If someone is interested on the rant that appears briefly on 8:11: "The anger in my voice is a subtle reference to the fact that i now get angry at the mere mention of this boss being well-designed or fun when it so clearly is just a way to push the "Hard Meta" IDs and make those without those IDs simply suffer. I know no one else would have as bad of a team as i have, but regardless this is probably one of the worst designed fights in terms of player experience. If you are reading this, go on, DO this fight without your Charge Ids and tell me that it is "fun" to any capacity. Railway is about going fast, but this fight managed to make that concept have such a horrible drawback to those just trying to PLAY THE GODDAMN GAME. I never want to see this fight ever again. This is truly the moment Walter became Heisenberg."
This is gonna sound odd, and I do agree with this not being a great fight, but it's not HARD, it's just tedious. It does the job it's designed for, and it works very well for that theme
as someone that only played lobotomy and never touched ruina or limbus, whose only exposure to limbus is part one of this and your guide about rr2 to have a small idea of what was going on and even then half the words are just gibberish to me and i barely understand what is going on anyways. the sheer pain in most sentences made this entertaining enough for me to sit through the entire thing, amazing job
Nah, I do think Camus' statement isn't ironic, him saying that people cope by thinking Sisyphus is happy, but him wanting people to actually rebel against the absurd society. Meursault, after all, rebels against the system he is in, he shoots the Arab because of some inexplicable irrationality, and refuses to justify himself, in the face of friends, Marie, Jury and Priest (God). He is painted as good in doing the rebellion even if he dies for his convictions. As compared to how in Kafka's work people merely accept their absurd circumstances, Posideon just keeps doing paperwork, the Trial just happens, and Gregor slowly wastes away because he accepts that his transformation prevents him from being a productive member of society and because of that, he doesn't really have anything to live for. (And to some extent, Limbus Gregor merely accepts his fate, accepts the surgery, and is trapped in war and a way worse hellhole, and doesn't do anything about it.) Just wanted to get these thoughts out because they've been stewing in my mind after reading that essay (and I think the juxtaposition of Camus' and Kafka's work is interesting). And obviously it was all for a bit, it was a nice nod, but I am a rare Project Moon fan that reads (just not game text)
Gotta like your take on it but I wanna say that Meursault did try to justify himself in the trial only to get interrupted & his opinion completely disregarded, "as if I didn't have a right to decide for my life"(he thought it to himself during the trial, dunno the precise quote though, so pardon for that), which further shows how strongly society was against him, judging him only based on common standards, particularly his "soul"; when in reality, he was merely different from others
That is a still a pretty incomplete way to understand Camus. Camus's absurdism is not something that can be rebelled, the whole universe is absurd and indifferent, thus wishing to revolt is futile in the face of it. It is more correct saying that he want people to embrace life in spite of its absurdities. Sisyphus is happy because even if the universe doesn't answer, he still creates his own meaning in life. Mersault is not an rebel, he is the representation of the indifference of the universe, the symbol for its absurdities. He doesn't justify because, in his mind as well as in the scale of the universe, murder is as meaningless as anything else.
Idk blud, technically, Camus' understands absurdity as our relation to the world rather than axiomatic to being (which is more aligned with Sartre's belief). And some academic text has reached my conclusion. Literatrary analysis is all interpretation in the end anyway. I am unironically glad to be elucidated tho.
@@suahoi7852 Yeah I think his famous quote “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” sums up the idea you’ve presented.
@@cl0k3 Camus has a lot of socio-political activities, thus a lot of analysis of his texts are retrospective and not through the lens of their absurdism philosophy. But remember, absurdism, by definition, is that it is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless. So while yes, you can interpret and see after the fact, that his irl desire to rebel against the much-less-absurd society in his absurdist works, they are not the main points of those works. They show that you can create your meaning™, which can be interpreted as a desire to rebel even with impossible odd (i.e rebelling against society like you said), but that's a derivative, and not its main point.
16:41 AOE egos might SOUND undesireable due to hitting the fox but, you can actually manipulate the targeting of AOEs as they prioritize untargeted enemies? Thus you can sorta make temporary attacks on the body...unless your attack weight is higher than the number of umbrellas
I unfortunately discovered this just after finishing my RR2 run, where Fox was by far my least favourite fight because of all the resets caused by my AoEs seemingly randomly switching their target (also the pointless first 2 turns). Knowing that targeting skills can alter an AoE's secondary targets would have helped a lot. If anyone is interested here is a video explaining how the mechanic works: ua-cam.com/video/Y3YKmpb2Lwo/v-deo.html
This video is genuinely a masterpiece, what a beautiful journey. As a new player struggling to play railway, you have given me hope that one day i too will be able to do it. Thank you very much!
Thank you for the kind words, I really wanted to get the story of this run across, and I'm always glad to see people saw these two videos as a 'journey', since that is really what it was.
Do NOT apologize for making it long. I'm actually kinda sad it wasn't longer. Your content is a gift to the community. You say here's to 6k subs, we say here's to more amazing ESGOO content! It's a pleasure to watch
The reason you're getting support is because both your editing and scripting is legitimately good and easy to listen to, while still being something worth WATCHING, given the visuals. Regardless, this is about what I expected from the fights (Sans Drifting Fox). I will also say that this also further highligthed that Limbus can have some fun, deeper gameplay provided the fights and IDs are balanced properly. Don't think it'll ever, ever reach Ruina levels, but there's a framework there that can make it much better.
And we already know the big Ishmael EGO for the next Season will provide even more Coin Power, we will have Base Merusalt easily outroll 000 ID's. Plot-twist: The Passive is a lie, this is just Dante telling him to try harder and so he does.
Hm, if you use Regret with W Mers at T4 you currently have 24 max roll. And if you use new Ish E.G.O two times in a row, you add another 2 coin power. So he could roll 32 huh
a totally unbiased balancing idea for sloshing ishmael, they should change it so that upon loading into battle sloshing ishmael immediately explodes, killing everyone instantly both ally and enemies, beside base meursault which would only leave him at 1 hp why specifically base meursault? well why would you not bring base meursault
Thank you for being the best Limbis Company youtuber, your videos are pure bliss to watch and your insights into this game are so valuable. Thank you so much Estevan S Goo
I like how you rate wearing wet socks as being more painful than going through labour. In any case, finally agreement on who truly is the worst RR boss.
Just want to say thank you for this video. Inspired me to get RR2 done and dusted, even if I did have a pretty sub-optimal team. Thankfully one of my limbus friends had a Faust Fluid sac, so I didn't really need to worry about that. Also barely managed to get under 200 turns, which I'm happy about. Definitely not getting under 150 but I'm quite frankly happy I managed to get a cycle 5 done at all.
Honestly the fact that you pulled this off is insane....my first run of railway 2 ended in kind of a failure because I went with mostly a full Ncorp team, and my faust doesn't have fluid sack...so my only source of healing was Persuence and maybe Nclair with his pizza cutter. I say kind of a failiure is because I took the +15% hp and +1 weight slot in like cycle 3 and had only oround 5 pride right before wayward passenger...and the only person I had with an AOE was Outis's Ebony Stem...and after a while of trying I could't kill all the portals in 1 turn so I just settled with doing terminus instead and reaching passenger again with more resources and more IDs for pride next run. Railway 2 is fun...but damn I wish I had better pull luck for the healing EGO with how op it can be.
Honestly, with Walpurgisnacht, this challenge becomes significantly easier mainly because of the Regret EGO for Meursault. -1 base power but +2 coin power if the leftmost skill is des coupes is insanely good, since it goes from 4/12 to 3/19, which is on par with your after poise buff rodion. And most of all, it costs only 3 wrath and 2 pride, meaning that thirsting doesn't add that much of a cost to it AND it has *no* envy for its cost. It almost feels too good to be true (probably because it is). Great video nonetheless, and, if it makes you feel better, at least you proved that a "harder version" of this challenge is possible.
This video really helped me out. I tried Railway 2 as soon as I unlocked it and got bodied by talisman Doll. I assumed it was the weakest fight since it was first. I also wasnt very confident in my IDs, but your videos made me realize I have some oretty good potential teams.
Congratulations on beating the challenge. Just finished the video. I wish you the best of luck to your future videos and I’ll keep watchin. I loved Meursault being one of the main damage dealers as well as how you learned about so many mechanics that most would gloss over. It is refreshing to see someone treat debuffs (even if they can be extremely situational) with respect. All things said have a good day.
Hi ESGOO, I wanted to say thanks. I haven't been able the beat Railway 2 because the gimmick felt exhausting and like it wouldn't end ever but thanks to you're guide I understood the battles for Railway 3 and I'm on the last battle there and had a lot of fun with the fights, I even understand what the damn scribe wants from me! Thanks for you're suffering you make great videos and helped my motivation in tackling some more complicated Limbus fights.
As someone unfamiliar with this game, it seems to be structured as a Rouge-like game when you use this team. It starts easy to stockpile resources and teach you the mechanics before the real game starts. Which means the real challenge is not losing your mind stockpiling resources every start. With a better team you have freedom and don't need to stockpile as much, or you can and almost certainly win. It makes this game look interesting, and might be something I get.
I'm pretty sure in the original concept project moon wanted to make limbus company similar to darkest dungeon and the rogue like system. But it ended up becoming a gacha game, it's still peak despite the very obvious lootbox system
The roguelike was supposed to be literally darkest dungeon layout with wandering bosses and multiple routes before it was cut and simplified to all hell.
@@rain-pj4xqGod, I wish we could’ve seen that game become a reality I like Limbus don’t get me wrong, but that just sounds so interesting compared to the largely simplified Ruina we got gameplay wise
I'm looking forward to seeing wayward Passenger and Sign of Roses in the mirror dungeons. They're fun fights but I didn't really feel like I could enjoy them as much because of the stress of trying to aim for a low turn count. I'd love it if there was some sort of mode where you could freely rematch with the abnormalities with no strings attached.
Man, even playing normally What Is Cast was my crutch against faelantern... Can't imagine how many times you had to watch that animation with this team.
at 59:53 when you fade the text talking about how cool and awesome steam machine is, and how much you love the steamin' machine, you didn't fade out the text properly and it's still visible until the next group of text appears. Also good job on the run :)
45:40 And thank you for putting together this whole entire video to showcase if it there was any possibility of this team being able to overcome such a challenge and displaying your sheer willpower and tolerance to see this challenge fully complete. I was most interested to hear about your end thoughts and if you were able to learn anything new and change perspectives on some strategies or status effects, seems like you did. You gained a broader perspective on this game and more insight into the game mechanics.
To everyone haunted by steam machine: any tremor burst after you stagger it once make new stagger threshold that in return give you a safety net of dealing normal damage for whole turn after you break the body (X2 from stagger with X0.5 resistances)
I guess STM is designed with assumption that people who run RR2 can eviscerate most of its health if they plan ahead. It's not that far of, but overall, any possibility of x.25 damage is not a great design. To be honest, I hate cycle 4 fox more than STM. You just can't escape from its 6 protection. I don't know what else to say. It's awful. Good video as always, see you next week!
It's very fascinating seeing the differences using weak IDs makes, since the Steam Machine was something I largely considered a free fight, and while Fox was annoying on Cycle 3 and 4 with its protection, it was hardly the worst. But one thing remains consistent, and that's the fucking centipede. It's both a horrible roadblock for people running weaker IDs, and the biggest, most finnicky RNGfest when you're actually trying to low-turn this whole thing with top tier IDs. I'm one of the seemingly rare people who really likes RR2, it's my favorite content in this game from a purely mechanical, gameplay standpoint, but fuck the centipede, the piece of shit did NOT deserve to steal the bull's spot on the roster.
as someone trying to get through this with a team i put together like yesterday rosespanner mersault has been amazing. thank you lord for self fueling pursuance /o\
Well seems like I got nothing to blame that I can’t pass all stations in the Refraction Railway This is a very impressive achievement, really impressive 👍
As someone who didn't beat RR2 until about 4 weeks ago, and man, not having a healing Ego was pain, it wasnt until i got really lucky with the Gatcha and pulled Lantern Sinclair, which ended up carrying me despite my best sinclair id being talisman sinclair. I cant believe rhe satifiaction i felt when everything was said and done. I didnt get the special banners since it was season three. But i think i did fairly well with reaching cycle 5 and ending at 258 turns. Drifting Fox and the Steam machine were both probably the biggest roadblocks on my early cycles. Leading to endles restarts for the fights and lots of frustration. But i still think this was a fun a worthwhile experience for me since I think overall it was Fun. Definitely a lesson in good team building for me though.
One must imagine RR2 enjoyer happy... I want to say simillar kinda point. I did 7 cycles 135 turns run myself, first 4 cycles felt easy, however next 2 cycles became something close to this run. Max HP 15% and +1 slot weight seems not alot, but when we're not talking about run where your turns count is limited. This completely breaks almost every strategy. Sinking spam on Centepide, trio of envy skills(QS, RS, DDEDR), skill planning on next fight - all of this was mostly worthless. I kid you not, on 6th Cycle all S2 and S3 ran out on Centepide, and i spent almost 14 hours on Fairy Duo through "Retry stage". It was more than devastating. It was eternal lifting of boulder on Everest until everything was ideal, from rolls to targeting. But during this run i understood that RR2 not just "eh i bring meta, gonna stack fragily and 1 turn boss"(it may be true for some instances tbh), IT'S RETRY STAGE SIMULATOR, NOTHING ELSE. I spent 58 hours on 7 135, 75% of which was 5th and 6th cycle. Was result enjoyable at some points - yea. Is it worth it - NO, but now i can flex with cool banner at nonexistent people!
you have GOT to do streams of stuff like this, i'd love to get gameplay footage with your live thought processes on display, especially since i also suck at this game and wanna see footage and commentary from somebody who knows how to play and deliver info *this* well
In case you didn't know Esgoo E.G.O attacks take SP first then rolls the coin for heads and tails, atleast I think so with how often base E.G.O misses heads now that they consume sp compared to before they didn't.
[33:28] I'm curious - did you consider using Rodion's Fourth Match Flame in this fight? I get that it costs one Envy resource to do so, and it would have lowered Rodion's SP by 20, BUT it would have also made her Envy Resistance change from x2 to x0.75 (without her Gluttony resistance changing), which would have made her much tankier against some of Centipede's attacks.
Not really, but that is mostly because the problem was Sloshmael 90% of the time. If Rodion was targeted more I might have done that, and that is a pretty good tradeoff. I think there was only one time where Rodion was the lowest HP, her shield health made her less of a problem innately.
Resistance affects damage additively in limsus P. S absolutely not surprised to see cycle 4 fox on the list of worst fights, during my rupture run it caused absolute majority of resets
Also for whatever reason multipliers that are less than 1 (so x0.5 and x0.75) only have half the effect. So if something is fatal to blunt (x2) and has gloom ineffectiveness (x0.5) you actually deal 75% extra damage (on that step of the damage calculation at least).
@HarambaeXelonmuskfansDon't see what the point of your comment even is. All I did was point out what I thought was a mistake. And yes, 3x is much different from 4x, if you're saying that it isn't.
Congrats bud. Now go incinerate these IDs EDIT: also, I'm also the same with E.G.O. I never use it if it isn't absolutely necessary. Every single one of my Mirror Dungeon 2/MD2H run ends up with a limbillion resources.
If you come across MFE as much as I do, you're doing a good thing by keeping all those resources. Nothing better than being able to go "HA!!! I CAME PREPARED!" against that stupid statue. ...and then have all your EGO fail to clash with Aida anyway because she's fucking cracked
Finally someone who share my hatred (not dislike, hatred like actual malice and would tear it apart if it was real) the only thing that would sting harder is if they released a steam machine ego and it was hot garbage and was actively detrimental.
![What Makes a Tank? [Limbus Company]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KaO0BLntGTI/mqdefault.jpg)
ESGOO turning sloshmael into religious figure by letting her die for his sins is the turn I did not anticipate in this arc
One Slosh and a hundred of mael.
@@plinfan6541a hundred males you say? 🤨📸
@@hauntedhoody2976 We don't know the Gender ratio on Ishmaels ship
@@plinfan6541 Ishmael was meant to be the protagonist of an elaborate reverse dating sim but alas...
Update to myself, the ship was a swimming lesbian Party
If someone is interested on the rant that appears briefly on 8:11:
"The anger in my voice is a subtle reference to the fact that i now get angry at the mere mention of this boss being well-designed or fun when it so clearly is just a way to push the "Hard Meta" IDs and make those without those IDs simply suffer. I know no one else would have as bad of a team as i have, but regardless this is probably one of the worst designed fights in terms of player experience. If you are reading this, go on, DO this fight without your Charge Ids and tell me that it is "fun" to any capacity. Railway is about going fast, but this fight managed to make that concept have such a horrible drawback to those just trying to PLAY THE GODDAMN GAME. I never want to see this fight ever again. This is truly the moment Walter became Heisenberg."
imagine having charge IDs
This is gonna sound odd, and I do agree with this not being a great fight, but it's not HARD, it's just tedious. It does the job it's designed for, and it works very well for that theme
What is a charge ID
@@realhumanbean7915an ID that uses the status/resource Charge to empower or make the attack work, i.e. W Corp IDs and R Corp IDs
don't worry, most people hate steam transport machines because with meta ids, he is tedious and without, actual hell.
To think all of that time to reach Signs Of Roses was just to make a joke on Sloshmael’s behalf, bravo ESGOO
I am so glad I thought of it in the moment. You don’t have audio, but I was cackling to myself after being freed from her.
@@therealESGOO Doesn't this mean you failed your own challenge by not having her in the team at the end? It's like not bringing her in at all. :3
@@snipermagooby that same logic, the challenge was failed the second he couldn’t take in 12 sinners
Sloshmael being sacrificed at the end of the run was a completely reasonable and expected response.
as someone that only played lobotomy and never touched ruina or limbus, whose only exposure to limbus is part one of this and your guide about rr2 to have a small idea of what was going on and even then half the words are just gibberish to me and i barely understand what is going on anyways.
the sheer pain in most sentences made this entertaining enough for me to sit through the entire thing, amazing job
I hope the pain o meter stays with every gameplay based video from now on
The process is immensely painful for both of us, like I mentioned. I don’t know if he’d be up for another collab
@@therealESGOOpain-o meter for the pain-o meter when?
Along with that one image of vergilius
Drifting fox being the most difficult railway boss in this run is the best plot twist in any project moon game
Nah, I do think Camus' statement isn't ironic, him saying that people cope by thinking Sisyphus is happy, but him wanting people to actually rebel against the absurd society. Meursault, after all, rebels against the system he is in, he shoots the Arab because of some inexplicable irrationality, and refuses to justify himself, in the face of friends, Marie, Jury and Priest (God). He is painted as good in doing the rebellion even if he dies for his convictions. As compared to how in Kafka's work people merely accept their absurd circumstances, Posideon just keeps doing paperwork, the Trial just happens, and Gregor slowly wastes away because he accepts that his transformation prevents him from being a productive member of society and because of that, he doesn't really have anything to live for. (And to some extent, Limbus Gregor merely accepts his fate, accepts the surgery, and is trapped in war and a way worse hellhole, and doesn't do anything about it.)
Just wanted to get these thoughts out because they've been stewing in my mind after reading that essay (and I think the juxtaposition of Camus' and Kafka's work is interesting). And obviously it was all for a bit, it was a nice nod, but I am a rare Project Moon fan that reads (just not game text)
Gotta like your take on it but I wanna say that Meursault did try to justify himself in the trial only to get interrupted & his opinion completely disregarded, "as if I didn't have a right to decide for my life"(he thought it to himself during the trial, dunno the precise quote though, so pardon for that), which further shows how strongly society was against him, judging him only based on common standards, particularly his "soul"; when in reality, he was merely different from others
That is a still a pretty incomplete way to understand Camus. Camus's absurdism is not something that can be rebelled, the whole universe is absurd and indifferent, thus wishing to revolt is futile in the face of it. It is more correct saying that he want people to embrace life in spite of its absurdities. Sisyphus is happy because even if the universe doesn't answer, he still creates his own meaning in life. Mersault is not an rebel, he is the representation of the indifference of the universe, the symbol for its absurdities. He doesn't justify because, in his mind as well as in the scale of the universe, murder is as meaningless as anything else.
Idk blud, technically, Camus' understands absurdity as our relation to the world rather than axiomatic to being (which is more aligned with Sartre's belief). And some academic text has reached my conclusion. Literatrary analysis is all interpretation in the end anyway. I am unironically glad to be elucidated tho.
@@suahoi7852
Yeah I think his famous quote “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” sums up the idea you’ve presented.
@@cl0k3 Camus has a lot of socio-political activities, thus a lot of analysis of his texts are retrospective and not through the lens of their absurdism philosophy. But remember, absurdism, by definition, is that it is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless. So while yes, you can interpret and see after the fact, that his irl desire to rebel against the much-less-absurd society in his absurdist works, they are not the main points of those works. They show that you can create your meaning™, which can be interpreted as a desire to rebel even with impossible odd (i.e rebelling against society like you said), but that's a derivative, and not its main point.
16:41 AOE egos might SOUND undesireable due to hitting the fox but, you can actually manipulate the targeting of AOEs as they prioritize untargeted enemies? Thus you can sorta make temporary attacks on the body...unless your attack weight is higher than the number of umbrellas
I unfortunately discovered this just after finishing my RR2 run, where Fox was by far my least favourite fight because of all the resets caused by my AoEs seemingly randomly switching their target (also the pointless first 2 turns). Knowing that targeting skills can alter an AoE's secondary targets would have helped a lot.
If anyone is interested here is a video explaining how the mechanic works:
ua-cam.com/video/Y3YKmpb2Lwo/v-deo.html
Yeah an epic mechanic
I am depressed.
Excuse me, they WHAT?
@@therealESGOO Can you pin this comment? I had no idea this technique even existed and I imagine most other players are the same.
This video is genuinely a masterpiece, what a beautiful journey. As a new player struggling to play railway, you have given me hope that one day i too will be able to do it. Thank you very much!
Thank you for the kind words, I really wanted to get the story of this run across, and I'm always glad to see people saw these two videos as a 'journey', since that is really what it was.
Do NOT apologize for making it long. I'm actually kinda sad it wasn't longer. Your content is a gift to the community. You say here's to 6k subs, we say here's to more amazing ESGOO content! It's a pleasure to watch
The reason you're getting support is because both your editing and scripting is legitimately good and easy to listen to, while still being something worth WATCHING, given the visuals.
Regardless, this is about what I expected from the fights (Sans Drifting Fox). I will also say that this also further highligthed that Limbus can have some fun, deeper gameplay provided the fights and IDs are balanced properly. Don't think it'll ever, ever reach Ruina levels, but there's a framework there that can make it much better.
Funnily enough, the new meursault ego REALLY improved lcb meursault, make his s3 a nuke skill.
So, yeah…
And we already know the big Ishmael EGO for the next Season will provide even more Coin Power, we will have Base Merusalt easily outroll 000 ID's. Plot-twist: The Passive is a lie, this is just Dante telling him to try harder and so he does.
Hm, if you use Regret with W Mers at T4 you currently have 24 max roll. And if you use new Ish E.G.O two times in a row, you add another 2 coin power. So he could roll 32 huh
@@joby5838 Merusalt, looking at W Ryoshu and W Don: "Finally, balance has been reached"
society if steam transport machine kept fatal weaknesses after body was broken
a totally unbiased balancing idea for sloshing ishmael, they should change it so that upon loading into battle sloshing ishmael immediately explodes, killing everyone instantly both ally and enemies, beside base meursault which would only leave him at 1 hp
why specifically base meursault? well why would you not bring base meursault
Joke's on you. Now Meuersault (Kim) will actually not die in such a scenario, making an OP AF team with such Sloshmael
Thank you for being the best Limbis Company youtuber, your videos are pure bliss to watch and your insights into this game are so valuable. Thank you so much Estevan S Goo
Yes, Larry. This is happiness, just not yours. Now time to take out the popcorn and enjoy this.
"What's the opposite of a freebie?"
I'm late but the answer to that question when it comes to games is usually 'taxing'
Steam transport machine truly is the moment Walter became Heisenberg though I will agree.
I like how you rate wearing wet socks as being more painful than going through labour.
In any case, finally agreement on who truly is the worst RR boss.
Just want to say thank you for this video. Inspired me to get RR2 done and dusted, even if I did have a pretty sub-optimal team. Thankfully one of my limbus friends had a Faust Fluid sac, so I didn't really need to worry about that. Also barely managed to get under 200 turns, which I'm happy about. Definitely not getting under 150 but I'm quite frankly happy I managed to get a cycle 5 done at all.
The next time someone says Limbus is a no strategy autobattler, I am sending them this video
11:12
ESGOO, 5 months later: Damn how did you clear that so quickly past ESGOO?
Honestly the fact that you pulled this off is insane....my first run of railway 2 ended in kind of a failure because I went with mostly a full Ncorp team, and my faust doesn't have fluid sack...so my only source of healing was Persuence and maybe Nclair with his pizza cutter.
I say kind of a failiure is because I took the +15% hp and +1 weight slot in like cycle 3 and had only oround 5 pride right before wayward passenger...and the only person I had with an AOE was Outis's Ebony Stem...and after a while of trying I could't kill all the portals in 1 turn so I just settled with doing terminus instead and reaching passenger again with more resources and more IDs for pride next run.
Railway 2 is fun...but damn I wish I had better pull luck for the healing EGO with how op it can be.
Honestly, with Walpurgisnacht, this challenge becomes significantly easier mainly because of the Regret EGO for Meursault.
-1 base power but +2 coin power if the leftmost skill is des coupes is insanely good, since it goes from 4/12 to 3/19, which is on par with your after poise buff rodion.
And most of all, it costs only 3 wrath and 2 pride, meaning that thirsting doesn't add that much of a cost to it AND it has *no* envy for its cost.
It almost feels too good to be true (probably because it is).
Great video nonetheless, and, if it makes you feel better, at least you proved that a "harder version" of this challenge is possible.
This video really helped me out.
I tried Railway 2 as soon as I unlocked it and got bodied by talisman Doll. I assumed it was the weakest fight since it was first. I also wasnt very confident in my IDs, but your videos made me realize I have some oretty good potential teams.
This is why I like Limbus Company honestly.
Even the worst options are viable if you're willing to put the work into making them be.
Congratulations on beating the challenge. Just finished the video. I wish you the best of luck to your future videos and I’ll keep watchin. I loved Meursault being one of the main damage dealers as well as how you learned about so many mechanics that most would gloss over. It is refreshing to see someone treat debuffs (even if they can be extremely situational) with respect. All things said have a good day.
I genuinely forgot Impending Day was once considered a top 3 EGO until you showed its passive. How far we've come.
Hi ESGOO,
I wanted to say thanks. I haven't been able the beat Railway 2 because the gimmick felt exhausting and like it wouldn't end ever but thanks to you're guide I understood the battles for Railway 3 and I'm on the last battle there and had a lot of fun with the fights, I even understand what the damn scribe wants from me!
Thanks for you're suffering you make great videos and helped my motivation in tackling some more complicated Limbus fights.
I absolutely love that there is a chance the sysiphis story be part of Mersault's chapter due to the nature of camus books
These past two refraction railway videos are really well made!
And congrats on 6 k ESGOO 🎉
You truly are the limbus company, ESGOO... Thank you.
The quality of these videos is really incredible, I feel so lucky to be into a game with UA-camrs like you making content for it ! I’m so grateful!
As someone unfamiliar with this game, it seems to be structured as a Rouge-like game when you use this team.
It starts easy to stockpile resources and teach you the mechanics before the real game starts. Which means the real challenge is not losing your mind stockpiling resources every start. With a better team you have freedom and don't need to stockpile as much, or you can and almost certainly win.
It makes this game look interesting, and might be something I get.
I'm pretty sure in the original concept project moon wanted to make limbus company similar to darkest dungeon and the rogue like system. But it ended up becoming a gacha game, it's still peak despite the very obvious lootbox system
The roguelike was supposed to be literally darkest dungeon layout with wandering bosses and multiple routes before it was cut and simplified to all hell.
@@rain-pj4xqGod, I wish we could’ve seen that game become a reality
I like Limbus don’t get me wrong, but that just sounds so interesting compared to the largely simplified Ruina we got gameplay wise
@@rain-pj4xq i cry
So this is where “One must imagine ESGOO happy” comes from.
I'm looking forward to seeing wayward Passenger and Sign of Roses in the mirror dungeons. They're fun fights but I didn't really feel like I could enjoy them as much because of the stress of trying to aim for a low turn count.
I'd love it if there was some sort of mode where you could freely rematch with the abnormalities with no strings attached.
Man, even playing normally What Is Cast was my crutch against faelantern... Can't imagine how many times you had to watch that animation with this team.
8:10 time code for everyone who is trying to catch this message, and I agree, this fight is the most painful fight in the game even with good ids
Even with meta IDs it still sucks
at 59:53 when you fade the text talking about how cool and awesome steam machine is, and how much you love the steamin' machine, you didn't fade out the text properly and it's still visible until the next group of text appears. Also good job on the run :)
45:40
And thank you for putting together this whole entire video to showcase if it there was any possibility of this team being able to overcome such a challenge and displaying your sheer willpower and tolerance to see this challenge fully complete.
I was most interested to hear about your end thoughts and if you were able to learn anything new and change perspectives on some strategies or status effects, seems like you did. You gained a broader perspective on this game and more insight into the game mechanics.
My man, this was incredible to watch. Let's share a drink of it!
To everyone haunted by steam machine: any tremor burst after you stagger it once make new stagger threshold that in return give you a safety net of dealing normal damage for whole turn after you break the body (X2 from stagger with X0.5 resistances)
I guess STM is designed with assumption that people who run RR2 can eviscerate most of its health if they plan ahead. It's not that far of, but overall, any possibility of x.25 damage is not a great design.
To be honest, I hate cycle 4 fox more than STM. You just can't escape from its 6 protection. I don't know what else to say. It's awful.
Good video as always, see you next week!
Recently finished my sub 150 run, can confirm steam machine and centipede are pain.
I ended up using 7th Yi Sang and his 3 paralyze was great too.
40 full minutes for one fight is like tame by project moon standards from what ik
It's very fascinating seeing the differences using weak IDs makes, since the Steam Machine was something I largely considered a free fight, and while Fox was annoying on Cycle 3 and 4 with its protection, it was hardly the worst.
But one thing remains consistent, and that's the fucking centipede.
It's both a horrible roadblock for people running weaker IDs, and the biggest, most finnicky RNGfest when you're actually trying to low-turn this whole thing with top tier IDs.
I'm one of the seemingly rare people who really likes RR2, it's my favorite content in this game from a purely mechanical, gameplay standpoint, but fuck the centipede, the piece of shit did NOT deserve to steal the bull's spot on the roster.
You may have Quick suppression and Rip Space, I have Subdue Threat and De Coups.
I am in pain.
Honestly thank you Esgoo, you are THE Limbus UA-camr ❤
So poetic letting Sloshmael die at the end as a sacrifice for this run.
I FUCKING LOVE CLIMACTIC FINISHES TO CHALLENGE VIDEOS, R.I.P SLOSHMAELLLL
as someone trying to get through this with a team i put together like yesterday rosespanner mersault has been amazing. thank you lord for self fueling pursuance /o\
God, the new regret ego wouldve made this run infinitely easier. Poorly timed lol
This vid changed my perspective on these ID's. Still bad, but usable with RNG and Giga-Brain. 👌
The fulfillment was the happiness we imagined along the way
Well seems like I got nothing to blame that I can’t pass all stations in the Refraction Railway
This is a very impressive achievement, really impressive 👍
finally some damn good limbus content
As someone who didn't beat RR2 until about 4 weeks ago, and man, not having a healing Ego was pain, it wasnt until i got really lucky with the Gatcha and pulled Lantern Sinclair, which ended up carrying me despite my best sinclair id being talisman sinclair. I cant believe rhe satifiaction i felt when everything was said and done. I didnt get the special banners since it was season three. But i think i did fairly well with reaching cycle 5 and ending at 258 turns. Drifting Fox and the Steam machine were both probably the biggest roadblocks on my early cycles. Leading to endles restarts for the fights and lots of frustration. But i still think this was a fun a worthwhile experience for me since I think overall it was Fun. Definitely a lesson in good team building for me though.
One must imagine RR2 enjoyer happy...
I want to say simillar kinda point.
I did 7 cycles 135 turns run myself, first 4 cycles felt easy, however next 2 cycles became something close to this run.
Max HP 15% and +1 slot weight seems not alot, but when we're not talking about run where your turns count is limited. This completely breaks almost every strategy. Sinking spam on Centepide, trio of envy skills(QS, RS, DDEDR), skill planning on next fight - all of this was mostly worthless.
I kid you not, on 6th Cycle all S2 and S3 ran out on Centepide, and i spent almost 14 hours on Fairy Duo through "Retry stage". It was more than devastating.
It was eternal lifting of boulder on Everest until everything was ideal, from rolls to targeting.
But during this run i understood that RR2 not just "eh i bring meta, gonna stack fragily and 1 turn boss"(it may be true for some instances tbh), IT'S RETRY STAGE SIMULATOR, NOTHING ELSE.
I spent 58 hours on 7 135, 75% of which was 5th and 6th cycle.
Was result enjoyable at some points - yea.
Is it worth it - NO, but now i can flex with cool banner at nonexistent people!
Congrats champ, this is incredible!
Admirable in my eyes.
44:25 Nah, canonically he's a W corp cleaner, so he _might_ have once _been_ a frat boy, but now he's a grown ass man with a hangover
you have GOT to do streams of stuff like this, i'd love to get gameplay footage with your live thought processes on display, especially since i also suck at this game and wanna see footage and commentary from somebody who knows how to play and deliver info *this* well
Funnily enough, I've been playing since a month or so and this video is when I finally learnt support ids existed
To think i put off completing RR2 until the final week because i thought it was too tedious to complete.
Only a PM fan would be dramatic enough to intentionally kill their least favorite ID to prove a point at the end of the run. Amazing work though
One must imagine ESGOO happy.
Absolutely phenomenal
This is the moment where ESGOO bloomed
first time i saw zwei Rodions s3 animation omg and honestly she ate HARD (no crumbs left)
In case you didn't know Esgoo E.G.O attacks take SP first then rolls the coin for heads and tails, atleast I think so with how often base E.G.O misses heads now that they consume sp compared to before they didn't.
[33:28] I'm curious - did you consider using Rodion's Fourth Match Flame in this fight? I get that it costs one Envy resource to do so, and it would have lowered Rodion's SP by 20, BUT it would have also made her Envy Resistance change from x2 to x0.75 (without her Gluttony resistance changing), which would have made her much tankier against some of Centipede's attacks.
Not really, but that is mostly because the problem was Sloshmael 90% of the time. If Rodion was targeted more I might have done that, and that is a pretty good tradeoff. I think there was only one time where Rodion was the lowest HP, her shield health made her less of a problem innately.
@@therealESGOO So, basically, Zwei Rodion needs to generate more Aggro, and Sloshing Ishmael probably doesn't need as much Aggro as she generates LOL.
One must imagine ESGOO finishing refraction railway.
WOW, WHAT A MOVIE. SO FULL OF TRAGEDY!
The finale to the ultimate CBT event limbus has offered so far.
Can't wait for ESGOO to do this again for railway 3!
This ones sanity mustve already crumbled
Resistance affects damage additively in limsus
P. S absolutely not surprised to see cycle 4 fox on the list of worst fights, during my rupture run it caused absolute majority of resets
I will never understand why project moon changed the resistance formula
@@yanik5480 double fatals would do ridiculous damage
@@aisir3725 but now fatal overrides all of the resistances and they barely do anything
Also for whatever reason multipliers that are less than 1 (so x0.5 and x0.75) only have half the effect. So if something is fatal to blunt (x2) and has gloom ineffectiveness (x0.5) you actually deal 75% extra damage (on that step of the damage calculation at least).
One can imagine Sloshmael happy
“One must imagine gacha player happy”
bro actually delivered
Can't wait for you to do this on RR3
More suffering in the railway.
Splendid!
10:00 Is it quartered though? I'm pretty sure damage is only 3x lower, because the resistances are not multiplicative, but additive
@HarambaeXelonmuskfansDon't see what the point of your comment even is. All I did was point out what I thought was a mistake. And yes, 3x is much different from 4x, if you're saying that it isn't.
Great video as always!
Can’t wait for ESGOO to do this again for RR3!
i cant wait for the RR3 worst IDs run :)
Esgoo after discovering bind existed on snagharpoon: stonks
うおー！これの本編待ってました！！
i really love you video, keep it up!
ES of the COOM
44:15:
Fluid Sack, Ebony Stem, Ar or blossom star and Leisure Domain.
Congrats bud. Now go incinerate these IDs
EDIT: also, I'm also the same with E.G.O. I never use it if it isn't absolutely necessary. Every single one of my Mirror Dungeon 2/MD2H run ends up with a limbillion resources.
same
Same here. Resource hoarder haha
That tendency did allow me to absolutely fold the Kromer fight
Same. Use them only when there is good opportunity to combo (hex nail/ds on nuke turn)/important clash/setup something (fluid sac/bodysack)
If you come across MFE as much as I do, you're doing a good thing by keeping all those resources. Nothing better than being able to go "HA!!! I CAME PREPARED!" against that stupid statue.
...and then have all your EGO fail to clash with Aida anyway because she's fucking cracked
Dr. Esgoo, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zwei Rodion
Welcome to Lobotomy Corporation!
Lets the roses eat Sloshmael, Based.
Finally someone who share my hatred (not dislike, hatred like actual malice and would tear it apart if it was real)
the only thing that would sting harder is if they released a steam machine ego and it was hot garbage and was actively detrimental.
YEESSSSSS. NEW ESGOO VIDEO JUST DROPPED
WOOOOH NEW ESGOO VIDEO, YEAAAAAH!
do you think i can beat railway without fluid sac if i have good ids and make sure i dont get hit too much :3?
It’s possible, but I would hardly recommend it. Fluid Sac or Pursuance would make your experience far more bearable