u/Stuffed_Owl

Hi folks. I'm poor IRL & I've had Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 for 6 years now, the last few years its performance has been really bad with a myriad of bugs, so I'm looking for a new phone. I can only afford budget phones, but this time I'm staying far away from Xiaomi. I need suggestions.

For reference, I use normal stuff & social media a lot, but I almost never use heavy stuff like gaming or watching/streaming videos on high qualities, etc.

I have my eye on Samsung A17 4G (128gb + 6gb Ram). Not many user reviews about it out there, some say it's decent, some say it's meh. I would go for the 5G version of A17 which is a bit more powerful but it's not available here. & I don't think I can afford the 256gb + 8gb Ram version, plus I really have no need for more than 128gb of storage.

I also looked at A16 5G (128gb + 6gb Ram), that looks fine too, just slightly weaker than A17 & missing a few little features.

A17 comes with One UI 7.0 which I've read was pretty bad... Is 6gb if Ram enough for regular, not heavy use on One UI 7 (or higher versions if I update it)? Does it handle well running 2 apps at the same time? If not, how is A16? or any other suggestions with low prices?

Hi folks. I'm poor IRL & I've had Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 for 6 years now, the last few years its performance has been really bad with a myriad of bugs, so I'm looking for a new phone. I can only afford budget phones, but this time I'm staying far away from Xiaomi. I need suggestions.

For reference, I use normal stuff & social media a lot, but I almost never use heavy stuff like gaming or watching/streaming videos on high qualities, etc.

I have my eye on A17 4G (128gb + 6gb Ram). Not many user reviews about it out there, some say it's decent, some say it's meh. I would go for the 5G version of A17 which is a bit more powerful but it's not available here. & I don't think I can afford the 8gb Ram version, plus I really have no need for more than 128gb of storage.

I also looked at A16 5G (128gb + 6gb Ram), that looks fine too, just slightly weaker than A17 & missing a few little features.

A17 comes with One UI 7.0 which I've read was pretty bad... Is 6gb if Ram enough for regular, not heavy use on One UI 7 (or higher versions if I update it)? Does it handle well running 2 apps at the same time? If not, how is A16? or any other suggestions with low prices?

the trophy for killing or knocking out 20 enemies who are distracted by your Fast-Talk ability.

I was farming this & the "Right back at you" trophy in the Pyke area in Mirogana. Both were progressing fine, & "Right back at you" unlocked, but this one just stopped tracking at 50%.

No matter how I beat the enemy (stun gun, nix+punch, headshot) nothing works. I tried different locations, different enemies, older save, but it's just not tracking anymore.

I found some older discussions where people had this same issue but I found no definitive fix other than deleting your save everywhere & starting a new one, which I'm not gonna do.

Anyone had this problem? Any solutions?

I was playing the game on Hard difficulty up to this point & it was fine, until I finally went to space & got some contracts.

Every space battle contract feels like David vs. Goliath. There are always 3-5 enemy ships & drones together which melt my shield & Health in just 5-10 seconds before I can even get close enough to do any real damage. & When you fail & reload your last save, you have to fly all the way there again from the main planet which takes several minutes. It's so unforgiving.

I got the first level of ship upgrades & I put the difficulty of gameplay & ship battles on the lowest level, but it's still barely doable. Do I need to wait more until I have more ship upgrades? How do you reliably do these High-Risk battles without failing too many times?

( Crew 2 ) Just a few quick stuff like driving 50km & doing an event in a crew, & beating a friend's time & ghost. Souldn't take more than 20-30 mins. Anyone available please?

so Crew 2 has this recent system of creating an offline copy of your online save so you can continue playing offline.

My question is, does it work backwards too? Like after you created an offline copy of your online save, you play offline for a while & make some progress. Now if you go online, will the progress you just made while offline carry over to your online save & update it?

I started the game yesterday, & I'm already loving it. The world is gorgeous, Morigana city is big & lively with lots of things to do. Graphics are stunningly beautiful even on my Series S, with a steady 30 fps.

My only complaints are that enemy AI could've been a lot better, stealth is a bit too basic for a stealth game, & some animations don't have enough "weight" to them, like stealth takedowns or long jumps.

I also can't bring myself to like Kay's voice acting, she just sounds a bit... "fake", you know? Like sometimes you can tell it's someone voice acting & reading lines, not the character herself.

But gameplay wise, I haven't been entertained like this in a good while, having a lot of fun. Played for like 7 hours straight today lol. Just hoping it stays consistent as I progress further.

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I finished my first playthrough yesterday. I had started with Axe but switched to Spear after a while & loved it, it was so much fun lunging at enemies from 10 meters away & nuking them with CloudPiercer while generating so much Might so quickly.

But for NG+ I thought I should switch things up for fun, & picked Dual Blades since people are always going on about it. I picked Bitter Severance, put the "3+6+9=12 Discipline" benedictions on it for extra damage, Shadow Lunge with the Poise Break morph, with Poise Break needle, plus 3 damage pendants, with full Madness to take advantage of the Poise Break morph of Shadow Lunge.

I just got to the first NG+ boss, Palace Maid, & nuked her in one second lol. I was not expecting that. & then I killed the second boss in 10-15 secs cuz I was slow lol.

It seems I've made the game way too easy with this build. Does Dual Blade break the game?? I'm not sure how to feel about it. It's fun, deleting bosses, but the game becomes too easy & boring this way.

Hey guys. I'm on xbox, I'm following the PowerPyx guide for getting all endings in one playthrough. Save-scumming is tricky but doable on xbox.

I got to Palace Entrance, before Bo Magus boss. In order to get "Successor of Bo" ending first, I made a save, then talked to Storyteller & refused him and killed the annoying Bo Magus, then immediately quit & did the save thing as soon as her achievement popped. I do realize that I panicked & should've waited for the cutscenes & the ending achievement 🤦‍♂️

But when I went back into the game after loading the old save, I realized xbox had somehow screwed me over. The save synced from the cloud was somehow after refusing the Storyteller but before Bo Magus ! I'm not even sure how this happened, because I never quit the game before killing the boss.

But anyway, I'm trying to at least salvage this playthrough & wrap up as many items & Npc quests as I can before NG+. Right now I'm at Reverent Temple, shortly before Dragon Emperor.

My question is, am I officially locked out of the other 3 endings? How far can I progress into the Burning Cave or the Chapter 5 Capital? can I safely kill the Dragon Emperor without failing the "Successor of Bo" ending?

Also, any xbox fellows have advice on how to do save scumming correctly in Wuchang? I understand that you need to make a save at the right point, then when you get the ending achievement you want, you delete the local save without quitting the game first, then you re-enter the game & the cloud save from before gets synced in. That is what I did twice, and the first time it even worked correctly, but I have no idea how it got messed up the second time after killing the Magus.