[Fate/Grand Order] All-around Discussions

astroprogs said:

Lancelot in that fight gets a passive that allows him to gain Ruler-class advantages. He receives half damage from all classes except Berserkers, Rulers and Avengers. J. Alter is the best Servant in the game to use in that fight.

Aight, sent a friend request.

KaiserNazrin said:
GudaGuda event rerun. Great for those who missed this. If only I have enough quartz to roll for anything. I am pretty sure there will be an event better gacha after this one. GudaGuda part 2 maybe.

astroprogs said:
Nobu and Okita will get an animation update as well. Inb4 they remove SFX of Okita's sonic boom.

Rejoice, @mira-pyon your dream of a lvl 80 Nobu shall finally come true.

Also, yay, can't wait to waste all my quartz on not getting Okita.

Nyarlathothep said:
@astroprogs

My username over there is pretty much the same as here xD

Think about which one you want most?
Personally, I have a friend ready to yell at me if I try to roll in a wrong gacha (Well, he already kinda did), since he knows which Servant I absolutely want. I should ask him to keep an eye on me everytime there is a new tempting gacha, just in case Haha

I see. And is it possible to go beyond level 100?

Nyarlathothep said:

Think about which one you want most?

ShinsoPriest said:
I wonder what Arcueid Alter would look like.

astroprogs said:


Alter Arc, eh?
I'd say she's an Arc who watched way too many low-imdb rated movies, caught Shiki too many times on regular dates with Sion, curry dates with Ciel and illegal dates but not really with Akiha, said " FUCK IT!" and drank of the very first innocent bystander, which happened to be Yumizuka.

Genkii said:


THAT strangely made me excited in my pants. I'd read the shit out of that doujinshi and maybe fap to it.





Wat

ShinsoPriest said:

Wouldn't that just make a plain Warcueid though

Nyarlathothep said:
Soooo, when coming back from work, I was a bit hype because the Guda Guda event would begin on 15th March, which is it already is in Japan but .. Still not there :'(

ShinsoPriest said:

Wouldn't that just make a plain Warcueid though

astroprogs said:

It's supposed to start 9 PM of the 15th IIRC, so 4 hours from now.

astroprogs said:

It's supposed to start 9 PM of the 15th IIRC, so 4 hours from now.


Well, yeah. Alter Arc can only result from being unable/unwilling to suppress her vampiric urges. There's nothing the grail mud would make her do that she wouldn't do herself under no self-control.
"All The World's Evil? Now that's just precious."

ShinsoPriest said:

FGO already shown that the grail mud doesn't need to be involved to make an Alter version. And Warcueid is just a berserked Arcueid. Saying she's Alter is a boring cop out that shows a lack of imagination. Arc Alter would be an Arcueid with opposite beliefs, not just letting loose her vampiric urges.

ShinsoPriest said:
Though really I'm more interested in how they'd make Arc Alter look. Make her into a black woman? Lol, idk what silly thing they would think up.

astroprogs said:

For men they go darker. For women, they go paler.

Nyarlathothep said:
Personally, I have a friend ready to yell at me if I try to roll in a wrong gacha (Well, he already kinda did), since he knows which Servant I absolutely want. I should ask him to keep an eye on me everytime there is a new tempting gacha, just in case Haha

Nyarlathothep said:


In fact it should be the other way around : He spends waaaay too much money in this game, pretty much like in this South Park episode about game addiction O___o


This event comes at the perfect time for me : I needed another Archer to have a full team of Archers against dem Camelot Sabers and I needed items to Ascend many Servants :3
Nobunaga is not the Archer I wanted but the one I needed and deserved (As a Mongrel)

Frostbite_ said:
Jesus
What archers do you have for a full team? Nobu and Orion + who?

Shiokawa: By the way, I calculated the total volume of text from the prologue until now. If you count the main story, events, and interludes, it reached 2 million characters. It still doesn’t count miscellaneous flavor text, so it must be more than that.

4Gamer: At full-width text, that would be around 4 MB. I think Tsukihime and Fate/stay night are also around that range. Even if the text is split between characters, that’s still an unbelievable amount.

4Gamer: Next, I’d like to ask about the skills. In particular, “Clairvoyance”, “Instinct”, and “True Name Discernment” get attention for not being very useful.

Shiokawa: When managing the game, it’s extremely difficult to balance characters and skills when new ones keep getting added all the time. Still, I’m aware of those opinions.

Nasu: I think “Instinct” is pretty useful when you max it out. But then again, it’s a lot of effort to get it that high. Regarding “Clairvoyance”, we’re trying to put in subtle differences between the Servants who get it. But we can’t really do anything about “True Name Discernment” because of the system in place… Oh, Jeanne…

4Gamer: Well, it is unique to her…

Nasu: Jeanne’s “True Name Discernment” is supposed to be her strongest appeal as a character, so we can’t exactly make it too powerful or completely overhaul it. So within the year, I’d like to see an event where we can go “It’s Jeanne’s turn now! Her ‘True Name Discernment’ is super strong this time!” at least once.

4Gamer: [Takashi] Takeuchi must have felt exhausted from his illustration and CEO work too.

Nasu: I wonder about that. He should be a lot busier than I am, but he’s always drawing Arturia during his free time (laughs). We’re all busy with the main story and events and then he goes “Here, I drew ******** Arturia” out of nowhere. I’m jealous of how he manages to be busy with work and still find time to have fun.

4Gamer: Oh no, another Arturia…

4Gamer: Since the topic of skill levels has been brought up, I’d like to ask about the drop rates for items. I’m sure that all players know just how difficult it is to raise a Servant. You mentioned in your blog once regarding an “item budget”…

Nasu: What I meant by the item budget is just the average number of items you can get from an event. That number doesn’t include the drops you can get from free quests. With enough work, I’m sure anyone can get more items to drop, but on average, I think that most players would only be able to max out all skills for around 6 Servants every year. Put in another way, it’s more like “pick the 6 Servants you want to max out.”

4Gamer: Hmm, I see.

Nasu: FGO is set so that you can only use your limited resources on the characters that you really love. I don’t really want it to be too easy to raise all of the characters you have. I mean, you can’t really call that love anymore, can you?

4Gamer: By the way, what about the English-speaking community?

Shiokawa: I can’t say anything concrete yet, but we’re getting a lot of access abroad, and not just in English-speaking countries. They keep on playing even though you can only play in Japanese at the moment. We’re always wondering if there is something we can do for the players who are waiting for the game abroad.

4Gamer: Alright then, now let’s talk about the scenario. First off, is there any event from the past year and a half that really stuck with the two of you?

Shiokawa: It has to be Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Order.

Nasu: I’d also put Kara no Kyoukai in my top 3. Kara no Kyoukai is something like sacred ground for me, and it’s not at all simple to write a spinoff for something that’s already ended. As a writer, I had to find some sort of meaning to writing it.

Still, we had the Ogawa Apartments prepared as the event map, even got permission to use the music, and got the OK to make Shiki Ryougi as the giveaway character. I just had to do it. Normally you wouldn’t even consider having Shiki as the giveaway character, right?

4Gamer: I was honestly surprised that the main heroine was given away for free. (laughs)

Nasu: [...] There’s also Ishtar, who did a lot of work during Chapter 7. About her, Shizuki Morii’s illustrations were so lively that I wanted to give her more moments for her design to shine, even if her actions stray a tiny bit out of character.

4Gamer: Ereshkigal was really cute too.

Nasu: Oh, I include Ereshkigal when talking about Rin’s cuteness. “It’s been ten years, so I’ll make sure that you all remember how cute Rin Tohsaka is!”

4Gamer: Changing the topic for a bit, the event scenarios feel a bit more like fanfiction, or something that came from a fandisc. The swimsuit event is a good example of one of those events – was this intentional on your part?

Nasu: Yes, it is. The main story is quite serious, so we use the event scenarios to put in some comedy. If we make those serious too, it’ll be too heavy to play. There’s also this unspoken rule where we give the Servants which didn’t have much time to shine in the main story the spotlight in the events. We want to show a different side of the characters, or perhaps their daily lives, so players can dig deeper into them.

Shiokawa: Takeuchi told us that it was “like we were doing an April Fools’ prank,” and it really does feel like that.

4Gamer: I also found other curious things while rereading. Back in Chapter 6, the Lion King said that she “wants to preserve mankind for the future, even if it’s as biological specimens,” while in the final chapter, Goetia said that he “wishes to destroy mankind and recreate the planet from scratch.” In the end, the protagonist rejected both of their ideas, but what do you think about the paths they took?

Nasu: The differences in their thinking lay in the choices they made. “When mankind hits a dead end, do you pick the happiness of the whole, the individual, or someone else entirely?” They differ in how they answered that.

4Gamer: And the Lion King chose the happiness of the whole?

Nasu: No, what the Lion King chose was the “happiness of the next life-form to visit this planet.” Once everything was over, she wanted to entrust the planet’s future to whatever existence ends up on it. And if they do arrive, she wanted them to know that there were once these brilliant creatures who lived here before. Put it simply, her definition of “eternity” was to “keep on existing.”

4Gamer: You mentioned earlier that Part 2 is the second half of the content originally planned for FGO. I’m sure there isn’t a lot you can say about it at the moment, but could we get a hint as to what it’ll be like?

Nasu: Well… I’ll just say that a lot of things will be completely flipped over. Maybe even enough to make you think, “Part 1 sure was peaceful…”

4Gamer: W-What…?

Nasu: There are a few premises that haven’t changed between Parts 1 and 2, but there are also aspects which are completely different. Right now, I’m writing it such that everyone will enjoy it in a different way from Part 1.

astroprogs said:

@ShinsoPriest Yes. Yes, that was just said.

ShinsoPriest said:

ShadowfrostZen said:
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Okay.

astroprogs said:
Also, sequel events for KnK and F/Z may as well happen at some point, but it's guaranteed that such a thing won't even be considered before all the crossovers that haven't even been touched yet. Gotta advertise Apocrypha and EXTRA, ya know.

kei78 said:
how about prillya oniichan arc?!? Movie soon

kei78 said:
how about prillya oniichan arc?!? Movie soon