Leon Ryu is angry at ACS.
5Previous title: "Fuck this game, good night."
Alright, now that I had some sleep, I can write a meaningful description.
This is Yuri's Chaos Mode.
This is hell.
This is hell on Earth floating above Hell.
Winning this is about as likely as winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning 7 times in the same day.
Some time ago, Anibache made this harder by making Kratos appear after 200 seconds - usually he was appearing when the Barbatos were low on HP. I didn't see a video of anyone winning THIS new version of Chaos Mode, and for good reason: this change pushed the fight even deeper into "Unrealistically Possible" territory.
The idea for this video came when I realized there's a program called Autohotkey that could be used to, well, cheat at ACS. It gives you unparalleled control over your keyboard. I made it to things like automatically inputting a perfect "Front-Down-Back A" if I press "G" on my keyboard.
Autohotkey worked, and made this fight x10 easier, but still nowhere near realistically possible. I ended up just modding the game to simplify Yuri's Arte inputs, because Autohotkey failed maybe 1 time out of 20.
That wasn't enough. So I decided to make this really, really "Tool-Assisted": I decided to *simulate* having a lot of luck.
So I modded the bosses a bit. For example, Hugo can break out of my combo maybe 1 fight out of 4. If I'm lucky, that won't happen. So I made it impossible to happen, by disabling his Overlimit, Mystic Arte, and Guarding - actions he almost never does anyway. I did similar things for all bosses except Kratos.
Then, I made practice fights vs every boss, and tested combos until I found some that work well.
The main challenge in this fight: killing the 2 Barbatos (which DO have World Destroyer) before 200 seconds. At 200, Kratos appears.
In this run, everything went perfect or almost perfect. I was convinced I would get the Barbatos before Kratos comes, but turns out that even with 95% perfection, this isn't enough.
Then, the usual glitch decided to pay a visit: Mystic Artes only deal 100% damage to 1 enemy. Depending on the Mystic Arte, any other enemy present is hit for as little as 1 damage, all the way up to as much as 100% too. Yuri's Mystic Artes heavily suffer from this glitch. It's also difficult to predict WHO will be hit for 100% damage - a big problem when some enemies can insta-kill you if they have low HP.
At this point, I'm just salty at how in the world did Anibache create something so twisted. Even by making this Tool-Assisted (fancy way of saying "by cheating"), this fight is fukken cruel.
Anyway, watching this video, I think I found a strategy that could actually work. But that's for later. No ACS for a few days. I still hope to win this, be it Tool-Assisted, so that we can just. Say. Fuck. You. Chaos. Mode.
Oh ya and here's a list of Game-Breaking glitches that RUIN this mode because if they happen, it's over.
- Airborned Hugo gets random Penetrate that blocks even Mystic Artes
- Ygggrasil's Abyss Detonator doesn't fucking work. It's supposed to be blockable by moving towards him instead of away from him, but that fails half the time.
- Nebilim randomly gets Penetrate that never expires.
- Barbatos does Ground Vanish... and his team's TP bar is instantly set to something like -20000. WTF? Worse, it can also do that to YOUR TP. I'm NOT doing this fight without TP.
In 10 practice runs, within 10 seconds, Barbatos glitched his TP all 10 times, and glitched mine 8 times. I had to mod to solve this bug.
- I don't even know where to begin on Kratos. Just watch.
- Alexei rarely removes your TP like Barbatos does. Just IMAGINE having that happen when you finally reach him. Also, he's Alexei. OVL-Brilliant Penetration = Instant 200 unavoidable damage.