How have you liked the demo so far?
I started playing a bit of it yesterday. I love the idea behind it. I'm worried it's gonna be a bit too much since I don't normally play strategy games. But it's Vanillaware so I feel almost compelled to buy it.
Also, what system are you getting it for? I wanted to get it for PS5, but the demo on the Switch felt right for a game like this.
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About to finish my second demo run, I have it on switch really enjoying it so far
Combat is shit
I like it enough that I'm trying to find some way to extend the time limit, but I'm too moronic to manage it myself
I love it.
It emulates poorly so I'm waiting for the PS5 demo to launch. Despite the emulation being bugged as frick on Ryujinx, I had fun with it for 5 hours
yuzu apparently runs it well
I got no audio on Ryujinx and it stops reading my left stick half the time. I thought it was a gameplay mechanic where you could only set so many moves at once, but nope it was Ryujinx being fricky
OKAY, CLEARLY ANON MENTIONED YUZU RUNS IT JUST FINE, moron NAMEgay
Played demo, cancelled pre-order. I hated FF12's gambit system, not dealing with that garbage again.
>I hated FF12's gambit system
I actually loved FF12's gambit system but I don't see how it applies here. Are you able to tell units what moves to use later on?
I played a bit more of the demo on the shitter. Think I'm gonna get it for the Switch over the PS5/Xbox for that. 4k graphics would be nice though, not gonna lie. But the game is already gorgeous.
>Are you able to tell units what moves to use later on?
Yes. What moves, in what priority and with specific conditions.
>Are you able to tell units what moves to use later on?
The entire battle system is based around programing your units into what their behavior in combat is. And this is not in vague generalities, but in pretty specific behavior: if X kind of unit reaches Y health, use Z move, etc. If Front Row Ally unit falls below X threshold, use Y.
I bet you loved DA:O though
>FF12's gambit system
I will now buy your game.
Really liking the demo a lot, Vanillaware art is a treat as always, Basiscape music kicks major ass again, the gameplay I had some worries about but the demo cleared them right up, mixing and matching units and strategies feels super nice. Story's kinda whatever, it'd be real nice if it got better later on, but I wouldn't mind too much if it stayed as is.
What're everyone's thoughts on consumables? I'm usually the worst hoarder you've ever seen, but in this game the fights really drag on if I have to send a unit to sit in a base for 4-6 hp per tick instead of just using a potion to heal 30 instantly. Is there any reason to be stingy with them at all?
Consumables feel pretty required for challenging missions that out level you
I recruited Monica last night and I had to burn through a bunch of items
Healing items are plentiful, no reason not to use them
NTA, but healing items feels kind of broken. They don't seem to take up any stamina and are basically a free action.
You have a limit per stage of items you can use
Won't play that shit translation so waiting for jap nsp.
I had high expectations, so after trying the demo it kinda feels average. I'll buy it, but it won't be a day 1 purchase anymore.
Is 13 sentinels any good on Switch?
great, runs at 60 fps
>Boot up switch
>Turns into a Ps4 entering jet engine take off mode
Uh-oh
Literally not true lol, stop smoking around your console.
It got better after like 5 minutes
I think it was because I loaded up Monica's stage mid-combat and there was a lot of shit going on
Yes I loved it. Don't want to burn myself out on a demo so I'm just holding off for the game now.
scarlett saying "Abducted" on the unit list is really fricking funny to me for some reason
Does the battle forecast "predict" the RNG that's gonna happen?
No, it is a 1:1 representation of what will happen
>But doesn't that allow you to cheese?
Unlike FE you can't back out of initiated combat, so at best you just get to look at all of your options and choose the best one
>Unlike FE you can't back out of initiated combat
you cant, but, i've noticed that if you go to move someone and hover an enemy, it'll come up with a battle preview
then you can decide based on that if you actually want to move them in
Hows the character interaction?
>buy an item
>you get it for free later on
AIEEEEEEEEE. I'm poor as frick and there was no reason for me to spend that money.
is this about the rune sword? i’ll make sure not to buy it
Might amulet is the most expensive one. I think you also get a free Novice Sword.
Might amulets are good enough to want multiple of
Definitely do not waste ANY money on recruit shit
>wanted to play demo last night
>ended up pumping stats into my (Persona 3 Reload) Lilith
Can you transfer save from demo to full version?
Looks like it, They just give you a 5 hour time limit to play as much.
Nice. Thanks.
Can't speak for PS5 demo out later but most Switch demos are full games, you just pay for the key, so your save will be ready.
Hm, there could be some truth to that. When I tried demo for Terraformers the Switch didn't ''recognise'' it as a demo, and the title of the demo itself does not contain the word DEMO.
i have 1h 44mins left on the demo and i just stopped playing cause i know i'm gonna get really annoyed when it hits 0 and i'm so slow that i'm only past the first 3 skirmishes after the tutorial
So stationing guards at liberated towns is supposed to give me resources? When does it do that exactly? I don't think I've noticed any notification indicating as much.
After every liberation mission, I think.
Is there a popup indicating the amount of stuff collected?
After mission completions
Maaan I wish it'd release sooner now. I shouldn't have gotten so I to the demo.
Though it would be a movie game, but damn the gameplay is surprisingly fun
So there's no chaos frame mechanic, right? Seems you can just liberate a town and not have to worry about alignment. It was a cool idea in theory for OB, but in practice it is awful.
I haven't played Ogre Battle, but after UO's demo I'm curious. Is the chaos frame thing in both SNES and N64 games, or just one of them?
Chaos frame is in both of them, but they hide it in OB64. Basically towns have alignment (evil or good). If you sent a "good" unit to an "evil" town you won't liberate it, you will "capture" it. Same with sending an "evil" unit to a "good" town. This lowers your chaos frame to be more "evil." And of course if you match a unit to the town's alignment, it's actually "liberated," and this raises your chaos frame to be "good." This affects the story path you take and the characters you can recruit later on. In the SNES you could always see your chaos frame, but in OB64 you would have to see the results of certain story events to get an idea of which path you're taking if you aren't being very intentional with every town liberation.
The main reason why it kind of sucks in practice is that you need evil units for evil towns and good units for good towns and neutral units for neutral towns, and sometimes your units just don't align the way you want them to so you can't liberate certain towns.
In real practice, you just play through OB64 not caring about your chaos frame and just play the game how you can until you're autism makes you try to control the mechanic.
Oh and also whenever you look up guides on how to control chaos frame, a lot of people just end up cheating in these items that manually raise/lower alignment in order to actually control alignment. You're supposed to do things like have your good units like knights/clerics fight evil units berzerkers and witches to keep their alignment high. Or have your high level units kill low level units to lower their alignment. But it never works out how you want unless you're just really fricking lucky and reload your saves.
>a lot of people just end up cheating in these items that manually raise/lower alignment
They could just recruit a bunch of skeletons and pair them with whoever they want to change to chaos/neutral
Alignment did have some cool ideas, though. Like if you wanted to have an angel unit, you would have to have a "good" character die (and if you met some other requirements) they would turn into a really powerful angel unit.
Both, the difference between classic's version and 64's version is that in classic it's easy to lower your CF while in 64 it's harder to get low CF
Wait there's a time limit on the demo? Frick.
When you open the main menu, the clock/timer/countdown is shown on the right side.
Was on the fence until I played the demo. I loved the 00's kings bounty games so thought this might be a good play. It's different to what I expected but I pre ordered it half way through the demo.
It'll look glorious on the home consoles, but I've gone with the switch for portability.
Between this and Sandland I can't remember the last time I was excited for new releases, to the point where I've preordered them.
Tatiana's recruitment quest appears to be the hardest fight in the demo
>me fighting that Gladiator bro
>swing my shit to kill him
>lmao heal, lmao heal, no more attackers
>heals more of what I can do in damage
>noticed that I forgot to slap that cavalier dude on my team while I try not to use old man
>noticed that I haven't been tinkering with commands and shit
>do so
>rofl stomp my way into victory
Very based. I still find the massive list of commands to be intimidating since I'm not used to tinker with those. Now I'm currently doing the angel chick mission, might go back later and see who else I'll recruit. Also thieves are so fricking busted
>Also thieves are so fricking busted
>Now I'm currently doing the angel chick missio
>Also thieves are so fricking busted
Rolf, execute him
Can I leave the furry nation to rot?
Where to, human man
how are the furries?
I enjoyed the demo but I was struggling with the boss. I don't know what I was doing, he was invulnerable to every attack. I was gonna lose anyway so I just threw all my troops at him and for some reason one unit managed to kill him? No idea what the frick happened there.
read homie
Yuzu cousins, have you found your way to freeze the timer? If so, how far can you truly go in the game like that?
Until you rescue Scarlette pretty much.
Thanks bros. Also nice to hear on how contend dense it is on a blitz
The hard cut-off for progression is rescuing Scarlett
Even if you have time left the demo auto ends there
There are content cutoffs that prevent you from going into the other regions and it apparently also ends when you do the mission to save Scarlett
You can however do seemingly everything in the Cornia area which has a lot of battles and content, probably doable if you skip cutscenes and play on easy mode, but on the hardest difficulty and playing blind I wasn't able to do everything
>You can however do seemingly everything in the Cornia area which has a lot of battles and content, probably doable if you skip cutscenes and play on easy mode, but on the hardest difficulty and playing blind I wasn't able to do everything
I'm on the hardest difficulty and skipping everything (Second run)
If you can save a few minutes here and there with optimal teams you can probably just barely make it through all of the available content (Since the game can't end mid mission afaik)
Yeah I got to level 9, Renown Rank C on my main squad with a few minutes left to spare so I could either do the level 10 mission or the save Scarlett mission, or do it all over skipping cutscenes and probably getting everything, but I'd rather wait for a Cheat Engine/Save Edit solution to do everything on my existing save, or if that's not in the cards just wait for release
So hows the romance?
I just beat gammel and I have no idea if I should spare or not. I can't really imagine glassing people will give anything really good in this game but I kinda want to.
I didn't spare him and his revenage arc started
I hate making choices like this sometimes. It's probably the nice option that's the better one but honestly who knows if it's the other one that leads to better results.
>execute dude cause i know he's trouble
>he breaks out of prison anyway
YOUR CHOICES MATTER LMAO
Obviously going to impact how he acts when he re-appears because in one he fricks off saying he won't forget this and in the other he vows revenge
Also if you kill the dude at the church you get 15 divine shards which lets you recruit Ochys way faster than you'd otherwise be able to, but I bet it blocks Thiefbro's recruitment since his sister will die
>you get 15 divine shards which lets you recruit Ochys way faster
Can you even get her in the demo? Given how stacked the storefront is, it seems like she's an endgame unit.
yes, you can
you only need to donate 30 to get her
I feel that the prologue tutorial kind of sets it up when you spare that tank guy and the ring heals him. Do that if you want good ending, and don't do that if you don't want good ending.
Despite the "choices" in this game, playing as a goody-two shoes will probably lead to the most results.
Director outright stated that you can recruit everyone in one playthrough.
That's where I paused earlier. I wanted to not spare him but then read that you can recruit all units in one play through. I figure why not do so if it leads to the most gameplay. I'll spare him when I pick it back up later.
Post Yahna hip action.
Literally the best SRPG I have played in over a decade. Very generous demo, and the full game seems fricking huge. Really excited for this one.
Although, it is weird the writing is so mediocre, considering 13sentinals was their last game
They probably put more effort into the gameplay design (and the animations) instead because 13Sentinels wasn't so good in that department.
13 Sentinels was a VN, not remotely comparable situations
Dragon's Crown had literally 0 writing for instance that wasn't generic go here kill this because X shit
13 sentinels was a boring tropefest with random stupidest possible twists out the ass that had to repeat the same exact thing 12 times just in case you do a different route first but still have to get the necessary information.
My exact feelings. Everything but the story is reall, really good. And considering the demo was so big, I am really wondering how long the full game will be.
Yes, him vowing revenge against you verus him thanking you and saying he wont forget it are quite different outcomes based on your choice, anon.
>Literally the best SRPG I have played in over a decade.
Doesn't even crack my top 5, honestly.
You should go play Banner of Maid.
>FE ripoff, but like, the uninteresting parts
Really? I'm an FEgay and everything, but I thought it was just ok...
More like >If FE was actually good
Outside of the story falling apart at the end, there's no FE game that plays anywhere close to Banner of Maid. I could write a essay on how great it is with the balance and unit compositions shifting throughout, or how varied the maps and strategies are, how it handles inventory and resources in a fantastic way. It's borderline prefect mechanically.
>there's no FE game that plays anywhere close to Banner of Maid
555-come-on-now, anon
It's an FE reskin with an overly centralizing "triadic advantage system"/rock-paper-scissors mechanic (it's basically actually is what people THINK the FE weapon triangle is). You're mostly just smashing your guys against the guys in red in bland maps. I can't remember ever having to think much or redo my strategy in the game.
I give it points for borrowing from FE rather than FFT/TO but it's not a great FE clone.
What a sad post to see, someone who's missed the forest for the trees.
Banner of Maid is a game where at every step through you think you've understood the meta and what's good, and then it changes and the units abilities evolve, and you're constantly updating your tactics.
At first Line Infantry seem useless and Skirmishers are Gods. Then Skirmishes are situational, and you need Light Cav and Line Infantry. Then Heavy Cavalry takes over the scene which makes Skirmishes Gods again, but then HC gets double change which means you're relying on LI, and so on and so on and so on. It's absolutely fantastic.
There's no FE game with as good balance, mechanics or levels.
Light infantry are fricking busted in banner of the maid and everything revolves around either using them or being able to counter them
I need a different or bigger font, shit is miniscule on my tv
What you need is glasses.
No, the font is legitimately too small for TVs of certain sizes. It's one of those things that probably only looks good on PC or on Handheld.
Nah, I'd take a picture but I'm not home but shit is literally like size 8 on my tv, it's 3 houses level bad. I had to stop because it gave me a headache, hoping the PS5 demo has a bigger font (or at least it looks better on that TV)
I’m going to play it on yuzu
lemme know how it is, I've only tried ryujinx and it has some problems
nta but it works flawlessly on yuzu. i just stopped playing because i'm nearly out of time from i watching the battle animations too many times instead of just skipping them
>20 minutes left
The demo time pause cheat can't come soon enough.
As unicorns will only allow pure virgins to ride them, I declare all girls in this game are for anal exclusively.
frick I've officially reached the "You need to leave someone to defend your base and they can't be a total shitty chaffe squad" levels
You can customize grunts right? So I can do a xcom/disagea type thing and make the normal randoms be my friends?
I'm not sure if the random hires have rapports, but you get rapport between units that don't have scenes so they probably do.
Well I meant more playing through the game with some friends watching but creating/editing characters for them type deal, if they get rapports that's nice too
I dont' think they get rapport scenes, but they build up the rapport meter. The Rapport meter is what gets units buffing each other by being around each other. The scenes are a bonus for characters
I think I heard that you can't name units yourself, only pick from a preset list of names. But other than that yeah.
>you can't name units yourself
Well that sucks I suppose, but can be workable if they have a lot of names
Where the heck is Melisandre on the map?
All the way in the North East beyond Miriam
Also unrelated but I confirmed that you can recruit Ochys in the demo, I just did it
Damn, that's far. I have less than an hour left and don't really want to force things. Do you remember what the recommended level for her was?
11 but on expert it felt a lot harder than that
>look at the class archive randomly
>realize there are 80 unique classes
Holy shit, that's a lot. You can even see how many unique characters have each class.
So Baltro is definitely mind controlling Valmore, right?
I can't into english so can someone explain what does novice exp book do? Does it give you only 3 exp if you're under 10lv or does it give you extra 3 exp on top of that 50?
50 exp above level 10
150 exp below or at level 10
AAA I DONT WANNA RUN OUT OF PLAYTIME I WANNA KEEP PLAYING
>Ochys joins with 2 AP and 2 PP
holy frick
I tempered my expectations but damn this demo is fun as frick. I have 1.5 hours left on my run, I didn't realize it was timed until the 2 hour left mark. The story is pretty weak though, hope it picks up. The difference between the JP dialogue and English text is wild sometimes.
Wait, it's a timed demo? Where's the timer, I don't think I ever saw it.
after the tutorial stuff ends
So after you rescue scarlet or after you arrive in the port?
Either after you arrive in the port or after the mission after that. After you rescue Scarlett the demo just ends.
I've unlocked the hunter and the gladiator south of the initial port and I have yet to see a timer.
>complaining about shit that there's even a fricking tutorial for
You have to wait a few seconds doing nothing and the timer will appear.
Has anyone done the mission in the north with all the mages in the watch towers?
Yes, I did it right after the mission where you get the bow guy, I didn't realize you could go farther south in that area. It was tough but doable.
Yup, barely beat it right after doing the gladiator battle in the south.
I managed it by bee-lining for the first two towers with my archer and taking them out, then slowly whittling away the frickton of enemies that the mage spawns.
Kiting enemies away from mages was super helpful too.
And I bet the arrow rain map skill is really good in that stage though I never had the Valor to use it myself.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to freeze the timer on yuzu
Already miss the demo, wasted so much time exploring the map and making a custom group of girls
Combat is too slow considering you have no input on it, the reason this type of thing works in other tactics games/fire emblem is because it's a quick one and done you're not having to sit and watch a slow ass back and forth every single time
As is I really have no desire to play this despite considering it to be a day one buy up until the demo, I had assumed there would be at least some sort of speed up option in the menu but they really expect you to watch every single auto battle for the entire game
There is a speed up option.
You can also skip the combat scenes outright.
moron
Like the other anon said, you can fast forward buttons with ZL/R2 or skip them with the +/start button.
There's a skip combat button, since the results are predetermined before battle starts. And there is a speed up button too.
>the fricking tactics menu tutorial is right at the end of the demo
Holy shit, how about you front-load something that important? I went 5+ hours never noticing.
Early game missions are mostly easy enough for you to just wing it adjusting only the units/formations.
They fix ryujinx yey?
just deal with yuzu
Time to see if I can beat the Tatiana stage bros
>Auch built up as weak in the story
>the actual unit is probably one of the strongest in the demo with his fireball (burning), fire staff (insane passive), and lapis pendant so he can spam fire burst twice
Why is the hag witch so useless?
If you give the witch an accessory that increases her initiative she can outspeed most units and stun one of them before they can act, that's pretty neat
>almost zero image, just people playing
Impressive. Very nice.
I kinda wish it was on vita rather than switch but I get nobody likes it and it's dead and buried and decomposed.
I'd love to play more, but I'm at the time limit for the demo
I'm surprised no smarty pants Cheat Engine expert has cracked the case yet
Haven't played the demo, but how does the timer work? Does it go off of the time spent played on the save file?
It's all time spent not paused
>built a meme dodge focus gryphon team right before the archer spam mission
great
>Gladiators are literally immovable walls when I have to fight them
>Bruno just eats shit when I use him
I gave him the amulet that allows him to have 2 PP and paired him with Chole. Although Chole's heals are inferior to Sharon's, it's more than enough to sustain him.
I actually don't know what the intended counter to gladiators is
Like I guess you have to focus fire them - but how?
They're super squish, actually, they just have a lot of HP. Equip items that increase PP/AP for more attacks and use skills that steal PP (Thief) and they're some of the weakest enemies, almost hilariously easy to kill in fact.
So the timer stops when you pause? Sounds like it'd be easy to search for.
Yeah, NTA but I tried doing it myself in cheat engine and you can't seem to freeze the value. It just keeps ticking down...
Do a 'find what address writes to this address' lookup. Might have something.
I tried that with the second display and it didn't turn anything up, while it's unpaused the number is some ungodly huge one
Alternatively I made a save right before it starts the timer but I'm still too dumb to find something
I know that the Octopath demo was able to be tricked by changing your savefiles playtime into the negatives, but no idea how to navigate a savefile in a hex editor
>ungodly huge one
What value type are you searching for/is it? If it's some kind of frickhuge number, it might be a double or float (probably a float).
So far I only tried 4 byte and I mean that the second display goes from the displayed second while in the menu to like 3239493059 while the game is running, then when I pause it updates to the current shown second
I tried using functions like "find what writes to this address", "find what accesses this address" but neither of them turn up anything if I pause/unpause
Trying to change or freeze the value also doesn't work, it automatically updates itself whenever you go into the menu
Josef fell off + ratio
My alain does more damage now
>Man that mission was really fricking hard even though it was short
>Entire second front opens up to the east after I kill the "boss"
I cleared the first two intro maps last night. What difficulty should I play?
The hardest one, what are you gay
At first I thought mounted units were king but now I'm not so sure
Ranged support seems really important
The chip damage they provide is nice, it just sucks that deployment is so expensive so you can't just make a unit exclusively of rangers/mages for the chip damage. Also, range support is quite situational IMO due to how much resting fricks you over (unless you're on a tower). If you're able to get your units to smash into the enemy unit you're more likely to get better damage/stamina.
To add to this: range support is infinitely more powerful for your enemies than it is for you.
I feel like there are bosses that almost can't be broken without ranged support though, like being able to put damage on self healing classes before you even get into the "fight fight" is pretty big.
Also no matter what, only one unit can actively fight at a time. Ranged support is just extra supplemental damage even though it costs stamina. Also the way combat works in this game as well as how strong garrisoned bosses are I feel like ranged support + your best possible unit is often times a stronger option than say ramming a boss with your strongest unit, then having them rest, then having your second strongest unit try because if they aren't strong enough the boss is just gonna heal instead of die.
maybe there are 2 values, one being a display value that ticks down and one being the actual timer that ticks up
yeah that's what I tried to find with the save that's right before the timer starts, but no luck
Without knowing how games usually store that kind of stuff (seconds, milliseconds, 4/8 byte etc.) it just feels like a crapshoot
What I'd do is search with all value types, unknown initial value -> while the game is running, search for changed values (without doing anything, just idle somewhere) -> pause -> search again for changed -> idle -> search for unchanged -> repeat
Then again, my experience with pointers and Yuzu/Ryujinx, they're fricking impossible to find through CE, so you might have to frick around like this every time you restart the emulator. Might be someone who finds a Switch code sometime down the line though.
Anons, the full thing is gonna get dumped in like two weeks. How impatient are you?
I think that's blowing up my PC because that's such an ungodly range of values
That's fair.
I love fricking around with CE, and it's because I'm autistic. Gives me something to poke around at.
Okay, carry on then, that's quite admirable.
Okay, I've done that a bunch, but it's pretty much stalled out around 49k values that keep changing while unpaused and stay the same while paused
How would you proceed from here? It's pretty likely that the timer is within that range, but it still needs a lot of filtering without losing it
Frick yeah I found it!
I basically did what the poster above suggested a ton of times, then whent for increasing values only a few times which filtered out a lot, then loaded my save with a lot of playtime and noticed a big jump in one address, set it to 0 and bam 5 hours playtime again
For me that address was 17C57EE7BF8, not sure if it'll be the same for everyone using Yuzu
Nice, value type is it?
4 bytes, it ticks up by like 1k per second so in a long save file the number will be pretty high
You can freeze it with Cheat Engine and the timer will be stuck at 4:59:59
I'll check now if any issues come up while playing like this
So you didn't freeze it but rather set it to "0"? I tired freezing the value but it wouldn't work.
I set it to 0, then froze (clicked it "active), now it always bounces around 9xx-10xx, but my timer doesn't budge from 4:59:59, running well so far
So despite having been set to 0 the value still moves (albeit nowhere)?
>increasing values only
Wait, I should be looking for values counting up and not down?
yes, the timer in the menu is just a derived display value, the timer affecting it constantly counts up while you're not in a menu
Great, thank you. Hopefully I can figure it out in the 4 minutes of time I have left.
You can also keep your searches between loading save files
Yep
did it on mine too, address is different, but the last 4 characters of 7BF8 seem to be the same
must be doing something wrong, can't get it to reset whatsoever, i found the value but it just won't stick
it might be a dupe address, try to freeze the timer by pausing and then searching for that value, maybe you'll stumble upon the real address
will try ty
it was the right one, it won't reset, guess i'll wait till someone smarter than me makes a table
How to deal with ranged support? I keep failing the quest from angel. Both me and the angel get shreded by the archer and archer boss. I thought that maybe knight is the way to go, but I have no way of leveling them up.
Check Lex's (fighter) leader effect.
Yeah, I saw that, but he is lv1 so he just dies anyway.
Give him exp books?
I used them up on characters that I like (but are useless here). That's why I feel like i dug myself into a corner. Maybe I should try pairing him with a paladin and trying the sorcerers quest.
Oh boy, wait until you see what sorcerers do
You can also just lower the difficulty?
I must beat the game on expert or I didn't beat it at all. That's why I'm trying to understand the synergies.
I waste a lot of time/health on that provoke though.
I'm thinking about utilizing Clide's rush to just pass the fortified bridge and take out that other tower.
I thought they are supposed to destroy shielders and die from archers/cavalery
When all else fails, make sure you're using your valor points on actual good shit
Use it for stealing money.
Bait the enemies out of the tower range until Ochys can take them out, then move up as a group to take the middle city. Save Clive or Josef to kill the thieves down bottom and then have them head up the road to help with the boss
Anyone got stats to compare so we can confirm whether it's fixed or random?
They seem to be fixed. If you restart a map after a unit levels up it keeps getting the same growths
That could just be seeded.
All I know was my second level up was a massive disappointment lol
Pretty easy to check: just get your Alain to level 9 and compare it to
Alain (Lord)
Lex (Fighter)
Josef (Paladin)
Chloe (Soldier)
Hodrick (Hoplite)
Clive (Knight)
Travis (Thief)
Aubin (Housecarl)
Rolf (Hunter)
Bruno (Gladiator)
Auch (Wizard)
Sharon (Cleric)
Mordon (Warrior)
Yahna (Witch)
Berenice (Mercenary)
Adel (Knight)
Fran (Gryphon Knight)
Selvie (Shaman)
Kitra (Warrior)
Nina (Warrior)
Selvie (Shaman)
Miriam (Radiant Knight)
Melisandre (Swordfighter)
Colm (Fighter)
Monica (Radiant Knight)
Ochlys (Feathersword)
Tatiana (Cleric
These are the characters available in the demo for perma recruitment
I tried to rush to elves but Alain doesen't want to go to the forest.
No furries yet, but at least I could speedeat the Alain/Mordon supports I wanted.
Damn I missed Auch, Melisandre, Colm, Monica, Tatiana, and technically Ochlys, which is quite a few. Though maybe some of them are north of the starting area I skipped cuz Josef told me not to frick around and find out
If you go just to the left of where Josef told you to be careful you'll find a path that leads further north
Also if you repair the bridge south east of that you can start the point of no return right away which is hilarious even though you can't launch it in the demo (level 40 quest: Unicorn Overlord)
But can I marry a cute elf?
Guessing the demo isn't on PS yet?
It will be up tonight, I don't know what timr though.
Scratches my autism in a really good way, reminds me of some of the crunchier FE games.
I seriously thought it would not like it based on the real-time movement, but the team building is very fun and rewarding and surprisingly strategic. You feel like such a gigabrain when you figure out the solution to a tough overworld sparring match (they reward 2000g each, so worth doing).
I struggled hard to redbar Prosper's uber tanky unit with my 3-man-strong squad on Expert. And these weren't jokers, they had some serious kill power with the best equips and had been shredding through everything else including mission bosses. Slept on it. Woke up, caved and bought a 10000g "Dove Plume" (+10 initiative).
This was the key, plus a bit of fiddling around with the tactics conditions. Putting that on Mordon pushed him to first attacker and his debuffing skill was critical in efficiently spreading the damage around.
>You get a small cutscene if you liberate all of the available Cornia stuff before rescuing Scarlett
cool
Unless it's a eugenics simulator, I'm not all that hyped. I'll take everyone getting paired off though. That seems more Vannilaware's speed.
Time passes while you're in shops btw
Am I imagining it, or does it NOT pass while doing battle-prep type stuff? Like spending time in the deployment menu, equipping items, etc.
I'm absolutely certain I've played well over 7 hours, and much of that time has been theorycrafting in the prep menus.
In-game movement or demo's time limit?
demo limit
Think I'll just wait for the full game. I would probably buy it. Vanillaware deserves it still.
She's my MVP
Why thank you. I did need reminding that I can't have a tomboy. Frick you.
Should I help the angel or fight the mages after recruiting Bruno?
IMO those fights are approximately equivalent in difficulty. I did Auch first on both my runs though
FEgay here that hates grindan shit, is the game good?
There's no grinding that I've seen and certainly none seems necessary. You win battles based on good team composition. You can think of a UO "unit" (platoon/squad) as being like an FE "unit" (soldier). Individually one soldier is terrible in this game, it's the synergies that make them into a whole, functioning organism. Your job is to build a "unit"/squad into a synergistic whole that is somewhat adaptable to the unique conditions presented by each face-off (you get a chance to use items and change unit position before each individual fight).
It's akin to the highly customizable unit building seen in recent FEs and you don't grind for it - equipped items, classes, tactics conditions (programming your unit), and action order are way more important than raw stats.
Thank you anon, that's exactly what I wanted to win. homosexuals keep recommending strategy games balanced around fricking grinding, like what the hell, just play a regular JRPG at that point
I hate it too. I seriously can't stand "RPGs on a tactical grid" games, but no one gets the distinction unless they're really into this specific kind of gameplay.
No furries in the demo? Wanted to try to go far to get the wolfman.
they want you pay full for the wolf abs
I think I pushed the Switch demo to the limit (Not hyper optimized in terms of map clearing, but I think I at least saw everything)
Level 15 Alain
940 Renown
2m40s remaining
Only fights left on the map are some level 12 and level 13 stuff at the very north up against Furryville + Scarlett rescue
All demo recruits obtained including Ochlys, aside from the fort and village associated with the 12/13 fights every village is fullly restored other than the Tatiana and Monica one because they have huge material reqs
A language segregated game is it.
I really wish the game told you which overworld sparring matches you've already beaten...
Is there a reward for them? I assume it was just to test tactics
2000g per win, adds up
frick I should do those I could use more cash
>no PC port
Day 1 pirate. How does it run on yuzu? I'm never touching my CFW switch ever again, frick this garbage handheld
works flawlessly on yuzu
visually it's perfect for me, very rarely I get some weird audio hiccups that sound like static, but that might just be lag when loading new areas or something
Does anything from the demo carry over?
Yeah, all of it
What the frick?
?si=3ndOPpryMYLMyBSx
wish i had friends, guess i'm playing with myself
I wish there was a digital version of this card game.
>Recruit Tatiana
>Dialogue implies I would've gotten way more renown if I had said no
welp
The beast nation will burn.
Is talking to Miriam a point of no return?
no, it's 1 step before the point of no return
Talking to her no
Accepting her quest, yes
So I was curious about whats on their site and saw that they had previews of units from each faction and that Elheim sword user is too sexy, and she looks like a generic.
I've enjoyed it, but I'm iffy on it and very iffy on the way stages are timed. The time pressure doesn't seem to add anything, but makes it annoying.
I can take as long as I want in Fire Emblem.
the timer is there to prevent you from farming reinforcements
Turtling is gay. And the time limits are really generous anyway.
The time limits are absolutely not generous. Maybe if you're using the Paladin to smash through everyone in the early game, but I benched him and I was getting close to the limit every mission.
Just don't have reinforcements give Exp, or make Exp a value you get from beating the map, not from killing an enemy unit.
There's plenty of better answers. And given how supremely unpopular time limits are in games (eg Kingmaker gives you months and months of leeway but people still complain) I imagine it'll get smashed by the critics for this.
If there wasn't a time limit you could just farm reinforcements infinitely for xp and if they limit reinforcements you could just turtle until they run out. Time limit seems necessary to me.
If you didn't have the timer you could just garrison abuse, valor point farm, exp farm etc.
Forcing you to constantly cut forward is good
The timer is fine. The issue is that it doesn't have a ranking system to show you how well you did. Sure, I took one minute to beat the map but is that good or bad?
Clearing fast is good
Clearing fast while also killing a lot of enemies and capturing everything is better
I agree though that it should assign a rank so you actually know how much each is weighted
I wasn't very interested in it to begin with but I tried it anyways because I have nothing to play right now. I don't think it's very good, characters are really cliche and the combat is too automated and just not very satisfying. I won't say it's terrible or anything but it's not for me.
I do wish it had more direct impact the gambit system feels very clunky to setup properly
Please don't sperg out over this but
How's the Eng voice acting?
I like some of the older male voices. Josef in particular is great. Seems like you need to have some actual talent to get continuous work as a specific kind of older male VA. At least, I don't know how else to explain it. Female voices are mostly "the usual," inoffensive at best, wooden at worst. Younger male voices hardly seem to be much better.
I like it, there's not as much storytelling as 13 Sentinels and the support convos aren't voice acted.
Is the demo out on PS4 or just the new-gen consoles?
I like the art, animation, music but the gameplay is boring as frick too automatic.
Gacha tier auto play shit
>Ran out of playtime
>Not married to Josef yet
guess i'm buying this fricking game then
he's treated as your dad you aint marrying shit
I did it in Engage, I can do it again here.
Why do you want to marry an old man? Dude probably can't even get an erection
Why would that matter? You can just satisfy them by hitting their g-spot over and over again, that's the correct way to handle old men.
No Audio on RyujinX, otherwise everything seems to run almost perfectly.
No stutter or shader cache too, game is surprisingly optimized for this day and age.
>otherwise everything seems to run almost perfectly
Did someone upload a JP nsp of the demo yet? If not then it's still miles far from perfection.
Why do gays exist?
Played for about 2 hours, I don't like the combat at all. The game would be a 10/10 with a basic grid srpg combat system, reduced to like a 6/10 because of this shit autobattler garbage.
Actual godawful taste. You're part of the reason SRPGs are stagnating, if not degrading.
The formula was perfected, you're just a homosexual that thinks things constantly need to """"evolve"""". Things don't need to change just for the sake of change.
It's just a different style than FE or FFT
Ogre Battle is older than FFT even
There's Symphony of War which is sort of a hybrid between FE map movement (grid, turn based) and this games squad based combat
The Squad based combat in this game is a lot more complex though because of the gambit system and items heavily affecting what your units can do, and this is just the early game with mostly unpromoted units
>and this is just the early game with mostly unpromoted units
Stop it, I can only get so excited. March 8th can't come soon enough.
He's right, honestly. Making SRPGs into RTS games doesn't "evolve" them, it just makes the game clunky to play.
I'm only buying this game because the core gameplay loop (sans gay shit like "rapport") is that of ogre battle
>All of the clerics are big breasted cutey
The Father is based.
>use ranged assist
>damage dealt goes down, damage taken goes up
You know what Rolf, you can just sit this one out.
literally what the frick
I'm pretty sure it's because it affects the RNG and suddenly you get hit where you wouldn't without the assist, so far it seems like the forecast is always accurate
It's really weird and unintuitive tbh
Forecast always being accurate is true and it is in fact nice, but cases like this are really fricking weird.
Zoomers can't handle real time
Real time would've been fine, like in the overworld it's real time, but in stages it's that shitty RTWP instead. And then the fights are just actually turn-based. What a weird mix.
Does ogre battle combat have a name? Something like rtsrpg?
Squad programming auto-battler, I guess. Really rolls off the tongue.
I can't understand why anyone would prefer to manually input these commands for each battle. Would absolutely destroy the pacing and tire you out. The game is NOT actually real time and isn't trying to be. What it's doing is testing your strategy (general) at the moment of deployment, and your tactics (specific) at the moment of engagement. That's where the game is, focus on that and you find the fun.
I think people are not accustomed to it but there's just as much input as traditional TRPGs, it's just more frontloaded.
>your tactics (specific) at the moment of engagement
Speaking of, I love, love, love how you can change formation, loadouts and tactics before an engagement.
Yeah, this is literally the manual part, and some people are missing it just because it doesn't happen INSIDE the battle itself.
I haven't played the demo yet, but I understand there will be more squads to unlock meaning there will be more and more to field. I can't imagine anyone sanely manually inputting commands for all those engagements.
>I can't understand why anyone would prefer to manually input these commands for each battle.
Because I prefer turn based combat.
I didn't like diofield chronicles either
This system isn't incompatible with turn-based combat, though. The choice to make the movement happen in real time is somewhat arbitrary. You could have the exact same system in a Fire Emblem type game, and in some sense FE is already like this. Fights in FE are resolved before they even happen based on simple mathematic interactions.
I didn't care for Diofield either because as far as I recall, it wasn't like this at all. It just felt bland and unmemorable. Maybe I'll give the demo another try to understand why I bounced off it, while this appeals to me.
I just don't like the movement
Fair. I wasn't talking about that aspect, in my defense.
Is there an image with all the girls?
They are sexy
Should I get it for Switch or PS5
switch, stable 60
PS5 so you can try to justify buying the piece of shit
Just finished my second Demo run, Galerius is probably really hard if you're low level for that shit
That Adel mission...
Are we the baddies?
>Finish the demo
Oh ok, so no way Galerius is actually the big bad if he jobs to level 10 rebels kek
The game is called Unicorn Overlord. You are the bad guy.
I think it's pretty clear he's brainwashed, like the queen's guards
endgame's going to be demons
The song at the start is so good
Can I sex the furry or not?
not in demo
I don't think there's gonna be pick your own romance
Except there is
1. That feature hasn't been called romance anywhere (Other than 3rd party ENG news sites being like "BRO MARRIAGE IS IN") and is expressly not referred to as romance in any of the JP promotional material
2. The fact that Alain doesn't even have 3 support convos with every unique also makes it hard to believe it would actually be romance
3. There's at least one female character so far (In the demo) that is seemingly shipped with another dude
Also tying back to 1 it's specifically called an oath of fealty, not love
The question is... what's the point of the ring if it's not to pair a waifu with the protagonist...?
Plot
>Plot
And why give the ring to a random character you choose instead of Scarlett or whatever?
The illusion of choice + maybe the player doesn't want Scarlett to have the big powerup when you're in a squad with Alain ring since I'm sure that's what it will be
>Give (1) character a super special ring in an important ceremony that binds you two together
>"Why are people saying it's a marriage mechanic!?"
Based on what?
This train of thought wasn't worth a new thread so I'm sperging it here. I finally played 13 Sentinels recently. It was pointed out to me that a common theme in VW games is necromancers having massive milkies, pic related. Then in Aegis Rim Chihiro Morimura has massive donkers, a fact which is pointed out by the characters, and something I took note of and kept an eye on. After finishing Nat and Yuki stories I thought the breasts were just a nod to her originally heading up Project Ark, bringing the dead humanity back, but then later realised her initial goal (from two loops ago) was to bring back Izumi and reprint herself, and 2188 Chihiro wanted to implant her own mind into her clone, making it a consistent theme of her trying to circumvent death, as a necromancer would. Therefore, massive breasts. And I thought that's real fricking neat.
This is now my favorite schizo theory. I'm almost mad I didn't think of it myself.
I can't wait for Kamitani's next game and whoever it is that will have mega milks and be closely related to the dead
I will give my ring to a generic girl
Oh Melisandre's coming on strong and her unit class seems really fun as well
I'll hold out for the elf girls still, but she makes a strong case
>not recruitable in the demo
>have to wait another two weeks for her
The demo is fun. I look forward to it coming out.
Take this with a grain of salt but it looks like the way the game is structured after rescuing Scarlett you get your choice for MSQ progression between elves and other human kingdom-land
My guess is that you'll get a similar choice between furryville and angelville after you clear the first pair or maybe just one of them but at least based on how they present it in the demo even if you can go up there and do sidequests/liberations you won't be able to do MSQ there right away but maybe I'm wrong
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Amigo I'm only going off of what the demo showed me. Josef was like "Go here and frick your cousin or go here and frick elves" there was no mention of angels or furryville
Just finished up the demo last night, after saving Scarlett. Not sure if my time ran out there or that’s legitimately where the demo ends but still got plenty of hours out of it. Played it on hard and it was pretty good, hyped to play the full game. Still need to properly learn unit arrangement and tactics I imagine if I don’t wanna be mega fricked in the later content I imagine, I’m sure Josef can’t carry me all game
Yeah, Scarlett rescue automatically ends the demo
Josef fricking tickled Renault
He's really good as a support but he's definitely not a big DPS carry
True. I was running out of time on that mission as I was floundering about at the start and so at that point I was just throwing my whole pack of idiots in to Renault. Though I am learning some value in “ok, maybe I can’t kill this unit or do a big chunk of damage but if this one unit can take out their thief or hoplite or something, then the rest of my units can just clown on them” which I a lesson I do need to learn
Yeah, having different units specialized for different things is definitely a big part of this game especially in the current restriction of 4man units
Yeah his class is meant to be a magic tank + support cav
Being promoted and high level just means he has more actions and enough attack to carry the early game, it works well enough and he'll probably remain useful in that classes intended role when his combat falls off
He's promoted? I guess that explains why he has two accessory slots when he already has a shield.
He also begins with 2 red and blue crystals. Definitly the pre-promote.
This game is filled with FE archetypes.
I love just spamming 3 valor points of Berenice's mercenary summon and watching them just solo the reinforcement waves for me so that I don't have to waste stamina on them
currently my progress has been aubin -> bruno -> rolf -> auch, are there any other characters i can feasibly get before i attack barbatimo?
Sharon, head east from where Bruno was.
Arguably a harder fight though even though it's technically lower level just because it's a longer mission
You can go south and east and basically explore all of souther Cornish before Barbatimo. He was literally the last thing I did before I saved Scarlett because I assumed he would be harder
Did you guys let Gammel get executed, but spare Mandrin? I can't even tell if the sister is real or not.
I just let them go even though everyone thinks I'm moronic now
Yeah, Angel calmed me a moron, but hey, it might pay off in the long run
I think that decisions like that impact your renown payout or something maybe
Gammel talks about his sister
Mandrin talks about his buddy's (Gammel) sister
The sister is real
I don't care about the sister. I was introduced to gammel by being shown a scene of him slaughtering the town guard.
Shit good point.
I let Gammel go but killed the other guy because he just ransacked a church and there was a literal angel standing next to me, so I figured it was better to be safe than sorry.
Congrats you just killed Gammel's sister because in order to save her ALL of the bandits throughout the game will need to return home with their stolen money
Well, easy come easy go.
Didn't Gammel say something about watching her wither into dust? I think the sister story's fake, and the thieves are all in on it.
I can't possibly care about his sister, you come across him murdering people. How can you spare him? It's insane
Can't fret over every egg
8 hours later and the topic is still active. You guys really looking forward to this game it seems! I haven't had a chance to play since the sparing Gammel decision, but any tips for the rest of the demo?
Not a tip, but I just wanted to say generic level 1 Housecarls are better than the unique one you get
Lex isn't a DPS he's a meatshield
Housecarls are a backline unit
I'm 55% sure Hodrick sucks balls
Rofl's only use seems to be providing ranged support because holy hell is he dogshit at killing squishies in my experience
Josef is a support not a DPS
I spent all of my divine shards on stat boosters and didn't regret it
I want to breed this Angel so fricking bad bros. I didn't get enough Shards to recruit her in the demo.
If you go all the way up north there's a town mission on the west coast that if you repair it takes you to an island with a bunch
How many shards do you need?
You need to trade in like 30 Shards for her to come out.
I didn't find that. What was it called/where is it exactly?
30
I think I finished the demo with something like 36-38 at most
Fontille Harbor
Just keep going North beyond where you fought Auch
>FE
>send your unit in to enemy unit
>they fight each other
>not autobattler
UO
>send your unit in to enemy unit
>they fight each other
>autobattler
You know I do just hate Ganker
The game is just different and people don't know what to make of it. I saw a comment on vfeg about how UO gameplay is sending forth prebuilt units and having them auto everything. Uh you mean like Jagen, Sigurd, Marcus, Seth, Titania, Frederick, Camilla, Xander, Hawkeye, Harken, Vaida, Duessel, Miledy, Perceval, etc. x 200?
>and having them auto everything
Gross over simplification. The gambit system is really indepth. It's going to be way deeper once we get the full game and access to more abilities.
I'm curious when it'll be pragmatic to set an ability to only be used at night
It's an order of magnitude more complex than fire emblem because you have squads doing the same thing as individual guys in FE but in real-time which is why I give a shit about it at all
Fire emblem is dogshit
>Gross over simplification.
I agree but that's what people are saying
It's actually extremely similar. The only real difference is that in FE a squad is one unit and you manually move them each turn.
Uh, yeah, except I need to at least expend some energy thinking up a unit design that shores up weaknesses or maximizes strengths to accomplish a specific objective. I might even make changes every stage to accommodate for map specific circumstances. What do you do in fire emblem to accomplish this?
>uhhhhh, I guess I'll equip a swordbreaker
>I saw a comment on vfeg about how UO gameplay is sending forth prebuilt units and having them auto everything.
I think people are confused or just misinformed about how the battle preview works
You can literally organize your gambit stuff pre-fight and get different results. I've gone from say having a 53 damage dealt 43 damage taken to a 73 damage dealt 20 damage taken just by rearranging skill priorities before a fight
If you play like a tard especially on a low difficulty, you can conceivably never learn the mechanics and win because the game is not necessarily punishing. That's the issue. If you want to play the game well (not constantly get btfo and waste actions), you have to learn how things work. It's the same story in FE, a lot of players skirt by on all the included safety nets failsafes, never learning the calcs and advanced tech, I think that's what's happening here. If you never learn what's going on beneath the hood it'll all seem boring.
You're being a little silly in the other direction. There are some simplistic FEs, and there are some complex ones that demand some thought. Conquest is the classic example. Try equipping just a breaker with no due diligence and watch your shit get rocked by a million seal and "yoink" skills.
Setting up a simple set of conditions for a soldier to either throw a javelin at a flyer or attack a column of two units is more complexity than I have ever encountered in any fire emblem ever
Are you going to sit here and tell me Conquest 25 (Ryoma) on Lunatic is just some nothing brain-off map, just because this game has column-based targeting? Because I can point out the same type of shit in CQ, Engage, and even 3H's with its gambits.
The game is honestly not even that hard to figure out, I've been crushing it on the highest difficulty. Boost AP/PP by any means necessary, mount rush the objective, program squad to spread damage efficiently, use items to patch up weaknesses in offense/defense. That's the game as of the demo.
I still enjoy it because you do have to think a little. Same is true in any good FE game.
Yes, that is, in fact, exactly what I am telling you.
Then you're a being as much of an annoying stan as them. The lunge automaton section of that map alone is harder/more nerve wracking to crack than anything I've encountered in this demo.
I'm sure it was easy for you with just a breaker skill though
post conquest save file and engage card
>uhhhhh i didnt finish them because they're too easy
I don't have to prove anything to you, because difficulty and complexity are different. chess is always going to be a more complex game than checkers regardless whether you're facing your 5 year old niece at it
>i dont have to prove that i've actually played the games that dismantle my shitty take
riveting
He has an actual point about difficulty vs complexity, though.
>killing guard bad
>killing thousands of conscripted soldiers in the name of revolution good
Correct. Might makes right and gammel is a weakling which makes him wrong.
The town guard was a weakling, means Gammel was right
I played my role as a pretender trying to establish rule over my kingdom. We must have order. There is no room for bandits in my vision for the future. I didn't really think about it. If I want another thief I can go to the fort a 2 second walk away.
At first when I saw the previews I wondered why they would give you 3 warriors so early on
Turns out warrior is really fricking important not because of being just anti-armor but because they're anti-guard
Wait, is this a unique?
Different forts have different customizations
Huh, that's interesting. I wasn't planning on use fighters because I hate their stupid moustaches, but now I will
I like it a lot. But I really need to mix up my squads more. Even higher level than some enemies I can eat shit.
guaranteed purchase from me, very fun and fantastic music
Bros... The elves aren't available in the demo...
My Elven conquest will have to wait. What are some other cute girls I can "recruit." Lord know's I probably missed some.
you can get pic related
Anyone found where the second treasure map location is?
Yes
I haven't tried it but based on dialogue in one quest in particular, my guess is increased renown/honors payout
I thought I got crystals for killing the archer in the church.
Saw that there's an option to recruit/execute certain characters in this game, is there a point to executing? I assume most cases you'd want to take recruit unless executing gives you broken items or the unit is just so shit that you're better off not having them in your army etc.
You get the personal gratification knowing that you helped rid the world of treacherous scum.
Shit, I'm torn between playing optimally and having certain characters matched up so I can get their rapport up.
I finished my demo play. It was fun, but I might restart to min-max. I didn't like feeling that I have to rush because of timed demo. Translation is bad, and I hate it. Japanese speak pretty normal, and english translation is super cringe, also feels like there is team of 10 people racing who is going to fit more stupid words instead of one coherent writer.
>Translation is bad, and I hate it
Can you elaborate?
I didn't really take notes or take screenshots, I just played the game. The most memorable example is the one everyone knows even from before the demo - where Alain says that stupid "I'm quicker!". I've found myself listening to the audio only instead of reading because too many words and bubbles disappering quickly to match japanese audio.
>witches have warp
Time to put one in every squad and speedrun this game
Teleport is only good for defense positioning, rarely offensive
Has anyone found a quest for the stone circles?
Shaman and Cleric + Gladiator with PP accessories on as many as you can handle
qrd on the game
Ogre Battle but with Fire Emblem
I always find these "hehe I know jp I just listen to the audio and understand it" posts funny. If you knew it you'd just be playing in full Japanese including text. Goddamn larpers.
>you can only either have no knowledge of a language whatsoever or be 100% fluent in it, there is no in between
That's just a strawman. People are larping because they can understand a few things from watching anime. If they actually had proper knowledge and not just "I have x hours of watching anime" they would be playing in full Japanese. That's not the same as saying 100% fluency.
>it is inconceivable that anyone would have enough Japanese knowledge to pick out obvious discrepancies but not enough to play the game entirely in Japanese
I refer you back to
because you continue making the same moronic argument
Nobody thinks your anime "knowledge" is sufficient for you to say what's good or bad translation. If you could read that would mean that you are not just someone who watched cartoons and then larps online as knowing Japanese because he recognizes common anime lines, you'd be someone who actually studied. In that case what you say on the subject is more likely to have any sort of actual foundation, even if you're not 100% fluent. 100% fluency was never implied, that was just your strawman.
You don't even need to know Japanese to know that "yaaaaa" doesn't mean "I'm quicker".
I'm playing in Japanese. What's the worst offence of the English version so far?
>start the Rescue Scarlette mission
>press start and see only 6 minutes remaining
Guess I'll wait for the full release
You dont time out mid quest
i've been mostly breezing through normal, is hard that much harder? it's certainly not FE13's 'retry 100 times and maybe you'll figure out exactly what squares everyone should be on every turn' bad, is it?
In the demo, I lost one map because I tried to brute force my way through without minding a nearby archer tower and started a death spiral
Nothing is 'hard' yet but you have to generally prepare for the circumstances for each map to have success
The Tatiana and Monica missions were pretty hard by my personal evaluation on hard difficulty
I cleared Tatiana with like sub 10s on the timer remaining
Once archer/witch watchtowers start becoming regular features you can't really unga bunga your way without taking lots of attrition damage if you don't go out of your way to use cavalry/flyers to gank them or avoid fighting in their range.
>Forgive and recruit everyone from human nations
>Execute all the furries
>Forgive and recruit
so this game is like Undertale?
I guess, but since you have the church and God on your side, sparing people is the actual genocide route
So just like tactic ogre, burning village lead you to good path while sparing village lead to chaos route.
I highly doubt there are routes in this game, but the chaos route in luct/reborn was the determined idealist route. That Denam was morally correct and he knew it, and he never compromised his ideals. Every other route involves Denam exercising poor judgment for the sake of convenience.
>used up all my exp books
>realize scarlett is gonna join back at level 2 again
oops
For a back line nuker, that is not actually a problem at all.
it is when you take into account ranged support one shots yahna at like 31hp
It's almost like there are units to deal with this exact scenario. Almost.
Like what? Guard doesn't proc during ranged support
Fighters like Lex have a passive to block arrows.
I'm not talking about archers attacking in unit to unit combat
I'm talking about a unit of mages or archers doing 30+ damage before combat initiates with the melee frick unit protecting them in a tower or down the road or in a city
You have healers for a reason
anon they die before anyone can even act from full HP
The other side of the equation is just not standing in the fire until she's caught up
Dunno man, I leveled up a few hires from 2 when everyone was 8-9 and I didn't really think it was that bad
IMO there is not enough customization options. Why my flag has to be ugly blue? Let me go with my own color scheme.
I wanted to go with red to gaslight the enemy
Good idea. Alain should just sneak into the court and assasinate that guy. Sneak in some of his own people into high positions and just take over the country.
Are there musclegirls in this game
Yes! There is a giant brown lady in several older trailers and screenshots and there is a muscular mercenary tomboy as well.
none as muscley as the Amazon from what I've seen, but there are mercenaries with bare thighs
How is the english translation? Is it butchered like 13 Sentinels?
Saving Gammel is an idiotic choice.
Played up to just before angel mission and Alain with Clive and Chloe backline feels borderline unkillable even in expert.
MC is overpowered. Clive solo one-shots entire squads of weaklings. Soldier is one of the best generic classes. Personally I have a thief tanking for clive so they can tag team to handle different threats. He's still paired with a soldier though.
>MC is overpowered.
How so? I have him about level 8 and it feels like he's kind of lagging. Maybe my set ups suck.
Pair him with the Witch Hag in the backrow and she'll make his Sword attack do magic damage and double-heal him. He's borderline unkillable with that shit
I may really have to shift up my units then. I had him paired with Sharon and Shield guy. And he's a goddamn wall but can't damage.
Give Alaine the Tactic to go for killing blows especially and he'll murder squishies to get a ton of health back. The Witch can buff him up with even more damage, and she can nuke down the Knights that get in his way too. Very strong combo.
Unrelated but I actually found the last map really hard in the demo. I felt like my Clive Squad really struggled there, and that the Sellsword Tomboy is too squishy for her gimmick of riposte to work
>and that the Sellsword Tomboy is too squishy for her gimmick of riposte to work
The trick is to give her the pursuit band, Berenice basically carried me through Tatiana's boss fight
It's an oath of fealty between companions though until proven otherwise, not romance. Like Josef for instance is referred to by everyone including his supports with Lowain as his literal father figure, there's 0% chance that's going to be a romance
For me it was Baltro going on some 2 sentence long sentence and in Japanese it was just like "As you wish"
Sharon is the cleric? That is not nearly enough damage. You basically have two tanks and a healer. You need to swap in some damage.
Yeah I figured cuz he started with Scarlet I'd put in Sharon till she came back but I guess not.
Scarlet is actually a blaster with a healing PP so not really the same as a cleric
Give him the Sanguine sword with a less than 50% HP proc too
literally unkillable
The fact that he heals himself when attacking is pretty nuts, it's a lot of health if you get a kill with him. Set your conditions properly to ensure he's getting killing blows.
>2 weeks until release
I WILL stay away from the demo
Pretty cool if you could make it all the way around the north you could attack the fort near the beginning from the other side.
anyone have a gif of Scarlett's breast jiggle
here is her spinning
Individual jiggle mvp artists
Scarlettbros can't stop winning
am I supposed to infer that Mordon is fricking that town girl
Peasant girls love a big hammer
guys do I buy this on PS4 pro or my switch?
I was sort of leaning PS5 buy now I think I might get Switch just to continue from my demo save.
Definitely gonna promote Alain first
I am so fricking tired of needing to pair him with Josef just so he can get around the map in a timely fashion
I just left him with his childhood friends and run a knight squad with Josef. 300 move is insane.
A full footmen squad without a ranged support leader felt like ass, never doing that unless I run into a map with 50000 barricades
I'm not thinking of priorities for promotion, but I am thinking of how goated this game is going to be to have every single unit be like Josef, e.g. having multiple ap/pp, multiple abilities and passives to program conditionals for, and to have squads with 5-6 units that all need to be set up like that.
I'm so excited I could squeal.
Pair him up with the witch. If the map is huge he can just teleport to Josef later.
Not bothering to play the demo, rather wait for full release.
Can you swap voice-over and play with english text + japanese dub?
yes
I've played through the demo prologue 3 times now
I feel 100% confident in saying growths are 100% fixed
I think I'll use the demo as a test run and start a new playthrough when this is out. I'm making a lot of mistakes
>no PS5 demo
its not fair switchbros....
It comes out in a few hours
It's out in aus
I just recruited Bruno. Was a bit harder but I succeeded. I like the game but it may have too much depth for my smooth ass brain.
You can do it anon
Bruno was a really hard one for me until I realized I just wasn't using Josef enough. I kept thinking of him like an FE Jeigan instead of just a really good unit to use.
I'm absolutely STILL afraid they're gonna yoink Josef away from me in Post-Demo content
I removed him for this mission for the same reason. I feel like he's destined to die early on.
Thanks. I'll keep at it, 4 hours left on my demo. And by the time I finish it the PS5 demo will be out. And if I need it, the xbox after that. Assuming it gets on.
Also semi related, this is gonna be my first 500 topic. Should I make another or does someone else want to?
Nah keep using Josef, there's no reason NOT to. You keep him the whole demo
I'd rather other units soak the xp.
I don't know what the formula for XP sharing is but my Clive and Adel leveled up fine with Josef in the squad.
There's no exp sharing
Your exp just falls off a cliff if you kill shit that's like 3-4 levels lower than you but other than that you get full exp individually
So Josef could be in a squad of level 1s and they all level just fine
I don't think he will even die in the full game. He starts falling off when your units are like lvl 11.
He's a support not a DPS
His attack growth is like non existent
Plus the squad system means even if he's an XP black hole the guys in the unit with him can still benefit.
>Should I make another or does someone else want to?
do eet
I do hope the game gets a lot of art.
My mommy wife
Miggy
That's your cousin wife.
This isn't /vg/
Yeah because we certainly don't want to actually talk about a game when we can have more shit posts
The problem was linking to a previous thread
The witches combat stance is giving me a PP+1.
Shaman is pretty hot too but nothing compares to witch.
So do we know what performance is going to be like on Switch and PS4 Pro? Not sure which version to buy. I'd imagine it'd run better on PS4 Pro but I guess I have no idea.
Having played the demo on my ols gen1 switch, I have no reason at all to complain about performance.
the game is really making me go against all my instincts as a hoarder and forcing me to use my items. Which I actually like. Health potions will carry your ass,
Goddammit
homosexual fricking mods really deleted the topic. Worthless scumbags.
sorry gays no talking about video games go join the 30 ip bing ai general instead