Nitro+ Blasterz - FAQs / Resources / Issues / Wishlist

[MikuruX]

Turns out we now have the attention of XSEED & EXAMU so no need to keep the original starter text for this thread. All of your resource needs regarding the Steam release of Nitro+ Blasterz can be found here!

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LAST UPDATED: Feb 05, 2017

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::::: Resources :::::

NITRO+ BLASTERZ - STEAM MATCHFINDER THREAD
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/1842367319521075093/

Arcade Version 1.08 Update Notes
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s454/sh/33453005-c52c-4e68-a405-b8b410af55ab/b2a711378519348149b0a3e41105c59e

(Note: Keep in mind that the Steam version is version 1.09 which makes this more up to date than the arcade version until further notice)


Nitro+ Blasterz: System Guide / Frame Data sites / Tier Lists
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s454/sh/1954d2a9-3218-4218-9e16-44ab7fd956be/c2b3f13e4d26ac55cae576f25c2df1b1


Nitro+ Blasterz: System & Mechanics Video Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGP_Y7ymrs


Nitro+ Blasterz: Marvelous Beginner Tutorials (Not complete character-wise)
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285466364051/?ctp=5


Nitro+ Blasterz - Mizuumi Wiki (Very incomplete)
http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Nitroplus_Blasterz:_Heroines_Infinite_Duel


Nitro+ Blasterz - Japanese Video Database
http://horibuna.web.fc2.com/NPBZ/index.html


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Some of this stuff may be not up to date, I'm not the maker of these guides.
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Nitro+ Blasterz Discord Channel
https://discord.gg/ZAu2sKx



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::::: Frequently Asked Questions :::::


1.) I've seen videos & ran into people who were playing as the game boss "Al Azif EX Mortis". How do I unlock her so that I can play as her?

ANSWER: This has been going around the woods lately and many people have been asking this for a while. Unfortunately, there is NO official way to play as AAEM. There is a hack making its rounds the net which allows this. The creator of this hack steam name is "MessiahofDestruction". There is a post with him advertising it on these forums and he has deliberately told me that he was the creator of it (don't know how much of that is true though).


2.) What exactly does Sonico's ultimate attack do?

ANSWER: This is pretty much an assist attack at best. Sonico's ultimate is completely unblockable and has 100% range all over the board so no matter where you are, you will be hit (I think the only exception is if you're in a heavy knockdown state *unconfirmed*). The effects of it is pretty simple: It disables the opponent from blocking.


3.) What happened to the opening intro video that was included in the PS3/PS4 version of the game or the arcade opening intro? Why was it not put into the Steam version?

ANSWER: The answer comes from XSEED themselves. Simply put, XSEED doesn't have the rights to use the console nor arcade opening intros for this version of Nitro+ Blasterz. No other details were given at this current time as to why this is so. There is also no answer as to if the intros will be included in a future update (would love to see it happen though).

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::::: Game Issues :::::

Some of the current issues with the Steam version of Nitro+ Blasterz that we hope XSEED will take a look into asking EXAMU to fix.

- Inconsistencies with online rankings, VP & LP (Fixed as of Dec 14, 2016)
(Basically, there are times when you'll notice that your rank, VP, & LP online ranking points will reset to 0 & F. There is no fix to this and you'll be thrown into a random lower rank with all your stats gone or lowered and have points distributed amongst other characters that you've never played with.

This has happened to me 2 times already and I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥. I got to "B" rank, got knocked down to "F" rank and then made it to "A" rank and got knocked back down hours later to "E" rank. Now, I see that my Ruili stats has been transferred to Homura....whom I've never used. <_<


- Full Screen Mode Isn't Working (This happens to random people and very seldomly)
(If anyone is still having this issue & can give some details as to what's happening, please let me know)

: Issue Fix #1: http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285466058037/
: Issue Fix #2: http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285463714298/


- Keyboard users having issues with Key Bindings not responding to Directionals
(I'm assuming the game is having issues responding to directional inputs on keyboards. Someone mind going into details so I can update this - I'm a stick user so I wouldn't know)


- Keyboard Control Related Bug (Fixed as of Feb 2, 2017)
When prompt for an invite, player 2 controls seems to not work. Pressing ENTER (P2 Start) does nothing. Related Post: http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/1842367319518513408/


- Game Process Still Active Even After Game Shuts Down
This issue has happened to me when the game first came out but it still happens to this day for certain people. When trying to exit the game, the game shuts off like normally but when you look in Task Manager, you will find that the game processes are sometimes still active even if the game is closed.


- Player Dsync During Online Matches (Fixed as of Feb 2, 2017)
Usually when this happens, players will look as though their just standing still and not attacking; sometimes the player will move and such. While this is happening on one players side, the player who is standing around is actually attacking and such on their side. When this happens, both players are dsync and are seeing different things on their screen

Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/or0o78q1jd26vc8/2016-12-10-2019-55.mp4?dl=0


- Ein Lethal Blaze Will Cause The Game To Crash (Randomly happens to people and very hard to reproduce)
This has happened to nurmerous of people here on these forums and people still reporting it. Basically, doing Ein's Lethal Blaze (level 3 super) will cause the game to crash during the cinematic sequence before she takes the shot (most of the time) or while you're trying to align the site on your opponent.
Related Post: http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/1842367319517276220/


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::::: Wishlist :::::

Just a few things we may have wanted in Nitro+ Blasterz to help enhance our enjoyment of the game. Can be anything.....not like it will probably happen but maybe if there were to be a sequel to the game, then just maybe.

1.) A Tutorial Mode & Combo Challenge Mode: To help ease people into the world of Nitro+ Blasterz instead of face slamming them right in.

2.) Sonico & Aino Heart's Teaser Prototype Stage: This background was used as a teaser from EXAMU before the game was officially announced for arcades. It was the only indication that people knew that there was a collaboration between EXAMU & Nitro+ happening at the time: http://www.animetoshokan.org/forums/gallery/image/91-nitro-blasterz-super-sonico-aino-heart-prototype-stage/

3.) Rebinding of Player Movement Controls for Keyboard Users: This seems to be a #1 issue for those who are using the keyboard to play this game. Not being able to rebind the movement keys can really kill the enjoyment of this game for those people because of how the current setup for movement is set.

4.) An Improved Gallery: Additions could include a sound test (à la AH3LM and BlazBlue) and more graphics (like a preview of the VN character portraits, again like AH3LM). Probably wont happen since the gallery mimics the console version.

5.) Character Completion Indicator: Pretty much a indicator showing which characters' stories were cleared, besides going to the gallery and seeing which ending CGs were unlocked. This could be used on the character select screen in arcade mode where they could put a compete tag under the character name.

6:) Nitro+ Blasterz Soundtrack: Truth be told, I really want to know if there is an actual longer version of "BLASTERZ", the opening theme song from the console version of the game. Not only that, I would really like to hear the full verion of the songs that Sonico sings when you call out as an assist. Other than that, the other stuff is nice (I already have the soundtrack that came with the JP console releases).

7.) Random Select Option for Stages & Music (Offline Versus, Training, & Online - Non-Rank): This is a addition that should have been a staple in all fighting games by now. Honestly, Arcana Heart is the only Examu game that allows for random select of stages but when it comes to music & stages, none of their other games allows this. Random Select should be the default choice.

8.) Additional Colors 22 - 26: Not much of a addition but would be nice to have. In the current arcade build of the game, characters have color pallets from 1 - 19 and then it skips 20 & 21 and continues on to 22 - 26. The Steam version has colors from 1 - 21 for every character. Would be nice to have the remaining 5 missing color pallets.

9.) Frame Data & Change List: This something that is very much started by Skullgirls in which the the developers had added both frame data & hit/hurtbox data to the training mode. This should be a staple in all fighting games and would be a nice welcome to any of Examu games, including Nitro+ Blasterz.

::::: WARNING :::::

This is just to warn you all of a hacker running around online. As stated in other forum posts, MessiahOfDestruction runs around ingame using a hack that allows him to use Al Azif EX Mortis (I apologize for the choppy video. The matches were laggy and I guess my PC can't handle recording locally very well):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy20Z5oe0xI&t=220s

(THIS HAS BEEN PATCHED AS OF FEB 2, 2017 - Players attempting to play as EX Mortis will instead play as Al Azif)

[Red]

Fullscreen mode is working, there are slight issues causing a black screen though, but I got it to work.

[MikuruX]

Originally posted by Red:

Fullscreen mode is working, there are slight issues causing a black screen though, but I got it to work.

Whenever you find time, can you explain how to fix this for those who might have the same situation you was having so I can post it.

[Red]

Originally posted by MikuruX:

Originally posted by Red:

Fullscreen mode is working, there are slight issues causing a black screen though, but I got it to work.

Whenever you find time, can you explain how to fix this for those who might have the same situation you was having so I can post it.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285466058037/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285463714298/
The first link contains a fix, the second one several fixes and how I solved my issue :)

[匚闩丂丁仨尺]

Shold be pinned

[SonofTzeentch9]

I agree on the pin. NPB stuff isn't too easy to find for most people.

Anyway, maybe add this video database to the top post: http://horibuna.web.fc2.com/NPBZ/index.html

For beginners that like visual aid stuff, I find this systems video is pretty good too: https://youtu.be/ivGP_Y7ymrs

And while very incomplete compared to the evernote, Mizuumi's wiki is nice too: http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Nitroplus_Blasterz:_Heroines_Infinite_Duel

[MikuruX]

- All resources have been added and updated first post.

[Calcifer]

The lack of any dev communication here is disturbing, where are they? counting their money and bathing in blood?

[MikuruX]

I'm probably going to contact them on Twitter since we can't get no one here, I swear.

Also, a bit more on the Online Wipe that happens:

I've been testing with Ruili (since this is my main) and it turns out that everytime I change colors, the data gets wiped clean and resets you to Rank "F" with no VP or LP. The more you change colors, the more it does it. That's from what I've tested so far. If you change characters, it seems to does it sometimes.

[Lilpoetboy]

Nothing has worked for me, I can't get full screen to work at all. It just starts flashing like crazy, and i have to restart. I changed the value to 1, still nothing.

[tricosahedron]

A confusing typo: In the Option menu, "Keyconfig" should be "Button config" (or something else that implies a gamepad). It's used correctly in the pause menu while playing.

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Also, some people (including me) have framerate issues:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285463652076
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285466529538

In my case, it plays fine at the beginning, but after a while the framerate gets worse. Femail Mauler (first link) mentioned it's probably related to AMD GPUs, and a problem problem exists with AH3 and BBCT. I have an AMD card, but the proposed fix (rebooting) didn't help. My specs:

Windows 7 (64bit)
Pentium Dual Core E5300 (2.6GHz)
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4650

I note that memory requirements are listed as 4GB, but that probably doesn't explain why my performance gets worse the longer I play.

[Red]

Originally posted by tricosahedron:

Also, some people (including me) have framerate issues:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285463652076
http://steamcommunity.com/app/482450/discussions/0/152391285466529538

In my case, it plays fine at the beginning, but after a while the framerate gets worse. Femail Mauler (first link) mentioned it's probably related to AMD GPUs, and a problem problem exists with AH3 and BBCT. I have an AMD card, but the proposed fix (rebooting) didn't help. My specs:

Windows 7 (64bit)
Pentium Dual Core E5300 (2.6GHz)
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4650

I note that memory requirements are listed as 4GB, but that probably doesn't explain why my performance gets worse the longer I play.

Memory leak?

[tricosahedron]

I think the system memory was only allocated up to a certain value, and didn't increase after that. I will pay more attention the next time I play Story mode.

P.S.: I'm happy to see you and a lot of other familiar "faces" here again, Red! :)

[Red]

Originally posted by tricosahedron:

I think the system memory was only allocated up to a certain value, and didn't increase after that. I will pay more attention the next time I play Story mode.

P.S.: I'm happy to see you and a lot of other familiar "faces" here again, Red! :)

Nice to see you here and other people I've already seen on the forums too :D

[DeathNinja07]

Originally posted by MikuruX:

Keyboard users having issues with Key Bindings not responding to Directionals
(I'm assuming the game is having issues responding to directional inputs on keyboards. Someone mind going into details so I can update this - I'm a stick user so I wouldn't know)

The key binding main problem is that the bindings are interchanged [binding for P2 are actually the ones for P1 and vizversa].

In 1P modes like story mode and such, you gotta play with the key bindings for P2 instead of those of P1

Also, another problem is that changing the keys in the Options menu doesn't work. After you confirm settings and go back to the main menu, the change you made are overwritten back to their default and the only way to change them effectively is during gameplay. And even so the change isn't permanent because when you turn off and then turn on the game, they are again set to the defaults.

Another issue which I noticed during Story mode play, is that if you remove a key within P1, this becomes unusable for you during gameplay despite the fact you are using P2 binding instead because of what I explained before.

Also you can't change the movement keys: Not taking on account the whole interchanged P1 P2 issue, the movement keys binding is:

P1: WASD keys
P2: Arrow Keys

Update: Noticed that if you use the buttons for P2 binding at the Starting Screen, it won't let you use the buttons for P1 binding.

P1: U (Confirm) I [Cancel)
P2: Num7 (Confirm) Num8 (Cancel)

[Meseki]

Originally posted by DeathNinja07:

The key binding main problem is that the bindings are interchanged [binding for P2 are actually the ones for P1 and vizversa].

In 1P modes like story mode and such, you gotta play with the key bindings for P2 instead of those of P1

By any chance are you using Enter to select menu choices/get past the title screen? Because Enter is P2's Start button, while I believe Tab is P1's Start button.

I'm using U (P1's Accept button) to select menu choices, and I'm not having issues with swapped keybindings or controls not saving (though I've only done Training, Versus CPU, and Score Attack).