Chronocidal
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Yeah, I actually fell asleep in the hangar menu last night at 6am Fortunately I managed to get back to base before faceplanting into my couch. The shop menus were kind of interesting, this is the second time I've seen a game where you can purchase or sell things to or from your current inventory, or storage. If anyone needs a quick reference for the quest menu: 1: Select Quest 2: Turn In Quest (ones you can turn in will show up light blue) 3: Give Up Quest I think the one option I'd really love to see most right now is the ability to select which weapons you carry with a little more flexibility. My ghost-boosted VF-0S is still better than my VF-1A in some ways, but I can't carry reaction missiles on the ghost version. The micro missile pods still get the job done, but I love those nice big explosion effects. Also, loving that valks have separate sound sets. The classic VF-1 gunpod and missile sounds made me smile. Edit: Oh, if you've made them already, what you need to do is go into the first option on the hangar, and select which pilot you're editing with L1/R1. Move down one row, and you should be at the aircraft selection, then you can move left or right to pick different planes. Moving down one more row will let you select pilots and passengers. Once you unlock different weapon options, moving down one from the aircraft lets you select different fast packs or weapon loadouts with left and right, bumping pilot and crew to the third and fourth selections respectively.
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I just had one of those warm fuzzy moments. Anyone with the SV-51g... check the fourth default scheme.
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Makes me think that there might be a mold flaw in the right shoulder pieces, that sounds same as the problem mine had. You can probably pop the shoulder off easily to examine the joint, but the problem seems to be that the shoulder won't be glued shut all the way, and there's room to slip off the metal shoulder piece. I wound up cutting off the locator pins for the upper and lower piece, and gluing them manually, but it really changed how the piece looks, because I wound up needing to fill a gap and file it smooth.
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Eh, I'm perfectly content having one of each type. I've picked up all the various super/armor packs, but I don't see much of a reason to display multiples at the same time. Not to mention.. I have no display space in the first place. Really that's why I got so many of the kits of the various versions, but didn't build them until I knew the renewals were coming. If I couldn't get a good transformable toy, I was going to try and build my super/armored Ozma and Alto to be transformable. Since the renewals fixed that need for a good transformable super/armored VF-25, I'm just going to build each kit permanently in a different mode, and display those.
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Woo, got my box set just a few minutes ago. Mail truck drove by, then made a u-turn to get to my box, so I just met him down there to avoid them driving off with it. Dunno if he would have, but I've had that happen before. Now to go stare at my tv for a few... uh.. weeks.
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Yeah, thanks for the update, I'll go ahead and try there. Not sure if I'll grab a redundant order from NY or not yet, but might just to be on the safe side. I am curious why their price is so much cheaper though. Even with shipping, it came out cheaper than NY's base price (though I only opted for priority mail instead of express ) We'll just have to wait and see how that works out.
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So, my package got to my post office this morning, and is out for delivery. I'm going to wait at the mailbox so the dipwad mailman doesn't just stick a slip in my box and tell me to pick it up monday because he doesn't like my stairs.
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The V1 releases of Michael and Luca ONLY came bundled with their respective super packs, so yeah. The bundles were also the only ones to come with stands the first time around. Personally, I'm ok ordering the packs separately this time because it saves me the trouble of getting duplicate valks just to get the packs, but I'd much rather see bundles to begin with. I may be wrong here, but it seems like the renewal releases are spaced much further apart than the originals. Granted, there've been a few releases in between to break things up (the 171 and YF-29s), but it's like Bandai has gone with a "we're only going to work on one release at a time, and we're not going to bundle anything ever" approach to the renewals. I'm pretty sure the first time around, Michael and Luca were released almost simultaneously. I'll be honest though... for as much time as Luca spent out of fighter mode, or without packs (did they ever even come off?), I'm almost tempted to just pick up the v1 release that NY is still selling, and be done with it. I feel like the RVF-25 really needs those packs to help balance out the design.
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Although, it does serve as a bit of consolation in the event that someone isn't able to get one. Really, the only reason I want one is to get all four of them together, but if I was going to leave one out, it would be Luca. Really, the RVF doesn't do much for me. If anything, since that one would never leave fighter mode, I may steal the crotch plate from it, and repaint it in Michael's colors to fix the fact that mine was missing.
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Actually, they've sold out before too, they just tend to open up orders again a day or so later for maybe $10 more. Just keep an eye out, and it should work. Once the price gets bumped up a few bucks, people don't rush to grab them as quickly.
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Well, least I can take comfort in the fact that my Macross30 copy arrived in customs in LA tonight. Maybe if I'm really really lucky, I'll have it this weekend, and get distracted.
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Yeah. Adding something to your cart should just mark it as "sold." People basically got tackled at the checkout stand.
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I actually had it in my cart while it was still in stock... and the site crashed EVERY time I tried to check out. Now, it's still in my cart, but they say they don't have enough to fill the order. Utter bullshit. They need to make "in cart" items count as sold, and this wouldn't happen. Seriously.. the traffic on that site was nonsense. Basically amounted to a DoS attack.
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Think it was listed that way on the Bandai site, announcing the release. I just wound up buying one from NY the day after for the 171CF, so I'm just waiting for it to appear there.
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Wow, that's a new record! Sold out in -3 hours! Someone needs to get ahold of them and figure out how they're warping the space-time continuum. I need to go and re-think my life. This time shenanigans is messing with my notion of free will. Or I can just wait and order from NY, which is probably what will happen. I will never understand Bandai's marketing.
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You know, just a thought.. Has anyone ever bothered watching the Japanese site to see if they go up for sale earlier there?
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Probably not going to bother refreshing there, but yeah, just saw that. I'll probably go for the NY order sometime tomorrow.
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When you have different CG models rigged for different types of animation, it gets REALLY easy to have those kinds of errors. I mean, look at how many times the markings on the spine of the VF-25F appear and disappear? They also really weren't very careful with the posing of the VF-25s in the series. Any casual freeze-framing will show a ton of parts passing straight through each other. It doesn't show up if you don't look very carefully, but while pieces don't have to necessarily change size to transform anymore, parts existing in the same physical space is the new anime magic. It happens though. Animation software isn't really built to avoid collisions, because there's really no consequence to it. Manufacturing CAD is another story, but they're not going to invest that much to make a cartoon.
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Yeah, that's definitely not one of his better works either. Some serious funkyness going on with the perspective and proportions.
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So what will be the first Arcadia branded Macross offering?
Chronocidal replied to jvmacross's topic in Toys
I'd guess he means that the VF-4 is just one of those valks that, despite fans loving it, had been completely overlooked in terms of any kind of merchandise. Even the Macross II stuff got mass production kits in the past, but until very very recently, the only way to get any VF-4 was through garage kits or scratchbuilding. -
Hehe.. Tempted to ask if there's a control style that puts the throttle up and down on the shoulder buttons like Ace Combat, but that's not a horrible thing to change. I know the DYRL pack in used R2/L2 as rudder in one mode, so I assume that's similar?
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Basically the reason I like the 19P is that it's the only VF-19 we have any hope of customizing. I never even saw the anime it's from, so I've got no attachment to the design aside from it's the least gaudy VF-19 we can buy. I have never understood why the intake covers on all the others are ridiculous colors, while the covers of practically every valkyrie ever have always been gray. I might keep one in original markings, but any others I plan to get are likely to get stripped bare and have new markings put on.
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There was absolutely no reason they had to "justify" the price of the super parts. Look at the speaker pack that came out for the old VF-25G, and it had even less in the box than the VF-171EX packs if you didn't include the wings (note: I'm under the impression that it only had the fold booster and speakers. If that's wrong, then please correct me there. ) Bandai just doesn't like including more than one option for anything in the same box.
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Yeah, you have to rememeber.. space is usually dark. Without a local light source to reflect off those markings, they wouldn't show up anyway. The big glowy engines, on the other hand, would be a dead giveaway. Really, by the time the VF-17 went into service, stealth had nothing to do with the shape of the aircraft, or even the color. I mean think about it. Nora's SV-51 was hot pink with gold stripes, and when Shin first encountered her in an F-14, they claimed it was a stealth fighter, because they didn't pick up anything. The only reason he got anywhere near hitting her was because she got cocky, and decided to get within visual range, and he was able to draw a bead on her for a cannon shot. When you've got weapons that work beyond visual range, you don't have to fool the human eye anymore, just the sensors. I actually never understood why anyone would paint a spacecraft black. Sure, it's great for hiding. But if you fly with a group? That's just asking for collisions. And with twinkling stars everywhere, blinking anti-collision lights might not help much. I always figured the bright wing stripes were for friendly ID more than anything else.
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I haven't verified this myself yet, but someone did post a guide to setting up a Japanese PSN account for accessing the included download of the old PSX DYRL game that came with the bluray DYRL box. You might have to do some translation, but I don't believe the accounts themselves are locked to any region's IP. Now, whether that means you'll be able to use a non-Japanese credit card for purchasing any DLC remains to be seen. I know Sega is picky about who can buy credits for PSO2 (you need a Japanese credit card, a Japanese address, and have to answer a bunch of kanji captchas to spend any money on that game). Whether you can just go on the Japanese PSN and buy things with a credit card from another country, I can't say.