you a free 5* ticket, but if they do then pick El-Melloi II who is a universal support that's still good to this day despite being a launch character.I should also warn you that a not insignificant amount of the story is tied to limited time events since the entire game was released in real time, some of which you can still play within the game and some of which are gone forever. You'd better look up a recommended play order and watch stuff on Youtube if you can't get them in the Main Interlude shop. For an early Part 1 example, chapter 4 foreshadows the KnK crossover event, which leads into the Dantes Prison Tower event which introduces Dantes and Nightingale, one of which is a recurring character throughout the rest of the game and one of which is a main character in chapter 5.1987/2000.
>>736654698They have some track record of banning sold accounts. I would avoid them
Why was the ending so kino?
>>736653727>>736654853The real question is; should you? And my answer is "probably not". There are definitely some good moments and an excellent soundtrack but there are a lot of "buts" to throw out first. The early game (often agreed to be the first three chapters of Part 1, some argue everything before chapter 6) is genuinely bad. Not just in terms of gameplay (Orleans will drive you mad with random waves of wyverns interrupting dialogue for the thirtieth time) but in terms of story, being full of plot holes and characters who only show up on screen to advertise their presence in the gacha. It's mobileslop in the worst way. It does improve quite suddenly in Camelot but just be aware of the Great Filter. The other problem is it's just incredibly fucking long, especially so with all the events and side material you need to consume (Draco's event will need you to look up a fan translation of FGO Arcade's story for context, for example). You're looking at multiple hundreds of hours of time invested that could be much more profitably spent reading half a dozen excellent VNs that can fit more than two lines of text on a screen. Personally, I played the game for seven years (from launch day up until dropping the game somewhere around summer 2024) and can't really recommend it. Again there are some great moments but on the whole, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze.
>>736655090Shouldn't this new Mash be basically 100% a completely different person from our Mash?For all we know Nu-Mash is a true Clocktower mage and evil and shit.
>>736653727There literally is a check late in the main story that tells you to sit the fuck down and grind for a fucking year or two leveling up every useless trash tier servant because it's incompletable without throwing them at it as fodder. Get cockblocked piggie.After all the blatant whalecheck fights I was just fucking tired of that bullshit.Event farming is also absolute ass with the lotto events that are the most grindy literally being a P2W whalecheck.Also don't fucking believe all the disingenuous fucks that have been at this game since close to launch and have "everything" as F2P. Your account in methodically crippled compared to theirs lacking extremely powerful free units and craft essences that are no longer available.If you start now, only expect Unlimited Cope Works to be you entire fucking life.>But there is this and that catch-up mechanic. Shut the fuck up. It's not even nearly enough to matter and you fucking know that you oldfag elitist dipshits. I played this miserable pile of shit game. It's an endless humiliation ritual because of the classic Nip gacha game design of spoil the oldfags and torment all newer players.
>>736653297that's hell you're walking into
>>736655562>I played this miserable pile of shit game. It's an endless humiliation ritual because of the classic Nip gacha game design of spoil the oldfags and torment all newer players.Best way to describe this game's gacha designs. Yeah
>>736654698>>736654910There doesn't even seem to be accounts on ebay like a few years ago. Did the developer crack down somehow? Not sure how they would track account selling even if they're going by IP, considering people can move countries
>>736653297does this imply there are multiple kanyes who would enter there?
>>736655562Bro, if you're just playing for the story you can just spam quartz revives. I think they even added non-quartz items that revive you. Or get a friend's support and charge their NP with command spells, that alone can end fights.>lotto eventsWho cares? We're talking about playing the story here
Fucking K I N O STORYI live this golden man
>>736653297I played Fate Stay Night for the first time recently and thought I'd give FGO a try, I've played a bunch of gacha games so I don't particularly mind the format.Good GOD is this the worst game I've ever played, it has a pity of 330 doubled with atrocious rates, so it's not even like Blue Archive where you get a bunch of decent spooks along the way, it's just the worst of both worlds, 99% of the time the gacha just fucks you.Also the client itself is just dogshit and ancient and you have problems like being unable to download game data while your phone screen is off for some retarded reason.There's no auto battle system, I tried farming a bit of this current crossover event but you need to manually use all your skills and pick attack in the exact same battles over and over and over again, it's incredibly tedious.Maybe the story gets good later on? Right now it's kind of meh and not presented in a particularly exciting way.I was trying to understand why it was so popular for so long but fuck me, it's just a genuinely terrible game even by gacha standards, you'd think they'd have done something to try and compete with modern offerings but nope.I feel like there'd be a decent market for people with lower powered or weaker phones too who just want a game with simpler graphics, but fuck this, what the fuck even is this?
>>736655562Maybe you just fucking sucks at this game.My f2p account who isn't even 1 year old finished all content by only using story supports.>Your account in methodically crippled compared to theirs lacking extremely powerful free units and craft essences that are no longer available.You can buy them in shop retard, straight up and the more you wait to start, the more are addedYou fucking suck in a gacha game and should be ashamed of it
>>736657173>You can buy them in shop retardFor money, no? / Or being whale
>>736657061This is your current gachafag, who cant even play the game without wanting to be spoiled by it like a baby.Such a pathetic being that thinks swiping the card will make the game easy for them, but they don't know that in FGO there is no P2W and you will have to play to advance your characters.>>736657241Literal items that you can get by logging in/finishing story chapters/buying in events for event currencies.It is all free retard, no money involved, only in-game currency
>>736653297>tfw I started playing a few months after original release>tfw I experienced many highs and lowsMore than a fucking decade later, I'm still here, waiting for some Servants to leave NPC jail (Agravain, Surtr, Akechi Mitsuhide mostly), to be finally playable (datamined Proto-Gilgamesh, Proto-Perseus and HA Perseus) or to be created (give me fucking Hagen, give me Polish Servants like Copernicus, Jan III Sobieski, Jan Zizka or Zawisza the Black, give me Arsène Lupin, etc.)
>>736657373>and you will have to grind to advance your characters.Why is this a good thing?
>just have Castoria for Arts, Skadi+Summer Skadi for Quick and Vitch+Oberon for Buster
>>736657539Because that is the gameplay loop: the more you grind the more resources you get and your characters gets stronger. And the game allows you to pick your favorites and put them beyond their limits like no other game can.>>736657481>Fuck you Akechi Mitshide cuck, this is TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI BOARD
>>736653337Nasu is a hack. Never believe VNfag lies.
>>736657658It's not "the gameplay loop"It's player retention, if it was a gameplay loop then grinding wouldn't be timegated.The only good part of the game as far as I can tell is the story, but you could just play the VN and get a far better experience without all of the tedious timewasting.
>>736656961Now get through the ORT wall you disingenuous pile of shit. Also enjoy the fucking slog every event is to play because you neither is an old player not a fucking whale to quickfarm.You are awfully silent about how you have to play a far worse game if you are neither an oldfag or a whale. Fuck off.>>736657173You don't know shit you starry eyed newfag.Nice job taking every bait and eating up all the copium you are fed by even the community. May your fucking frontal lobe develop soon.
>>736657173How many leyline stones did you use?
>>736659839>Now get through the ORT wall you disingenuous pile of shit.nta but as someone who only picked up the game last november because I was curious about the fairy lostbelt ORT is actually pretty damn easy as a new players since by the time you get there you should have more than enough resources to level your shitters for the raid boss section since midway through they get a huge buff to their base stats which means even level ones can scratch him. After that raid boss bit it's trivial to lol lmao you way through the rest of the fights with the pile of leyline stones the game drowns a new player in.
>>736660438Why are you coping dipshits trying to lie this fucking desperately?
>>736660107How much bread have you eaten in your life?
>>736660693I don't need to lie since as pic related shows I have less than a years worth of logins, idk bro maybe you just have a skill issue
>>736659839You are retarded.Check this out, me beating ORT with a lvl 40 servant. Wooooowie so hard, I had to play for fifteen billion years to beat the game because a retard like you has skill issue and can't play the game like normal people would
>>736660107Two in the daybit angel fights, not a single stone before and after that.
>>736655562skill issue lmao
>>736657061>Good GOD is this the worst game I've ever played, it has a pity of 330 doubled with atrocious rates, so it's not even like Blue Archive where you get a bunch of decent spooks along the way, it's just the worst of both worlds, 99% of the time the gacha just fucks you.This is why I always laugh at people saying Blue Archive has bad rates. Like bro, I started playing BA last year when it went on PC and it's been generous with the pity and how many pyros you get compared to FGO.
anything meta to roll for this year?
>>736660952And also Olga Marie quest 2, but since you are terrible at this game, my party composed of 1/3 of free event servants (that I bought in the shop) still managed to beat Olga quests.You just fucking sucks at a FUCKING GACHA GAME. Embarrassing
>>736660894Sakura mogs
>>736653297Fgo always had shit writing The glazers are mentally ill >DUDE LE HECKIN BABYLONIA LOST BELT 6 IS PEAK>Fgo ends in ntr shit Kek
>>736661167Xu Fu spotted, based.
>>736661383She practically solo ORT in the final phase, but according to the retard above you need twenty 5 star servants to beat it and the blessing of multiple priests because the fight is too hard, so a three star can practically solo it
I'll admit though that there doesn't seem like much of a point in sticking around as a new players since it's just waiting around for two years in order to build up to a meh at best ending
>>736654641A support caster artoria along with a class advantage arts servant and your own support Xu Fu is enough for like 99% of "hard" fights.
>>736659839>the ORT wallThe only hard part of ort not having weaker phones fucking die during the saucer fighter. The actual fight is one of the easier LB fights.
>>736661071Generally speaking, there's two options for gacha pity these days.Either you go for something like BA where the pull rates are high, but the odds to get the banner pull are low, so you dump your 200 spins and get a bunch out of it and eventually what you want.Or you do the Genshin thing where rates are very low, but pity is also low, and pity will guarantee the banner character with at the very most, one failure.FGO has extremely low pull rates plus extremely high pity, it's doing absolutely nothing for the player whatsoever.
>>736661167Nice fucking self report with all those gold cards LMFAO
>>736662458Report that he is a F2Poor? Because like half of those are welfares and 4*s.
>>736662458nigga u dum
>>736661167>Grailed Duryostrangely based
Mo(u)mmy
>>736653297This shit wasn't worth it
>Nuuuu come back bro the game is totally less shit than it was the year you played it to endgame! >Nuuuu getting strongarmed into cluttering your account with useless trash to meet an account size check IN A MANDATORY STORY FIGHT is totally not what it looks!>Please bro give us a chance! You retards are something else. No I won't play your shovelware and the franchise can fucking die with this kusoge.
>>736653297WAAHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT TIAMAT!!!GIB NPC JAIL SERVANTS!!!!!!!!!ONORE ARCADE!!!!!!!
ORT is gigakino
>>736660952>turn 3Not sure what exactly you are trying to flex here, but it's obvious that your level 40 servant has some sort of quest buffs.
>>736665325Do you play Fate/Grand Order? Did you fight ORT?
>>736665504I remember that it has no content after LB6
>build up the big bad of your VN/vidya universe for over 20 years>waste it on gachaThis must be some kind of crime.
>>736661552I might quit, game is in maintanence mode now and not much to look forward to in next 2 years besides a shitty ending
>>736665869the speed-up will save us
>>736665847The world is basically dead by the time he would actually appear and other than chaldea there really isnt any normal human aligned characters to fight spider.
>game has been out for 10 years>still plays the earliest iterations of gachaAt least FGO Arcade innovated slightly but holy fuck, it amazes me to no end that Type Moon can just do fuck all and still make millions.
>>736666178I still hope beyond hope that Extella 3 will continue to improve.
What was the ending? Isn't the Japanese server still going?
>>736666178BUT ARCADE HAS EVERYTHING I WANT!!ITS NOT FAIR!!
>>736666292MC becomes wageslave
>>736666443Okay, but that doesn't actually explain anything. Everyone expected that, what else did you think was going to happen? The entire story is about him being an average, everyday guy.
Can they just make an anime if this that has the hottest girls? I don't want to play this shit game but I still want to see what the source material for the doujins I fap to is all about.
They already did, multiple times
Who's in it?
Did the NA server stay forever 2 years behind? Are people still coping about FGO 2?Is the game still 9 shit stories out of 10?Is Sakurai still writing?Are story updates still like twice a year?Why are people still playing this?
When are we getting a Fate character in Smash Bros? Saber for Smash? Archer? Gil? ….Jalter for Smash?
>>736668285Yes, NA is still 2 years behind. The only things where they jumped ahead were for certain QoL updates and for Fate/Strange Fake where they gave them Lionheart a year early.
>>736666284>Extella 3Excuse me, am I missing something?
>>736669565Extella is supposed to be 3 games. Nasu said he fully intends to make them but FGO monopolized his time
>>736669565Extra , Extra CCC , Extella , Extella Link
>>736669614Nasu can say whatever the fuck he wants, it doesn't matter. He also said he wanted to remake F/E but then their publisher told them to fuck off, after they already announced everything.
>>736669614Man, I liked those musou-like games, so I had hopes I just missed an announcement.>>736669654Yeah thanks, so I wasn't missing anything afaik.
>>736669513>Male servant trashno thanks
Even as a f2p you can get welfare servants and some of them are really strong like Kintoki rider or Shiki. And it's not like you don't have a chance to get any 5-star servants, I have 35 of them.You just have to be very careful who you roll for.
>>736654853>>736655113Events are not important outside of CCC, which is no longer time-locked
>>736670925The important ones are the 50% charger supports since they make the grind much more bearable. Waver is basically a welfare servant to this point.
>>736659839ORT is piss easy, even just a three man team of low star shitters like Phantom can take one of the healthbars. The real filter was Cernunnos
>>736669614I don't really care for musou shit where the only punchline is SEX SEX SEX SEX!!GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!!!ITS JUST LIKE THE ROM COMS YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING FOR 40 YERARS!
>>736672789All great things! Also SERAPH is a kino setting Idk what Nasu smokes to come up with something so retarded, but it must be great. And all the lounge music is cool too.
>>736669565I don't want more musou shit, give me RPGs
>>736672667>Raise the shitters!No. I will not get baited into wasting my resources on the cope trash. Fuck this game and fuck Nasu.
>>736653297>turning off their popular cash-cowWhat's the catch? Is there are new gatcha in the works? With better gameplay I hope, I could never get into FGO due to how simplistic it looked/played.
>>736653297Have they retconned the ending yet?
This entire thread is filled to the brim with mentally diseased gachaslaves.
>>736653337A. Nasu just shit the bed.B. Nasu realized making Olga the villan would leave a bad taste so made Maris out of nowhere.C. Nasu wanted to give a good ending and Aftertime is going to explore Olga's role in it.My headcanon is that it was C and Olga/Maris were the same being and that Olga will still have to be beaten and Unbeasted to close out things.
>>736659839ORT really isn't that bad. You just need to play slightly smarter if you have less Servants. But even trying to expend as many servants as possible for fun, I didn't even get halfway through mine before he died.
>>736657061https://github.com/Fate-Grand-Automata/FGAhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.fate_grand_automata&hl=en_USThis is more useful for those that have have teams that can efficient NP loop the entire waves, but this app is useful form auto play especially form farming lottery materials
>>736665847>>736666082The game story itself said it was a 'subspecies' of ORT, not even the Proper/Pan History ORT which is much stronger. Not only that, you only fight a heavily weakened recovering ort that doesn't even have itself original power source (which would allow it to instantly wipe everything out)And even then, it could only be beaten for good by an aspect of ort
>>736653337I can't shit on Nasu. His good stuff is very very good but when he shits the bed, he sure as heck shits it up all the way. It's honestly amazing how bad the ending to part 2 of FGO was. Nasu isn't even writing for it anymore so I don't know why he just shat up the ending and left. Honestly, what he did to Sion in the ending is what made me mad as fuck.
>>736674007I guess if you're very new and trying to speedrun the game or rarely logged in for events it would suck yeah. But I think if you just played it naturally over the years you'd have more than enough to level all the characters by now.
>>736674215The catch is that it just keeps going anyway with meme AU shit
>>736653337Ending was written/planned years ago, but the arc dragged out so long that the ending couldn't work with the stuff added for the 8 years since it was written.
>>736653297I spent $320 on this game a few days ago to get my wife some NP levels and only got one copy at pity. Fuck this game.
>>736677420lol, lucklet.This is why people save up at least 1k quartz before rolling and only spend during GSSR.
>>736653337FGO is too profitable so they dragged out the ending by adding the meaningless ordeal call, and by the time the actual ending came out so much time had passed
>>736653297
I think Nasu fully succeeded with the ending. It was so meme-able that everyone forgot how utterly pointless everything leading up to it was in hindsight. The Ordeal Calls? Actual Epic of Remnant-tier filler that didn't even make it into the credits. The Lostbelts? Never were about rewriting the world, they were just some power source. The return to Singularity F? Kirei clapbait and nothing else. Marisbury? Dead and just another autistic mage except that this one somehow pulled off like six final villain's worth of world ending shit as a footnote to end up like this (Don't question the logistics or how he did any of that). The final raids? A complete rehash of Solomon's "EVERYONE IS HERE, PLEASE CLAP". The literal recreation of the Root? Acts like a whiny bitch and does nothing before jobbing to (You).
>>736653297literally the best gacha game in existence
Are you going to roll summer NAbros
>>736677873>Epic of Remnant-tier fillerDon't badmouth EoR. That actually served as a mostly solid epilogue to part 1 and brought us top tier stuff like CCC and Salem.
>>736677595NTA but you are the lucklet, I'm still going to quit this game
What the fuck is Nasu's problem?
>>736657373>having to grind out upgrade materials with no guaranteed drop and no way to automate it is GOOD, actually!you have to be some kind of fucking subhuman to genuinely enjoy playing fate still
>>736678395>tfw you have never rolled more than two SSRs at onceI've got a pretty good roster regardless, but man it would be nice to have screenies like that to show off.
>>736653297sex with shuten douji
>>736678392CamelotBabyloniaSolomonShinjuku CCCSalemLostbelt 1,5,6,7OC2There, I have listed all kino chapters of FGO. If you have played all of these you finished the game.
>>7366786735 completely shat the bed with Olympus though
>>736678673i also enjoyed this murder at the hot spring event desu, aoko and alice sex >>736678745olympus was kino thoughbeit
Newest event story was fun
>>736678673>Lostbelt 1>Lostbelt 5>Salem>GoodLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>736678673Missing a few of the better events(arcade was great for instance and some of the gudagudas and summer events) and some of those chapters are borderline, otherwise I largely agree
>>736678857Salem was great thoughbeit. Gaijin was great addition.
>>736678553best I got was 2 SSRs, this was the first time I had more than 2but I was F2P and spending the rest of my SQ since I wasn't planning to spend more money, but seeing the state of JP post-ending made me think I should quit
>>736655562>There literally is a check late in the main story that tells you to sit the fuck down and grind for a fucking year or two leveling up every useless trash tier servant because it's incompletable without throwing them at it as fodder. Get cockblocked piggie.People have speedran it. With the welfare shop it does not take years.
>>736678862Yeah, I haven’t played all the events and if I included them there’d be so many, so I didn’t. The latest one on NA was pretty good I think.>>736678857Okay, let’s see your list then.
Where is she?
>>736678857You don't understandIt's good because of THE ROMANCE!!THE SHIPPING!!THE NOTHING HAPPENING!!PLOT IS SCARY!!!
>>736655562i bought an account for like $10 which had castoria and oberon and caught up to the current story (oc2) in 2 months bwo
>>736679181In a game that is >>736672789 that will naturally have terrible sales.
>>736679181In prison, like Violet. Full sakuraset never ever.
>>736661090Ciel for the BB+Ciel meta, or BBC meta for short.
OC2 was actually much better than I expected, I didn't care for OC1 so I put it off for a while but I was pleasantly surprised
>>736677187FGO?
>>736679301GET TIAMAT OUT OF NPC JAIL!!!I DEMAND IT!!!!!
>>736668285>Did the NA server stay forever 2 years behind?Yes. Blame redditors who cry everytime there's a hint of speedup.>Is Sakurai still writing?Yes, sadly. More amphibian chapters when lasagna
>>736679290Samurai Remnant sold well though
>>736679494She has been since arcade? She even has an alt in JP at this point. >b-but that's larvaIt's the same thing.
>>736678673>5.2Nah senpai.>no imaginary scramble>no traum
>>736668285>sakuraiWe love her now after OC2 actually unc.
>>7366796795.2 was kino if only because of the Kirschtaria background. Haven’t played Imaginary Scramble yet and Traum was ok.
>>736679704If only she'd write more about the retarded sex goblin wifepic related.
>>736679780https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmRqdII0iwsIt's kino
>>736653337Nasu was never ever a good writer no matter what people try to say
>>736680216Indeed, how can he be a good writer if we don't even know about artoria's tax policy?
>>736676570What did they do to Sion in the ending?
>>736661090Louhi and Ciel are the standouts. The former is one of the best multicore DPS around even today and the latter is mostly valuable because you can pop her skill and then plug her out to give anyone a full set of cards. Otherwise it's honestly a pretty skippable year. Yui Shosetsu was also pretty standout for a 4* support but you already missed her.