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I'm playing it right now.
I've only done the first few levels but it's pretty fun so far. The graphics outside of combat look like generic RPG Maker shit and the writing is kind of bad so far. The actual gameplay is pretty good though. It's not very original, mostly just a mix of elements taken straight from Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle, but it's all meshed togetherin a way that makes sense and gives a decent amount of customization.
My only real gameplay gripe is that a lot of actions feel like they require too many clicks. Like if I want to edit a squad, I just want to click on the squad, then click on the unit I want to move. Instead I have to click on Squad Operations, then select the squad, then click on Move Units, then click on the unit I want to move. It sounds like a nitpick but it gets on my nerves. Just letting me select shit directly and having a right-click context menu for more complex actions would've been way better than having to click through three different menus for every action.
Also maybe I'm blind and missing something, but as far as I can tell the game only tells you about the optional objectives of a mission AFTER you finish the mission, which is completely moronic. How am I supposed to figure out you get bonus rewards for not using a certain unit, if the game only tells me about it after the fact?
Also the game could really use a spell checker. I've already seen the word "sergeant" spelled four different ways in the span of just a few support conversations with this dude.
have they used serjeant? that one's my favorite
Not yet, but so far I've seen sergeant, seargant, sargent and sergreant.
Seargent is my favorite
embarrassing enough not to be able to look up spelling in this day and age, but imagine not even knowing the basic principle of never using multiple spellings because then you're guaranteed to be wrong
Ser Greant Barnabas
That him frick accent
>Also maybe I'm blind and missing something, but as far as I can tell the game only tells you about the optional objectives of a mission AFTER you finish the mission, which is completely moronic.
Actually, I take this back. You can see the optional objectives with the Mission Info option in the battle menu. I'd still appreciate it if they'd just show you this shit at the start of the mission though, rather than make you go into yet another menu to figure it out.
Ya big agree n too many clicks. Also there is a map where 8 cavalry spawn at the same time unannounced. I lost 2 entire squads that were safe away from the battle and there was nothing I could do about it. I'm give it a 3/5 it's ok. I'm having fun. On 12th mission
I have zero musical skill tho.
>protag mentions early on that the church is bullshit
>turns out the church is actually the good guys and the villains are literally a satanist cult
Points for not going the super cliché route, I suppose.
>Points for not going the super cliché route, I suppose.
Oh, never mind. Immediately after this the story dives into a you are the descendant of one of the five divine heroes and you need to gather the other four to save the world from the demons spiel.
So much for not being super cliché.
This looks like a rpg maker game
It's probably made in the Japanese Fire Emblem Maker program
It's rpg maker vx ace.
>paladins must be bred before they're allowed to go to war
Based.
Fug wrong image.
one? it should be two
I offer myself as tribute
You don't want them dying before they've had a chance to pass on their holy blood.
They are not cowards.
>they are not cowards
caved in to the d*scord troons
lol
lmao even
If nothing else, I applaud the dev's appreciation for strong girls with big tiddies.
dev is coomerguy?
>coomerguy
Who?
Looks based
I will now play your game
She looks like if Raoh had a little sister.
It seems pretty Fire Emblem, but they mentioned on the Steam status updates they are at least going to be adding some sort of additional side content or replayable battles in the future.
So how much game time for an autistic run are we talking here?
The Steam page says it's 30-40 hours. Considering it's a linear game with little to do outside of the story missions, I wouldn't expect to get more than that out of it.
Weak. I was expecting some side content to add some fluff.
Theres an arena that functions as side content, but you need tokens to use the arena and you rarely get tokens, so it doesn't amount to much.
There are the arenas and 5 extra "gaiden" chapters, plus the ending will be different depending on which characters you pair during the game and there's also different rare units you can grab during the campaign
my save had ~40 hours so that's pretty spot on. it's linear with the arena missions being really short and you don't get much of the tokens anyway. dev in patch notes says he wants to add some grinding mode but at least on normal the progression is spot on that you are hitting 50 on the last mission just about.
i could never made them work and eventually dropped them even from lysander. didn't even get to use much arty since it doesn't retaliate and later missions are just enemy squads throwing themselves at you.
i would say absolutely for cavalry squads, i got a backline pretty early on and kept it pretty much until the end of the game unchanged, pic related there
>i could never made them work and eventually dropped them even from lysander.
guns are great, especially once you get that tech that allows them to fire twice. The strongest squad I have is a mix of gunners and centurions, so basically pike and shot. The gunners move first and wipe out the front row, then the centurions hit both the second and third rows at the same time. The only enemies that ever last more than 1 attack are ones that have those big shield guys up front, and even with their bonus defence against guns they still die in round 2.
Seems weird that there's a tier 2 crossbow but not tier 3. at tier 3 you only got gunner or warbow who are polar opposites when the crossbow could fill a nice middleground with range and armor piercing
>start game
>the three factions are the EMPIRE, KINGDOM, and REPUBLIC
Why do devs always pull this moronic shit
Just have three kingdoms
Well said friend.
>remove empires and kingdoms because i don't like them
???
Certified kino game.
Thank you based Japan.
>Japan
>strategy games
Come on anon lol
This game is clearly based on Jap games like Fire Emblem though.
The character portraits are an actual detriment and the game would be better served if you just had the unit sprite instead.
I bought it but am going to wait a few weeks for patches.
>does sybil feel weak to anyone else?
She's a very good healer, but yeah her leadership is awful which gimps her squad. As I mentioned in the /vrpg/ thread, my Sybil still has a squad size of 4 when everyone else is already up to 6.
I played a little further and Sybil gets a free upgrade to Paladin eventually alongside a massive Leadership buff, so there's that.
>the gigantic paladin with abs visible through her shirt has a housewife assigned by the tenets of her religion
>the other priests think this is weird
It's explained that she's pretty much the last hardline traditionalist in the church. Paladins being bonded sisters, where the sister of Justice goes out and smites satanists while the sister of Mercy stays home and takes care of the family, is one of those traditions that have been abandoned by most other people.
So the husband bangs both?
Magic dick shit. This being an rpg maker weeb game we gotta have at least one weirdo fetish from the devs.
Nah there's no futa magic or group sex, her kid's father just isn't around anymore.
>her kid's father just isn't around anymore.
Equally moronic, they just needed an excuse for lesbos
I didn't see them as lesbians more like half-sister, Diana also calls her her sister and she's "family" in her relationship tab
Wtf how is Diana so perfect bros...
>tall and strong
>swings a huge hammer with ease and solos entire armies
>despite being a "strong woman" secondary protagonist she's beautiful and femine and not a butch dyke
>huge milk jugs, graceful body, enough cake to feed a village and the ground trembling with each shake of her huge hips
>has such a caring, gentle and loyal personality, just makes you feel everything will be alright
>loves good food
I'd follow that woman to the end of the world
>Wtf how is Diana so perfect bros...
Still a single mother, huh
MILF
>lysander comes with 81 squad cap
what the FRICK
By the end of the game you'll have 9 units in most squads, unless you use dragons which take up 2 slots.
So if I'm reading the furry merc's passive right he automatically dodges stealth attacks from enemy assassins right? Doesn't that mean it's better to slap him in the backrow to dodge tank stealth hits for the healer instead of up front like he's set to by default?
>Fixed Devoa and Diana Bond support
Patch just dropped. Can't say I was too far in the game to notice this was a problem but cool nonetheless
>all those degenerates in Steam reviews and forums demanding a sandbox mode and the option to grind for XP
We don't deserve good games
Something like a postgame mode of NG+ where you can just frick around would be nice, but for the normal campaign I like that you can't grind and there's a limit to the amount of XP you can get per level.
>The LEVEL UP when Casimir becomes Emperor
So fricking good
I laughed when that happened
Mafia City moment
>green units exist
Oh no
>enemies can revive
You can farm them for a while?
sell me on this game.
It has alot of heart.
+ basically Fire Emblem except you control squads instead of individual characters
+ gameplay is fairly simple but good
+ pretty good map design
+ reasonably challenging on the highest difficulty, especially if you want to get all the bonus objectives
+ battle sprites are cool
+ some of the waifus are hot
- writing ranges from mediocre and predictable, to just bad
- music and sound design are really generic
- graphics outside of battle are standard RPGMaker shit and some of the portraits are ugly, especially the male characters
- very linear, little to no content outside of the story missions (might not be an issue if you don't care about stuff like that)
>writing ranges from mediocre and predictable, to just bad
That's okay. I skip all cutscenes and dialogue anyway. I just want to play the game.
Firearms are OP as frick
As god intended.
I rather like it.
I think I'm very bad at it.
I also dislike that right clicking occasionally crashes the game.
Obvious signs that the game hasn't been fully tested: some maps don't work the way they should.
But very good.
>Battle is going well
>Diana starts telling Stefan he can just leg it if things go wrong
Okay fine, nice cute line between those two
>Barnabas tells Sybil that he's got a bad feeling, so she should stay close
We're going to die.
that mission is bullshit and unless you're on easy with pre-knowledge of it I don't know HOW you can win it for the achievement.
Main thing I dislike is where the chests are.
Even with a 'push on one side, hold on the other' strategy, I couldn't get to the chests before the worm turned
To be fair you're literally supposed to lose, it's very much a shiroyama type situation. The song, not the actual historical event.
It's very much a 'frick where did he get all that pyrocite from' situation.
The demoralisation will continue until freedom improves.
With how tightly packed it is up front it looks like you just stole a bunch of horses and called it surrendering.
How?
Archer/Cannon Barrage -> Use Force Surrender.
The Power that dumpsters morale in a 3x3 box also helps a lot.
On an unrelated note I'm impressed, I had no idea all of the women were voiced by one person.
>Rick voices Jaromir and Barnabas
I swear they gave him a dollar store mike for his Jaromir takes.
my homie
almost rare is it to see such a generic appearing title
+Gameplay is simple but fun
+Squad customization is enjoyable
+/- Story and dialogue are uninteresting
+But it can all be skipped
+Graphics for the sprites are great
-Graphics for the battle maps are terrible
-Art for characters is bad, they don't mesh together and all look terrible
-Music is nonexistent, its just not good
-Game is slow to play, frustratingly so.
-No enemy AI, they don't try for any tactics, there's no difficulty outside of "big number" enemy groups
-Enemy turns take a LONG time
-Story is downright generic and just awful
-"Normal" mode is FAR too easy, "Hard" mode has permadeath
But I'm still enjoying it. Gameplay is the most important part for me. A few other minute complaints would be that I have how you have 12 squads of special heroes, so why even bother making generic squads? I can beat every mission so far (on chapter 25) with Abigayle, Paladin and main character with ease.
>"Hard" mode has permadeath
The weirdest part about this is that it only effects generics. Sybil or Jules can drop dead and it doesn't actually matter because they'll be good to go next chapter.
Story doesn't work with permadeath for major characters.
Personally, I think if you wanted to do 'squad leaders can die' it'd be better to make the general of the army the important character and then every field officer is just some Lt/Captain so their deaths are important but not life changing.
Really? So does it affect like individual units too? If my Zweihander dies in my party is he gone for good?
I may have just done the permadeath mode if I had more information.
I just rushed my cavalry guy over and let him die. Barnabas or whatever.
That is the good decision. I learned that trick (use Barnabas as fast cap/barrier troop) after that mission.
I still dislike the chest spawn as a first time player, though.
>Really? So does it affect like individual units too? If my Zweihander dies in my party is he gone for good?
No, if any of your generics are dead at the end of the chapter they're gone, but you have the chance to resurrect them with a Temple or MC before the chapter is over to save them. Named characters just get to die for free without consequence.
Wow. Then why the frick didn't I play that mode? I thought I'd literally dead end the game if I fricked up. That's irritating.
The normal mode is WAY too easy and I just stomp every fricking mission. Thanks for the heads up, man.
Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that its complete bullshit for that achievement. I guess if I stacked every upgrade on Diana, maybe found that -25% firearms damage shield earlier on and got some cannons of my own I could have done it, but I killed about 1/2 the army and got swarmed by the rest. Got kinda mad.
Even with Firearms damage resist, you'd still run into a situation where Diana just gets hit by like six guys.
I'm not saying it can't be won, because if it was unwinnable that achievement would not exist. It's just, one item that won't save Diana from the other five cannons in an assault wave won't count for much.
Unrelated:
How do you get the 4 cost techs at the top of the tech tree?
You need the entire tech tree below it.
So for the far left 4-cost, you need the far left tree. For the second from the left 4 cost, you need both the left AND the middle tree.
For the middle 4-cost tech, you need the middle tree, e.t.c
Okay, that's what I thought but it wasn't confirmed anywhere.
Frick this game needed a quick QA and UX pass.
it REALLY does. It needs a lot of polishing and touching up, and please someone replace the terrible deviantart-tier character...well, art.
The art, you know what, I can respect.
At least, for better or worse, it's competent. The artist knows what humans look like, and didn't do the 'Wargroove Head Cold' thing that makes an otherwise acceptable art style look moronic.
Deviantart tier this may be, but it's deviantart that I'd pay a few sheqels to commission.
Does it?
Okay, I'll accept that, but in case I'm misremembering: Don't the higher techs tell you that you need seven from the lower tier to get early on?
Like if you hover over a tech you can't get, it says, "unlock seven from the lower tree"
Am I moronic? Did I make this up? Did the game gaslight me somehow?
I'm pretty sure that it tells you that you need to full tree for the top techs when you first unlock the tech tree, but i may be wrong.
I think it's full tree for the middle tech and two full trees for the tech that's on the borderline
The art is a huge problem for me as well. Despite the ESL tier actual script, I think the plot and writing are actually pretty serviceable, even when it pulls dumb shit like Jules being the Sayuunari king this entire time, motherfricker doesn't even have a unique sprite. At least get us headswaps for the unique characters. The UI is serviceable if you've played a billion awful RPGM games, but to anyone who hasn't it would be a pain.
One thing I do appreciate is that I can use mouse4 and mouse5 to swap between units who haven't acted yet. Whoever it was on the dev team who implemented that, I want to buy him a drink.
>M4 and M5 between units that haven't acted yet
Based department
>M4 and M5
wait that's a thing? That's sick, thanks. I guess I can agree with you, but I'm mostly going off the cringy "conversations" dialogues. I'm just skipping all of that, its miserable to read.
I'm also not doing any relationships, I want everyone to be a ronery incel. I wonder if that'll change anything.
Next patch is supposed to separate permadeath and difficulty just in case people wanted to do that.Also bumps up the difficulty for both normal and hard
that's cool but a bit too late for me now
My man doesn't deserve this.
He's not a dragon. Abigayle doesn't give a shit if you aren't a dragon.
It's fine, he can be Diana's lunch instead.
>If you bond with diana he gets double cucked
Hey atleast he can take care of dianas son while my mc and her breed a whole new generation
Canon MC is female according to the "box" art.
Also, according to the boxart Edelia is important.
Dev confirmed that feMC can bond with diana in the next patch too
>not fricking Stefan
Cringe
the guy looks like vinny vinesauce, how am I supposed to get horny from that?
Because his lockpick fingers can hit any gspot 100% and he's too dumb to dodge child support payments.
Wait, so this game has the romance mechanics of fire emblem?
And you can make a self-insert characters?
Why isn't this more popular?
Seems popular enough: https://steamcharts.com/app/1488200
As soon as the self proclaimed dev posted discussion seemed to tank. Although patching is pretty slow, is this the first time they used RPG Maker?
>Beacon draws 20% healing whenever someone else in the squad gets healed
>Lysander heals the entire squad at once
>Give Beacon to Lysander's frontliners
>Now they get healed 9 times every time Lysander heals
>They literally cannot die and the five Gunners sitting behind them tear everything in their way to shreds
Given that we got shot to shit by a guy with a bunch of guns and cannons, this feels justified.
>Given that we got shot to shit by a guy with a bunch of guns and cannons, this feels justified.
If it's any consolation, the fact that you can switch back and forth between promotions for free due the way the materials system works, just having enough maxed archers means you can kill Satan with a copious application of modern firepower.
Something about this feels illegal
It's a demi-God sociopath picking on a man who may not be moronic but definitely acts moronic. It's going to feel illegal.
>tfw posted in ded thread
i enjoyed good though i rarely play jrpgs and while i understand the controls for consoles, holy frick how can people play that without wanting to kill themselves, 5 clicks and multiple keypresses to do trivial things that any normal pc tactics game does in a one max two clicks. obviously the story is moronic but i assume that's par the course for jrpgs, though the unit progression and squad customization and combinations made it worth playing for me.
did anyone play as a guy who didn't bond with anyone? what bond options do they get?
>get the king of dragons azure
>since I barely use dragons I mostly just use him to open treasure chests and fly to the bazaar
wow mighty dragon go shopping
It turns out like most things made of matter, dragons are weak to GUN, so that's legitimately the safest use for his squad. I do also use him to bully wall archers since I have a lot of spare D. Riders lying around.
i put her into 3 dragon big titty mommy sorceress group and it worked pretty well since she had barely any leadership to have any squad
I put a bunch of noodle armed dudes in her squad for lore purposes, since she's capable of oneshotting most squads on Aggressive, and even if she doesn't I gave her the Sin Credo, which lets her cast twice at the cost of her troops doing 25% less damage
yeah i gave her that too along with the orb that makes you lose HP but gives you drain. couldn't give her the healing flake to negate it because i gave her the speed boots afterwards as she was my only flying unit (though eventually i had exactly 5 boots for my 5 squads so everyone got them since everyone asked)
Are Hussars worth it?
so hows the other rpgs the dev made
>pre-mission fluff:
>The enemy is out of troops, all they have left is young people who shouldn't be fighting or old people who should be retired as well
>50% of the enemy squads are composed of incredibly weak tier 3 units leading incredibly weak tier 1 units (with the rest being powerful satanists)
This thing, this ludonarrative harmony. I like it.
does this game use rock-paper-scissor type strategy like Fire Emblem or Banner of the Maid? I was never a fan of that, FFT style of classes were much better.
no hard counters. it's stuff like spears getting a damage bonus to cavalry and immune to cav charges, guns and crossbows getting armor pen, light infantry getting big bonuses when attacking or in rough terrain
sounds really interesting, I will check it out
The fact that each individual unit is a squad means you can shore up a unit's weaknesses with the formation or unit mix, or go all in on one type. It's mostly soft counters, although some counters are softer than others and in many cases an outcome can depend on who's on defense.
There are also movement and terrain based mechanics, like cavalry charges or light infantry ambushes or archers on a wall. In general you don't want to let a unit attack you from a position of strength or you're going to lose squadmembers for little gain.
Some unit types absolutely do their best in certain circumstances.
Units that can Ambush do best attacking first from rough terrain against enemies they can finish off.
Backstabbers do best striking first against enemies with valuable rear lines so they can (nothing personnel) the enemy.
Cavalry wants to move long distances to get charge bonuses, but also shouldn't forget hit and run as a way to get away from enemies they don't want to take an enemy phase against.
Cannons want to be attacking because they don't attack on defense.
A unit full of firearms can absolutely frick up almost anything in the game, but if it doesn't go first it's not going to weather the storm.
Certain OP unit leaders absolutely can take a beating and keep on eating, especially the really tall one in her default unit spread: she'll frick people up if she attacks first but very few enemies will threaten her on enemy phase unless you overextended or they're very powerful.
Dev here, AMA
Guess I should announce some stuff coming up
Higher difficulty especially for Warlord
Separated permadeath from difficulty options
Fixed Diana and Male Hero support
Incremental but eventually a complete UI/UX overhaul
I am confused by the ending chapters
Why is everyone ok with zelos joining? He committed genocide and eventually wisened up that zanatus was manipulating him bit its never explained when and how, he just teleports in and says "OK nephilims it's go time!"
Also what happened to Mc and zelos in the good ending, they seal zanatus power and decide to remain in the divine realm forever? Why? So they can't be reborn and start the cycle anew? But then the rest of the nephilim stay on earth and still have their God powers judging by Diana's giantess sprite, so what's the point? Why can't my Mc go back to his waifu?
>Why is everyone ok with zelos joining? He committed genocide and eventually wisened up that zanatus was manipulating him bit its never explained when and how, he just teleports in and says "OK nephilims it's go time!"
Community Service? Sounds like the most plausible reason in these kind of situations. Using their power alongside everyone else to fight the now acknowledged big threat doesn't need anyone to like them.
>Also what happened to Mc and zelos in the good ending, they seal zanatus power and decide to remain in the divine realm forever? Why? So they can't be reborn and start the cycle anew?
>Why can't my Mc go back to his waifu?
Creators wanting to make a DEEP ending to their story which tinges the joyous victory into something 'bittersweet'.
Yeah it feels like a bittersweet ending for the sake of a bittersweet ending, like the author got too self conscious of the chosen one trope and tried to force a final "twist" in the last chapters which just robs the audience of full triumph and leaves them questioning "wait, thats it??" even more
>Why is everyone ok with zelos joining
I don't mind Zelos joining since he was only around for like two chapters, but my main problem is why the frick does him describing his war crimes in detail make Abigayle wet? I know he has a dragon but still.
>Higher difficulty especially for Warlord
Just add extra hardcore difficulty instead, changing the difficulty for existing gamemodes after the game is released doesn't feel right.
More conversations with bonded characters, I bonded with abygail in early chapters and now finished the game and aside from the initial bonding conversation we never talked again for the rest of the game. Even in the ending epilogue our bond is never mentioned anywhere while the rest of the bonded characters get extra scenes and ending texts
Sequel when? I don't think I can wait another 6 years.
Also, are there plans to move on from rpgmaker to another engine or even creating a custom one? So many of UI problems seems to be because of the engine limitations
Thanks for the massive ass and breasts
Who is this guy in the pic??
Chad McBigg.
thats my character
Zelos
Why RPG Maker?
Is Diana fertile or is she past fertility age?
And does Stefan actually love her, or is he just big horny?
Second this: please don't use RPGmaker again. I hear RPG maker stock sound effects and think I'm playing Order of Light or the Last Daemonhunter and my penis is ready but my mind knows I'm not playing a porn game.
I'd recommend you to make an in house engine.
She'd be around 35 or so in the 2nd half of the game
Can you research everything or you need to choose carefully what techs to pick?
You can get everything.
I am on mission 21. I think I'm two levels off from finishing the tech tree (it seems you gain around 10 tech scrolls per level), maybe three.
I don't know how many missions are in the game, but if you're capturing (surrendering) enemies and doing optional objectives, you probably will fill out the tech tree unless the game ends really soon.
you get enough points for everything somewhere a bit before the end assuming you don't completely frick up the mission ratings, though getting stuff when the game ends is a bit too late... so choose carefully but no need to worry about fricking up anything.
I know I should've spread the artillery to other units, but I love overkill.
You aren't really happy with a game if you aren't risking it all, huh?
i never found artillery good because it doesn't fire on defense and later on you have massive armies attacking your units every turn as you only attack once. while one shotting from 3 tiles seems nice a cavalry stack can just move the tiles for attack anyway and with good build it already destroys every stack in combat or almost all of it in the first place. i could barely make archer stack work either tbh
Thankfully, you can have more than one stack, use teleport/bless shenanigans, etc to mitigate the odds of the cannon crew taking a defensive engagement.
Archers are based on any map with fortifications though, since Warbows can pepper even an enemy healer formation with so many arrows that they won't just heal straight up.
Patch 1.0b is live now
Download for 1.0b, no crack needed.
https://pastebin.com/p9Lym32a
Stealing from indie dev? lol fukken pathetic
I'm sure he'll make enough off this game to actually try on his next one.
Dev here, I was told about your mediafire upload. It's been reported for DMCA violation. I would kindly ask you why are you cutting into our resources? You're literally stealing money from us.
cope, seethe, dilate, etc.
>dev
bruh come on
Buygay here, that anon gave me the patch before you did to me, an epic store customer. So he is based. I expect you to cease your homosexualry at once and to see the patch on my legitimate copy soon.
>stealing money
I strongly recommend you rethink how piracy of digital assets works, over half of them will never buy your game. The percentage that will only did so because they eventually came around on their own terms to giving you money to support you, this is an entirely different transaction from pirating the game.
If you continue to think like every pirated copy is a lost sale you will simply burn yourself out in a fruitless battle.
You also have worse quality service in regards to patching your game, that is a bad thing.
Third worlder here, I wouldn't buy your game with my tight budget if I don't get some taste of it first and like it, especially not with that artstyle and RPGmaker look on the cutscenes. Focus on the game itself first man.
Lmao man maybe if you're a literal Black person you should frick off
whats that 2000 logic of pirating something digital equating stealing money, if someone isnt too sold in your game its not gonna buy it even if he cant pirate it, if someone likes your game and can afford it its gonna buy it even if he pirated it first to try it out, if someone cant afford games its not gona buy your game even if he cant pirate it.
aside from the fact that makes no diference in revenue, piracy makes games more known, because more people are playing your game, basically free advertisment, not taking into account the fact that wanting to stop a game from getting pirated is like tryng to stop the ocean with your hands.
blows my mind that something unstopable unharmfull and even beneficial to a product is still being seethed at.
not one game has ever failed because of piracy, when a game is good, people like it and people buy it and it makes profit regardless of how many pirate it
bought your game btw
Wow, youre a piece of shit.
What a fricking chad.
Lmao @ all the seething onions devs while they've been shilling non stop.
1.01 is already out though, so outside posterity for the original ending there isn't much benefit giving that version away anymore.
That version is also linked in this thread for free.
Is this an actual, unironic shill thread? How embarrassing.
I'm the dev and I didn't start it, so no
>I'm the dev
Go back to Discord homosexual. Nobody cares.
lol who peed in your cheerios gay
i did
>cheerios
>not wheaties the breakfast of champions
ngmi gay
Proof? That's too fricking funny to be true.
>/vrpg/ chads sharing cracked versions since release day
>plenty of healthy discussion
>interested people just buy the game anyway
>/vst/ morons cry the instant a link is posted
>whine on discord about the evil hacker known as Ganker
The absolute state.
>Dev posts here
>Doesn't answer any questions
>Seethes about piracy
>Leaves
Pretty sure that wasn't actually the Dev anon
People lie on the internet
b***h babies got the upload removed. Anyone else have a mirror?
Shouldn't take long considering anyone can just zip up their game directory from Steam and upload it. Hell, I can do it for you later if nobody else does. If that was actually the dev in this thread then he's a huge homosexual and I don't mind uploading his game for free in every thread I see about it.
the game could really use an option to crank up the clock speed on AI turns, missions drag a lot and the game gets really boring just because waiting for your turn takes so long, the turn transitions are also kinda slow
Tilde speeds up the game
Source?
Me
Cute art, got any more?
No more Symphony of War stuff at the moment, sorry
I meant more in general, do you have a twitter/pixiv/baraag gallery?
No social media or anything, I just randomly post things in videogame threads
Please show me your lewds!
Yeah post some dick pics!
Lysander has to be the trillest homie on this earth.
He doesn't back down, doesn't take no for an answer. Gets turned down by big titty Giantass? OK don't mind me I'll just start illegally fricking your bond sister literally the next chapter then.
Demigod friendos are getting a bit big for their breeches? OK I'll set up an epic coup-d'etat right under their noses including their closest friends, family, and lovers in the planning. He's like the Damocles sword hanging over the heads of possible tyrants.
Stuck in jail while world transitions towards representative democracy? OK lemme just grab my quill here and start writing the fricking constitution, bill of rights, and other basic laws from my rote memory of philosophy and statecraft concepts.
Not to mention he's hands down the best leader chassis on the game: High leadership, gunpowder discount, squad heal, untargetable, etc.
>vantage as an item
>the only requirement is not being ambushed so you can slap it on any non-mage non-cannon squads
Totally not OP
That thing and Disarm on Beatrix is gamebreaking.
Which is why they're going to nerf Disarm to be main target only.
Sorceress / AoE disarm is pretty cheaty, I agree
But the fundamental win button in this game is alpha damage / first strike.
There's an inflection point, probably when you get that mage cast on turn 1 tech on the left tree, where your alpha damage can basically remove any threat by killing enough of them, regardless if the remainder are disarmed/chilled/dazed or not.
Alternatively, there's an inflection point where your units get tanky enough to sustain anything the enemies throw at them, even to the point of spamming Force Surrender against undamaged high-morale enemies (which is what these mega capture screenshots come from)
The late game paradigm seems to be lots of enemy squads, but those squads individually being smaller than the players' squads. I'm guessing the new post-Warlord difficulty will buff these squads stats and such even further, but unless the squads themselves increase to the same size of a player spamming medals or tactically giving out captures to frontline units to farm leadership, then this one-sided relationship will remain.
dlc when
troony game
is there a point in the game when beatrix leaves your party? all my other squads are starting to get really underleveled, ever since i got her i put the attack first when defending/leader gets 2 turns/pasive heals trinkets with a sentinel in front of her and she quite literally solos everything in all the missions to the point that i only deploy other squads to pick up chests and resources.
She joins permanently
For an RPG Maker title I was expecting some kind of slow down but this is surprisingly optimized. Might as well have coded their own game instead if they were able to pull this off.
I was listening to a dev stream on twitch where he does a ton of Q&A since he likes talking instead of typing. He said he's made so made so many changes to he barely considers the game to be using RPGMAKER.
>he barely considers the game to be using RPGMAKER
lol
lmao
What differentiates how different characters should build their squads? On chapter 3 and it seems like you can slap anything on anyone aside from Barnabas
if this had the Chaos Frame like in ogre Battle everyone insists on comparing it too then it would matter but so far it seems to be a matter of your preference of cheese flavors.
Some characters get discounts for leading certain types of troops, but beyond that it doesn't matter. I like to try and make squads that thematically fit the squad leader somewhat.
favorite strat thus far
What is the reason for putting healers in the first line and sentinel in the third?
Enemy AI likely prioritizes the healers as if it were a flanking maneuver so they don't attack the back.
Are you sure about it? I thought that only a select number of units can attack the backline and they always do this, even if a more optimal way would be to focus on the front.
I can clearly see that back unit attack the healer in that fast forward.
Can you tell me the exact timestamp? I'd rather discuss it when everyone is on the same footing.
The enemy attack starts at 2 seconds, they are cannon dudes so they hit everything. I guess I was wrong about prioritizing healers as the AI but I was still correct that the healers were meat shields.
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28 seconds
Putting the healers in the back would accomplish the same thing but without pointlessly sacrificing 3 units.
>vengeance
Fair enough but I think it is an overkill.
>I was still correct that the healers were meat shields
That's debatable. Putting healers in the front line allows every enemy unit to attack them, not only AoE ones like cannons or mages. Additionally, continuous healing grows weaker and weaker which makes it even harder to save your troops but I guess it is a sound strategy if you want to abuse vengeance.
>think it is an overkill.
even with the 0.75x mod from vengeance and all the levels she has from soloing the misions up to that point is not a OTK 100% of the time.
whitout vengeance you fail do OTKs too frequently, get surrounded in all 4 sides, once that happens other enemy units just move past you because they dont have a way to reach you and if they get into range of anything other than beatrix they chose to go for that instead and never target beatrix again because of how high threat she has compared to anything else
>the healers were meat shields
the healers are there for vengeance and vengeance only, as mentioned above
aditionally, early on when you get beatrix you specially need vengeance for this build to work, if you send her solo against a lot of enemies and you fail to kill enough units on the first attack theyll hit your sentinel or worst case beatrix if they are a rogue, fail to kill enough units too frequently on the first attack and your sentinel will die wich will get beatrix killed because she cant tank hits, worst of all if you fail to oneshot rogues on the first attack they'll bypass your sentinel and kill beatrix in 3-4 hits
without the dmg of vengance this build doesnt work
Meat shields are nothing more then disposable pawns to soak up damage so the wizard in the back can cast their spells, I have always known it to be a derogatory description of a disposable pawn. My original guess for AI manipulation is primarily because I suspected the AI may prioritize anything with a healing ability. Not out of any utility of the healer itself.
New Patch soon
Oh sick, hopefully someone uploads it here since paying customers get treated worse than pirates.
Is this an official patch or another unofficial one?
Patch was released last night.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1488200/view/4870094618634115041
wrong patchnotes senpai
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1488200/view/3347879934127610194
>there was a bad ending
nani
Do I have to replay this?
>bad ending
formerly "game over"?
im guessing its the one when you let blacknight go in first or wherever and dont stop him
Four days later and the epic store version is still on 1.0b2. Too bad no one has been uploading it on here. Maybe the dev will be too busy chimping out on discord to dmca this time?
https://pastebin.com/cXEdQNtv
Thanks, kind anon.
Its password protected.
I had a hunch it was the common password they use for that russian steam forum.
It is indeed.
Oh snap, d*scord trannies are gonna freak!
What did he do?
Earlier in the thread the dev or someone pretending to be the dev was reporting links.
As far as discord goes, someone here just said he was chimping out in there. I'm not on the discord so I wouldn't know.
I 100% believe it's the dev. The discord is full of pepe shit for no reason
Pepe is too popular to be evidence, it'd have to be fresh pepes for any credibility.
Guess you're right, but the dude just gives that vibe ya know? Like I've been on /b/ for years and I can tell a /b/ro. Probably why he nogged out at someone.
Intuition then, well I give you the benefit of the doubt here. Its weird to me that he would go "I am the dev here is absolutely nothing to verify I am actually the dev".
You right, that guy probably wasn't the dev and I'm just being an idiot. But I do believe the dev has been here since the thread started even if he didn't make it himself (probably got one of the janitors on the discord to do it)
I heard the dev chimped out on discord?
Sounds about right.
Not the first time
Not the last time
Discord was a mistake and forcing devs to interact with their audience 24/7 and making them pseudoemployees is even more
How so?
who the frick cares. talk about the game
>talk about the linear, short, RPGmaker game
Yeah, nah, that shit's done.
Should I proceed with Abigayle and Devoa bond relationship outdated on Chapter 19? If there are no other best choices?
Tha kd
Yeah sure, unless you want someone else as your waifu
Ok Thanks
Finally finished the game and let's be honest, the story goes from bad, to shit, to fricking moronic. First of the game wasn't put through a basic spell check which wouldn't be so much of a problem if the dev could speak English. There's a part where bow guy ends up being the long lost king of a far off land and the MC literally says shit like "don't question it." The amount of times that the MC goes "I don't know" or "don't ask me" when they're supposed to be leading a damn holy war after pulling a Jesus is unreal. There's nothing wrong with starting off as a skeptic but when you come back to life with God-powers and your mind hasn't changed at all to the point where at the end you're just doing things because "following the prophecy has worked so far" (actual reason given for continuing to fight after killing first bad guy) is shit character development and plot.
I love ogre battle 64, beat it every few years, so the game play kept me going. I just hope that the dev hires out the writing on the next one.
You hear that Phil? I know you go on Ganker, I've seen how you write on discord. Go to fiver and get someone who knows how to write to handle this shit. Or just have anyone else anywhere look it over and edit it for fricks sake.
So if we don't get that alternative ending does that mean its impossible to let the black knight go on ahead without stopping him?
bump?
How is the rebalance for 1.01 I'm still on the Anon updated version.
New ending is nice
Why do these games never have a "conquer a random map" mode, instead going for a huge ass campaign that, once completed, means you are done with the game.
You'd have to procedurally generate maps and enemies that scale with the player and there's a big chance those set ups can just suck balls.
Final bump. So, does this game actually have a chaos frame or is there no town capturing based on unit alignment?
Nah there's nothing like chaos frame. There is a reputation system (sort of) but it only goes in one direction. Capturing towns just gives some rewards and a small leadership bonus to the capturing unit.
I figured as much, people really are just comparing the game to Ogre Battle because of the grid placement.
There's about three other games that do grid placement fighting. It's really fun game design that is totally ignored for some reason. Ogre Battle is the gold standard.