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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

lurksion posted:

I'm curious as to what this looks like on BE Edelgard route, since that ending has you lose your crest somehow? Hair color reverted and all that too.

There's no special mention of it or anything.

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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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It's the Raphael training method which seems pretty legit tbh considering how powerful he gets by way of nothing but hauling rocks and a protein-rich diet

mancalamania
Oct 23, 2008
Chapter 5 Black Eagle question: I've read Sothis' guide on monster combat like 3 times and I feel like a big dumb idiot because I'm still really confused. Do the shield tiles have visible health bars anywhere? How long does the stun from breaking a shield tile last? Does the shield tile regenerate? If I break one shield tile and end my turn will it not attack on its turn? When it gains back its health does it un-stun itself and/or regain the shields?

I realize I can just figure this out by trial and error but I'm out of divine pulses (the enemy intent for the reinforcements at the beginning kept lying!!!) and I really don't want to do this entire long slog of a chapter again.

On a related note, does anything bad happen if I let Gilbert kill himself by charging into the monster like an idiot?

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

congrats to dorothea for passing edelgard

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


mancalamania posted:

Chapter 5 Black Eagle question: I've read Sothis' guide on monster combat like 3 times and I feel like a big dumb idiot because I'm still really confused. Do the shield tiles have visible health bars anywhere? How long does the stun from breaking a shield tile last? Does the shield tile regenerate? If I break one shield tile and end my turn will it not attack on its turn? When it gains back its health does it un-stun itself and/or regain the shields?

I realize I can just figure this out by trial and error but I'm out of divine pulses (the enemy intent for the reinforcements at the beginning kept lying!!!) and I really don't want to do this entire long slog of a chapter again.

On a related note, does anything bad happen if I let Gilbert kill himself by charging into the monster like an idiot?


So basics of monster hunters. If a shield is cracked it needs one hit to break, solid yellow it needs two hits/a gambit to break. If you break a shield the stun lasts until your next attack. If you have four gambits you can break all full charge shields at once. Shields can be regenerated by monsters. If you only break one shield it will still attack. If you break all the shields but don't kill it, it won't attack.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Cattail Prophet posted:

Why do walls grant experience when you break them? I'm pretty sure this has literally never been the case in the series before. It's honestly kind of unsettling. Although now I'm curious if you can target walls with gambits.

Revenge, that's why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycwIgcEGz40

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


Cattail Prophet posted:

Why do walls grant experience when you break them? I'm pretty sure this has literally never been the case in the series before. It's honestly kind of unsettling. Although now I'm curious if you can target walls with gambits.

The walls have titans in them.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Eimi posted:

So basics of monster hunters. If a shield is cracked it needs one hit to break, solid yellow it needs two hits/a gambit to break. If you break a shield the stun lasts until your next attack. If you have four gambits you can break all full charge shields at once. Shields can be regenerated by monsters. If you only break one shield it will still attack. If you break all the shields but don't kill it, it won't attack.

Also, the the monster's HP is completely unrelated to the shields. You can deal its full HP without breaking a shield, and it doesn't get shields back when it goes to the next health bar.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
The aoe arrows and poison/fire bomb battalions are monster slayers and precious mineral miners in one.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

heres how you deal with monsters:

gambit open some bit of them

have everyone hit it

done

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Endorph posted:

heres how you deal with monsters:

gambit open some bit of them

have everyone hit it

done

But the precious stones. I just dump arrow and bomb battalions then have Sylvain or Felix look at them sternly and they die.

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Endorph posted:

heres how you deal with monsters:

gambit open some bit of them

have everyone hit it

done

Stunning them means better loot, though.

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
Aww, I just got Lorenz x Marianne B support, and it is so charming!

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

I get what Endorph is saying and she’s right but how else am I supposed to get the mythril needed to make Parthia, Mercurius and Hauteclare??

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Monsters are so much less intimidating than an array of normal units that it's funny

Although I guess that it's part and parcel for the turn based tactics genre, see also XCOM, where one Sectopod with a couple of friends is a massive threat but one Sectopod by itself is target practice

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

It's really hard to get a character to have multiple A ranks because it seems like half of them are implied marriage proposals.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Wait there are choices that aren't gaying it up with Gilbert?

Bogart
Apr 12, 2010

by VideoGames
https://twitter.com/ScruffyTurtles/status/1157524812295790592

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
I'm on the final map for Lions and I will have to finish this tomorrow, 11:00 at night is too late for a boss with 1-30 range and 2 actions per turn

RazzleDazzleHour
Mar 31, 2016


bUt ShEs A tHoUsAnD

Kiranamos
Sep 27, 2007

STATUS: SCOTT IS AN IDIOT
She sounds like Morgana from Persona 5 so I think that’s actually a cat you’re romancing

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Hilda is the queen of getting other people to do her poo poo for her and it's pretty wonderful

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

bUt ShEs A tHoUsAnD

I was really hoping the game wouldn't do this lol

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

eh sothis doesnt read that much like a kid to me or anything, she acts fairly normally, the game doesnt really emphasize her looking young and i know rl adults who look like she does. its not really a nowi or elise thing imo, where there's a ton of fetishization of their visual youth (actual youth in elise's case) and they both just act like kids

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
TBH, I can't really see Byleth getting into a relationship with anyone. Because she's a zombie who's only just started learning emotions.

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



DC Murderverse posted:

Hilda is the queen of getting other people to do her poo poo for her and it's pretty wonderful

Sadly, she couldn't get anyone else to

die for her.

I know I could have spared Claude if Lysithea hadn't nuked him to ashes in one attack, but is there a way to spare her other than just not fighting? Because the way she charged in, the alternatives were hard to see.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

so I'm confused:

new month started, got to B rank support with Ashe. A few days later he asks to join my house and I say yes.

I have to reload the save, I get the B rank support again, and then the week passes and he doesn't ask to join my house. I go up to him to recruit him and he passes.

Did I gently caress something up?

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


Endorph posted:

eh sothis doesnt read that much like a kid to me or anything, she acts fairly normally, the game doesnt really emphasize her looking young and i know rl adults who look like she does. its not really a nowi or elise thing imo, where there's a ton of fetishization of their visual youth (actual youth in elise's case) and they both just act like kids

Like spoiler for Sothis S rank You're basically talking to yourself since she doesn't have a body. She's just a voice in your head. The implications of it are rather sad, since Byleth just wears a wedding band with no one they are married to. Though Sothis mentions after you're dead the two of you can be together, and since she's a goddess that's a promise she can actually keep. I think it's certainly the most bittersweet of the S ranks, and as you said, she doesn't act like a child.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Endorph posted:

eh sothis doesnt read that much like a kid to me or anything, she acts fairly normally, the game doesnt really emphasize her looking young and i know rl adults who look like she does. its not really a nowi or elise thing imo, where there's a ton of fetishization of their visual youth (actual youth in elise's case) and they both just act like kids

It's better than Nowi but I'd still rather the S rank was just "and you are best friends with the sassy dragon who lives in your head for the rest of your life"

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

chiasaur11 posted:

Sadly, she couldn't get anyone else to

die for her.

I know I could have spared Claude if Lysithea hadn't nuked him to ashes in one attack, but is there a way to spare her other than just not fighting? Because the way she charged in, the alternatives were hard to see.


I kept her pinned down with Enclose Shot. She just stood there the whole fight, drinking Elixirs at me.

Clarste fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Aug 3, 2019

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
I finished Lions

that was a hell of a final chapter, it reduced me to a single divine pulse

not a bot
Jan 9, 2019
I didn't even know you can get ranks with Sothis, must be in a different route.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
She only has s rank.

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Zoran posted:

Aww, I just got Lorenz x Marianne B support, and it is so charming!
I just unlocked their A rank and Lorenz/Marianne seems to be the only support tree involving a girl that Lorenz isn't creeping on. It's so wholesome

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Black Eagles Midway spoiler
Rank C Edelgard - This woman is ready to walk side by side with me and storm the gates of Heaven.
A little while later - gently caress she started without me!


Ferdinand/Bernadetta Rank A spoiler
Aw Jeez if I wasn't planning on marrying her myself I'd super wish they had an S support

I'm not done yet but I wanna start a new game so I can fix all the mistakes I made through the game.

Like not knowing jobs influence stat growths in this game.
And breaking my back trying to stretch Byleth into skills he has no use for because I didn't realize bond mattered when recruiting students. I mean I should have. Common sense right?
(I only managed to recruit 2 students. I feel bad)
And not forgetting which master class to prepare my students for and teaching them the wrong skills.
And not (dancer spoilers) Making Flayn my goddamn dancer and having her faff off 6 fights later

not a bot
Jan 9, 2019

ChrisBTY posted:

And not (dancer spoilers) Making Flayn my goddamn dancer and having her faff off 6 fights later

That's more a route spoiler. It's interesting picking up these unintended route spoilers since it confirms they really are very different and that makes the idea of repeating the school phase 4 times acceptable.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Does the route split mean completely different maps after the school phase? Because yeah, doing the school phase 4 times is a bit meh, but I guess different paralogues might make it more bearable. Doing that house twice though just sounds like a bit much.

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

This game is very long.
And I want to play through it...many times.
Cancel the rest of my year.
(Except Pokemon and Outer Worlds)

inthesto
May 12, 2010

Pro is an amazing name!
I got a bit tipsy after a long work week, and I just woke up and Ingrid is somehow missing from my army.

Sorry Sylvain, you'll have to marry your childhood friend in another run.

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Taear
Nov 26, 2004

Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!
Thanks for linking that Tea Party guide a few pages ago.

Other than a lost item guide (which is here ) I've had the same annoying experience with lovely game sites that only tell you what fishing is for a paragraph and nothing else.

Google nowadays really is proper curated, so hard to find stuff with it.

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