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♿ John Coomer Feb 9, 2015 @ 5:58am
Lightning's gunblade...
So when I fought an airship (boss battle) with Light, Hope and Fang I kinda asked myself wth.
Ok, "hits the blunt"
If Light has a Gunblade why can't she just shoot ranged enemies in Commando mode?
Even tho her last attack as Commando is backflip shot...
Here some food for thoughts ;)
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talgaby Feb 9, 2015 @ 7:33am 
Probably the same reason real-life revolver swords were used mainly as swords and rarely as firearms: limited ammo capacity.
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VicIII Feb 9, 2015 @ 7:37am 
Because she already has Ruin?
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tiornys Feb 9, 2015 @ 12:58pm 
Did you know that if you select Attack in that battle, Light will in fact gun down Havoc Skytank?
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♿ John Coomer Feb 9, 2015 @ 1:05pm 
Originally posted by tiornys:
Did you know that if you select Attack in that battle, Light will in fact gun down Havoc Skytank?
Doesn't she just spam "Ruin" ?
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tiornys Feb 9, 2015 @ 1:17pm 
You have to manually select Attack; Auto-battle will default to Ruin.

http://youtu.be/K4-9NT_3OcU
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VicIII Feb 9, 2015 @ 5:39pm 
Wow that looks pretty sweet.
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Hexerin Feb 9, 2015 @ 6:33pm 
Originally posted by tiornys:
You have to manually select Attack; Auto-battle will default to Ruin.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's the coolest thing ever. Why did they waste such a phenomenal animation?
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tiornys Feb 9, 2015 @ 6:44pm 
Probably because it would have been broken as **** if you could do that all the time.
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Hexerin Feb 9, 2015 @ 6:47pm 
Originally posted by tiornys:
Probably because it would have been broken as **** if you could do that all the time.
It is literally just her normal basic attack with a different aesthetic animation, which you can see if you study that video. Also it can hit those like... 2 enemies in the game that have the special trait "can't be hit in melee combat" or whatever it states in the Notes.
Last edited by Hexerin; Feb 9, 2015 @ 6:47pm
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tiornys Feb 9, 2015 @ 8:11pm 
The animation takes a fraction of the time of any normal attacking animation. That's a massive speed advantage that translates to much higher DPS.
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Hexerin Feb 9, 2015 @ 8:24pm 
Originally posted by tiornys:
The animation takes a fraction of the time of any normal attacking animation. That's a massive speed advantage that translates to much higher DPS.
Pretty sure it takes about the same time. Either way, it doesn't really matter as they could have just made it a secondary attack form like Blitz (which opens many balancing handles).
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tiornys Feb 9, 2015 @ 9:03pm 
Originally posted by Hexerin:
Pretty sure it takes about the same time.
I...what...do you even have eyes? Seriously, take a look at how quickly Lightning uses 4 ATB segments in the video above, and then contrast with how long it takes her to use them here:
http://youtu.be/tvx9kWTB0sc?t=41s

Or even with how long it takes her to cast 4 spells here:
http://youtu.be/DKVIoR5x57I?t=1m8s

She literally expends 4 ATB segments in less time than it otherwise takes her to expend 1 ATB segment.

Yes, there are several things they could have done to balance the ability, but I'm sure they didn't have enough dev time to properly work it out.
Last edited by tiornys; Feb 9, 2015 @ 9:05pm
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Hexerin Feb 9, 2015 @ 9:04pm 
Meanwhile in the second half of that same post...
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♿ John Coomer Feb 10, 2015 @ 4:20am 
Originally posted by tiornys:
You have to manually select Attack; Auto-battle will default to Ruin.

wow ty. Didnt even know she could do that.
And about the speed you are right it would be kinda op spamming the gun in meele combat.
But anyway, nice job ;)
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