Version 1.30 now eases the requirements to get Nightmare's "Azure Nightmare" title. You now just need to do 2 certain quests to clear (whose names I can't be sure correctly, because "Google Translate", lol.)
Now I can finally get this out of the way without having to do some complicated bullshit.
Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me. The code is finally cracked, and then they "fix" it? If I'm guessing, they probably took out the requirement to finish the third Schwarzwind mission, because that was the contradiction. So you probably just have to do the first two parts of Nightmare's quest, and be evil, and then you'll get it in the epilogue postgame.
Are Ruslan’s RNG thieves in the same exact area in the Middle East? I swear I search forever and have only encountered three of them.
Yes, you'll find numbers five, four, three, and two in the Middle East, and number one back where you encountered Ruslan. Speaking of which, I've got more information from Azynterrus over on reddit. He confirms this, that the four random encounters take place in the same zone, internally coded "SEM_AREA_40", which would appear to the the Middle East, which would coincide with my own experiences. Apparently, your encounter with Ruslan doesn't have any bearing on this at all, it's just that you can't get the encounters until reaching and completing the quest in Kashgar from the main story in chapter 3. So I guess it's fortunate that I did push forward, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get the encounters anyway.
Also from Azynterrus, I feel like there is a key piece of information that might be stopping some of you from getting this one. According to what he found, your alignment does not matter, but what does matter is that you have to, IN CHAPTER 5 ONLY, have completed one of the two quests, "A Ninja's Warning: A Question of Evil" or "A Ninja's Warning: A Question of Good", while roaming around, and it can be encountered literally anywhere. Any specific locations that we have found, I would assume, is just anecdotal evidence that we just honed in on a certain zone while we were looking. But if you haven't gotten either of these quests during chapter 5, then you won't be able to find the last quest "A Ninja's Warning: The Line Between Man and Monster", the one that grants the title. This can also be encountered literally anywhere, but you have to have "level 2 Astral Fissure sealing", which Azynterrus is taking to mean that you've sealed 5 Astral Fissures. I would assume these to be the random pop-up fissures, not the story fissures, because it's only the random ones that count for the achievement/trophy for clearing 30 Astral Fissures.
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So, in short:
Leader of Thieves
- Complete "Kashgar" in Chapter 3.
- Fight four random encounters in the Middle East, "Thieves in the Sand", Numbers Five, Four, Three, and Two. Be low level for better odds.
- Static quest appears "Thieves in the Sand: The Boss", complete this fight for the title reward.
Fu-ma's Shadow
- CHAPTER 5 ONLY: Fight random encounter "A Ninja's Warning: A Question of Good/Evil" literally anywhere -- good luck! Be low level for better odds.
- Chapter 5 or Epilogue: Seal 5 randomly-occurring Astral Fissures, and you have to have fought the above random encounter during chapter 5!!
- Fight random encounter "A Ninja's Warning: The Line Between Man and Monster" literally anywhere -- good luck! Be low level for better odds.
Thanks again for
reddit user Azynterrus for digging out the specifics from the game code.
Edit: Formatting/annotations.