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[Doomie]

1. I love magic. Fire rules.
2. Cerberus is my favorite gun.
3. I find myself using more melee attacks than shooting. ^_^

[Ironside]

Well i find the main cerberus wepon the best however the sniper was ok when your fighting other sinipers but thats bout it. On the magic well I used the lightning alot I once took out 7 guys at once using the lighting spell since it goes from one enimy to another after a few milisecs after shooting it. i used the cerberus long barll lighting materia and power cross as my main wepon choice.

[*~Angel Wing~*]

Originally Posted by *~Angel Wing~* ^

Originally Posted by Maux ^

I disagree. The sniper rifle (Hydra) kicks arse. One of the final guns you can get within the Hydra gun series can do a whopping large amount of damage (the only draw back is one bullet per load). It is quite a good gun expecially near the end of the game. I also like the Ultimate Weapon, and the griff just frustrates me,although it is one of the three guns I use.

Yes the Hydra is the best one!!! I've been using it ever since I got it, and haven't changed it once.

I think I changed my mind...I upgraded the Griffon and it's really kick ass!!! I use that one alot now. I think for me it's a tie between Griffon and Hydra.

[fullmetal_fantasy]

Well i hated the sniper rifle, you'd be shooting and trying to focus whille people are constently shooting at you. xD
So actually i liked the magic, i used it instead of sniper because it shot far away and plus the fire materia explodes and can get alot of eneimies
not to mention homing ability ^_^

[Zeromus_X]

I also thought the Sniper Rifle was sucktastic...

[Cid's_Lady_Erin]

I found the sniper was useful for one type of enemy, but otherwise it wasn't so great. I used it mainly to target in on exploding barrels/boxes upon which exploding barrels were balanced. If I could, I would thank Deepground and WRO for being so dumb as to leave such barrels standing around at every opportunity possible and then hiding near them.

And yea, I used the fire materia all the time when magic was needed. The other materia seemed kind of useless. The nice thing about the fire was that if I shot it in a general area that also included exploding barrels, it usually set them off too.

[Nominus Experse]

The sniper rifle is basically used to kill snipers, and barely anything else. In Very Hard, they literally take off 800 to 1000 HP with one shot, so having the Hydra to combat them is amazingly useful in that sense. From time to time, you are capable of killing mass groups of people by targetting a barrel that is conveniently placed next to them. The Cerberus peters short in range (even with the Nova Barrel), and more than anything, caused the soldiers to then become alerted of your presence. The Gigant Hydra is the only gun that surpasses the Ultima Weapon in damage (280 compared to 200).

But seeing as most of the game will be played in medium to short range, the usage of the Hydra is limited. Unless you are one of the types that enjoys picking soldiers off from afar with calm patience and effectively hiding yourself, the Hydra is not a gun that you will use very often.


And as for magic, get a materia floater and upgrade it so that your magic level is maxed (3). Then proceed to see what magic is truly capable of. To further the use of magic, it does not use bullets, allows you to kill off large groups of soldiers easily in one or two magic shots (Fire or Thunder materia), and also ignores defense.

How do you think you kill the Dual Horn in order to get the Manahaert? Thunder materia and the Ultima Weapon coupled with a lovely chain.

So really, magic and the Hydra are actually quite useful - it simply takes a certain amount of thought and patience in figuring out how to use it exceptionally well. However, once harnessed, I found that Very Hard was actually quite easy.

[Mercen-X]

Yes, upgraded C + LB & SS = Hydra's replacement.
However, if you didn't want to waste time or money acquiring Handgun bullets, having the Hydra and Griffon around was pretty useful. I didn't know about the Model Gun until after I'd finished the game and played through again. I still haven't made enough money to upgrade to the Ultima Weapon.

Ice Magic = homing
Blizzard was useful when fighting enemies from afar. You could get the same effects from Vincent's Galian Beast transformation, but if you didn't have any Limit Breakers and didn't want to waste time finding your enemy through the Sight Scope or blasting away at them until you finally dropped them . . . then Blizzard would be for you.
Fire Magic = range
I personally didn't like Fire all that much. Judging by the radius, you could shoot a single soldier and miss his entourage coming up from behind. However, it was pretty useful against enemies who seemed to group together.
Thunder Magic = group
Unlike Fire, Thunder chains to enemies who are a particular distance from each other. Sometimes, there may be some missed stragglers and Thunder does less damage than Fire or Blizzard, but will certainly knock a huge group down, even if they aren't that close together.

Melee was only useful when you rarely felt like saving ammo.