JCnator
Senior Member
So, after I unlocked the multiplayer by doing the tutorial quests and going on the Guild Department (indicated by a ship wheel on the map), I tried some of the multiplayer features without having anyone online on the game. They're mostly similar to what we're used to Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
The Link messaging system basically acts like BF Chat. Anyone with the FLL (or FL with Link DLC purchased) will be seen online once they activated it. The Link Chat can be manually activated/deactivated via Options. You will go offline whenever you press HOME button, or when you initiate a Match Play from the red counter. I suggest you wait for the others to be online and tell them to visit/host before engaging Match Play, unless you told them beforehand.
If you're playing with importers, I suggest you change the 4 pre-set messages in a way that you feel they are best suited during intense moments. Things like "Fight!", "Help me!", "Retreat!" and "I will do" are some of the examples I could bring up. You can also map your Control Pad to trigger an emote (e.g. waving hand, nodding, etc.).
I noticed that the latin keyboard is kinda barebone compared to the Japanese version of ACNL. First off, you can't convert two-three latin letters into a hiragana/katakana letter ; you have to switch between the keyboards to find the right key. Importers are better off speaking in English most of the time, unless when playing with actual Japanese players. There's also much less symbols in these keyboards, aside from the crucial ones. There's no Shift key on the latin one, but there's uppercased and lowercased letters on the same screen. Even " ' " is absent, so grammar freaks should expect seeing "Im" instead "I'm". For some strange reason, numbers aren't tucked in hira/kata/latin keyboard ; they're on the number keyboard.
To sum it up, it'll take a while to get used to the keyboards and become efficient in communicating, unless you use a chat client on your computer.
I love on how the Chat Log keep track on both Link Chat and Match Play Chat. You won't have to worry about the disappearing bubble chat here. While chatting, if I press Y button, I can change on how the log will be displayed.
I actually started fighting against monsters from the plain with the entire Dragon suit equipped, and a goat (one of the earliest monsters) attacked me once, but that didn't drained my HP at all. On Level 2, I could take them down within 3 hits or so with my starter large sword combined. That suit is kind of overpowered at first, but I'll wait and see which future costumes would beat this one.
The Link messaging system basically acts like BF Chat. Anyone with the FLL (or FL with Link DLC purchased) will be seen online once they activated it. The Link Chat can be manually activated/deactivated via Options. You will go offline whenever you press HOME button, or when you initiate a Match Play from the red counter. I suggest you wait for the others to be online and tell them to visit/host before engaging Match Play, unless you told them beforehand.
If you're playing with importers, I suggest you change the 4 pre-set messages in a way that you feel they are best suited during intense moments. Things like "Fight!", "Help me!", "Retreat!" and "I will do" are some of the examples I could bring up. You can also map your Control Pad to trigger an emote (e.g. waving hand, nodding, etc.).
I noticed that the latin keyboard is kinda barebone compared to the Japanese version of ACNL. First off, you can't convert two-three latin letters into a hiragana/katakana letter ; you have to switch between the keyboards to find the right key. Importers are better off speaking in English most of the time, unless when playing with actual Japanese players. There's also much less symbols in these keyboards, aside from the crucial ones. There's no Shift key on the latin one, but there's uppercased and lowercased letters on the same screen. Even " ' " is absent, so grammar freaks should expect seeing "Im" instead "I'm". For some strange reason, numbers aren't tucked in hira/kata/latin keyboard ; they're on the number keyboard.
To sum it up, it'll take a while to get used to the keyboards and become efficient in communicating, unless you use a chat client on your computer.
I love on how the Chat Log keep track on both Link Chat and Match Play Chat. You won't have to worry about the disappearing bubble chat here. While chatting, if I press Y button, I can change on how the log will be displayed.
I actually started fighting against monsters from the plain with the entire Dragon suit equipped, and a goat (one of the earliest monsters) attacked me once, but that didn't drained my HP at all. On Level 2, I could take them down within 3 hits or so with my starter large sword combined. That suit is kind of overpowered at first, but I'll wait and see which future costumes would beat this one.
