Insane Difficulty: Decide my next playthrough! - Community Speedless Challenge - Insane Difficulty

Hart-Hunt, on 16 June 2016 - 05:19 PM, said:

Hyyyyype!

.........lol. I'm sorry guys. I hate hyping people only to let them down.

This ain't dead though. That's all I'm gonna say for now.

We're back!

This is the AI challenge! Idea brought to you by Archifede. I'm gonna be busting through two consecutive battles with all of my team being controlled - or rather possesed - by the manually set AI.

To note is that from now on, I'm running with all of the allowed abilities unlocked.

Sweegy Woods and Dorter Trade City - AI Challenge (By Archifede):

This video was without a doubt my favorite of the challenges so far. If only because of how hilarious it was to watch you react to the insane behavior of the AI.

I know, the AI is just golden in this game sometimes.

Here's the next video. I apparently like Archifede's challenges because I'm doing another one of his again! Upping it up a bit as well (again...). The concept is simple. Beat the battle using Ramza + 3 mimes! I also made up a name for the challenge, because why not.

Don't be afraid to put some painful rules people!

Sand Rats Cellar - Stop Copying Me! (By Archifede)


I want more challenges!

Augestein, on 25 July 2016 - 12:52 PM, said:

Hart, you're hilarious. It was great watching you select "Save Fading Life" as the AI setting and then scream at the screen, "Stop healing yourselves!"

Oh, you want something painful? Mario Challenge.

Every attack must be a jump attack. So you'll have to make some crazy abuse of Wait, Move, Move + Wait, or even making false actions that don't do anything just so you can get a chance to jump on the enemy. Oh, you can use Mimes. I want to see you abuse jumping mimes if you can.

That's an awesome idea. We need something more as a theme. Barefisted required, because Mario jumps with his fists. Those ideas are what I'm looking for!

I've thought about trying a ramza + 4 mimes for the entire game and seeing how it'd go so watching that last video was rather interesting to me. Keep up the good work HH, I'll have to try and think of some challenges for you.

Hart-Hunt, on 26 July 2016 - 07:43 AM, said:

Or Hammers, a la Super Mario RPG!

This reminds me, the rest of Chapter 1's battles are all assassinations! That's a cool opportunity for some unique restrictions. I'll be most likely recording tonight, so be sure to post your challenges!

"Not original challenge"

Everyone must have the same gear. No matter what class.

I've tried to think of some challenges and here's what I got.

Kill them all - In assassination battles, make sure to kill every enemy before killing the person you are supposed to assassinate.

Reactions only - You are allowed to heal your team and other things like that but can only do damage to enemies by using reaction abilities. Since you've restricted meatbone slash and hamedo that only leaves counter, counter throw, counter magic, counter flood, and damage split.

Yorda challenge - This is something I read about from a challenge guide on gamefaqs and sounded interesting to me. Essentially you have one female unit be a white mage with no abilities from other classes. This is yorda. You set her to auto-battle and then treat the fight as if it's a "protect yorda" battle so if she dies or gets petrified or whatever else makes you lose a "protect x" fight, it counts as a loss. Maybe for the sake of it being 1.3 and not vanilla tactics you could have more than just white mage abilities (though white mage is obviously the best class).

Hack Fan, on 06 August 2016 - 09:50 AM, said:

Oh oh I vote Izlude for this.

Hack Fan, on 06 August 2016 - 09:50 AM, said:

Hmm ... for what battle would this be both possible and not incredibly tedious? Maybe Queklain? I mean, that way it's not any more incredibly tedious than usual.

Hack Fan, on 06 August 2016 - 09:50 AM, said:

Nice. More Hart+Autobattle please.

I love all of those ideas Hack Fan. My idea is to do Reactions Only + Kill them all for Miluda 1 now.

New vid is up! This one was kind of tricky to execute, which made it really fun!

Miluda 1 was beaten, killing all of the characters with only reactions! Thank you Hack Fan for the awesome idea!

Thieves' Fort - Reaction Challenge + Kill 'Em All! (By Hack Fan):

One more vid to make up for the long hiatus!

We're beating Miluda 2 by only using abilities that are altered or fresh new in 1.3! It's a lot harder than what it sounds, honestly... But, if you need to restrict me more, people. I feel like I cheese a bit here. Even though I haven't resorted to Abandon, Auto Potion and other strong abilities.

Lenalia Plateau - I hate vanilla challenge (by Augestein, terrible name by me):

Those were both really interesting to watch. I've edited my challenge based on your reaction-only challenge, to make it so it can't just be that strat over again.

Bishop, on 23 August 2016 - 04:07 PM, said:

And the updated challenge was so awesome I couldn't resist not recording another video.

Note: If you're into chocobos, stick around.

Seriously, the Cavalry Challenge was easily the hardest challenge I did so far. To note is that the difficulty's been escalating in each battle, which means that you guys are presenting challenges increasingly harder and more innovating, which is awesome.

It's not just the fact that you have to be mounted at all times, but the thing is, you're essentially protecting the chocobos, while you have in practice half of your units. And not only that, but you can't resort to the "Nuke with magic" strategy. And since the enemy can sandbag, having little ways to AoE with only 2 characters is problematic to say the least.

So all in all, this threw me way off my comfort zone. Even more when I figured that the best way to approach this was with a tanky strat.

I'm not gonna spoil anymore, except for saying that this took me 6 tries, changing the setups each time, which means you did an excellent job. I hope you like this vid, because I had so much fun beating this battle.

Fovoham Plains - Cavalry Challenge (By Bishop)

Now I want to now what you guys can think of for the Algus fight! Don't be afraid to post your challenges, and make them painful D:< Be sure to think of possible cheeses and ban those skills and classes!

I want YOU to challenge me.