Finished Story 100, What Next?

[Sire]

I sat aside my inner completionist and mostly rushed through the story starting around Difficulty 8. Now after finishing Resurrection's storyline, I have some questions.

1. How much extra story content is there? There are some missions still marked "story" on Difficulty 14 and I like to read every piece of dialogue available. Are these extra tidbits worth it, and how long will they last before becoming generic or repeat?

2. Should I just move on to God Eater 2: Rage Burst? While a part of me may want to perfect my GER build, I'm a story guy at heart and want to know what comes next.

3. Any real purpose for doing Challenge and Extra Missions aside from the satisfaction of beating them? If they don't offer much, I'll probably just archive them for a full completion run later.

E1. Blitz Hannibal. Why... (Super Sonic Racing...)

E2. Why must everything be oneshot?! I swear I was playing Dark Souls instead of God Eater on the final boss...

[Ashura Mazah]

1. there are 24 more story missions. They unlock 2 NPC characters and 1 Support character. They have a little bit unique dialog, but are non-canon. Not worth it if you want story.

2. Depends mainly if you want all achievements or not I think.

3. Unless you want materials for weapons, I don't think so. There's no achievement for any of that.

E2. Weird, even the final story boss was 3 shoting me at worst. How good's your shield? Mine was a pretty highly upgraded Tower Shield and +30.

[NiamhNyx]

100% completion of the game is the fun part.
And bosses one shotting in resurrection? Are you sure you were not useing a rank 1 shiled?
In GE and GEB they would one shot, but they nerfed damage hard core in this game for some reason.

[Sgt.Soldier™]

Challenges - I think they are solely just challenges with no reward really. They may give you a predator style upgrade (whatever their called) or two but I'm not sure since I can't remember if they were unlocks from hitting D14 or from challenges. I think they're just solely challenges, I recently cleared them all but I've done alot of other stuff (farming and what not) as well so I can't remember. Pretty sure you get nothing though.

Extra Missions - More challenges pretty much but you get a few predator style moves and a few missions hold exclusive materials. Those being the "Aragami Crystal 1/2/3/4/5" that you need for crafting. 3 of them are used for 3 upgrades you unlock when you unlock D14. Other two I think are for the predator style upgrades from the challenges.

[Rhael]

Originally posted by NiamhNyx:

100% completion of the game is the fun part.
And bosses one shotting in resurrection? Are you sure you were not useing a rank 1 shiled?
In GE and GEB they would one shot, but they nerfed damage hard core in this game for some reason.

There is a mutated hannibal in some challenge missions that is automatically a dif+99, just to annoy you while you try to kill the actual mission targets.

[Sire]

E2. I used the term "oneshot" lightly. In terms of full health, I probably could take two or three hits if I was not guarding. Alisa's endurance reached 0, Soma lost his immortal status, but Lindow pulled through even though he fell a few times. In the end, I decided to take it slow on rely on pure melee and Auto Guard, only switching to my Shotgun to heal who was left alive. Despite all this, I did manage to beat it blind first try!

I was using a Rank 11 Faust, +22 (1116 DEF) and ran lots of Defensive skills (DEF Up, Def Up Burst, HP Up, etc.) However, I did use Red Mist+ at first with Reinforce to offset it somewhat, but due to the insane damage I stopped activating Red Mist+. Probably should have upgraded the shield to the next rank before going in, but I made it regardless.

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I think I'll pass on the challenge and extra missions for now and may just "finish up the story" at 124 before going to God Eater 2. I get to perfect my build and characters a little bit before heading off to the next title.

Thanks for the answers!

[McJiggy]

When I fought the final boss Lindow was the dead weight getting killed all the time, I don't think Alisa or Soma got knocked out at all or that much.

[Sgt.Soldier™]

Originally posted by JamestheFreak:

When I fought the final boss Lindow was the dead weight getting killed all the time, I don't think Alisa or Soma got knocked out at all or that much.

I think their AI is different for special missions/bosses in some cases. I remember one of the missions where it was just you and Soma fighting a enemy, Soma was completely useless for me in that fight... which just annoyed me a bit since the fight was already long due to not having my full 4p party.

Also on another note, I just got to like story 114~ or so and unlocked more challenge missions, so I'll see if I'll pay attention and see if I unlock anything. I noticed looking at the Extra Missions again there's actually 8 Aragami Crystals... so there must be something. Have to use the materials for something after all...

[Rhael]

Originally posted by Sgt.Soldier™:

Also on another note, I just got to like story 114~ or so and unlocked more challenge missions, so I'll see if I'll pay attention and see if I unlock anything. I noticed looking at the Extra Missions again there's actually 8 Aragami Crystals... so there must be something. Have to use the materials for something after all...

Challenge Missions unlock characters that were not available to use anymore because of the story, like Ren. Predator Packs are the ones that give Predator Styles and Aragami Crystals.

You use them to craft 3 compound Upgrades and 5 special Predator Controls.

[Sgt.Soldier™]

Originally posted by Rhael:

Originally posted by Sgt.Soldier™:

Also on another note, I just got to like story 114~ or so and unlocked more challenge missions, so I'll see if I'll pay attention and see if I unlock anything. I noticed looking at the Extra Missions again there's actually 8 Aragami Crystals... so there must be something. Have to use the materials for something after all...

Challenge Missions unlock characters that were not available to use anymore because of the story, like Ren. Predator Packs are the ones that give Predator Styles and Aragami Crystals.

You use them to craft 3 compound Upgrades and 5 special Predator Controls.

I assume you only need to do whatever 2 missions that unlock those characters though, doesn't really seem all that rewarding though. I guess that's because I don't care about the extra characters though, I just use the mains unless forced otherwise. I thought I had got Ren from a story mission but I was rushing through the missions at the time which is why I can't remember particularly. Guess I'll see when I get Masked Orge though.

[Rhael]

Originally posted by Sgt.Soldier™:

I assume you only need to do whatever 2 missions that unlock those characters though, doesn't really seem all that rewarding though.(...) Guess I'll see when I get Masked Orge though.

You need to do them all in order to keep unlocking the next one.

You get the Masked Ogre in the last mission, story 124.

[jashinsamael]

Rank 14 missions also unlocks more mission at the challenge rank, and some of the was made really hard.

If you not interested on those, I'd suggest you to at least trying balfa mata mission from the predator pack.

Ps: if you kept one shooted, just upgrade your shield or get firm stand skill which will help you avoid getting ohkoed.

Having a defense build is also helpful, with enough stacking defebsi buffing skills and having the correct shield, you can even reduce the damage dealt by mutant caligula to non existant.

[Sgt.Soldier™]

Originally posted by Rhael:

Originally posted by Sgt.Soldier™:

I assume you only need to do whatever 2 missions that unlock those characters though, doesn't really seem all that rewarding though.(...) Guess I'll see when I get Masked Orge though.

You need to do them all in order to keep unlocking the next one.

You get the Masked Ogre in the last mission, story 124.

Managed to finish out yesterday afternoon and got it. Disappointed there was no actual story in D14 though... I was kinda waiting for at least like 1-2 cutscenes with some like battle strategy meeting or something in the midsts. There wasn't anything though... so why is it marked "Story Missions"?

[Sire]

From what I played (up to Story 112, need to finish to 124), the early missions had some extra voicework putting a spotlight on the characters. Then the missions seemed to become generic challenges that allowed the player to form his/her own party. There was some new stuff to explore around the Den, but they repeated after a while.

A shame there is no real significant "story moment" in D14. I think there is some foreshadowing to GE2 in there, but otherwise most of it seems to be generic dialogue wrapping up GER.

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As for me, I went ahead and started GE2RB. A part of me already misses the old cast, but some of the new guys are all right. It sucks that I'll be losing out on Predator Styles, Control Units and my favored Ignore Def & Critical Mastery Buckshot, but Blood Arts seem like an interesting mechanic thus far.

However, as of present, I am finding GER to be better than GE2RB, but I'm only four hours in. GE2RB's low AP gain, the Abandoned God Arc spam, and weapon skills serves as a big contrast compared to GER. One plus though is that there are far more enemies in GE2RB, so my "Cyclone" bullets may actually have more usage than in GER. Blood Arts, as I already mentioned, are interesting in that that change up normal combos, but it seems only one can be equipped at a time (it may be two later, I don't know).

Anyways, my GE2RB comments are probably better suited for that subforum instead of this one, unless anyone is interested in me stating my experiences here since I just "finished" Ressurection.

[McJiggy]

Well Resurrection was made after Rage Burst so obviously it fixes the flaws RB had.

[Rhael]

Originally posted by Sgt.Soldier™:

Disappointed there was no actual story in D14 though... I was kinda waiting for at least like 1-2 cutscenes with some like battle strategy meeting or something in the midsts. There wasn't anything though... so why is it marked "Story Missions"?

It has story, just not cutscenes. If you talked to the NPCs they would fill you in what has been happening.