| Unlockable: Extra Mode
Finish Chapter 4 of Story Mode.
Hint - Unlock Biochemical Items:
After
you complete a level such as a free mission, you notice your rank. If
you get an 'S' rank (1000 total points) You get get special Biochemical
Items for Item Creations by 'Pete'. You get a different item for every
mission. On the Mission were you have to Kill De Ragen you get the
Biochemical Item 'DE Ragen'.
Hint - Easy Meseta Making Scheme: This
only works for levels 15+! Once you get to level 15, do the "Ruler of
the Plains" mission from the Parum flyer base. To get an 'S' you need
to kill all monsters and the dragon in under I believe 7 minutes. On
the first cave entrance, go to the left and kill the two dragons, this
always had me get an 'A' if i didn't. The rest is easy. A hint for the
De Ragan slaying, get rising strike to level 11 and push Y right after
it finishes to use a special combo.
Attack the dragon in front of its chest by its neck: you will do
triple damage hitting his neck, chest and feet. If you get a good sword
you can hit up to 1,000 damage per combo. This way, you can kill the De
Ragan before it can attack like I did. If you get an 'S', you should
receive a De Ragan which is a head decor or a +8 to all Partner Machine
stats but also -8 to attack. YOu might also receive other items like
technics or discs. You make about 10k meseta from one run. Or if you
don't sell the head you get about 5k Meseta because the De Ragan decor
is worth 5k to a shop vendor. I personally used it all and just kept
doing the mission until I ended up with about 600k. Wasn't too hard
took me about an hour of gameplay.
Hint - Partner Machine Levels:
Your
partner machine can evolve at certain levels. I did some testing and I
discovered that the levels are production level 10, 20, and 30. 10 and
20 just do better synthesis, while 30 allows your PM to go into battle.
Be careful, the stats which you give to your PM will determine what it
looks like, how it fights, and what weapon it uses. I ended up with a
mini-tooth-fairy looking little girl with a shotgun. It does a 200,
200, and another 200 on a direct hit on the De Ragan. I recommend
buying Carline which does all stats +8 except attack, and normal
Photons which do +2 for everything except -2 for armor. If a stat is
leveled with now red XP it cannot back level so it can't reduce stats.
Hint - Easy Extra Mode:
This
is for lower level characters, a keen way to get your guys started.
Once you unlock Extra mode, progress through story mode until you get
Maya, Kerin's sister.
Save and quit.
Now load Extra mode. Right from the start you will have access
to all four of the NPC's in story mode on EXTRA. Party Nav, Maya, and
Kerin. Go to the Linear Line platform and do the first quest. When
done, SELL EVERYTHING AND DEPOSIT YOUR MESETA. Run the quest again
until you hit level 5. This time you should have enough meseta to buy a
better weapon, or armor.
Now go to Parim and do the mission that requires lvl 5 or better,
and take all but Maya. Run the quest until you're happy with your
(mid-range) level (about level 15 to 19).
Hint - Easy Levels (15 to 40): This is recomended for LVLs above but can be attempted much sooner. Works best with Rangers.
You need at least four Vullsies or Falcons (rifles) and a laser/maser
cannon if you have one or several high end Swords, and a handfull of
Photon Chargers. Go to Parum and head for the Flyer Base. Choose the
"What is in the Ruins" mission.
At the start of the mission the enemies encountered should die in
roughly three hits except for the large creature, (the name eludes me).
With a P.A. (photon Art) at lvl 20-25 some will die in one shot (frozen
shot works best). When you see a group of the small and really weak
ones use the cannon to kill them all in one-two shots. Use the best
rifle you have for the biggest ones.
At the first hallway intersection go straight, grab the key then go
back and take the path you skipped. At the next Hallway intersection
(Block 2) go right, grab th key there and then go back and take the
left path. When run correctly you should clear Block 1 by min 3 and
block 2 by min 5-6.
When fighting the Svaltus use the weaker weapons you have on the first
on -- do not use up your stronger weapons -- unless you have plenty of
Chargers. Once it dies two more will spawn. Switch to the strongest
weapon you have. Shoot the one FURTHEST from you and let your teammates
crack the closer one if it closes in. When the one you're hitting dies
switch targets and hit the one nearer to you, it should already be
close to dead. make sure you grab the drops from the Svaltus' because
the mission ends immediatly after the second one dies.
If compleated before 8 mins are up then you'll get an 'S' rank.
This gets you a Svaltus Edge, a synth material for a sword (sells for
7500), the Bruce's Cargo room item (5000 meseta), 1500 meseta and 60
points toward your class level.
All told, that's 9500+ meseta if you sell everything you get in the
mission. Also, you'll get a load of EXP, possably two level-ups each
run. I went from a LVL 12 to a level 24 in less than two hours using
this method.
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