FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 97 (last part of the Tetra Master losses/draws farming)
1Welcome,
This is the 97th 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
As a reminder, FF9's counters of Tetra Master's playing statistics (Wins, Losses and Draws) are capped at 9999 and reaching those caps is among the goals of the challenge. This episode is just a presentation and the actual playing sessions are contained in the sub-episodes of which the links are below:
* Episode 97-1 (reached 9087 losses and 9230 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tGrE3R6_k
* Episode 97-2 (reached 9175 losses and 9401 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GsYfcDq_gM
* Episode 97-3 (reached 9308 losses and 9650 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt2s3bWjbcY
* Episode 97-4 (reached 9377 losses and 9751 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEte3bIsnfU
* Episode 97-5 (reached 9610 losses and 9769 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqmPK1i4CE
* Episode 97-6 (reached 9787 losses and 9803 draws):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAu9QiZ146Y
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* As a reminder, regarding the whole Tetra Master quest of the challenge, the task of reaching 9999 losses and draws should be done before collecting the 100 cards, because maximizing the two latter statistics requires being able to carry dozens of expendable cards in the inventory.
* As a reminder, the Tetra Master losses/draws farming was started in the episodes 71 and 72, before being discontinued until the episode 90.
* Raising draws is the main task of the farming. With the method described at 00:10, I was able to get 100 draws in less than 45 minutes most of the time when playing focused (I happened to lose focus and be inefficient many times, especially because I listened to podcasts all the time while playing). The efficiency depends also on the cards at disposal (by experience, having an arrowless card to use in the last turn is a slight advantage for example); IIRC, I happened two or three times to get 100 draws in less than 37 minutes when I had the opportunity to maintain a good hand of cards long enough.
* Statistics of the current sessions/episode 97: Wins: 263/4153; Losses: 787/9787; Draws: 803/9803; total time: 8 hours and 38 minutes. Taking into account my method and conditions of playing, the whole Tetra Master draws/losses farming should take less than 110 hours of real life time of playing (it took me more than 114 hours since the main/efficient method was only used midway through the farming). Note that with my main method, for obtaining 1000 losses and draws, a little less than 300 wins will be obtained automatically in parallel.
* I ended the farming at around 9800 losses/draws instead of 9999, because the subsequent Tetra Master quest tasks, like collecting and upgrading cards, should be enough to reach the 9999 caps.
* EDIT: the caps of Tetra Master 9999 draws and 9999 losses were reached in episode 100 during the cards upgrading phase (in the sub-episodes 100-4 and 100-8 respectively).
* Besides the preferred/standard display type ("Composite/CRT TV"), "RGB/CRT TV" had to be used during some sessions in this episode for convenience.
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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