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Fate Seeker
Cheat Codes:
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Submitted by: David K.
How to Make Money in Making Wine:
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Written by Nani The Fu+k
The two main ways of making money is
-> do government board hunts and defeat bandits/thieves (Slow and enemies
scale with you so it takes relatively equal time regardless of your power)
-> make wine
-=Honey Peach Wine=-
Deer Antler(50) + Advance(Aggressive) Glutinous Rice (50) + Honey Peach (120)
each combo costs around 220 gold for the materials (50 + 50+ 120)
* you get around 4 wine/craft
* each wine sells for 1000
* so you are making (4000 – 220) = 3780 profit
An hour of this can easily get you 300k which is enough to buy all the items from
the black merchant
The main thing to do with money is to upgrade your weapon forging skill by mass
forging level 4 and level 6 weapons.
This is so you can eventually get level 9 and craft the BiS weapons.
Achievements and Completionist Tips:
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Written by Tsujigiri
This guide is for those looking for bit of help before going for a perfect
playthrough, especially English-speaking players. Usage of more comprehensive guides
out there recommended, this guide will only patch in some information otherwise
often missing.
-=Introduction=-
This guide is spoiler-free.
* It is mostly aimed at helping English-speaking players, as players speaking
Chinese will be able to understand the game contents better and also have wealth
of various comprehensive guides more readily at their disposal.
* I recommend checking this guide before your playthrough just to be aware of
the things, and mostly reference the proper walkthrough guides during your
playthrough.
* If you have already completed one playthrough, you are likely already familiar
with a lot of the general things mentioned here.
* Some achievements come from the DLC, but since the DLC is free and the fan
localizations typically require having it anyways, it should not end up being
an unpleasant surprise to anyone.
* The contents base on my own experience with the game, things I missed first time
around and/or hoped I knew beforehand.
* If you have questions or comments, leave them down below, and I may hopefully
see them at some point.
* Good luck and have fun!
-=General gameplay=-
Carefully read everything the game gives you. This is stylistically more of an
old-school game, where hand-holding is fairly minimal, and you are required to
understand and find things on your own. This becomes even more important with the
lacking localization (see below for more).
Postpone going for objectives that progress main story until you are done with
all the other possible things you can do at the moment, like exploration and side
quests etc. This should be pretty common way of playing these kind of games to
begin with I suppose.
-=Interacting=-
The game will tell you during some battle tutorials that you can switch targets
in battle by pressing right joystick. Unsure what button is with keyboard+mouse
-configuration, but the tutorial will probably tell you if that’s what you use.
What the game does not tell you however – as far as I can remember – is that you
can also use the same button to change your focus of interactions. This is
incredibly important and useful, since without this the interaction system is
downright insufferable at times, making some targets impossible to interact with
when there are several possible targets around.
-=Localization=-
There is no official localization, but you can get couple different fanmade ones
from the Steam forums of the game.
The quality is frankly bad unfortunately, at least with the one I got. Perhaps
some of them would be better instead. In any case, this makes carefully reading
(and having some reading comprehension) ever more important for success. The
quality is not only broken English, but also will have inconsistencies and some
terminology might be scuffed.
English text will take different space than Chinese. This means that a lot of
time, parts of the English text will be cut off, meaning you miss out on
information. Notably this will happen with a lot of rumours. Since the relevant
rumour information will still typically fit the dialogue where it is given, it
is important to take note of the information in case it will not be properly
visible in the rumour tab anymore.
While this space issue may be different depending on which fan localization
you picked, I doubt any of them fix this, since that would mean a lot more work
than just pure translation.
-=Xiaoxi Village Quests=-
A lot of the things in the game are missable, but most of them aren’t on
particularly tight schedule with it, so if you follow guides, you are likely
to catch most things after the world opens up.
Few of the most missable things happen in the starting village in the beginning.
Make sure to avoid the objectives throughout the beginning sequence, and push
all possible side objective and exploration first. After returning to Kaifeng
again with free exploration, couple of the intro side quests get locked out.
Fortunately, none of these are particularly important reward- or story-wise to
my knowledge and will not lock you out of achievements, but perfectionists will
suffer.
Speaking of early Xiaoxi and the intro, if you win that second big boss battle
early on that you are supposedly expected to lose, you get massive amount of
bonus training points. This according to the internet, I did not personally do
it.
-=Gathering martial arts routines=-
Most of the martial arts routines are not particularly missable if you just
follow decent guides, you get them from various side quests. One of the fist
martial arts I found to be quite missable though, as I missed it the first
time around even as I progressed fairly carefully with the game.
Relatively early on, plot will bring you to meet an old man that will teach
you “sleeping”. From that point on, dying will also bring you to this old man,
there will be bit of dialogue, and he will give you something. This only
happens couple of times though, after that dying becomes “business as usual”.
To put it short, avoid dying early as much as you can. The old man will give
you this fist martial arts routine in one of the visits to him (maybe the
second time after the plot one or so). Catch is though, that he will only
give the martial arts to you if you have filled all triagram segments to at
least first floor (level 3), otherwise you will get training points instead.
Can’t confirm exact numbers though, read that on the internet.
Personally during my first playthrough I died couple of times to one relatively
early boss fight after the first meeting with the old man, and got training
points instead of the martial arts. No matter how many times I tried dying
later in the game, he would not give the fist routine to me anymore.
-=Triagram=-
Fully completing the triagram requires a mostly perfect playthrough. Personally
I only know one task that I missed that could potentially give some triagram
points, yet I only completed my triagram in the very last sequence in the
burning city. I ended up with about 30 surplus points, with the last area
having given me 45. You will only get 30 instead of 45 from the last area if
you are unable to complete the “prodigal son of the abyss” -side quest in the
area.
-=Luoyang jars=-
There are side quests for each city that require you to break jars around
the map. Your mileage may vary, but I personally struggled a lot with Luoyang
quest with one jar left. It turned out that one jar in western Luoyang (next
to theatre people) seems very buggy, and I had thought it just another
environmental jar instead of interactable one. It will be shown in any guides
showing the jars though, so shouldn’t be too missable if following any guide.
In any case, it might end up requiring lots of fiddling around the spot to
finally get the interaction to pop up and complete. This issue might be related
to the theatre fella appearing near the spot, as most guides I saw for the jar
were taken prior to him appearing. So, if you go for the jar right away early
on as you get access to Luoyang, you might have better luck with it.
-=Accumulating money=-
One achievement requires accumulating 100k money. For me personally, relatively
perfect playthrough resulted in roughly 120-150k money accumulated, so if you
don’t spend too wastefully, this will come on its own.
Additionally, if you want to max out all 17 heart methods, training points will
be the bottleneck, and while grinding for those, you will amass fair bit of
money as well. For reference, I had about 30k money after the money given by
the playthrough, yet I had over 150k after finishing my grind for training points.
If you pick up the habit of completing bounties as you run around the cities,
you will slowly accumulate both money and training points alongside all other
activities.
All in all, no need to worry about the money.
-=Accumulating miscellaneous pickups=-
One achievement requires picking up 1000 items. This does not seem missable,
since couple areas have pickups that regenerate at times (most notably that
township with the old doc).
The unfortunate part is that you will likely need to rely on said regeneration.
Exact numbers are impossible to guess, but I would estimate basing on when the
500 one opened that a regular meticulous playthrough will give maybe 800
pickups. This means there’s unholy number of repetitions waiting for you if
you don’t manage to get whole bunch more from somewhere.
As such, I recommend constantly visiting the places with regrowing pickups,
so you slowly accumulate them alongside other activities. Since regrowing
also requires some time or activities in-between, you are a lot better off
not leaving it to the end as a singular activity.
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