u/VPR_24

A recap of today's livestream for those who missed out:

• Special Guest: Takafumi Imamura - Composer of DDFF, he's also known for his additional tracks on FFXIV and FFXVI. He talks about his musical style for the games he's been a part of, as well the styles for each character's battle theme.
  • Got a favourite theme? A lot of comments they read from the majority of users liked Sephiroth's Battle, along with Clive's and Onion Knight's.
• DDFF OST PLUS - A new album containing tracks not featured in the first album will be available to purchase! They didn't give a release date yet.
• Online Cup - On September 6th, but its exclusive to Japanese players only.
• Ambassadors Campaign - Last chance to apply for the Ambassadors program to spread the word DDFF. Those who are selected win numerous prizes! (Again, Japan only.)
• Taito Station Collaboration - Another JP exclusive, but the actual Taito station features DDFF merch that ends on August 30th.
• Tetsuya Nomura - Nomura's voice is present.
• Update Information -
  • Character Balance -
    • These characters will be buffed: Warrior of Light, Firion, Kain, Krile, Celes, Rikku and Iroha. All Supports and three Melees.
    • Only one character will be nerfed: Lightning.
  • Ability Adjustment - This was already mentioned in the update to Celes, but the following abilities will be changed:
  • Abilities that will be buffed:
    • Warrior of Light's Supreme Soul
    • Rinoa's Meteor and Aqua Burst
    • Lightning's Army of One
    • Onion Knight's Blade Torrent
    • Cloud's Finishing Touch
    • Balthier's Piercing Shot
    • Clive's Will-o'-the-Wykes
    • Growth Egg abilities
    • Memoria
  • Abilities that will be nerfed:
    • Rikku's Mega Vitality
    • Ramza's Cheer Up
    • Minwu's Teleport
    • Krile's Hopeful Cheer
    • Tyro's Heartening Gymoire
    • Embolden
  • New Character - The wind is with him. Bartz Klauser from FFV! He's a Melee type and, no surprise, Element is Wind!
    • His battle theme hit me in the feels; a remix of both "Ahead On Our Way" (Main theme of FFV) and "Home, Sweet Home".
    • Bartz's playstyle combines his Mimicry from the PSP games and the Job Mastery from NT and Opera Omnia.
    • In his season story, Bartz is reunited with Krile, and befriends Zidane, just like they were buddies in the first Dissidia!
    • His story will also involve...Gilgamesh?! Yep, Gilgamesh has a full model in-game too! And he's GINORMOUS. Wait, that means...
    • Bartz's Ghost disguise gives him a gilet and a plaid shirt, like an actual travelling camper.
    • Unique Ability: Goblin Punch. Unleash a continuous barrage of punches when held.
    • Passive Ability: Job Mastery. Attacks become stronger with each job mastery, the maximum being 3!
    • UR Ability 1: Omnislash?(couldn't get an accurate translation on this one): Leap forward and deals heavy and stuns enemies for 5 seconds!
    • UR Ability 2: Rapid-Fire Dual-Wield Spellblade (Potency increases on Mastery; 2 stars deals severe damage, 3 stars stuns enemies!)
    • SR Ability: Gil Toss - Cone-shaped attack.
    • R Ability: Dual-Wield - Surrounding attack.
  • New Stage - Corrosion: Big Bridge from FFV. Yeah, I think we know who the new boss is...
  • New Boss - Gilgamesh from FFV. I mean, does he really need an introduction? His attacks hit like a beast and one such slash has the longest range of ANY boss in the game so far!
  • Release Date - All will be added on August 25th!
  • New Costume - Krile gets a 3rd Outfit; Together with Moogle! It's adorable. And the Moogle backpack is designed after their in-game appearance from FFV!
  • New URs - Boco: Choco Dash (Greatly increase movement speed for 24 seconds) and Lenna & Faris: Enchanting Tango (Attack surrounding enemies and Stun them for 4 seconds). Future URs: Shantotto (FFXI): Stone and Jill Warrick (FFXVI): Super Cool(?). The latter two will be available later in September.
  • Half-Anniversary Missions - In celebration of the game's half-anniversary, complete three stages of missions for special rewards. The three-stage references Bartz's 3-star Job Mastery!
  • Sealed Red Crystals - Red Crystals return! They've been reworked and the 16 default characters are guaranteed to receive a UR!
• Future Timetable - The next month's character will be from FFIX, and following that...the next month will have a character from Final Fantasy XIV! Will we get a stage and boss, too...?
• Half-Anniversary Pulls! - A special banner from August 26th to September 16th will have one free pull of 10 draws! Up to 200!!!

That's all folks!

Hello all.

I just setup my Twitch channel and was ready to broadcast Rayman 2 through the GOG Galaxy. It was an epic fail. I couldn't transition properly to the in-game as my mouse cursor disappeared. Everytime I start the application through the GOG Galaxy, the cursor is gone and I can't transition.

• What happened - The stream was on Twitch and the music for Rayman 2 played in the background. The mouse didn't appear, and any option to transition was disabled.
• My Setup - I have an ASUS Vivobook with a DELL HDMI Monitor (U2414H) connected as the second screen. Everytime I play Rayman 2, the game would immediately open on my laptop instead of the monitor.
• My failed solutions - So initially, I rolled with it, moving OBS and GOG Galaxy to the Dell Monitor. But again, the mouse cursor disappears and appears disabled. I barely switched and again can't select the option to transition to Start/Stop streaming because the mouse is disabled whilst Rayman 2 is running.
• Common Online solutions don't work - I looked at the common solutions like, "Enable Capture Cursor", "Capture Specific Windows", "DXGI Desktop Application" and "Windows 10 and up", and NOTHING!

Please help! I gotta get this ready for my schedule soon! Thank you!

Expect the new character from FFV, as well as a new stage and boss!

Intro and Favourite Crash Game

Hi everyone.

Crash 2 was my first game in the series and the one I have the most nostalgia for.

I hadn't played nor even knew Crash 1 existed as a kid, so for me Crash 2 is the definitive standard of the series.

N. Brio

The one thing that confused me after its release was Nitrus Brio. Brio wanted revenge against Cortex and sent his goons after Crash, assuming he was in league with him. In the end, he sees that Crash gathered the Gems and gave him the honour of destroying the Cortex Vortex.

Then...he's absent until Crash Bash, which sees him on the "Evil" team. Since it was non-canon, I give Eurocom benefit of the doubt that they were asked by Sony to side him back to Cortex.

I haven't played TwinSanity nor the "Tattooed" Crash games so I don't count those, but fast-forward to Crash 4 and, lo-and-behold, he's back on Cortex's side for no reason other than wanting to usurp him again.

I mean, it's odd considering the conversations he has with Crash & Coco throughout Tranquility Falls, considering them friends. And the conversations you hear of him in during the flashback tapes are...ambitious to say the least.

What I assumed would've happened...and should've happened.

Brio as a villain in Crash 1 was fine, and his role in Crash 2 was sort of in-between due to confusion. I assumed his absence in Crash 3 as well as Wrath of Cortex (which I haven't played yet) was because he was on holiday, taking a break from villainy to finally live out his dream of Tending Bar.

But returning to Crash 4 as a full-on villain seems...random. I assume the writer of the game had never played prior games in the series, and I would've rather seen Tiny over Brio, since he's established as familiar and iconic enemy in the series. The only cameo of Tiny we get is a portrait of him in the Cortex Castle levels.

I expected Brio would've at least hung out with the bandicoots at their home as a half-drunk bartender that concocts power-ups for the duo with his beakers.

But in the end...I ain't complaining because:

Lose Brio. Get DINGODILE.

And I see that as an absolute win!

I won't be able to post any information on Reddit tomorrow as I'm out, but Twitter/X will share posts immediately after the stream, regardless.

I'll be watching the stream back and forth, but I hope everyone else enjoys it!

For those wondering if Death Machine is an out-of place enemy, it actually debuted in the very first Final Fantasy!

The name "Death Machine" is the original Japanese translation to what it's infamously named in the west: Warmech.

This was a very rare enemy that could be encountered in the Flying Fortress, and although FF1 didn't have traditional superbosses (at least in the OG), Warmech is such an extremely powerful enemy that it can be considered one!

The red coloration is based on its original 8-bit form as well as the Pixel Remaster!

If one Toys for Bob makes one Spyro in twelve years, how long would it take one-hundred Toys for Bob to make one-hundred Spyros?