game mechanical literalism cuts both ways
#Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
wheat chasm
stiff trail
Yeah that part is always a question. "What happens in fiction when you rest"?
viscid dust
I've been looking though the messages from the conversation and I agree with the clunkyness from the variable gulf between gameplay and story. The thing that I find....Interesting? It seems likely that we will at some point meet Cal in a film or TV show. If he does even half the stuff he can do in the games then he will be the most overpowered jedi in the entire series (at least in the films).
It's obviously a gameplay feature that Cal has all these powers, but most of these powers are used as unique singular features. He's got the slow time, which is kind of Kylo Ren's unique skill. He can do the force memories from items ability that Quinlan Voss was known for having. He's got the animal friendship thing which has been a thing that Grogu can do and I think Ezra does it? Are they just gonna choose one or basically get rid of them all and just leave him with force pushing? And I'm guessing he'll just have a normal lightsaber and not a duel blade or something else, because all the cinematics swap him back to the single lightsaber. And of course, the lore accurate hairstyle is the mullet.
weary thicket
To this point, the game only points out the force echoes as being a unique thing that cal can do, the rest you can basically just assume any force user could, id the felt so inclined, also do.
they're jedi, not the justice league, they don't really have like, fixed power sets
wheat chasm
We see him use the two sabers against the Inquisitor, early on. The gun is used significantly, too.
And as the helmet points out, these aren't exclusive abilities. Obi-Wan instantly befriends animals in the movies, and mesmerizes them in TCW.
We constantly see Force-users do new and (seemingly) unique shit. But Kyle holding himself in place on the ground against the backwash from a starship engine is pretty similar to what Cal does when he runs on walls, for example.
viscid dust
to be honest, I never saw any of the acrobatics that Cal does as somekind of force ability, except the moments he's obviously floating or something like that. Mainly because I play quite a lot of assassins creed/tomb raider/uncharted games.
wheat chasm
the wall running is explicitly a force ability
hm, maybe that's too strong - but it's shown to be part of his Jedi training, and others comment on it in the context of it being magical
viscid dust
maybe it is. It didn't seem anything more than what I'd see an assassin or Lara Croft to do so it didn't seem very magical to me. Which...isn't a great comparison but I guess they kind of made me normalise it.
wheat chasm
other games just don't call it magic
AC has alien genetics as explanation
dunno about Tomb Raider, probably something to do with Lara being made of like seven polygons LOL
viscid dust
I don't know what actual parkour people can do so I have no idea if there's any legitimacy to it. My base assumption was that it goes slightly over the level of normality, but no more than any other action adventure movie/game does.
wheat chasm
he can run along walls for dozens of meters
viscid dust
Yeah maybe it's going too far. I've never heard anyone in the game call it magic (Or equivalent), but people do say that he's more athletic than them a lot. I didn't see that meaning it was the force though. Just that he's really athletic.
weary thicket
the trick is he moves like a videogame
wheat chasm
Merrin comments on his special movement abilities on Jedha, IIRC
weary thicket
like, a real person in a film would likely not move through the world the way Cal does
wheat chasm
and while I obviously can't check, there are plenty of combat barks from NPCs along the lines of, how the fuck is he doing this???
viscid dust
It'd be nice for them to show off in some way the fact that he does parkour though
weary thicket
it's like the conversation about Ashoka in Rebels Vs Luke that Dave Filoni had at some celebration a few years back
where he comments that Ashoka moves in ways that only an animated character can, and that looks good in animation
Cal's the same, but with video games, and that extends to all of his feats
viscid dust
Cal is a true menace to society. Drug addict and brutal killer of all things in his path.
devout marten
like, a real person in a film would likely not move through the world the way Ca...
PTSD flashbacks to Reva's "parkour" sequence in Kenobi
brittle turret
*PTSD flashbacks to Reva's "parkour" sequence in Kenobi*
That was so funny and I am so glad you reminded me of it
Also, question for those who've finished the story,
Does anyone know where Merrin acts as your buddy? I miss having a buddy in game, but she only seems to follow me on Jedha and nowhere else.
brittle turret
stiff trail
Yeah it is just on Jedha sadly. Oh and in the very final area but barely
devout marten
I hate modern Star Wars discourse so much
stiff trail
Jesus Christ
Idk if that's modern discourse so much as just straight up that person being a fascist
But that is a bleak screenshot
wheat chasm
People eat that shit up
stiff trail
Yeahhh the Fandom has a real nazi problem, to the surprise of no one
ruby ice
Has conversation while doing New Journey+ to get two NPCs for the cantina
Cal goes into a combat stance mid-sentence
Think to self that it's probably just a commando droid or something
See brownish mass approaching from behind
It's a fucking rancor
brittle turret
I hate modern Star Wars discourse so much
I used to think people did that as a joke like "haha star wars but funny inversion of roles" but now I'm not so sure people are in on the joke or not
devout marten
It started off as an ironic thing but over the years its produced a generation of people that unironically believe it
Much like holocaust jokes
brittle turret
Yuck
brittle turret
>Has conversation while doing New Journey+ to get two NPCs for the cantina
>Cal ...
I told myself I'd play NJ+ with the Purity perk once I 100%'d my current playthrough but knowing Rancors and || Frog Demons|| may spawn on the overworld makes me question if I should
ruby ice
Purity basically increases the damage vastly
wheat chasm
Purity and Warrior are separate perks, Warrior switches up the enemies for stronger ones
Neither one cost perk slots
brittle turret
Right, I meant NJ+ w/Purity and Warrior
And GM because I hate myself and wanna give a "realistic difficulty" game a shot
wheat chasm
I tried using both, and it's just stupid. You squeeze through a wall right into a dozen enemies, any of which can kill you with one or two hits
It becomes all about luck, not skill
Warrior alone is plenty, IMO. So many sentry droids and flame troopers LOL
maybe I'll do a purity run later on, without warrior
stiff trail
It's definitely not designed for that increase in damage, yeah
umbral frost
I tried using both, and it's just stupid. You squeeze through a wall right into ...
Yeah it's a weird thing where it mostly trivializes boss fights while making the fights that just have a few too many variables really hard because if you loose track of one of those space-turkeys they can one-shot you.
wheat chasm
And if it was just about reflexes or whatever, fine, but it isn't. You get railroaded right into groups of multiple enemies that do area attacks you have no methods to counter or even evade.
umbral frost
Yeah I think I'd enjoy a version of it that was maybe half of what it is on both sides.
I don't need to take down the huge creatures with one move either.
devout marten
Yeah I think I'd enjoy a version of it that was maybe half of what it is on bot...
Hopefully there'll be a mod that does exactly that, yeah
Or the devs will release a perk like that
umbral frost
Yeah I'm sure somebody will get on that soon enough.
wheat chasm
As it stands, without Purity enemies are once again saber pin cushions.
upbeat garnet
I haven't even started NJ+ yet. Wondering if I should just complete all the side stuff on my current playthrough or just start another one with the intent of getting all the side stuff done as I go along.
reef pilot
I've been doing collecting before starting + because since you won't have all your tools, you'll have to backtrack to collect stuff anyway
stiff trail
Yeah I did that so I could just fully customize Cal and his gear for NJ+
Then Zelda came out and well
umbral frost
Yeah I did all the collecting (except seeds, there are so many) before starting NG+. But that really does leave you just the main story, most of the sidequests now just say you already did them since the reward would have been the stuff you already have. Can't do the bounties again, etc.
wheat chasm
new patch is out for PC
stiff trail
Neat
reef pilot
I was not prepared for ||Spawn of Oggdo||