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For years I have watched this game evolve from the PC version of Battlefield 1942 and 1943 to what it is today, and I have been part of the Battlefield community ever since its discovery back in those days. The player count for this game will always be in large scale due to being one of the most interactive military simulated games ever created. From flying high in a jet, or letting rockets rip from an Apache helicopter, this game delivers the frontline action of a simulated experience to being in combat. Call of Duty is a cartoon compared to this game. Dice and EA delivers once again another action-packed Battlefield full of surprises. Even now when firing your weapon, you hear the casings of the shells hit the ground or eject from the chamber in a crystal-clear ping. I've been a part of the Battlefield community for years, and we have as a community have had a hand in the development of this game over the years and with the beta, we get a foretaste of the action that awaits us. This game will always be better than Call of Duty due to its interactive play style with different vehicles. Its release is in 8 weeks from today, the beta will be up again on Thursday August 14-17. And you can bet I will be on the Battlefield with my comrades laying down some cover fire and revives to keep them in the game. It doesn't matter to us in this game who wins or loses, we Battlefield Veterans of this game love it solely for its environmental destruction, vehicles, and ground troop urban warfare battles. We live and breath this game, and Battlefield 6 has brought a whole new bag of toys.

Metroid Dread is probably one of the hardest Metroid games I have ever played. You have to be exceedingly accurate in all your actions in the game due to the amount of damage you take from the environment and creatures that lurk in each sector you find yourself in, you can have 5-6 full energy tanks but lose them in a matter of seconds. I have still yet to beat this particular title. I'm stuck on the boss Drogyga, and I think I have just that very amount of energy tanks, and to say this boss is difficult is an understatement. I usually get very close to beating the boss, but the boss also has worn my health down by the time he starts opening up with new attacks that you have to become familiar with to avoid them and defeat him, of course it only gets harder once you get closer to beating him, good game and great exploration, and Metroid will always rewarding to anything that you have to sink time and patience into to finding it.

Still to this day I play both The Legend of Zelda and Super Metroid. These 2 games I never get tired of. I remember a long-lost game I don't think anyone has really put any remembrance on which is "Little Nemo Dream Master" for the NES. Used to run around in your pajamas and throwing little candies at monsters and taking over their abilities. Just a little fun "metroidvania" side scroller which was a masterpiece to me in its time. Hopefully this game, and few others will come to the switch like "Wrath of the Black Manta" and a game called "Yo! Noid" which me and my sister used to play endlessly.

I'm just excited that they decided to go back to the urban combat as they did in Battlefield 4. BF4 won 30 gaming publications before its release, and one of those was "action game of the year" and "best multiplayer game" can't wait to see what nonsense and crazy humor players and myself can come up with in a game of conquest or even one of my all-time favorite game modes of "Capture the flag" it was the days when you spawned in and the boys loaded up in a buggy or on a quad and primed it with C4 for a "jihad" run, knowing that we didn't plan on surviving. Lol

The choice of Alters is limited in the beginning of the game, so you only have the choices of a Botanist, Scientist, Technician, and maybe a Miner or Refiner. You have to upgrade the Quantum Computer to the second level to create like the "Guard" which would have been helpful to discipline the "Alters" or help with their moods. That was one of the issues I dealt with playing this game, and not to mention the time sensitivity this game brought with it. The really fun part was using the Quantum Computer, and realizing you were branching out memories and then actually creating yourself with a life path and making a clone of yourself, which then you give consciousness too by using the "Womb" and you create an "Altered Physical Reality" of yourself hence the name "ALTERS," Miner, Doctor, Refiner, to help you work within the environment, for me that was the fun and intelligible part of the game that I loved. I couldn't get past Act 1; I had to many resources I needed, not enough crew, having to micromanage some things, it put a lot of "sims" type elements in it, that was a bit to repetitive for me. I initially did like the game when I first started playing, but then I started to really dig into it, and found out that every single 100% choice matters. The reality of this game is that, if you can't seem to secure enough resources or build the proper base modules, you won't get through the intervals, ACT 1, ACT2... Etc.... So, in the beginning you really don't have to many choices other than bringing on board the space station the helping hands you need in the beginning and then comes the modules you need. The outline for the mission's parameters is already laid out once you start the game

This morning as I was thinking about the game, I thought about builds, and pictos. I think the best way to get the synergistic effect from your pictos is to make sure that you use the ones that when you cause damage, you are healing, or when you counter an attack you heal. The pictos you wear may have a slight effect to your HP, Speed, Defense or Critical Rate. The idea of course is to learn the pictos ability because once you have learned the ability you can then remove the picto and just use the lumina points to activate it as an active skill in battle and random encounters, which is similar to the mechanics of Final Fantasy 9. Where you used the small crystals to activate the abilities once you learned them from a weapon that had an ability to learn from it. There are some pictos that you will find more useful than others that you don't want to after learning the ability; to take it off the character you put it on. Maelle will always be my strongest character of the party. I now have her at level 52 with HP in the 4,000's, and experience to level now is at 428,000 to my next level. So, you can see that I have been grinding away as I would a Final Fantasy game. There are also 2 weapons I think are of great use especially now that I am on the path to fighting the Axons which has opened up a bit more exploring around the continent. Which the 2 weapons in mind are the "Duenum" and the "Melarum" Duenum when you switch stances you end up giving your party AP which is needed in battle of course to cast your skills, and the other is the Melarum which you will always apply shell with your health above 80% and your allies will heal on switching to certain stances.

Here's a screen shot of the encounter that you will find south of the Gestral Beach I was speaking about, if you manage to not take any damage you will be rewarded with a 20% No Damage increase of your experience that you gain from the encounter, and I have also noted that sometimes it may grant 2 and sometimes 3 "Resplendent Chroma Catalysts" so again this is the best spot to farm the materials or resources you need to level your weapons and characters up this far into the game, only after you have progressed through "Monoco Station" and have recruited "Monoco" that this area becomes available.

I have a thread post in review as I submit this for some use to others that are playing this game. If you are wondering where the best place to farm experience and resplendent chroma catalysts for your weapons, there is a great spot I'm going to share with you. This place of course cannot be accessed until you have progressed the story enough and have a reasonable amount of leveling with your characters, and you also want to make sure that you are leveling up your relationship levels as you progress for your "Gradient Attacks" which will be very useful in your upcoming story boss encounters. The specific spot is just after you have progressed in the "Monoco Station" you will have recruited "Monoco" on the map as you pull it up, you will see 3 entrances to "Monoco Station" the exit to the "North West" is the exit you will take to get to "Old Lumiere" at this point your characters are very low level still and even very low to deal with the random encounters in "Frozen Hearts" it is your choice to do as you will, but exploring everything before you progress the story may be crucial to your last encounter with the "Paintress" so Im going to be as prepared as I can. Anyways, you will see a "Gestral Beach" that sits "East" of "Monoco Station" you will want to go to the beach south of the "Gestral Beach" there you will find 3 creatures just waiting for someone to fight them, these 3 creatures will grant you at least 60,000 experience and one of the most useful materials you need to upgrade your weapons past level 10, which are the "Resplendent Chroma Catalysts" you can farm them as much as you like and the experience. Just remember to go back to camp and save so that the 3 creatures will reappear for unlimited farming materials and experience. If you find you are having difficulty fighting these 3 level your characters up to at least level 25, I was well past that when I first encountered them, and still somehow they can deal massive amounts of damage to your party.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing your hope of the trailer you have been waiting for finally be announced at the 2025 Summer Game Fest. Looks like a new breed of horror is going to be lurking in the shadows......