True ending?

[Karnettech]

I didn't manage to achieve the hinted true ending in my first completion. I doubt anyone knows the exact conditions yet, but still asking just in case.

[Karnettech]

I thought it was just for the limit breaks, but there's no way I can remember whether I used a skill or not between every single skill combination with every single character. I can't remember who saw who did what apart from ults.

[Jade Kitsune]

Well, I just farmed turns for at least 5 minutes straight. I had Lance, Anna and Matt fighting a single Panda in the bonus area, that requires medals to access. None of them had items that slowed down the fight, so I was able to get through a single turn in a half of a second. The results?

The Bard stopped telling me that Matt, Anna, and Lance had issues with each other. All he's saying now is that Nat and Lance have bad blood. So yeah, confirmed, farming turns at least helps get the Bard to shut up.

[Karnettech]

I'll do some turns on the target-practice 99999999 slims with the straw-hat girl in Greenwood then.

[Jade Kitsune]

I highly recommend you put on a YouTube video or something while you're doing it, cause you literally just sit there mashing Skip Turn. Boredom prevension, you know?

[Jennah]

I'm missing all 3 relationships with Lance because ... well, I don't really like Lance. I'm going to have to find some way to cheese this, because I just went through all of the Frozen Valley and Redpine Town with Anna/Nats/Lance; and the ladies both still hate his guts.

[Jade Kitsune]

Varn, probably the best way to get good relationships quickly is to either find a Panda, or fight the bears in the... 40 Medal area, I believe, in the gallery. First town, you can't miss it. Don't use ANY "hit all" abilities when you kill the other 2 bears the Panda is with, and be careful about any "randomly use between turn" abilities.

Once you've killed the other two, there's just the Panda left. Bring out Lance and whoever you want, and make sure everyone is using gear that doesn't do ANYTHING in between turns. No Flare, no summons, nothing. For best results, unequip all their flairs as well. So long as the Panda never got hit by anything that does damage, it won't do anything.

If you don't activate any effects or regen in between turns, then you can skip all three of your party's turns, and the next round will instantly start. That's how you can grind out relationships insanely fast. 5 minutes of spamming Skip Turn (I clicked it with both hands to get REALLY clicky) SHOULD do the trick. Then you just swap out for the last team member you're missing with Lance, make sure they don't do anything in between turns, and spam Skip Turn for another 5 minutes. If that doesn't do it? They're certainly close, at least

[Karnettech]

So you don't actually have to use skills? You just gotta have the characters last a lot of turns together?

[Kris]

Originally posted by Karnettech:

So you don't actually have to use skills? You just gotta have the characters last a lot of turns together?

correct, i sat there for about 20 minutes with an auto clicker going off on end turn with the max hp slimes. finished my relations that way.

[Squishy]

Originally posted by Kris:

Originally posted by Karnettech:

So you don't actually have to use skills? You just gotta have the characters last a lot of turns together?

correct, i sat there for about 20 minutes with an auto clicker going off on end turn with the max hp slimes. finished my relations that way.

So, I did this for about 30 minutes thinking maybe it'll work with an auto clicker instead, had no random casts going against the enemy and nothing changed at all. The bard still says the same crap about how nobody likes each other. This is after 60+ hours of gameplay as well. Maybe its a bug? Maybe the threshold is so God tier that its broken for some people? I took the time to 100% absolutely everything and sit doing relationship grinds for multiple hours for everybody and the bard hasn't changed his dialogue once so far.

[Jade Kitsune]

Theoretically, you could be missing some inter-character dialogue, like when Lance is impressed by Anna's Bomb skill, or Matt likes when Lance uses Crush. The unique dialogue. Maybe you have all the turns you need and now you just need to get everyone to see everyone else? This is all speculation until someone breaks the code to see what thecoded requirements are.

[Kris]

Originally posted by Xenized-Kitsune:

Theoretically, you could be missing some inter-character dialogue, like when Lance is impressed by Anna's Bomb skill, or Matt likes when Lance uses Crush. The unique dialogue. Maybe you have all the turns you need and now you just need to get everyone to see everyone else? This is all speculation until someone breaks the code to see what thecoded requirements are.

I will say this, I had everyone try unique skills including limit breaks and then did the turn farming. It could be a turn mininum and you must exhaust all dialoge from skill usage. Keep in mind I only did it for unique skills that could be taken off of them.

[Mangouste]

Did what you say with the Panda, but the Bard still say that Lance and Anna shoud fight together and I use alt the skills/ult they have, so I don't understand ...

[DarthVitrial]

Originally posted by Kupo Games:

If a lot of people aren't getting the best ending after completing most of the content... I may need to lower the threshold for it.

I'll definitely cast my vote for that, though that's just since I'm not a fan of games that require you to play as characters outside my preferred party. Maybe an alternate way of gaining it, like some sort of gift-giving system?

[Karnettech]

I just unlocked the golden room after getting all the medals - and I think there should be an option in the golden room to boost the character affinities so I can finish the game with true ending. Idc if I have to do a few radiant quests for it or even buy it.

I mean, someone who unlocked every achievement has pretty much played your game thorough. It's about time to bring in the true ending by then.

[Meneluma]

I don't know, I didn't try going for it, but got it all done before 80 medals even, or something like that, I'm surprised people were able to get all medals but not whatever the hidden conditions for the ending are.

Is having conversations with Matt's friend every now and then part of the to-do list?
His dialogue does change a lot based on story progress and seems particularly like something that would be used in this sort of thing.

I did also collect a ton of equips and fully upgrade them, but that's not really helping the case, what is this, NieR, to have the true ending locked behind random equipment upgrades?