#for some reason this literally took me over an hour to finally upload the vid

[toobsthetubb]

Happy Monster Truck Sunday!!!

[ataraxetta]

Good morning, Starshine! I hope you are all having a wonderful day free of stress and full of happiness!

And now the real reason I’m here: since posting this gifset of how terrifying the Six summons must be for Noct to experience (bc Noct/pain/anguish is my OT3), I have gotten asks about how I made the gifs and got the Astrals to appear in game so I could snag video. I have about eleven different ones in my inbox now so I figured I would just make a hopefully user-friendly post to consolidate things. Also wow, you guys, that is probably the most traffic I’ve ever gotten on a post you guys are great thank you 😊

I did kind of answer some of your questions awhile back in this post here, but sadly there is no good trick for getting the Astrals to appear. I really did just spend hours running around in one of my lower level saves letting everyone die until they showed up. Howevs, because I’ve seen it mentioned a lot in tags on that gifset that I shamelessly read all of, I do want to like go and ahead and HASHTAG#CONFIRM that Titan is by far the Rarest of them all and A Shy Boy. To put the level of Rarest of Them All I’m talking about into perspective, Leviathan - who can only be summoned near a body of water - showed up in the middle of the goddamn desert outside Hammerhead three times before I got Titan once. “But Ayla!” you ask, “HOW did you get him to appear?”

GOOD QUESTION. THE ANSWER: I WASTED HOURS OF MY ACTUAL REAL LIFE. Following in my footsteps is not suggested. To finally get his cantankerous ass to grace my poor boys with his presence I went to Formouth, let those level 80 walker things kill the bros, and then set the game to easy so carbuncle would revive Noct whenever he died, and let the level 80 things kill him over and over and over again while I worked from home one day until upon the rapid approach of Noct’s 74279084675486th death, the summon music started playing and lo and behold, a wild Titan appeared. So Noct had a really bad day and I still feel guilty about that, and the video that I got is actually pretty shitty, quality wise, but it is my precious and I feel like I should get a medal for it and several awards elsewise. It’s not even an actual accomplishment on my part and I am still filled with pride for my Titan vids. This game, man. Of course after I was done with him the prick immediately showed up again in the Vesperpool, of all places, so whatever, you thrice-damned pissbaby quake monster, I guess the high ground (and low ground, and all ground) is still yours. In my main save, which is over 400 hours, I still haven’t gotten the Titan summon, to which I say 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

Anyway! Yes I got vids, and it took a long time, and it probably wasn’t really worth it but since I did it please god use them, help validate their existence. They are totally up for grabs if you want to make your own gifs or caps or edits or just look at them because the summons in this game really are so cool. I posted them individually to Tumblr, those posts are:

Titan (both versions)

Shiva

Ramuh

Leviathan

I actually got like 4 of Shiva and 3 of Leviathan (and weirdly only the 1 of Ramuh, but getting Ramuh to appear is cake, baby, so that’s okay), but only posted one of each for them, so if you guys want to see the others/want them for gif making or edits or w/e just let me know I will upload.

If you really really want to get your own vids, the post I linked way up top is kind of a general rundown of how I went about baiting them all, but it’s really mostly luck. The only other thing I will mention is that you should always save before you summon one and then go reload once it happens, because there’s a wait period between one summon and another that varies and is annoying and makes only a modicum of sense like most of this ridiculous tire fire of a game that I inexplicably and passionately love to the depths of my soul. *Kanye shrug* 

(PRO FFXV-FISHING TIP: same rule applies for the carp pond. catch one, save, reload! It will cut your war with the carp by figurative years and literal hours).

So I think that’s it. Thank you for your time. And uh The End.