Offline Play Advice

[TENINCHTERROR]

I've never been big on online multiplayer games so I prefer to do everything myself offline, that said I'm running into some issues and I'm curious what the best solutions are as I haven't been able to find very good answers through searches.

#1: Are there any ways to get things like super mix capsules and demon realm crystals offline in a somewhat reliable fashion? (without using a save editor, it's out of date for now)

#2: What's with the Expert Quest AI? Am I doing something wrong because the ally AI sucks big time in EQs yet in some other quests the AI dogs my heels the whole time, has perfect timing for evades, blocks, and counters, breaks through my counters, vanishes with less than a bar of stamina, breaks my stamina every time I try using an ultimate, and is all around hyperactively aggressive. How do I get AI like that as my allies? I'm sick of always reviving them or fighting them when 4 get knocked out or mind controlled at the same time.

[K.O.2]

As someone who also explicitly plays offline, I feel your pain. As for the first question, there's no other way unless you use a save editor when it updates. For the second question, my best advice is Practice after looking at Expert Mission Guides. Those guides from years ago helped me big time, but it still wasn't easy for me. I believe the best skill you could use for bosses that use Marble Drop or - whatever it's called - is the skill called "Super Armor". It's one of the skills that puts up a barrier for as long as your ki is active (I think). It's available pretty early on in the game I believe.

Also yeah, the Ally A.I sucks big time. I still haven't cleared all PQ missions since launch because of them haha.

[TENINCHTERROR]

Originally posted by Bladed Vaults:

As someone who also explicitly plays offline, I feel your pain. As for the first question, there's no other way unless you use a save editor when it updates. For the second question, my best advice is Practice after looking at Expert Mission Guides. Those guides from years ago helped me big time, but it still wasn't easy for me. I believe the best skill you could use for bosses that use Marble Drop or - whatever it's called - is the skill called "Super Armor". It's one of the skills that puts up a barrier for as long as your ki is active (I think). It's available pretty early on in the game I believe.

Also yeah, the Ally A.I sucks big time. I still haven't cleared all PQ missions since launch because of them haha.

Well that explains why I couldn't find any answers I was afraid that was the case haha. Thanks man, I appreciate the response, I'll try your suggestions and I'll check out some guides, although I'm not sure how much more patience I have. This last go on EQ 15 about gave me an aneurysm, the final form Mira was one super away from death and I caught my second KO along with one of the AI players. The others flocked to revive them and three more got KO'd because they all grouped together. The last AI tried to revive me and got squashed. Sick of them having 5-12 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KO's during a single EQ it's absurd how bad the AI is during EQ's.

[Nikorasu]

Originally posted by TENINCHTERROR:

I've never been big on online multiplayer games so I prefer to do everything myself offline, that said I'm running into some issues and I'm curious what the best solutions are as I haven't been able to find very good answers through searches.

#1: Are there any ways to get things like super mix capsules and demon realm crystals offline in a somewhat reliable fashion? (without using a save editor, it's out of date for now)

#2: What's with the Expert Quest AI? Am I doing something wrong because the ally AI sucks big time in EQs yet in some other quests the AI dogs my heels the whole time, has perfect timing for evades, blocks, and counters, breaks through my counters, vanishes with less than a bar of stamina, breaks my stamina every time I try using an ultimate, and is all around hyperactively aggressive. How do I get AI like that as my allies? I'm sick of always reviving them or fighting them when 4 get knocked out or mind controlled at the same time.

First of all the only way to get the super mix capsule Z is only online. In the Expert quests all you really need to do is use the ultimate: Emperors Death Beam. If you run out of Ki, charge your ki while your allies are keeping the enemy busy and if they are being mind controlled, free them before they start attacking you. to avoid being mind controlled yourself just keep your distance. That's how I've been beating my Expert quest.

[Takii]

The AI sucks regardless if its expert missions or nots, however it has actually gotten better from what it used to be believe it or not. If you need something from the expert quests just use the save editor if you ever find it a pain to do something because a lack of online players. People claim this game is dead but fail to realize a lot of players mod these days (you wont see those people online) and multiple has had an issue for many since day 1 of NA release.

[TENINCHTERROR]

"First of all the only way to get the super mix capsule Z is only online. In the Expert quests all you really need to do is use the ultimate: Emperors Death Beam. If you run out of Ki, charge your ki while your allies are keeping the enemy busy and if they are being mind controlled, free them before they start attacking you. to avoid being mind controlled yourself just keep your distance. That's how I've been beating my Expert quest."

I'm going to assume you're trying to be helpful and not condescending as text is easy to misinterpret, so thank you. For future reference for anyone responding to me beyond this point read below where I will clarify many things. I knew that super mix capsules can only be acquired online by NORMAL means, I was asking if there is any way around that. I was hoping someone could enlighten me about a mod or trick, or maybe even correct me and point me to a working save editor since I could not find one but maybe someone else has.

I am aware of those things you mentioned about EQs, I actually have had better luck with super vanishing ball for many reasons. I am also aware that you can free them before they get mind controlled if you're quick enough and you can avoid it yourself if you keep your distance, in fact I have never been mind controlled in any EQ's besides the tutorial in which it is a scripted event. The issue is closing that distance fast enough and praying the lock on doesn't act buggy and is visible enough that you can strike your allies. I can usually get one or two but when all of your allies get mind controlled because they grouped up on an enemy, and you used an ultimate that deals high damage (like emp death beam) whose animation doesn't stop when it stops doing damage to the target and the target does their mind control blast, your allies don't try to evade, and you also have to close distance and try to lock on to the ally you're actually trying to hit and NOT the boss (maybe my game is just buggy, my lock on regularly disables for no reason or won't highlight certain targets no matter what I do), it starts to become an issue and isn't as simple as what you stated all the time.

Lastly, I have beaten EQ's up to 15 and was asking if there were any sort of tricks with super souls, certain ultimates, etc. which may affect the behavior of the AI or help alleviate the hurdles the poor AI allies create. EDB seemed to create too many problems and wasted too much Ki requiring far more charging which leaves you open to certain high damage attacks over minor errors in timing, so I switched to SVB which still deals great damage until I unlock something better. However it's likely at some point you may get knocked out if you are not an expert at this game, and the AI constantly gets knocked out, and when the AI goes to revive anyone they typically all gather in the same area on the same person which starts a cascade effect when the boss can easily damage many of them at the same time and KO them quickly one by one or sometimes all at once.

I do not enjoy spending 10+ minutes on something only to fail it because of stupid ♥♥♥♥ the AI does, and have to do it over and over and just pray that the stars align and I get lucky that things don't play out that way again. That's unreliable and I value my time more than that, I would like to actually enjoy myself and accomplish something in-game.