FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 72 (reaching 2000 Tetra Master losses/draws)
0Welcome,
This is the 72nd episode of a let's play of a "non-Excalibur II perfect game with offensive approach of training" type of challenge, intended for the NTSC US PS1 version of the game.
Link of the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66
Link of the first episode in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxUT7eGCQY&list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66&index=2
What follows are links to 11 videos showing all games played until reaching the 2000 Tetra Master losses/draws (total time is 12 hours and 42 minutes):
* Episode 72-1 (games to reach 1054 losses and 1200 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBwJkH6HQME
* Episode 72-2 (games to reach 1076 losses and 1300 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaeK-0l64Y
* Episode 72-3 (games to reach 1099 losses and 1400 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-AeS0QZnU
* Episode 72-4 (games to reach 1136 losses and 1550 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3UZ_hVKp0
* Episode 72-5 (games to reach 1171 losses and 1700 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh7BsXBpKNU
* Episode 72-6 (games to reach 1191 losses and 1800 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHfoNOo1Ww
* Episode 72-7 (games to reach 1213 losses and 1915 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLbtYKkjEk
* Episode 72-8 (games to reach 1405 losses and 1942 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOsiIPGQtA
* Episode 72-9 (games to reach 1604 losses and 1962 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAqin7kRrk
* Episode 72-10 (games to reach 1843 losses and 1988 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2csqsADGzYo
* Episode 72-11 (games to reach 2000 losses and 2002 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R4NDRdyc0s
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* Correction at the end of the first paragraph of the video's text: I meant 1000 draws and losses instead of wins and losses.
* One of the requirements of the challenge is reaching the "caps" of what I call the "counters" of the game, which are the stats that the player increases by one unit in an unlimited way, but that have a limit (example: the "cap" of dragons killed is 9999 - although the value is hidden and the max that can be shown in game is 100 through Dragon's Crest -, but the player can continue to kill dragons after reaching the 9999 number). The Tetra Master wins, losses and draws statistics are among those "counters", which implies I must reach their "caps" of 9999 units.
* Regarding the whole Tetra Master quest of the chellenge, the task of reaching 9999 losses and draws should be done before collecting the 100 cards, because maximizing the two latter statistics requires using dozens of discardable cards in the inventory.
* As I was not always focused during my games of draws farming, I was far from being efficient in terms of performing the task without losing too much time. The video below is more in line with what should be the way to play in order to increase the draws statistic quickly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXS1-J19Co
* In comparison to the previous episode/sessions, I adopted this time a strategy consisting of keeping more cards with a number of arrows superior to 6 in my hand (recovering them by rewinning them if necessary) when "farming" the draws. This allows easily exceeding the 100 draws per hour, but fewer losses will be obtained in return (and thus more sessions of losses will be required afterwards). All in all, the new strategy seems slightly more efficient.
* Reminder of the statistics of the previous sessions/episode 71 (reaching 1000 losses/draws): Wins: 594; Losses: 972; Draws: 1044; total time: 13 hours and 55 minutes.
* Statistics of the current sessions/episode 72: Wins: 500/1565; Losses: 995/2000; Draws: 942/2002; playing time: 12 hours and 42 minutes.
* The task of reaching 3000 draws/losses will be postponed because I thought I needed to create two episodes in particular before the game's clock freezes at its maximum (which is "99:59:59" in green color, that corresponds to 600 hours of playing, which will be reached in 150 hours of play):
- The first task/episode is the Gils/Adamantoise auto-farming (using the turbo controller) to do in order to maximize the amount of most of the items available in Disc 4, which resquires leaving the console on for several hours, and in which I only record the turbo controller setting and the purchases in shops, and in which it is therefore preferable that the playing time is displayed so as to see the effect of the timeskips.
- The other episode is a session of a few hours in which I will try an optimized frog catching routine, and since the time that passes for the frogs growth should be carefully managed, it is convenient that the clock time is used as a benchmark.
The following is the link of an annex file containing the details on max stats/items/Tetra Master requirements (notably the trainings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v75arfocbfl2cxs
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