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>>2431270
“So we just mash through the opening screen, and it skips chargen with the defaults. Everyone plays Anode mode anyway, unless they’re trying for categories.”

You are Anode, part of a military contract to supply the Maverick Hunters with two new operatives. Your counterpart, Cathode, specializes in directed energy weaponry and operates as a weapons platform.
Your primary combat capability is in interception and defense. Cathode delivers the lightning. Your job is to take it. To that end you are designed with a reservoir through a number of capacitors that allow you to build a murderous charge through electric attacks. The two of you are designed to compliment one another on the field.

“It takes a little while to load, and then you can mash Start to skip through most of the cutscenes and dialogue in the game. Anyway, welcome to this Maverick Hunter Quest speedrun! Let’s get started.”

You roll your thumb across the D-pad and mash out the last few presses.

“So for newcomers to the stream, this run starts off pretty normal,” you explain. “At least, until we hit the first checkpoint, then it starts getting a little weird…”

At least the terrain fits, you think to yourself as you engage the teleport...

The lights flicker intermittently in the plant. Automated warnings for the workers still broadcast. A quick check confirms comms to HQ are still working, so they can't have been here long. There's not much sign of damage here, but you're not far into the plant. How do you wish to proceed?

“Now remember, this is NG+ Any% category--it’s the most popular run of this game, because you start off with almost all your speed tech already unlocked and then there’s a lot of fun speed tech to get through the stages.”

You blitz through the stage, mashing the upgraded dash and not even bothering to block enemies, damagetanking through most of them anywhere it’s faster than trying to jump them.

“So you may remember if you played this as a kid, you get blinded in the intro stage…”

The stream suddenly goes wild as the screen goes completely dark. “PICNIC?” and “PANIC” abound from the newcomers, out of the corner of your eye.

“So it turns out you can call the event early if you take enough damage early on, and then cross the checkpoint in under thirty seconds,” you explain. “This ALSO flags Chaff Weasel to die in one hit. Unfortunately, he’s all the way at the end of the level, so....”

You take a deep breath and yell AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, chat yelling with you as you mash the attack button, beam lance swing noises overwriting one of the audio channels in the music as you flail your way through the end of the stage.

“The name is Chaff--”

Somewhere buried beneath, the music shift changes unheard, and then cuts out entirely as Chaff Weasel shows up and gets immediately demolished. The chat goes wild as he goes up in a cascade of (unseen) explosions.

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>>2431274
“...And that’s stage one. Welcome to Maverick Hunter Quest,” you say with a grin.

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>>2431279
And welcome, indeed, to Maverick Hunter Quest. Happy late Diode Day, and happy early April Fool's Day. Oh, and Easter, too, I guess.

Today's thread is more like the memorial, only instead of exhaustively written robot drama, it's stupid goofy shenanigans. There's no real choices, but that does not mean reader interaction is discouraged--I'm writing each section from an outline as I go, so I can adapt on the fly to "chat."

Overall, let's kick back, relax, and have a fun little weekend.

I've also gotten word from a couple friends of mine that this might be a VERY good April for MHQ. I can't speak for them (or tip my hand), but stay tuned.

In the meantime, the usual--let's all chat, catch up, discuss the thread and each other and ask your lore questions while we enjoy the ride.

>>2431290
Emerald Mode is for pros.

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Time for the chad% run!

>>2431290
Afternoon Hunter Command

>Taunt every boss with 'WELCOME TO THE 4TH'

Oh dear.

Good to see you back!

so lore question

anode was built to tank as many hits as possible

why no shields

>>2431438
Not quite as many hits as possible, but a lot of punishment. Unorthodox armor-heavy focus, because the shields messed with C. Cap's charge gain. Idea on construction was to take abuse while getting juiced up with Cathode as backup (both to minimize harm taken and to charge him up) and then unload, quickly finishing the battle.

that's what marketing says

the real reason is that liberty labs gets paid for replacement armor and spare parts

so far anode has been profitable beyond their wildest dreams

>>2431492
Liberty labs are definitely milking that sweet hunter moola

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>>2431442
Also, pic related, HC

>>2431274
>You blitz through the stage, mashing the upgraded dash and not even bothering to block enemies, damagetanking through most of them anywhere it’s faster than trying to jump them.
ahahahahaha

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>mistiming the thread so hard you miss diode day AND April 1.
HC pls, we raised you better than this.

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>>2431647
I TOOK THE AVERAGE

I'm also sitting down to enjoy my first cheat meal in 35 days. I've got a large pizza coming my way, and this is going to be satisfying as hell.

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>>2431674
We better get pics of your cheatzza.

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>>2431700
It's actually fairly average by my standards, but then again we have an outlier where my roommate may or may not have gotten high and ordered a $62 pizza.

>>2431708
That better be some damn good pizza.
Treat yourself well, a cheat meal with such a gap is quite the mouthwatering thing.

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A MHQ fanservice thread?

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On the one hand, they forgot my jalapeno peppers.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS IS AMAZING OH MY GOD.

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>>2431829

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>>2431837

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>>2431861

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>>2431771
Yep. Been a while, and it's a good time in the narrative for one.

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>>2431868

>>2431315
>The Virgin Jetpack
>THE CHAD SWORD
Remember: Darkest Timeline

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Well, now that I've eaten half that pizza in... a little less than ten minutes, let me go knock out the laundry folding I was working on when the door ran, and then we'll take on our next target.

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Could this thread be considered a cheat meal for us?
I mean, this is the only oasis in the chaos that is mhq I've seen in quite some time.

>>2431829
>gypped on jalapeños
Bad luck, my dude. Beaut of a pizza, tho.

anode replaced mongoose in thread 1

who was mongoose

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>>2431889
Funny story, actually--you're due for a shift in the winds, there. CL and I did some talking, narratively, thematically, and make-sure-the-damn-story-is-actually-fun-ally. It's not going to be puppies and rainbows, but it's time for a stormcloud or two to break.

>>2431915
Important update: They were hidden serranos and the first slice just didn't have any on it. Mistakes into miracles, all is well.

Writing and my first beer in over a month now!

>>2431922
In a way, aren't we all Mongoose?

No. No we are not.

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>>2431940
Aye, such is life for a maverick hunter.

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>>2431940
Does that mean we get Schwarz back?

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>>2431963

>>2431829
Ye gods, it's magnificent.

No, we had the up-side, but now we got the down-side.

You see, there's two kinds of every Schwarz.

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>>2431963
Would it help if I said yes?

I have a trustworthy lack of face, don't I?

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Oh yes. I'm alive again.

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>>2431980
Why must you do this Cain?
What compels thy evil nature fiend!?

>>2431985
>Unicorn Farm
is Farm Unicorn the name of a maverick

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>>2431279
“So we take weakness order, obviously it’s faster than just trying to buster them down. For the most part,” you add as an afterthought. You roll your thumb across the D-pad and select Lockon Bloodhound, mashing through the India team-up conversation.

“The first part of the mission is the door gunner part--we hate this because it’s hard to do optimally and it’s really slow.” You sweep Anode’s busters across the grounds, occasionally mashing out chaff rockets--you’ll only really need a handful for the boss.

"Shove it up your ass, Spin," you whisper, inaudible over the roaring gale.

And then you grasp the lip of the transport and throw yourself out.

“Now, when Anode jumps out of the transport, he gets a big charge-up. This is where things get a little weird.”

You’re already discharging as Anode lands, the ticker dropping back down to 0 in the center of the screen, draining the charge just as quickly as you get it.

“There’s actually exposed conduits under the map all through the stage Anode can tap,” you say, double-mashing the zap button. “Normally if you try to shoot without charge, nothing happens, but if you manage to hit the button twice on the same frame you hit 0%--”

The chat erupts in WHATS as Anode’s capacitor instantly blinks full and stays there, as you simply walk across the landing pad holding down fire and melt everything in your path. “--turns out that the capacitor charge is an unsigned 16-bit integer,” you finish with a grin you can hear in your voice. “So it underflows to 65,535%.”

They go nuts at that as you hit Raikousen and Anode blasts off. NOW the run really gets started.

“So the map is made up of tiles, and usually there’s no real seams, but this particular mission has that bit with the cave the mavericks were digging out, and it goes from industrial pipes to an underground cavern. You dash jump right about here,” you hit the button just at the start of the ramp into the cave, as the ride armor enemy dash-punches right past below you, “and if you line it up right, you clip Anode into the ceiling.”

Sure enough, you wedge him right into the gap between the tilesets, and in a matter of frames, you’ve blinked him across the entire map. “First try, every time,” you say, as Anode is dumped out at the end of the stage at that height--up on the vantage platform for the enemy Disk Boy 0A.”

What’s supposed to be a challenging duck-and-run gunfight in cover turns into a one-sided curbstomp as you instantly fry the poor thing the second it spawns, then jump down and give Bloodhound a combination of chaff and zapping dash-slashes.

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>>2432080
You allow a ragged, manic grin to cross your features as you draw your lance, lean in, and engage a full Raikousen.

"YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE, BUTTHORN!"

Bloodhound begins to explode as you turn your attention back to the chat. “You might recall India was here. We like to race her. You know you got a good time when you hear--”

"Mmhmm," she says, wiping her oily hand off on your armor. "That Ride's not going anywhere until we want it to--unless he calls in an airlift," she adds wryly.

“THAT line, during the death animation. This is a good run so far.”

>>2431674
>35 days
WEAK

Unless it's your birthday, I guess.

>>2432080
...is this because they had to program the variable to be large enough to hold the Enigma's charge?

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Fun fact:
HC is playing in a tabletop game set in MHQ, and he is currently elbow deep in my character disconnecting bits because I self-reported a viral infection. Good times. Maybe we'll get a storytime compiled once we're not actively running.

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>>2432133
>elbow-deep

See, this is how shipping starts.

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>>2432168
You complete my sync circuit bby~

>>2432123
>...is this because they had to program the variable to be large enough to hold the Enigma's charge?

We thought that at first, but it turns out Enigma mode just sets the capacitor to 100% and disables Shock costs.

There's a guy who has been speedrunning blind%, which you do by glitching out of the medbay after the weasel fight and never equipping anything in the eye slot.

>>2432080

Wait, I'm confused. Why does he reference Spin Jagwire if he's going in weakness order? He hasn't met Spin yet.

>>2432312
Jagwire is last in the weakness order if you start with Weasel

>>2432312
Bugged dialogue, obviously.

>>2432325
adding to this,
>not doing a reverse weakness order run starting with saetos
get on my fucking level fool

>>2432341
It actually works pretty well. SWORD trivialises every single boss and level in Maverick Hunter Quest 1, so if you can beat Saetos in a good time, you can still be competitive.

>>2432312

>>2432331 is right. Completing either Jagwire or Weasel turns on the Jagwire trauma dialog for Bloodhound.

>>2432341

Can you even call it a reverse weakness run if you start with Saetos? Both SWORD and jets throw the balance curve off.

Heck the current best 100% P grade starts with saetos to grab the SWORD to quick kill X for the 2nd Armor and Sigma for permanent Enigma mode.

>>2432417
please, we all know the best run; Skipjack first then use the grenades and bug with the low damage explosion to cause a constant string of damage that ignores I Frames.

>satire on speedrunning
>HC knows enough about video game exploits and speedruns to make said satire convincing and humorous

My love for this quest continues to grow.

it gets you the bad end, but i do love just killing doppler in the middle of his lab visit event

also the *best* way to do Saetos first is to make a human ace and name him 'Django' to activate the boktai game link

Gun Del Sol is so fun.

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Game update: Managed to talk HC's character into letting me flash-fabricate one of my sensor probes. It was full of virus-infused glitter instead of sensor. Glitter that his character designed. He then proceeded to discuss how to safely dispose of it right in front of me, and despite my best efforts of stopping him from going through with a plan that wasn't going to work because the virus was listening to him plan it, he got himself and his future CO a nice glitterbomb.

Virus status: Still not cured.

>>2432567
Oi, this is the SNES version, not the remaster for the GBA. Least it's not the anniversary version they add to each system these days and charge full price.

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>>2432585
In my defense, we didn't even execute the plan to try to disable it before it went off.

Also, this isn't going well. Half the team is now at the very least to be sidelined.

>>2432534
>Skipjack grenades deal slightly less than 1 damage
>Because less than one, I-Frames don't trigger
>BUT THE GAME ROUNDS THE DAMAGE UP
GENIUS

>>2432599
the only reason nobody runs the GBA version (despite the added content and improved QOL) is because text boxes take an extra 5 frames to open, which makes the times totally uncompetitive

>>2432567
A little bit hard to get S rank mission completion when you do that, though. You need to get Django injured enough to give his gun, but not dead. Friendly Fire is also a nono. You practically need ng+ OPAL-EX to see the UV lasers and "accidentally" push him.

Unless you're already doing a blind run and you predict trajectories on a regular basis anyway.

>>2432611
Also, if you manage to create a long enough lube trail for Seven in the minigame to build up speed, and angle Em so his foot is juust off the path, Seven will clip 5 PUs and ROCKET the score.

>>2432534
Doing Tuna Slaps causes your VWES rating to tank to C. Most of the good speed strats ruin high Grade playthroughs which is why NG+ Any% is the preferred style.

>>2432637

its harder than that, remember django has that 'solar healing' trait, so first you gotta get him on the back-arc of the projectile feathers (since when fired they only target reploids), and then prevent him both from getting healed by any of saetos's solar-element attacks, and from being finished off in melee

>>2432656
Speaking of the 7 Seven bugs, has anyone actually used the dialogue speedrun method? It would supposedly cut all times by 30%, but you'd need to play the whole game with Seven's intro dialogue frozen on the screen.

>>2432709
the problem is you can't use an elevator without pressing A and you can't press A when in a dialogue

and there are two places nobody's figured out how to skip elevators in, since when activated they create a loadzone for a new area, so you can't just glitch through

>>2432585
We really should compile a journal at some point. My Bat-bot at least hasn't fallen for your heresy yet.

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Welp, despite our best efforts, the virus appears to have been contained, assuming our helper human doctor NPC guy that showed up isn't secretly a full-endo maverick replacement.

>>2432784
The journal would just be twenty pages of [redacted], [restricted], [classified], and blackbarred text.

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>>2432816
Oh come on, not ALL of our ops got crazy. There was the first one. And, uh, I think the Explosion Destroy op is probably mostly good?

>>2432726
You can get by one by doing half an A press, but not the other.

>>2432726
2nd controller trick, press A on the 2nd controller, does that work? Dunno if it's worth a try or not.

What happens if you sequence break and kill Shiva?

>>2432726
There's actually a way to skip through both of the elevator loadzones, but they're considered TAS only at this point. There's a glitch that makes the game think that your Y coordinate is some amount of pixels lower than you are. The glitch itself is realtime viable and is relatively easy to pull off. People have even accidentally done it in casual playthroughs. The problem is that the game only moves you down one pixel per input, and it's a frame perfect trick. A skilled player might be able to do three or four pixels, but the elevator skip requires ten. It also resets every time you try the glitch again or press a directional input.

>>2432990
You can't actually kill Shiva. Even if you deal the maximum possible amount of damage to it, the sprite will remain on screen and behave normally. There are glitches you can use to despawn him, but doing them will softlock the game.

>>2432847
You're forgetting about what happened to Hulldown Pillbug and Frost Lynx.

>>2433036
Odd though. There's a dummied out DNA named "Shv" with parameters copied from Saetos only with nuclear element instead of solar.

>>2433132
Man, cut content is a common thing for games. Just like Schwarz being playable and getting to kill Seven in the first game.

So when are we getting that berries emote?

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>>2433132
>There's a dummied out DNA named "Shv"

it's a saber tech

>>2433191
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-SVpUvFN8g

Anyone have the cheatcode to genderbend all the G class hunters?

>>2433214
This is a SNES game! Damn kiddies, if you want your porn, just look in the mod community. It's probably there in between two Kaizo mods.

>>2433036
Having read the campaign logs, I can't help but laugh at what happens to Frost Lynx
>only party member actually eager to see combat
>out of several available missions, convinces group to take one based in arctic region first
>immediately gets buried under an avalanche, sidelined for rest of mission
>UNDER AN AVALANCHE
>FROST LYNX
>FROST
>asks to be reassigned upon return to base, presumably out of embarrassment

>>2433231
The actual reason is that I had to drop from the campaign for irl reasons so the GM used that as an ingame explanation. I've never seen the irony before, but in hindsight that is pretty funny.

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>>2433231
If I gave up every time my character failed at their one job I'd have quit a long time ago.

>Make a character based around being fast and avoiding hits but being hefty enough to shrug off what does hit him
>Still end up taking massive damage inexplicably because I can't roll for shit
When it works it works but when it doesn't I roll out of missions with 2 hp and a dream.

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>>2433253
And minus a few limbs, naturally.

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>>2433269
Strucfails are a bitch, as your mavs are well aware

>>2432372
>>2432417
Oh yeah, the problem with Retard Sword is you're devoting 3 or 4 stages worth of zenny (WITH Saetos rewards) to actually get the resources to build the thing, and then another one before it's ready to use, so you're basically turning the first half of the game into a no-upgrade run.
And if you're doing reverse weakness like I said, that means your next targets are Wolfspider, Wallaby, and Terrapin, in that order! Retard Sword is fine and dandy on a speedrun, but those fights are always going to be a trip if you can't tank or dodge. The jumpjet's basically a necessity if you want to record a decent time on their stages, and it's used for the Limited 1 mountainside exploit, so...

>>2432625
Plus the screen is 2/3 the height, it's like nobody at (HC)apcom learned from Megaman & Bass

Why aren't you playing an actually hard game, like Maverick Hunter Zero?

I could never beat Fake Emerald. Stupid hard last boss.

>>2433328
Get a loada this guy. Fake Emerald is so easy he's the "joke" bonus boss in half the Maverick Hunter Zero fangames. The actual bonus boss is always 3 times harder.

Fake Emerald's nothing compared to Cathode Devil or Diamond UNLIMITED.

Who /xteachestyping/ here?

Diode Day?

>>2433560
Anode and Cathode's activation day.

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I love all of you, this thread's gold.

Next post will probably be in a few hours, I have to hit the gym.

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So does glitching out Emerald's weapon loadout manage to save time anywhere or is that just a meme option?

>>2433796
It eliminates both the flamberge AND lance route side missions, cutting his actual story segments down to a couple dialogue scenes and entering the timelock.

I'd say it saves you about half a minute.

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>>2432084
“So next, we take Terapin pretty early in the rotation, and he’s got a reputation as a bit of a run killer,” you explain, cycling to the convoy mission. “There’s a lot of damage boosts to get to the end with a good time, a lot of runners lose the most time here. Getting a gold is almost a guaranteed PB.”

The chat jumps a few times, and you notice a couple questions about the dialogue.

“Yeah, that’s a glitch if you go this route, the devs really expect you to take on Jagwire early since he’s one of the easier stages.”

You mash through the roster select to go with the default options. “Em is the default partner here--apparently in an early beta of the game he always takes this mission, with or without you, and actually dies if you’re not there. Of course, even though we’re there, we’re not really there...”

Poor Em gets left in the dust as you dash straight through the convoy trucks you’re supposed to be destroying, hitting each one with a single buster shot in a carefully-practiced pattern you’ve drilled a million times.

“Em can destroy them all by himself, but you cut one swing off each truck you put any amount of damage on. We’ve experimented with it a few ways, and this seems to be the most optimal.”

Chat erupts into laughter and emotes as you blaze right by the ride chaser you’re supposed to be riding for the second half of the stage, outpacing it to catch up with the train on infinite Raikousen. “The collision cutscene is actually required to progress even if you get to the end of the stage, and it won’t go off until the trucks are all destroyed in the depot. It’s actually really funny, because you get to the front car just before Em hits the last truck, and--”

And Em suddenly flies across the map, all the way from the start of the stage and into Tumult Terapin’s outstretched hand, crushing his throat in the stage transition cinematic. Chat really loves that one, even as you finally skip through the next few scenes.

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>>2433973
“The boss fight is just spamming Lockon Hunters and occasionally shooting through Em to hit Terapin while he’s tied up in melee,” you say, carefully timing the shots between Terapin’s iframes. “Being Emerald is suffering” is one of the running jokes of runners of MHQ. There’s a half-serious bounty for anyone who comes up with a way to bypass the parts of the run where he gets trashed by Anode.”

Chat spams the line, along with a handful of ‘Fs,’ as Terapin finally goes down. “He’s a fat sack of HP. You can kill him faster if you do Wolfspider early, but the overall time loss isn’t worth it. It’s not a bad route if you’re still learning the game and not trying for a competitive time, though.”

“And that brings us to our favorite stage,” you continue, selecting Guns Wallaby. “Scary, right? He’s actually one of the higher threat enemies in the game and he’s done.”

Chat erupts into ‘WHAT’ as the stage darkens as soon as it begins, and you laugh despite yourself--it never gets old. “Okay, okay, so at the end of this stage, you’re supposed to channel the Enigma cannon’s charge to end the boss fight. But it turns out the level is scripted to end when you do a 500% capacitor discharge, so you just beam in and hold down the zap button, and it’s over. We don’t do it first because there’s a little bit of menuing you have to do, where you order the squad you come in with to go defensive. It saves time later with a positive morale event, and even though they never see any fighting, that’s the only way to get the ‘no casualties’ flag for the mission without actually playing it.”

>>2433976
Em just can't catch a break.

Wait, so is the Enigma canon sprite still undamaged?

>>2433991
Nope. If you return to the zone for collection Enigma is always busted.

Man, I love this game, but the Overclock Conda subquest is BULLSHIT. Not only do you have to adhere to some pretty stringent requirements (not pissing Seven off so he doesn't lock off Conda's affection meter, performing poorly enough during the first two missions to not attract Schwarz-senpai's attention, and generally sacrificing all your downtime quests to hang with Conda) but it also has the worst fucking payoff ever: Conda still gets wrecked by lol!Seven, but is "taken by Cain Labs for repairs." You never see him again, because a bug in the mission evaluation lists him as KIA.

Fuck you Cain Labs, I want my snek husbando back

Still better than the cringe-fest that is the Yuzuki route

>>2434092
>Yuzuki route
oh god, pls no.

4 consecutive missions of all-ride chaser stages, then a fucking VN choice that forces you to DO THEM ALL AGAIN if you fuck up and pick the wrong one.

And your only payoff is a human ace who isn't actually skilled at staying alive right as you enter the Saetos stage.

>>2434092
>meet snek
>befriend snek
>husbando snek
>never boop the snoot of snek
Why even live?

>>2433325
As shown by HC, Wallaby is a joke because of the 500% discharge clear and the ton of places you can Undercharge in stage.

>>2433325
If you get a perfect clear of Saetos, you get enough of a zenny bonus to make SWORD with just one additional mission.

But nobody gets a perfect clear of Saetos.

>>2434224
Technically, if you bring in stock data mortar from NG+, you could contribute to all three fronts at the same time and succeed without casualties.

For newbies doing Saetos, it's probably easiest to just exploit the underflow bug with Seven's affection. He is supposed to call in more reinforcements the more he likes you, but if he REALLY hates you he calls in fucking everything.

>>2434224
While even a TAS can't get all Ps (best we managed was all but one P and it was still a G) on Saetos, having at least 3 Ps and nothing bellow an SA will give you an overall P rank (and full rewards) for the Stage.

>>2434320
Saetos was the newb eater stage for a reason. Lots of things need to be done to make the fight even, there's several mini bosses, and some of the NPCs have bugged AIs, causing the 17 units to rush in rather than offer support. Add the high damage from the boss and instant death traps, and you get a huge spike in difficulty.

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[Spams FrankerZ whenever Schwarz shows up]

>>2434334
The SNES version using the same scoring methods for all ally levels (min to max) is part of that. The Saetos casualty score is based on the max number of possible allies in the final battle rather than plausible max allies (that run) at the final battle. Min allies/no casualties will actually score lower than Max allies/75% casualties.

I'm still waiting on the Episode Vienna DLC. Watching cutscenes of all your friends and these walk-on role guys doing this amazing stuff without player agency is just unsatisfying.

>>2434573
Oh, so you are one of those Remake lovers.
>DLC
>For a classic SNES game

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>>2434282
>but if he REALLY hates you he calls in fucking everything.

>>2434581
There's always hope that Capcom realizes what money there is to be had.

>>2434610
Look, Capcom is allergic to money. They dropped Legends and wouldn't continue Megaman AE. At least it's not konami pachinko machines.

>>2434581
Classic SNES-CD game. MHQ only exists because the MHX & MHX2 (+Zero) Discs did so well that they made a 2nd Gaiden Disc for X2 while working on X3.

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>>2433976
“So after four enemies, you get the two intermission threads, one right after the other. Since you always beat Weasel first Anode gets the celebrity recognition for the virus discovery, so the default is the X mission unless you specifically choose otherwise.”

FrankerZeros flood the chat as Schwarzhund’s face appears onscreen for a fraction of a second. “This time you DO have to select off the first option to tell Schwarz you’re going loud. He teams up with X instead, and you take an alternate path. Hup!”

On cue, Anode launches himself out of the transport and into the Bellweather Plaza building, smashing through a pane of glass at full speed.

“A lot of people never see this path,” you add, and going from the surprise, chat seems to agree. “From here we actually get the best mission end--it’s kinda like any% in X2, where getting the shoryu saves more time than skipping it.”

Chat chants BEAR DRAGON PUNCH as you pour on the dash again, turning awkwardly and mid-platforming to fire Tumult Shells at targets offscreen. “What we’re doing is rescuing every hostage for the best outcome. You won’t see… about half of them,” you estimate, slamming Anode headfirst into a maverick to stop him from firing on a hostage. You run right past with another shell sent behind you, body-blocking shots mid-stair climb to protect human targets.

“It’s a mostly horizontal stage, which is weird since it’s a big office building. But you just keep going like this until you reach the far wall. There’s an event marker that makes the Philosopher show up and end the stCOAT PHYSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICS!” You scream, as Schwarzhund and X are instantly jumped to Anode’s position--Schwarz’s coat stretching and flapping wildly as the fabric wildly jitters back to normal in the animation physics. “Ahem. Sorry, old meme.”

>>2434731
>COAT PHYSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICS!
That use of the Cx4 chip was crazy and it was just a preview of the crazy stuff they would do with it in X3 and Q2.

Before the charge underflow was found, COAT PHYSICS combined with the K Coil was the best way to get enough charge to skip wallaby

>>2435373
Even then Coat Coil generated a pretty random amount based on Y shift. To many NG+ runs post Wallaby skip were ruined by C. Coil giving a 4XX.

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>>2434731
“That’s one special mission down, then we have the Grach special,” you say, speeding through yet another cutscene. “This one’s a pretty straightforward scroller. You have a choice not to kill the human enemies, but we always do because it’s fastest. Kill the animals, hail Sigma.”

HAIL SIGMA resounds through chat as you start the mission, Anode beaming to Michigan in the rain.

“This one is supposed to be really story-heavy, with a bunch of scripted cues and flags, but we break them all at once to get through optimally.”

"Our unit consisted of ten reploids,” Grach begins--and ends, as you dash back over the audiolog pickup on the police station table.

“What you do is go back and collect the first audiolog twice, and skip through the rest--and every time the game calls for a dialogue prompt, it just plays the first audiolog again with priority and skips it. Even better, since it’s technically a relisten, you can skip it immediately.”

"Our unit consisted of--”

OUR UNIT CONSISTED OF, your chat spams incessantly, again and again with renewed vigor each time you pick up another of the fragmented audio files on the mission path and immediately skip through log 1.

You blitz right through, ramping off the sloped city roofs and getting insane air, unable to help but smile as you expertly navigate the platforming at maximum possible speed.

“A lot of Sonic fans get their start in this speedrun because of this stage. The infinite Raikousen combo is crazy fast and looks really cool.”

"Our unit consisted of--”

You clip right through Abram--”He’s just a sprite, there’s no collision,” and quickly toggle to take Grach alive and accept his surrender. His own lines dub over themselves with another reminder of how many Reploids his unit consisted of, interrupting the whole conversation about the deathsquad coming to kill him and dumping you right into that fight.

“As an aside, in time attack runs you can actually glitch out the time bubble enemy here,” you add. “Instead of freezing everything in the circle, you can get him to freeze everything OUTSIDE the bubble. It breaks… pretty much everything. We thought it was a softlock for a long time. It stops the ingame clock, even, and screws up RTA runs. That category’s kind of a meme now.”

OUR UNIT CONSISTED OF and the last guy goes down in a blaze of reckless lightning, ending the stage.

“So now we’re back to our usual rotation…”

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Wolfspider's next, right? Lots of fun ways to abuse that guy's AI, my favorite is letting him just walk into a T. Coil and kill himself.

Also, make sure you trigger the avalanche flag twice so it cancels itself out, if your timing is good you can trigger it 5 or 6 times and unlock the LN upgrade tree early.

plus more avalanches means you increase your HK stat

>>2436563
A high HK is only good if you want to fight Clear Armor X.

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Mods asleep
Post MHQ doujin quotes

>>2436563
Gets reset to 0 for the stage if there's more than one

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>>2436858
wait, so MHQ doujins are about crackmavericks instead of crackships?

>Noooo, schwarz-sempai, I can't-!
>You mouth says no, but your body says yes. See, it's killing humans right now!
>My sabers are moving on their own!

>>2436890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQxNhgelyA
Steam engines are just simple robots, right?

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>>2436953

My fucking sides, you monsters.

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Have people figured out a way to keep Dodo alive during the special boss fight against Tanker? I never got past that part without losing, but I heard you get something special if you beat him.

Besides, he's Best Boy and deserves to live.

>>2437105
Sorry, that's a scripted part of the MHQ2 intro stage along with India's fight with Seven. You are likely confusing the Dodo minigame in Q2 with live capture of Skipjack in Q1.

>>2437105
The normal way to beat Tanker at that point is the Retard Sword, and no way would Dodo survive the friendly fire.

Best option is to use Raikousen to steal Em's flamberge while glitching through his breakdown dialogue and get to Tanker in record time.

But that sets like, 3 flags for Em going mav, and you need magneto drive to have enough STR points to parry Tanker without using up all your stamina.

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>>2437114
That's... Honestly really sad to hear.

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>There will never be a MHQ4

why live

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>>2437160
What is there to complain about? Q4 didn't happen because Anode because X's partner in X5.

>>2437178
Speaking of X5, I hear that if you have a Q1 save file where you didn't wreck the Enigma fighting Wallaby, you can start a game with all the Enigma parts already collected. I also heard that this increases the probability of the Enigma successfully blowing up Eurasia before it can impact the Earth, but I've yet to see any proof.

>>2437189
Unfortunately, that game is busted with probability rates. You need to unlock the side event of cathode integrating the enigma to actually have a chance of destroying the colony.

>>2437189
Q3 was the one with the old save bonuses for X5 (which let you start with Anode instead of needing to gather the Enigma parts to unlock him) and not wrecking the Enigma was always an Urban Legend of Zelda.

>>2437226
Yeah, took the Q3 data, all Enigma parts and the Cathode event to get a 75% destruction chance.

Both baby brother fights were crazy annoying with Anode. Dynamo just loved eating capacitor charge.

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>>2437189
>>2437249
Wrongo, both of you, Enigma not getting wrecked against Wallaby is canon. Remember, it's in a state of disrepair in X5, not totally destroyed. And the max success rate is a bit higher if you had Q1 save data going into Q3 and you can get duplicate parts for Cathode that way so she's actually around and playable in X5

>>2437266
>Wrongo, both of you, Enigma not getting wrecked against Wallaby is canon. Remember, it's in a state of disrepair in X5, not totally destroyed.

The Enigma canon always gets wrecked. Wallaby cannot be dropped to zero health in his stage and the only way to clear the stage is doing a 500% discharge. This incident is the canonical reason for Halcyon going after Anode in Q3.

The timeline gap between Q2/X3 and X4/Q3 is huge. Plenty of time to repair Enigma and then mothball it.

Why no splits on screen? What kind of speedboy are you!

So how do I go about unlocking playable Blizzard Wolfang in X6? the game's made it clear that the events in Q2 where Anode manages to save him and his team are canon, rather than the event where only Wolfang survives and ends up taking the fall, but I'm tearing my hair out figuring out the prereqs to unlocking him as a playable character.

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...Well this thread took a TURN while I was asleep.

Stand by, early morning errands and then onwards.

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>>2437450
...I see April Fools has kicked in. At least poster IDs are the same.

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>>2435972
“We go for Wolfspider next, and we skip the ride chaser again, just like Terapin.” Chat replies with “Bunny%” and “more ray bits” and “team peanut butter,” whatever that one means, maybe a new meme?

Anode rockets through the Alaskan woods at ludicrous speed, occasionally leaping to clear a root or snowbank. You take the first potshot from Wolfspider head on.

“So, fun fact, you can actually kill him here in the tree chase section, but it’s a softlock. The game has no idea what to do with a dead Wolfspider before the checkpoint transition, and you just kind of scroll through the woods forever.”

Robert Frost%, someone in chat comments, and you snort.

“It’s kind of like Jet Stingray, actually, but the damage you do will carry over. The trick is to get him as low as possible without killing him. We all have different setups for this, but I like to go zap, one, two, zap, one, two, and use the stage landmarks to gauge where he’s at. If your timing’s good you get him to 1 HP pretty safely.”

Sure enough, you timed it just fine (which is good, you practiced), and no sooner do you enter the boss room than you’ve already sent him off with one dash lemon.

“Which brings us to like four cutscenes in a row, which the game has to load up enough of to let you skip,” you explain, mashing the start button. “We call this the ‘Anode is Sad’ section in our splits. First Wolfspider kills himself to escape capture, then his bomb goes off and causes an avalanche, then Anode gets suspended, and then he’s all suspicious and paranoid.”

>We call this the ‘Anode is Sad’ section in our splits.
His psychiatrist is dead!

>>2437488
Couldn't protect his smile

>>2437541
Just wait for MHQ3, where they use animated cutscenes. And I thought Zero hammed it up.

>>2437521
F

>>2437521
F

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>>2437521
F

How is Cain Labs feeling about the thread so far?

>>2437551
>WHAT AM I FIGHTING FORRRRRRR
>MY THERAPIST IS DEEEEEEEAAAAAADDDDD

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I know this is totally unrelated to the quest but I just found an April Fools Day thing from Capcom and I couldn't not share it here.

>>2437696
Reploid Romancer would have been better.

>>2437702
They're Robot Masters, not reploids. You're thinking of the sequel.

>>2437696
I'd play it

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>>2437696

>>2437696
Here's the full link

>>2437656
I'm having good fun with it.

>>2437709
The game is Rotten. The gender balance is way off as there are only 2 female Robot Masters (Roll&Splash) so Rock only has 5 non-Fujoshi routes (Bancho, Imouto, Splash, Forever Alone and Rampage).

>>2437807
Robots don't care that much about gender. More how synergistic their datasets are.
Kind why the Blue Bomber is popular, he's compatible with everyone.

>>2437917
Think that just makes him a slut.

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Finally done with meal prepping. I’ve got an Easter dinner to be at tonight, so I may not get another one out today.

>>2437488
“And now it’s time for everyone’s favorite,” you begin, wheeling over to the Himalayas on the stage select.

MURDERBIRDS

CAN’T BE THE BEST WITHOUT THIS

PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS

The chat goes wild for Saetos as you lock it in and skip the introduction with Seven.

“So this level, I’m sure everyone recalls, has a scripted death. So Anode’s going to show up onscene and immediately kill himself on the first enemy on the map in front of the entire assembled hunter crew.”

The chat chews on that one as you start the setup, scrolling left, not right, in the hunter base camp. A few new faces are asking how you do that, with so many friendlies.

“The trick was to find a way to lock the friendly AI into not shooting, which was hard because there are over a hundred of them on this stage. The solution was to get Anode as far to the left as possible, and then force yourself into the floor--” You fumble with it a few times, but manage to get it in a tolerable amount of time--”And raikousen+zip over out of the camp within eight frames or less.” Anode pops back out mid-jump animation.

“Got it. Okay, so now the hunters will stay in Shangri-La for the whole mission.”

It’s only a few steps to the first enemy, a Walk Blaster buried in the snow. You stand on top of it as it slowly and stubbornly plinks Anode down. Thirty seconds after leaving base, he kicks the bucket. READY blinks onscreen, and then you’re warped back down into the second stage of the mission.

Chat goes berserk again as the camp you left not a minute before is now in ruins, bombed out and smoke rising. You skip through the cutscenes, charge right back up the mountain, and about where you hit the first enemy and died, Solstrike Saetos swoops down. Another skip, and you’re back at the level start for the third time, a moment before the floor explodes and you fall down into the boss arena.

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>>2438064
“So this is fun,” you add, dashing Anode left and right across the floor as you wait for Saetos to launch an attack you can counter. “The end of this fight is supposed to be hard with a scripted end, but we’re in NG+, so we have the full S2 loadout and we can actually win with ease. It gives you an alternate end to the mission.”

Anode leaps from wall to wall, raining death (and Wrenades), swooping in to shatter Saetos’s armor the first frame he’s vulnerable to the misericorde, and from there it’s a simple damage trade that you can’t lose with the infinite capacitor glitch. “Good fight.”

“Not bad,” Saetos says, clutching one shoulder and racked with short-circuit sparks. “Not bad at all, hunter. But you can’t be the best without this.”

He ejects the DNA capsule and his eyes go blank, Anode catching it out of the air.

“We think it’s a developer-intended skip,” you explain as Saetos goes up in lights (and a disbelieving chat yells WHAT, shaken in their belief the Saetos fight isn’t winnable). “You immediately get the jump jet upgrade without the hold period on his data. We had a good fight, but there’s a backup strat if you’re low on lives where you just fight him normally and ‘die’ as scripted. It slows down the run, but it can still be competitive if you’re on a PB and made a few mistakes.”

Wait I thought this was a vanilla run

Aren't the wrenades only from Maverick Hunter Quest & Knuckles?

>>2438173
>but we’re in NG+, so we have the full S2 loadout

A TASer just found a huge glitch! There's been a glitch where you can pull up the inventory screen after bosses are defeated while the cutscene plays. Until recently, there hasn't been any use for it. But the TASer found out that if you select the Highball Skippers during the cutscene, you can fire the weapon if you "unpause" and fire on the same frame. This still isn't very useful, unless there's a destructible object or sprite in the room. If you can fire a Skipper and directly hit the object, the game will get confused and think that you have the Wrenades. This doesn't mean much for NG+ runners, but it's potentially a huge thing for Any% runners.

>>2438275
I'm having difficulty thinking of a situation where being able to glitch a skipper into a wrenade directly after defeating a boss would accomplish anything.

Running the JP version has turned out to be faster. Outside a few minor differences the text scroll speeds and reduced textboxes has pulled it ahead.

JP Title for people looking for a copy

マーベリックハンタークエスト:アノードの伝説

>>2438479
That's been known forever, but even the JP runners prefer the US version for the memes.

So, spoilers for Q3, but... Is there a way to stop India from joining the Repliforce's Air Force Division? Or at least make sure she doesn't die?

Isnt this the game the lead designer resigned by burning down the dev shop after getting all the upgrade paths done?

>>2438713
That story was never confirmed, police report has the fire listed as accidental, not arson.

>>2438723
But the first letter of each upgrade spell out a hidden message that indicates not an accident.

>>2438585
She'll join Repliforce no matter what you do, though the cutscene where she leaves changes depending on your choices. Pilotsgonnadowhatpilotsgonnado.jpg

However, there is a way to live capture India in Q3. Max out the PLANEGAUGE by the end of Q2, then beat India's super jet without using her weakness.
Good luck with that, though. I'd rather slam my dick in a car door than fight India100%. Fucking strafing runs.

So are the rumors of Blizzard Wolfang being playable in X6 true or not? He's had some cameos in past MMX games ever since Anode joined the cast in X4, but nothing's come of it since then.

>>2440223
There seems to be a flag you need to prevent by never letting Double infect Wolfgang.

....unfortunately, Anode never meets Double. EVER.

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So who thinks Anode will make it to Smash Bros. as more than a trophy this time?

I mean, I'd even take him as just a lazy reskin of Pikachu.

>>2438075
Not even in a joke thread will you let us have the retard sword. Why must we sword bros suffer so?

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>>2440760
Darkest Timeline

>>2440760
TFW We will never have sword justice

>>2440796
RIP

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Kind of fucked up that no one's tried drawing Dash Dodo until now.

>>2441480
I always kinda pictured him looking a bit like a Farfetch'd.

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>>2441488
I can definitely see that.

I just wanted to get *something* out for the character.

>>2441480
Just google scrap metal

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>>2441480
Poor guy.

There are a few cast members without so much as a sketch, now that I think of it. Frog, Rhodes, Halcyon, Ursa, Wellington, Diamond and Sapphire, Rezador, any one of the Philosophers...

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>>2441685
... Wait, no, I take it back. There was one Shiva.

>>2441685
Poor Conda, forgotten again. Would like to see the Steel Beret design as well.

>>2441577
Wait... Someone said this and it wasn't me?

Good job 10 points

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>>2441714
Conda, Striker Cobra, Crucifer, the PHANTOMs, guys with a big shadow like Weisshund or Aegis Garm, incidental help like Templar Madillo or Kiloton or Stillwater Phasian...

Crankshaft and Max are "just" models straight from X1, so we already have a pretty good idea of how they look.

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>>2441729
I could swear Cobra had some art somewhere.

>>2441727
I was expecting you to go out of your way and post a spoilered picture of scrap, so...

>>2441685
Frog has that one humanized sketch

>>2441729
By the way, I'm doing some more geopolitics workups.

>>2441792
Not geopolitical stuff, but I’m curious. During the invasion, what changes would have occurred if we’d stuck around to help with the Maverick Berets, rather than just driving past them? Higher morale or trust? More surviving infantry? And if we hadn’t gone to save India, would she have not bought our new capacitor?

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>>2441714
I always imagined the Steel Berets looking like the guys standing around during General's speech.

Man I can't wait for Halcyon to try to sell the world on an organization run by a pair of guys named General and Colonel.

>>2441792
Neat.

>>2441808
>sell the world on an organization run by a pair of guys named General and Colonel.
>Sir Halycon, I don't think they'll buy it.
>No worries, I have the perfect PR solution: The mascot Iris!

>>2441808
>I always imagined the Steel Berets looking like the guys standing around during General's speech.

I believe the steel berets are based on the X4 minor enemies.

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You know how there was supposed to be more MHQ April Fools threads?

Well allow me to present...

>Emerald on Edge! A Maverick Hunter Quest Omake
>>2441858

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>>2441786
... Well I'll be.

Still, I meant in reploid terms. For the longest time I pictured him as a stocky brown bullfrog, then HC said he was just an ordinary green frog.

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>>2441813
The minor X4 guys, the round bronze ones, are Knot Berets. Steel Berets would have been around since X2, which makes me think of them as up-armored Green Guy On Bike units.

Emerald, after all, was intended to be the prototype, but he was too fancy for masspro at the time.

>>2442114
I believe an HC mentioned in an earlier thread that Steel Berets were supposed to be the precursors to the Knot Berets.

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>>2442140
Generational precursors, absolutely, but I don't recall much description about how they look. My mental image defaulted to more "Emerald" than "ball with limbs".

>>2442171
You made a mistake. Em was a prototype for a line not adopted. Diamond and Sapphire are the only production models of his line.

>>2442206
Diamond and Sapphire weren't based on him, they were different builds specifically for air and sea. All are unique builds without any mass production.

>>2442114
Steel Berets were introduced after the events of X2, I think about 6 months before Anode joined? GBD would have been a Lanceteamer if anything.

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>>2442206
>>2442219
Both of these are kind of right.

Emerald was a prototype for a production run that was never greenlit, but they were impressed enough with the showing from Crystal Labs that they offered an officer's commission and two more contracts for higher-spec sea and air variants.

Diamond and Sapphire are both loosely templated from Emerald's chassis, with additions and modifications for their suited environments. They were also manufactured to higher standards, most notably in Sapphire's armor and Diamond's offensive power. Sapphire has chosen to develop herself along the lines of navigation and defenses, while Diamond had a more all-round approach (focused most heavily on his offense, however) and was preparing for his first-ever evaluation for potential S status. Neither changed rank since entering service, holding at B and A.

As a side note, Berets are relatively new, replacing the Lanceteamer Bingo.

Also, I am home, vaguely ill, and my donut steel is now in a harem spinoff. What is life?

>>2442206
>>2442219
Right -- the intended prototype for the masspro generation which wasn't picked up. I should've been clearer.

My point is that if the Hunters decided it would be cost-inefficient to have thousands of Emerald/Diamond/Sapphires around and went with a slightly lower-spec model, what would it look like? Probably more like them than unlike, is my view.

>>2442240
... Jesus. Just imagine Em trying to be big brother to hundreds of confused infantry spread over three units.

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Honestly I thought they might look a bit like this, except obviously more like the reploids in X.

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>>2442303

>>2442316
ONCE THE EMERALD IS MASS PRODUCED THE HUNTERS WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!

>>2442325
>schwarz is taken down by the combined sad-faces of three hundred Emeralds
>then finished off by three hundred stab wounds

>>2442349
For the Hunters.

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Okay, grabbing dinner and getting our next post up.

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>>2442600
I'm ready.

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>>2438075
“So next is Skipjack’s stage, maybe the easiest after the intro. Em still loans you the flambard, which is the other reason we think this is developer intended. It opens up a strat that only works with two weaknesses.”

Anode beams down in the crowded resort and blitzes off through the lobby, burning up the red carpet and clearing the street outside to splash down (heh) on the surface of the water. Half the screen fills with steam clouds (and a noticeable spike of lag) as you rocket across the surface, water-surfing the entire open world map towards the incoming torpedoes.

“They’re launched as soon as the mission starts, so you can do crazy stuff like this,” you explain, running over the first and getting Anode blasted sky high. He comes back down just in time to catch the second one with his face, and then the third.

ANODE

PLS

TRUE TO FORM!, the chat whoops.

“Yeah, this whole strat is pretty in-character,” you agree. “So even though we didn’t even take the chaser, it does a check to see if it’s despawned, and if it is, it puts you on the ‘destroyed ride chaser’ path, and you stop being able to water-skip.”

Anode falls straight down like a stone to the sea floor and the alternate course through the stage.

“It’s faster anyway--Sapphire shows up to help in person, you just mash through her dialogue and Raikousen up the first sandbar on the map.” Anode once more vaults, clearing the ocean in a massive long-jump off th eslope, smacking headfirst into the seafloor strut of Skipjack’s base, which you quickly begin to manically scale.

“We used to take Jagwire first to climb faster using T. Coil, but overall it’s faster if you save him for last. It’s honestly kind of a toss-up, it feels pretty similar but TASers found they consistently get better times doing boss order. Speaking of, here we go, serious time.”

The tuna maverick appears onscreen, poses tauntingly, and his life bar fills. “Hi Skipjack.”

You immediately trigger the Saetos jets as soon as you can move, slamming straight into him, followed immediately after by one swing of the beam flambard. “Bye Skipjack.”

The chat goes berserk as he explodes, the fight over before the first bar of music even hit.

“So not only--not only do you twoshot him like that, because both weapons count as his weakness, it ALSO skips the Tigershark cutscene afterward, which is another reason we think this is dev-intended.”

You get the skippers--useful for a few glitchy applications since they can be modified mid-S2, but not really helpful on NG+--and exit the weapon get screen. “So we’re almost done with the bosses, we’ve got one left.”

>>2443094
Can't wait for *this* one.

>>2443094
ART

I have to say, how different is the story/gameplay on Cathode Mode?

>>2443621
All the health pickups turn into WE pickups instead, and you're fully expecting to be using some form of VWES 24/7, even before you see any enemy. Some of her moves can hit 2 screens away.

>>2443621
Not to different storywise as Q1 was designed to handle Cathode/Anode/Custom. Cath is a lot slower with a crazy buster system. She plays a lot like a VWES heavy X.

>>2443718
...Wait a second, Custom?

>>2443847
If you enter the cheat codes during the opening cinematic, a freak explosion interrupts their creation and they're forced to be made into a single body.

This ends up being highly illegal and triggers several flags for going mav, so it's sort of a hardcore run.

>>2443847
Anode and Cathode are the 2 default pregen characters of Q1, most of the rest of the cast were unlocks, Custom is the default name for player generated characters.

>>2443884
That would be Diode, idiot.

>>2443898
OCposting was rampant as hell back when Q1 first released. Good times.

Of course, leave it to the Game Grumps to make the stupidest looking Reploid they could think of with the most retarded name ever and every fucking wannabe internet funnyman doing the same.

>>2444501
but enough about TARNATION BLADE

>>2444501
There have been three major waves of Q1 OCs: the Nintendo Power create your own Maverick Hunter contest just after release (which several of the Q2 background characters came from), sprite comic OC wave and then the LPer wave with the remake.

>>2444528
The remake looked great, but you couldn't break them nearly as much as you could the original game. Such a shame.

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No post tonight, sorry guys. However, we're not done after Jagwire.

I can't wait to see the gameplay of playing Anode and Cathode at the same time.

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>>2446485
Ever see that one maniac who did them both at once with the same button inputs?

>>2446576
That run used so much animation locking to ignore inputs on the Cathode side that it barely even counts.

>>2446576
It's a bit awkward when Capacitor Release is keyed to the same button as Cathode's melee. While Anode unleashes hell she kinda just waddles her blade in a general direction.

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>>2446576
Lewd

>>2441729
Did we ever get a description of Conda or Hammer Frog?

>>2447074
There was a quick one in the first thread for Frog.

>The larger is a bullfrog-design with a darker, olive-drab armor. The little guy is humanoid, also green, though brighter. You're a good deal taller than him, though both of you are rather smaller than the frog, even with his hunched figure.

>>2447173
Thanks man. Thinking about trying to draw him too.

>>2447074
Only mention of Conda's description I could find is a bit from thread 2 that says he had weird retractable legs that let him snek around instead of walking.

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>>2447458
Not the first time it's been done, thanks!

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Right, going to need a little bit to square some errands away and then we'll get the post out.

>>2448277
Great to hear!

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>>2443094
“So this is the OG ‘Poor Anode’ level,” you say. “There’s kind of a lot of Poor Whoevers in MHQ. Not sure what’s up with that.”

MHQ, directed by Gen Urobuchi, chat suggests.

“Let’s not go THAT far. Anyway, this one is actually only one big trick. There’s this whole street miniboss thing you’re supposed to do on your way into the factory, but we don’t really feel like it.”

You Raikousen-zip Anode to the far left again, and then right back over to the right, into a building. “Game doesn’t really know what to do with your momentum if you glitch it with the infinite Raikousen,” you explain. “So you run into this one building you’re supposed to scale, wedge yourself in the window--”

Anode suddenly flies up and over the top of the screen, scroll-locked in a fixed vertical position as it flies off to the right. “So that’s the midboss, somewhere down there, and you wait for the audio cue--” You hold up a hand and lean in, though you’re wearing headphones, and sure enough, you hear the little ‘tip!’ of Anode’s boots hitting solid ground-- “And now we’re on the plant roof. Then we just scroll the screen back down and further to the left, which hits the checkpoint and loads the ‘inside’ map, and that puts us right on top of the trigger for…”

Anode gets dumped out unceremoniously right on top of a room full of half-corpses.

“The body pile cutscene,” you finish.

You skip it almost immediately, noting the slight delay from the stage still loading, and then immediately force poor Anode to dive straight in and drain the entire thing, even before Jagwire appears onscreen. “Poor Anode,” you laugh over the ‘feel dirty and disgusted with myself’ audio.

“Last is Jagwire himself. It’s faster to fry him with the Capacitor, but he has invuln cycles where he runs around, so we do this kind of stutter-step, like this…”

You switch back and forth between the skippers, his weakness, stunlocking him before he can dart away, and then cycling to the C. Cap and unloading for as long as you dare. “You’ve got about a two frame window to get this right, it’s real easy to lose a cycle, but--got him.”

Chat cheers and applauds as Jagwire goes down, and you take a quick sip from your water bottle. “So that just leaves the final stages, the Zero mission.”

>>2448616
Nendoroid Flares Firefly when?

>>2448616
What's the time on the run so far?

>>2448616
>“Last is Jagwire himself. It’s faster to fry him with the Capacitor, but he has invuln cycles where he runs around, so we do this kind of stutter-step, like this…”

Huh. I thought Jagwire absorbs the cap charge to power his spin-to-win, if you use it on him?

Or is this one of those integer overflow things, where if you hit him with more charge than the game can handle it switches to negative numbers?

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Post will probably be late tonight. I need to get through everything before Sunday evening due to that work travel regardless.

That said, April is going to be a good month for MHQ.

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>>2450419
>April is going to be a good month for MHQ.

>>2450249
speaking in canon, It's possible that hooking up his LIFE cell to be capable of regeneration actually fucked with his resistance to electricity due to exposed wiring and delicate doodads.

>>2450861
Well, it makes sense. If electricity heals him, then maybe too much electricity will give him robo-cancer!

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>>2450880
Worked for Saetos, after all.

On that note, sorry, guys, but no post tonight either. I had some stomach problems right after work and then by the time I recovered I had some other stuff to get to, so I ran late all day.

That said, you guys all having fun?

>>2450890
I certainly am.